Theres also an Outer Limits episode of a guy trapped on another planet who self replicates clones of himself. Although I think it does it more through "splitting" than an actual birth cycle. Very freaky episode with lots of "body-horror" as he begins to split.

Checkout Shodan where you can look into thousands of cams around the world from parking garages, shops, and even baby cams.

Except that not everyone has a license plate but everyone has a face. So its a much bigger intrusion.

License plates are much more unique than faces and they do not change over time and you can't put a hat and sunglasses on them. What they lose in quantity they make up in quality. They are a much bigger intrusion but for a large majority of the population instead of literally everyone. The difference isn't very meaningful from a surveillance POV since you can build shadow profiles.

Two can play at the "I don't care about your problems because they don't affect me" game.

Some people live in rural areas with little to no government infrastructure that can be used for dragnet surveillance. They don't have to care about the government tracking faces with the subway security cameras.

That's a dumb game to play. Dragnet surveillance is bad in all forms.

This sounds really cool! Does this project have a name?

The Papertop. (It's a working title.)

Have you written any kind of blog or documentation about the build? I've been interested in a mini-laptop e-ink solution for a while. I think that most of the coding I do takes very little resources and is primarily just talking to the cloud or other servers. No reason to lug around a bunch of resources I don't need, right?

I haven't, and I'm disappointed to see that the display I used is now discontinued. That will push me to use a more effective one in the next iteration, which I'll write up.

PaperPi?

Could this be used as an oracle for a Smart Contract to get random numbers?

Like capitalists...

I tried it out and it wasn't very usable. You can never have two options reconvene at the same node. And there's no built-in option for adding chance or variables to decisions. I decided to start building my own framework for these options.

Pimp: Story Of My Life written by Iceberg Slim. Learned about it from the latest Chappelle standup special. Very dark and fascinating tale of a pimp in the 1940's. A lot of cold, calculating capitalist ideas abound in it.

Also just started Astrobiology: A Short Introduction which was recommended by a fellow HNer.

I do the same thing with Jean-Luc Picard from The Next Generation. WWJLPD?

Its an (in)famous Trump line.