They're not problems. It's a customizable device to this extent, and you have preferences, so just change the settings. The alternative is that you cannot do anything about it.
Does this comment mean to say that you can change anything or that you can't? IIRC there are quite a few things locked down on an iPhone that require you to jailbreak it if you want to customize it, but I haven't been in the iPhone space for a long time now so please forgive my naivety.
If a person has tried every other option and there is still no end to their pain, either physical or psychological, they would sooner or later try to end their life anyway.
It is in the best interest of everybody to offer assisted suicide at a set time and date instead of taking the matter into their own hands and leaving family, friends and first responders with the trauma of discovering a body.
> If a person has tried every other option and there is still no end to their pain
Except they certainly haven't, both because of very limited resources and became they are probably in no condition to figure what they could or should try themselves and are dependent on doctors, family members and other people (who also might have only very limited capacity to help her)
Except it won't stop with people who are truly living with unsolvable pain. You're painfully naive if you can't see that.
What's the limiting principle here exactly? If we normalize the idea that suicide is a solution to any problem, it's inevitably going to start being used as a "solution" for more and more problems: treatable illness, poverty, old age, disability, dependence on those who'd rather not shoulder the burden of caring for you.
I do not advocate for taking the "easy" way out (I feel terrible for phrasing it this way).
What I say is that, for those cases where professionals have reasonable suspicion that it would happen anyway, offering a more humane option is the right thing to do. It shouldn't be an option to be offered lightly to anyone.
Do you have any suggestions of a limiting principle, then, or do you just think suicide should never be an available service others can offer and must always be done by oneself?
I'm honestly not sure. I recognize the complexity of the issue, and for what it's worth I used to be totally in favour of legalizing euthanasia until I saw what it looks like in practice in countries that have done it. But my current feeling is that the limiting principle should be we don't do anything in any way to normalise suicide, to tell anyone that suicide is a reasonable solution to their problems, or to give the state the power to end anyone's life. Anything else opens Pandora's box and is sure to lead us down a very dark path.
I think that's a reasonable position. My desire for legalization is more around an edge-case scenario, because I think the "do it yourself" approach for most people isn't actually that difficult if someone is actually committed in the same way they probably should be to demonstrate sufficient consent and have it done by a government-licensed doctor, and so the bodily autonomy arguments aren't really persuasive.
The edge-case is that the person wants to become an early suspended customer of a cryonics organization. Already there have been successful suicides from people who stated they would have preferred to be suspended and have the very small chance of actually getting a second chance at some distant point in the future, but there are various legal obstacles as well as practical ones to that, and so these people are just as assuredly gone forever as anyone else.
Besides being complex, it's also an old issue. You might enjoy reading this case report from 1993 about a suicidal person who wanted to be cryopreserved: https://www.cryonicsarchive.org/library/complete-list-of-alc... He did eventually shoot himself, and unlike others there was at least a brain preservation in the end, but it's pretty far from an ideal one (and no one knows if even ideal preservation is good enough for future reanimation/emulation; I'd bet against it but obviously wouldn't rule it out). More recently, in late 2018 the first person was cryopreserved while using California's new end of life option act to hasten an otherwise painful demise from stage 4 cancer. (Short version: https://www.cryonicsarchive.org/library/complete-list-of-alc... Long version: https://www.cryonicsarchive.org/docs/alcor-case-report-a-199...)
That's the atheist take. Anyone participating in this is committing a mortal sin which is not what you want right before Judgment. Religion aside, normalization of euthanasia leads to some horrible outcomes like offering euthansia as health care.
That's would mean homogenizing all jetbrains ides, as theyre all essentially the same program with a different set of bundled plugins, optimized for web, Jvm, c, Python etc
When I am prompted to 'try again' with a new 3x3 of low-res images I often wonder if there was a bit of 'crosswalk' I missed in one, or if this is just how they get me to annotate another set for 'bicycles' for free.
"Musk reportedly told his biographer, Ashlee Vance, that the Hyperloop proposal was motivated by “his hatred for California’s proposed high-speed rail system,” which he felt would be too slow, outdated and expensive. “With any luck, the high-speed rail would be canceled,” Vance wrote."
The two situations are different. The Thai rescue had Elon exhibiting strange personal behavior. I never agreed with it.
When he admitted he built a staged rail company to subvert public high speed rail and encourage more sales of his cars, it strikes directly at the heart of his "mission" and "values" that are so adored by the auto & tech industries.
Yeah this was also the start of lost innocence for me too. He's just a guy, one who made a few superb dents into different industries.. but still just a guy, with massive flaws. I'm actually worried that this person is connected or at the core of so many new industrial technologies.
I'll try to take this as a serious comment, but I'm unsure because it displays a lack of awareness.
The goal of the project is to go where people want to go. The CAHSR project took in a lot of feedback as well as local political involvement to get to its alignment. Because of this process, it hits many major population centers and destinations throughout the state. It eventually will connect all three major metro areas (SD, LA, SF) as well as the capital city (Sacramento). Once complete the HSR will be the fastest door-to-door mode of inter-city transit for many of these destinations.
> It eventually will connect all three major metro areas (SD, LA, SF) as well as the capital city (Sacramento).
There are no concrete plans to do anything related to Phase 2 since the active scope was narrowed, so the SD and Sacramento connections are really wishful thinking at this point; the Authority still says that planning is happening on Phase 2, but lists no Phase 2 related progress (even planning) in their annual reports and similarly has no Phase 2 related progress goals in those reports.
