Could you expand on this? Is this obviously right because it's FB being boycotted? I don't use FB - is it noticeably worse than youtube, reddit, twitter?
A lot of contractors are incorporated, so the contract is not between google and the contractor, but between google and the contractor's corp (sometimes another agency in between google and corp). So the contractor is not an employee of google and employment laws do not apply. Termination rules (typically a few weeks notice) are defined in the contract.
Since the magnetic field is tied to rotation of the planet’s core, I would expect it to slowly weaken as it caught up with the lack of rotation of the surface.
What prosperity does work off-shored to 3rd world sweatshops deliver? Greater profit for a tiny fraction of the population, and increased financial insecurity for the rest? Creating a tshirt doesn't take any extra effort in the US, the offshoring just adds overhead such as transportation of the goods and raw materials. Yes, labour costs and labour protection is higher in the US, but sidestepping these things does not create prosperity for US workers.
Set theory constructs the natural/ordinal numbers from it's axioms, but set theory is a man-made formal language that didn't exist until the 19th century, so talking about what comes/before after is kind of moot.
You don't need it, but sets are more primitive than numbers.
For example, the category of finite sets without an NNO [1] is simpler or more foundational than the set of natural numbers. At the same time, this category is actually a category of numbers.
My point is that numbers are complicated by nature, but they are more intuitive for humans (mostly I think) than sets are. Sets are simpler or more basic, but often less intuitive for humans.
I'm not sure our brains are capable of continuously learning for 1000 years without becoming useless. Also, there is a dystopian version of immortality - a tiny fraction of elites becoming immortal super-tyrants.
> it terrifies me (esp everything going wrong already in our world) that we're not being more critical and cautionary toward life-extension....
Don't worry bro, you'll die and all your fears will go away :). From a personal point of view biological immortality would be great, but I think you're right that there are risks - I can imagine a world where a tiny fraction of wealthy/powerful people make themselves into immortal super-tyrants.
Could you expand on this? Is this obviously right because it's FB being boycotted? I don't use FB - is it noticeably worse than youtube, reddit, twitter?