jdfedgon
Some decades ago, a manufacturer from East Germany, former GDR, was participating at a fair for lights and light bulbs. This manufacturer invented a light bulb that never burns its glow wire.
At some point during the fair the companies from West Germany had a big laugh on that manufacturer, mocking him and his invention. Their argument: If you build a bulb like this, how are you going to make money?
Now, I cannot say why we don't have glasses like this already but my assumption is that the monetary incentive is seen as being contradictory to such an invention.
How many users would realistically be able to use it at the same time when running on such a device? I am interested in its scalability.
Category I chose: Whales
Whale AI chose: Humpback
Question: Does it have eyes?
AI: No it does not have eyes.
So, that's that.
Examples:
1) Going from Munich main train station south (Hauptbahnhof Süd) to Berlin main train station (Berlin, S+U Hauptbahnhof). Osmand tells me to download Czechia Northwest map. Doesn't make sense, the route doesn't even go through Czechia. Ok, I think. I download the missing map, app crashes. Restart the app, do the same search again. From one major German city to another. Pretty straight, it would be just one highway (A9) basically. Takes 4-5 minutes to calculate with a Samsung S22. That's just meh.
2) Do the same search again but this time set avoid highways. After 15 minutes still no result, I gave up.
3) The search function is contra-intuitive.
4) Even with a Samsung S22 the map is kind of slow if you just move the map around. For driving it seems ok though. The new engine might have speed up things but it still a far way to being smooth.
I don't complain, but I wish they would address especially the route planning and search.
https://eu.boell.org/sites/default/files/2021-09/MeatAtlas20...
It delivers an excellent compilation of the issues at play that will keep the problem going. As long as there's no change in policies, consumer behavior and/or some mad disease that brings down the meat industry, it's going to keep continued.
I know this is whataboutism but I wish they would have delivered on anti-(canvas-)fingerprinting instead of PDF print.
Example where his reasoning in the article is coming short, one might answer: Yes, I wanted to go to store a, and yes, after my 'highway hypnosis' I went or was brought to store b instead. So what? It doesn't really matter if I go shopping in store a or b. The important thing is - I am at a store now and can start my shopping.
If we evaluate that from an ethical point of view then we would have to ask about emancipation and sovereignty in regard to the choices we make, and where that fine line is, where it really starts to matter, if we go for store a or b.
When dealing with those commercial banks what is currently the biggest challenge? Is it more the political arguments or the technical arguments of such a payment system that you need to stress? And, I couldn't find no definite answer to that: Could GNU Taler ultimately replace Bitcoin?