The amount of time Microsoft and Google wonder about how they lost me as a customer is surely 0.
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Ok, I'll bite ;)
Let's agree that the "liberal" approach is harm-reduction -- safe injection sites, needle exchanges, free filters, test sites, community disease screening, etc.
In places where this has been tried (see: SF), it seems to provide some relief to people on the ground, but it's done nothing to address in the inflow of addicts against ever more dangerous supply.
What if the correct liberal position was actually "free pain pills for anyone that needs them, with compassion for all users", and what we think of as "liberal" policies even in SF are actually appeasement of a puritanical system?
That would make the libertarian position "you can't be giving out free pills with government money, make them buy them when they need them like the rest of us" and the world would return to order.
The right-wing position would remain "the government should use force to prevent people from doing immoral things".
As for the addicts, they will now be using a safer route of administration with controlled dosing and not be economically hindered.
As for the cartels, they will no longer find money in the drug trade.
For a while I thought I understood the dynamics of how things got the way they are, but it seems like everyone else has forgotten, so maybe we could try a new approach soon.
How is it so baked into the culture that "enshittify with ads and do the bare minimum" is the plan at this point?
What are you going to do when companies start winning based on offering good value for products with integrity?
Would you blindly copy that? How long would it take?
Is the drive to enshittify nature or nurture?
Argh.
If you read the source: https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/
On the "legislative" side:
> All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
> Congress shall have Power To ... declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
Meanwhile on the "executive" side:
> He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur;
To me, this is pretty clear, at least about things like war and treaties and land acquisition. But it's easy to come up with a ton of examples from all parties that seem to violate these very basic rules.
What I would read as very fundamental "violations" of the document are often upheld by courts as being in agreement with it.
So, to answer your question, yes, they just sit back and chill with a 76% disapproval rating, but it took 119 congresses to get there. https://news.gallup.com/poll/1600/congress-public.aspx
I'm afraid everyone has lost the plot at this point though.
For our biologists tracking evolution:
* https://nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/global/6m
For our data scientists, wastewater data (note: often backfills the last 2 weeks):
* https://data.wastewaterscan.org/tracker?charts=Cp4MEAA4AUgAU...
For our "trust the science" folks, daily info about covid research:
* https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/search?keywords=covid
For the capitalists, from the Society of Actuaries:
* https://www.soa.org/4af998/globalassets/assets/files/resourc...
Can anyone offer me a evidenced based reason to be past-tense about this? Because it is not looking good.
This whole thing is frustrating because I know all of these language models were trained on reddit and I was an early and frequent commenter. So a lot of my style is also the bot's style.
This is contrary to my experience.
Maybe all the kids need is a little censorship!
I did this when I saw the first stable diffusion AI titties. So far up over 10x.
If I had a nickel for every tech that takes off once porn finds its way to it, I wouldn't be counting in nickels.
Pretty soon AI agents could reasonably take a crack at it.
If your side of NAT sucks and STUN fails, you'll probably only be able to connect to someone that has a NAT-traversal friendly configuration. But since you're able to reach them, they could act as a relay to the rest of the overlay network from behind your restrictive NAT.
Imagine I'm running one node that's willing to relay on a publicly accessible IP. If I'm the only node willing to relay on a public IP, then we've pretty much got TURN without the daemon.
If multiple nodes are willing to relay, then we have a general purpose mesh network within the browser sandbox that works on mobile?
For some people (behind CG-NAT), it may just not be possible to get an inbound port at all, so there may be two nodes that cannot directly communicate in the network.
The traditional solution is some kind of relay (see: TURN, skype's supernodes).
As far as I know, and maybe somebody can point me in the right direction, there is no technology available for a webrtc overlay mesh network where some nodes can relay for other nodes. I know webtorrent exists, so it should be possible.
You can see evidence of this problem in this project's README:
> When a direct connection cannot be established, it might be help to use a TURN server. The peercalls.com instance is configured to use a TURN server and it can be used for testing. However, the server bandwidth there is not unlimited.
What's needed, IMO, and please HN tell me why I'm wrong -- is a browser-to-browser mesh overlay system.
I would love to see an array of nodes (across varying levels of NAT) saturate their connections by all relaying to each other as a decentralized stress test that reports real-world p2p bandwidth between providers.
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Btw, Tailscale has an excellent post on this topic: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works
What it is though, is fast, available on all my devices, constantly upgraded, and integrated with their already excellent search engine.
When I see these sorts of announcements and read some of the comments here, it makes me worry that bad customers cause enshittification and I hope kagi stays true to their human-friendly web search product.
Go try to buy some crypto in the US without KYC. It's already pretty tightly controlled.
If you search around for crypto tax software, you'll find there's actual demand from people that want to pay taxes on their crypto.
In fact, I would love to see some of the "lol taxes" people have some enforcement action taken against them.
The only reason wage-tax "compliance" is so high is because there's a system in place to automatically extract as much tax as possible and make you file a refund for the difference.
I think you would find equal amounts of "non-compliance" in any cash or barter based business.