So I'm trying to navigate the personal cognitive dissonance I'm facing after reading your comment.
Would you agree that "All Lives Matter" is racist because it's derisive of "Black Lives Matter" the proper noun? The sentiment that all lives are important is not racist, and it's also not mutually exclusive from BLM's message. If anything, they align right?
BLM is saying Black lives matter just as much as any other life. Black people should not be treated as second class citizens. They're not claiming Black lives matter _more_ than others.. that _would_ be racist.
A true merit based evaluation would be.. just that - based on merit and not racial background, sexuality, age, political affiliation, the clothes you wear, the food you eat, or even the schooling you've received. To give any group preferential treatment would be not based on merit.
Your wording seems a bit off mark. The Minister of Health is recommending everyone to always have an emergency reserve in case of any unforseen event, from illness to power blackout.
I'd say the vast majority of people that I know don't have such a reserve, and are seriously considering it now.
If they all go and stock up, what with the JIT-style of many supermarkets, I wouldn't be surprised to encounter shortages.
Even just to avoid the inconvenience of that, stocking up now, while the majority of the population is not too concerned, seems prudent and even beneficial to everyone else
* People stop fighting the data privacy fight. Laws will be created for user data collection consent, but people will ignore it like current day EULA or terms. Killer applications for user data will start showing up and public options will shift to "eh, I guess it's okay if they collect and share data about me, I get some good utility out of it"
* VR hype passes, maybe because technical limitations doesn't make for a pleasant experience. Remains a bit gimmicky
* haha remember bitcoin?
* alternative meats become mainstream, account for half of meat consumption. (Note for future readers and myself. As of 01/2020 Impossible Burger has recently partnered with BK for an impossible whopper and the Beyond Bratwurst served at work was quite good, though still somewhat niche. Only in a few stores and restaurants)
* Pet ownership will become frowned upon, or maybe just less acceptable than it is today
> Killer applications for user data will start showing up
I feel like recommendation engines and personalized results already satisfy this "killer applications". I keep myself logged out when using YouTube and Google Search, but I always recognize that on YouTube it'd be a lot easier to find videos that interest me if it accounted for my history.
This already exists to an extent on the other end of the transaction. Payment processors like Stripe are too ubiquitous to not have some level of oversight.
Some bot had flagged me as suspicious, and as a result
- I couldn't take any Lyft rides, and my company only subsidizes lyft.
- I couldn't rent a car on Getaround
- I couldn't rent a scooter on Skip, one of two providers in SF at the time
My mobility was severely hampered. I almost couldn't close on my house in time because my insurer of choice at the time also used Stripe.
To add insult to injury, Stripe's customer service absolutely refused to address the issue, flat out ignoring it. They claimed the issue was on the vendor side and to follow up with the vendor directly. It was only when I left a poor review on Google did they follow up with me within 2 hours, lifting the ban. For someone unfamiliar with the idea of a "payment processor", this may have never been resolved since the company "Stripe" is never visible during the transaction.
These purple urchin are a lot smaller than the commonly harvested red urchin, resulting in less uni. Even the urchin are starving due to overpopulation and loss of kelp.
I've seen figures for 1gb of data transfer ranging from 200-600g of CO2 or thereabouts.
If you look at email and think that you might have a tab open at home on a computer that it pops up in, that it might also push to your tablet and your phone and that if it is Gmail it might be mirrored on multiple servers, then add in a several kilobytes (or more) of images... I can definitely see it starting to add up to 3-4 grams.
Now factor in that excel sheet or word doc, some photos or a pdf that you're sending to a few (or hundreds) of coworkers...
GPS may not be accurate enough, especially in urban areas. And the current geofence isn't detailed enough. For example: it doesn't account for things like a wheelchair ramp from a private property intersecting with a public walkway.
In San Francisco, scooters were picked up by the city and impounded. I don't see why it's unfair for private property owners to do the same.
Anyone who's parked a car often in dense areas knows the distance between legal and illegal parking is as small as the width of the bumper you stuck into the fire lane.
Would you agree that "All Lives Matter" is racist because it's derisive of "Black Lives Matter" the proper noun? The sentiment that all lives are important is not racist, and it's also not mutually exclusive from BLM's message. If anything, they align right?
BLM is saying Black lives matter just as much as any other life. Black people should not be treated as second class citizens. They're not claiming Black lives matter _more_ than others.. that _would_ be racist.
A true merit based evaluation would be.. just that - based on merit and not racial background, sexuality, age, political affiliation, the clothes you wear, the food you eat, or even the schooling you've received. To give any group preferential treatment would be not based on merit.