TheTester

Privatization is clearly not a solution I have seen what it did in housing in Germany and for the locomotives in the UK it is fairly clear firms can be worse or just as bad

Lab leaks are not rare the actual thing is that lab leaks that turn into pandemics are an anomaly but only because pandemics are an anomaly statistically speaking

Studies have shown that there is a correlation between social media use and decline of mental health.

(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4183915/)

Not only that but anyone that has used social media can say that to you, specially younger people.

Meanwhile studies show there was no correlation between violence and videogames. And except for lag you can't really find a lot of people that will tell you videogames made them violent. (https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/o...)

"who would prefer the Web existed in isolation of civilization"

Honestly the internet was a better place when THAT was the situation sorry if I sound like a deluded man but the internet being so close to the world, or at least as much as it is now, is part of the problem.

And even if I do not agree with this guy and his pretensions, at least we would have better ways to combat guys like him in the old internet, but company owners like him at the end of the day have much more power thanks to the internet being so prevalescent and hyperreal, as the same authorities and entities that protect unbalanced power holders, can arrest you and fight you because of things that happen on the internet.

Pretty sure that stuff is controversial to the majority of the people in this planet maybe in a couple places like SF it is not but that is just because the social engineers have desensitized people, anyone even the most meat loving hunter in the world will get a tad horrified at what is described in this article. They basically mutilated a rat by connecting it to another rat's circulatory system, implanted a uterus and then impregnated it. That is just fucked up and things like GR are still pretty bonkers if you even understanding. Like a guy getting a hole that he has to dilate in order to keep open, and most descriptions of this kind of surgery they are disturbing even for the people that believe they want them...

"How is the attack cost calculated? Using the prices NiceHash lists for different algorithms we are able to calculate how much it would cost to rent enough hashing power to match the current network hashing power for an hour. Nicehash does not have enough hashing power for most larger coins, so we also calculated what percentage of the needed hashing power is available from Nicehash.

Note that the attack cost does not include the block rewards that the miner will receive for mining. In some cases this can be quite significant, and reduce the attack cost by up to 80%."

Unless you are quite rich and powerful, saying that what Assange has done is mostly "asshattery" is dishonest, yes he has had flukes but consider the mental state of someone being prosecuted and hunted by the most powerful and corrupt people in our planet, mostly what Assange has done s good and denying and calling him an asshat is dishonest and shows a clear bias on your part

The industrial revolution and its consequences...

JP has a quite good advice that adresses this and I think will give you an answer, the name of the video is Elon Musk's roomate and I think it will help you put things into perspective, but yes this is very common specially in our field

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkzZd_tbkFw

Statistically you will h do it keep going on