bjornjaja

It’s a shame this has to even happen...

I think they should be disrupted with a decentralized solution where people buy and produce locally. None of this garbage sold en masse

Someone’s gotta put up the great surveillance blanket of China

Social engineering at its finest.

I definitely agree that the pop ups work, but consider plastic—it works really well also. The problem is that once everything is package in plastic now the streets are littered with it.

Every page we visit has the same things to generate revenue littered all over their sites because it works—but what about the content? It’s becoming secondary to the littered advertising.

Ads used to be strategically similar to the content presented—but now things follow us around the Internet based on purchases in grocery stores etc. The pop ups want me to spend my time helping companies improve their products for free. Where’s the content going? Anything but the primary content on websites is litter in my opinion.

I suppose it’s the frequency of them too: a foresee pop ups on ten sites the frequency becomes like plastic bags following me to the park from the shopping centers, to the rivers, etc. You can’t escape them until they’re eliminated.

Does anyone know how this would relate to Qt signals/slots?

Yeah those foresee pop ups can go suck it. I mean what are people thinking? It’s stupid really. But then again, that’s what people do: in the pursuit for money they shit chemicals in rivers and don’t clean up their garbage. Or they toss garbage in the recycling bin.

Absolutely, but when the process itself doesn’t work, then what? Gotta take a different approach and apply pressure somehow.

Im sure the lawyers thought of that angle, but the mining company currently doesn’t do anything to effect change so they probably won’t unless their customers (tech companies) demand a change.

It really is unfortunate. The mining company should build out proper infrastructure but I’m guessing they just delegate to (corrupt) locals.

This is no different than all the global environmental issues we’re facing with large scale production facilities (bottled water, petroleum, etc. are a huge problem too). The indigenous populations are getting fucked over because they live in remote areas prime for exploitation. Then the factories close down and don’t clean anything up.

I should point out this is also happening in developed countries like Canada and the USA. For instance, what is the difference between children mining cobalt and children being exposed to mercury poisoning because their rivers upstream there’s a paper plant dumping toxic waste into the food supply in Ontario, or petrol industry in Texas poisoning neighboring schools with chemical fumes.

Look at what China is doing with peoples DNA—it’s creepy to imagine what the possible outcomes will be with machine learning etc.

Meanwhile I submitted my DNA to ancestry and learned interesting things about my family.

Anything may be used for good or evil.

Also take a look at Git Extensions. I like this product a lot. It’s open source

Mother Earth has a magical technical solution. It’s called a “hard reset” so hopefully we can come up with something better.

Have you thought of potential ways to use AI to help some problem domain you’re interested in? Like maths and other sciences it’s important to have an interesting application that you can get behind. It’s just a tool after all.

Smart people gravitate to AI like a magnet. Or completely tangential things like starting a bakery, restaurant, etc.

We’re all going to be left in a Wall-E universe though unless they help fight climate change.

Honestly who even needs a 1.4nm? Hell, who needs a damned 10nm? Most people could get by on yester-decade’s CPUs no problem.

We need something new, not the same old “add more cameras to the phone” kind of innovations.

It’s the engineers that will make those discoveries—the investors can shove it. All they do is freeload on innovation and cramp peoples style.