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Comment Help with Disability? (Score 1) 47

For someone like me who has a terrible time remembering faces and names, augmented reality with facial recognition could replace the defective & underperforming 'wetware' that I have. Like a hearing aid for those with ear problems, or glasses for those with retina or lens problems. These things are socially acceptable, probably because there's accepted norms for their use.

Feels like if the use case is to compensate for a disability, that's ok; but if you're using something that enriches a third party, or a third party aggregates the data, that's not socially acceptable, nevermind the legality (public places).

If I could add notes to a contact sheet and have that pop up when I was interacting with someone, it would be a game changer for me.

Comment Re:The backers can fucking do it. (Score 1) 110

There are real people with real businesses who are going under.

THE cure? Have the Treasury send us little people $1,200 / month for the next year. THAT will start the economy because we need to eat, pay rent, get health care, pay utilities, etc .... How to pay for i? Eisenhower era tax rates - inflation adjusted OBVIOUSLY. Earn over $2million? 90% over $2 million. I'd even say the first $100,000 is tax free - that's right, a standard deduction of a $100,000.

Contrary to the Neo-liberal economic fairy-tales, the economy works from bottom to top.

I completely agreed with you, right up to your last statement. I sincerely hope you are being sarcastic about liberals blocking higher taxes and direct payments to consumers. It's quite the opposite, and it's clearly in the record

The current majority is the one that passed the latest tax cuts. Ask yourself, is this the party of 'neo-liberal economic fairy-tales'? The fairy tales exist (called 'trickle down ecomonics'), but it's been a conservative position for 40 years, not a liberal one.

The current minority party tried to send money directly to consumers, but was prevented by the majority party.

Both of these examples should show that, if you actually believe in your solution (direct payments and higher taxes), then it's clearly a liberal ticket you should support.

Comment Re:This is ridiculous (Score 1) 214

Dear God! Kettle, pot on line two!

You have *no idea* the size of IPv6. To paraphrase Douglas Adams: "if you think you know how big space is, then you don't know how big it is."

128 bits is HUGE. It's big enough that we can't reasonably brute force search it. (Source: Applied Cryptography). nmap-v6 on the entire IPv6 Internet would never finish.

Get over it. Address scarcity is over in IPv6. We simply can't breed that many humans. We could assign 1 *billion* /64s to each person on this planet, and not run out. We could conceivability connect billions of parallel universes with IPv6. We can independently address every atom of this universe. And have some left over!

I admit, the address limit is finite, but you won't see it. Your kids won't see it. Their kids won't see it. Bet you a dollar. If I lose, you can collect from my great-great-grandchildren.

Steve

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