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Yes, you're right. They deeply failed as a port authority and a warehouse. I was trying to explain why civilian city leadership might not have good intuition for why the storage is…

Problem: how do you have an elite murder squad that just kills exactly the people you want and no others? What if grandma gets in the way? How about Hamed, who might know a guy who…

How much of every corporate job is communicating / consensus vs doing?. Arguably "content creation" is core to every > middle class job now - you have to get people onboard to get …

Have you ever thought about your house? The whole damn thing is fuel. Do you store things in the attic? plastic tubs? How about the basement? cardboard? Do you have wool, paintings…

This is also true for your computer hardware, the software you run, the medicines you take, the food you eat, the water you drink... I guess my point is that that human trust is so…

I wonder if a hybrid approach between disposable and "keep cup" could work. The "default" takeaway option could be the short-lasting paper cup. For car, office or just comfort, you…

Users everywhere have had to put up with U.S law for a long time. The laws and norms of the USA are more or less "fully baked in". Try posting a nipple or copyrighted track, for ex…

There are lots of things being done, but much more could be done - and for that we need to convince governments, which takes data. In particular we need to convince governing bodie…

If you don't find the OHI ( https://www.conservation.org/projects/ocean-health-index ) credible, I'm not sure there's much more I could write that would convince you. Sorry :/ The …

That's a big question, and one that's difficult to orient and frame productively. This resource might interest you though: http://www.oceanhealthindex.org/news/Ocean_Isn't_Dying

I think the point is that viral "dying oceans" memes and stories may be undermining conservation efforts. They are too emotionally powerful and pull our collective focus away from …

You need a way to sync them on multiple computers, use them as a guest (eg when you've borrowed a machine temporarily), do recovery flows, manage their regeneration and rotation, g…

It's an interesting business model I think. They produce IP (researching and producing very clear instructions for fixes) and manage supply chain (trusted replacement parts & tools…

Apart from it not really being in anyone's financial interest - not content providers, copyright holders or advertisers, it would be viewed as a security risk if anyone could easil…

I agree that "lies" and "bullshit" seem to be among the defining problems of our time. What seems to have broken down is trust. In the many cases where you rightly point out the tr…

I think the spirit of the post was to investigate through source spelunking. Since there is so much history I often find it hard to see why things work the way they do, just by loo…

Truth itself is not really knowable in many interesting cases, and even scientific truths which might appear "objective" at any given point are subject to debate, change and revisi…

Passing as higher status gives you access to opportunities you otherwise wouldn't get. It's not a vestigial impulse, it is perfectly rational.

Broken computer. Could be hardware, could be sofware, could be both. But even though there are common scenarios, each computer can also be broken in a different way.

If your account recovery works by sending an email... which then sets a plaintext email cookie, there's no actual auth, right? To make this make sense, I think you are assuming but…

We could "spin" the anti-space side as a religion too I suppose. It involves a bit more ascetism and self-flagellation though. I already live in a "heavenly" future compared to mos…

This seems like a variant of the "just world hypothesis".

Credit card companies charge ~ 3% to manage a far more complex and fraud-prone ecosystem. It's Apple's sandpit and they make the rules, but I think it's hard to rationally justify …

"I'm being oppressed by my own retirement fund". :/