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> I don’t know, do you have a source to answer that or just trying to muddy the waters? Absolutely no one will ever be able to have as much frequent sex as there are sources of increasingly extreme pornography.

I have not done research on it but I recognise the effect in couples, that have even told me their sex life became bland. And that they were looking for more 'extreme' things themselves (involving other people, toys, ropes etc or just having affairs).

You focus very much on a drive to extreme porn but I don't really think this happens for everyone. For me I don't notice this, I don't like the more extreme forms of porn that come over from Japan for example. I don't find that arousing at all. I've come to appreciate the more well-produced camera work. From VHSes with grainy gonzo (that was all that was available back then) to more excellently lighted and seductive camera work. I don't think it's too different from people evolving in their enjoyment of regular movies.

Personally I think that people that gravitate towards ever more extreme things were always inclined to those things but just not engaging with them due to societal pressures. This is usually what I hear from people into bondage and S&M etc. I shared a house with someone really into that who was also pretty 'promiscuous' to put it mildly :) so I've had a lot of chats on the topic. They were always interested in it, but it took time to overcome the shame, and thus it seemed like they were evolving towards it. I'm not into it myself but it was enlightening and cool to talk about. People into these things seem to be very open to discussing it in my experience. I wish more people were like that. Just talking about sex more would make the experience a lot better for everyone.

I find this a very interesting discussion as well, by the way.

> If users become dependent on more extreme porn to get aroused, how long until they need the more extreme porn in existence. How is the presence of that porn, and the victims it requires, not serious enough on a societal level?

They're not victims unless they are doing it against their will. Some people enjoy extreme practices. The ones that are crossing the line are already illegal and don't warrant a ban on pornography as a whole.

But I think you're focusing very much on the extreme which is really a niche in pornography. Only some people gravitate to that and if they do, why is it bad in the first place, as long as they enjoy it?

> If some men report their concentration and well-being are negatively impacted by porn, and about 98% of men view pornography[1]… how can you not see how that will be bad for society?

Personally I think this is none of society's business. Whether it's true for myself I don't even know (I don't think so) but the label 'some' means it's not an effect everyone reports.

But in any case, as long as they can live their lives it is not up to society to interfere, in my book.
Completely off topic, but did anybody spot the actual fed in the comments? Didnt know people just post on random nerd forums trying to sell drugs. That's wild.
Wells Fargo business.
I find Firefox absolutely marvelous in the state it is in now. There certainly is no mystical death.
Generally safer with an exchange I would disagree with, you’re at the whim of whatever is in the TOS for that exchange, it’s not a bank or securities broker. If you’re relatively good with keeping secrets/passwords then setting up your own wallet should be easy.

It seems like exchanges kind of are counterintuitive for a decentralized financial product (for holding your crypto). One could argue that exchanges that fail when people are selling off a lot of volume might not have a good business model. My naive brain thinks an exchange will make money on transactions so it shouldn’t matter if the exchange from crypto_bucks to USD is different. If volume falls drastically then maybe your operating costs are too high?
Ah, nope. Manual config has it. I wonder whether IDLE command is supported, but we'll see.
> Then why isn't BTC and other cryptocurrencies skyrocketing right now and seeing widespread adoption by Russian oligarchs looking to move around their money?

Because people are and have always been foolish and ego/pride driven.

> The United States has a vast array of coercive means (from locking you in prison for forgery to trade weapons that can destroy your economy) to ensure that the USD has value.

Do you view that as a positive? I sure don't. That's a really depressing reality when you have something like Bitcoin which doesn't necessitate any of that.

> We'll increasingly see this in the coming months with crypto as powerful people will get their piece of the pie from the crypto boom, while most average players will be left with nothing.

"Crypto" isn't Bitcoin. The conflation of the two is, in part, why the market fluctuates as violently as it does.
Energy expended to mine BTC in the past is a sunk cost and so is irrelevant to the discussion. In the future, if the price of energy required to mine a BTC is below the value of the BTC there will be an incentive to mine BTC. There is no equivalent incentive in the opposite direction. You can convert energy to BTC, you can't convert BTC to energy.
It depends on your relation's power usage, I'd imagine. I believe the spec is 5.5kW max output, which is probably insufficient if you've got any sort of large load. My well pump is rated for 30A @ 220V, so startup would likely overwhelm a single powerwall, and I think my air conditioners have similar startup needs (and I've got multiple units); we managed to trip the overcurrent protection on our 35 kW whole house generator during one of our early outages (it's unfortunately not connected to the well pump, overcurrent was just from using multiple heat pumps and washing/drying clothes; dryer heat is from propane. We had a nearly 3 day outage our first winter.

However, at my previous house, I didn't have any substantial electric loads, other than an electric water heater in an underused ADU, so 5.5kW would have been likely been fine, and our typical energy use was around 1kW, so we would have had several hours for service to be restored, which fit within the experienced outages.
You know Ukraine recently fired Lyudmila Denisova, their commissioner for human rights, for pushing fake rape stories, right? She admitted that she thought they would garner more western support for sending weapons.
> see a stabilized crypto that could act as an amazing tool for people in poor countries to lift themselves out of poverty

Would you mind explaining to me, or linking to some resource you find convincing, how crypto would succeed in this goal? (or even which organisation or coin has this as a goal)
That’s why ultra light clients are important. See Plumo and Mina where you don’t need to run a node to interact with the blockchain in a secure way (you get cryptographic proofs of the latest state)
The USD isn’t pegged to oil.
You're deflecting. And making excuses for actual Nazis.
> I'm not sure it is "well-intended, poorly-executed"

This is a clear unambiguous example of "well-intended, poorly-executed, then fixed"
I believe OC addressed this under “scammers gonna scam” section.
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The backend stuff is being (slowly) ported to JS from C++. SMTP should be implemented in JS now, I don't know about the other parts.
I forgot about Google Inbox, I loved that.
Google Reader RIP.
Google Desktop Search was great, especially how you could extend it.
Google Answers (that's how my Google Account was verified)
At the first electrical panel in many cases the grid's neutral is connected to the house grounding, this is done in new houses in my country as standard.
I suppose its hard to tell if any Prius fire is due to electrical or ICE; kinda the worst of both worlds (and I note that as a happy Prius owner).
Because that relies on other parents doing their job. These programs aren't for your children or mine, but for their peers.
Indeed, fully agree with you, there are collaboration tools that are and will likely remain untrustworthy under particular settings.

I like to think that some "collective intelligence" emerges in all organizations where users progressively become aware that some tools do not cope well with others. I have heard about these screen sharing issues with Chrome on Mac, but I expect from my managers that they switch to more stable "combinations" after a few weeks max, and stop complaining after two years.
A bunch of people who encourage debauchery and insist that exposing children to it is good.

> When our children grew tired of marching, we plopped onto a nearby curb. Just as we got settled, our elementary-schooler pointed in the direction of oncoming floats, raising an eyebrow at a bare-chested man in dark sunglasses whose black suspenders clipped into a leather thong. The man paused to be spanked playfully by a partner with a flog. “What are they doing?” my curious kid asked as our toddler cheered them on. The pair was the first of a few dozen kinksters who danced down the street, laughing together as they twirled their whips and batons, some leading companions by leashes. At the time, my children were too young to understand the nuance of the situation, but I told them the truth: That these folks were members of our community celebrating who they are and what they like to do.

> […]

> We don’t talk to our children enough about pursuing sex to fulfill carnal needs that delight and captivate us in the moment.
It is GCP and AWS at this point but could be extended.

I am not a fan of multi-cloud as a default despite it being a bit of a hype at the moment. That said, my specific requirements were to be globally present and independent from a single cloud for SLAs. Plus making my platform more portable was more beneficial to me than adopting a public cloud's specific features. Note, your milage may likely vary here.
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This "short them" argument is so terrible.

Instead of spending my dollars on a speculating on shitcoins, I buy up high-quality instruments. Ex: I-Bonds are yielding 9% right now due to inflation.

If you want inflation protection, there are inflation-protected securities to buy. And they're doing really well right now.
From Mozilla's previous attempts to jettison Thunderbird, and the period where the community kept it maintained while Mozilla allocated no resources, the relationship between Thunderbird and Mozilla these days is more akin to that between something like GNU or ASF and their projects than a company and its direct project.

While yes Mozilla could theoretically enforce its trademarks and appoint its own team to start making more direct decisions, we've seen how that goes with various ex-GNU projects like libreboot or ASF projects where they don't have the community like OpenOffice

> If you install Android app X and, due to an acquisition, the app suddenly morphs into app Y which has a different branding, different UI, different features, a different backend and a different development team (but still has your data), isn't this exactly one of the things that the app store rules are supposed to protect against?

On my phone currently, this applies to the following apps:

* Element

* Free Now (European taxi app bought out by BMW/Daimler, formerly mytaxi, formerly hailo)

* Google Hangouts (Was installed as Talk)

* WhatsApp (now Facebook owned)

* A local cinema chain bought out by a UK + Ireland chain

* Pocket Casts (independent -> NPR -> Automattic)
Research has found that teens need more sleep than adults.

Just some quick results from a google search:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2528821/

https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/tee...

https://www.cdc.gov/healthyschools/features/students-sleep.h...
I personally have a lot more trust in the competency of a central bank than some random, unchangeable numbers an anonymous person pulled out of their hat in 2008. Or the gold mining cartels, for that matter. At least the central banks have some vague semblance of democratic control.
Let's go back to the three basic roles of currency. A currency is a medium of exchange, a medium of account, and a store of value.

Bitcoin certainly has value as a medium of exchange because it can be (and is) exchanged between people. A government that accepts bitcoin for payment of taxes adds to the exchange-value of the currency, certainly.

Bitcoin also has some merit as a store of value, in that people observably hold bitcoin with the expectation that it will remain valuable. Ultimately, however, this role of currency is speculative: it requires belief that people will want the currency in the future at a reasonable price. This is also where crypto bulls and bears most disagree.

Bitcoin has a much more ephemeral status as a medium of account, however. Stores aren't pricing their wares primarily in bitcoin; when they accept the currency they price primarily in local currency and perform a spot conversion. This is also what I was referring to above with jurisdictions not assessing taxes in bitcoin even if they accept it.

The medium of account is the least flashy but perhaps most fundamental role of a currency; it provides a backstop of price stability. Repricing goods and services is hard. It obsoletes marketing campaigns, it confuses contractual expectations, and it can require literal printing costs re: price tags and the like. That stability, however, lets people think of one currency-unit as worth something real, not just some amount of another, more important currency.

Bitcoin does not yet have this status, and this is where lack of tax assessment in bitcoin matters. I can't say that (e.g.) 0.1BTC will definitely pay my property taxes for a year, no matter what else happens to the currency in the meantime.
You can eat an apple. And plant its seeds. It is spent energy, but it has intrinsic value.

Crypto is only valuable if you can find a bigger fool, and you are not the one holding the proverbial hot potato.
I am somewhat curious what studies have been done to see if the electric grid in each region can handle what percentage of drivers using fast chargers and how many drivers will be able to charge at home and how many of them are charging off a large solar array whether it be their own or a farm connected to a local substation.

I do not know much about the grid capacity in the various regions of the EU. Here in the US our grid is often pushed to the brink causing mandatory shut-offs in some areas.
banking is for fiat currencies whose value halves ever dozens of years. you dont have to worry about bank robbers. inflation does the same thing.
I live about an hour from San Francisco and my power goes out about once a quarter for several hours. It's not the end of the world, but twice in the last year it happened while I was making dinner. A weird feeling to realize I can't even make food without the governments help.
The Dark Side of Electric Cars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_T5DgsO0jc
Not beyond reproach but it is a fair argument to make that people's choices can be considered unforced from a moral perspective even in the presence of reasonable external pressures. If someone has decided that sex work is acceptable to them then I'm willing to take that at face value unless genuine exploitative behavior is found.

If you aren't willing to allow any sort of pressures on people to perform what they consider their livelihood, then employing anyone such that they only make enough to live paycheck to paycheck is immoral as well.
I hope that someday I will understand why people like Thunderbird. It is unequivocally the worst e-mail client I have ever used, excepting some early, extremely buggy versions of alpine. I tried it again recently as it is only one of only 3 e-mail clients I found that could do exchange oauth2[1].

It's possible that its interface isn't as objectively terrible as it seems, but it is gratuitously different; if you are going to be different, it should be to some purpose, but after 6 months of using it I still don't see any purpose. There are still some vestiges of its previous Eudora-like interface, but everywhere it is different from Eudora, it is to no purpose I can fathom.

1: The other two I could find are Evolution and davmail (which bridges EWS to imap). There may be more now; I last looked about a year ago. I can unreservedly say that using Evolution is better experience than Thunderbird, though its underlying architecture is a bit bizarre.
It's the usability of gpg, but with a cost of losing all your money if you make a mistake with the user interface.
Its going to be 39C at about 60% humidity today here with a bright sun beating down. My home has some decent insulation, double paned low-E windows without metal framing, thick attic blown insulation, etc. AC is set for about 26C. I'll probably still use about 70kWh of power today with the majority of that being the AC. A pool pump uses a good bit of power too though, pumping about 60,000 gallons of water through the filters uses a good bit of power.
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> And if just a few people did that, you'd expect the peg to hit some threshold point and then slip almost instantly to near zero...
Which isn't what has happened here.

I imagine offering 30% interest on deposits[0] helped?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31384581
We had two Teslas for a year in an apartment with no charging on site. It worked just fine. Your assumption that it won’t work is mistaken.

On the other hand, I would agree it would be better and easier with on-site charging. But it wasn’t bad at all.
Personally, there are only two things they would have to add to convince me that the model might be conscious:

1. Tick the model regularly (eg 30fps) with inputs that represent itself and the environment.

2. The output of this ticking should result in mutation of the model, or at least should be maintained as a summarized history in each subsequent input

I think this is enough to transform it from a static model to a live entity.
I had an office right around the corner from her two offices (one for her assistant) in GWC-1.

She had a pretty short tenure, and was mainly focused on "Google Local" (remember that? didn't think so) and not Maps. Giving her serious credit for the Maps UX is seriously wrong.

She also acquired Zagat, and in fact that was the only time I actually spoke to her.
They're not running it non-stop though. They run it about 4 times a day for an hour each time, and ONLY for those appliances.
They have a use case: roll backs when something goes """"wrong"""" ;)
> which will necessitate $BTC being "worth" hundreds of thousands of dollars

You'd need a two trillion dollar market cap in bitcoin to make each unit worth more than 100k USD.

(Currently there are 19m out of 21m coins minted; two trillion / 19million = ~105k)
The article says they are more like daily quests :P
You seem to have missed the "start with".

The problem here, as with many things is the privitization of profits while externalizing the harms onto someone else.

Modern technology now allows this at ruinous scale, and that needs to be prohibited or seriously controlled if we want to continue as a society.

It's often said that my ability to swing my fists in the air ends at the tip of your nose. Similarly, my ability to make profits should end at the point of causing massive harm to others.

Whether it is fossil fuel industry scaling up ecosystem-destroying tech, or tech hubs scaling up ability for any sick rando to ruin lives, it needs to be well controlled.

If you cannot solve the problem of your tech being used for life-ruining purposes, shut down.

One actual solution is to provide easily accessible routes for people whose lives are ruined by the tech platforms to claim recovery. You share all your profits with those whose lives are ruined, in sufficient measure to properly compensate them, and it's still profitable, maybe ok, if the harm is actually compensated.

And no, allowing liability only after massively costly lawsuits with no ability to collect because profits have been offshored is not a solution - it's more like put up a sufficient bond in every jurisdiction. Funny how that is likely to kill the business.

IOW, if we want a civilized society, allowing private profits on the backs of externalizing harm must be well controlled. Otherwise only psychopaths run the place.
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Even Consumer Reports has the problem of not necessarily checking/testing for the right things - and very rarely have the ability or time to test over long periods of time. They do some with the cars, but most things you'd buy will last ten+ years, and may exhibit faults later in their lifecyle.

An example: https://terrylove.com/forums/index.php?threads/can-we-believ...
For smaller operations that don't have "cattle" VMs, hosted Redis gives you the same upside as every other hosted service, which is that you're not adding additional VMs to maintain.
Most of the time I've read about DIY systems, deep cycle marine batteries are preferred for this reason.
I probably know less than you, but at least the linked donations page https://give.thunderbird.net/en-US/k9mail/ has heavy mozilla branding and also talks about "Mozilla Thunderbird"...

thunderbird.net states at the bottom: Thunderbird is now part of MZLA Technologies Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation.
I'm just happy to see more competition in this space. More competition will drive down costs and increase innovation. Give me 20 companies all trying to sell me the perfect solution for my home, please!

When we reach a day that most homes have a basic battery like this in them to balance their power draw, power sources like wind and solar- which have variable output- become increasingly more economically viable. Oh, you can only produce when it's sunny/windy? That's fine, half the homes in the country are willing to pay you for energy right now and then use it later when it's not.

What I'd love to see next: larger units for condo/apartment buildings. Put a massive battery pack on the roof, or next to the parking garage. Because of the shared draw, there would be a very consistent daily pattern of use, and you could right-size the battery to ensure maximum utility of it.
No, this is being worked in. The goal should be a -Oboring optimizer without any broken optimizations and aggressive UB assumptions. Something neither gcc nor clang can provide.
I've a C# background and was pretty surprised about that. C# throws an exception in that case.
Right but just like every square by definition is a rectangle, that does not also imply that every rectangle is also a square.

How would thousands of computers spinning in circles computing useless sha hashes protect your national borders, coasts, and other physical assets, resources and people?
You need to put as much as needed to achieve 4 Ohm to ground or less. This can be up to ~ 10 stakes at a couple of meter interval, it depends a lot on the soil type.
I meant the state for the framework, as I understood it the same framework was used on the serverside.
So what? The value of making a transaction just needs to be high enough.
Lost private keys I get (but we don't know for sure how much are lost, we can only take a guess based on wallets that haven't had activity in a decade, I'm sure it's a decent percent of those but not all of them), but I'm not following on the other examples. Why would those others make a difference?
> And you think that having the same amount of air taxies in the air that. SUVs on the street would still make the SUVs look bad?

Yes of course, per passenger mile SUVs are far more likely to drive into a building than an air taxi is to fall out of the sky.

> Can we protect a kindergarden from an accidental SUV acceleration? Of course we can. Easy.

But we don’t.