- >- X has the technology to reliably detect such accounts unless they are incredibly well "hidden"
Has, or had? With massive layoffs, they might not have the staff or know-how left to do this, or the time to implement it.
>- X has the incentive to reliably detect such accounts as it has shown in the past by shutting off data access. It seems to care much more about this than most news websites
OK, but still wanting to do something, and actually doing it, are two different things. I'm not convinced this hollowed-out shell of a company still has such ability.
>especially with all the other stuff going on at X right now. But it's only a matter of time before that changes.
This seems to assume X is going to continue to survive and in fact thrive; I don't think that's a good assumption.
- You seem to have confused socialism and fascism. A government too entwined with a small number of corporations, to the point that it seems like it's a government for the corporations rather than the people, is generally considered a feature of fascism. A government embracing some sort of anti-corporate and free-and-open solution like OSS would resemble a socialistic policy more.
But yes, I agree, the USG (and other governments) really should embrace Linux/OSS and help contribute to the ecosystem as well (unlike North Korea, for instance, which has a government-maintained Linux distro called Red Flag, but of course doesn't contribute anything at all).
- There's already plans for a new line that will have a station in Georgetown.
- Yes, and you showed your true self too: you used this as an opportunity to push your anti-vax conspiracy theory bullshit. So again, go fuck yourself, troll.
- I believe so. Just look at how much resistance there is to anything non-car in other parts of the country, like in Culvert City CA where they removed cycling lanes. Also, Portland OR where the local government is trying hard to make biking more dangerous by putting the bike lane between parked cars and fast-moving traffic, all because some hotel and business owners want street parking to be more convenient.
Even today in DC, there's still no convenient public transit access for wealthy Georgetown, because they resisted building a station there. M Street is horribly crowded with both cars and pedestrians.
- >Yet somehow, Windows 10 and 11 are dripping with contempt for the user, but the EU still hasn't acknowledged that as an antitrust problem worth investigating. Their insistence on pushing users into Edge alone should be enough IMO.
At this point, I'm not sure it's worth investigating. This isn't the 90s when everyone was running application software directly on their PC; now everything is done in the cloud or through your web browser somehow. I honestly find it funny when Windows users have all kinds of agony because of that "contempt" you refer to; if they don't like it, they're free to switch to another OS. I've been watching this for over 25 years now but people just won't give up Windows, even when they only use it for web browsing, so I've lost all sympathy for them, even though the Windows user experience keeps getting worse.
- US deserts are full of life; they're very far from lifeless. They're nothing like the endless sand dunes we envision when we think of the Sahara desert, Saudi Arabia, or the planet Arrakis.
- It's easier to make new friends in a top-tier city, especially if you're the kind of person who likes those amenities.
The alternative is staying in some backwater place just because one of your friends is there, and you have absolutely nothing to do there except hang out with that friend, while being constantly frustrated with all the other aspects of life in that place.
- By this logic, a car salesperson should get the majority of the proceeds from selling you a car. So from a $30k car, $15k goes to the salesperson, $5k to the dealership, $9k to the manufacturer, and $1k to the shipper. You really think this makes any sense?
- There should be some tough laws against selling counterfeits, with harsh penalties.
- Online communities are communities like any other: they're a product of the people in them, and the people that control them. You may find some are more to your liking than others. There's no perfect way of doing moderation. If you don't like any kind of moderation at all, you're free to hang out on 8chan with the neo-Nazis.
- Censorship is necessary for a civil forum. If you don't censor, you get 8chan, a place full of nothing but vileness. All the shitty people congregate there because no one will censor them or ban them, and all the decent people leave.
Of course, we usually call this "moderation" instead of "censorship", but it's mostly the same, except it isn't done by a government.
So the quality of any forum just comes down to the quality of the moderation. Good moderators keep out the off-topic crap and general nastiness, shitty moderators ban people for saying they don't like the company's new game.
- Will this cable go through the Bermuda Triangle?
- No, for tech-minded 20-30-somethings, it's Discord.
Yes, I know Discord isn't an open forum website like Reddit/HN. The younger generations seem to like it that way I guess.
- You seem to be claiming that I shouldn't visit a web page without viewing the ads on it.
But here you seem to be claiming it's ok to visit the event without reading their ad booklet. That's inconsistent.
- It's cheaper for Americans to travel to Belgium, and then pay out of pocket for surgical procedures, than it is to get them done in America. And that's including the airfare and hotels too.
- >You're describing totally different modes of dining. That said, this is probably the direction we're heading: servers will make more. And dining out (actual dining out, not fast casual) will become more expensive.
I'm also describing how the high (and getting higher) cost of dining in America is partly a function of American expectations. In other countries, dining is much cheaper, but from what I see, there's far less labor involved. Here in Japan, eating out is pretty cheap usually. (It's similar in Europe.) But there's less service: you have to actually yell for a server sometimes, or otherwise get their attention, because they're busy serving other tables or doing other tasks. They don't have time to come check on you, and in fact it would be considered rude if they interrupted your conversation just to ask you how the food tastes, but this is perfectly normal in America.
If American restaurants adopted a different service model and standards, costs would be lower, it's pretty simple. No one really needs servers hovering over them and chit-chatting with them and acting like their best friend.
I don't like to use TSA as an example because it's a government service, which doesn't operate under market pressure the same way as private business. My point is there's a lot of unnecessary labor even in privately-run businesses.
- A lot of jobs don't really need to be done. They're only done because there's some demand for them. If wages increased in other places, workers in lower-paid jobs could be drawn away from those jobs, and those businesses can either adapt to less labor, or shut down. An example of this is restaurant labor. Restaurants in the US have an enormous number of workers per customer; it's a big reason why it costs so much to eat out there. Americans seem to expect to have a server constantly hovering over them.
If wages for other jobs increased a lot, servers could be enticed to leave the restaurant industry, and go elsewhere. No one really needs waiters. Customers can instead go to the counter and order themselves, and pick up their own food (this is usually called "counter service"). Eliminating all the servers in the US would free up a LOT of labor for more important tasks. This is just one example. People paid to pump gas at full-service gas stations is another (which has largely disappeared, except in two states, NJ and OR).
- Are you thinking of cutting out peoples' brains and then regrowing new ones?
- >I talk to them on Facebook Messenger and Instagram personally. Which means "people in Japan" have them installed also. So you get my drift :)
No, I don't.
Those people only have them to talk to you, because you're not in Japan and don't use LINE.
People in Japan who don't have foreign friends don't have this issue.
(Also, Instagram is not a messaging app. Messenger is.)
- Suppose you go to some kind of event, and it's paid for by an advertiser. At the event, the advertiser walks around and hands out booklets for whatever they're selling, and insists you spend some time reading the booklet.
Are you obligated to actually read the booklet? Or is "no thanks" OK?
- >Same reason I listed them as the best music players - I don't want to carry around a laptop to hear tunes. And while some audiphiles claim that they can hear a difference, I have never seen evidence that this is the case.
For playing music when I'm at work, etc., my phone sounds MUCH better than my laptop that's sitting at home.
Also, even if we really did compare apples to apples, I'm not sure how the sound hardware on a laptop is going to be any better than that on a phone.
1. Humans aren't going to survive in space for 10 years. It's questionable that they'd even survive a trip to Mars without getting riddled with cancer from the cosmic radiation. Sure, if you built a big enough ship to provide some really effective shielding, it's technically possible, but that ship would be enormous and far beyond our current capabilities. I don't think it's feasible at all to launch such a ship from Earth; it would need to be assembled in space.
2. Project Orion is just an idea on paper; it's not within current technology, because no one ever built it. We don't "have the technology" at all. We don't even have the technology to land humans on the Moon. We did decades ago, but we no longer do: all the people who knew how to do that are retired or dead, so we'd have to start over. Of course, we can build powerful rocket motors easier now since we do so regularly now, so building equivalent Moon-landing capability is no longer as difficult as in the 60s, but a lot of things would have to be partially re-invented (e.g., the lander itself, the rover, etc).
3. Does your time estimate include the time needed to decelerate, so the ship doesn't just zip by the black hole with barely any time to collect data? (And if there's people on this ship, they might want to return to Earth...)