jkepler

Supporting your point, in many hotels the bar/restaurant area is visible from the lobby, which naturally invites people it to have a drink or a bite to eat. But its rare to find this architecture in apartment buildings.

This is why I loved an old Victorian-era house I once lived in, which had been converted into four apartment units. We all shared the large, deep wraparound front porch, and thus we'd occasionally gather for drinks. And neighbors would drop by, too. I miss that place.

It was hardly "hard money" in 1922, as the Fed was created in 1913, and the dollar started plummeting. If you want to see what a hard money world looks like, look at the 40 years or so prior to 1913, when most civilized nations were on a gold standard.

Growing up, my dad often said that raw carrots are "nature's toothbrush" and he would encourage us to end any picnic lunch with carrot sticks, not with a sugary dessert. Can carrot sticks function like a little twig in terms of knocking undesirable food gunk off teeth?

Florida also has pythons, moving north from the Everglades.

5 floors was pretty standard across Europe, from Paris to Kyiv, in the age before elevators, as it was about the maximum height most folks were willing to walk up the stairs. Though, in Paris a lot of the 6th floors (where lots of the typically small studio apartments are found) were originally constructed as the maids' quarters.

Bridges are usually massively over-engineered for safety.

Neither his tweet thread nor the primary level comments mentioned the real reason for collapsing in higher education: broadly speaking, as a culture, we've lost any confidence that truth exists and should form us as persons, that knowledge is fundamentally unified across academic disciplines, and that the purpose of university is to educate people in true knowledge.

Universities were largely started by people with convictions that there is universal knowledge or truth, and that the pursuit of that truth shapes people in ways that are highly beneficial to society. This is where the idea or peer review originated---no person can grasp the truth fully or comprehensively, thus to advance human knowledge peer review was necessary (Peer review, like higher education, is deeply broken). Today western culture has lost confidence that truth exists or can be found. One can see this by looking at some of the oldest universities' mottos, particularly by paying attention to how the mottos have changed and/or the informal mottos in use.

Harvard Motto [1636]: Veritas ("Truth"), but historically it was Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae ("Truth for Christ and Church").[1]

William & Mary [1693] (Who knows the original and current mottos - I didn't find them with a quick search), but the charter calls for founding "a certain place of universal study" for training Christian pastors and to educate youth.[2]

Yale University motto [1701]: Lux et veritas (Latin) אורים ותומים (Hebrew) Motto in English: Light and truth[3]

Princeton Motto [1746]: Dei Sub Numine Viget On seal: Vet[us] Nov[um] Testamentum Motto in English: Under God's Power She Flourishes On seal: Old Testament and New Testament Informal motto. In the Nation’s Service and the Service of Humanity[4]

So, I would say that university education has already collapsed, in the sense that its devolved from a mission of education in formative truth for life to its current amalgamation of gaining job/career skills, academic research, sports, elite networking, or party-years paid for by debt or parents.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Harvard_Universit...

[2] William & Mary's charter begins,

"Forasmuch as our well-beloved and faithful subjects, constituting the General Assembly of our Colony of Virginia, have had it in their minds, and have proposed to themselves, to the end that the Church of Virginia may be furnished with a seminary of ministers of the gospel, and that the youth may be piously educated in good letters and manners, and that the Christian faith may be propagated amongst the Western Indians, to the glory of Almighty God; to make, found and establish a certain place of universal study, or perpetual College of Divinity, Philosophy, Languages, and other good Arts and Sciences..."

https://web.archive.org/web/20080919125611/http://www.swem.w...

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University

[4] https://profile.princeton.edu/princeton-milestones

Civil asset forfeiture. Reason.com (a libertarian magazine in the USA) has been reporting on this massive challenge to private property rights in the US for over 40 years: https://reason.com/tag/civil-asset-forfeiture/

Teach them to read real books, on paper, by real authors. Given them lots of unstructured time in nature with other children, with a watchful parent nearby (this requires investment of a parents' time, but I can't think of a better investment).

Brilliant !

True. However, sometimes large buyers, such as governments or enterprises, change their policies towards purchasing requirements. For example, since 2013 France has had an Inter-Ministry Foundation of Free Software[0], which provides the preferred software to be used across France's government, as French law requires preference be given to free software (logiciel libre).

What impact might occur if a government like France were to require in the future only RISC V architectures with free boot loaders, of if the US government or a large corporation required use of measured boot to see at boot-time if the boot code or subsequent OS had been compromised?

With persistent threat actors and the falling price of processing power, I wouldn't be surprised if in the next ten years some larger organizations (or tens of thousands of small businesses) start demanding this kind if IT security from their vendors.

[0] (in French, of course) https://sill.etalab.gouv.fr/fr/software and their repo, https://github.com/disic/sill.

Exactly the parent commercial it's point: market segments /can/ and do change sizes and their proportional relations. And more people are beginning to understand the importance of security for privacy in a world that is increasingly digital and dependent on information technology.

Lynn White's classic study, "Medieval technology and social change", looks at three broad innovations: the stirrup, which led to mounted knights as shock troops and the feudal reorganization of society to support them; the agricultural revolution driven by iron horse-drawn plows and three-field rotation; and the development and exploration of medical mechanical power and devices.

I still use my x200s, though its battery barely holds a charge, so I use it docked with am external monitor, as a desktop machine. Most of my work is writing, so no issues with its lower CPU compared with newer machines.

I turned the touchpad off on my x220 and simply used the track point.

Equality of opportunity, as I understand it (and I think as it was historically broadly understood prior to Marxist socialism becoming mainstream in Mich of the West) meant each person got the same treatment before the law---i.e., no double standard for rich or special treatment for the poor. As soon as one decides what amount of wealth is too much to pass on, one has set an arbitrary limit---is passing $1000 to one's children too much? How is it principally different from $10,000, or from $10 million?

Or, if equal opportunity means equal rights to manage one's property as one sees fit, why set arbitrary restriction on property in monetary or financial form?

Its how it worked in the Weimar Republic in the 1920s, in Argentina in the 1980s, Zimbabwe after 2011, and in Venezuela in recent years.

Especially if you look at bond market yield curves going negative, and consider that massively indebted governments don't have any politically viable options to solve their debt problem other than default through massive inflation.

It could totally happen. Governments don't have a good option.

When I lived in Ukraine, the 'bandits" that the then-pro-Moscow government claimed were running rampant in the streets were the "titushki" (guys hired for $20/night to wandered around with a beer in one hand and a crowbar in the other, beating up anyone who looked like the were protesting against the government). Inside the perimeter of the manifestation was one of the safer parts of the city.

So, when I hear a pro-Moscow autocratic ruler say there are bandits in the streets, I remain highly skeptical until there's hard evidence.

I grew up there, and always heard that full-serve only was about jobs.

> if the perception of crypto continues to be that it's a significant contributor to climate change -- regardless of how true that may be --

Therein lies a huge part of our societies problems : people base their beliefs on perceptions rather than digging into the truth of the claims they choose to follow. This creates division, strife, and carries huge social costs.

And, if their claim is objectively wrong---i.e., if bitcoin is less harmful to the climate that the legacy monetary system (with its unbridled government spending and profligate international wars---what's the petrodollar system's true cost if we include all the oil tankers, office buildings, Brinks trucks and The US 7th fleet sitting in the Indian Ocean?), then choosing to ignore the truth could actively harm the climate more than choosing the better money.

US history prior to World War 2 says otherwise. The gold-backed dollar was slowly deflationary for multiple periods, precisely because a hard money standard enables entrepreneurs' economic calculation and real growth.

HN readers generally understand inflation, but when I see questioning bitcoin's energy cost, I wonder if those questioning it really understand the high costs of manipulating the price system through inflation: that manipulation causes the boom and bust cycles due to malinvestments.

Crypto provides better incentives for strong network security than any other security tech: has the bitcoin protocol base layer ever been compromised? Compare its network security against any other corporate or government network, and see if bitcoin doesn't provide some value.

Then look at the ION decentralized identity project Microsoft and others are building in top of it, or Peter Todd's decentralized document integrity attestation project, opentimestamps.org/, or how the bisq.network project has innovated a historically new way of working, where contributors are paid for improving a software project, yet no one is in charge and no funds or data are pooled, avoiding honeypots.

Or raw - my child still loves raw veggies: carrots, broccoli, sweet peppers, cherry tomatoes, cucumber.

From a very young age, me Small Child liked peas frozen. I think the temperature sensation and contrast with other foods must have been interesting.

As a Debian and Android user, can anyone help me understand how AirDrop and this python implementation differ from or are similar to Syncthing and/or Firefox Send? Is it basicly the same idea?

Uh, I'm on Android ans I use Syncthing, not a câble.

> But it's a forced choice, and people who are not interested in sport or TV should be allowed to prefer something different.

Exactly. Why not allow philosophy, or history, organic farming, game theory, theology, Austrian economics or other subjects as preferred party conversation topics? Why does society privilege TV shows and sports?

For anyone interested in a Christian theologian's ruminations on whether copyright laws are just or actually prevent people from loving their neighbor, see "Copyrights and Copying: Why The Laws Should Be Changed" by Vern Poythress (Westminster Seminary, Philadelphia), https://frame-poythress.org/copyrights-and-copying-why-the-l....

We're totally happy with a Christmas tree timer, and see no need to let the world know when our tree lights are on or off.

Especially considering that the wine project which Crossover relies in and contributes to also uses the term 'bottles' to encapsulate how they create different Windows environments.