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I guess that if shipping cost $200, only very lucrative goods like fentanyl would be shipped. That would reduce that the total shipping volume to something that was possible for the border guards to inspect in order to find drugs.

It's a bit unclear if you are just trying to express the authors views or your own, but if those are your own views I felt that it warranted a reply.

The concept of "dictatorship of small minority" implies that the only governing principle should be the vote of the majority. But that is a deeply flawed system, if there wasn't any other rule than "majority wins" then all oppression of minorities becomes valid and all abuse where the perpetrators outnumber the victims.

For a system to be fair there must exist more rules than that, for example "respect bodily autonomy" and "no oppression of minorities" and so on. Many of those rules are more fundamental than the "majority wins" rule and more important to uphold.

If those are not your own views: Sorry for the rant.

I'm amazed that it has been 15 minutes and noone have said Rust yet ;)

It you want to explore the Rust option, here is an overview of the status of GUI toolkits in Rust: https://areweguiyet.com/

And there was many people putting food on the table by hauling ice, but neither of those things should impair progress.

Where do you get 'massive negative' from? Cycling and walking are much healthier, so it might even be positive for them.

If we start with the assumption that harrasment cause suicides then that argument means that it's ok to harras people as much as others do on average.

Obviously there is other causes also. But the base principel is a very shaky foundation to build a legal framework on.

> prevent people from being prostitutes against their will

The important part here is if you include economic factors into "against their will" or not.

Not in email. End-to-end here means that noone except sender and reciever can read the content. With tls and email you send it to a server which can read it, not to the enduser.

Then you accept that and pay your friend the $5k. No need to loose a friend just because you don't want to write a book.

There is a large amounts of secrets that fall between the two extremes 'not very secret at all' and 'should never be spoken of or touch a digital device'.

Corporate espionage backed by nation state actors is a real thing, and there is nothing wrong with wanting to secure yourself against it while running a normal business.

If 12 years is too short, how long timescale do you need?

Python 2's EOL was first announced in 2008.

It was on HN yesterday: https://brave.com/google-gdpr-workaround/

Unions work well if a large part of the workforce in that sector are members, see the nordic countries for examples.

It's a bit like herd immunity.

I presume that you could pull it of with a SDR.

This can be fixed with some user css.

/* Put the content below into your <firefox profile>/chrome/userChrome.css */ .browserContainer { background-color: #000000 !important; }

I don't see why it's not both these things?

I guess thats a secret.

To use things that you understand? It's perfectly possible to read through the documentation/code for the things that you want to use.

Saying that all programming languages are equally good is about as true as saying that all sorting algorithms are equally fast.

The modern art museum here in stockholm often borrow items for their exhibitions, from other museums, artists or private collectors.

I spend at least 90%. I need to read and understand all the connected code before i make any modifications.

"no particular reason" is quite a misrepresentation. If you mean that you don't agree with their reasons or think they are incorrect it would be more honest to state that.

Sweden have also done this. Sorry for the swedish link but found no better: https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptenavvisningarna

Stating that the push for https is bad for humanity is a preposterous statement. Please back it up with some facts.

Yes, that seems like a very good idea, the market seems to be incapable of regulating itself on security issues.

Yes, browsers have become smarter about that. You can test it by enabling ipv6 and then drop all ipv6 packets with ip6tables, that has the same effect as if some middlebox dropped them.

There is also a herd immunity effect, if it's easy to compile a large database with everyone's personal data and political beliefs, then it's also easy to launch micro-targeting campaigns where you give political ads with messages that are tailored to the narrow segment of the population that the person viewing the ad is in.