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I've been using Syncthing for the same purpose.

From the Skeptoid link I provided above: "Near the skeleton, Gallagher also found a small wooden box with dovetailed joints, that he determined to be a sextant box. It was delivered to Harold Gatty, founder of Air Pacific, and a good friend of Fred Noonan and familiar with his navigation habits; for example, that he often carried an old-school sextant with him on flights in addition to modern equipment, just to double-check things the way a good navigator should. Regarding Gatty's own expertise, Charles Lindbergh had described him as the "prince of navigators". Another British officer in the area cabled Gatty's findings back to Gallagher:

  Mr. Gatty thinks that the box is an English one of some 
  age and judges that it was used latterly merely as a 
  receptacle. He does not consider that it could in any 
  circumstance have been a sextant box used in modern 
  trans-Pacific aviation.

" https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4295

TIGHAR again. (When there's Earhart news, it's always TIGHAR.)

The problem with TIGHAR's work is (and this paper seems like no exception to me, though I am not an expert in related fields) that it inevitably starts with the conclusion that Earhart crash-landed on Nikumaroro / Gardner Island, and then provides evidence that _could_ be seen to support that pre-determined conclusion. It's backwards from the get-go.

Skeptoid provides a pretty good debunking of TIGHAR's core premise: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4295

That would eliminate a competitive advantage that large companies receive against their tiny bretheren.

Jupiter and the Sun orbit a point located outside of the Sun. Using your definition would this make Jupiter a double planet with the Sun? A double star, and thus not a planet?

So, you're saying that the technology focused billionare is facing criticism from a journalist and a man who rescues people from mortal danger underwater? Are a forensic scientist and an exotic female ambassador inexplicably involved as well?

I once worked for a large telco, and although there were some basic security and verification processes in place internally, they were not rigorously enforced. An imposter or social engineer with malicious intent and the level of company-specific inside knowledge this scammmer had about their chosen targets for impersonation could wreck havok at my old employer, or I suspect many other large companies.

Because you don't want the land to take it's water rights and transportation links (among other things) and go home?

Nah. Not Han Solo coat on Hoth, either.

"Showing ads" is a phrase that covers a wide range of activity. Personally, I don't see anything wrong (and a lot of good) with a polite "hey, this thing exists" message. But once ads start trying to grab your attention, subvert your reasoning (often to your own personal detriment)... that's Evil. It's smeared out into billions of tiny bits, but that doesn't really make it any better.

Polite advertising combined with targeting is also potentially very problematic. Passive targeting (people who are interested in X do Y so I will advertise X near Y) seems fine, but it in this day and age it intersects with tracking... which brings us back around the circle.

As carriers change to fiber for all or part of their network, this is increasingly not true.

It does bring back fond memories of trying to explain to WoW guildmates that we needed to hurry up and finish the fight, because my power just went out. (Still online thanks to telco central-office based DSL and a good UPS.)

Backhoes. The internet's natural predator.

What would such evidence look like? I don't think we can consider brain size definitive, since it's possible for humans with about ~10% of our normal brain volume to function normally. There seems to be no evidence for tool use, much less advanced technology, but again, what would these even look like after so many millions of years? I think about all we can say is that no prior species changed the planet in the same fashion we have.

An objective debate over the future of capitalism is something our society needs.

Perhaps not an emphasis on story-telling, but definitely on role-playing. Back in my red and blue box days, and through years of 1st ed, the emphasis was on immersing yourself in character. Stories emerged from the setting and characters, but the focus, the fun, was about pretending to be a dwarf, elf, or wizard within that fantasy setting. That was layered on a game that was fundamentally about puzzle solving and resource management.

Later editions seemed to lose that, turning characters into game pieces and focusing far more on combat, tactics, and optimization and leaving less room for the roleplaying.

It depends in where you want to stick that 'invented' label. The principles of Sir Robert Peel, arguably the father of modern policing, are very different: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles

Because the advancement of technology changes the impact of certain classes of surveillance and tracking. Existing law is based on a balance that no longer exists. Bruce Schneier has a nice essay on this and license plates:

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2007/01/on_police_s...

In short, having a unique id and database of car owners may be okay when the police need to manually look up information. But when they can have every plate in the city regularly scanned by robots and the data fed to an AI to look for patterns, that's not even close to the same thing.

Wait, it's not called Public Security, Section 9?

I have the similar thoughts about capitalism as the Great Depression leaves living memory.

Perhaps it is not any arbitrary and general '-ism' that is so deeply problematic, but the periodic failure or fall below some critical level of a collection of human understanding and willing effort that waxes and wanes with circumstances and lived experience over generations?

No, we cannot be certain.

But I think that trying ISPs with motivation beyond "what gets the top executives the biggest bonuses at the end of the year" is worth trying.

60 is a very natural number.

You have twelve joints on the fingers of one hand. (Use the thumb to count.) You have five fingers (including the thumb) on the other hand to track multiples of 12 with. Voila, 60!

Given that there are people walking around living perfectly normal lives who have only a small fraction of normal brain mass, I'm always skeptical of definitive pronouncements regarding conciousness.

Maybe he's just human and rationally wants himself and his family to get out alive? Anyone with a brain and a little knowledge of history can see how easily things can go badly for a dictator and his family.

If Kim Jong-Un can pull things off right, he and his familiy will be able to live out their lives without having to fear being deposed and murdered, probably keeping enough wealth to live in luxury for generations, and maybe going down in history as a well-regarded peacemaking hero on top of it all.

>The only significant thing to change was American policy.

The North Korean government has a small but credible nuclear deterrent in the form of a warhead stockpile + ICBMs. That's only happened in the last year or two.

Many if not most politicians (and those pulling their strings) passing the laws to enable this crackdown absolutely understand what they are doing. This is about control, at a very basic level. Access to sex and control of sex are a huge lever for shaping society. Moves like this aim to push society in a "traditional" or "reactionary" direction.

I read that as meaning risks like "if my product isn't caught killing anyone in the next year, I'll be a billionaire!" type risks, not personal risks.

I'm not much of a social network user. A few forums and a barely-used Google account are as close as I've been willing to go. But it seems to me that they're just crying out to be regulated as a utility, if they're going to be allowed as a for-profit company at all.

It makes me uncomfortable too. I think it's because it's a real world trolley problem.

We all make similar decisions all of our lives, but nearly always at some remove. (With rare exceptions in fields like medicine and military operations.) But autonomous vehicles are a very visceral and direct implementation. The difference betweeen the trolley problem and in autonomous vehicles is in time delay and the amount of effort and skill required in execution.

Plus, we're taking what is pretty clearly a moral decision and putting it into a system that doesn't do moral decision-making.

Interestingly, the Gothic rebellions that lead to the sacking of Rome twice in the 400s AD was a direct result of the Romans abandoning their traditional policy of integration, dispersion, and resettlement in favor of abusing and exploiting the desperate Goths. Given a choice by the Romans of starving to death or selling their children into slavery, the Goths chose 'none of the above' and went on a rampage that led to the position as a coherent military power within the borders of the Empire but not truly tied to it.

I seem to recall one essay I read (long ago back in college and which a modicum of google-fu fails to locate) that argued that average caloric intake went sharply up in the territories of the Western Roman Empire in the decades after it's collapse.