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There is a wide gap between not wanting to be responsible for helping the poor and actively wanting the poor to fail. You're confusing the two.

You'll find very few people who don't want poor people to have things and it's disingenuous to put it that way.

The two commonly held arguments against socialized healthcare in America are: First, a distrust that the government will create a system that is good and a belief that quality will decrease under such a system, and;

Second, that such a system would be funded by a large tax increase and that Americans are in general hard to get excited about tax increases. The financial concern is in the taking, not in the getting.

One shouldn’t conclude that regulations lead to positive outcomes from this. In addition to having a disdain for regulation, OceanGate was doing bad engineering. Projects that follow regulation strictly can fail due to bad engineering too.

If we define 'healthy market' as one in which there are abundant buyers and sellers, and in which prices on the lower end are consistently within the middle class's grasp, is inequality still bad in and of itself?

And some fava beans.

Is inequality bad in and of itself? If there's a healthy market of buyers and sellers, but also a lot of inequality, is that a problem?

I don't agree or disagree with the parent comment, but what do you mean by manipulation here?

Yes, it needs to be legal to be wrong, and it needs to be legal to lie when not under oath.

This appears to have big stakes for free speech in general, not just climate science. We need people to be allowed to disagree - yes, even in the face of data.

I don't think it's naive at all. Not everybody will agree on what a mistake is, and not everybody will agree that it's important to avoid mistakes. Parenting, like all human relationships, is a messy one-size-doesn't-fit-all proposition.

Non-paywalled: https://archive.is/j3i0N

I am not the author. Vaxry has made the most-github-starred Wayland compositor over the past two years and has issued an open invitation to help develop it.

Closing some positions doesn't imply that one should stop hiring for those that remain open and unfilled. What sinister motive are you implying?

You mean I get scoped every few years and it’s not even a thing??!

10+ a day? If that's legit, it explains entirely what's become of reporting quality. Do you have any links that go into more detail on how the day of a journalist has changed?

Perhaps, but a really cool thing to know, and you're much less likely to hurt yourself. I enjoyed the read :)

Hoon is occupying that top-left quandrant as well, as long as you you don't mistake your surprise for horror - https://developers.urbit.org/guides/core/hoon-school . Surprisingly powerful.

Sort of related, I was browsing the github of the author of the Hyprland wayland compositor to see what else he's built. Smiled at https://github.com/vaxerski/Holy6800 - I love this kind of useless but cool project.

It's exactly the same age as Bitcoin. What's a government Bitcoin node?

I think you're probably making a joke about how DOGE is funny, and it is, but if you're not, I'm curious what your reasoning is.

What is a good way to discover great communities on Matrix?

This is a very interesting observation, thank you.

I find degrowth arguments that call on governmental power to limit demand worrying. Application of force there is artificial and goes against what people naturally do. It's particularly distasteful to people who value life with limited government intrusion - and this is a very large cohort, so taking this avenue is going to have a lot of friction.

A future where these problems are solved by voluntary adoption of superior technology is so much brighter!

Right, these concerns are predicated on apps built natively on FedNow gaining market share to rival Venmo enough that these transactions are no longer opaque. If everybody uses it the same way they use ACH, there's no difference to the state of the world today.

GNU is somewhere between a non-profit software outfit and a cult in a way that is greater than either. I don't agree with all of the positions that GNU takes in specific, but in aggregate I think the movement has been a huge force for good because of its cultlike unbending adherence to its philosophy.

It would be bad if GNU stomped out all other philosophies of developing software and products, because it would remove the commercial incentive to innovate. On the other hand, we'd be much worse off without all the work that its philosophy has produced.

I get your frustration, though - GNU will never be what you want it to be, internally, unless you're 100% on board.

In the "pyramid" style graphic the author uses, dignity being above safety implies that dignity is less essential than safety, not more.

As an example, if you're say, Venmo, your ACH batches won't contain information about the individual p2p money movements of your customers.

ACH is slow and coarse, FedNow is capable of being realtime and fine-grained. Two institutions might have one giant ACH per day between them that includes a ton of smaller transactions that are all invisible to the ACH system itself.

As mentioned by a few folks elsewhere in these comments, if FedNow is wildly successful and takes a meaningful portion of payments, it centralizes information about lots of peoples' financial activity in one place, across banks and across payment platforms. This potentially leads to FedNow being a one-stop OLTP shop for governments to run queries against realtime data, or even build stream processing agents that filter or take action on patterns.

Currently, it would be more difficult to build this database as it's hodgepodged together from suspicious activity reports and subpoenas. There's of course the unknowable possibility that law enforcement and security agencies have secret ways of building a comprehensive realtime dataset - but, if they do exist, their secret nature reduces the scope of situations in which they can be used.

I don't intend to reduce Europe's summer to Greek wildfires, in fact quite the opposite, I want to point out that they are a bad example because their causes are still being investigated.

Rhodes's firefighters also suspect arson ( https://greekreporter.com/2023/07/26/wildfires-arson-greece/ ) and arrests have been made on Kefalonia ( https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/07/25/kefalonia-two-arrests-... ).