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The criminal networks will just immediately switch to VPNs and using end-to-end encryption services hosted in another country. VPN technology for phones is already available and has been for a while. On day one this legislation will be useless for its primary (purported) purpose. No exceptions or winner-choosing necessary.

Then they'll go after VPNs with the argument of criminals using the technology to skirt law enforcement backdoor requirements in end-to-end encryption.

I cannot imagine already being married and going through that tectonic of a shift of worldview. I had pretty much figured out I couldn't be Christian by the time I got to college and met the woman who would become my wife. She was still very strongly Christian, and I was okay with that and didn't push anything. I'm just a naturally curious person and read a lot of nonfiction and like to talk about what I read, and she is a naturally curious person, too, so she would enjoy the conversations. And after talking about the history of philosophy and philosophical ideas and how that intersected with religion, she had a worldview-shattering realization that the concept of the soul wasn't handed down by God to early Christians, it was borrowed from non-Christian philosophy that was around at the time in roughly the same geographic area. It was another in a long line of philosophical diffusion of ideas that happens everywhere all the time in human history. Nothing intrinsically earth-shattering in itself to students of history, but that was her equivalent of Rhett's evolution moment.

It was devastating to her, and it took years for her to figure out who she even was after that. I think it worked out as well as it did partly because I came from the other side and had already thought through a lot of the questions (What is morality without God? What brings value to our lives without God? Etc.) and could help anchor her and prevent nihilistic spirals while she figured herself out. I can't imagine being married to someone still very much entrenched in the worldview I realized I had to abandon. I honestly think I would be terrified of how they would react: I came into my realization on my own, and so it came as an internal struggle, but now presenting this major change in myself and the way I want to lead my life to my partner, I represent in a way an external threat to their worldview and their way of life. In the face of that kind of threat, people can act drastically differently from the kind of person you have come to know them as through normal interactions. And however they react, it's going to set the course for the rest of both of your lives.

I'm going to have to watch the full interview.

What's the y-axis, and how exactly are you measuring it? Anybody can draw an exponential curve of nothing specific.

He never actually says that exact phrase in the books. It's a cultural misquote, like "beam me up, Scotty," that somehow caught on in popular culture but wasn't in the original source.

People are making fun of the waffling and the apparent indecision and are missing the point. Trump isn't flailing and trying to figure out how to actually make things work. He's doing exactly what he intended: he's holding the US economy for ransom and building a power base among the billionaires.

He used the poor and ignorant to get control of the public institutions, and now he's using that power to get control over the private institutions (for-profit companies). He's building a carbon copy of Russia with himself in the role of Putin. He's almost there, and it's taken him 2 months to do it.

The author hits on exactly what's happening with the comparison to carcinisation: crustacean evolution converges to a crab like form because that's the optimization for the environmental stresses.

As tiramichu said in their comment, digital platforms are converging to the same form because they're optimizing for the same metric. But the reason they're all optimizing that metric is because their monetization is advertising.

In the golden days of digital platforms, i.e. the 2010s, everything was venture capital funded. A quality product was the first goal, and monetization would come "eventually." All of the platforms operated this way. Advertising was discussed as one potential monetization, but others were on the table, too, like the "freemium" model that seemed to work well for Google: provide a basic tier for free that was great in its own right, and then have premium features that power users had to pay for. No one had detailed data for what worked and what didn't, and how well each model works for a given market, because everything was so new. There were a few one-off success stories, many wild failures from the dotcom crash, but no clear paths to reliable, successful revenue streams.

Lots of products now do operate with the freemium model, but more and more platforms had moved and are still moving to advertising ultimately because of the venture capital firms that initially funded them have strong control over them and have more long term interest in money than a good product. The data is now out there that the advertising model makes so, so much more money than a freemium model ever could in basically any market. So VCs want advertising, so everything is TikTok.

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We're importing too much of our lumber from a foreign country (Canada), which is a national security risk to the lumber-consuming parts of our economy. I wish I were joking.

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My best yet.

Actually Kevin Smith finally got them back. That's why he's doing a Dogma tour and has talked about potentially doing more stuff with that IP.

That's not how those percentages are calculated. It's not per instance of intercourse, it's how many couples end up pregnant after being sexually active for a year. 99% means you have a 1% chance of getting a woman pregnant if you're sexually active throughout a year.