clarkmoody

Then you should be against compulsory schooling because it leaves a huge number of children worse off and violates others' liberty at the same time.

Coming from a Rust perspective, I really value strong typing, so the SQLite type system leaves some things to be desired.

Is there an alternative embedded database with stronger types?

Perhaps you shouldn't have to pay unrealized gains on your house?

Any sort of ticket from the traffic police will say something like "failed to obey traffic control devices," which is more of a statement of fact. "Ignore" definitely has shades of nuance.

Lightning is an online protocol, so your wallet must be available to complete the transaction. No online wallet, no zaps.

Bitcoin and nostr are completely separate protocols, but they just so happen to have a level of interoperability. You can use either system without ever touching (or caring) about the other.

All the degenerate token-fueled web3 hype of 2021 sold a bunch of dreams about decentralization and owning your social graph to unsuspecting retail and then delivered nothing but rugpulls and bankruptcy letters.

Meanwhile, nostr built a system people actually use on top of open protocols. No tokens, no blockchains. Only notes and other stuff transmitted over relays.

Small time creators don't make money anyway. Starving artists and all that.

We don't build nuclear because it's expensive because we don't build nuclear.

If we hadn't made the terrible decision of halting construction for decades and miring the process in an impossible tangle of red tape, nuclear power would be much cheaper today. The only way forward is to build and build so we get the unit economics down and our energy production way up.

An important part of the scientific process is reporting on failures. It would be great to see more of this sort of informed exploration, especially when good-sounding ideas produce surprisingly bad results.

Is the right of freedom of association stronger than someone else's "right" to your labor?

> To intend to actively use excessive force without an immediate threat would signal becoming a vigilante. The near total monopoly on violence must be delegated to the state to prevent feuds and inappropriate uses of force between non-state actors. (It also requires that the police use force judiciously and minimally.)

The police are always at the disposal of the political apparatus and often ignore the rights of unpopular groups and sometimes actively terrorize them. This is a feature of democracy, in which the majority holds power over the minority. Vigilante justice is a natural result of overly-political police, and I would argue something that would be very popular in many areas of the American Empire.

The third way is to build AI technology that empowers the individual against state and corporate power alike. Democracy got us here. It cannot get us out.

The Constitution is just a piece of paper. For every thousand steps the Congress, regulators, and state assemblies take in the direction of tyranny, the courts claw back one or two.

As it stands, all the myths of our culture are only allowed to be told by giant media conglomerates. Nobody but the House of Mouse, for instance, can tell the stories of Darth, Luke, Han, and Yoda.

> the federal agencies that write grants are somewhat complicit in this process.

Academia provides a vital service to the government, namely producing research that helps further political and regulatory aims. Indeed, this phenomenon is widely known as The Alliance of Throne and Altar.

In this case, v is not declared mutable, so you could ignore. In fact, the compiler will probably end up assigning x = 4 at compile time.

Yet still more difficult than having a direct login for government to come in and censor things, the existence of which leaked a few weeks ago.

I would love to read a synthesis of the ideas in this paper with the economics of open source software development, which have distinct similarities.

> If I and my grandma and everyone's grandma would use Proof of Work cryptocurrencies to buy peanuts at the supermarket, PoW energy usage would probably rival that of China.

You don't understand how any of this works, do you?

Promoting destruction of property and intimidation has no place in civil society.

When is the last time the government has been held accountable to the people?

FB censored the Hunter laptop story during the election at the behest of the FBI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN3PIGLDscQ

Why not both?

Waving a scientific magic wand from a crony-connected company is a great asset to would-be abusers in the justice system.

Cronyism is the opposite of a free market.

Welfare rolls tell you which neighbors are living off the fruits of your labor.

Instead of politicians tweaking wake up times, let's give more control to parents and students themselves by moving away from factory-model schooling.

> And two parents have to work because they need the combined salary to make the mortgage work, for a home big enough for everyone.

This is the key right here.

I blame monetary policy for too-low interest rates, which drive up housing prices. I also blame over-restrictive zoning and other restrictions on building that cause houses to be more expensive.

With a price collapse, the energy consumption would also collapse, no?

> require a planet-and-a-half's worth of energy to stay secure, which is also not happening

But what are the implications if it does?

Clickbait headline is clickbait. Flag and move on.

> Guardian analysis of 100 top US companies percent change from the most recent reported quarterly profits to two years prior.