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> One day I just did it and the change wasn't as big a deal as I thought it to be.

This is so true, if everybody here thinks that should change but worried about this. It takes just a few hours, almos all features have an equivalent if not exactly the same and in the same place.

What about overpopulation as a factor? The elephant in the room. Every time someone suggest that we are too many, people tend to agree, but when what is suggested is that we should think about how to be less people, everybody halts in horror

Living in UK I can tell this situation is even more extreme. I always wondered why decentralised payments apps in crypto aren’t a bigger thing. This would: workaround big player’s commissions for small payments and stop the tracking of the transactions. An example is status.im

I think this is a step in the good direction, but I think getting rid of the time zones altogether is the right thing to do[0].

[0] https://nationalpost.com/opinion/andrew-coyne-forget-the-day...

No offence taken.

> But there is simply no simple solution that anyone has for how to solve it.

I think the problem can be less complicated if there is a sincere open conversation around it.

Let's put some context. In 1948 lots of people were dispossessed of their land and properties, this is still a very controversial thing that is very difficult to talk about. Just go to Jaffa in Israel and ask any Israeli person living in an Arab looking house how their family got to own it and you will realise how of a taboo subject this is. Of course there is no reparations or right of return in the pipeline of the talks.

So the first step to solve a problem is realising of it's existence. Instead, Israel seems to continue putting pressure onto the Palestinians with the appropriation of more land and the creation of more settlements [0].

[0] - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-45276555

EDIT

Seen the backlash I’m getting with the comment, would like to clarify that what sparked it was this sentence:

> "No nation has a monopoly on virtue – something that many people, including many of my fellow Israeli citizens, still struggle to understand."

Where the author seems to hint to consider all that follows himself.

TIDE

Very powerful message. I would really want to know what Aronson thinks about the situation in Israel with the Palestinians. Of course not to compare the fate of the Jewish people during the savage years of the Holocaust with this of the Palestinians. But Israel seems to have forgotten the humanity of the Palestinians, striping them from their human rights, or passing laws that could affect the rights of Israeli minorities [0].

Obviously condemning the actions of terrorists, atrocities committed against the people of Israel by Palestinians, and that deserving it’s own discussion, just pointing out that because the number of dead Palestinian people is relevant enough and the author who fought for and lives in Israel, was speaking of when countries do dehumanize people and was hoping that in this case there would be voices in Israel that could disagree with the current situation.

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Law:_Israel_as_the_Nat...

I would recommend to double check those links to the github orgs, I’m sorry to say they are small projects. Can’t compare with publishing the whole frontend, their image managing library and their text editor.

Not mentioned in the article. Will be orbiting at 320 km from the surface of the earth, for comparison ISS is between 403 and 406 km.

Edit, Orbital times:

Aeolus 60 minutes

ISS 92.49 minutes

Also it’s very dangerous to stand in front of them, as they have people spending more tax payer money guarding their interests. Like it happened to Aaron Swartz

We will do it “when we can because we can” is the conclusion I give to so many conversations about the future of the species where morality should be a deterrent:

- modifying the genome of the species until unrecognisable

- transfer people to machines

- cyborg’ing and body mods

- creating weapons that could destroy all of humanity

This works in the past and present too, otherwise how would you explain Love Island?

I think it’s very idealistic to think that the war was for helping the oppressed people of Iraq. Iraq War costed $2.4 trillion[1], figure out who pocketed it and then you will have a picture closer to reality. That picture tells me that the intentions were more corrupt than pure.

[1] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War

It says that the tech savvy bad actors may already have it

Nice write up

The 83A of the Extradition Act 20013. It allows judges to block extradition to the US and other countries if a crime was committed in the UK and if it is in the accused's interests to stand trial in the UK. Src: wired [0]

[0] - http://www.wired.co.uk/article/lauri-love-appeal-decision-ex...

May be the word I’d “hoisting”

He happened to be the fraud himself

I think is because of the culture of the company itself, it’s all about creating worlds and leaping towards the next big contract with the user. Those things won’t happen for an Excel user that just want Excel in 3D. Haptic feedback, virtual characters etc. are more gamer friendly

Excel have been dethroned in every bank by bespoke software, unless you are talking about a tiny scale.

The article from a point of view where the move of the US embassy to Jerusalem and the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel could create more problems to US and Israel than fixing any.

I did play some RPG when I was a kid (born 1981) and I’ve been thinking about how to get back to it for the las 5 years. I was probably difficult not so long ago, but my friends are starting to freeze their fb accounts and restrict mobile use, might give a try!

> “These electronic media searches have produced information used to combat terrorism, violations of export controls, and convictions for child pornography, intellectual property rights violations and visa fraud,”

One thing people don't realise is that it's very difficult to be completely sure that all the data cached in your device is completely legal in every country. The best is to travel with wiped out devices and load them on the other side.

Thanks for the down-vote.

More on this, computer were expensive toys, and traditionally boys get more expensive toys than girls. It's quite understandable the marketing decision there.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/dec/06/gender.christm...

> Computers were new and complicated, a unsafe bet for people who were so good included into society.

That's precisely the main point of the article. The reason why programming was left to women. Then men just took over when it was field tested and proven to be a profitable business. Doesn't matter how awkward those men were, they were still men.

How advertising of computers was made had an important accelerating effect towards the exclusion of women from the industry.

https://qz.com/911737/silicon-valleys-gender-gap-is-the-resu...

Been working for 3 years in the past in an email isp I had different information, gmail did cache the images and did it "forever". May be this changed recently?

More info: https://litmus.com/blog/gmail-adds-image-caching-what-you-ne...

This won't work with gmail, the images are precached.

Don't give them ideas

The article says that the stilt raised as they found each other abruptly, losing the guide as well.

Can't wait for the Knight Rider one

This a delight. I've been stumbling upon them since 2014, more examples here:

https://moviecode.tumblr.com