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Not sure how to reply if you just ignore everything I wrote that addresses that.

Because, unlike with guns, nobody is trying to ban cars. And to the most common objection: yes they are. Gun control proponents often bring up and praise the UK (near total ban) an…

They would be called draconian by Republicans and the NRA, look how they react to any increase in gun laws today. That's because those increases are never compromises or exchanges.…

They are not Draconian, they are in the ballpark of a blue state in the US. If the progressives were willing to accept the Swiss laws in the US under the stipulation that they woul…

.org does have value over .anything-else because .org domains already exist . The value is, for starters: branding, people remember sites. The value is also vendor-lock in. What yo…

No? I'm not sure what the relevance of that is though? I mean, it would certainly be right for the government to limit the increase in the cost of .org registrations to inflation, …

Well, if this is a disagreement over the word "monopoly" I'll just cite wikipedia: Patents, copyrights, and trademarks are sometimes used as examples of government-granted monopoli…

I see your point, I was thinking of daylight in general. But even the blue sky is not quite as spiky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffuse_sky_radiation#/media/F... If you look at…

What if you already have a .org domain that you actually use? How would you like it if your phone company started charging you extra to keep your phone number, and told you, there'…

There's also this company, but I haven't pulled the trigger myself because of the cost: https://www.waveformlighting.com/high-cri-led-strip-lights

I've been looking at this, but it's not cheap: https://www.waveformlighting.com/high-cri-led-strip-lights

The blue sky's spectrum doesn't have a giant spike like this: https://www.benkuhn.net/img/lux/ledspec.png

Office computer? Definitely Android. Google is like a feudal lord. In exchange for owning you, they'll protect you from everyone weaker than they are. Google doesn't want to break …

I mean, sure, kind of. But indirectly. We can eat improved technology which we might be able to buy some of with money. increase retirement ages Yeah, that's one of the negative co…

Paying for retirees is solvable by simply aggressively taxing the billionaires. You can't eat money. The problem is not financial, it is economic. Ignoring the few durable things t…

Unfortunately, they got bought: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21371577

I wonder which will happen next, IP addresses again or Voyager leaving the solar system again?

I have the same question. The problem is picking a company you can be confident in for both: 1. Competent security 2. Good support Google meets 1. but fails at 2. Every time this t…

One of my professors at an ivy would occasionally at the end of a lecture jokingly say something like, "ok here's what I think about all this, this five minutes is what you're payi…

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