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You are right. "Drooling off to sleep" is a condescending way to put it. I don't want to be condescending - my goal is not to judge people who don't have it easy in life. However, I think it is important that the people who do have it easy in life to realize that, realize the luxuries that they have and not take them for granted. I want people to utilize the resources they have to do good in the world.

But thank you. I should be more empathetic

In my opinion humanity has put in the effort to get first world countries running water, sewer systems, electricity, access to the internet - all luxuries that a lot of the world can not afford. Because we don't have to worry about these things, I believe we are obliged to spend time to problem solve and tackle the biggest challenges the world has today - and not waste it watching 200 8 second videos before -- drooling off to sleep -- (not the best way to put that)

Exactly. Humans are incredibly capable of solving major problems if we have a desire and urge to solve them. This whole instant entertainment phenomenon is sucking the human desire to change out the window. "Is your life hard?" your phone asks. "Well just reach into your pocket and forget all of your problems! Be entertained instantly! Don't worry about fixing your problems, just forget them!"

Polynesians, Native Americans made contact before European arrival... genetic study finds

Had to cut off the last few words

"4. Butt waste is not biodegradable: Filters are non-biodegradable, and while ultraviolet rays from the sun will eventually break them into smaller pieces, the toxic material never disappears."

Yes the break down but it seems they break down into smaller plastics or microplastics, which are being found in rain https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6496/1257

I have only anecdotal sources claiming that hemp isnt a great alternative considering the land/water usage vs the product created, compared to say bamboo. Do you know anything about that?

You can, the instructions are here: https://rich.readthedocs.io/en/latest/traceback.html

But it is noticeably slower than the default python handler

I'm not involved in anything like that but to me that just sounds like a business risk you have to take when making money off of the google store.

Are there other countries that have some kind of system like this in place?

With plumbing the tools of the trade have been the same for 100+ years. Pipes, wrenches, valves. It seems like every two years in the software engineering realm you have to learn to use a completely new tool in order to be valuable to a company.

I would bet this is not foreign entities. But who knows. Maybe the FBI are looking into this. They aren't going to tweet about it, so who knows what they are doing.

Would there be any way to crowdsource this kind of application? Like wikipedia. 'Heres one source to back up this claim' 'Heres 8 sources that go against this claim'

Well the dot com bubble comes to mind concerning people not willing to invest in risky tech companies but that didn't stop new tech from coming to the market

You wouldn't have posted this if this project wasn't created. You wouldn't have discussed this with other people. It's hard to fix a big problem when most people don't even understand the problem.

Contrary to what Musk & co's claims it doesn't look like this will help the people/countries who actually need access, at least not with the prices that they are saying they will charge. Someone scatter-plotted the GDP of countries and internet penetration, and it turns out none of the countries who need access can afford starlink internet. (There are many other similar calculations out there on the interwebs).

https://twitter.com/chmn_victor/status/1219721896075366403

Most likely this is mainly to be used by bankers and computer stock traders to buy and sell stocks even faster over the ocean.

I'm assuming other projects will eventually move to MZLA

Yeah but I want to make fun of a huge corporation for fakely supporting something only a small minority of us computer elite use