deepdriver

People who spend inordinate amounts of time indoors on the computer have more time in which to develop computer skills.

Certainly in terms of short-term judgement impairment, this isn't true:

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/teendeathbridgefal...

They shield, and therefore effectively man-in-the-middle, roughly 20% of all websites on the Internet:

https://backlinko.com/cloudflare-users

Yes, the cult leader declared himself Christ:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoko_Asahara

For those skimming, Aum Shinrikyo is the cult responsible for the Tokyo subway sarin attack. What's often overlooked is that the cult synthesized the sarin gas themselves in a self-made sophisticated chemical weapons lab:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack#Chem...

When their headquarters were raided, police found enough weaponry to fight a small war:

>Over the next week, the full scale of Aum's activities was revealed for the first time. At the cult's headquarters in Kamikuishiki on the foot of Mount Fuji, police found explosives, chemical weapons, and a Russian Mil Mi-17 military helicopter. While the finding of biological warfare agents such as anthrax and Ebola cultures was reported, those claims now appear to have been widely exaggerated.[52] There were stockpiles of chemicals that could be used for producing enough sarin to kill four million people.[53]

They bought a sheep farm in Australia to mine uranium in order to enrich it and build nuclear weapons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjawarn_Station#Aum_Shinriky...

Had they not been caught, I have little doubt they'd have eventually succeeded.

Is "Robloxing" the new "but in Minecraft?"

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/in-minecraft

If you want a real conspiracy theory, recall that original and long-running KF thread subject Christine Weston Chandler was persuaded to incestuously assault her mother by a person named Isabella Janke. Kiwi Farms uncovered Isabella's history with Christine, and extensively documented her online activities to include allegations of extortion, CASM, and animal abuse:

https://archive.ph/3Ev0l

Now consider that Isabella's father Mike Janke is a former Navy SEAL who has a professional relationship with Matthew Prince, Cloudflare CEO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1wio7sDDBA

These records have been wiped from the Internet Archive. I wonder how long they will remain on archive.ph.

The site was tried not in a court of law but in the court of public opinion. Removing evidence from the one court where it matters, especially as precedent for similar extralegal trials in the future, is harmful to the open web.

There were no dumps of bank account numbers. As far as I saw, Kiwi Farms users posted only publicly-available info about thread subjects. In my opinion, certain categories of public yet personally-identifying information should be covered by US law in a way similar to HIPAA. However, that is not currently the case.

Also, info like someone's phone number and home address are only a click away once you have their full name and approximate age/geographic location, at least for people haven't taken extraordinary steps to limit discoverability on Spokeo or White Pages. People post full names and locations to Twitter all the time. They call it "unmasking" when it's someone the ruling consensus dislikes, while they know the info will be used to look up the "dox." This is not Twitter or Kiwi Farms' fault. It is the result of flaws in our legal system which allow sites like Spokeo and White pages to operate.

Rammed earth is more abundant, potentially cheaper, and has far better sound and thermal insulation properties:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220705-the-sustainable-...

It is more labor-intensive but easily automated, at least one start-up has worked/is working on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TXj5IIkUIY

Rammed earth panels can also be prefabricated and delivered to build site via truck:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFddMSRel4A

The city of Shibam in Yemen shows how a high-rise rammed earth/adobe city might look. It's possible to adapt this technique to wet climates with appropriate plasters and maintenance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm8OGIZ7tag

> I don't see what's the link between his origins and his sins in life. Both can be studied independently regardless of the other.

I agree! Historians who went quiet on this when “evil Columbus” became the dominant interpretation don’t seem to share that same view. Nor do those who downvoted and flagged my post, apparently.

Pumped hydro isn't feasible everywhere, you really need the right geologic conditions.

Sand and basalt-based thermal batteries sound promising. Essentially just heat up rocks in insulated containers, then run Rankin- or Stirling-cycle generators off the stored heat. Power-to-weight's probably awful, but that doesn't matter for grid applications, just cost per kWh:

https://newatlas.com/energy/sand-battery-polar-night/

https://scitechdaily.com/gridscale-storing-renewable-energy-...

Unwittingly spreading disease is simply not biological warfare. There is no such thing as “unknowingly” waging it. That is just a pandemic.

It's been in the news, and subject to much HN commentary:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32661638

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32706673

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32711475

So you wouldn’t mind white Wakandans? One or two Vanilla Panthers? How about caucasian voodoo gods, or demons of Japanese myth? They’re fictional too.

Of course that would be silly, and we both know why. Tolkien’s work is explicitly based on Norse myth and the peoples of Northern Europe, who were and are quite real. He wrote about these intentions and influences at length.

There’s no need for writers to rely on European culture as a crutch. I’d personally love to see more epics set in the Mali Empire, Ghana Empire, or Kingdom of Dahomey. Sub-Saharan Africa has lots of its own rich mythology, too. It seems bizarre that besides Black Panther, the most I’ve seen these stories represented on TV is still the 1990s PBS series “Wishbone”.

Those numbers are still remarkably similar.

Male life expectancy at birth in Russia fell by six years between 1991 and 1994. A drop that fast was practically unprecedented in developed economies. It’s not fun being a Millennial, as I know firsthand, but nothing comparable to 90s Russia in the aggregate.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41294-021-00169-w

The state of law and order in Venezuela is thin evidence? How many countries’ justice systems would need to collapse to convince you of this concept’s validity?

The “anarcho-tyranny” idea is orthogonal to Francis’s other and later views, and has become a mainstay topic in mainstream conservatism. Here it used in a Newsweek article by Hispanic conservative writer Pedro Gonzalez:

https://www.newsweek.com/president-bidens-anarcho-tyranny-op...

I briefly shopped on Walmart.com because Amazon had marketized, destroying my trust in reviews, brands, and product quality, and Walmart had not. That time is past. Now I find myself sticking to manufacturer websites or buying things in the store again.

BBC quoted a Pakistan government official as saying 1/3 of the country is currently underwater. Even if that’s hyperbole, and I’m not sure it is, the scale of devastation is immense.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62712301

I saw it mentioned elsewhere as removed from Netflix, glad it’s up on the NBC streaming service.

Anarchy-tyranny in 1980s New York (see “Context and Background”) led to this famous act of vigilantism and subsequent acquittal via what was essentially jury nullification:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_New_York_City_Subway_shoo...

Recalling a DA is firm rejection of his vision for a more-permissive justice system:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chesa-boudin-san-francisco-da-r...

In terms of total collapse, see Venezuela (“Public Opinion” subsection highlights ineffective courts and weak rulings):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Venezuela

"Diversity Day" has been removed in its entirety per first link.

The distinction between private and government censorship is increasingly irrelevant to consumers, as in heavily consolidated markets the end effect is the same.

This type of censorship isn’t unique to China. Numerous scenes and whole episodes of The Office were silently removed from streaming services. The episodes were renumbered so you wouldn’t notice:

https://www.newsweek.com/comedy-central-caves-cancel-culture...

This article goes so far as to praise the censorship:

https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/the-office-edited-censor...

As usual, piracy (or the legal purchase and ripping of old DVDs) is now the only way to access this material, which was deemed suitable for public consumption as recently as a few years ago.

In theory it can do both. However, it is not yet crew-certified.

Starship is specifically designed to fly to and land on Mars:

https://www.spacex.com/human-spaceflight/mars/

On the other hand, systems where the bar for guilt is too high err too much towards not punishing criminals. Eventually such systems are rejected by their subjects and collapse, either totally or into anarcho-tyranny. This is especially true of states with great power over the middle classes, but little power or willingness to exercise it over the worst criminal element. There's a balance to be found in the middle between standards of guilt that are too high or too low.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_T._Francis#Thought_and_...

>Francis's term "anarcho-tyranny" refers to armed dictatorship without rule of law, or a Hegelian synthesis when the state tyrannically or oppressively regulates citizens' lives yet is unable or unwilling to enforce fundamental protective law.

>It is better than 10 guilty persons escape than 1 innocent suffers

What if the escaped guilty persons cause more than one innocent to suffer? Seems like an obvious flaw in this aphorism. Maybe works for petty thievery, not so much crimes of great bodily harm.

The wonderful pop science channel Kurzgesagt has a video on this:

https://youtu.be/G-WO-z-QuWI