pinephoneguy

Yes, note how the immigration diverges from the domestic population growth in the late 60s, the same time house price growth diverges from wage growth.

What are you talking about 'flood gates' ?

You tell me, I didn't write that.

Housing and pay diverged because we opened the border in the middle of the last century: supply for labor went way up along with demand for housing and other essential services. Combine that with some poor decisions by the Fed and you have high inflation with low wages. I don't know why you think immigration would have any other effect, the results have been extremely clear if you look at historical data.

The US is dead; she was dealt a mortal blow in the late 60s and succumbed to her injuries around 2004. What's left is the slow decay that will take many decades. That people continue to volunteer and fight for the country surprises me but I guess not everyone has noticed yet.

Don't forget that traditional banks consume lots of energy as well. Their armies of employees and tellers are required to drive an hour or so every day, they maintain tons of physical buildings, truck around piles of physical currency etc. Traditional fiat is given legitimacy based on government's monopoly on violence inside their borders which often result in wars. Nothing is free and I'm fairly certain that crypto will end in less energy consumption, not more.

Western media has burned a lot of credibility in the West as well.

I said no hassle, that was a lot of hassle last time I tried it.

Last time I sent money to someone internationally Etherium really was pretty convenient. The Coinbase fees were a little high but otherwise it was near instantaneous, I already had some anyway, and I didn't have to deal with any real hassle.

On rethinking my statement I've realized I should encourage the Californians to stay in California and not spread communism to the rest of the country. So yeah, you can't escape the bad things by moving, stay there.

Housing in SF is crazy expensive, commuting takes ages (and we've shown it's a complete waste) and a lot of people probably don't even want to live in California.

Forget snacks, the amount of money you save by not living there and not commuting could pay for an in house chef.

I think it's not only possible, but that the US government has been infiltrated by people who want it to happen and are doing their best to push Russia into a nuclear war.

How do you do shared secret authentication in this model? I know cert based auth is far better but today many apps rely on some kind of shared secret auth. Don't you by definition trust eg LDAP/IPA servers then?

EDIT: In case it's not clear: I'm talking about employee facing software inside an organization where you might have some kind of single sign on system or a distributed account system (like IPA or LDAP.)

At the end of the day the Russians can even run their own exchanges. They have fuel and food, they're self sustaining.

S/MIME could work well but the CA Cert situation doesn't allow it for normal people.

That's really not a great idea on Linux. A ton of stuff is handled in userspace. There's really no better way to distribute Linux apps than source code.

It’s a minority of mostly white progressives pushing this stuff.

I think if you look a little closer you'll find that many members of that "white" minority are in fact not White (or Hispanic, Black, or Asian.)

The same is true in the US but reality doesn't matter.

If you think Britain is a force for good than taking power away from it would be bad yes.

They're capable and are therefore oppressive.

Churchill’s comment that in wartime “truth is so precious that it must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies”.

1) We're not currently at war

2) Don't forget that the man you're quoting is responsible for the end of the British empire and arguably got Britain into a war with Germany unnecessarily (remember that Hitler's ideology was heavily based on race and he saw the British as close to the Germans. He even intentionally let their army go at Dunkirk because of this.)

Recently we were forced to watch an "ethics" video that essentially told everyone "picking White men for your team is wrong, don't do that." I guess now that Whites are becoming minorities in most of their countries the bigotry is going the other way.

"The Ukraine" is an area. It's the land between Russia and the rest of Europe (it literally translates to "borderland.") The country of Ukraine was named after it. Furthermore: The Article is added when territories become disputed, which is the case here (although it's odd that the groups pushing for its use most often are the ones insisting that Russia is in the wrong by creating the situation.)

As to the IM apps: they're all crap. Everything on smartphones is there either to tie you to a corporation, sell you something, or sell you to something. XMPP has E2EE (the same way signal does), push, carbons ("message backups") etc but no one uses it because it lacks the PR that these larger apps with companies behind them have.

Countries have borders, we invest a lot of money in our children and people and would like a return on that investment. In order for that to be possible we have to reject the people who would abuse the system.

I personally have given up playing Minecraft the official way (this coming from someone who paid for the game 10 years ago and has hosted multiple private servers.)

First they destroyed the launcher, replacing with some Chrome based garbage that had more dependencies than the game itself and now this. Microsoft just eats things and their brand smells like death.

Has vs had. I suppose you could say the races that were former slaves are now given an artificial advantage but I wouldn't go so far as to call it a caste system.

Obviously your ancestors aren't British so there's something to the "where are you really from" question. I've been asked similar things even as a White American.

Having different standards for different races (especially your own race) is racist.

There only exists one official China on this planet...

ROC an PRC agree on that at least.

Stay away from them too.

It's the same kind of pilpul you get from "fact checker" sites.

I recently bought a $20 Firefox OS phone from CVS. It's one of the best phones I've ever owned: removable battery, hardware keyboard, absolutely no bloatware or spyware, fast and responsive UI, apps are all very tiny. There are options besides Android and iOS and you don't have to go full Pinephone either.