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Speaking from the standpoint of a user: I consider my attention a scarce resource that needs defending.

To the extent a platform has the same assumption, its interests are aligned with mine.

To the extent a sender does not have this assumption, I want the platform to defend my attention on my behalf.

> Over fifteen years the channel has been rebuilt around one assumption: the receiver's attention is a scarce resource the platform is obliged to defend. … As a sender you are on the wrong side of that assumption, whichever way the control moved.

Fascinating how the author openly frames the situation as the sender and receiver’s interests being opposed.

Straw manning? One of the earliest critiques of central planning was its inability to learn and respond to unforeseen complexity in the real world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem

Funny to see “rationing” used to describe bidding, instead of the clear rationing approach used first: each food bank got an allocation of all foods based on population served.

Just because the new approach accomplished the goals of the old one better, that doesn’t mean it took the old approach’s name. ;)

Two emails are in your inbox. :)

One of them is interested. What’s the best way to contact you?

This is fun to see. Some of my family are Division 10 contractors: their GCs love them because they spot design coordination and code issues early and keep the project from getting derailed. Bringing that to the entire project is a serious lifesaver.

I typically see “bodged” used more like “hacked”: fixed/made to work in a clumsy way, jury-rigged.

So I’d botch my attempt to build a shelf by cutting a board too short; I’d then bodge it into shape by screwing on a piece of scrap lumber.

Berkshire East is working on a micro pumped storage facility. Interestingly enough they’re already net producers of electricity.

https://berkshireeast.com/the-resort/100-renewable-energy

What does the iPhone 8 have to do with this discussion?

The linked piece specifically refers to iPhone 6S and iOS 15.8.

Some smoothly disingenuous rhetoric going on there.

WRT FaceTime - turns out video calling had patent encumbrances. Apple was sued for massive amounts as soon as they rolled out FaceTime on their own devices. The VirNetX saga just wrapped up earlier this year. [0]

And Apple has opened up their Find My Network. [1] Other trackers, such as Chipolo, are making use of it. [2] Also, Apple and Google just today published the latest revision of a cross-platform spec to detect unwanted location trackers regardless of which network you’re using. [3]

[0] https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/apple-wins-reversal-of-...

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/04/apples-find-my-networ...

[2] https://chipolo.net/en-us/products/category/chipolo-spot

[3] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-detecting-unwanted-lo...

I tend to read Harrison Bergeron as cautionary tale, not inspiration…

https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Berge...

For anyone interested in ending CAF abuses: Institute for Justice has been doing strong work for years. They help victims of CAF recover seized assets while setting judicial precedents that rein in LE abuses of the practice.

https://ij.org/issues/private-property/civil-forfeiture/

> The people in power have F-35s. What is your collection of (admittedly, unnecessarily powerful) guns going to do against that?

Military inventory, while powerful, isn't the end-all. Just ask Afghans about their experiences with two superpowers' machinery.

Left unexamined: how long ago and why did employers decide that a 4-year degree was the minimum qualification for general employment?

And why should someone without a degree be excluded from socio-economic advancement, thinking for themselves, or challenging the established order? If anything, professional success based on work instead of degrees is a challenge to the current established order. :)

The American Dream doesn't need to be degree examiners gatekeeping it. If you care about socioeconomic advancement, don't pull the ladder up by excluding people without degrees: instead, make sure you don't require folks to jump through hoops before doing work that they already have the skills to do.

And to the "authoritarian-reactionaries" dig: note that the Congresswoman in this article is pursuing this as a progressive. Same with the new governor of Pennsylvania: https://www.penncapital-star.com/government-politics/in-his-...

(signed: child of an immigrant with an 8th grade education for whom the American Dream is alive and well)

Saw plenty of leaf blower usage in Frankfurt, FWIW. So maybe some areas/cultures are just more fastidious about leaves than others?

One whole section of the keynote was dedicated to how HomeKit is being subsumed by Matter, a standard all of the major home automation companies are collaborating on.

Similar experience here. If I'm ever on trial, I'd be happy for the people I sat with to be my jury.

A 20% reduction would result in ~£800k/yr.

Even more effective: drain water heat recovery, preheating the incoming water with the outgoing waste heat.

Quick overview from one manufacturer here: https://renewability.com

1Password checks all these boxes (including nice-to-haves). Longtime satisfied user here.

> We also have reports of systematic hospizalization where ambulant treatment would be possible and recommended. Intubations which aren't required and actually harmful and traumatizing.

Source?

BTW - it's only an anecdote, but a coworker in DE had a very different experience. After a week of significant symptoms but self-administered rapid tests coming back positive, they contacted the hospital for a checkup. Upon entry they received another rapid test: as soon as it came back positive, the hospital verified that their lungs were functional and then sent them home as quickly as possible.

> "I was in Texas during 9/11 and they were firebombing all the hispanic people's cars" That's odd, I was living in rural TX when 9/11 and don't recall anything happening like that. And more than half of my coworkers were Hispanic. I remember a few people attacking Sikhs or other vaguely-Asian convenience store owners, not Latinos.

> "Its pretty much black/white/terrorist and hasn't improved all that much in the time since" I suspect your experience wasn't very representative. After all, Texas has a 40% Hispanic population. Assholes won't be calling them terrorists, they're much more likely to be working them like slaves and paying them scraps off the books.

I suspect the biggest reason for a cross-Austin trip being an event has stayed the same: terrible traffic.

It's hard for 'the market' to solve political problems.

The argument of the YIMBY/"fix zoning" team is that our current regulatory environment restricts what the market is allowed to provide.

Based on what I've witnessed in my NEC metro neighborhood, this is correct: politicians gain favor with their constituents by fighting tooth and nail against anything that would add neighbors. I see two primary approaches: directly restrict the housing units allowed on a given property, or increase the minimum space allowed by requiring a dedicated parking spot. Since fewer units have to pay for the overall land and construction costs, unit prices go up.

The market is delivering exactly the results that the government requires of them.

Quick note: right now, most of the high-cost areas being discussed have zoning rules prohibiting dense housing near transit centers. Defined city limits come with restrictions on how densely housing can be built.

So the starting point isn't introducing density requirements, it's simply removing density restrictions.

That’s for 12 pairs.

100%.

If your statements are coming from experiences you’ve had in this culture, I’m very sorry. Their authority-centered and closed culture has sheltered many abusers. This is a serious ongoing problem, and I’m aware of many people who have suffered.

But to be clear: none of the religious practices of the Amish involve rape. The same weaknesses are present in many other similarly organized groups (see the ongoing scandals in the Catholic Church, less reported but similar patterns in southern Baptists, and even the military’s serious issues with sexual abuse).

Singling out the Amish and claiming that something they’re deeply ashamed of is the focal point of their religion is textbook hasty generalization and hyperbole.

Yeah - content blocking has been supported by safari for several years now.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/cre...