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Uh huh, and where are these places? I've worked remotely from literally a hundred countries over the past twenty years and can count on one hand the number of such cases I've even heard of.

Nobody gives a shit, as long as you're not staying long enough to be a tax resident and you're not making trouble.

The one famous incident, the 2014 Chiang Mai raid, came about because the authorities didn't know what a co-working space is, and thought that the foreigners were hired by the property owner to work there. None of them were deported for that.

The purpose of the visit is still tourism, even when people are also working remotely. Otherwise they could have stayed home and worked remotely.

In what places has it led to trouble for tourists to work remotely in their hotel rooms or Airbnbs? Leaving aside cases when those tourists brought that trouble and scrutiny on themselves through other actions like getting into barfights or shoplifting.

Many people can get a mouthguard-type thing that has the same effect.

> I bet no one in major European cities requires to bike like ten miles each way.

I am in Amsterdam, and lots of people bike 15km each way, including many students at the high schools my children attend.

It's still waste, because if you're in a fixed location (which you'd have to be in order to benefit from much of the heat) you'd be better off running a heat pump.

> In a petrol car, only 20% of the energy is converted to motion. In electric cars, this is around 80%

How does it settle out when you take into account the significantly higher weight of EVs?

You don't need as much grid capacity if houses have their own generation and storage.

According to this: https://foodprint.org/blog/plastic-water-bottle/ it costs about 5 liters of water to make one plastic bottle, so based on that, yes, it wastes a massive amount of water.

If a private company is doing it - and presumably not paying what the water is worth - that takes away the public's ability to decide how to prioritize the limited remaining water.

Also, according to these people - https://foodprint.org/blog/plastic-water-bottle/ - it takes over 5 liters of water to make one bottle.

Desalination means killing some ecosystem, wherever you choose to dump the brine, with waste salt.

You can't have theories without life to conceive of them, so in fact life is inevitable under any theory.

It takes energy to move a rock to the top of a mountain, and you can get some of that energy back (minus friction etc) if you let it roll down. So it's got something.

> I was speaking to sun setting IPv4 in general.

It's 2024 and Fidonet still works.

Nobody's sunsetting IPv4. It will fade into obscurity on its own as IPv6 adoption increases and IPv4 addresses become increasingly hard to get, as it should.

SLACC dynamic address are basically the same as IPv4 NAT from this perspective. Everyone who cares has tables of the prefix size assigned to customers in various providers' IP space.

Is everything NATted? With such a high population it seems hard to manage with limited IPv4 addresses.

Someone's working on that.

http://www.clustered-pi.com/blog/clustered-pi-zero.html

> I've yet to be in a friend group that wasn't willing to switch to Signal once I explained my security concern.

I've found that works with friends, yes.

But it's too much to ask in cases like a whatsapp group for parents of a school class, or for participants in an upcoming event. Things where I don't feel like I'm entering with any social credit and don't want to be a huge noodge straight off the bat.

My favorite detail in the article was about the intersection with beg buttons, where the robot people were trying to get the city to convert them to a properly functioning crosswalk that always showed a "walk" when the parallel road had a green light. If this is what it takes to get rid of beg buttons, I say let the robots spread to every corner of the earth.

The fact that some things turned out to be possible, is not an argument for why any arbitrary thing is possible.

> Companies declare that they are trying to build better AI, and the ultimately purpose is AGI.

They do declare it, but nobody has even come up with a plausible path from where we are today, to anything like AGI.

At this point they might as well declare that they're trying to build time machines.

Canada likes SPOF bridges. There's a single bridge - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipigon_River_Bridge - that is the only paved land path between the eastern and western parts of Canada. When that bridge is out, people have to drive through the United States to get from Montreal to Vancouver.

Bezos optimized the peeing-in-bottles aspect.

How much heat do you need? We've renovated a row house in the Netherlands - very similar climate - with solid foam insulation and triple glazing. Haven't gotten to installing a heating system yet. Even in the current cold period it's perfectly fine indoors with a cheap hoodie on. If I didn't know it would make the place unsaleable, I'd be tempted to move forward without any room heating system at all, only a small on-demand water heater.

Require more accountability if a company wants to enjoy the benefits of incorporation. Decision processes have to be documented and responsibilities clearly delineated. Employees have the opportunity and duty to ensure their work is correctly described.

The current system isn't working, it's producing too much abuse.

XS4ALL sort of lives on in the form of Freedom - https://freedom.nl/en

I think most of my local status, such as it is, comes from being generally amiable and having helped out at least half the people on the street with repair/lifting/moving tasks at some point.

Also I suppose living in a desirable neighborhood indicates status to outsiders maybe? I'm not sure what, if any, benefits that perception confers on me.

I may be a little broken in that I don't see the value of status signalling. If I'm nice to people, they're nice to me. That system has suited me increasingly well for decades. I dress for practical comfort, don't have high-ranking frequent flyer membership tier, and routinely get upgrades at the airport because I am sympathetic to the agents' pressures. People recommend me for jobs because I didn't make them feel shitty at work and make a point of boosting other people's contributions.

Between that, and trying to signal something with expensive sneakers or a sports car, I much prefer the approach that makes me feel happy inside, and builds people up rather than trying to make them jealous.

If they remain pleasant, carry their weight around the house, and don't mind that we are going to be moving somewhere much warmer the day they both finish high school, then sure! I like them.

Almost certainly, yes.

But they also have to carry around their resource gathering and self-repair systems, something phones don't have to worry about.

If nobody is looking at web pages, and therefore nobody is making web pages, then where is the training material for LLMs going to come from?