How do you think those times became unstable?

Surely info suppression tactics have often played a role?

It was much easier to suppress info back then, and it is much easier to spread misinformation today.

Try utilizing Anki for spaced repetition. Brilliant program used by many medical students.

Your "rebuttals" are a prime example of normalcy bias.

Not surprising though, pretty much everyone born in the past 60 years has become accustomed to a ridiculous "normal" that has been built on a fossil fuel house of cards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias

They're not though.

GC mentioned "total factor productivity", which is not just an assumption that things will stay the same. It's a measure that value (productivity) actually is increasing, all the time.

And the other rebuttals were pointing out flaws with GGC's arguments, none of which relied on "the status quo works".

You're right, the hedonic adaptation is all imaginary. David Foster Wallace and the many psychologists who support it's existence are all wrong.

Perhaps they should read your dissertation on it?

/s

I had that same realization, that watching documentaries about the world could increase both my compassion and my gratitude.

I've found this channel to be helpful towards that end: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW39zufHfsuGgpLviKh297Q

DW Documentaries.

Thank you!

Take some time to watch his YouTube video explaining the iPhone hack.

He starts the video by giving credit to other people involved in the project.

Nice. Can you link me? I was involved in the project :)

what was your osx86 handle? I was also involved in the early times but don't recognize your name.

It was ixtli. I wrote iPHUC and still own the repo, i think: https://code.google.com/p/iphuc/source/browse/trunk/AUTHORS

ah the very early days then, nice. yeah I understand your take, George did get credited for things that were a team effort (including a lot of work by gray). but really a lot of that was the press who just based it off him being the one to publish the unlock demo video, he just probably got tired of correcting people.

as a counterpoint in which he was definitely a team player and not many knew about, he helped us get iOS 3 for S5L8900 devices pwned when we couldn't get the firmware files decrypted due to tricks that Apple put in iBoot (for only that version too - taken out after), which involved using a built in coprocessor and a payload in an assembly language that wasn't ARM and none of us could recognize. so to try to work it out he actually reverse engineered the structure of the assembly language to help figure out what it was doing, which was really cool. I don't think the whole payload got fully "reversed" as I believe one of us (it was either ius or myself) found a data sheet that pointed to it being some type of 16-bit RISC based thing, but was still pretty cool to see how he went about solving the problem. there was nothing directly incentivizing him to help other than a fun challenge.

Exactly, it's mostly busywork.

I'd maybe agree regarding the UI/animation. But L has brought some significant improvements (ART, Project Volta, background batching API, et al). So it is a good release inspite of the UI/animation updates.

Google Maps and Windows Search are two products that have been over-worked to death. Both were better in older iterations (Windows Search pre-Vista, Google Maps before they went all minimalism-stupid).

Google Maps in particular stripped out tons of useful functionality for a long period (My Places seems to appear and disappear every second release, location search history is currently MIA, compass is gone, et al).

Windows Search just tried to make it "clever" but instead made it "unreliable." They wanted to add support for everyone file format one by one (and ignore everything else) but instead managed to only support native Microsoft formats well and nothing else at all. File Search in Windows (Vista-8.1) is horrendously poor. Give me Windows 95 search.

I would say Windows search pre-Vista was unusable in general due to the poor/non-existent indexing and poor support of non-ASCII formats or anything beyond basic file metadata. Microsoft's solution to the not being able to support every file-type under the sun was to allow plugins to provide new types, which work quite well IMO.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFilter

I don't say this often but: Everything you just said is factually wrong.

- Windows had an indexer long before Vista (many many years)[0].

- Windows Search supports (and supported) UTF-8 and UTF-16 strings, as well as unicode if you had the correct language pack installed.

- Windows supported file content searches in Windows 95 (up through Vista).

- Microsoft could have allowed plugins to enrich search results WITHOUT gutting raw text searching (see Windows XP for a compromise, before they removed the work-around in Vista).

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indexing_Service

The space program has been (and will continue to be) directly responsible for many important technologies that lift the tide for ALL of humanity. Yes, even those who live in poverty.

If you are interested in learning how, read this short letter:

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html

I received DevKit V1 a few weeks ago and had the privilege to demo it to a few friends and family over the holidays.

Everyone from ages 4 to 80 absolutely loved it. Most of these people are not even gamers, and they could see the incredible potential of this device.

It is truly a novel experience. Now I'm just trying to save up some cash so that I can invest in this company when it goes public!

No wo(man) is an island.

Musk would have a hard time innovating if he had to build his own house, grow his own food, knit his own clothes, etc. etc...

We all rely on each other to provide our basic standards of living.

Without our basic needs being satisfied, we don't have a platform from which to focus on innovation.

Yes, innovation is great, but don't act like they are the entire backbone of humanity.