Silicon Valley - Making the World a Better Place

[@ericklestrange6255]

this is so on point. this series will forever be quotable

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

I love this show beyond words. You can practically hear Mike Judge's teeth grinding as he dredges up memories of the tech industry.

[@HMijailAntonQuiles]

So good, so realistic

[@rpbmpn]

I just found this, and only the last few seconds clued me in that this might not be real.

[@WildHorseProductions]

I worked in San Francisco for years, and this is exactly how they talk.

[@jc_777]

TechCrunch in one line.

[@NormAppleton]

Techcrunch is steaming feces. It , might as well be MLM monthly for all the obvious scams it pushes.

[@AM-ry8is]

Mike Judge is a genius.

[@magnusengeseth5060]

The first time I saw this I thought it was going way overboard with the parody, surely real tech companies weren't quite this silly. Every year since I keep getting bombarded with tech news that make it very clear that I was wrong. So very, very wrong.

[@aescubed]

With this comment, you are making the world a better place.

[@yoitslemonboy6988]

the human heater! microwave your skin!

[@Kncperseus]

I knew microwave exposure is dangerous, but it's this episode that made me look up what it actually does to make it so dangerous.

[@pioneer_1148]

FYI it causes heating of tissues in the body. It's not dangerous at all levels, small amounts of microwaves cause low intensities cause only a small amount of heating which doesn't do any damage. However, high intensity causes a lot of damage to the extent that radar was invented by people trying to make a death ray. Just to be absolutely clear the people who destroyed the 5G towers were complete idiots you would need millions of time the power of a 5G tower transmitter to do any kind of damage at short range let alone over hundreds of meters.

[@newchamp5001]

And????? You cannot tease us with your quest objective and leave us like that. That’s blue balls… but for our minds!!! F U!! Lol

[@Qwerty.240]

Microwave exposure isn't dangerous

[@dies200]

​@@Qwerty.240"Soviet bloc countries reported that individuals exposed to microwaves frequently developed headaches, fatigue, loss of appetite, sleepiness, difficulty in concentration, poor memory, emotional instability, and labile cardiovascular function" From "the microwave syndrome" research paper published by David o carpenter

[@dies200]

​@@Qwerty.240"The symptoms most commonly experienced include dermatological symptoms (redness, tingling, and burning sensations) as well as neurasthenic and vegetative symptoms (fatigue, tiredness, concentration difficulties, dizziness, nausea, heart palpitation, and digestive disturbances)" From the factsheet on Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (aka microwave syndrome) published by the WHO

[@felixchien1664]

This is my justification for everything i do in life

[@TunjungUtomo]

actually happened in two conference I was in, in 2015 and 2017

[@acgandhi]

For those of you that don't know the human heater is based off a real product developed by the US military: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System It's a non-lethal weapon for crowd control and other similar uses. Could actually be better (less lethal/harmful) than tear gas or especially rubber bullets. But yeah for long term use in your home.... _maybe_ not the best idea.

[@hindolbhattacharya9715]

From the Wikipedia article, ADS uses waves of 3.2 mm, which corresponds to very high frequency radio waves in the EM spectrum. So, it is a radio wave based device, not microwave, though quite close to microwave (even higher frequency than 5G!!). The difference is that once you are in microwave range, the waves become too energetic (not ionizing though) than high frequency radio waves. Hence, directed energy of microwave can induce more damage to a biological target than intended. In this case, they are using a microwave heater instead of radio wave heater and hence the safety concern. Though, if you look into the article, there are safety concerns with this radio device as well.

[@Delta-nl7pi]

Infrared heating is a thing. And it works.

[@GmodAdict]

@@hindolbhattacharya9715 The dude is still advertising the heating of human skin. If it breaks or shorts and there’s no fault detection, its basically gonna be like air frying your guests every time you turn on the heater

[@gorginhanson]

The way that woman kept insisting it could never work just really drove me bonkers. All idea go through stages.

[@thiagodeandrade7081]

i knew I had recognized the idea. Thanks!

[@sukapow]

This is literally A.I. today 😭

[@johanhegge6845]

The knights of SoLoMo !

[@Fibonaccisghost]

Nothing wrong with making money, but it gets dishonest to dress up that desire as a revolution to change the world.

[@ElijahOyekunle]

Question: Has Silicon Valley changed the world in the past 50 years, or not? It's actually very incremental, and the really boring stuff in this video (Paxos Algorithms, Consensus Protocols, Mobile bugs reporting, etc) are actually building blocks for the massive changes in our world in recent decades.

[@matthewriley7826]

Why not? Get enough idiots in the room, and a lying, cheating, degenerate can turn a profit.

[@frustratedalien666]

What makes a good parody? When your jokes are essentially indistinguishable from the things your targets say.

[@yunsha9986]

"Microwaving humans to not pollute the Earth, why did I not think of that?" - Hitler probably.

[@piCtrues]

what if the human heater is really working without risk!

[@AnonYmous-spyonmepls]

microwaves go through the skin and vibrate every cell inside it can not possibly be safe there is 0% chance of it working if you understand physics

[@feonor26]

Microwaves boil you from the inside out, but go ahead and try it if you want ;)

[@cheesuscheetos4076]

The only way it could ever be even remotely safe by incredibly low standards is if there were thousands of these scattered inside a small room and working at individually truly low power. Problem with radiowaves is that their strength follows the inverse square law, meaning that for a person 10m away to get warmish the person 1m away would get cooked.

[@viktorrez5395]

@@cheesuscheetos4076 Inverse square, if the radiator is a real point. But in reality...

[@electricalautomationengine9128]

@@AnonYmous-spyonmepls indeed, microwave does create an alternating electromagnetic field which does attract the -/+ ends of diploar molecules such as water (causinf vibration), and guess what 70% of human is made of 😃

[@paradox_1729]

Wtf... isnt that Dean Kamen pitching human heater??... thats the only real entrepreneur in this whole clip lol.

[@8Trails50]

I lol'd at Paxos.

[@Alphadeias08]

a better place for big businesses that is

[@jiripodivin5409]

I think DoD might be interested.

[@maracachucho8701]

Microwaves aren't inherently harmful to our bodies, but the sparks they produce on metallic surfaces are definitely a fire hazard.

[@dies200]

No they absolutely are harmful to bodies. The WHO published a factsheet on Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity explaining the symptoms of prolonged exposure and the FDA has strict requirements for shielding of microwave devices

[@logitech4873]

​@@dies200 They're only harmful in that they heat up tissue, so a thousand watts aimed at you can cause burns. But small devices using microwave radiation is completely harmless.

[@qwertyu8832]

Amazing 😍

[@drawmaster77]

oh man this is like real life

[@robertheckman543]

all gawdamn sorcerer's apprentices, the whole lot of 'em

[@PeterZeeke]

its too real

[@peterkossits4794]

How much for a Human Heater?

[@rogermenezes]

SO MO LO....er...MO SO LO...eh...LO MO SO

[@viktorrez5395]

I like the scientific approach of that woman. No argument, no evidence, just saying "no". With people like this, the world surely be a better place!

[@zothOne]

Microwaves heat the water molecules, to prove that it's safe they should have some medical specialist there, not have someone be the lab-rat.

[@LoudWaffle]

She's not a scientist, she's a businesswoman, and she's absolutely correct. Nobody is going to buy a product that microwaves people.

[@AnonYmous-spyonmepls]

If you would understand how microwaves work you would know that this type of tech will never work. Highschool level physics.

[@JITCompilation]

Why don't you apply the scientific method and microwave yourself to find out?

[@Joe-ud1de]

@@JITCompilation fuck you

[@ronaldelcana5322]

I think it's the opposite

[@milkman5894]

lmao So Lo Mo

[@thepowerlies]

That "bro" was so cringe

[@purpledream9492]

but it's safe :(

[@philliphanna2307]

Im with you babe

[@dannown]

this is bizarrely triggering.

[@Hawking1969]

So = Social Lo = Local Mo = Mobile

[@suyogkute4448]

very LOL... maing world better... LOL