At the other side of the fence we have JS/TS experts writing inscrutable one-liners by chaining 15 lodash commands.
Having tried both SQL and the approach of using a programming language + framework of the day, I prefer SQL for data manipulation. It's far easier to troubleshoot, scale, hand-over or maintain in the long run.
I've also been looking for that. In an ideal world there would be a small, fast, standalone cli tool that can convert csv to parquet. There is a (sadly, unfinished) parquet writer Rust library in the Arrow repository that looks promising. All approaches I've tried so far (spark, pyarrow, drill, ...) require everything and the kitchen sink. So far I've settled on a java cli tool that uses jackson + org.apache.parquet internally, but it's cpu bound and has a huge amount of maven dependencies.
It's likely that rituals were they way they structured complex activities.
Put the food beneath the snow and sing a song, using prescribed steps, so the gods will preserve it. Bandage a wound, put a poultice on it and sing a song, so the spirits will make it heal. Again, using prescribed steps handed over from generation to generation, because they knew it worked but didn't know why.
Yes, a grey zone exists. That's not a reason for inaction in other cases. Where to draw the line between murder, manslaughter and unfortunate accident ? Where to draw the line between fair use and piracy ?
If anything, start with policing obvious falsehoods ("Obama and FEMA will take all your guns").
Even better would be the amount of seconds each person is surveilled during their time in public space. Summed as an absolute number, and as a ratio of the total time they spend in public space.
A camera in a busy street or at a chokepoint is worse (or more effective, depending on your viewpoint) than one in a cul-the-sac, even if they cover the same amount of space.
They came back fast by bribing OEMs to only sell Intel and were fined for it by the EU because it was an antitrust violation. It's unlikely they can repeat that.
To even it out across space already exists. Temperature differences generate a force that vastly outnumbers our own energy production capabilities (including nukes). It's called wind.
local admin on windows is similar to having sudo rights on linux.
It can be used to access personal files and running sessions of other users on the same machine, to install malware that will affect other users, to change drivers, to block AV or GPO policies from being applied to protect them, etc.
slack in 2015: "We have no indication that the hackers were able to decrypt stored passwords, as Slack uses a one-way encryption technique called hashing."
slack in 2019: "In 2015, (...) The attackers also inserted code that allowed them to capture plaintext passwords as they were entered by users at the time. "
This reflects poorly on them. Unless they discovered only now that the 2015 hack included capturing plaintext passwords.
The US public consultation on net neutrality was famously skewed by bots (posting identical messages, sometimes on behalf of dead people). On Reddit some topics attract bot like behavior as well (groups of users from a non-US ip block voting and posting in concert). Making it illegal won't stop this entirely but will stifle it.
Even worse. The policies he advocates are keeping other people out entirely. Even Adi Shamir (the S from RSA) had trouble getting a travel visa a while ago.
Civilization has improved _so far_.
The underlying reason for that is the cheap and abundant energy source (fossil fuels). The bill for that is due and it will materialize by those metrics going down again.
A Saharah like climate won't feed 7.5 billion people. If the population crashes to a few million stragglers living mostly at the poles then we'll regress back to the stone age.