dr__mario

"Violence" does not only include "physical violence". It also includes "structural violence". And precisely, temperature is going up because people is sick of structural violence.

Straight from "A Clockwork Orange".

I'd love to love them but I don't: I can't seem to justify moving away from Python to use this. What advantages does JS offer for this use case? I' ve never felt that I couldn't do any visualization with Python (but I don't do nice newspaper figures).

> I am not taking the risk of getting locked up in ICE jail any time soon, no matter how unlikely it is.

I've turned down a 7-day-all paid-trip my company was offering me to San Francisco for this (and I had in the past a bad experience at Puerto Rico's border).

> When was the last time you felt your smartphone really couldn’t cope?

A couple of weeks ago using Obsidian in an iPhone SE (3rd gen). And I've switched to an iPhone 16 and it's definitely way more fluid (even for browsing).

There is clearly some kind of rat race: more raw power available, less time spent by devs in optimizations (and I guess the PRO to that CON would be less time to market). I'm not sure how to feel about all this, but there are definitely situations of phones that can't keep up.

I didn't have much success with Kagi for Spanish/local searches. Has this improved?

I would love to know what happens with e-ink devices then. I feel this test is doing many things at once and the conclusion may not carry to e-ink (it's easier in the eyes, you can scribble...)

Can you define that "middle-class", please? If you live purely from housing, you are not middle-class.

I agree that it may not be 100% accurate, but probably correlated with the truth and directionally accurate. If you discard it, what do you have? Anecdotes? The media narratives?

BTW, I'd love to recommend a book that explains all this much better than I would do. Unfortunately, I think it's only in Spanish: "La España de las piscinas" (The Spain of Swimming Pools).

Ok, but first: is it financially risky right now to own properties? No, based on the data we have.

Second: can renters be hurt even more? Are landlords the most vulnerable people right now? The situation is pretty awful right now, while at the same time there are people whose sole contribution to society is "owning flats".

And I agree on increasing property taxes (any progressive taxes over capital would do).

But again, you talk about usurpation or trespassing? And even in that case, the data is the data: the rest is speculation.

I'd love to feel excited by all these advancements and somehow I feel numb. I get part of the feeling (worry about inequalities it may generate), but I sense something more. It's like I see it as a toy... I'm unable to dream on how this will impact my life in any meaningful way.