Somehow there is little reaction when white people are being shot, though (or killed in general, like the white guy who died in the same way as Georg Floyd sometime before). I think there is more to it than just accessibility.
Is Apple's approach even likely to catch any pedophiles? Seems to me at most it would succeed in keeping such photos from Apple devices, which is perhaps good for their public image, but does nothing to catch predators?
It is very public now that Apple will scan for such pictures, so how many pedophiles will keep them on their phones?
Or Apple is taken over by pervs who want to be able to look at private photos to "verify" them. Once algo reaches a threshold they'll be able to see "lowres" versions.
Well, that's not necessarily an American thing. For a long time, the race that's currently described as "asian" was called "oriental" and specifically referred to that race. For some reason, the more specific term "oriental" fell out of favor (and is even considered offensive now, although I'm not quite sure why) and was replaced with the more generic, and somewhat confusing, "asian".
The world in RPO is pretty nonsensical and the whole thing is a vehicle for nostalgia with a fairly formulaic plot. Nothing wrong with that it’s a fun beach read, particularly if you’re of a certain age. I was mildly terrified by the number of people I met a few years ago whilst working in VR who considered it aspirational. We’ll absolutely get a dystopia if the metaverse is based on teenage fantasy. Particularly with an AR vision that is rushing to put glorified ads for Disney and Marvel into the world.
You'd think the creator would have thought of something like that, but nah, he wanted to leave it to the coolest teen. Or, in the movie version, the teen most able to identify weirdly personal details from the author's private life.
In my country (Germany) afaik a little over 10% of the population are at least millionaires. So I think the likelihood to have a millionaire living next door is quite high.
Anecdotal (but nevertheless true): I have (at least) two millionaire neighbours (less than 3 doors/gates away). Both won the lottery - one euromillions and one national lotto draw.
And if we are talking average income, then everyone on this side of the village is a millionaire simply because of those two. However, most of the rest of us seem to struggle daily.
There is some chance that the bank owns their house, or at least some sizeable fraction of it. Mortgages are more common than houses that are paid off.
"If Read suffered from poor health during his working years or required long-term care, his estate would be a fraction of what it was."
So don't bother saving or trying to get rich, because you might become ill and have to spend the money on your health?
The whole article seems weird. What is their point? So 300$/Month is not enough, but 500$ would be? Surely that is something many people could at least aspire to?
I think the poverty discussion often overlooks the fluent nature of the economy. People who have low paying jobs today (say pizza driver) don't necessarily have the same job forever. But new "poor people" (often young people) will enter the market and become pizza drivers.
Should pizza drivers give up all hope and just "live"?
Also afaik the markets had good returns in the long run pretty much always. If it really would not be worthwhile to invest anything anymore, some serious questioning of politics would be in order.
I only recently read "The Millionaire Next Door", and while I didn't really like the writing style, I think it still made some good points.
I would imagine most Ethereum miners are pretty well off by now, so the "working class" analogy is really off.
Also "the ruling class" can not really force their rules on others.
Everybody participating in cryptocoins right now is hopefully aware that it is an experiment with uncertain outcomes. So the "promises were broken" thing doesn't really convince me, either. I don't think the users of Ethereum were promised a finished product.
"Code is law" also only applies if people accept the law. In the DAO case, people decided to change the law, or stick to Ethereum classic.
NYT is paywalled, but all articles about it that I have read are a mix of scary anecdotes without statistics ("Johnny was unable to remember his biology lessons" - how often does that happen" and statistics about "x% experience 'such' ongoing symptoms", where "such" is sneakily a mix of severe and non severe symptoms that can be lumped together under "long covid" to make it sound scarier.
Not saying there is no risk, but I wish there were some clearer statistics about it. There should be enough data by now.
I personally think that if there really was a significant risk for kids, it would have been clearly communicated by now.
