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wavefunction··on U.S.-Thai pair facing death for 'sea home' should fight charge, Thailand says
They're presumed to be hiding inside Thailand at the moment so their options are to continue hiding, attempt to escape the borders of Thailand or turn themselves in.
wavefunction··on Utah Bans Police from Searching Digital Data Without a Warrant, Closes Loophole
I may have conflated the popular Mayor Rocky Anderson's human rights activism for gay people along with the current lesbian Mayor Jackie Biskupski with whom I am only superficially knowledgeable and as you point out my phrasing was incorrect. I haven't lived in the city for a decade and only recently visited for a conference, but found it the same lovely corner of the country with a less oppressive culture than when I lived there.

Mostly I was just trying to point out that while the media and popular culture reduces parts of the world to simple caricatures, usually the particulars are more complex and nuanced.

wavefunction··on Canadian Cops Will Scan Social Media to Predict Who Could Go Missing
I will always support this sentiment.
wavefunction··on Utah Bans Police from Searching Digital Data Without a Warrant, Closes Loophole
I think Utah is a bit more complex than that. As you note the LDS Church holds significant sway in the state, however like much of the Mountain West of the USA, the actual popular politics feature a combination of libertarian and socialist tensions rather than simple social conservatism.

Salt Lake City for example was the first major US city I encountered the audible cross-walk indicators for the visually impaired. And not just here and there, but all over the city. Salt Lake City has had popular gay and lesbian mayors and a vibrant and resilient collection of various sub-cultures that may not be desirable to the LDS Church but persist nonetheless.

wavefunction··on Federal investigation of Facebook could hold Zuckerberg accountable on privacy
Read the fine article and all your dreams will come true
wavefunction··on Engineers create ‘lifelike’ material with artificial metabolism
Depending on home the road is deriving the matter needed to repair itself.
wavefunction··on Mick Mulvaney’s Master Class in Destroying a Bureaucracy From Within
And often, that's the idea, that privatizing what was originally something with some social oversight into something that can be abused. One glaring example for me is that the NSA is mostly contractors now.
wavefunction··on Why the Instagram founders really quit
That Systrom checked out but was also checked-in enough to throw a fit over the direction facebook decided to go in his absence/checked-outness.
wavefunction··on The hunt for the fish pirates who exploit the sea
And the foreign companies that employ them bombarded from space with a mass driver.
wavefunction··on Jack Ma Again Endorses Extreme Overtime as Furor Rages On
"News" has always been heavily editorialized from the start.

"Fake news" is just propaganda presented as "news."

wavefunction··on Jack Ma Again Endorses Extreme Overtime as Furor Rages On
Some fast-food employees even get benefits.
wavefunction··on Jack Ma Again Endorses Extreme Overtime as Furor Rages On
Your English is fine. Native English speakers' writing is often replete with typos and misspellings and improper grammar.
wavefunction··on South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste
Primarily digestion, but for "left-overs" or food waste and scraps there's vermiculture and composting. I guess we have mass digesters now too to turn the material into heat.
wavefunction··on Firefox banning noisy video from autoplaying
You have a choice about what sites you visit. It sounds like you expect everything to conform to your vision of how things should be. That's contrary to a voluntary web.
wavefunction··on Netflix CEO Reed Hastings to Depart Facebook Board of Directors
I understand that a segment of society descends into conspiracy theory when reading an article but perhaps you might consider whether noting that Alford is an African-American woman gives further context or is contrasted with the noting of SV's apparent push for demographic diversity.

Sometimes a sentence is just a sentence.

wavefunction··on Julian Assange arrested in London
Various international legal frameworks and agreements.
wavefunction··on New human species found in Philippines
At this point, some Africans probably have some Neanderthal in them.
wavefunction··on New human species found in Philippines
Maybe the Neanderthal were more sensitive and alluring to Homo sapiens females, given their artistic side.
wavefunction··on Your Android Phone Is a Security Key
This is great other than the fact Google is involved. Now I will admit it's unlikely (effectively impossible) that this would come to Android without Google being involved but I am not interested in adding Google to more of my life. I'm looking to cut them out more and more wherever I can.
wavefunction··on The US says Chinese spies are targeting Boston for its tech secrets
I think those NAZI SSIDs are indicative of your friend's neighbors as well.
wavefunction··on The US says Chinese spies are targeting Boston for its tech secrets
The second is far more "edgy"

Believe people (individuals, groups) when they tell you who they are.

wavefunction··on The IRS Tried to Take on the Ultrawealthy – It Didn’t Go Well
A flat tax is regressive in nature since the wealthy demand a greater share of the services provided by civil society.
wavefunction··on Nordic Valley’s brilliant, zero-budget solution to trail/lift status
old rental skis as a bench... the list goes on and on and it's charming every time!

My only quibble is that for resorts like Winter Park (3000+ skiable acres) compared to Nordic Valley (100 skiable acres) the larger resorts and their expansive boundaries require complex interfaces and even then they're seldom all that useful.

I grew up in Colorado but navigating the runs and maps of the big resorts has become meaningless given the scale and my own human failings, and despite my historical experience and knowledge.

Nordic Valley could display the entire resort as a heatmap indicating snow-depth and skiability because it is a small and compact set of runs. While when you take a place like Brighton or Vail or Breck and the sheer scale of the resort makes displaying meaningful data very difficult.

wavefunction··on Komodo Island Is Closing to Tourists Because People Are Stealing Dragons
Apparently... leave them alone. Unfortunately the simplest messages seem to be the hardest for humans to understand.
wavefunction··on Zuckerberg’s Rules Would Hurt Everyone but Facebook
Making data portable means opening up our systems to Facebook, at least as far as I understand Zuckerberg's proposals.
wavefunction··on Patagonia Stops Selling Vests To Some Finance Firms
The dangers of engaging with satire are very real. However the costs paid are generally short-lived and to the open-minded and those able to find humor in themselves, repaid in full if not in excess.
wavefunction··on Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder? (2017)
I'm seeing a lot of signals on that site that throw up red flags and honestly the content is confirming those assumptions. I find this talk radio guy and his guest Phil Magness of George Mason to be the ideologically blinkered ones as I follow their arguments and cross-reference them with what was written in Capital.
wavefunction··on Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder? (2017)
I am always interested to read contrasting arguments and weigh a subject's merits based on those arguments so I'd love to see those critiques.
wavefunction··on New York’s Rockland County declares measles outbreak emergency
It depends on the state and age of the minor:

https://vaxopedia.org/2018/09/25/how-can-i-get-vaccinated-if...

wavefunction··on CowToilet, a Toilet for Cows
Or we could just resurrect older breeds descended from Aurochs that had shaggy coats. Or we could encourage the consumption of traditional dairy products in those regions like reindeer or yak-based dairies.

Factory farming in NL versus California is probably pretty similar. California's not really a great place for ranching in the first place though, better to just do that in a place like Vermont with a lot more water.

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