scarby2

> It’s had things like instant, free, payments between personal accounts for almost two decades.

Thanks for making me feel old I was thinking "it hasn't been anywhere near that long, I remember the rollout like it was yesterday". Turns out that rollout was 15 years ago.

i'm late replying but i'd argue that emotional eating isn't entirely self inflicted. It's partially biological (our bodies naturally crave higher calorie foods during times of stress), partially down to learned behaviours that you may not be able to break without outside help.

the german green party is not very green. They actively opposed nuclear energy and got it shut down before there were other low carbon energy sources available to replace it. Which led directly to more coal and more gas being used. More ecological destruction and more CO2, it really contrary to any kind of good sense.

That common secret is usually an ssh key which is held somewhere secure hopefully with auditable access.

For bootstrapping you can bake a bootstrapping key into your installer which is removed after the system is configured.

futures contracts work somewhat well for farmers. There's a level of certainty provided and they are reducing their risk so that a low price at the end of the season doesn't ruin them (however they also don't profit from a higher price). As a farmer i would likely prefer to sell a certain percentage of my goods with a futures contract so that i can have less risk of financial ruin.

> Something my therapist pointed out to me is that obesity is directly linked to childhood and intergenerational trauma; calling it self-inflicted is not accurate. Even if we're focused on healthy eating, food deserts exist. No man is an island, &c.

The idea that obesity is self inflicted runs contrary to our current understanding not just of psychology but of physiology. Most people don't have a constant struggle to maintain a healthy weight generally people with obesity even if they lose weight have to work extremely hard to not regain that weight and most fail.

> Of course, the problem isn't really the rich. There aren't enough of them to strain the assistance budget even if they do all take the free lunch. The problem is the people who are richer than the ones who are eligible, but aren't actually rich. There are a lot more of them

Welcome to the squeezed middle. Don't make enough to be truly comfortable but too much to be eligible for government assistance.

> and the money to give them all free things may just not exist.

Though if we had a functional legislature we could make this money exist simply by bumping the tax rate in the relevant income bands so that the extra expenditure is covered by the higher taxes.

well.. I have no issue about ugly on the outside if the quality of the accommodation is adequate.

If you actually knew anything about soviet buildings this was pretty far from the truth. Multiple families were often assigned to share kitchens/bathrooms and often just one or two rooms per family to live in. They were not well designed, poorly heated and ventilated and generally pretty miserable places to live. It was not uncommon for the entire family to sleep huddled around the single kerosene heater.

They did get better as time went on but it wasn't really until the fall of the soviet union when a lot of these inadequate accommodations were demolished. Also i'm totally on board with having cheap to build ugly accommodation - so long as it's not 100% of the housing stock, By all means throw as much up as possible until we've housed all the poor, but what if i want something different?

i bought some chips somewhat recently and the serving size was listed as "6 chips".

> Avoid social media until at least age 16

I think it depends which social media, and this needs to be audited. I was using forums/IRC from about 14(and these are pre-cursors to social media) and there was benefit to being able to discuss things that you might not have been able to IRL.

I think the issues come with image based social media where it's not about exchanging ideas/talking about things but with "living your best life" and curating your public image.

> predators use online spaces to find and groom children. > each your kids to never ever take an inappropriate photo of their bodies.

I think in this day and age it's essential to teach kids how to stay safe online (once they reach an age where the internet is an appropriate place to be). I see people talk all the time about the internet being a dangerous place and it needs to be restricted but not as much about how to manage this.

i remember many discussions about meeting someone form the internet and how to do it safely. i.e. Get a verification photo with today's date, meet in a high-traffic public space, tell a friend (or your parents) where you are going and who you expect to be meeting, ask for a check in at a specific time etc.

younger me was never denied videogames/consoles/pc games.

I'm now an engineer with a bunch of friends and socially well adjusted. But then each child is unique and each situation is unique, most kids in my neighborhood weren't allowed outside after dark, in winter it was basically dark when we got home from school also i was an only child so didn't have any siblings to keep me entertained, that leaves a lot of time for Homework, TV, Video Games, Reading etc.

Also it rained a lot so you were stuck inside a lot. In fact when the weather was good you were desperate to get out of the house because you'd be stuck inside so often.

If i were parenting today i might have to follow a different approach to my parents but only because i might want to curate the games my kids would play personally i actually think the right video game is just as if not more valuable than books. Learning mechanics, developing strategies, reacting to changing and unfavorable circumstances, teamwork. are great life skills. I do think i learned a fair bit playing Starcraft and Counter Strike.

Fiduciary responsibility isn't entirely about returns, it's about the best interests of the investors. And if you've invested in a company with a certain mission it would be said to be in your interests for that mission to continue.

If I were starting a business these days I'd be tempted to found it on the basis that 60% must be owned by employees of the company until the last living descendant of king Charles dies.

I think this is where you're wrong. I can't remember the last time I watched any non-Netflix content on Netflix.

They're also adept at funding international content at a fraction of the price of US content. Assuming AI doesn't take over filmmaking I can see a future fairly soon were Netflix are making a ton of English language content in Africa/India/Eastern Europe. Or they are making international content and using AI to generate English vocals and lip sync.

Market failure is a thing with insufficient oversight/regulation. But it's just as easy to cripple something by nationalizing and over regulating it.

Take the housing market, when there was no regulations we ended up with inadequate housing and the poor being housed in terrible conditions. Now we brought in all the wrong regulations and it's no longer just the poor who are struggling. Next we'll vote for universal rent control, do nothing else and sooner or later nobody will be able to move.

Edit: and if we completely nationalize it we might end up with inadequate commie blocks for everyone.

sadly it's often misused. When there are things like BMI qualifications on medical interventions or where jobs have physical requirements.

I knew a guy who really wanted to join the fire service but couldn't meet the BMI requirements as he was in the 'obese' BMI bucket, In this case he was just very broad and very muscular (built like the colloquial brick shithouse). By their requirements jonah lomu would not have been able to join because he was 'obese'

> Not sure if you read the history section of the wikipedia article but it was intentional:

you're mis-reading the history there. Water was diverted into the area to use as irrigation for farming, at this point there was no sea nor was anything on that scale intended.

It wasn't until the heavy rains and unintentional diversion of the Colorado that the sea formed.

there's a lot of people who visit palm springs party at night and sleep through the heat of the day.

AFAIK Plumbing tends to run beneath the floors in either construction model. Electrical in brick buildings is a pain as it runs in conduit behind the plaster but this doesn't compromise the viability of your structure and has a fairly long service life.

HVAC also can generally also be run under floors (and outside of the USA forced air systems are pretty unusual so you're only dealing with pipes).

It's not necessarily about strength but brick buildings will survive both fire and water much better than wooden buildings, they don't burn or rot. Brick buildings generally last hundreds of years with minimal maintenance (assuming no earthquakes).

Wood buildings can last hundreds of years but require far more upkeep.

>And yet, most residential construction is basically the same, whether it's going to be built in Palo Alto, upstate NY, Kansas, south Florida or Portland

This was the case but it's not really true any more. Building codes have become more stringent and risk specific. This hasn't changed anything around earthquakes though as as building a single story wood building that stands up to an earthquake is easy, building one that withstands a hurricane is harder.

It will be very difficult to build a waterproof phone with a user replaceable battery

>Police are hammer. I'm just asking you to reconsider funding bigger and bigger hammers when we need some other tools.

I'm all for increasing spending on other tools but sometimes you still need the hammer. Ever try to hammer a something when you don't have a hammer?

there was a pretty big feature gulf between it and K8s when it first launched. I found myself wishing i had a number of kubernetes controllers initially (Jobs (with restart policies), Cronjobs, volume management etc).

From what i've head they've made a great many quality of life improvements but as is often the case it can be hard to regain share when you've already lost people.

Nobody thinks more policing will fix poverty. What it might partially fix is people trying to rob me.

So how do we fix the actual problem? A functional police service is a useful thing to have and a moral imperative.

American police are sub optimal so we have to stop working with them and get rid of them is a non-sequiter

If you overshare with the police and none of it is evidence of an actual crime they are going to stop looking. They simply don't have time to watch thousands of videos sent in by paranoid old folks.

I'm a bit late replying but it depends what your out of pocket maximum is. Mine I think is $2000. It's usually high deductible health plans that have high maximums, generally I'd refuse to with for a place where that was all they offered.

Airports in the rest of the world tend to be more impressive and have better services (restaurants, lounges, bars, shopping). It largely comes down to different ownership models where the airport is trying to get you to spend money on entertainment. US airports may have more seating by the gate but I don't want to spend my time sat by the gate... Especially if I have a few hours between planes.

Except medicine never stays with the ultra wealthy. It only usually makes sense as a mass market product. Unless by ultra wealthy you may mean entire populations of developed countries? Then yes maybe

Except the high end will actually be the majority of the US population who don't have issues affording healthcare.

Would I like to make things better for the bottom third? Absolutely. Am I happy about progress made that will improve the life of the rest of us? Also yes.