compton

> Kind of mindblowing perspective - you've already experienced the state of not existing, it's the same as before you were born.

Your consciousness might have existed before, in another body, and it might do so again after your death.

The fact is you don't know what happens after you die. Maybe you'll cease to exist and will never again come into existence, even over all the hundreds of trillions of years yet to come in this universe, and even in any of the who-knows-how-many other universes that will ever exist.

Or maybe the physical requirements to create your specific consciousness will reoccur again and again and again.

You just don't know. Nor does Neil deGrass Tyson. Nor does, for that matter, the pope or the Dalai Lama.

You may want certainty. You may crave it, even need it. But that's too bad, as you'll never have it.

I don't think Kelly is asking for the price advantages of paying monthly.... I think they're asking why are bus companies so hot and bothered about not selling paper monthly tickets when they don't apparently object to selling paper daily tickets?

well, years ago is a long time in tech. the latest videos I've seen show people not having to touch the wheel any more, and it apparently drives fairly long complex routes with no intervention.

There's even Teslas operating as "auto taxis" now in some cities - they drive entirely without anyone even in the driver seat.

> fear of going viral on social media

This seems a bit odd, you'd have to be dancing like a total loon before you got any viral traction. The vast majority of people already dance just by slightly moving their arms whilst gently shifting their weight from one foot to the other. Surely such people don't think anyone would watch videos of their rather lame perambulations?

Whereas the people who do dance like total loons would only welcome internet fame.

Berlin has banned mobile phones from clubs for pretty much ever, but only to prevent pics of people off their tits causing them trouble at work.

Well, Firefox and webkit browsers (Safari and friends) are all apparently not affected so it does appear there's something here.

How do you think coins are made? And distributed? Of course at the moment, both systems exist so it appears that blockchain is additional and therefore unnecessary. Isn't that often how new technology first appears though?

As another example, there have been similar articles about the amount of energy used by internet datacentres. While a lot of energy is certainly used to keep the internet running, such figures are only really meaningful when compared against the existing systems they can replace. What is the environmental impact of building libraries, stocking them with books, heating and lighting them, and the physical journeys that their users have to make to get there?

I disagree. If the wishes of the electorate were unambiguously publicly available, then it would be much more obvious when elected representatives are not serving them.

Right now we're reliant on things like polls or the FCC's farcical comment system, which can easily be gamed.