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I'm as keen to wax poetic about the non-economic potential of technology as the next person, but I'm not deluding myself into thinking that was why the technology was developed in the first place.

Also, a military advantage is an economic one, there's no real difference between the concepts.

Fairly well being the key phrase—it's not difficult for a determined individual to bypass.

Art? Yes, of course! I have no clue what you're referring to with tech, though. Throughout history development of tech has almost always driven by seeking economic leverage. I'm sure there are exceptions but I can't think of any.

Not sure what you're referring to with science at all.

Tech for tech's sake helps nobody. Politics is a fact of nearly every facet of life—you can accept this and play the game or accept that you're in the backseat.

The worst people in the world already know this and run our industry. There's no reason we have to accept them.

This also sort of raises a red flag for the author—short term relationships weren't really a thing in the world of Austen, just prospective long-term relationships and essentially affairs.

The most obvious answer is you need the system frameworks to link against.

Is blocking pirate sites even really possible or are they referring to the whack-a-mole game states play?

This all may be true, but he still has a track record as an expansionist, as nationalist, as islamophobic, and as ethno-nationalist. He may not have presented much of a change in Russia's behavior the way the western press has implied he might have.

I think there are perfectly valid reasons to not like cigarette smoke, I just think that constantly harping over the "health" aspect rather than the "resolving the conflict of the smoke itself" aspect is not helpful.

> This is equivalent to actively harming others in my opinion.

We unfortunately live in a society that prioritizes freedom to harm others over freedom from being harmed by others.

Exactly—there's never been a better time to actually make the name look like it sounds.

> you simply don't care for your health at all in the first place.

I don't really see an issue with this personally. Moralizing health is weird.

Can we please god stop using AI like it's a meaningful word? This is really interesting technology; it's hamstrung by association with a predatory marketing term.