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And presumably eventually those exhaust ports would be obfuscated, necessitating the stealing of plans to identify such vulnerabilities.

I can't read this article because it's pay walled

the large majority of people do not keep their property until death.

this seems like an illustrative microcosm of the political stance of Vermont.

This should be called what it is: Brand Fracking

Trust will be arbitraged until there are few information asymmetries to exploit.

Yeah, seems like classic representation vs traversal complexity trade-off a la David Marr.

the previous normal lasted decades, this one will last a year.

it never made sense to have devs all over the world doing the same task with tiny variation. Centralization was inevitable. LLMs might have been a step change but the trajectory was already set.

US has tensions (lack of broad social agreement) in its regard for several subjects, so those areas absorb infinite money as the incoherent regulations and rent seeking around those black holes festers. Housing, Medicine, Education, Justice/Policing/Prison system. Denial of reality is always expensive. If you ask the median voter questions about any of these areas it is certain that there will be many basic misunderstandings about them.

We have eliminated the ability to discriminate against those displaying anti-social behaviors or commons damaging externalities in the name of fairness, leaving monetary discrimination the only remaining legally viable recourse and are destroying every other form of commons.

There is a blame industry and an excuses industry in an arms race with each other.

>our ancestors died extremely early

No they didn't, stop using averages.

If you buy things that are productive you come out ahead on a trade deficit. If you buy things that are consumptive you are pawning future productive capacity of the country. Every country does both, obviously, what matters is the overall balance. The US has notably (as in quantified by economists, civil engineers, people who study urban planning etc.) failed to invest in productive infra for quite a while now.

good designers are obsessed with how things are used. the others are platonically wanking.