Now when I'm lazy and don't support some standards in my open source projects, I'm just going to say its for security.
The problem with this assessment is that inaction also qualifies as an action and does not somehow exempt the bystander from the moral calculus. If you disagree you'd also have a difficult time arguing that people who don't participate in forms of other activism should as the retort could simply be they're just a bystander and that there's vanishingly little untouched by the Capitalist system so they just won't do anything proactive.
Unless you literally live in the woods and grow your own food, you're likely interacting with a mini Capitalist trolley problem every time you buy food or turn on a light switch. Being asked to stop another few genocides and not make the current one worse is just one more.
So we're using Bush era torture to justify inaction against fascism? Idk man seems a little weird.
I get voting isn't enough and half the problem is people often limiting their involvement in society to a ballot once every four years, but I'd really like to prevent The Palestinian Chair from being used on anyone deemed an enemy of the state by a man who is talking about deporting 11 million people.
Vertical integation and scale are not inherently monopolistic. Some monopolies formed because they exploited these advantages, but there are competative industries today where several vertically integrated companies compete.
Monopolies in econ 101 are not called inefficient because they extract profit. They're inefficient because they don't respond to market forces. Since they control all supply, they can disregard demand.
I mean if central planning can be redefined to mean decentralized capitalist markets, I've got a book gor you to read too.
My dude, did you even read the Peter Theil article you linked? His entire speil is in no way congruent with your point. He's basically just saying the rent seeking from a gaining a monopoly can make high risk investments worth it. His argument is still grounded in market logic. He leaves out the people who started high risk companies they thought would be monopolies but turned out to be undesireable.
And I don't even agree with his point, neither Google nor Amazon needed massive capital to hit the market, they needed massive amounts of capital to operate at a loss to squash their early competition to create a monopoly; something that can only be done by the horrible market distortions of a governmnet or rampant late-stage capitalist billionaires with equivalent piles of money.
Edit: I would also point out Theil is a believer in autocracy, known widely for literally owning a company whose product is disinformation, and is shilling to prevent the breakup of his monopolies. I wouldn't trust him under any circumstances.
China has some more central planning than the US, but they lean on the same market mechanisms that the US does when it comes to most solutions, ie tax penalties/incentives and subsidies. An excellent example is their smog reduction plans.
Its also great you linked an article about Chinese steel because they do the same stuff there
There isn't a party planner in every steel mill determining output, they let individual companies react to market forces they shape with tax structures and subsidy.
People's republic of Walmart
Good thing Walmart wasn't supplanted by Amazon who delegates most of whats sold to 3rd party sellers. They certainly havn't copied that for their online sales, right?
Out of curiosity, do you think the USSR collapsed because all its own citizens thought the government was doing too good a job?
China introduced private corperations and capital because they increased efficiency and production.
Are you saying every government whose ever tried tons of central planning just messed up or randomly decided to scale it back just for funsies?
Are we just gonna ignore the fact that the whole critique of centralization is that its inefficient, ineffective, and unresponsive to peoples needs?
Like as capitalism is becoming more monopolistic, its becoming increasingly bad at delivering goods that people actually want and just becomes better at supressing and controling them. You know the same critisism thats pointed at autoritarian communism.
I don't think this is the W you think it is.
The experimental effort, which has not been disclosed, is being used to conduct mass surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza, according to military officials and others.
> Within minutes of walking through an Israeli military checkpoint along Gaza’s central highway on Nov. 19, the Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha was asked to step out of the crowd. He put down his 3-year-old son, whom he was carrying, and sat in front of a military jeep.
> Half an hour later, Mr. Abu Toha heard his name called. Then he was blindfolded and led away for interrogation.
Atmospheric conditions affect the release of anemophilous pollen. Zhang et al. use a pollen emission model together with future climate data to simulate changes in pollen emission. The study shows that climate change driven pollen increase and seasonal changes may increase seasonal allergies
> These simulations indicate that increasing pollen and longer seasons will increase the likelihood of seasonal allergies.
Remember to get screened next time you're at the doctor 🙃
Plenty of people rooted for the Lions and they wore brown bags over their heads.
Trump lost and people are still buying flags and hats.
I think we'll be stuck with this cult for awhile.
I wouldn't be so confident that his support will wane. People love a martyr and thats what hes protraying himself as.
All that isnt to say he shouldn't be prosecuted, but I'd expect his support to jump in the short term.
"Close your eyes and think about something that makes you happy," the screen, titled "Savoring," instructs Amazon fulfillment center workers.
> "Savoring,” the screen says, in a black font over a green block of color. “Close your eyes and think about something that makes you happy.”
They're part of multiple mutual defense treaties, including just being part of the EU. If Russia continues to be agressive, this could well be required.
The worst wildfires in Texas' history are leaving wide scars on the landscape. Why is the blaze so extreme?
Interesting relationship being documented between wet winters and wild fires.
The rise in global temperatures that are causing Arctic ice to melt and sea levels to rise could disturb Cold War-era nuclear waste buried by the U.S. decades ago.
> Climate change presents problems much more immediate and threatening than Cold War-era nuclear waste, Roy said.
> "Probably going to have greater issues from climate change than the mobilization of radionuclides from the Cold War," he said.
Its probably not disasterous, but I thought it was interesting as it raises the spectre of threats that are now appearing because we assumed we'd have a stable climate.
Off the charts “crazy” heat in the North Atlantic ocean and record-smashing Antarctic sea ice lows last year are far more severe than what Earth’s supposed to get with current warming levels.
Multiple wildfires scorching the Texas Panhandle had merged as of Thursday morning, creating the largest wildfire in state history at more than one million...
Decision by premier Danielle Smith further pits Canadian province against environmental groups pushing green energy
Body camera footage from Idaho reveals a sheriff hunting for a YA book he could use for a political stunt.
> Cochran tells him about another library, where there is a "big glass room to put all those noisy teenagers in" that has a bookshelf in front of it with books she doesn't like: "So what do you call that, sheriff? Enticing?" "Promoting," he responds. "It's like the old fashioned guy in the van with a bowl of candy trying to entice. I have goosebumps even saying it, it's so disgusting."
Recycled plastics are not safe if the chemicals used in creating them in the first place are harmful.
Given that this is what their lawyers have agreed to, it would be weird for an appeal.
If everyone you know uses secure messaging apps, youre in a bubble; their adoption rate is very small.
Of the people I know, even those who use Signal/Matrix still use Chrome and GMail/Docs/Drive. They have a long way to go before they don prosthetic noses.
What's far more likely than 3d printed prosthetics becoming fashonable is people just rolling over and accepting the distopian surveilance state.
I can't even get most of my family to use Signal to prevent Facebook from reading their private messages, what could happen to convince them to go full cyberpunk?
Federal and California officials say the company illegally installed devices on about one million pickup trucks.
Where are you getting free VM hosting?
The comment was in reference to VPN services. Sadly, given theres no right to privacy, you must pay to not be tracked.
i feel like most of your argument is rendered moot with encrypted dns solutions like DoH.
You misunderstand. Large ISPs run their own DNS servers which are preconfigured into the devices they sell. They are the intended recipient and you'd just be encrypting it in transit to their servers.
Another reason to use a VPN is that ISPs have every motive to sell your browsing data and they do. Unlike many other groups tracking you, your ISP inherently has your meatspace name, address, and payment information making their data easily collatable and very valuable.
If you use the default DNS on their provided router they can even tell if someone purchased an XBox, Playstation, or any other smart device just from update and telemetry lookups.
As the article says, by using a VPN youre using someone else's ISP making that info worthless.
If your threat model includes preventing ad networks from gathering data, a VPN absolutely is a tool to prevent that. Do you have to pay for a service? Probably not if you're technical enough; a VM in a data center is probably sufficient.
Snyder needs someone to tell him a movie should have both character development and a cohesive plot in at most 2 hrs.
I'm done with him deferring blame for not being able to put together a clean narrative.
The owners of a gay bar in St. Louis were getting ready to relax Sunday night when a police vehicle crashed through the front of their business, Bar:PM.
While extreme weather conditions in Europe have led to soaring prices of olive oil, producers and chefs are showing their resilience, as well as tips and tricks for coping.
How climate change impacts on Black Americans and economic mobility outcomes. How can organizations mitigate climate change impacts on vulnerable communities.
No. This is basically why you use native apps. What you could do is set up another profile on Android and you should be able to sign in on a different account for that profile and get notifications.