2. Attempts to regulate and attempts comply with regulations.
The rest are just forms of these phenomena.
I resurrected a Python project of mine after 7 years. Upgraded the dependency management to Poetry, upgraded the major version of Flask. Boom. Back in business. Try that with a modern Node project after 7 months.
> any advice on acquiring these basic social skills?
Find peoples with similar given and ask what worked for them. Advises from "natural" extroverts won't work for you.
Science and technology shouldn't have a political valence, and efforts to politicize science can end quite badly, like the Soviet Union banning the study of genetics on the grounds of it being "anti-Marxist". Technologies and their use can be debated on ethical grounds, but to assign valences is silly and potentially harmful.
That's much better. Because to understand what you meant by example one needed to know reasoning behind the example.
> Science and technology shouldn't have a political valence
It should not. I agree.
Do you agree that atomic bomb is political? At which sate atomic bomb development stops being science and starts being political? At theory level? Experiments? First device? First use of device?
At some stage we start observing that cryptocurrencies impact start having great consequences regardless of the science behind them. Great volume of electricity, centralization of power at hands of middlemen, promises of great future where benefits are reaped by early adopters already today.
Some people feel like looking at cryptocurrencies and blockchain purely from technology perspective, advocating for them, brings more harm than good. And I can understand this position of the author well.
If that can't convince you, I can't imagine how you imagine your argument work.
Currently that's technology, which happens mostly on the internet globally. I can't really imagine a real world event big enough that would shake up Google, Amazon, Apple, etc. all at once. Sure, individually they can be threatened by innovation, but generally everything on the internet feels very "detached" from real world events.
If possible even russia would still use those services today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
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