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You're assuming the 60 years after Country X's starship is launched is going to be a period of progress.

If it's a period of collapse, perhaps complete collapse, humanity will have lost an opportunity by delaying the launch.

That's a good question, and I'm ashamed to say I don't know whether it's possible or not.

"Grassroots organizing", or bottom-up pressure on the government, is a thing in the US, but I don't know the mechanisms by which it acts, beyond getting people to sign petitions once in a while.

I suspect most other people in the US don't know the mechanisms either.

It might not be just reddit though. The author's summary points to a volatile combination of elements in Rust itself:

1) [T]he Rust project saw Rust as more than just the language...

2) unsafe... is a really important part of Rust, but also a very dangerous one, hence the name.

If a project is considered to be not just a project, but something closer to a cause, people are going to defend their understanding of that cause fervently.

And introducing the language of "safe" and "unsafe" isn't just descriptive, it's a value judgment. It has connotations of recklessness at least, and explicit threat at worst.

People who perceive themselves to be defending a cause against danger are going to react very strongly, much more so than people who are criticizing an implementation choice on purely technical grounds.

> ...forces unleashed by Silicon Valley—rising housing costs, choked infrastructure.

Housing costs and choked infrastructure were unleashed by policies designed to deter population growth.

What wasn't anticipated is that the incumbent residents would have less economic power than the new arrivals almost overnight, putting them on the "deterred" side of the bargain unless they'd already locked in their housing costs by buying.

The unfortunate thing is that the incumbent residents least likely to benefit from anti-growth policies, i.e. long-time renters and paycheck-to-paycheck workers, are the first to bear the brunt of the shortages.

I'm not an architect, but my understanding is that the foundation has to be far enough down that the ground does not freeze under it, which is why houses in the Northeast US and Canada have basements.

It seems faster than average. There are aspects to their service that are horrible; their website, a la carte pricing and "buy your bags" terminology are incomprehensible if you aren't already accustomed to it. But they're cheap, quick and never even ordered any 737 Maxes.

Spirit Airlines actually has the right idea on this - you pay to bring an overhead bag aboard, and they mean business about it being the proper size. I'm able to get away with not checking a bag on the vast majority of my flights. I'm out of the airport like 5 minutes after I exit the plane.

Why not? But after the third time, Tesla should require in-person confirmation of the purchase.

If your goal is to maintain your privacy as you travel around town, uber/lyft/whatever aren't a suitable solution.

It's a shibboleth. The joy experienced by someone who's already "in the circle" for 1195725856 justifies the vagueness. For those who aren't, the post brings them in on the joke.

> ...limiting overall liability to the property value alone

LLCs don't limit liability resulting from negligence, malpractice, or other personal wrongdoing, which may be germane in a lawsuit over something besides unpaid debts.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/limited-liability-pr...

Wouldn't it make more sense to simply fine the LLCs for their misdeeds, and confiscate the properties if the fines go unpaid?

It is already kinda deranged that one's name and other details become public records in many states as soon as you buy property or start a company.

EDIT: Surprising number of downvotes in a forum that often focuses on privacy concerns!

I did learn something new though. I would have assumed that either zero or tens of thousands of people would buy a technical ebook, in the same way that any random musician's album usually makes $0 or becomes a hit. Small consistent sales are a surprise to me.

This is why Facebook's policy against multiple accounts is bad. People need separate (and possibly pseudonymous) accounts for their professional, personal, and unattributed work.

> Bet he can barely rotate a tire.

According to Wikipedia, Bezos "once rigged an electric alarm to keep his younger siblings out of his room" and "worked at McDonald's as a short-order line cook during the breakfast shift".

I expect he's in the American average range for practical workaday skills.

I don't know whether or not he can specifically "rotate a tire"... but rotating just one tire is pointless anyway, you have to rotate the entire set to even out wear.

It's hard to argue with what the author describes as a hunch, but his threshold for "end of the world" is pretty low.

I was working in an adjacent milieu at the time, and I wasn't happy when S&P tanked, but really, no one cares about unemployed bankers, unless you're in the position of the author and you know them personally. Even then, it's not the end of the world.

Moreover the world isn't turned upside down when a Taco Bell manager makes $100K. And ordinary people experience an absence of money at the ATM on a regular basis when it runs out of their money the day before payday.

Negative interest rates are uncharted territory, but the anecdotes supplied as background information aren't that persuasive.

> What is so special in using other providers? Is it just... normal?

It's probably not normal. I've heard of Google, but not Fastmail, Matomo, Nextcloud, Collabra, Plex, Jellyfin, F-Droid, Aurora, Lineage, PinePhone, Simple Mobile Tools, Hover, Matrix, PocketCasts, AntennaPod, or "Ting".

What stops Google from suspending a paid account, assuming they issue a pro-rated refund for anything paid in advance?

Does it actually work though? It seems like there is a significant difference between the expectation that semantic versioning should result in no disruption, and the experience of the parent to your comment. I'd be interested to know exactly what went wrong that lead that poster to be pessimistic.

I don't think it makes sense to include as unknowable as a hater's internal motivation as a defining characteristic.

Moreover even when there is "no good reason" initially, good reason might be found eventually. Scrutiny usually begins with the intuition that something doesn't add up, with the actual evidence arriving later. The "hate" for the fraudster precedes the exposure of the fraud.

> I hate this fraud because why good on him/her and not me?

> Carreyou didn’t want Holmes to fail because “why her and not me”

Why is envy assumed to be the motivation of the "hater"? If I recall correctly, Markopolous was driven by the idea that cheaters shouldn't win. Is that any different than the "hater" who is driven by the idea that person/product/concept "X" is unworthy?

The world needs haters for the same reason it needs entrepreneurs. They're usually wrong, but sometimes they're right.

It's actually kind of brilliant. Mercuriadis et al are getting some of the rights to well-known intellectual property through the presumably underpaid, behind-the-scenes contributors. His competitors say he's paying too much, but is that just because they've been paying too little?

I was biased against the guy when I started the article, but if the status quo ante was other execs paying pennies to songwriters for their rights, and then doing little to nothing with them, maybe Mercuriadis is onto something.