The most interesting information here is that Ray Kurzweil is the director of engineering at Google. Rotten top to bottom with wishful thinkers and deniers of reality.

"72 percent of the respondents do not believe encryption backdoors would make their nations safer from terrorists..."

The remaining 28 percent were government plants and NSA corporate infiltrators.

A centralized governing body moves to control decentralized banking. Right, of course. God forbid the control of capital is given back to the people. Or that it cannot be easily controlled and manipulated by a handful of deep state actors. We can't have people exchanging goods and services among themselves using a system that isn't easily monitored, tracked, and controlled! That's madness.

You give these fuckers a taste of total tyrannical control of the monetary system and suddenly they believe it's their god-given right to reach down into everyone's private lives and business.

If a company cannot pay a livable wage to produce its goods and services it should cease to exist.

It will cause job loss. It will burn out the worthless companies not able to pay a livable wage for their goods and services. Net benefit long run. Good riddance. It will also bring to center stage the reality of automation, unchecked immigration and population control. We should have been addressing this 50 years ago. We were lazy and frightened.

Excellent comment, especially the point about failing businesses: if a business cannot pay it workers enough to survive, what value is that business to society? None. It shouldn't exist.

The reality is, wages are being depressed through inflation hiding the transition to automation. People are cheaper (worth less) now than 1970s people. There are more of us. Capitalists have retained (some would say stolen) all of the value from gains in efficiency the last 50 years. Automation has been staved off due to the devaluation of humans. But it's just hiding it, slightly delaying it. If we paid people a living wage Right Now automation would happen. We have no political solution to this so instead we will slowly starve everyone.

If you were a guy writing your wall-of-text diatribe, this would be the point where women would tell you to Man The Fuck Up and stop being such a crybaby.

Actually he subscribes to the view that diversity is good and worth striving for, and somehow this diversity provides a benefit to Google and/or society. This clearly makes him left of center. I'm also not so sure it's a productive goal for societies. Look at what is happening in Europe. Look at what people naturally want to do when they have the finances to relocate as they wish. I think the benefit of diversity is anything but a foregone conclusion.

A javascript API for VR.. in a web browser. VR already taxes hardware and requires tight synchronization of sensor inputs over USB3 to video framebuffer output to produce a usable experience. Adding javascript, another layer of abstraction, and frankly, a shitty wannabe operating system masquerading as a web browser into the mix IF FUCKING STUPID AND A WASTE OF TIME.

I don't think anyone considers Gnome 3 to be relevant any more. It's been infiltrated and corrupted. GTK is pretty much stagnant with Qt superior in every way. Serious technical work in Gnome 3 isn't really happening. Honestly Ubuntu isn't far behind.

He's providing a public service really. If the only thing attractive about an MMO is a fake-economy and/or the grind for equipment or resources it should die.

For the first time in history teens of the world can compare themselves with millions of people online. They know with brutal certainty that they are generally uninteresting, uninspired, and have nothing to say when compared against everyone else. It's kind of like online dating. 10% of the people are going to receive 90% of the hits/likes/whatever. Self-doubt, depression, over analysis of themselves ensues. No one really cares. Those that can deal with it will be fine. Those that can't won't matter long-term.

Just because some topics cannot receive funding, have no change of being published, and have to be carefully talked around while frantically careful not to "hastily" draw the "wrong conclusions" from the data.... doesn't mean these ideas are not correctly. In the scientific sense.

Actually, ignorant bullies are created by subverting the educational system with moral relativism, unworkable Marxist ideologies, identity politics (itself a re-purposing of Marxist ideas), destruction of competitive spirit and meritocracies. Just listen to the nonsense coming out of "educated" university kids' mouths.

Design in India, production in China, Software in the eastern block, MBAs in the USA. Spending capital on physical equipment and sub-assemblies is a "waste of money". That cost should be externalized to a supplier you can squeeze out of business with progressively unfavorable contracts.