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Paypal support informed me that I need to use a phone number from the country which I bank in.

There's nothing trustworthy about the people who issued me this current sim card. There's no reason to assume I would want to link it to any account, even if it was allowed. Even if I were inclined to trust this process and if it were possible, I'd have to be using this provider when I am in a 3rd country or in my "home" country.

It is just a nonsensical set of assumptions on PayPal's part.

I've been looking for something like this for 4 directional sprites with interchangeable equipment.

Imagine thinking that dropping expats and international travelers is a good move though.

And if you live in a foreign country and bank in another country, what then? Fly back to your "home" country to sign in and stop rebills?

What is the upper bound to human productivity? Can we define it?

A simplistic counter argument might suggest that given enough technological advancement, humanity would expand beyond the finite limits of the Earth. However, it is also probable that technologies which are inconceivable to us today will become available in the future. How this will change our understanding of the Earth's perceived "ecological limits" is unknown.

As we project out into the future, we are dealing with things which are known to be unknown-unknowns.

The more damning indictment of the Club of Rome's agenda and philosophy is the dark history of Eugenics. Paul Ehrlich wrote in favor of forced sterilization:

>The Ehrlichs float the idea of adding "temporary sterilants" to the water supply or staple foods. However, they reject the idea as unpractical due to "criminal inadequacy of biomedical research in this area."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb#:~:text=Th...

A better question which illustrates the underlying philosophical issues might ask: What is the greatest good? An unspoiled vision of nature as idealized by contemporary elites? Or productivity gains which ease the human condition and lift the masses out of poverty?

From my perspective this is the underlying issue with the environmental movement as conceived by the Club of Rome, the World Economic forum and other globalist organizations.

In my reading it wasn't an empiricist validation of Whig historiography. Instead, a specific argument was made about the value of larger populations, division of labor and greater specialization resulting in increased productivity. This was the proposed explanation for an improving standard of living. Notably, there is room to depart from these improvements by tabooing population growth and centrally planning economies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ultimate_Resource

More and more I see incentivized tweets verified through the scraper route. I imagine tweet postings will similarly go through a more brittle bot based route.

The advantages of an open and easy to use API are to avoid these hackish solutions and to corral would be spammers and other purveyors of low-quality content into easy to monitor channels.

Charging for API access makes it harder to analyze would be spammers. While legitimate users of automatic posting like the author are further burdened by setting up their own bots.

That said, one of those API glue sites probably offers a still working RSS to tweet feature.

So many companies are insisting on adding the extra vulnerability of sim-swapping.

I imagine on the aggregate level there might be less fraud? Or is it just the need to harvest more and more data? The way things are going, I wouldn't be surprised to see PayPal insist upon a mobile app install next.

A novel featuring some of these themes would be nice this weekend.

Even if a pill were the right solution, it wouldn't give you the personal growth that you are experiencing. Exercising your willpower in this way may allow you to increase your ability to make changes. These things can become easier with practice.

Who's to say what the prevailing hypothesis will be in another four or five decades?

I've never been able to produce consistent results with these DIY home roasting methods. We only attempted it because someone was gifting us green coffee beans. Overall it seems like more trouble than it is worth, even with free beans.

Here's a classic featuring Spock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQRqr9_jw5I

This is exactly the kind of English usage I see in content produced by some of those countries. Even on packaging, I find these errors. The worst is in adverts for English language education programs.

When I see these errors I assume they've outsourced content creation to non-native speakers. Perhaps this is unfair, but it is my immediate assumption. It could just as easily happen when someone heavily edits their text.

No, I wouldn't say that at all. I wouldn't compare working in an Amazon fulfillment center or delivering Uber eats to those scenarios either. In either case I'd encourage the individual to uplift himself and transcend those problems. To accept that the world is unfair and to do something to better their life, regardless of the circumstances. In both cases I wouldn't say it is easy or belittle their struggles, but obviously escaping slavery is more difficult than many modern laments.

I'm not a mind reader so it is hard to identify their POV, but it matches a popular brand of political sloganeering. In the context of depression, I think it is may be easier for people to project their unhappiness upon these faraway and indistinct entities outside of their control rather than deal with what might be the more immediate causes of their unhappiness. From that point perhaps it is worth asking if this brand of political sloganeering is empowering individuals or using a victimhood narrative to advance a political cause.

Ultimately individuals are responsible for their own emotions. There are unjust elements in society and there have always been unjust elements in society. Where you lay the blame is besides the point in this discussion about depression.

People need more effective coping mechanisms.

Even with little to no money, happiness is possible for people around the world. Why then is one of the world's richest and most productive economies facing rising depression rates?

GPT meant, "Get Paid To" in the incentive advertising world. Maybe your product was using this acronym?

These robo-takedown outfits are a form of spam in my view. If you are publishing large sites or include user generated content you've probably run into them more than once. From what I've seen claimed as infringing it is obvious that there is no human review process. Compare to the expense of filing court actions for bulk frivolous claims.

Typically they can be ignored if your hosting provider is game. Their first step will be to try to harvest your data by provoking a response. If you do feel compelled to respond, be sure to run it by someone with legal expertise. Anything you say can be misconstrued in the worst possible way.

At the end of the day, these companies want to produce metrics to say, "We defended your brand from N number of verified infringement incidents this quarter. Based on the escalating threat volume, we recommend giving us more money going forward..."

IANAL, but I would avoid interacting with these 3rd party trolls. If they truly want to send a demand letter, ChatGPT's lawyers should send it by courier and obtain receipt of your signature. Until then I wouldn't take it seriously. This doesn't even rise to the level of a genuine legal threat or registered demand letter. It is more of a scare tactic.

Why is a square the optimal shape? Is it because of the ease of cutting?

And if you do become a conspiracy whackjob, wear it with a smile!

After reviewing the homepage, I can easily imagine why customers might not want that brand of angry political messaging with their coffee purchase.

Maybe the pay-what-you want model wasn't the only problem?

https://heavytable.com/5-cent-coffee-at-wall-drug/

"5 CENT COFFEE AT WALL DRUG"

>The 5 cent coffee is located in multiple places within Wall Drug. There is no cashier — the customer serves herself. Dropping a nickel into a wooden box is all that is needed to pick up a ceramic mug to fill up.

The misplaced expectation for objective coverage seems to be toxic. Too many flames erupt around it. Bias is too often coverage which contradicts a favored ideology.

Instead of expecting objectivity, it may be better to accept incentives and bias. Reason about the coverage from within this framework.

Ideally a sea level canal situation would allow for tidal forces to regulate salinity. The added bonus would be in shipping.

I'm not a civil engineer, but the idea that you can constantly generate hydroelectric power while desalinating with the derived electricity seems problematic.

https://energycentral.com/c/pip/great-mexicali-energy-and-sh...

But not profitable enough to avoid bankruptcy?

They've used similar ID politics smears and guilt by association in their attacks on their libertarian opponents. Personally I'm not a fan of Reason mag or that brand of inflammatory rhetoric.

I agree with the poster in that I wouldn't want to live in a cult like society or a socialist commune. The question is: "Why can socialists not develop a more desirable communal order under purely voluntary conditions?"

Naturally, under market forces those socialists would pursue these more desirable arrangements.

>No, it means that as soon as there is a laissez-faire that allow wolves eating sheep, it's better to be a wolf even if your ideal was to be a sheep.

Most analogies are problematic, but this one is especially so. Voluntary association is equated with "wolves eating sheep" or violence. While violent repression of free exchange is somehow peaceful. From that point I'd expect an invocation of the (widely debunked) labor theory of value, followed by a sloppy generalization claiming free exchange is exploitative in all cases.

The well known analogy of wolves and sheep is, "Democracy is like two wolves and a sheep voting on what is for dinner"

At least far back as Plato, the problem of the tyranny of the majority has been raised. Perhaps this is the more desirable outcome?