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> Minds get eroded by technology by heavily relying on it

This has been said for thousands of years. Socrates/Plato was complaining about how writing weakens the human memory.

We need to accept that human minds are limited and technology is meant to extend them. Science has advanced considerably due to computers despite the appearances.

The way out of the current “impasse” is through even more technology. We might not be able to solve all the mysteries of the universe without intelligence augmentation or superintelligent AI.

What is an iLamp?

It is very easy to make unenforceable laws. Actually blocking VPNs would require something akin to the great firewall of China, which I don't see the EU building in the near future.

Criminalizing something means nothing if the laws can't be enforced. Torrenting copyrighted works is a criminal act, and yet torrenting has never been easier after years of efforts to shut it down from all sides.

Isn’t this just the byproduct of the karma/voting system? Content voted by the majority of users is going to have higher visibility, it’s pretty difficult to get around that without fundamentally changing the way the website works.

I’m really surprised Yahoo is #7, I thought Yahoo was all but dead.

> “Fundamentally, the company is based on a proposition that is just false. It is something that just can’t happen,” says Sten Linnarsson of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.

That sounds a lot like the "heavier than air flight is impossible" quote from 1895.

Is this just a clever way to dodge regulations?

Please don’t hijack the horizontal swipe. It is for going back/forward in navigation histoey, not switching between articles on your website.

Not really... I’ve been holding a small amount of crypto since 2013. It’s still about 10x the (small) amount of money I put in.

Good for you and your nephew

> the measurable advantage men have in the tech community

I’m sure if it is “measurable” you can provide some numbers?