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In my country shitting on sidewalks, had higher priority than health or liberties. Dog walking was allowed, while exercise and outdoor activities were prohibited.

Society already excludes many people due to expensive housing, education etc... Living as hermit in a van is not that bad. But society should not expect taxes from excluded people :)

That is not how it works. Most people can not get vaccinated right now, even if they would want. And frankly nobody cares at this point.

Yes, Colombian guy was polite.

I was robbed at gunpoint in Colombia. I argued with robber I want to keep my passport and will take my cards from wallet. In US they would shoot me just for good measure.

Pandemic has shown that mRNA vaccination manufacturing is a question of national security. I do not think those patents will be enforceable, if another pandemic starts, and countries decide to make their own vaccines. And countries like India, China, Thailand or Russia have pretty advanced biotech manufacturing and research.

India is manufacturing AstraZeneca and other vaccines for export. Prior pandemic India manufactured 2.3 billion vaccines annually. Patent fees are big part of expenses.

RNA based experiments are doable in most university labs. It is 2021.

very easy is to serialize both objects and compare binary data.

There is also a concept that only close friends and family matters. People outside of this circle do not really count as people. Putting poison in milk is not "good enough" but malicious action.

There was similar mentality in soviet countries.

It is trivial to secure windows with plastic foil, glass will literally become bullet proof.

Real problem is if attackers would activate ALL alarms in entire city, night after night. Or your "smart doors" would tip attackers that owner is away from home/

I find this attitude VERY disturbing. Cars are target comparable to industrial infrastructure, but with weak security. USA has many enemies, there is constantly some sort of hacking scandal.

Next time there is a mass scale hack: a few dozen people die, grid lock for couple of days, hardware worth of billions bricked.

And US government can bomb any country it marks as an attacker....

Many people made loss last year and still have to pay. Argument is essentially "I should not pay any taxes, because I spend all my income on house renovation".

Foreign students?

Unfinished buildings have no taxes. And if building company has free capacity, it makes sense to use it. There is no freeze in winter so concrete skeleton lasts for decades.

In 2019 EU imported 11.3 billion eur worth of food from Africa, mostly tobacco, cocoa beans etc.. Citrus was only 0.5 billion eur. In overall EU food imports it is only 10%. We also exported 9 billion worth of food to Africa.

Hardly enourmous, given Africa agricultural potential and production.

EU has very protective market when it comes to food. Israel has probably resources for compliance with all the regulations. But there is big motivation to stop cheap imports from Africa.

The only food with ethical concerns is human flesh. The rest is marketing.

Chronic pain is just a symptom. There could be million causes that needs to be treated first. And cannabis is just another form of "addictive pill", no better than opioids.

Well, it will treat everything. Soon it will be generic technology, accessible to any low-tier lab with "RNA printer". Any country will be able to download medication from internet. And in most places it is impossible to copyright naturally occurring RNA sequence.

There are like 5 stages, each requires different amount. It is well explained here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_rBO8neWw04

Is it a platform anyone can use, or private publisher?

People could leave SF and stay somewhere on coast. California has beautiful and diverse countryside.

I wrote "uncertainty" because things may change very soon.

Crime and housing cost are not new. Most people fleeing California do that over tax uncertainty and general business unfriendliness. Stuff like retroactive income tax increase or exit tax.

Relic from boom after WW2, many houses needed to be build fast.

North Korea shoots employees who try to move.

I used original IBM something keyboards in 90ies. Keys broke all the time.

For EU and Asia traveler, that trip seems very expensive. My cheapest trip ever included 7 flights between 3 continents for 90 euro.

I get similar view for $400/month. I really do not get this Stockholm syndrome for expensive cities.

This network would actually bring MORE moderation. People could subscribe to moderation filters similar way as in adblock. Antinazi, antiantifa, antilgbtq, anti-jehowa-witness... No extremism, just nice business and technical discussion. If some filter curator fails, you just replace its filter with another one.

Twitter is moderated, but is also full of political extremism. People leave Twitter all the time.

Moderation is solved problem. There are email spam filters, network of trusted people, proof of work...

I could also do that in 1975. But people use twitter.