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Reporters Without Borders sues X
  • Had they just used some punctuation - "The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders on Thursday, announced", it would have made it easier to get. Even, "The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders, on Thursday, announced" would be doable.

    How do these feel?

  • Is Anarchism viable?
  • Having rules, means we need to be sure everyone follows it. And having a condition in which everyone wants to and strives to follow it, is also something utopian.

    So even if the rules turn out to be desirable, a deterrent would be required. Now of course, for the thoughtful, the deterrent would be the possibility of losing long term stability, but for those who only think of immediate gains, you either have to band up (which eventually causes formation of communities and states) or they band up (= bandits) and eventually become kings (the problematic kind).

    And then these things come into play:
    Cooperation game Pretty good linking of thoughts by Veritasion

    Then comes the most important point (or at least what I consider so). Technological progress. Science is very much viable in Anarchy, with most scientist-scientist interactions not really requiring a state in the first place. You just need an incentive structure that is good enough to make maintenance (including prevention of loss of knowledge) and further improvements, a desirable endeavour. And science can take a lot of resources, while not showing any return for a long time.
    Depending upon the case, this might incite frustration in those, investing in it for those working on it.
    And stagnation is not a possibility. Any attempts at that will just cause a slow downfall.

  • Baby red panda dies due to 'stress caused by fireworks,' renewing calls to ban their public sale
  • Over here, it's pretty rare to have a car that causes a lot of noise.
    A few days ago, there was a car crossing me that was quieter than my cycle's hub. And it was an ICE.
    Only the "sports" cars and bikes tend to be loud and thanks to petroleum prices (and the vehicle's price itself) are much less in number.

    But loudspeakers and fireworks, I cannot bear.

    Air pollution? Mine is a smoker's country. People like me are lucky not to be handed the Darwin award.

  • How do you actually read?
    • "Foundation" by Isaac Asimov is one of the only 3 novels I have read, that are were not part of my school course.
    • Another one was some romance novel that I got as a prize for some competition I can't remember and I managed to force myself to read it until the end. Needless to say, I didn't like it. The setting was probably Victorian Era.
    • The third is an English translation of the Light Novel "Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei", which I am not sure when I intend on completing.

    I am a very sloow reader. Foundation was a pretty thin book and I took months. I tend to read a little, imagine it, dream on it and have fun that way and this one turned out to work really well for that. I thought of checking out the Prelude and other parts in the series, but never went ahead with it.

    I have seen myself getting intrigued by the thought the writer (may/may not have) put into the worldbuilding aspect and find myself exploring the same in my mind.

    My habits: I read what I feel like, when I feel like it. I remember having borrowed picture encyclopedias from school libraries as a child and just leisurely reading them. Those things were pretty fun too.

  • People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set.
  • Except for that most of it was not.
    A lot of the noise on the screen (and speaker) was affected by radiation from nearby stuff.

    I'd think that nowadays, it would be even more so, with way more WiFi and mobile phone signals everywhere. Now sure, different frequencies mean they would affect less, but the cumulative effect would still be more than the CMBR.

    Also, I have a flat-screen CRT at home.

  • "GitHub CI is easy", he said. "It's just bash ", he said.

    Until he actually had to use it.

    Took 2 hours of reading through examples just to deploy the site. Turns out, it is hard to do even just the bash stuff when you can't see the container.

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