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I'm not sure what they track

I remember seeing a natural language to SQL engine which worked in 50% of cases so the expectation was higher. https://blog.einstein.ai/talk-to-your-data-one-model-any-dat...

A unique combination of strategy and action.

Played a lot of Escape Velocity too. Those games were special.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlYClniDFkM https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/compact-fusion...

Although currently this 4K video editing on iPads is not working well.

In reality they were enforcing a colonial order https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvZRsdHgxgA and the locals are fighting back in an attempt to secure power locally, not give it away to foreign masters and watch them grow more powerful as a result.

We in the West must ultimately favor our own victory in such matters. The main reason ISIS must listen to is the West can't tolerate their insubordination, culturally and economically. It upsets the capitalist global order. We won't have enough trade with territories that chose not to develop economically in order to preserve old customs or prioritize local economies above ours.

Terrorism is a propaganda word used by the bigger powers precisely because it has misleading connotations.

This is a similar idea and there is a long elaboration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voG5-15aDu4

Don't forget Cyberdog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xjkm_fSM1g

You could drag and drop files into that browser in 1997! Sadly some Youtube videos are hard to find.

Should be here somewhere https://www.youtube.com/user/EveryAppleVideo

Engelbart also thought we would get somewhere alien. He underestimated the power of the mainstream.

The truth is, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq are colonial wars against insubordinate populations. We extract resources from those countries and their neighbors. When someone stands in the way they have to be punished so that other countries stay in line.

There is little hope of winning hearts and minds with all the civilians that have to be killed. The main goal is to punish and make examples of insubordination. The West merely needs to scare them and their neighbors to get its way within a few decades. It worked well enough with Vietnam.

The result is inflation. Before new waves of immigrants and women joined the workforce, a single salary had more purchasing power. The effects are offset by certain goods becoming cheaper because of increased production. But other goods require two salaries when they previously required one. And people don't have savings, they have credit which makes up most of the purchasing power, trading it off for indentured servitude.

Salaries have not kept up with profits since the 1970's, but if they did there could just be inflation, not an increase in purchasing power and economic independence. Current regional salary bubbles around Silicon Valley and NYC cause regional inflation, particularly in housing. Its supply is limited by laws and tech. Same old tech housing is not a good that adds anything new to the economy.

If those workers want to enjoy the full benefits of their salaries in the form of goods, they have to save up and move to cheap boring areas. Such consumption is physically or emotionally impractical. I guess that's where Hyperloops come in.

Basic income could also lead to inflation. It's unprecedented and will have weird new consequences. The expectation with adding more workers was that more people would have economic freedom. The result is fewer people enjoy economic freedom, the middle class shrunk so more people have to work. If basic income doesn't remove a large percentage from the workforce or new sectors aren't added, the result will again be inflationary.

Kickstarter is economic freedom now.

As far as markets vs centralization, it was always this way. There was never a purely capitalist or communist society that lasted long and supported a large population. The argument was always the implementation and balance of centralization and privatization.

Starting from scratch in a radically different system is too disruptive, even if the final result would have been better. A lot has to do with culture, as people say you can write Java in any language. You have to change an existing system very slowly.

Adam Curtis "documentary" is the extent of my knowledge on their attempts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3gwyHNo7MI

It's a monumental complex systems problem. Besides the 1960's computers the Soviets were hampered by their utilitarian ideology that didn't take home decor into consideration.

Flash's demise was for similar reasons. Bloat caused by over eager developers gained it a reputation for slow loading times and unusable websites. In this case the usable web is punished too.