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At one point Mozilla was literally selling a VPN subscription. That point is now - you can go buy one today. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-mozilla-vpn-and-ho... You can…

I suspect you will find that in many cases, people whose brains have been hijacked by chemical dependency may experience some difficulty in behaving as a stakeholder in society . I…

People espousing this theory usually point to rat park. Unfortunately, rat park is in no sense good or useful science. It's more useful as a litmus test for how sincerely someone t…

Individual capacity enables community resilience. If you have resources that can be shared, they can be shared with your neighbors. Otherwise, we're either asking local government …

That works to the extent that a polity is willing and able to seize, care for, and sell off parcels. At scale, this is not guaranteed to be as easy as it sounds. Case in point: Det…

I agree. There's no moral or ethical difference in any way. Unfortunately for us, the law routinely does see a substantial difference and treats them as such. Due to that, the SCOT…

This article readily conflates niceness and kindness. It would be very easy to read this and take away the understanding that critical feedback that leaves a person feeling in any …

There's a great deal of nuance to how kindness is defined. It's very easy for one set of actions to be either very kind or very unkind, depending on definitions. Listening, being r…

We're building this because the ability to make narrow, specific predictions can be narrowly and specifically useful. This works if you have a good understanding of both the tools …

San Francisco is an instructive example. Prior to Uber, calling a taxi in SF gave you a 50% chance of one showing up in some functionally unknowable amount of time. 50% is not an e…

I think you will find that for the vast, vast majority of scientific papers there is significant negative expected value to even attempting to have layperson reviewers. Bear in min…

Search systems aren't real people or real businesses either. Never mind details like how you define and enforce "real" in a decentralized way across N legal systems with wildly var…

Ask an email administrator how well decentralization works at scale. It should be concerning that email has re-centralized to deal with all the problems that come from federation a…

> I wonder if it could work for public education. Perhaps even in lieu of teachers unions. In a very real sense, public schools are already customer-owned cooperatives governed by …

If you look at sibling comments, you'll find a whole discussion where users talk about the major significance to many people of a different numerical estimate. With that in mind, I…

OK. Let's assume that the rest of the C-suite combines to give that number a solid 5x multiplier. How accurate that is is left as an exercise to the reader, but be aware that the C…

It's my understanding that the significance of that age can and does vary wildly. In some specialties, age makes errors more likely: https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/radiologist-age-an…

There was no cost-benefit analysis on offer, you are correct. This is not the same as there being none, though. Weed-out courses are a classic example implemented at the institutio…

The author prefers to believe that it was poor instruction. The implication is that because they were willing to show up for a 7:30am lecture, they were capable of making it. On th…

After a brief bit of research, Google also works extensively with US and UK governments. I would expect there's also quite a list of other rich-world governments that Google sells …

I think a discourse that runs: > Assertion one > Assertion two, claiming assertion one requires asserter two to be a liar is one that can benefit from being grounded a bit. On a pe…

I'm not implying anything of the sort. My point is that an unsupported assertion should not be treated as a well-supported truth. All we know right now is what a single person beli…

Every contract with a national government buying whole data centers for cloud services is a major one with big numbers attached. This is not a small amount of money and the backlas…