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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

My comrad in crisis, we can't even keep this planet habitable, or build/select builders for reliable space vehicles after dropping billions of dollars on development and deployment. What makes you think we can even come close to the level of cooperation and competence needed to establish and maintain human habitation on such a hostile world?

Let's see if we can't ensure continued habitation on Earth first. Then, maybe, we might have a chance on some other sphere?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or lactation fetishist.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

In the end, the real forbidden fruit was fossil fuels.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I always feel like these induced demand arguments are suggesting that adding more lanes means the same number of people are just choosing to do more driving. Maybe, as you add more lanes you create the infrastructure for a city to grow, and it adds more people which then fill up the new lanes. People aren't just going out and buying a new car or rolling an existing car out of the driveway that they were previously not using because a new lane is built. These are net new drivers, who would not be in that city if the infrastructure for them hadn't been built.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Isn't this kind of a garbage comparison? Your chance of dying by childbirth is zero if you choose not to have kids, or if you biologically can't have kids. Same with almost everything on this list, other than the only other medical intervention of GA (which you may not have a choice to avoid if you need it for a medically necessary procedure). Wouldn't it be better to compare it to the risk dying of COVID? Or the risk of dying from other common vaccines?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think this is the wrong community for this type of comment ...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

< We will provide >

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/19487003

Lots of reasons to be looking at the framework Canada just published for consumer-driven (open) banking, but I thought this was a gem:

from "2.10 A Single Technical Standard"

...The Framework will significantly decrease the risks of personal data being compromised by bad actors and mitigate security, privacy, and liability risks for consumers and participants. This is achieved through the use of APIs, a type of software that acts as secure data “pipes” to enable different products and services to communicate in a consistent manner.

If an API is a pipe, is the Internet a series of tubes?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/18659491

Technology, for better or worse, affects every aspect of our lives. Our very sense of who we are is shaped and reshaped by the tools we have at our disposal.

The problem, for Stiegler, is that when we pay too much attention to our tools, rather than how they are developed and deployed, we fail to understand our reality. We become trapped, merely describing the technological world on its own terms and making it even harder to untangle the effects of digital technologies and our everyday experiences.

By encouraging us to pay closer attention to this world-making capacity, with its potential to harm and heal, Stiegler is showing us what else is possible.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/17014904

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/16368424

At the upcoming SXSW Conference... Honda will give attendees a chance to try out a new mobility device... specifically designed for mixed reality entertainment experiences.

Users can steer... without the use of their hands — they simply have to lean into one direction to move forwards, backwards, sideways or diagonally.

Wall-e humans in mobile chairs with AR

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