Not really the point of the article, but I'll use it as a soapbox anyway: Privacy (of the sort supported by Tor) is never a technology problem - it's a government / legislative problem. Whatever you try, whether Tor or…
Exactly, and "Early reports indicate losses are already approaching 300,000 euros, but could run into several million euros nationwide." - IOW, the attack has cost far less money than it would have cost to prevent it…
Here's a fix that I think could work: 1. Transition water rights from basically unlimited (subject to priority) to a specific, generous amount (i.e. double your yearly average over last 5 years or something). This would…
Water in California IS plentiful! But 85% of the water that is used is used by agriculture, leaving people and businesses to fight over the rest. Also, water "saved" in homes actually does not save any water, because it…
I bet that lumber mill wasn't union, but your examples are.
"Bring back forums" - I'm with you. I prefer forums as well, but when I think about it a little bit I can't say exactly why. Threaded conversations on specific topics, with moderation? That's basically Reddit (and…
Profit is the best way to measure that economic outputs exceed economic inputs, which is the whole point. But profit doesn't work so well as a measure when the outputs are hard to measure per individual beneficiary.…
Americans are too busy working for all that. Their GDP per capita is almost double leading EU countries, except for a couple of outliers like Ireland and Switzerland. You can complain about what you don't have, or you…
As an amateur (but competent) player of both, when I play go it almost feels like I'm playing multiple smaller games at the same time on the same board. Even if I might be struggling in one area, I can make it up in…
One can navigate by stars as well, at least at night. Really, all modern conveniences like grocery stores and plumbing are "unnecessary" in the sense that we survived for 100k years without them.
They weren't saying there is anything wrong with the syringe disposal per se, but instead that it's indicative of the people who use those facilities and the priorities of the authorities that manage them. It is…
Thanks. I wasn't aware of this interesting report. https://data.worldhappiness.report/table It wasn't easy for me to interpret these rankings though, or how they came up with the life evaluation score. More explanation…
It's a real problem when we allow violence or destructive activity to be perpetrated by sympathetic people or in the name of sympathetic causes. I don't like government surveillance either - but even if you think the…
What are those best places in the world?
I really hate hiding scrollbars, and I think the warning on that "feature" misses an important point: The scrollbar is not just for scrolling - it also tells you where you are in the document, and roughly how much of it…
Pay 2-5% to who? That's the problem for me - usually this means just another way to expand government. If you would just distribute it equally to all relevant citizens, with none of it going to the government, then I…
"... two old white men were having a pissing contest ..." This is the big mistake that so many people make: assuming that these folks are behaving irrationally, or somehow focused on something other than what is best…
How about we hope for Chinese labs to continue pushing forward - and for America and the rest of the world to do so as well. It needn't be competitive - everybody can succeed more tomorrow than they are today. You win.…
It's not all roses out there, to be sure. But there are some roses, I think. A lot of roses actually. Can we talk about the roses once in a while?
"Aluminum (Al) is a widespread environmental contaminant " - they lost me right there in the very first sentence. Already using charged, non-neutral language ("contaminant"), giving away their pre-existing bias and…
You are correct, but I think having a good policy - and trying earnestly to enforce it - is a good start, even if that enforcement is very imperfect.
I am super excited for the future! Medical advancements are accelerating, fusion power is on the horizon, space travel is exciting again. This is really an amazing moment in human history. I think we really can conquer…
Speaking of keeping separate things separate: remember that Unions (a business in it's own right) is different from the Union Workers that it represents.
Because this? "I believe with little certainty" Actually, I think it's powerful to acknowledge when my beliefs are weak. I still believe it - I think it's true, and I don't have any conflicting beliefs. But still it…
It reminds me of how the Panama canal was built, and actually the first major attempt failed and they gave up. What they learned for the second attempt was that digging was not the hard(est) part to solve - it was how…
Not really the point of the article, but I'll use it as a soapbox anyway: Privacy (of the sort supported by Tor) is never a technology problem - it's a government / legislative problem. Whatever you try, whether Tor or…
Exactly, and "Early reports indicate losses are already approaching 300,000 euros, but could run into several million euros nationwide." - IOW, the attack has cost far less money than it would have cost to prevent it…
Here's a fix that I think could work: 1. Transition water rights from basically unlimited (subject to priority) to a specific, generous amount (i.e. double your yearly average over last 5 years or something). This would…
Water in California IS plentiful! But 85% of the water that is used is used by agriculture, leaving people and businesses to fight over the rest. Also, water "saved" in homes actually does not save any water, because it…
I bet that lumber mill wasn't union, but your examples are.
"Bring back forums" - I'm with you. I prefer forums as well, but when I think about it a little bit I can't say exactly why. Threaded conversations on specific topics, with moderation? That's basically Reddit (and…
Profit is the best way to measure that economic outputs exceed economic inputs, which is the whole point. But profit doesn't work so well as a measure when the outputs are hard to measure per individual beneficiary.…
Americans are too busy working for all that. Their GDP per capita is almost double leading EU countries, except for a couple of outliers like Ireland and Switzerland. You can complain about what you don't have, or you…
As an amateur (but competent) player of both, when I play go it almost feels like I'm playing multiple smaller games at the same time on the same board. Even if I might be struggling in one area, I can make it up in…
One can navigate by stars as well, at least at night. Really, all modern conveniences like grocery stores and plumbing are "unnecessary" in the sense that we survived for 100k years without them.
They weren't saying there is anything wrong with the syringe disposal per se, but instead that it's indicative of the people who use those facilities and the priorities of the authorities that manage them. It is…
Thanks. I wasn't aware of this interesting report. https://data.worldhappiness.report/table It wasn't easy for me to interpret these rankings though, or how they came up with the life evaluation score. More explanation…
It's a real problem when we allow violence or destructive activity to be perpetrated by sympathetic people or in the name of sympathetic causes. I don't like government surveillance either - but even if you think the…
What are those best places in the world?
I really hate hiding scrollbars, and I think the warning on that "feature" misses an important point: The scrollbar is not just for scrolling - it also tells you where you are in the document, and roughly how much of it…
Pay 2-5% to who? That's the problem for me - usually this means just another way to expand government. If you would just distribute it equally to all relevant citizens, with none of it going to the government, then I…
"... two old white men were having a pissing contest ..." This is the big mistake that so many people make: assuming that these folks are behaving irrationally, or somehow focused on something other than what is best…
How about we hope for Chinese labs to continue pushing forward - and for America and the rest of the world to do so as well. It needn't be competitive - everybody can succeed more tomorrow than they are today. You win.…
It's not all roses out there, to be sure. But there are some roses, I think. A lot of roses actually. Can we talk about the roses once in a while?
"Aluminum (Al) is a widespread environmental contaminant " - they lost me right there in the very first sentence. Already using charged, non-neutral language ("contaminant"), giving away their pre-existing bias and…
You are correct, but I think having a good policy - and trying earnestly to enforce it - is a good start, even if that enforcement is very imperfect.
I am super excited for the future! Medical advancements are accelerating, fusion power is on the horizon, space travel is exciting again. This is really an amazing moment in human history. I think we really can conquer…
Speaking of keeping separate things separate: remember that Unions (a business in it's own right) is different from the Union Workers that it represents.
Because this? "I believe with little certainty" Actually, I think it's powerful to acknowledge when my beliefs are weak. I still believe it - I think it's true, and I don't have any conflicting beliefs. But still it…
It reminds me of how the Panama canal was built, and actually the first major attempt failed and they gave up. What they learned for the second attempt was that digging was not the hard(est) part to solve - it was how…