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You'll still need a way to deliver those ephemeral ssh keys to a user controlled location, or make them indirectly usable by users (which amounts to the same thing).

Exactly how does dialogue with white nationalists help the rest of us grow? Their goals are to remove, silence, or destroy people that have different immutable characteristics. How do you suppose that impacts free expression?

I'm sure you'll be able to afford to rent one, which is the ideal scenario for most people.

Emergency vehicles don't and can't expect full compliance and open road 6 seconds after they turn on their lights and sirens, that would be irrational. It takes time to move out of the way, especially in the sort of traffic this is designed for (low-speed stop-and-go highways).

Agreed but I'm totally cool with renting a self-driving car on demand. I don't want to own and maintain a car at all, if I can avoid it.

It sounds like a good self-driving car is going to be really expensive, too, using technologies companies like Tesla are afraid to implement (e.g. LIDAR). Renting by the minute probably makes a lot more sense financially, too.

The easiest improvement would be to remove the employer from the equation and just provide taxpayer-funded benefits to all. The main reasons employers are still involved are inertia followed by a concern that employees won't feel as obligated to stay in shit jobs.

What is the problem with what they keep saying? They don't want to send their would-be viewers to a site that promotes white nationalist content on their home page. Who would, besides racists and edgelords?

The Texas approach is quite different -- it encourages people to sue other people with completely artificial standing. In fact the Texas approach was designed to be entirely different from a government run bounty program in an attempt to undermine the constitution.

This is more similar to whistleblower laws that pay a bounty for taxes recovered by the IRS. In both cases the government is the one taking the action that fines the perp.

In any case, pollution is my business.

I think the amount paid should be based on the average market rate of properties where the person must move to have the same commute and amenities. If the government wants to destroy the poorest area, at least folks there can move somewhere nicer without much inconvenience.

"It's like Uber but for tattling!"

I kid, I'm down for this sort of citizen engagement when it comes to externalities.

Worse, Google used to allow you to block sites but removed the feature a long while back: https://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-discontinue... .

Well, you should just lower your standards when it comes to picking a job, too. Maybe you could be a grocery clerk or a gas station attendant?

I love my K8 except for the paint on the key caps -- its way too thin. I've chipped off the faces of a few keys because (I think[0]) I don't trim my nails every few days, sometimes up to a week. To be fair, I have the same problem with my MBP keyboard, but not with a cheap gimmicky Razer "gaming" keyboard.

I know I can resolve this by trimming my nails every day but boy is that tedious.

0: others have suggested it might be due to skin oils. I dunno. I'm not a chemicologist.

It's always amazing to see companies make upgrading harder than moving to their competitors.

Their CDN pricing is much lower: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cdn/?cdn=d...

> Or should we just wake up our young children well before dawn and drag them off?

This is the norm for much of America, and has been for a long time (and will continue to be if we move away from changing clocks). If you want to play the "think of the children" card let's talk about moving their school start times later regardless of DST. 8:30 would be a great start, 9:30 would be phenomenal!

I'm not a fan of the "deny them health insurance" clause. What's next, would you deny someone health insurance because they swam in a river occasionally, drove a car every day, or did any other dangerous thing?

> Or should we just wake up our young children well before dawn and drag them off?

We already do this, FWIW. It's terrible for them but I guess we do it out of convenience for the bus drivers and parents. Changing clocks twice a year hasn't and won't address the problem, unfortunately.

Central Park and Golden Gate Park are open to the public every day and don't require you to pay to get in. If I could walk in to a taxpayer funded stadium to play a game with some friends for free or nearly free (as I can with small neighborhood sports fields) then maybe I'd have a slightly different opinion of them.

When you're done with Rust it'll be time to switch to working on Nix. Of course, if you're smart, you'll figure out a way to tackle both at once.

I wish phone calls came with a verified (cryptographically) description of the route a call took to get to me. Then I could use a library/app to filter by source or by bad actor (providers that lie about the route). That would enable services like UBlock Origin, allowing for user-generated blocklists.

> If blacks commit so much crime, why, and if they don't, why are the numbers inaccurate?

We don't know this because the figures cited are biased towards successful convictions. If white folks are able to afford better, more competent lawyers, you can expect them to mount successful defenses. I've never, ever, seen anyone post the 13/50 stat without acknowledging this fact in their comments or replies. And I've seen it a lot.

I'm not talking about rogue employees, I'm talking about the team that was tasked with creating the system. Google pays them millions because Google needs them, that gives engineers a lot of leverage.

I don't know the specifics, though -- maybe the proposed project was much much worse and this is what the engineers were able to negotiate. But I kinda doubt it.

That was a truly bizarre segue. I wonder what emotions or thoughts he was hoping to inspire with that sentence.

Same reason Google engineers don't delist sites like gitmemory and don't stop writing bots that automatically can people's accounts without recourse. They just don't care enough to leverage their vast power.

It's absolutely relevant how much worse the other party is. If they weren't so hostile to government[0] and thus the people they might serve as a check on the party in power. I sincerely wish I had a choice in all elections, but sadly most of them are between someone that will probably be OK and someone that I fear will shoot up the capital if they don't get what they want.

0: https://www.npr.org/2019/12/20/790192972/washington-legislat...

> It's entirely moral to make money off of your money with minimum effort. For example having retirement capital that consists of a low cost S&P 500 index fund. It is not parasitic, even if Adam Smith incorrectly might think so.

I don't follow -- how does the fact that the money is used for retirement or in a low cost fund make it not parasitic? It seems to me to fit the definition pretty well.

On mobile Safari, /. "traps" you on their site by causing the back button/back swipe gesture to return you back to their site. I am not sure exactly how -- haven't looked at the code.

I haven't visited /. in ages. I didn't know how far it had fallen and am shocked it still gets traffic, given this back button behavior. It is indeed a good reason to never post direct links.

I'm not so sure. They probably have a dispatch line and a scheduler that can get you on their calendar inside a few weeks. That would put them ahead of most plumbing businesses, IME.