moneytalks

Some would call political activism on your employer's dime theft.

Unless it's part of your job description.

But no one likes to face what it means to sell their time to another person.

As a US person myself, I don't really take issue with stopping extraditions because it would probably be a lot cheaper just to execute enemies abroad. Think how much money Putin has saved over the years. Now the whole Kashoggi mess shows how easy it is for this approach to backfire, so you certainly have to be careful.

If it really was a totally foreign concept to native Americans, who did the European invaders steal the land from?

The bans will expand to the rest of the world soon enough. There is no way to satisfy this beast and no border that will contain it.

After Biden wins, I'd guess we'll have a couple years of laxer enforcement and that will doom the alternatives.

I think you're right and we should just use a different word instead of fighting against the plain meaning. It shouldn't come as a surprise that when it takes 4 paragraphs to explain why the plain meaning of a word isn't how the word's allowed to be used, there will be a lot of people who don't get it.

It's just panhandling if you ask for a tip before you've done any service. And it's offensive to get panhandled by a commercial enterprise.

I don't think anyone would argue with the value side of the question. The tricky part is calculating the cost side. (The cost of not deleting old messages.)

Surely we can agree that the cost side is > 0.

I'd argue that the benefit side is generally at least a little lower than what we think it's going to be. And if the expiration limit is set to say, 1 year, the cost of deleting old messages goes down considerably.

And loading apps outside the Play store on Android.

Lighting a fire is a crime. (When it's arson.)

Painting a wall is a crime. (When it's vandalism.)

Jumping a fence is a crime. (When it's trespassing.)

Not going to be much left to watch if every act that could be a crime is banned.

I was 100% with you until

> Please stop buying these raspberry pi kit things unless you have one of the specific use cases (a small desktop computer) in mind. They seem like so much marketing, and in my opinion, they are actually hurting the movement of people learning to program and build hardware devices.

How does buying one with good intentions that goes unused hurt any other effort? I don't think I'd have even heard of any other devices if it weren't for the attention that the Pi gets.

Maybe that's how life on earth began and we would just be continuing the process.

Could fungi be used as shielding?

The real problem with talking about slippery slopes in tech is that we're already on an unrecoverable slide into the unknown. So the question is just "does this new thing make the slide even faster?" Not, "we're on stable ground and we need to be careful about beginning a slide."

There's no going back and we have no idea where we're headed.

Fuel in the US is subsidized? I thought it was heavily taxed (not compared to European countries but compared to other consumer goods).