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Is a voice assistant the killer app for anyone? I haven't ever used them, and I've only ever seen someone use it as an ironic 'look at me' at a party.

Why mandatory? Why not let people do as they want?

Godel, Escher, Bach. I hated math for most of high-school, but I read this book between semesters and it changed my career choice.

So we should all reject tolerance wholesale if we think at any point in the future website could be in the out group? The point is to jostling and get along with and not murder peole who's ideas we despise at our very core.

Tolerance is radical "choosing to get along" or why bother?

How is this different than shutting down your phone at the border crossing?

I tend to lose track of time when I meditate, so I found an app that silences my phone and then alarms audibly every fifteen minutes. I guess that is my version of a mindfulness app.

I would love to see an RSS reader that was smart enough to follow links and make a 'source graph' so it the NYT and Slashdot write articles about the same source they both appear in the same 'thread' about that source. To me that would be the killer app for RSS.

That's how I feel about social sites, unlike RSS I have no control about items, they just disappear in a sea of tweets. To me it sounds like you subscribe to a lot of spammy feeds.

I do fine without an algorithm, everything appears at the rate it is published in chronological order, if I dislike a feed or discover I rarely read it I remove it.

The future is finally looking up from my perspective, hopefully this leads to an asetic culture.

Services that rely on post-industrial infrastructure don't work without post-industrial infrastructure.

I am probably what you would consider an extreme conservative, but I wanted to thank you for sharing your perspective. What do you mean by:

> The US is philosophically much more egotistical than other developed countries.

It isn't a criticism that I had heard before.

I have been using this site for about a month on every piece of spam that tells me to write back. But, I have not gotten any responses. How are they even making money if they don't respond to clearly interested potential customers?

If the justification for a tax is social engineering and not revenue for a budget or project it is probably not a just tax. This tax happens to align with commonly held values, but that alone does not justify the tax.

What about use taxes? Given it is a voluntary exchange, the government has the right to it, right?