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Come on, can't you imagine that people would CHANGE their habits if their environment changed? We wouldn't make the same kind of choices about where to go, where to put businesses, how to move around, etc.

And besides, it's not like Paris doesn't have a precedent of the state forcefully changing the physical landscape of the city, although it may not be too popular with some: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Pa...

I have lived here for four years. This was by far my favorite weekend ever in Philadelphia.

The feeling of being able to walk around downtown, mingling with thousands of other people, and NEVER having to look over my shoulder make sure that I wasn't about to be crushed by 2 tons of speeding steel was indeed a glorious feeling.

The local businesses suffered, but I'm sure that if the streetscape changed, the "business-scape" would, too.

Sounds like a co-op.

Apple is implementing a content paywall at the device level.

I see the value of this idea but I also see a very dark side.

> Neither their sex, nor race, nor anything is disclose.

Who decides what is contained by 'anything'? That process will become corrupt and only serve power. I don't think justice will be served by withholding information.

Which Greg Egan story is that?

Some of Greg Egan's books explore this as well. I recommend Diaspora and Permutation City.

There is something like that available: http://www.solcomputer.com/sunlight-readable-netbook.html

The specs are modest, but I bet it can handle your one requirement: "text editing".

That's dramatic. I'm not sure if restic has compression yet. If not, that could explain it.

> offsite, encrypted (at-rest & in-transit), deduplicated, snapshotted, backups to S3

I think restic[1] is going for that. I don't think it's "ready" yet, though.

[1] https://github.com/restic/restic

Will you explain what this would do?

Let's call it a very strong and uncomplicated bias, as a human being ;)

I see human consciousness as what makes a human being. I don't think that the value of this human consciousness changes, goes up or down, or exists in relation to anything besides that it is what we are.

By the way, I see that my first comment could be read as if I was including myself in Sacks's faith community. I was not. Anyone can have something like the Sabbath.

To me, the great value of the Sabbath as a day of rest is what Sacks calls "its utter peacefulness and remoteness from worldly concerns". Keeping a day like this affirms our absolute value as human beings, which is independent from whatever value we have economically, socially, or in any other way.

Depending on your needs, the network appliance type servers made by ADI Engineering for Netgate may be appropriate.

http://store.netgate.com/ADI.aspx https://github.com/ADIEngineering

I have NO affiliation with these companies. I'm simply happy that they are shipping Coreboot.

> You should always know where your kid is

This attitude is the difference. Children are human beings with rights, too, and they are capable of much more than contemporary American parents give them credit for.

> The only thing that makes email useful is "everybody has this thing that accepts stuff and they get notified when new stuff shows up."

And that's also what makes the alternatives utterly useless. It takes a huge advancement to unseat things like email. Even a new technology like Dropbox has powerful incumbent "defenses" against superior alternatives like Syncthing and Bittorrent Sync. Who am I supposed to use these new replacements with? Literally nobody I know uses them. I can't even use rsync to transfer data to and from my clients (not in the software industry).

> Email is the single biggest vector for "hacks" and stealing money.

If this were less vague and thus actually falsifiable, you could also say that the single biggest vector for hacks and stealing money is the internet. The reason that email is the main vector on the internet is its ubiquity.

It would be great if email had been originally designed with signing and encryption capabilities, but it wasn't. The reason it is still better than some new messaging service that includes these capabilities is that is federated and decentralized and very tolerant of network failures.

> communicate at about a 60% effectiveness rate

Honestly, if humans could communicate 60% effectively, our experience as a species would be completely different. I don't think that email is the bottleneck here...

Re: vandalism

The building had no access controls at all. I walked into an unattended lobby and rode up and down for a while. I saw no evidence of vandalism.

I made a special detour to ride one of these in Kobenhavn in the Axelborg building. If the statistics show them to be safe, I think they should be preserved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T49PsI6maMg

For most human traffic, they are less tedious than elevators: less waiting, no stop and go, a constant sense of motion. I don't think their riders would feel trapped the way I sometimes do in slow, busy elevators.

I think of them like a compacted escalator. I wonder if they actually are more compact.

Are Syncthing or Tarsnap US-based? No.

And Syncthing is just a tool that does multi-way sync across devices you own. If a company wanted to replace Dropbox with Syncthing, they would have to run one or more servers to provide the "always on" feature that their employees' "sometimes on" laptops sync to.

I think it hasn't happened yet because there are very few people who actually WANT to do that. The TSA and other security agencies would have you believe that the world is full of mass murderers. Based on the evidence, I'd say that's not true.

Yes, I'm very interested in this. Can someone point us to some good info on setting this up?

> 1 GB of RAM (can be configured as 512 MB of error-corrected RAM instead)

Can this be done in Linux?

Sounds like some complaints about digital audio compression schemes.

I use http://syncthing.net/ to sync my notes (and whatever other files I want) across my devices, including Android. It's like a FOSS Bittorrent Sync clone, although it doesn't actually use the Bittorrent protocol.

It works very well!

The 909 needs shuffle.

You're right, but the bike needs a max speed of something like 100 in order to hit 70 within a second or so. If 70 is the max, it will take forever to get there. Headroom. I never want to actually go 100, let alone 70.

As another motorcyclist, I want to give my support to this view.

I have no desire to ride fast (I rather enjoy doing 40 mph on a park drive), but I need my bike to be able to go 100 mph so that when the person next to me going 55 mph starts to merge into my lane, I have the choice of slowing down or very rapidly accelerating out of danger. It's the same with cars. Having the "headroom" means you can speed up quickly in emergencies.

Allwinner's SOCs are popular as Raspberry Pi-ish single-board computers for hobbyist Linux users who want a dirt-cheap home server.

What are some alternatives that have better track records with the GPL?

You're correct, there are basically no worker protections in America. The euphemistic term is "right-to-work", which means that you can be fired for any reason whatsoever.

This is a pet peeve of mine that I developed while doing video production in the live event industry. Unfortunately almost nobody cares about protecting their hearing.

Pretty much everyone in food service in the US exposes themselves to dangerous audio levels throughout their work shifts. My coworkers with SPL meters routinely measured sound pressure levels above 105 dB for hours at a time. But try wearing earplugs as a waiter or bartender... you will be treated like a lunatic.