I want the most talented and skilled people performing their best at what they are most talented and skilled at. That's how you make progress. I fail to see how that harms anyone, and certainly not everyone.
If everyone had the same capacity for achieving greatness, why are there so few geniuses? Do you think everyone is capable of the same level of greatness?
Did you ever stop to consider that we have so few geniuses because it takes money and connections to reach your potential in life, and a significant portion of the population never gets to enjoy an unbridled pursuit of their potential because their immediate concerns are with simply surviving?
Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg had great ideas, but they were also rich before they made a dime of their own money, and they never would have gotten anywhere without that money and their connections.
I think it starts to fail once you attach different monetary or prestige rewards to different tasks, because people then try to game their way into positions without qualifications - and dismissing merit as a concept is just a more organized and scaled up way of this gaming.
Building up is already strongly incentivised: new units would sell for far above the costs of construction. But NIMYS use zoning and other restrictions to prevent it. I'm strongly in favor of fixing this, but building dense housing in places with no neighbors is another way to approach the problem.
The multitasking functions are very confusing, as are the new multi-finger gestures for performing undo/copy/paste etc. Nothing is obviously discoverable either, it all feels accidental at best, though that's been the case since they removed depth from the UI.
Wasn't the promise of iPad that it was much easier than a Mac or PC? I don't find that to be the case.
Anyway, I use mine as a couch browser. I still can't find a heavier use case for it.
Did you have a specific event that caused your injury, that led you to do your own research in that direction?
And are you hypothesizing that your injury may be related to prior fluoroquinolone use?
Proper diagnosis is hard, and most doctors are generalists rather than specialists. A common medical aphorism is "When you hear hooves, think of horses not zebras".
Yes, I was liftings weights, felt a pop, instantly thought....oof hernia, but doctors disagreed as they could not feel any bumps and I suffered for months. Flouroquinoles came after and are unrelated to that injury.
Humans are squandering arguably one of the most important medical advancements in history, and ultimately it will be human health that pays for it when they stop working for us entirely.
That's because opioids remain the single most effective pain treatment that humans have available. People have been using them for 4000+ years, they have a long track record of efficacy (and safety).
Managing pain with opioids is not much different than managing diabetes with insulin. I realize the media mania and moral panic doesn't convey that because it doesn't fit the hype narrative, but there is a huge difference between medical patients and drug abusers.
It's a very small niche, and it peaked around the 2017 holiday season. The VR game thing didn't sell. Except for Beat Saber.
John Carmack, in a recent talk, doesn't seem to consider VR as a way to visit a virtual environment any more. It's just a way to get a wider field of view of screen space in a mobile-sized package. Watching Netflix with VR goggles emulating a wide screen, for people who don't have enough space for a wide screen, is seen as a primary use.
Lots of "can you google this for me" and copy/pasted content from other original sources without context or attribution