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Rule of law is used by all states regardless of quality. What makes China autocratic but, say, national security letters non-autocratic?

This is true of all countries. Try posting threats about federal employees and you will also get arrested.

You can use the adult content restriction feature to blacklist domains. This only works for content loaded in a browser that respects resource filtering, like safari, and won’t affect things like apps at all.

Or pihole! That’s the most effective.

> “A lot of water went into the start of the tunnel and then it froze to ice, so it was like a glacier when you went in,” she told the Guardian. Fortunately, the meltwater did not reach the vault itself, the ice has been hacked out, and the precious seeds remain safe for now at the required storage temperature of -18C.

Man I’d love to just throw a tesla engine into like a Corolla. I’m sure there’s good reasons it’s not like that but this is some stupid bullshit to have to wade through.

Why are the door handles that expensive? What can even break about them?

How good are Japanese cars?

Actually this is a missing piece that essentially allows content based micro transactions and allows cutting out ad salesmen. Win for everyone. But ad salesmen.

How do you even take 3 semesters of category theory?

Maybe, I think it depends on your expectations.

This seems like a reasonable definition of implanting to me—it’s east to trivialize this with “just”, but intent to implant and visible indication of implanted behavior are both in place here. What mechanism would you expect implantation to look like?

> Certainly there must be something in the universe that "started it all" and has no origin of itself.

Why not have the creator exist inside of time, or around it, or beside it? Maybe all existence was just out to tea right then with its creator, because the creator’s very attached to a particular tea flavor only found on earth, but will later be the creator, and will one day be in between two dozen creators? These are valid phrases that do not refer to literal relations, like “I am beside myself”, or “snapped back to reality”—the spatial foundations of these linguistic concepts refer to distance and spatial/time relations but don’t describe anything testable or reliably true. Intelligent design as a concept exploits language to imply absurd things, like that an omniscient omnipresent, omnipowerful, undetectable force is somehow also analogous to a mortal, finite, fallible, conscious human.

FWIW all this applies to holographic universe theories as well. The narrative makes 100% sense, but it doesn’t refer to empirically meaningful concepts.

What are the alternatives? Even with panspermia life would have had to begin elsewhere. The universe would have been too hot at the Big Bang to support organic molecules if that theory is true. Even with “intelligent design” the intelligence would have its own heritage and origin. The implications of an alternative to abiogenesis seem outside the realm of scientific inquiry entirely. Is the desire here a coherent, detailed narrative for how we went from hot plasma to RNA?

Actually yea, we should be doing absolutely everything possible to get cars off the road.

The answer is yes.

> Libra might not dominate the world, but it'll be a success (at least a niche success) and it'll eat up some of the marketshare of these financial institutions.

This relies on people consciously choosing to give money to libra rather than transferring directly. Why would anyone do this rather than use apple pay/cash/venmo/zelle with USD?

The claim is that only hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen are necessary for the base nucleotides, right?

Are you implying America discriminates against the mentally ill?

While that is true, nobody fits neatly into a right/left spectrum.

If that were the case Fidel Castro would have gotten it.

We all know the cause of homelessness and it ain’t an excess of tolerance, that’s for damn sure.

Hell, it’s nakedly visible in policy in treatment of children from different cultures in the US itself. Xenophobia is a known route to power. This impulse CAN be countered by putting it in the light. Policy can and should always be driven in part by logic.

> If we avoid straws and stop there, the action doesn't add up.

Ehh, not much point in doing this without also tossing some execs in prison. People won’t see the justice in it otherwise and it will continue to fail catastrophically.

Fwiw my question was not intended to be facetious and it may not be obvious what makes Windows worth using.

What’s the killer app for win32?

Presumably you can still use a window manager to page through all that content.

Schumpeter

In the long view, all tech companies are small bubbles. They don’t stick around and have no long term value.

Hey I was just trying to figure out if you were bringing up anything of value :)

> I do find if I walk into the random restaurant on a street I expect to be unimpressed, even in SF.

My sincere condolences.