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Maybe I'm thinking too literally, but alfalfa isn't grass. It's a legume.

Over half of Colorado River water goes to agriculture, about half of that irrigates alfalfa for animal feed. It's not clear if that's what you meant by capitalism, but lawns are a …

Even better a single video frame because the OCR is demonstrably fallible.

This could be more targeted, like a no-fly list for the internet. Political dissidents, journalists, etc. could be effectively exiled from online activity.

I'm not saying age verification is a good idea, just that a centralized government-mandated implementation is a bad way to do an already bad idea.

Data ownership is just one area of concern. Controlling our access to the internet is another. If age verification was an open standard, we could hope for competition so that we co…

Anecdotal but my laptop just found 2 open WiFi networks out of 20. One's enough though.

They can't delete their accounts after the server hosting the account shuts down.

Putting on tinfoil hat... how do we know it isn't connecting to our neighbors' open WiFi?

It's not supposed to. Just one more way to limit our freedom to control our own devices.

The concern isn't that an authoritarian government locks you out of some age-restricted sites, it's that it locks you out of them all.

I'm not aware of any confirmed citizens being sent to foreign prisons (maybe?), but Trump is deporting people without due process, including the chance to demonstrate to the courts…

It does, at least for any media played through the device. Read up on automatic content recognition. https://www.howtogeek.com/its-not-just-streaming-content-you...

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Nice! I can't help thinking it would be informative to see it on a linear scale. Vast, unfathomable stretches of time before humans come on the scene, and then human history is a b…

Only if you weren't fired for cause, are looking for full-time employment, have earned enough recently, etc.

It's hard to say whether you're missing out on legit emails from new senders or old senders with new addresses unless you review your spam folder regularly.

And helicopters tracking you are hard to miss.

People will shoot themselves in the foot if it means criminals get harsher punishments, sometimes literally.

I believe the post was intended to be ironic, implying that privacy isn't really a small cost.

Flipping my phone between portrait and landscape thereby changing image size is enough to determine which message is legible to me.

Any tips on how to switch from Tmux to pure neovim?

The changes in Earth's rotational speed that leap seconds help account for affect the whole globe. Why shouldn't the effects be noted in the global time standard?

There are degrees of power, of course. All white men aren't at the pinnacle of power, and many are truly disadvantaged, but they collectively share a disproportionate amount of pow…

That should be the case, but the frequent data breaches that I get notified about with little consequence to the companies involved make me doubt that there will be real incentives…