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Because it costs money to provide services? You could not argue that with the same reasoning, because there is no labor involved for air to exist. However services need to be run by people using hardware created by other people, all of whom need to eat, which is only possible with money.

So why not "Don't do it at all" for accessing the content if you do not want to pay for it? You feel entitled to receive it on your terms, but other people are not allowed to only offer something on their terms?

Relevant Tom Scott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfJOW2PtrGk

Well the FBI seems able to tell, or else why are they alleging it poses a national security concern?

True, but I tried to make it as close to the Haskell example as possible. I just think the OOP -> verbose/complex argument is really annoying, especially if it applies mostly to Java code.

Well your second example relies for speed and efficiency on Haskell being lazy. If you did e.g. a map -> filter -> sum chain, the performance is not that great without lazy evaluation guaranteed by Haskell's implementation, which can complicate code in other scenarios or in the complexity of the compiler. OCaml is also an FP language, and the second example would be almost the same text, but with much worse performance.

Also, Python is an OOP language, but a simple map implementation there is not much more verbose:

    def map(function, items):
        if len(items) != 0:
            return [function(items[0]), *map(function, items[1:])]
        return []

Also quite a lot sent to republicans from the CO-CEO: https://www.ft.com/content/428c7800-c72d-4c59-9940-4376fea6e... https://sherman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congre....

Here is an actual source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/ukrainian-government-launches...

Quote: “Aid For Ukraine shows how the global crypto community and the traditional financial system can work together,” said Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko. “Crypto donations to the DAO are stored and governed on-chain, then transferred to FTX, a centralized exchange, to be sold for fiat USD sent via SWIFT to the Ukrainian government.”

So basically people in the US (not the US government) sent money to Ukraine using FTX as an exchange to fiat (lol). Seems the whole thing is more like a PR thing than anything else.

So you think they are lies because they do not correspond to your individual anecdotes? I know economics is sometimes derided as a "soft science", but they are a little more rigorous than just "1 person and the stores they are in driving distance of" being used as a barometer for a country of over 300 million people.

He thinks Wikipedia is biased because it describes (correctly) that "alternative medicine" is bullshit? And also he is a climate change denier? Why is he not complaining that there is bias against the flat earth people on wikipedia? Sorry, "scientific minorities". This article proves nothing other than the author is useless.

"The FBI is racist": ever heard of COINTELPRO? I think trying to undermine the civil rights movement (among others) could be classified as racist, do you not agree?

Also "FBI crime stats" is probably one of the loudest dog whistles, more like a fog horn at this point.

If developers would have to be licensed to work with sensitive user data, and the penalty for leaking it would be losing your license, penalties and being unhireable for IT work, there would be a lot more incentives for people to be more careful. Have any of the developers who implemented the systems that leaked data faced any consequences as a disincentive for it not to happen again? It would incentive developers to care more about security, not just say "eh, it happens, and it doesn't affect me, so who cares".

For user "spying", the code of ethics could contain something like "respecting the user" (idk, just spitballing) and those who want to implement more "spying" into their software could be "disbarred" for unethical behavior. This is even mentioned in the IEEE text: "Approve software only if they have a well-founded belief that it [...] does not [...] diminish privacy".

I guess you could codify this into law (i.e. GDPR style), but even that (at least to my understanding) does not hold developers individually responsible, but their company. E.g. when google gets fined, the developers who created the code are less likely to think "this is bad, therefore I will restrain for doing such things in the future" and more "how close to breaking the law can I push without the company getting in trouble".

Yes, the industry has been extremely productive at data leaks and invading users privacy! With regulation, how could there be innovation in the "spying on every moment of your life" and "everything-as-a-subscription" industries.

But that is more the cost of other stuff. I bet the difference in costs between driver and self-driving vehicles that are as reliably and safe as bus drivers is not that much. Mechanics etc... would still need to exist for driverless vehicles just as much. I think creating electric busses is much needed, without dumping lots of money into making them autonomous at the start.

Russia is literally capitalist though????

So what does this have to do with 8 million people?

If the survey was of 2,079 people, then how does this extrapolate to 8 million? They say 23% of the respondents represent 8 million people, but that does not mean that 8 million people actually used crypto.

My bank is FDIC insured, so up to $250,000 is guaranteed to come back to me unless the US Government fails, and then the blockchain would probably not work either.

Also, how can crypto not be seized at will? If they want to take your hardware wallet, they can just keep that just the same. Not to mention getting people to give over the keys if it is kept in a centralized exchange, which a lot of people are.

Wills, deeds, leases etc... are worthless on their own, with or without a blockchain. Sure they can be documented on a blockchain, but the blockchain has no ability to enforce the documents in the real world. If your ownership for somethings is on the blockchain, and someone steals it, then proof of ownership does not matter if there are not government agents with guns willing to enforce your ownership. Libertarians always believe this weird non-aggression principle, as if someone with more guns would respect your rights to property. Civil forfeiture only works because the government has the most guns.

Sure the contract remains unchanged, but who will enforce the contract? In 99 years, will there be any authority that recognizes the blockchain contract? The "biased, corrupt or dissolved" local central authority could choose not to recognize the blockchain contract and then your estate would still not give the land back.

Some balance for the first link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-communist_mass_killings

So on the one hand, you have vandalism and arson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%27s_Revenge), and on the other multiple mass shootings with deaths (just one of the many, from this year which is from a right winger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Buffalo_shooting). I do not excuse this "Jane's Revenge" group, but that is some really weak both sides stuff. Especially because a lot of right wing church groups act violently towards abortion clinics! Which is a real glass houses moment.

Yup: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MLYV3AM/A/usb-c-to-magsaf...

"The path they chose", i.e. they deserved it? Also the Democratic Republic of the Congo (in comparison to "Republic of the Congo") was fiercely anti-communist [0] and backed by the US, so I guess that didn't help them with their prosperity either.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Con...

The US was also created by its geography. Lots of space, lots of natural resources, etc... Even the best people can't make gold out of nothing, so to speak.

Everyone can be the US sounds a lot like the Mitt Romney "I couldn't pay for college, so I sold some of my stocks to pay for it" [0]. It's quite out of touch to be born in the richest country and then be surprised why other countries can't make it. It "takes money to make money". Thats not the only criteria, but it helps quite a lot.

[0] https://slate.com/business/2012/04/romney-sold-stock-to-pay-...

What do you mean by "old charger"? It supports USB-C to USB-C charging directly. The magsafe is also version 3, and the other end of the magsafe plugs into any USB-C charging brick. This is the best of both worlds: USB-C charging if you want it, and magsafe, which I think is much better anyway.

Interesting, did not now about the amtliche Fassung. But the full archive with the amtliche Fassung is also published online for free, starting from 1949: https://www.bgbl.de/xaver/bgbl/start.xav

They also mention it on the gesetze-im-internet website: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/hinweise.html

It seems that the Austrian way is much better though.

They law part is not true, according to the website they provide almost all of the German laws. The site is also linked from the ministry of justice itself, so it is definitely legit: https://www.bmj.de/DE/Service/GesetzeInternet/GesetzeInterne... They even have an RSS feed when laws are updated: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/aktuDienst.html (Funnily enough, they also say IE 6 does not support the RSS feed)

I the US, the electoral college could vote for someone completely different, who might not even be part of the campaign: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector

The chances of it happening are low, but the vote of the people might not be upheld.

Registration in case there is a draft is still basically mandatory in the US: https://www.sss.gov/

As I understand it, because the Cryptocurrencies are not legal tender:

"Cryptocurrency is not legal tender and is not backed by the government. Cryptocurrency, (including but not limited to tokens such as bitcoin, litecoin and ethereum, and stablecoins such as USDC), is not subject to Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or Securities Investor Protection Corporation protections." [https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/other-topics/legal-pol...]

So any Bitcoin etc... you hold in your wallet at Coinbase could just be sold off to pay for debt if a bankruptcy occurs (which doesn't happen if a FDIC bank goes bankrupt).

Well look at what the worlds strongest man eats: https://www.businessinsider.com/brian-shaw-the-worlds-strong...

You would agree that that is mostly healthy food? And he is eating very large quantities of it. He is not fat, but people who do not do a lot of exercise could eat the same amount of food (or even half, he eats 12,000 calories a day) and gain quite a lot of weight.

Also a diet needs more than fruits and vegetables to be healthy at all.

I agree that there should be less focus on processed and fast foods, but that alone does not eliminate the problem of people eating a lot of food. I could eat a big mac and medium fries for every meal and not gain a lot of weight (3x big mac (563 calories) = 1689 calories + 3* fries (333 calories) = 2688 calories. Which is around the 2500 calorie range for an adult man. That would in no way be healthy, but I would not gain weight quickly.