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iirc online identity used to be tied to your public key signature ? Might be too technical for most population to use, but the ideal solution is already there I think ?

The saving habits was mainly of the post-WW2 generations that have to follow a prudent life style to survive. Highly doubt that Confucius has anything to do with this.

I found the article quite weird for some of the points. But following the optimism spirit, first are things that I found optimistic:

>Child mortality, childbirth death decrease >Child labor. >Life expectency >Literacy increase >Smoking decrease

For others, there's possibly quite a large room for cherry-picking data. I'm very happy if the following can be proved to be negligible ( or wrong ):

>Extreme poverty falling I'm not sure how the math ($1) can already be an adjusted for inflation / price variances. Probably should be using the income / wealth equality instead.

>People in developed countries have more leisure time But not in developing countries. Following the links, I find our working levels stay pretty much the same above the 2000h line. Also I'm interested in how much we compare to pre-industrial level.

>Smoking is down, but not so much in developing countries >Homicide rates have fallen dramatically, but only counting US and EU >The share of income spent on food has plummeted in the US No mention of developing countries. World-wide the homicide rates looks to be about the same-ish ?.

>People have been getting taller for centuries There are more to nutrition than height, and world-wide looks like it has been same-ish since 1970.

>More people in the world live in a democracy now 50/50 on this one, mainly cause I'm not sure if the democracy index is measured objectively, or they just extend to whatever countries on good terms with the US.

>Tech & Moore's law I'm skeptic of more tech leads == better life, particularly when more people reported more internet time ~= decreased mental health.

Well this would not do the shattering-ago amount of damage but after repeated exposure I would probably get burnt out and quit.

Here is an anecdotal analogy: Friends repeatedly call me Internet Explorer every time I share any Tech article that is > 2 weeks old. After a month I just stop reading tech news altogether.

Are they joking ? Yes. It is serious ? No, but it just kills all the fun.

Well this would not do the shattering-ago amount of damage but after repeated exposure I would probably get burnt out and quit.

Here is an anecdotal analogy: Friends repeatedly call me Internet Explorer every time I share any Tech article that is > 2 weeks old. After a month I just stop reading tech news altogether.

Are they joking ? Yes. It is serious ? No, but it just kills all the fun.

But that would be a loss to community, and we would not want Foone to goes full offline won't we ?

Is it what your user wishes or what you wish your user to see.

When I read "fatal" I don't imagine the "death" but more "inevitable".

Higher level protocol would establish handshake & encryption I imagine.

I have concerns about ultrasonic pollution if this is widely adopted.

It is less secure than your standard symmetric encryption. I guess they would use deterministic encryption in which 2 entries with same email address will have the same record string ( this leaks information to attacker ). Prefix search & sort can be achieved by using order preserving encryption. Not really sure about sub-string though.

Mandated paternity leaves is to provide an equal part contributions towards children for both the mother and the father. Otherwise the mother take most of the hit ( as evidence in countries without it ).

Why not just sell the company's stock like the legacy way ? I suspect some legal loophole here.

"beliefs" here is a sarcastic term but of course they refers to the written legal contracts.

I notice there seems to be a "No true Scottman" issue here where the critics is stating one problem and the proponent is like "yeah but what if we change it to this". I'm guessing the process at your place is much more tolerable than what people have been complaining.

I wonder at what point does it stop being "whiteboard interview" and just a "few sprinkle of algorithmic questions to test logical skill".

Also when the talents pool is large enough, obviously you can do as many brutal questions as you can and still fill the headcounts with good developers. So I think saying "but it still works" is not very productive.

then i would consider it working hours, so the premise here seems to reduce to how much overtime i'm willing to spend.

I thought we're already over with the "every minute of your life is monetizable" mindset ?

The chemical industry have has a much more lengthy history of bad chemicals: PFOA, asbestos, leaded gas, HCFCs... how can we be sure that plastic is not one of these ?

Well yes but would you suppose they deregulate infant formula ?

>The death toll will eventually be the same regardless.

A quick Google show me Taiwan has 800 deaths so far. Massive 1M deaths does not seems very "inevitable" to me.

Then it's just a regular network, hence why permissioned / private blockchains are a lies to crypto enthusiasts

Proof of Work is only as good as the assumption that CPU power and energy are guaranteed to be equally distributed, also everyone must have equal access on the network. Which we've seen is not the case.

In the sense that it is useless for society, by extracting the collective's wealth while providing no net benefits.

You're very likely right and I made a mistake. In strict legal terms anything you do can be sued if the law deems it damaging it some way or another, and the answer to this->parent's question is highly dependent on legal contexts.

I was taking a naive view from a theoretical point.

Maybe a change in IP legals that can force corporations to open source deprecated platforms can help preserving these cultural artefacts.

I don't know why you should be apologizing for this. Your employer has benefited from FOSS products, your PR is the payment back for the community.

I hope you can voice your opinion back. It would be such a dystopia if your employer's attitude become widespread.

the code is provided as is, without warranty.

I think tastes can be adapted, and culture will defined what is "great" food. But to extend your point, I wonder what happens if they encounter something completely non-toxic to dog, but are toxic to human.

Depends on wear you live, some banking websites are just straight up neglected, while they focus on app development, strange world.

Yes if you look at the general population with incorrect mask fitting, long time frame. I would doubt that claim for an individual that wears properly fitted N95.