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It is more like that, but from the Tutanota user's standpoint, it acts like regular email and shows up in their inbox. It's all stored on their server so you can log in from any browser.

If you opt to send an encrypted message outside of Tutanota, first you set a password, then it sends a link to a special inbox where the user can use the password to log in and reply. The message's contents don't ever get sent in the clear, and only their encrypted contents get stored on Tutanota's servers.

This is essentially a parable nested in another story to make a very specific point. The story this appears in shows Huizi complaining to Zhuangzi about some extremely massive gourds that he couldn't use as one might use as e.g. a ladle, so he get frustrated and smashes them. Zhuangzi comments that obviously they would be better as floating vessels, and Huizi could have floated down the river in them.

All that to make a more general point: if you have the wrong expectations for the way something is, you're going to suffer because of those expectations. The silk-washing family was frustrated because they believed the balm could only be used in one way which kept them very poor and worn out. Huizi suffered because he was gifted seeds for some very large gourds, but expected to use them like normal-sized gourds, and eventually destroyed the gift after expending much time and effort on them.

I didn't say they can't eat it - obviously they can. The post I replied to specifically called out that they were sticking with meat because humans hadn't evolved to eat plant-based or lab-grown meat, and then implied their nutrition would suffer if they gave up meat. If that's correct, it must also then affect livestock's nutrition, since they didn't evolve to eat a soy/wheat or, as you correctly call out, corn diet. So I asked if they avoid meat fed on this "not evolved to eat" diet as well.

Can we assume that? And if we can, can we assume that the kinds of problems lab-grown meat has are the same problems as factory farms?

I agree that the likely result is that lab-grown meat will most likely cost more. I'm just not sure that not-lab-grown meat will stay cheap. The unseen environmental costs of raising livestock are not currently well-represented in its price, which is also heavily subsidized (both financial subsidies and unhandled environmental externalities). And there's not enough land in the US to put all of its livestock to graze. There's water supply problems for livestock and feed (which takes 10x resources to grow compared to simply growing plants). So if, on top of that, you introduce mitigations that reduce profit somewhat, the price will have to go up even more.

Factory farms are also currently benefitting from economies of scale, something that plant-based meat manufacturers are only now catching up to. Plant-based meat's ingredients are generally pretty cheap compared to the cost of raising livestock, so theoretically they could potentially beat the cost of meat.

My non-expert hunch is that its externalities of lab-grown meat will be somewhat different from factory farms. Time will tell if they're better, more sustainable trade-offs.

> we evolved to eat it and not these plant based or lab grown alternatives

Can I ask if you avoid soda, beer, cheese, every vegetable oil, artificial sweeteners, cookies, pastries, cake, pasta, and so on? Many plant based meats come from protein extracted from peas, wheat, soy, plus some oil, binders (that generally are also used in non-plant-based foods), and seasonings.

Do you avoid soy- and wheat-fed meat? Doesn't that affect the nutrition of the meat, since the animal had not evolved to survive on this diet?

For certain definitions of "free" and "naturally". But certainly not free of side effects on the environment: land and water use with deforestation and water crises, pesticide runoff, pesticide resistance, increased transportation costs and pollution for supplies and feed, increased transfer of disease (swine flu), increased CO2 and methane production. And also increased animal suffering.

There's no guarantee in general that a pill will have its active ingredients distributed evenly throughout. Although they're not often carried in stores, there are versions of melatonin that come in 0.5mg doses.

A streamer that is considered average - has an average number of followers and subscribers - could be expected to make about $X.

The average income of all streamers (including super popular streamers and streamers with 1 follower) makes is $y. Because the streamers in the top 1% make several orders of magnitude more money, $y is skewed higher than $x.

Yes. The constitution doesn't include Section 230 either. Other laws besides the constitution also regulate the activities of privately owned companies. This doesn't have anything to do with the government not being able to abridge the free speech of its citizens.

This one species is not native to the Keys and is responsible for nearly all the mosquito-bourne illness there. If this kills every single mosquito of this species, 96% of the total mosquito population will remain.

> ...suppressing populations of wild Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which can carry diseases such as Zika, dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever.

> Aedes aegypti makes up about 4% of the mosquito population in the Keys, a chain of tropical islands off the southern tip of Florida. But it is responsible for practically all mosquito-borne disease transmitted to humans in the region

As the server source drop showed, they had been working on it since April 2020, publicly downplayed the idea just three months ago, and then... launched the beta. I would describe that as pretty deceptive.

"Marlinspike played down the potential of crypto payments in Signal, saying only that the company had done some “design explorations” around the idea. But significant engineering resources have been devoted to developing MobileCoin integrations in recent quarters, former employees said."

January 25th, 2021

https://www.theverge.com/22249391/signal-app-abuse-messaging...

I apologize. The topic is personal to me, and I was seeing red. I'll edit my comment and step away from HN for a bit.

Edit: I missed the part where this was a list of excuses that had been heard. I was too hasty to reply. Disregard the following.

1) I'd just like to say the DMV in Oregon is an incredible experience. It certainly doesn't have to bad. I've experienced it in Georgia, which was awful. But health care now is a massive problem. I've had to change health care providers six times in the last two years because of it being tied to employment.

2) Because it's actually cheaper to have single payer. It's huge leverage in negotiation. It will catch things quicker in more people, which means better outcomes and less dire (and expensive) treatments.

3) In Germany you can get supplemental medical insurance on top of your national Healthcare which can get you better care. Additionally there are still private practices.

4,5,6) Compared to the rest of the world the US does indeed pay dramatically inflated prices, which has a depressive effecton the finances of the less wealthy. If you're saying you'd rather people (like those waiting for Medicare to get diagnosed) suffer so you can be richer, well... at least you are honest.

A right to vote has to be provided. Right to an attorney is something that might haveto to be provided. Right to a jury by one's peers has to be provided. Right to appeal has to be provided. Even protests generally require permits, which have to be provided. You have the right to be treated equally based on your gender or race, which, if it is provided to one, has to be provided to all.

There are many rights which create the burden of work not only for the government but also for things like public businesses.

But Microsoft got sued and lost hard on that one. They created C# and .Net as competition, but they hardly extinguished Java.

Since the post

> If you’re underpaid it means you can get a better deal somewhere else.

Unless companies conspire not to hire you in order to depress wages.

https://variety.com/2017/biz/news/disney-settlement-wage-fix...

> > Not being able to stop people for speeding and even other minor traffic infractions would remove so much power from them that they consider it a non-starter (having cameras doesn't mean they can't stop people for speeding it needs it's own legislation)

> The entire comment chain is about something that has never been done before, using camera based enforcement to replace large classes of traffic stops.

I keep asking how you that happens, and you keep not answering. How does camera based enforcement stop bullshit pullovers? It doesn't, it just changes the bullshit "reason" people get pulled over. And the examples you present - by your own admission - don't address the actual problems, and where the cameras are limited in scope (time and zone), the original problem remains.

> You literally don't understand the most basic issue here and you keep replying by quoting tiny parts of a comment and ignoring their context and going "gotcha!"

I'm continually asking questions about the core premise that 'using camera based enforcement to replace large classes of traffic stops' prevents abuse by authorities. You haven't provided any evidence that it does. You've just provided some ad hominem and say I don't understand.

> having cameras doesn't mean they can't stop people for speeding it needs it's own legislation

So when they're barred from pulling people over for "speeding", then... this prevents them from pulling over people for other bullshit reasons?

I just don't see how having shitty police and cameras are going to prevent these abuses of power.

> The numbers are not very different because the denominator is so much larger than the numerator

True for an individual case. However, my argument was that, at scale, the difference is massive, and adding speeding cameras doesn't stop cops from pulling people over. You just have police AND speeding cameras, both of which have problems, and the problems of neither are mitigated by the presence of the other.

> And the time in court is what ruins the most vulnerable people!

> Last time I fought a ticket (before I wised up to the fact paying the judge's friend who is a lawyer reverses time in such a way you never sped?) it took 2 full days off work. 1 day to wait in line so I plead not guilty, 1 to actually contest, and officer was a no-show

And when this is much easier at scale, municipalities can create more of these headaches with less work on their part.

> Your other comments also imply a lack of understanding in the role traffic stops play in modern policing. Not being able to stop people for speeding and even other minor traffic infractions...

How do speeding cameras prevent this?! I ask a second time.

> Traffic stops are the leading springboard for all of these ills

How do speeding cameras prevent this?

> Compared to all this, cameras end up having shortcomings that police have, but with a fraction of the terrible abuse that can come from it.

I again don't understand how having speeding cameras prevents police from pulling people over.

> Also, this isn't the point of the comment, but cameras don't sleep, but they can be turned off. Here in New York City speed cameras are not on 24/7. They only operate during school opening and closing hours when kids are likely to be coming and going

And are pull-overs allowed outside of those times?

> And not every state allows them everywhere (in fact I don't know of any that do, but some might).

And are pull-overs allowed outside of those zones?

> I'm saying if police weren't allowed to pull people over

I honestly don't see how installing speeding cameras prevents this. Could you elaborate for me what you mean here?

> And perverse incentive for speeding is only a problem with cameras? Is that also a joke?

No? But speeding cameras can issue a lot more tickets per day without needing to sleep, draw benefits, pension, etc. This particular incentive scales much more quickly for cameras.

> You think police departments don't have even worse incentives to stop people and seize their goods with little recourse? That's in addition to getting to write tickets?

Also no? I don't think I implied that. If anything, speeding cameras can free up officer's time to do worse things, e.g. asset forfeiture as you mentioned.

> And contesting a speeding camera ticket is so much more difficult than issuing it? What does that even mean, is spending a day to multiple days contesting a speeding ticket not harder than it is for an officer to write a ticket?

Time for officer to write a ticket / time for ticket recipient to contest

Vs.

Time for camera to write ticket / time for ticket recipient to contest.

It takes a lot longer for an officer to write a ticket. As a result, the asymmetrical effort of ticketing vs. contesting or otherwise dealing with tickets is significantly worse at scale.

No, speeding cameras don't have the same problems as US police folk. That could be improved by having less shitty police. But that's not to say cameras don't have problems.

Often they take grainy photos, and only a photo. Still images aren't proof that you were speeding, just proof that something triggered the camera. Plenty of things can trigger it, including software faults.

Additionally it creates a horrible incentive for local government as a revenue stream with little to no incentive to fix something. Speeding cameras are unmanned, cheap, and just make money. And contesting a speeding camera ticket is so much more difficult than issuing it. All of this makes it easy to undermine due process.

This is already the case in some very small communities, and there are sometimes mail delivery volunteers. The USPS was already profitable but has been undermined significantly: opening the private option for servicing USPS mail and requiring pensions to be paid up front for every employee.

Additionally rural communities are about 20% of the population, and many of these communities are around farmland, which of course is necessary to keep some of. It's much harder to live alone with just a small amount of farmers vs. even the smallest of communities. Should farmers commute to the farm just so the USPS has a slightly easier time?

This is only for the Microsoft Store, and it was 30% as well before it was dropped last year. I doubt their app store for Windows 10 devices pulls in very much since "side loading" has been the default distribution model for decades.

AFAICT yes. From what I could find, it seems they dropped the Microsoft App Store from 30% to 5%, but their % take for games is still 30%, including in-app purchases.

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2019/03/06/microsoft-store-revenue-share...

[1] https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2019/03/06/update...

[2] https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/10/07/report-steams-30-cut...

[3] https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RE...

systemd's widespread adoption was somewhat controversial and took years. I realize Upstart didn't receive widespread adoption, and Canonical has historically liked to start its own products (Mir and Unity as you noted). But the discussion around systemd was not "everyone except Canonical thinks it's good", and Upstart had been in development for several years.

Do the US's antitrust laws make a distinction on "only being used for entertainment"?

Upstart existed before systemd. I used to think it was NIH syndrome, but its initial release was in 2006, whereas systemd's was in 2010.