If I had to articulate why I feel the need to do certain things my way, against all advice by people who think they know a better way, I'd boil it down like this: There are things that I see as important to the core idea of the company that nobody else understands. If they did, they'd have seen the need for the company and done it themselves. Its more than just a vision. It's like a hologram. Anyone can see the image, but the founders see the fringe pattern.
I see why all the hidden elements need to be just so or the whole thing is meaningless.
Maybe I'm just talking out of my ass, but it's rare to find someone that truly gets things rather than just going through the motions. If you do, its likely they have their own idea.
It feels like every decision I make gets resistance from people who live their lives in mediocrity. If they really knew the best course of action they'd be the one in charge and I'd be the one trying to give the mediocre advice.
I'm so tired, but nobody else is going to do it right.
I was thinking recently about the inverse of this attack. I have many thieves coming to my warehouse, and was thinking I could broadcast bunch of local ssids to try to see which ones their phones try to autoconnect to.
I could then use that info to figure out where they are likely to hang out, and either give it to police or take matters into my own hands.
Their phones search for known WiFi networks whenever they’re not currently connected to WiFi. You can monitor and log this traffic. Many (most?) modern smartphones randomize their MAC address when not connected, but a few years ago you could look for repeat visitors this way, too.
How much have you had stolen in monetary value just out of curiosity? I went schizo myself for a few months after having like $60k worth of stuff stolen from me when the cops did nothing. But you sound like this is just happening continually -- having this daily stress that's gonna get you or someone else killed -- and you probably don't deserve the prison time.
Yeah I think everyone tells this guy that, and it'd probably be a good start to try and get himself back in the good graces of Pine Bluff's political types, but for whatever reason it doesn't look like an option and he posts on twitter that he's still getting bulgarized on something like a weekly basis... From my experience I know there's nothing more frustrating than these useless government bureaucrats that can't be bothered to do their jobs until something or someone explodes.
Suppose you found that they auto connected to mcdonald's wifi. Now what? Are you going to stake out the local mcdonald's on the off chance that the thieves hangs out there? Given how long people keep their phones (years) and never clear their wifi network lists, all this would tell you is that they visited the given business at some point in time. It doesn't tell you whether they frequent that place.
I organized a huge game of capture the flag for the dorms at the University of Utah back in 1999. We had 3 teams, one for each dorm building. The RAs were given special powers to free people from jail and couldn't be tagged, but weren't allowed to carry a flag. I think most people had a great time. It really helped people get to know their neighbors and the RAs for the year.
Oregon Brain Preservation offers cryopreservation for $5,000 (or less if you can't afford that), Cryonics Germany offers free cryopreservation, and even the most expensive providers (Tomorrow Biostasis, Alcor, and Yinfeng) are affordable through life insurance. Most of us aren't wealthy and some of us are working class. Since 2000, vitrification has replaced freezing, dramatically reducing damage, and even frozen people might be recoverable centuries from now. It's offered on a nonprofit, experimental basis by organizations with public financial statements.
Well said! If anything, I'd say the money spent on traditional funerals is more of a scam but nobody seems to talk about that.
Expensive coffins, elaborate headstones, burial plot sales, etc.
As soon as somebody tries to spend their money in a way that might actually benefit them, people get defensive or try to justify death as noble or natural.
In real medical cryogenics, e.g., embryo preservation, vitrification is spoken of as a kind of freezing, which, of course, it is. Only cryonics advocates claim that vitrification isn't a kind of freezing.
If the topic is tissue damage from sharp ice crystals, it's pretty handy to draw the distinction between cooling methods that cause that and ones that don't.
Yes, that's the relevant distinction in fact. Cryonics are the former, not the latter. Multicellular cryonic suspension is an unsolved problem after roughly the blastocyst stage.
As of last year we're up to doing rat kidneys. They're "heavily" damaged but they recover within a few weeks. To be sure, there's a long way from that to near-perfectly preserving a human brain, let alone a whole body.
Yes, that is a living rat-sized kidney. Not a dead human-sized brain. And on a pass-fail grade, I'm giving that experiment a fail. Promising, yes.
Cryopreservation of corpses is a scam designed to fleece rich people with an extraordinary fear of death. Some justify it to themselves as supporting research which might lead to effective corpsicles, but to support such research they could simply donate to it. Not waste their money on an elaborate and expensive embalming with no hope of salvation.
By that logic, computers are a dead end because Babbage's Difference Engine No. 1 never really worked properly... Or that space travel is impossible because a lot of early rockets blew up on the pad.
It might work someday, maybe. But it won't work now. The corpsicles which currently exist are just as dead as if they were cremated. I understand, sort of, the psychology of people who lie to themselves about this, but that's all that's happening.
You don't know that because you don't know the physical limits of reanimation technology. In 2014, a human brain was vitrified with no ice crystallization or fracturing for the first time. Certainly, the first viable preservation will occur (if it has not already occurred) long before the first reanimation, and eventually discovering that we began to preserve people too soon would be much better than discovering that we began not soon enough. Even the primitively frozen might be retrievable centuries from now.
You don't know what future technological capability will be. Current Alcor and CI patients are preserved well enough that their bodies and brains could in theory be repaired by technology at the physical limits of possibility. The information is there.
You are saying that existing technology is unable to fix the issues of vitrification. That is correct, but irrelevant.
Well, I've read an article about some people getting flushed down the drain because the company that was supposed to keep them frozen kinda went out of business.
Interesting. I've been very interested lately in autonomous mapping and localization. It looks like many of the base implementation problems have been solved in a way that is extensible enough that I'll be able to use the solutions.
This is fantastic! I have been thinking about building something like this myself. I'm definitely going to deploy this in my area. I hear gunshots almost every weekend. Heard 2 sets of gunfire about an hour ago.
Please get out of Pine Bluff and sell your properties for whatever you can recoup. You are putting yourself into way too much danger for a father of 3. There is a very real chance you will die by your constant confrontations with thieves there. It's not worth it. Years later you don't have progress on any business there. It's not the place to be for you.
I am making progress though. It may not be visible to users yet, but I'm actually starting to get the infrastructure set up to begin processing media at the new location, and am running for mayor with some ideas that should eliminate all crime here... If successful, I think it could bode well for the elimination of crime everywhere.
I looked to nature for solutions to predators. Predators and criminals need constant sources of food/targets, but Cicadas emerge periodically and overwhelm the predator population. During lean times, the predator population shrinks.
By periodically clamping down HARD, criminals will be forced to target riskier and riskier targets. Then the key is our ability to hunt. There is nothing humans are better at than hunting. We can hunt things to extinction, and criminal activity is no different.
Criminals that can't crime, will have to find other sources of income. If we set up easy sources of lawful income, they will move in that direction.
The choice for a criminal becomes starve, or change.
I truly believe that technology and fast responses can make the difference.
Read this a long time ago, then re-read it a couple of years ago. They called the pods "stoners" and it made me laugh. Can't remember the name though. It must have been in a collection of short stories.
I see why all the hidden elements need to be just so or the whole thing is meaningless.
Maybe I'm just talking out of my ass, but it's rare to find someone that truly gets things rather than just going through the motions. If you do, its likely they have their own idea.
It feels like every decision I make gets resistance from people who live their lives in mediocrity. If they really knew the best course of action they'd be the one in charge and I'd be the one trying to give the mediocre advice.
I'm so tired, but nobody else is going to do it right.