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Are you saying the buyers and sellers don't cooperate?

Are we expected to believe that high-value buyers wouldn't authenticate the art they buy?

> Very few thieves ever proceeded to made some political statement (e.g. the Bonnot gang).

How do you view acts such as statue toppling/removal/theft[0][1][2]?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firdos_Square_statue_destructi...

[1]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/8-now-charged-in-toppling-of-du...

[2]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/world/controversial-statu...

If it's known a black market exists, but the participants are not known, then things are ripe for conspiracy theories.

How deep into conspiracy theory territory is positing an entire secret market of buyers and sellers of stolen artifacts? Because that seems much deeper than simply stealing jewels to make a political statement.

It would be real nice if our neighborhoods and streets were lined with edible plants. It seems like it could/would be a lot of work to maintain, but with the appropriate tools and planning it might be pretty simple. Non-edible (as far as I know) street trees are already watered by hand (with water trucks) here and they only seem to be used for decoration and shade.

edit: one issue to be careful of is the plants collecting "pollution"

wtf

It's sort of a profile of a local business.

I don't think Twitter is analogous to yelling in a town square.

It's more like talking at a bar, where others can overhear you. Twitter can of course start throwing people out, but then it turns into a clique and will probably be eventually subsumed by the larger society that it ignores.

How dare someone organize protests on FB.

Is the issue just that the organizers are ostensibly from another country/nation? Maybe the solution is for FB to regionize similar to the DVD industry? Posts in one region can only be seen in the same region?

Have you tried applying to listings?

https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=cto

>I wonder if, faced with this choice, most people would not simply become vegetarians.

Probably not if they had to forage all their foods at current densities.

That post doesn't advocate for a new model; it just points out possible deficiencies in current conceptions.

>The society is a network of researchers with like interests.

So, the added value is for the researchers in the network, but that value is subsidized by the "payers", who are not the researchers?

>Open access publishing threatens this subscription model. If paid library subscriptions disappear entirely, a new payer or payers will need to be found.

Supposed Russian "bots" were tweeting at Merkel parody accounts?

It's really the ultimate in gatekeeping and trolling.

Culture promotes an "authority" of a journal, while the journal gets to selectively choose what to publish, while collecting fees from scientists and their institutions & trying to gouge the public by renting out the work of scientists at high rates.

In what way? Organizing protests?

Sounds like an Economist position, to focus on minimizing pay.

Reminds me of the Pony Express.

Total war, ending with a couple nukes?

Drivers could be swapped out when the trucks are refueled or loading/unloading. There'd be no speed-up in general if speeds stay the same.

>The money you'd save is by not having your truck sit idle while the driver slept.

That wouldn't save money. Operating actually costs money, though your total money may increase if the operation is profitable.

Is Mars tectonic? Living underground on Earth risks becoming stuck or crushed.

A long time. With uranium, ground-fuels will last even longer.

Sun's supposed to explode and consume the planet soon though.

Isn't there a Ruby->JS transpiler?

Do you know what a global boon it would be if I could operate a cryptomine in your bedroom?

>A self driving truck would get to its destination faster (saving money)

I think traveling faster requires quadraticly more energy though.

        mv^2
    E = ---
         2

One could use hash signatures to detect a problem.

curl | ... bash

>in a way that they don't stand a chance of detecting by inspection (or of having proof of after the fact)

What do you mean? They could `tee` curl output to a file (or elsewhere, for archives). They could also suspend passing the output to bash until they've verified the output (perhaps they would run a hash function and compare the result).

That's probably because it's often used to describe lawyers, which have a pretty notorious representation, as a whole.

I think the original usage was fine, it just doesn't mean what some are trying to add on.

"fundamentalist" is used as a slur by some people (c.f. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fundamentali...). The slur assumes things that don't exist in the word itself, so it's not obvious the word incorporates them.