I strongly disagree. If the system is transparent enough and provides mechanisms for verification and control - No reason to distrust it. I would prefer a system where even in 20 years I can go online and check how my vote was counted in older elections - this way stealing my vote would be impossible.

The issue is how to preserve privacy...

> I would prefer a system where even in 20 years I can go online and check how my vote was counted in older elections - this way stealing my vote would be impossible.

Understandable, but then vote-buying becomes possible. The reason vote-buying is impossible in a secret ballot is because you can't prove how you voted to anyone else. If you can look up your own ballot even five minutes after it's dropped into the box, then you can show your screen to someone else who then hands you $100 for voting the right way, and elections change from being "who has persuaded the most voters?" into "who has the most money to buy votes with?"

Vote buying and worse 'vote for me or I'll shoot you'. Buying is the more common scam but there are worse options for evil people

A related issue is “vote for my preferred candidate, or I’ll abuse you” as a way for husbands to control wives. That’s especially relevant when one party is favored by a majority of men while the other party is favored by a majority of women.

s/husband/boss

Or despot, or ruthless water district rep (lol)

You can also do this today by telling someone to take a picture of their vote by smartphone or you'll shoot them. Millions post a picture of their ballot on high-energy political forums every 2 years already. This hypothetical is unhelpful.

Where I live, ballot are a piece of paper slipped into an envelope (not sealed). It's mandatory to take at least two different ballots before entering a voting booth. You can take a picture with one ballot inside the envelope and switch before leaving the booth.

That's pretty cool.

Where I live phone use is not allowed in the room where the voting is

And "sharing proof of your internet vote" would not be allowed either. Doesn't matter, they have the same problem.

Pole watchers will see you with a phone. They won't see 'the evil person' in the room watching you vote

> If the system is transparent enough and provides mechanisms for verification and control

That "if" is doing an awful lot of work here!

You can literally explain paper voting to children - it was part of my mandatory Civics classes. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure you need a cryptography PhD to even begin understanding why the various digital protocols are supposed to be secure. Even worse, as a software developer I am aware that things like "how do I know the compiler is trustworthy" and "how do I know the computer is in fact running the right binary" are very much open problems in the industry, so I know that any computer is untrustworthy.

Sure, if it's transparent and verifiable there's no reason to distrust it, but we don't live in a world where a transparent and verifiable digital voting system has been invented yet, so there are plenty of reasons not to trust them.

Do you think prices will go up for mac?

That comment was a joke, but still. Resale prices for Macs are quite high. I didn’t run the calculation but it is entirely plausible the TCO including resale over a couple of years is much less than $200/month, if that’s the alternative.

baq's comment is a joke about RAM prices.

What's the problem?

Real world might be boring, but very useful. Especially for companies that move boxes around, not fantasy characters.

The topic was about a 3D art tool. What are "companies that move boxes around" using a 3D art tool for?

That's exactly what I think will happen. 3D is endgame for AI. 3D models are deterministic objects that provide continuity, while AI does non-deterministic abstract generation(thinking) + plans action plan for these 3d models.

Recent news on major AI scientists starting "world AI" companies confirm this trend.

So 3D soon will become a very important tech even compared to today.

Why do you think so? As far as I can tell - a lot of GPU empowered data centers are being built

There is CAD Sketcher, which is an extension for Blender which could allow to unite both worlds.

I'd like to hear someone's perspective on how difficult it would be to unify OpenUSD and CAD file formats so that they are portable between programs?

Last time I checked, CAD Sketcher appeared to be a little dead.

OpenUSD got just 1 mention in the release notes. Also wondering what is the state of this feature.

May I ask your opinion, as industry insider, regarding what makes a good and bad OpenUSD support?

That would be both feature completeness of the implementation and also some kind of a native USD authoring mode (editing the structure and layering multiple USD files properly), like Houdini Solaris or Nvidia Omniverse. For now Blender can’t even read/write MaterialX properly. (I’m not an insider though)

Do you think the next generation of Roblox will be a dominating games engine?

Roblox is strung up in its own closed and exploited ecosystem, so hopefully no.

I really hope not, but I wouldn’t bet against it. The nature of products that take high capex to build and then have nearly zero marginal cost to reproduce is monopolies.

How is Evangelion still running if the series was finished and even alternative ending was produced?

The same way Star Wars was still running in between the original series and the prequels. It had an active fan base and lots of side content that was constantly being produced.