My friendās kid asked for help with her math homework and got stuck on the word āGuadalupeā on her math problem. I asked her if the word was important and she immediately crossed out every instance of the word and replaced it with a name she knew.
Sheās done it with other words in her math problems. Iām not correcting her because I think filtering out irrelevant data is importantā¦ But it was funny to me how quickly she just started striking words out when they distracted her.
Iiiiiinnnntttteeerrreeessstttttiiiiinnnngggggā¦
Iām cynical of all these discoveries these daysā¦
How often are they just people wanting grants to keep getting payed when itās not going to be a viable discovery
From my opinion itās not really a problem with finding neat discoveries it is how it is presented as the next big revolution every. god. damn. time.
most discoveries in like battery technology take at least a decade to even become viable for manufacturing and a lot of them never even get that far because the biggest challenge is scaling it up for manufacture.
Agreed with presentationā¦ in this case I simply read that labs can now make space magnets. 
Tom Scott (youtuber) is looking for help.
For posterity, and so I donāt have to type this all up again in the future, I submitted the following to him for a video idea;
My name is Amal Graafstra, and Iāve been using chip implant technology under my skin since 2005. Iāve written a book called RFID Toys (2007 Wiley Publishing) and started companies that design, manufacture, and retail human chip implants. The current feeling from the general public is that chip implants for humans is a bad idea, that somehow they compromise personal security and privacy, and that ultimately implants will result in some form of oppression. This is the idea that movies and TV shows promote endlessly - having a chip implant is a liability and never a good thing. Meanwhile, biometric systems are being deployed in everyday technologies used everywhere, but also totalitarian regimes like China, all without a second thought.
Biometrics pose the real danger to personal security and privacy, because the target can both be enrolled into and identified by the system, all without their knowledge or consent. In reality, biometrics are not secure enough to benefit you, but good enough at identifying people to be used by 3rd parties to identify you. Identification is not the same as authentication, and it has serious consequences for personal privacy and security.
On the other hand, a chip implant has the ability to, in essence, upgrade you as a human being, with powerful cryptographic capabilities. A passive transponder (NFC) device placed subdermally that can never be forgotten or lost, is upgradable with applications over the air via NFC from your smartphone, and provides standards based encryption capabilities like PGP, FIDO2 / Webauthn, OTP, HMAC, etc. all in a token that is frictionless to use and canāt be stolen because it was plugged into your laptop when your bag was taken by thievesā¦ there is power in merging a strong digital security token, and in essence, your digital identity itself, with your own biological identity. Devices like computers and phones cede their authority over your identity back to you, and become simple interfaces. Your critical identity credentials are now a part of you, and go where you go, not where your phone or computer goes.
Cryptography has been around a long time, but there is one reason itās not widely used. Generally speaking, security and convenience are at odds with each other. Something that is secure is not typically convenient, and things which are convenient are not typically all that secure. Cryptography works, but itās not terribly convenient to use. In particular, managing cryptographic keys and tokens is the crux of the problem. Not only is it a pain to haul around a token or carefully protect a key, which is essentially a long password you couldnāt possibly remember yourselfā¦ but because cryptography works so well, if you lose your key or token, you lose access. This has become painfully apparent to many bitcoin wallet holders over the years.
A chip implant has the ability to break that paradigm because of itās ability to perform strong cryptographic functions, including bitcoin and blockchain functions, all in a device that you can never lose and is always ready to go to work for you. In fact, some applications are only practical or possible if implemented with a chip implant. For example, I built a smartgun application, not because I love guns, but because I wanted to showcase how a smartgun could be made practical through the use of a chip implant. Smartguns have existed in the past, but itās always been implemented with a wearable ring or bracelet of some kind, or biometrics which are terrible in this application for many reasons I wonāt bother going into here. In essence, smartgun owners would have to wear on their body, 24/7, a fashion item designed by a gun company that also advertises the fact the person has a smartgun, all the time. Day and night. Many times, these rare smartgun owners would end up putting the authentication device into the gun safe with the smartgun because it was impractical to wear all the time. A chip implant is covert, nobody know you have one. It also requires not maintenance, no charging, no management. Itās always there and ready to authenticate you. In reality, with biometric technology at its current state, a chip implant is the only practical option for smartgun owners.
The personal health risks of having a chip implant are so benign I almost forgot to mention them. Getting a chip implant is less risky to your health than getting an ear piercing. A typical piercing requires two holes through tissue, hanging a piece of metal through the wound, waiting days for it to heal up around that metal, during which the risk of infection is quite high. A chip implant gets inserted through a needle procedure, with only a single incision made in the dermis. The incision itself is closed in a matter of hours, healed in days, and once closed the risk of infection drops to nominal.
Overall, my point here is that contemporary wisdom regarding chip implants vs biometrics is practically 180 from the reality. Biometrics are a horrible invasion of privacy with no security benefits for you, while chip implants have the power to improve your personal security and privacy through data encryption and strong authentication technologies that are always at the ready. Perhaps itās time to take a clear look at this kind of subdermal technology and truly evaluate the risks and potential rewards of human chip implant technology.
Tom Scott is a great youtuber hope they do a video on this would be awesome.
I like this idea a lot! Definitely need to find an interesting clickbaity name, possibly delve more into the fun side of projects (learning to code, cool party trick for friends, business cards, etc.) with an implant.
I could see a title like: āMicrochips in your body are not such a crazy idea after allā or something of that nature. Iād have to dwell on it a bitā¦
I appreciate some of his content, but in general he seems to only go after stuff that can be popped easily
Rarely ever Talks about anything thatās good, or fixing anything
Victim of YouTuber algorithm if you ask me
Also
The selfless plug for his company in EVERY video got pretty tiresome very quickly.
So much so that I rarely watch his videos anymore.
He is still very skillful and knowledgeable and freely shares this, so I still appreciate that
Sponsorblock is a great plugin for your browser that deletes those types of in-video sponsorships/plugs if you havenāt tried that before. Itās great
I donāt mind his self sponsorship
Because honestly itās probably half for income, and half because everyone constantly asks where they can buy X that he used
I dislike that the content has become the same thing over and over again
Comb pick, rake, magnet, bump
I think I just described 3/4 of his current channel
No I havenāt, thanks for the suggestion.
They are more comments than an advert.
Would it pick up on that?
eg. the video above @ 1:25
āJust leave the link in the commentā
His channel, his videos, his companyā¦he can do what he wants, it just happens to be the reason why I donāt watch anymore
Anybody know how the āRegularā badge works? I swear I had it a while ago, and recently noticed it missing, and just got it back again
It says āTrust Level 3ā, but I figured someone here might know the actual criteria for that
Understanding Discourse Trust Levels
To get to trust level 3, in the last 100 daysā¦
- Must have visited at least 50% of days
- Must have replied to at least 10 different non-PM topics
- Of topics created in the last 100 days, must have viewed 25% (capped at 500)
- Of posts created in the last 100 days, must have read 25% (capped at 20k)
- Must have received 20 likes, and given 30 likes.*
- Must not have received more than 5 spam or offensive flags (with unique posts and unique users for each, confirmed by a moderator)
- Must not have been suspended or silenced in the last 6 months
Furthermore, unlike other trust levels, you can lose trust level 3 status . If you dip below these requirements in the last 100 days, you will be demoted back to Member. However, in order to avoid constant promotion/demotion situations, there is a 2-week grace period immediately after gaining Trust Level 3 during which you will not be demoted.
Moving my gun safe next weekend with regular moversā¦ I tried desperately to keep it off anyone that isnāt in my trust circles radarā¦ but such is live when moving a safe
Part of moving it involves taking the door off and on twice, this is useful because since the door is usually 1/3 of the weightā¦ can make it more manageable, and removes some size with the turnbars out of the equation
Unlock and Take door off
Move safe body to truck
Move door to safe body on truck
Put back on Close and lock
(so door is held securely for transport)
Arrive at destination
Unlock and Take door off
Move safe body to destination
Move safe door to safe body
Put back on Close and lock
Anyways, brings up an interesting consideration, since I have to operate the lock a couple times
Should I put the generic keypad lock back on it for the day, to make it ānormalā
Or keep it rfid only, and use my implants for cool points and maybe the illusion of security?
Amusing thoughts
Help.
Honestlyā¦ wtf. Is this 240v water heater 4500 watts or 9000 watts total?
Whoever did this needs hanging.
