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> The purpose of the law is to protect people who act within reason.

This is just flat out wrong, and pretty gross.

The purpose of the law is to protect people. Not white people, not land-owning people, not smart people, not literate people, not able-bodied people, not "reasonable" people. People. Full stop.

Assuming people are reasonable is a recipe for disaster, and ablest. Perhaps one day someone you know will get dementia, or have a stroke, or get macular degeneration, or any of the number of ailments that can relieve you of your ability to read and comprehend long texts, lists, and warnings, then maybe you will understand how ridiculous this view is.

That's a false dichotomy, it doesn't "require" the sacrifice, they could definitely make the machines more safe, or make working on them safer, but likely they were made before worker safety was considered so critical and "pinsetter mechanic" is probably too niche to get special work safety provisions.

You are just taking those things on faith though.

Just because you hire a professional doesn't mean they are honest.

> my furnace upgrade

I can tell you from experience that even large commercial HVAC outfits are ripe with fraud. I even have receipts and a verdict in my favor as evidence. The only reason I have them is because I took the advise of GP and made time to be involved with that contractor and notice their deceit.

Yes? If you manipulate me you destroy my trust in you fairly permanently. Trust is critically valuable in our society.

I see this as a reap what you sow moment for Lufthasa.

Why should ATC at a busy airport be so accommodating? Lufthasa is the one making this hard on everyone.

I used to watch both these airports fairly frequently from Oyster bay regional park, they are both super busy with flights often lining up to the horizon.

Unless we develop force fields[1] I don’t understand how traveling at such relativistic speeds would work, at .023C a 1 gram micrometeor would have the same potential energy as 25 tons of dynamite (100B Joules)

Ice shielding sounds good, but then we are back to the tyranny of the rocket equation.

[1] which we don’t even have a path to, afaik. Straight scifi right now.

> I really wish I could see that level of detail with my own eyes.

Straying off topic, but be careful what you wish for. I have great eyesight, and have developed my ability to see/notice details considerably throughout my life. (Which btw is super under rated, “seeing” is about much more than just light being focused in your retinas, its incredible to me how things that used to look really complicated or looked a complete mess when I was a teenager are now just a bunch of components and as a result easy to see.)

My experience is that I notice how imperfect everything is, constantly. I go to someones place they lived in for years and notice all kinds of things they never picked up on, mismatched moulding or paint or texture, wood grain not matching in furniture, light limescale on porcelain, heat marks, cammed out fasteners, fixtures that are not square, plumb and flush, bubbling peeling paint. I could go on and on.

Being discerning is kind of a bummer if you can’t put it to good use.

or, maybe, if you are the type of person who can only afford a car whose brand no longer exists, you are sufficiently risk averse that you are much less likely to get an accident. Makes sense to me. Also, it may be that a lot of these car brands only exists in a sort of suvivorship-biased place. For example, I drive a '94 Camry, in large part because I've never had a need to replace it, having never been in an accident.

If you are new to knifesteelnerds, but not steel in general, and like blades, don’t just check out the site, make a beeline to read about Magnacut. Super cool and exciting.

As someone who was in the Aluminum business during that time, this is a lot more complicated than it might appear. There was an absolutely insane amount of fraud being committed in the industrial aluminum biz during this time, here’s an article[1], but a lot of my experience isn’t really documented online or has been lost. What made this really troublesome was that ingots aren’t really sold direct to customers, so often times you have a contractor or sub contractor buying extrusions ($xxxxx)from a megacorp like SAPA(an extruder) who in turn is buying from a metal market($M+). The extruders doesn’t want to deal with material defects from Aluminum that was supposed to be to spec, and their customers can’t really play hardball as the industry is pretty niche-extrusion presses are capital intensive and require a fair amount of sophistication to operate.

They were probably being compelled to do that because of the vast amounts of fraud committed by Chinese Aluminum producers. The purity issue was so bad my anodizing shop started recommending our customers demand mil certs from a reputable manufacturer, like Alcoa or Kaiser, and then specifically clarifying to the extruder that they intended to anodize it; being a chemical process anodizing is very dependent on the metal’s makeup and the extruder knows this.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-fraud-idUSKCN1U...

> has the rapid development of missile technology "democratized access" to surface-to-air missiles?

Yes? They are being used in the Ukraine conflict on both sides. While not SAMs, Hamas has missiles. Even North korea has a it’s own SAM system.

If the best examples you can come up with are Thalidomide and Chloroflurocarbons you aren’t really selling the danger. Both are chemistry technologies, something by which we have massively benefitted from on the whole, but can have uniquely hard to detect effects, most catagories of inventions don’t have the risks of novel toxiciy like chemistry inventions.

I know of all that, hell I was listening to Plastic Beach when it came out. My point is that EDM and modern Pop coexist with older forms of music. I don't think new ways of creating art are zero-sum, they create new demand.

I swear I got this recommendation here, but I can't remember who to credit and can't find the post.

Anywho, this is arguably the overarching reason Design Rules: The Power of Modularity[1] was written, at least in the abstract way you are asking it.

The book tells you about the process that led to the creation of IBM's System/360, and it shows how a set of patterns and rules have converged in parallel industry sectors. It was honestly one of the most interesting books I've ever read, and that's exactly what it is about. Highly recommend this book to virtually anyone on this board.

[1] ISBN10: 0262024667

> anyone will be able to make a brand new Taylor Swift

I was with you until this. I think music is actually informative for what we can expect in visual arts and generative models generally; synths, drum machines, and music production equipment and software share very similar qualities with this new stuff, yet we still have rockstars like Swift.

You honestly think NYC is a good place to be poor? lol

> How about a _market_ is anything where there exists a _marketplace_?

So every store is a monopoly? You are going to have to be a bit more rigorous than adding “-place” and call it a day.

Curious what B2C business sectors take less than a 30% cut?

Hogwash, I think it's worth noting that this European system was intentionally backdoored.

Everybody plays the espionage game, Europe really is no exception, they just like to use the US to keep their hands (mostly) clean.

I'd guess they mean cleaner of toxins, in reference to biomagnification. It's basically the reason I'm veg.

To add to this, with those particular cameras(it’s the frame I shoot on), you’re encouraged by the form factor and ergonomics to turn them off when idle to get the most out of the smallish battery, they boot in like 1s. A battery is good for ~350 shutter pulls, I don’t want to use one of those every time I think about taking a picture.

Also, a dead pixel is not a ruined photo, it’s a minor inconvenience in editing at worst. And every photo I take on a FF is getting edited, the gorgeous RAW output is what I’m there for.

How is this entitlement? They are just stating a fact, a surprise video isn’t really a surprise when you have ad roll first. They make no value judgement about youtube, you projected that.

UPS and FedEx also arent allowed to touch your mailbox, and don't have their own law enforcement wing.

We should unioninze the military.

I get that they are kinda looked down upon, but I really like my Rotring 800 in .7mm, paired with 2B lead. The disappearing point is a must have for portability. If you have some patience they do go on sale, I didn’t pay even close to MSRP. It’s pretty much the grail of handwriting for me.

I am also a fan of the Pentel Tuffstuff stick erasers. Unlike other stick erasers they are very fine, so you can get details/letters. For bulk erasing an Artist’s Gum eraser and a Magic Rub if the Gum doesn't do a good enough job.

The government shouldn’t work based on data, but on virtue. That’s the whole point of a constitution, common law, etc.

Meh, collecting information is different from acting on it. My underdtaning, which could be wrong, was that people legitimately lived in fear of getting found out by the stazi. There isn’t a good reason to fear the NSA based on current actions, that I’m aware of anyway.

> I believe the risk to our freedom is much greater from the latter.

I’ll take power being consolidated in a democratically elected government over a privately controlled corporation any day of the week.

Let’s put the spotlight on the stuff that isn’t democratically controlled, and subject to much more limited oversight.

Man, that's contrived. Really its simple: Google seperates out Play Services so they can harvest user data from virtually all Andoid devices. It lets them market Android as OSS while still reaping the benefits of closed source data scraping.

How?

> they have a backup solution available.

Im a decade+ daily driver of Firefox. If a website doesnt support it, I make a mental note that I hate this company now, close the tab, and move on. I don't open it in a V8 browser, i look for an alternative.