>You don't operate in a vacuum when you work on projects.
OP Is exactly describing working in a vacuum. They've got no ego invested in the project and whoever does can decide if they want to use their modifications.
>What if someone comes in the way of you building things? What then?
I don't think you're describing someone getting in the way of you building something. It seems more like, "What if you don't feel validated, by some community, after you built something?" Which is something leadership of any project might choose to evaluate. Does the project benefit more by trying to provide validation to everyone who makes an attempt to contribute or not?
In my experience, providing validation for anyone other than children is an enormous waste of time. Especially when building something.
dang is one of the mods. This comment is the equivalent of telling the cop who pulled you over for speeding that if you were speeding then he must have been too when he pulled you over.
The opt out currently, for privacy moving forward, is to cease contribution to the digital noosphere.
I suppose if you desired you could consolidate your doxx point to Google and ISP's by running all your comments through a couple rounds of Google translate.
There is no privacy possible in the global village. Expectation of such is technically naive.
My understanding is that different wavelengths effect sleep hormones differently. My less than educated guess would be that evolutionarily speaking there are different optimal sleep environment cycles based on wavelength, intensity, and temperature variables depending on location and habits of ancestors.
You're absolutely right, our body most definitely reacts in different ways to different wavelengths of light.
A specific green has been shown to help reduce pain. [1] 525 nm seems to be the magic wavelength in this particular case.
I'm a chronic acute pain sufferer. I'd love for something as simple as an array of green LEDs to help with my pain. I keep meaning to get a large breadboard, a bunch of LEDs, and make such a device.
I wonder what effects other wavelengths might have? Would lights help sleep if they matched sunset darkening to night time through purple and indigo? It's fascinating stuff.
I have an amibilight built around WS2812 LED strip and esp8266. I use it to display a colorful rotating gradient during a day and as a night light with red color.
Small Haskell program using reactive-banana-automation feeds simple nodemcu firmware every second with UDP packets. It's quite easy to build RGB light this way as only one signal wire is required.
It'll be interesting to see where things end up in 15-30 years.
One of the most attractive parts of 'digital nomadism' to me is that it doesn't require one to be a nomad. I could just as easily freelance from the small Kansas town I grew up in as from a van somewhere in SF.
From the perspective of having children and wanting them to experience actual physical community I see the trend towards remote work and freelancing as a boon. Instead of having to live in suburbia and commute to work everyday there's actually a viable path to living in a small community where cost of living is low and getting to actually spend time with my family. My kids can experience the independence of riding their bikes to the playground, I can be a part of their education and model something other than disappearing for 10 hours at time M-F and being tired all weekend.
Of course the trend could continue towards the majority moving as close to their regional hub as possible and spending their every waking moment glued to a screen, but I suspect that there will be at least a large minority of us who choose to embrace the possibilities that open up when one is not tied to a metropolis for work. Home ownership and physical community being two of those possibilities.
I suspect they're not running campaigns to stop public funding of roadways though, as it's a subsidy to their business.
As someone who lives in a commuter town and is more libertarian than most libertarians, I'd happily pay an extra couple percent in sales taxes just for decent pedestrian access to the city.
If taxes are going to be spent on transit projects then I'd like enough sidewalks that I'm able to eschew public or private motorized transit all together.
Would you mind elaborating on why you see a "non-problem" as far as cryptowhatever goes?
I see a lot of fraud in the space, and it does seem like there's a lot of inefficiency in different solutions. However, it also appears to me to be an unavoidable continuation of a decentralization effort that kicked into high gear with the printing press. This process seems to have on average improved life for individuals, and so I have trouble seeing anything that moves decentralized solutions forward as addressing non-problems.
I am aware that my knowledge and understanding is quite limited and prone to error so I'm curious as to how you have come to your position.
For you specifically, I have no idea. I suspect we're at least a decade out from these technologies being reified enough to make decent forecasts as to where they'll actually lead. Undoubtedly there will be those who benefit and suffer disproportionally as has been the case with all technology. It should be noted that I'm not specifically speaking to Bitcoin here, although the Bitcoin protocol/network opened up the space for everything that will follow.
I see a lot of potential for decentralized tokens/governance-models to alter the way humans organize themselves. The closest historical parallel I see to this technology is the corporate charter. Where the corporate charter allowed for the decentralization of the power of kings & military decentralized token systems act on the power of the Nation State & Corporations. I don't know if you should care about it, but the technology is here it will be used and abused whether you care or not.
I think the broadest possible beneficial effect to the average person of this technology is the potential to reinvigorate what historically might be referred to as cooperatives or unions. To be able to self-select into pooling and multiplying your efforts with like-minded people on a global basis is a huge change from being the previous geo-spatial-political limitations to organization and cooperation.
Of course, there's nothing to prevent people from organizing around values like racialNationEugenicsCoin so there's plenty of potential for harm too.
Then there's the potential multiplier effect that you get out of this technology. It's not inconceivable that people on this forum could create a game or service that leverages decentralized tokens to accomplish what in the old paradigm would require lots of human and financial capital to achieve (think online game's, Uber, E-Bay, AirBnB). This efficiency of effort could potentially be used to further concentrate value than under old models or to require less value extraction from users. This particular effect is, I suspect, why in it's nascent state the technology is so pregnant with potential for scams.
Anyways I've gone on for too long, but that reflects some of my thinking. I'm not invested in crypto outside of, an admittedly limited, knowledge investment. I'd really love to have my mind changed but haven't come across a solid argument for how this tech isn't going to effect our human society as much as any of the related tech that's come before it.
I appreciate you taking the time to answer, but I don't really see anything concrete there.
I'm really not sure how tokens or 'coins' would/could result in the benefits you mention. Global communications networks certainly have revolutionised global cooperation in ways not before possible. I'm just not seeing the value-add of cryptocurrency here.
> It's not inconceivable that people on this forum could create a game or service that leverages decentralized tokens to accomplish what in the old paradigm would require lots of human and financial capital to achieve
We've had game tokens for quite a bit longer than cryptocurrencies...
I'm sorry, but this reads like a fantasy more than any way in which blockchain technologies could actually enable anything.
OP Is exactly describing working in a vacuum. They've got no ego invested in the project and whoever does can decide if they want to use their modifications.
>What if someone comes in the way of you building things? What then?
I don't think you're describing someone getting in the way of you building something. It seems more like, "What if you don't feel validated, by some community, after you built something?" Which is something leadership of any project might choose to evaluate. Does the project benefit more by trying to provide validation to everyone who makes an attempt to contribute or not?
In my experience, providing validation for anyone other than children is an enormous waste of time. Especially when building something.