Flying used to be a great way to escape a crime that was just committed. By knowing the name and id of every traveler, we can stop criminals from fleeing their crime scenes.
But if they have just committed a crime the system wouldn’t know to look for them, would it?
However assuming that it takes a while for the suspect to decide to skip town, it’s perhaps useful. The next question is whether it’s worth spending the money on these machines, hiring people to run them, and inconveniencing the innocent travelers (presumably 10^9 X the number of perps collared) is worth the occasional arrest. Ignoring false positives of course. And especially when there are plenty of other ways to skip town.
I have a separate problem with scope creep.
But thanks for suggestions use case that can actually be considered. Is this reason ever used as a justification for the TSA?
> Authoritarianism is a reaction to the perceived failures of (classical) liberalism to address modern challenges.
Or authoritarianism is a reaction to the perceived failures of (classical) liberalism to counter modern realities that are perceived as challenges because it suits would-be authoritarians to present them that way.
If you're on the left, I'm talking about immigration, and if you're on the right, I'm talking about climate change...
Liberalism can’t fail on its own - it can only be taken advantage of via subterfuge. Mainstream politicization of critical theory has deceived liberalism by using its freedoms but not respecting its counter-freedoms. Authoritarianism is the reaction to this abuse.
And really if by critical theory’s definitions that everything is relativist then what’s the problem?
It definitely is on the part of would-be tyrants, but a popular shift to it is due to perceived failures. There's a really cool quote from the (second book of?) the Three Body Problem, which goes something like "alone in the emptiness of space, fascism becomes everyone's first resort".
Note that I do not think we were doing that badly before Trump and other authoritarians. It's just that a lot of people perceived the world was getting dangerous for them (probably because it became more inclusive, and also because they watch Fox news).
Nah, it’s a reaction to critical theory / PC convention dominating the culture. This philosophy of everything is socially constructed and nothing is objectively true has fueled a reaction that at least feels like our feet are on solid ground. This has nothing to do with classical liberalism.
Classical liberalism can under attack from critical theory over the last 40 years and has manifested in mainstream adoption of this type of thinking. This betrayal and dismissal of classical liberalism has forced the right into authoritarianism as the norms of liberal democracy have been dismantled.
I don't expect most 10 year olds to have chequing accounts, and if we're talking about about all Americans I'm honestly surprised it's not higher, taking into account da yout, those who are mentally/physically infirm, and those folks who just don't trust banking.
Would you please start respecting the site guidelines? We've cut you a ton of slack and given you a ton of warnings. If you keep violating them, such as by posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments, we're going to have to ban you.
Sorry about that! This confusion has come up before, and it's a really bad one when it hits. Can you suggest anything that would have made the situation clear to you in the first place?
Also his analysis is shoddy. He shows an absolute decrease in DL job postings since covid hit, and claims that DL is in decline irrespective if other fields like SWE are also in a similar decline. Utterly surprised by the analysis given the data.
This needs to be normalized to “job posting collapse in the past 6 months” unless you expect DL jobs to grow while everything shrinks? I’m somewhat surprised by the analysis from someone’s who’s “data driven.” I mean, he even says so as much in the twitter thread:
“To be clear, I think this is an economic recession indicator, not the start of a new AI winter.”
So, looks like he discovered an economic recession.
Citation please? The profit that Colorado and other states are reporting makes it hard to believe the black market is even a shadow of its former self in those states.
In California, the black market is estimated as twice the size of the legal market (1). This is the natural result when you make it excruciatingly difficult to open legal businesses, and impose in some municipalities (including Los Angeles) north of 30% taxes on product with no break given for medical patients who might rely on this for their disease. There is also a lack of enforcement of illegal dispensaries, which contributes to there being at least 2835 illegal dispensaries compared to 873 licensed dispensaries state wide (2).
If they hadn't made it so expensive artificially then the illegal guys couldn't make enough profit to make it worth their time to sell illegally. The California canibus market is a terrible example of what a market should be.
Yes, just as they still smuggle tobacco products into areas where they are perceived to be excessively taxed. The problem is overtaxation, not the nature of the product.
Interesting how every big dog is attacking Apple as they continue to be the lone-wolf in enabling privacy and a secure platform for their users. Apple users are mostly computer illiterate because its Apple’s mission statement to enable computing for everyone. Because of their ease of use, they are now targeted to open up their platform in ways that will jeopardize both their increasing user-privacy and user-security.
