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Comment Re:They're idiots (Score 1) 233

> Being homeless doesn't give you a right to shit anywhere you want.

I see you've never set foot in SF. There are no public bathrooms [1]. They closed them all because people do drugs in them. I've peed in a bush because the closest open public bathroom was, literally, *12 fucking miles away*. Gas stations, and even Denny's, don't have public restrooms for *customers*. The only way you're peeing in SF is if you go back to your hotel, wait half hour in line, and pay the cover charge, to get into a local pub, or go to an upscale restaurant.

[1] thefrisc dot_com/where-are-all-of-san-franciscos-public-bathrooms-no-one-really-knows-f3d247b18bb4

Comment Re: Solving the wrong problem (Score 2) 65

I don't think self-teaching is innately rare. It is the default mind and skillset among the poor/rural communities even if they are for a number of reasons focused on more immediate needs for those skills.

Still there are definitely things which require experience and those tend to be more efficiently transferred with the guide. Usually the roadblocks are small pieces here and there. Perhaps that is the best blend, a self-learner combined with a mentor they can reach out to.

Comment Re:Solving the wrong problem (Score 1) 65

"And if there is a societal change, there is no need for Web 5."

I disagree with this. No matter how society changes human nature isn't going to change with it. There will never come a time when all people are trustworthy, it will forever remain that most people are usually honest in most ways. Social change can shift the ways around but that is it.

The most sound strategies are and always will be strategies that assume no trust.

I'm not specifically supporting THIS proposal and web 5 (or opposing) but something like this will be needed. I do disagree with the notion that blockchain is the key to every decentralized lock.

Comment It's about control (Score 4, Insightful) 349

They want to treat staff as if they were children who need constant supervision. At our company they've resorted to first requiring pictures on skype and now are pushing for everyone to have functional cameras just so they can stop people from working in their PJs. Anything to assert control.

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