Crusoe is unabashedly anti-remote work, which is curious considering their company’s environmental and energy locality focus. I interviewed with them, they are very much an old school “you must all work physically in San Francisco” company. I work for one of their competitors now, one that embraces remote work.
> I would call phones like the Palm Treo and later BlackBerries smartphones.
It's not just you; at the time these products were available, _everyone_ called them smartphones. Emphatically, Apple did not bring the first smartphone to market, not even close. They were, however, the first to popularize it beyond the field of nerds into the general public.
> 2029, both for human-level intelligence and for artificial general intelligence (AGI)
> The Singularity, which is a metaphor borrowed from physics, will occur when we merge our brain with the cloud
> Making it possible will be brain-computer interfaces which ultimately will be nanobots – robots the size of molecules – that will go noninvasively into our brains through the capillaries.
> In the early 2030s we can expect to reach longevity escape velocity where every year of life we lose through ageing we get back from scientific progress.
This is the most realistic answer provided in this post thus far, and I feel the downvotes are just proving the point. _Not needing money doesn't make you an expert on the world_, please repeat that to yourself and everyone else on that path.
100% of all name brands and uncommon brands and bs brands I’ve tried have sold me LED bulbs that buzz annoyingly or fail within 1 year. Literally no one is willing to make an LED bulb that lasts as long as the tech is capable of.
In late 2017 I replaced nearly every 40 W, 60 W, or 100 W incandescent in my house with "Great Value" bulbs from Walmart. An instant rebate deal Walmart had with Puget Sound Energy that made the 40 W and 60 W equivalent bulbs only $0.17 made it cheap enough that even if it turns out the bulbs sucked and I had to put back the incandescents I wouldn't be out too much.
They are all still working fine.
Most of them don't get heavy use, but my bathrooms both have several of the 100 W equivalents and those get used several times every day.
It’s frustrating. The early LED bulbs I bought are still working; anything more recent has already been replaced more than once. In my fantasy world there is a government that actually advocates for consumers…
Both my kids (and the entire family) got COVID before the kids' vaccine was available late 2021. I really didn't think that it was necessary for my kids to get the vaccine given the fact they already had been infected, but the school at the time insisted. I was getting ready to join some other parents to try to fight it but then decided to listen to my wife and just go with the flow.
Now given everything we know, the COVID vaccine truly was unnecessary. I crumpled to peer pressure and got my kids injected with a drug that was completely unnecessary, even though I knew scientifically what was being said made absolutely no sense at all.
I think like many other parents who felt lied to, the next time big pharm tries to convince me that my kids or I need some sort of medication, I will react much much more skeptically and stick to my guns unless it actually passes my smell test fully.
The COVID vaccine showed a positive impact in terms of disease severity and long term impacts.
Patients who experience long-term COVID impacts often demonstrate a range of major problems including lowered IQ, brain fog, increased risk of ischemic events, etc.
In my opinion you were absolutely correct to vaccinate your children, just as parents of boys should vaccinate them against HPV; not only for their safety, but for the safety of their partners.
> The COVID vaccine showed no efficacy for children
This is false. Please don’t spread misinformation here. Finally, please consider the possibility that your reasoning skills are not sufficient for the conclusions you’re making.
> Children and adolescents who received one of the main COVID-19 vaccines were significantly protected from the illness and showed no increased signs of cardiac complications compared to young people who were not vaccinated, according to a new real-world study led by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). When the Delta variant rose to prominence, the study showed that vaccinated young people were 98 percent less likely to be infected than their unvaccinated peers, and data indicated that the vaccine’s effectiveness decline slightly when the Omicron variant became dominant. The paper was published today in Annals of Internal Medicine.