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Comment Ironic (Score 1) 50

There's something kind of ironic about an awards show (the Emmys) that is primarily for a particular medium (broadcast TV) leaveing their own medium to get more viewers.

Yes the Emmys recognize some programming on cable and streaming services, but it was originally for, and primarily for now, broadcast TV programming.

Comment Same reason original Kindle is useless (Score 0) 47

You need to be moved on from old stuff that just works so you can be new stuff.

Remember when Amazon tauted Kindle as superior to an actual book?

My books of 10 and 20 years ago still work. My Kindle technically tuna on but cannot use new content...so this move to downgrade isn't surprising.

How likely am I to buy an Amazon product in the future? *Blinks*

Comment Re: "Great" for frightened, not for the species. (Score 1) 69

Agree with a lot of that but there is another element to consider. The living knowledge we have as a species. We have finite time to learn until daily life gets in the way of significant acceleration in further mental and intellectual growth and eventually decline begins. If the period we can learn and comprehend extends so can better solutions be found to limited resources etc.

Once most humans didn't make it past 50 - yet we now regularly see 80 and yet humanity has prospered.

It seems convenient now that the older population perishes and stops becoming a burden on the new generations but that is a specific circumstance of our time. It would be a short term solution and we would likely lose more than we gain if most old people would die of natural causes suddenly.

Comment Can we extract? (Score 1) 69

If we can get the"thing that makes them young" into old people they can be young again?! Maybe Vampirism isn't total BS...

Silliness aside, it seems we're getting very close to regeneration and lifespan extension. Anything that will extend old people's lives is generally going to be great for humanity. If I knew in my 20s what I know now sorta thing...

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