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My horizon for civilization collapse is "probably not before 2030".

The most likely scenario I perceive is heavily populated tropical and subtropical areas becoming uninhabitable, initially via failure of subsistence farming, leading to mass migration, and rise of fascistic governments in temperate regions in reaction. Fascistic governments characteristically start wars. Wars in the presence of other fascistic governments spiral out of control, ending meaningful global commerce and triggering global economic collapse. Spiraling war tends toward thermonuclear exchange.

All this happens well before, e.g., significant ice sheet collapse, or climate-caused loss of temperate-zone agriculture.

Given global economic collapse, CO2 production might fall off as extraction and delivery are disrupted, but processes already begun would take long to wind down. Thus, ocean acidification might still collapse fisheries and eliminate major protein input for whole regional populations. Fisheries anyway depend on reliable fuel delivery.

We see hints of all of the above already, with massive migrations to Europe attempted from southerly countries where climate stresses have released forces that tend to civil war; and falling fishery yield. Numerous separate phenomena all produce waves of refugees, whether water stress, declining ag yield, or even migration from immediate neighbors that exceeds already stressed local carrying capacity.

Fascistic governments are gaining in all regions; the US's step back must be counted as a blip, as very nearly half its population voted for continuation, and their elected representatives even tried to force the issue.

My question is not, how can we slow global climate disruption; it is, how can we prevent near-term global civilizational collapse? Collapse does not seem like the best way to reverse climate disruption, presuming it would even work.

If methane clathrates and permafrost carbon are released by (already well begun) local extremes of arctic warming, or loss of sea ice reduces albedo, falling industrial CO2 might not slow temperature rise or ocean acidification. Global nuclear fallout, "nuclear winter", and vaporized industrial base would make any sort of recovery difficult and slow, over decades or even centuries.
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The UX.
They're going to do exactly that and you're not going to like it.
It depends how paranoid you are. If you believe your audio is so valuable that Amazon would create a separate hardware model for you and those like you, and would succeed in keeping that a secret, then yeah you still shouldn't buy an Echo. You will also not want any other always-on devices with microphones and network connections, like a phone or laptop. 99.9% people are not in this category.
Not Lucas Arts, but I'm still adamant that the Gabriel Knight series would be a great trilogy in the screens without changing much! [1]

[1] Other than the infamous puzzle like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_hair_mustache_puzzle
Rounding the other side up and disappearing them to containment/reeducation/concentration camps. Which seems to follow when a democracy is overthrown by a coup.
I would have thought the smaller countries would have an easier time of it - they don't have to build as big. Sorta like how Scandinavia got high speed internet rolled out much faster then more populous countries.
Sorry, I believe you switched the directionality of my analogy because I agree with you.

Corp execs should run like startups. Trusting, fast moving units effective in its execution towards a common goal.

When a corp exec replaces a whole layer or unit with their own guys it's because they need to move like a startup does.

Or it could just be cronyism - that's always possible too, but I think we're trying to find a positive/useful reason in this thread.
Sure, it has about as much relation to the whole issue like randomly replacing subjects in sentences with other organizations has.

I mean if CCP is same as Huawei, Trumps government has to be the same as Facebook and might as well find a way to equate Ghanas government with something if we're being all xenophobic. Maybe something about the government being criminals because it's mostly people of color?
At least a decade ago I remember seeing all sorts of tech employees wearing Pride themed shirts on Caltrain during Pride weekend. That was extremely normal and absolutely no one thought anything different.
I don't realistically see this as being a killer feature for most users, but it's super interesting none the less.

Sony are saying the bitrate will be "Up to 80Mbps", which is around 3x that of most UHD streaming service profiles. However there will be significant diminishing returns on the perceptual quality at this bitrate - 20Mbps to 40Mbps for example will only increase perceptual quality by a couple of percentage points. Much of this "Up to 80Mbps" will be wasted perceptually speaking.

It's also worth keeping in mind that the encoding on BluRays is often lazy because there's lot of space available, where as a huge amount of work goes into encoding content for streaming delivery in the lowest bandwidth possible for a given target quality, using technologies like per-title and per-scene encoding. [1] [2] [3]

[1] https://netflixtechblog.com/per-title-encode-optimization-7e...
[2] https://bitmovin.com/per-scene-adaptation-going-beyond-bitra...
Plus decentralization.
Any decent home router will automatically add the hostname of all DHCP(v6)-configured devices to its DNS service. You shouldn't need raw addresses at all.
I'm sorry but what makes you think that cracking a BTC wallet is as easy as contracting a reputable service? The fact that you think this is the way to go makes me believe that you did not bother to read up on crypto/BTC, even after you got burnt badly by misplacing your password.
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It only makes sense in the broken prisoner's dilemma-esque world of broken corporate culture. Where politics rule, the illusion of radical change is more important than the outcome, etc.
I'm curious as to what the state would be after a firmware upgrade?
> Asset price inflation is not inflation, its ROI

For the millions of young adults trying to afford a home right now, it is not ROI. For those fortunate enough to have a portfolio of real assets (including a home/real estate), sure.
My thoughts are you shouldn't buy stocks if your strategy is asking strangers on the internet for tips.

If you want to gamble, just gamble, you don't need anyone's permission.
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We shouldn’t conflate foreign governments with the US government. Although its form is outside the legality of the Constitution, the core principles of America exceed that of any other nation.

So yes the premier defender of classical liberalism should develop technology for open standards and true individual freedom. Not complex convoluted systems that dole out token privileges to compliant citizens who pay all taxes fees and licensing requirements to be able to communicate with others and learn online.
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Mainly disposophobia.
I have a friend whose NDA forbids him to tell anyone which company he works for. Because he is insured by company, and they don't want to attract kidnappers.

So I'd agree, nothing new from FB here
This makes sense, but how do you assess what WSB is going to do? For every post, there's another calling on the inverse, and a third calling on inversing the second.
If the top chess master is a fraud everyone else who respected him and his expertise is also either a fraud or was deluded by a fraud. If you can’t tell who’s a fraud in your field when they have the kind of scrutiny being no. 1 invites there’s no there there.
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sed -i 's/impossible/inconvenient/g'

The power of convenience is probably also the reason to place a megacorp microphone in your home in the first place.
Most of philosophy is for natural reasons at least partially a response to what previous people have asserted, so if you want a good understanding of the field of western philosophy you need the background.

If your complaint was actually about it just being old greek guys and nobody from other places then I can just agree, it's really just western philosophy that's taught under the name "Philosophy"
This has been exactly my contention since basically this all started. I'm not convinced there was fraud, or fraud sufficient to sway the election. However, the media and the powers that be are doing their best to convince me that there is something to it by censoring all opposing viewpoints.

Like, I didn't vote for Trump, and these voter fraud people seem not very credible, but when you crack down on them with the weight of the entire establishment, I can only conclude that you're afraid of what they have to say.
News sites are notoriously resource-heavy. Small blogs have no issue with embedded <video> tag videos.
>some people here mention a max of 30 years - even rapists and murderers can get less than that

Those people either don't know what they're talking about or are deliberately seeking to mislead.

>According to Swartz’s defense attorneys, prosecutors claimed that they thought the judge might impose a Guidelines sentence as much as 7 years if Swartz went to trial and was convicted. That’s consistent with a loss valuation in the range of millions of dollars. In contrast, Swartz’s lawyers thought that Swartz might get just probation, which is consistent with a loss calculation at or less than $10,000.

http://volokh.com/2013/01/16/the-criminal-charges-against-aa...

>So, realistically, Swartz was facing anything from probation to a few years in jail if he went to trial — depending largely on how you value the loss he caused — and either a 4 months in jail or 0-6 months in jail if he pled guilty.
XMPP never got its story together for mobile clients. Sure there are some configurations of XEPs that will eventually allow you a reasonable configuration that supports multi device, history, media, etc, but for whatever reason, gluing those pieces together into something sane has evaded our community.
>Is this _really_ just due to the Trump scandal?

Which one?

Cambridge Analytica

The strategy meetings

The storming of the Capitol

I'm sure i forgot some.
cpanel may be what you're looking for

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very sad, so much cultural heritage at risk.
> I believe what people are implying when they talk against money supply increase is redistribution of wealth using money supply increase.

How exactly does this work? To whom is money being redistributed? It's punishment for holding dollars instead of investing them.

> It would not be equivalent since with BTC you can't just take away value of your share without making you explicitly pay, it removes invisible tax.

You're not supposed to save currency, you're supposed to use currency to buy assets, even if those assets are magic beans that live in your computer. That's why we have inflation, because money only has value when it moves.
Isn't the firewall config you describe just essentially a software NAT?
It’s poorly explained, but given that TSLA trends downward for the past month on this site while it was in fact trending upwards in USD terms, I’m pretty sure this site isn’t using a fixed conversion.

More precisely, looking at a single point, 12/14/20 (earliest point in the 1m chart):

- Site says TSLA = 0.03324 BTC;

- TSLA in USD, according to Yahoo Finance: opening $619.00, high $642.75, low $610.20, close $639.83;

- BTC in USD, according to Google: $19272.30;

- $19272.30 * 0.3324 = $640.61, so roughly checks out.

Edit: Of course it's way more obvious if you look at other stocks... People would have been jumping off buildings left and right if the big tech stocks were taking plunges like that.
One of these is for the little known Nipah virus. This virus is really scary. Like the Coronavirus, it jumps to humans from bats. Unlike the Coronavirus, it is extremely lethal. In the last outbreak, in 2018 [1], the case fatality rate was 89%. Fortunately, there were only 19 cases (17 died).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Nipah_virus_outbreak_in_K...
The thing is there has been all sorts of "fishy" stuff happening in elections .. to benefit Republicans. They used "ballot security" as cover for voter intimidation, resulting in a consent decree: https://www.npr.org/2018/01/09/576858203/decades-old-consent... (ended in 2018)

The current election cases filed by the Republicans have almost all been abandoned or thrown out.

> Claiming it is because of possible violence

The violence already happened on the 6th. Several people are dead as a result, and the protestors got very close to the elected representatives.
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You're not supposed to hold dollars. Dollars are not an investment, they're a short term, intentionally lossy store of value designed to incentivize their movement within an economy.
And encryption, which is an addon and not the default.

Also, XMPP is a good example of a 'victim' of embrace, extend, extinguish. I remember Facebook messenger, hyves chat, Google talk and briefly even WhatsApp, all in my desktop chat app. They all 'did' XMPP, but then removed federation, features or killed it entirely.
This I can get behind. Thank you!
> Teamspeak never stopped working

Ah, so your circle of friends does not include people with messed up audio. Teamspeak happily passes on whatever it got as input. Discord does quite a bit of filtering, able to salvage legibility of some of my friends.
A sad state of affairs but prudent and thoughtful of FB to advise this.

I wouldn't wear West Ham gear while walking through a Millwall neighbourhood. I probably also wouldn't wear big tech stash at the heat of some super frothy political times layered on top of a pandemic and other unrest.

Maybe there's an argument about behaving indifferently as itself being a political stance but I am happy not inviting trouble to myself.
"Speaking French in the workplace is legally required"
I don't think that's true, this is a big misconception. Unless you're working in a shop or something where you interact with clients directly you don't have to speak French. I work for a multinationale that have over 1000 employees in Montréal and everybody speaks English internally same fory previous job a small company of 40ish people
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imho, this is just bad in JavaScript land projects. its hard to change, hard to build, complex and all. but I have seen a lot of folks trying to push these things and I want to know your opnion (please) thank you!
It's interesting. These leaders certainly are responsible for allowing lies and propaganda to rally and enrage these people, priming them for a civil war, however is it better it happened all at once or if Trump deplatforming sooner giving them more time to better organize on a platform and all necessary layers that they'd control to allow the public inciting of violence? Perhaps if he was deplatformed earlier then more people may have turned out for voting and may have won the election? Who knows. What I do know though is they're still rallying and still being unreasonable and calling for violence, I'm sure they're learning to use private messages instead of posting statements of violence publicly, perhaps the largest platform they have now is thedonald.win - I go there daily to be shocked at the top headlines and comments.
What difference does that make? If the inflation rate is a well controlled 2% that means reducing the supply has not yet become necessary. It's not been necessary, and that's fine, that doesn't mean it won't be necessary in the future, or that the action cannot be taken. I'm explaining the theory.
Yep craft beer scene is fantastic!
I see this here as a 'first step'. The second step either upstream integrating it, or it becoming an own app on the appstores.
That data seems really suspicious as looking at salaries in Italy/Spain I find it hard to believe Germany is so much poorer (even in the mean, let alone the median).

Although I checked the data here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe...
and it agrees more or less with that graph.

That's so weird and totally non-intuitive. I wonder what the cause is?

EDIT: It seems income inequality isn't so bad, but wealth inequality is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...

I guess this is due to low rates of home ownership in Germany causing wealth to be concentrated among relatively few landlords?
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Haha, all these accounts were doing was promote the incumbent, nothing hateful, nothing to incite violence. Looks like a list was submitted by someone or a team from one of the opposition parties, together with an ally or allies that work with these social media companies, that now know what is best for the world.

Today the government retaliated by entirely banning access to these services. I mean you could still access them via home cable internet, not sim-card bundles.

My thoughts.
F*k Facebook and Twitter.
I suspect the logical outcome of this is a Parliamentary system where the President requires the explicit approval of both houses. If the two houses go one way and the presidency the other, the president will be impeached and removed. The Clinton presidency was the dry run for this.
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So they’re saying the response right now looks like the response immediately after 9/11. Ie mobilizing a whole of government effort to stamp out a home grown terrorist threat. (Per cable news this AM.) This news and other social media news reinforce this being a large response.

In that case, I would urge people to remain patient and avoid making conclusions and long term decisions based on this response. It’s likely things ease up once “calm” is restored.
Don't forget about network effects. Assuming we are talking about centralized solutions, value of social networks (and of similar services) rises super-linearly compared to its total number of users. So it's another factor why it's much easier for big countries to build their independent infrastructure compared to a smaller ones.
>If you say "We love you, you're special" to violent insurrectionists

>What I quoted wasn't the prepared statements.

Are you now cherry picking which statements are prepared and which aren't? Amazing. Choose your own meaning to extrapolate _and_ choose which statements are valid.
Previous discussion (2016): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11164330
Might enjoy browsing through A Bestiary of Single-File Implementations of Programming Languages [1].

[1] https://github.com/marcpaq/b1fipl
> you decide that Bob should build new feature X

> Bill hired him

So, who's Bob's direct manager? Usually it's the one who hired and can fire the person.
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OK, I see that it's now at version 5, so I guess another paid upgrade required when I finally move my machine to Big Sur.
Why does all of this not pass the sniff test?

She was on unpaid leave for 10 years straight. They've been granted asylum in France, she got a random call from some man telling her to come back and sign some papers. Her husband convinced her it's perfectly fine and safe to do.

What actual benefit does one get from spending thousands of dollars doing this while knowing full well you've been out protesting with your young daughter waving Uyghur separatist flags around Paris?

What sort of husband lets his wife go back to "sign some documents" to one of the most repressed regions on Earth?

Try doing the mental gymnastics required to make it seem like there's not glaring omissions here.
Doesn't make any money. You can obviously use xmpp instead of joining the next silo.
It was a "Mac Plus" joke.
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That statistic is highly misleading. The median wealth in Germany is low due to a low rate of home ownership. But disposable income (purchasing power adjusted) is the highest in the entire EU (data missing for some countries, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein and Norway may be higher): https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/graph.do?tab=graph&plugin=...
What is the legal basis for blocking a third-party client which doesn't abuse any trademarks?

The Signal source is GPL 3.0, so definitely libre.
what happened to the UI? i think the fonts look just awful.
CGNAT is standard for all smaller ISPs in Denmark. I'm not sure if it's mainly to stay competitive or due to limited supply, but they offer public IPv4 addresses upon request, sometimes for free. It makes sense really; if you default to CGNAT, which is fine for 99% of users, there will be more public addresses for the people who need them which keeps costs down for both segments. It's not the ISP's fault the standard is outdated.
I would love for someone to explain why they are downvoting you. It's a solid comment that is true in many industries.
Another "open source" OS (instead free software) warm from oven ready for steal for "big companies".

When I knew about Redox OS, I thought great but has it MIT license? really? And this new OS is under MIT license too....really?
And it seems many of those students have ended up in the social media departments of those large corporations, because they "understand" social media "better than older people".

Meanwhile some senior managers must be asking themselves whether they'd be better off having no Twitter presence at all.
This feels like a “the only way to stop a bad guy with a censor is a good guy with a censor” style argument, but sure let them if they want to. Social media is correlated with poor mental health so it might be a win for all the wrong reasons.
1. Wages have kept pace with inflation.

2. You're not supposed to save dollars you're supposed to invest dollars. You invest them until you have enough stored value to purchase a house - or at least make the down payment. Once you buy SPY, or bonds, or magic beans that live in your computer, inflation no longer matters.

3. Housing prices are on average the same price now as they have been since the 1970s per square foot across the US (inflation adjusted). New houses are now twice as big. Higher housing prices relative to inflation is largely due to building codes, regulation, and councils restricting development in spite of massive demand. One way to solve this is national zoning ordinances like in Japan where housing can be built in every zone. One way to not solve this at all is Bitcoin, because it doesn't change any of the real issues re: zoning and supply/demand.

None of this is new, this is how it's worked forever.

This has nothing to do with the money supply.

[1] https://fee.org/articles/new-homes-today-have-twice-the-squa...
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