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Australia's covid policy of indefinitely banning citizens from leaving was the last straw for me. I won't be back.

Most Americans live in a state where unemployment benefits is easily enough for food.

If you share anything at all over Facebook, you should expect it to be in someone's personal dossier of you, forever.

No, they shouldn't, and this why we have privacy laws.

People post on facebook assuming the privacy model of facebook, where they have revokable control of who sees what they share. What do you think your friends would say if you told them you're keeping a personal copy of their photos even if they try to delete them?

Facebook deletes the data when a user asks. OP is explicitly trying retain a copy of people's data against their wishes.

Please stop this. This is a huge violation of your friend's privacy. Just because a friend has shared something with you on facebook doesn't mean they expect it to be in someone's personal cambridge analytica forever.

Not necessarily. One datapoint: Amazon pays fulfilment workers $15/hour in the US, but €11/hour (~$12) in Germany

That's similar performance to NASA's Gipsy solver and a couple other PPP solutions.

The practical problem is PPP falls apart when there's any sort of multipath or noise, with will be the case for any receiver not in a completely open field. A single nearby tree is often the difference between 4cm accuracy and a meter.

Amazon changed this because many recent lawsuits have used the fact there's no direct buyer seller relationship to argue Amazon should be liable for defective products instead of the seller.

Should 51% of losses come out of employees pockets?

The law requires them to do a proper Fair Use analysis prior to lodging any complaint under the DMCA.

No it doesn't

No taxes on fuel isn’t a subsidy, there’s a natural race to the bottom on fuel prices because airlines can easily put more fuel in in a cheaper country.

Meanwhile, in Germany and France nearly 30% of the total cost of rail service is directly covered by the government, and it’s still more expensive than flying.

It does just stay there in a well run landfill, and microplastics mostly either come from tyres and cosmetics, or plastics that aren't disposed of in landfills.

There's some poorly run landfills, but how about we campaign to somewhat improve landfills instead of trying to reform all of modern society?

Direct Air Capture can pull carbon out of the atmosphere for ~$200 per tonne. Flying generates about 0.1 tonne per passenger-hour. We can make flying carbon neutral and it'd only be ~20% more expensive.

What's wrong with putting plastic in landfills?

I am sure that the deletion of media files in services like Facebook has never meant to be absolute. Many of my colleagues believe the same thing that I believe: Facebook and other services do not actually delete data, they just mark it as "deleted" and purge it only if they need the space.

This is a dumb conspiracy theory. Facebook has made plenty of public statements that say otherwise, and there's a whole team that works on the system that ensures every trace is erased from disks, logs, cold storage and backups when deleting content.

"You just create a new Facebook at Work account to connect with coworkers. This account is separate from your personal Facebook but works in similar ways." (https://work.fb.com)

https://www.gwern.net/iq

With the meek-amazon or meek-azure bridges it works fine, albeit slowly.

~85% of the world population are covered by mobile networks

There are more people who have access but don't buy data because it's too expensive than people outside of any coverage.

Intelligence doesn't work like that. Take AIXI, define a reward in terms of paperclips and (if it were actually computable) you will kill everything.

Intelligence and any consideration of its goals at all can be completely unrelated.

1c/GB is a tenth of the price of datacenter bandwidth, a hundredth of residential DSL or cable access bandwidth and a thousandth the price of mobile bandwidth.

You're off by three orders of magnitude.