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I doubt any explanation is as simple as "aliens from somewhere else" though, and I definitely don't think the "government" knows any more about what exactly it is that we do, but I also doubt it tries to keep it a secret deliberately.

Although your point is well taken that there could be ways to sneakily track users eventually despite the aforementioned measures, and potentially even without javascript being required (though I doubt that share of privacy-concious users will ever raise significantly - most people simply don't care).

When that debate is about access to that information, definitely, yes.

> What happens after we die? You stop being.

You don't know that of course, and have no way of knowing that. Although I'll agree that from a modern, rationalist point of view that's the default reasonable assumption.

> What is consciousness? A physical process happening in your brain.

And same goes for that one; the brain clearly relates to consciousness, but you can't be sure it produces it. Maybe it receives it somehow; maybe it's even more complex than that. I'd even go as far to say that if we were to create a black box AGI tomorrow, the question would still not be solved: the only thing you'd have proven is that a specific arrangement of matter appears to result in consciousness, nothing more.

Moreover, reality itself happens - in a very concrete way - in your head, not outside of it. Plato's cave and all that (or for a more technically oriented one, the brain-in-a-jar idea). Your point of view is rational in the extreme, but also extremely reductive. I don't think one should be so quick to reject deeper - and, dare I say, spiritual - ways of considering our universe.

Unless they plan to build them somewhere else, I doubt that'll help. Large swathes of the middle east will become completely uninhabitable, quite possibly during our lifetime.

It does not; and since private mode disables the existing cache and cookies, there would be little point anyway (and even with DNT off cookies stored by tracking services will disappear as the private mode is ended). Though if you usually have DNT on, the header will still get sent in private mode.

More generally, I suspect having DNT on is a good way to radically increase the uniqueness of your browser's fingerprint, as it is likely a minority of users have it on; personally I ignore it entirely and just use ublock + privacy badger and similar solutions (that includes noscript - efficient fingerprinting is much much harder without JS).

That's not to say that investors shouldn't be compensated for their initial risks when an actual funds injection is required, mind you; but them being compensated ad vitam eternam - and more generally, them actually owning the structure - makes very little sense morally for me (and beyond "morally", I don't see how this can result in anything else than progressive concentration of wealth society-wide in the long term).

You also assume people can "move on to another job" without too much trouble; again, that may hold true in tech or similar popular domains but it's far from true for a lot of people.

With that being said, and especially if you liked the show, I heartily recommend the books.

That being said, I imagine it still makes for a watchable show for someone that knows nothing about the books.

In any case, I love both series and I pray dearly they don't fuck up the Culture adaptation.

So do public transports though (actually even more so since you can kinda continue to "live" while being in them); and they're also less stress-inducing, better environmentaly, and more socially inclusive.

Though I believe they've never been a priority in the US, sadly; and as a result if they're available they tend to suck.

On this point and the main part of the first argument, I kinda disagree; the OSM project should specifically aim to do that: providing means for one to create a service.

However, providing an actual map service would cost much, much more in bandwidth and I doubt a free software project like this has that kind of funds - actually serving tiles can add up to large costs pretty fast if enough people use the service.

So if you want an actual service, you either do the hosting yourself or go see mapbox/whatever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_junction_detector#Co...

(specifically the CIA's SRT-107: http://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/ec/srt107/index.htm)

As an aside, the entire website for that second link is pretty interesting.

There's nothing definitive in this article specifically, mind you; but for one you can read more about his and his buddy Yarvin's toxic philosophy here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment#Summary_of_...

... and then read various essays by Thiel himself, where you'll encounter more dog whistles than in a dog training center.

I found the way the software tries systematically to push the user towards the "official", centralized matrix server distasteful though.

So it makes it a bit weird to see it referred to as "FSF binutils" in this release email.

However, there are tons of lightweight image editors that run as fast as MS paint and offer more features; have you tried Pinta ? or gnome-paint ?