“Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.” —Fredric Jameson, “Future City”
shane
joined 4 months ago
License plate readers? Facial recognition? Speech recognition?
Interesting. I've never thought of his work as unsettling.
This seems plausible. I get that there is a sense that regulations can be implemented in a more direct way from the government side.
On the other hand, regulators often do more with fewer resources than the industries they regulate. Coordination of different types of regulation is hard, and there are drawbacks to centralizing and/or streamlining such functions, including both making the regulatory body too powerful and alternately a bigger target for corporate regulatory capture.
Companies will always whine about regulation, since they will always try to remove any costs. I don't think we should ever take their complaints too seriously. 😄
Not if you do it properly.
The Netherlands is something like the 2nd most costly medical care in the world, far behind the US but still way more expensive than necessary. We had a "center right" party in power for ages, with their religious belief that the only way to do anything is for someone to make profit. 😑
Edit:
I just checked and we're actually below Switzerland, Norway, and Germany. I'm shocked!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_per_capita
I assume the complexity comes from corporations who have departments spread out who aren't arranged in a way to easily meet the reporting requirements. So "overburdening" means "spending money and focusing on compliance rather than products or services".
It had too little memory, but was clearly a step towards phone perfection. I am still bitter that Nokia hired a Microsoft loyalist who killed the Linux line ... shortly before killing the whole company.
Will you please explain the quip about comedians?
Is that not a dove? 🤔
WhatsApp is owned by Facebook. They will whine and do whatever makes them the most money at any particular time.
I'm not that worried about that. The earth has been a lot hotter in the past, and will again in the future.