A government can only acquire revenue by siphoning productivity ("nice things"). The organization and its agents bear no consequence for mistakes in the allocation. It has no means to compare value or incentive to do…
Not ad nauseam. There's a floor, an equilibrium where countercyclical forces take over. (Besides: many people agreeing with this sentiment maintain that growth _per se_ is already an existential threat to human…
It's a last-gen device. Why not interpret the lack of fanfare -- by design, a user won't even notice the swap -- as a soft launch? The smart home space has always been a shit show, from the radios up. It's a separate…
"Beep as anti-stalking measure" is somewhere between marketing spin and gaslighting. A lost AirTag chirps to serve its primary function of being recovered. The timer is 3 days[1], which observers (Forbes, WaPo) agree is…
I think an apt analogy is Google Glass. It went without saying they didn't invent surreptitious video recording. This didn't prevent _overwhelming outcry_ over legitimate privacy concerns. The only difference I can see…
"Buy a game, get free hardware" is back for Resident Evil. https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/10495261?hl=en
"Encrypt, store, share [files] on your own terms" is elegantly handled by (Rob Pike's) Upspin. Practically: upspinfs fusermounts a cloud storage bucket. (TCO: $0.01/GB/mo.) Transparent public-key crypto. Sharing is…
There are people who would blot out the sun, and take satisfaction in it. They don't bother me nearly as much as the taboo against speaking frankly about them.
Who does the coordinating, to what purpose? By what right, at whose expense? Why isn't coordination the grand experiment? Glancing nervously through history, or in the mirror, it's never sufficient -- and not for lack…
A government can only acquire revenue by siphoning productivity ("nice things"). The organization and its agents bear no consequence for mistakes in the allocation. It has no means to compare value or incentive to do…
Not ad nauseam. There's a floor, an equilibrium where countercyclical forces take over. (Besides: many people agreeing with this sentiment maintain that growth _per se_ is already an existential threat to human…
It's a last-gen device. Why not interpret the lack of fanfare -- by design, a user won't even notice the swap -- as a soft launch? The smart home space has always been a shit show, from the radios up. It's a separate…
"Beep as anti-stalking measure" is somewhere between marketing spin and gaslighting. A lost AirTag chirps to serve its primary function of being recovered. The timer is 3 days[1], which observers (Forbes, WaPo) agree is…
I think an apt analogy is Google Glass. It went without saying they didn't invent surreptitious video recording. This didn't prevent _overwhelming outcry_ over legitimate privacy concerns. The only difference I can see…
"Buy a game, get free hardware" is back for Resident Evil. https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/10495261?hl=en
"Encrypt, store, share [files] on your own terms" is elegantly handled by (Rob Pike's) Upspin. Practically: upspinfs fusermounts a cloud storage bucket. (TCO: $0.01/GB/mo.) Transparent public-key crypto. Sharing is…
There are people who would blot out the sun, and take satisfaction in it. They don't bother me nearly as much as the taboo against speaking frankly about them.
Who does the coordinating, to what purpose? By what right, at whose expense? Why isn't coordination the grand experiment? Glancing nervously through history, or in the mirror, it's never sufficient -- and not for lack…