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I can pretend to be someone with authority? (bank, policy, whatever) If the system becomes unavailable, then that's a huge issue? Any system that is that widely anchored in society…

my layman understanding, a real statistician will surely intervene. standard deviation is a measure that informs about the distribution. A high standard deviation means a "wide bel…

I have a handful of endpoints, used by staff that represent a low level of risk, that use Firefox for that precise reason. But really, we have a couple of million enterprise end-us…

While this is true, allow me to give another POV. I run corporate security and internal IT for a 100 person SaaS. I "nudge" our users towards Chrome. Why? Because I can manage Chro…

Yes. Or at least that is what I understood from the Radiolab episode on “how do aesthetics work” https://radiolab.org/podcast/anesthesia

The day they introduced non smoking (late nineties?) a friend of mine found out as the aeroport. He made a big stink, canceled his ticket and booked a new flight for Amsterdam - NY…

Without thinking too hard I can name a few? The rise of authoritarianism? Inequality? Revival of geopolitical "realism"? Decrease in empathy and holistic thinking? Increasing willi…

agreed. The problem is, often, when you can have "for free" something that is "good enough", you stop looking for better. 40 years ago, there was a market for: * newspapers * camer…

Well if one would get theological about it, I do believe they were given the land and then expelled by god. The Bible is quite explicit on that point. I don’t remember seeing the m…

I believe the idea is that friction and resistance is proportional to the square of the speed. After a certain speed, every 10 mph extra starts to really count in your mileage.

And those that do have not yet understood what will happen when those seasoned workers retire, and there are no juniors or mid that can grow because they have been replaced by AI

While I understand why you would say that, I think the way "spy network" was meant, was in the way that their job is to spy within the US. And given the resources at their disposit…

actually, they raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion valuation.

That would work if obesity levels increased equally across the globe. But even if obesity does increase globally, there are very wide disparities. Contrary to popular belief, there…

There's a pattern where criminal organizations fill governance gaps rather than starting as genuine governments. The Yakuza did this opportunistically at certain historical moments…

my more generous interpretation of the situation is that people do not see the work / effort / complexity of operating a solution. They think that open source is free, when in real…

Yes. After having flattened it and occupied / denazified it for a bunch of years. The Germany after WW I was not trusted.

No. It delends on how you ask. Did you walk over? Did you say hi? Did you lower yourself to be around their height? Give them a second or two to get used to you? Tell them first th…

In France I see (and hear) more and more use of a special type of warning device, "le cri de lynx" that reduces sonic pollution by building sites. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Blj…

If you pay for Workspace (like he says he does) your data is your own, just like for any SaaS product.

No need to consider. The UK and France have nukes. France even has a two-tier response. Not enough to vitrify Russia or China five times over, but enough to make them reconsider.

If memory serves, that was relatively easy? Compared with this? You fly to the entry, point towards it, and then rotate until rotation speed and phase match. But yea, the docking c…

Thanks for the link. Yes, that does give pause for thought: -- For example: once, when I was eight years old, I’d done something wrong that warranted a spanking. My dad commanded m…

Well the vibe I am getting from testing22321 is more one of "there should be unconditional support from society". See the points about free education and (supposed) unlimited benef…

We were talking about a boss who made passive aggressive remarks. And that it was unfair that people could not stop working. I just pointed out that the responsibility of the socia…