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I'm as keen to wax poetic about the non-economic potential of technology as the next person, but I'm not deluding myself into thinking that was why the technology was developed in …

Fairly well being the key phrase—it's not difficult for a determined individual to bypass.

Art? Yes, of course! I have no clue what you're referring to with tech, though. Throughout history development of tech has almost always driven by seeking economic leverage. I'm su…

Tech for tech's sake helps nobody. Politics is a fact of nearly every facet of life—you can accept this and play the game or accept that you're in the backseat. The worst people in…

This also sort of raises a red flag for the author—short term relationships weren't really a thing in the world of Austen, just prospective long-term relationships and essentially …

The most obvious answer is you need the system frameworks to link against.

Is blocking pirate sites even really possible or are they referring to the whack-a-mole game states play?

This all may be true, but he still has a track record as an expansionist, as nationalist, as islamophobic, and as ethno-nationalist. He may not have presented much of a change in R…

I think there are perfectly valid reasons to not like cigarette smoke, I just think that constantly harping over the "health" aspect rather than the "resolving the conflict of the …

> This is equivalent to actively harming others in my opinion. We unfortunately live in a society that prioritizes freedom to harm others over freedom from being harmed by others.

Exactly—there's never been a better time to actually make the name look like it sounds.

> you simply don't care for your health at all in the first place. I don't really see an issue with this personally. Moralizing health is weird.

Can we please god stop using AI like it's a meaningful word? This is really interesting technology; it's hamstrung by association with a predatory marketing term.

Ah that's where the much higher quality of life kicks in.

> batteries serve both generating and load functions. Only until they run out of power! Capacity is still the core of their function.

> see the CA HSR project which is massively delayed and over budget This is not a good parallel as the HSR's cost comes in large part from traversing many counties, municipalities,…

> How much solar/wind/battery capacity can 34B USD buy!? I'm guessing you'd run into space constraints pretty quickly. For one large project a nuclear reactor is incredibly compact…

Well shit, what user needs an app store to begin with? It was never about need , it was about what they could convince users to put up with.

> it's better to look positions on their merits How do you do this when any value a "merit" could have is based in this dichotomy of vendor/user?

There's little benefit to the user for many of Apple's design decisions; that seems like an odd way to predict their behavior.

This would be a lot easier to believe if they allowed you to stop apps from accessing the internet. As they don't, I simply don't buy any argument they make from a privacy or secur…

I mean yea, but in practice I run into frustration that the terminal doesn't have a key dedicated to commands far more than I need to do something globally. Anyway, you can use cmd…

Parboiling is not really the same as cooking.