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1. 8821.▲
   by api 7y ago

   This is yet another illustration of why complexity is evil in cryptographic and security critical code. It's evil everywhere, but it's particularly evil there. The relationship between bugs and complexity is exponential, not linea
2. 8822.▲
   by api 7y ago

   I can't find any data backing up this U curve. Fertility declines with household income and levels off about about $100k, at least in the USA. It's hard to find data on the very rich but I'm not aware of people like Bill Gate
3. 8823.▲
   by api 7y ago

   Outside political talk radio I haven't heard people claim "Merry Christmas" is under serious threat. I live in a pretty liberal and very multicultural place and heard and saw plenty of "Merry Christmas" this season.
4. 8824.▲
   by api 7y ago

   Nobody argues that "all tradition is wrong." That would be silly. Obviously the processes of traditional and cultural evolution are going to produce many things that work. Those who argue the "traditionalist" side are ty
5. 8825.▲
   by api 7y ago

   The same problem exists from the other end. How many traditional ideas are useful and true vs. how many have been clearly shown to be useless or destructive nonsense? If you need examples of the latter the most fruitful area to search is pr
6. 8826.▲
   by api 7y ago

   The correlation with wealth is much more consistent. Human beings have less children as they and their societies become wealthier (up to a certain point). In any case to make this argument work one must also argue that increased fertility i
7. 8827.▲
   by api 7y ago

   What I've read and heard is that things like KYC/AML laws made real estate the preferred vehicle for money laundering. This coincides with the first housing bubble quite nicely and also explains why housing reinflated to bubble va
8. 8828.▲
   by api 7y ago

   The #1 culprit IMHO is isolation. Everything about our culture, urban planning, and economy seems optimized for maximum isolation. The reason is simple: people say they want it. This is an area of profound disconnect between what people say
9. 8829.▲
   by api 7y ago

   Not all coastal cities. Multiple studies have sourced most ocean plastic to Chinese rivers and coastal cities (90th percentile) followed by India and a few other places. Why do we have to pretend that all coastal cities are equally at fault
10. 8830.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Maybe aggregate salary would be a much better measure than unemployment
11. 8831.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Nobody mentioned game theory, so I will mention game theory. Having a basic intuition for it helps in understanding the fine points of consensus etc.
12. 8832.▲
    by api 7y ago

    That seems very likely. They probably had anti-aircraft and anti-missile missile systems fully armed and something either automatically mis-categorized the aircraft as a bomber or missile and shot at it or someone got nervous and trigger ha
13. 8833.▲
    by api 7y ago

    A few starter ideas: (1) Repealing prop-13 is probably a non-starter but we could probably get away with repealing it for non-owner-occupied homes. Prop-13 was meant to prevent people from being driven from their homes by property tax inc
14. 8834.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Methane has a much shorter half-life in the atmosphere than CO2. Also unlike CO2 emissions there is an economic incentive to fix methane leaks: you're leaking product!
15. 8835.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I have long suspected that the USA deliberately held back its own oil production to maintain a strategic reserve. This policy seems to be ending though as evidenced by today's high domestic production.
16. 8836.▲
    by api 7y ago

    It's not about physical self-sufficiency but about money. It's about who gets to pump and sell that oil and where the profits go.
17. 8837.▲
    by api 7y ago

    One mid-future prediction I've been making for a while: eventually we will make lying in the public sphere either a crime or a civilly actionable tort. Libel and slander already can be, but I am suggesting something more broad: the cri
18. 8838.▲
    by api 7y ago

    One thing I did not see compared is overhead. I haven't tried Dat yet but IPFS seems somewhat fat from my tests of it. It eats it's fair share of RAM and CPU. I expect a distributed everything store to eat disk but being light on
19. 8839.▲
    by api 7y ago

    For simple cases mutexes and such can be much faster and simpler. Channel based constructs are good when they model the problem well as streaming or queuing.
20. 8840.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I really wonder why he's choosing this hill (err I mean beach!) to die on and how he doesn't see what damage this is doing to his public image. Even if he does have a point this makes him look absolutely horrible and it's not
21. 8841.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Places like Workshop Cafe are designed to cater specifically to this need. Their existence reduces the number of laptop hobos and startup squatters in socially oriented coffee shops.
22. 8842.▲
    by api 7y ago

    In practice I would say Apple =~ Linux < Windows, though the latter can certainly be locked down if you know what you're doing. However I think Linux's security is partly an artifact of a more techie user base. For a non-techni
23. 8843.▲
    by api 7y ago

    ElementaryOS's repos were hacked a while back. The trojaned images didn't stay up long, but it illustrates your point. (Not singling out ElementaryOS... any software with a repo or updater could be trojanized, including software
24. 8844.▲
    by api 7y ago

    If truth means relatively strongly held contrarian opinion I'll give you the science and tech ones. These vary in terms of how contrarian they are. Phones are "done." There will be more innovation around the edges but little
25. 8845.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I wonder how much of that is the legacy of redlining given that home ownership is the major vehicle for long term middle class wealth accumulation. (House as financial instrument is itself a problem, but that's another matter.)
26. 8846.▲
    by api 7y ago

    This headline alone seems like a shark jumping moment.
27. 8847.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I agree with all but 4, 7, and 9. I expect at least another moon landing by someone and I do think Starship will fly, though maybe only to LEO or translunar flyby by 2030. 3nm will be successful but may be the last conventional node. India
28. 8848.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I think your hot war in the ME just came true.
29. 8849.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I don't see maps mentioned. If it lacks that it lacks the largest killer app of smart phones.
30. 8850.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Maybe Oumuamua was a carrier and something got off. It would make sense. It could also have been a spent deceleration stage. All speculation of course, since we just didn't get a good look. Of course if whatever got off wants to ever g