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Another good reason is that Twitter launching an onion address has given Tor a lot of positive press in the mainstream media for a change.

Yes, the locals who work in industries that directly benefit from the influx of foreign spending love it. The criticism will come from a few directions I think:

1. The same people who are highly concerned about economic inequality and "social justice" within western countries today.

2. Locals of developing countries who do no benefit from the foreign spending or are even hurt by it (e.g., middle or upper class locals who lose their relatively privaleged status to foreigners).

3. Local men who see foreigners as "stealing" their women.

I don't understand the snarky feigned confusion around the term "digital nomad". If you move around while working online for extended periods of time, you're a digital nomad.

I usually just tell people "I travel while working with a startup remotely" because I'm aware of the term's reputation, but it seems to be an apt description to me.

I suspect in the next 5-10 years there's going to be a big backlash against people from western countries exploiting their economic privilege by living in developing countries.

I've lived in various mostly developing countries for the past 7 years, and I'm not one to get hung up on the "white privalege" that's currently talked about in the west, but it is hard not to feel guilty at times at the tremendous advantages I have with a western salary and background while living here. And that's before even considering the rampant fetishization of white men in some countries that results in endless dating opportunities. It doesn't seem far removed from the colonial past.

How does downtown Chicago not have anything like standard DSL or cable internet packages?

Writing out all of the zeros in $400 billion doesn't make your point any more compelling.

> They cost like 3x what a newbuild does, this "but building codes" stuff doesnt stand up to scruitiny.

I don't think that's a fair comparison. There is a fixed supply by definition of those old buildings, so their price will be pushed up by demand with little relation to their cost to build since they can't be built anymore.

A better comparison would be to look at the cost of new houses in developing places like SE Asia where there are little to no building codes.

Isn't that what FedNow is trying to do?

How would they handle theft? Would all payments (except for maybe major systemic hacks) be irreversible?

Surely they couldn't blacklist stolen dollars that may have been subsequently spent multiple times. Would they mint new dollars to replace funds that have been proven to have been stolen (i.e., providing similar protection that bank and credit card customers have now)?

I disagree that it's true for all people. When I was young and in college with mild social anxiety, yes, alcohol was an excellent social lubricant and made for much more enjoyable nights.

But now that I'm in my 30's and comfortable being open in just about any social situation, I don't find that alcohol adds much. I can lower my inhibitions on my own.

The article says the diamond formed at that depth, but I assume the rock rose to a higher depth before it was extracted. I believe the deepest depth to which we have drilled is on the order of 10 km.

Plenty of countries don't. I was just asking a friend if it would be difficult for an American to open a bank account in Thailand or Vietnam because of the reporting requirements. He said that with the proper introduction, there would no problem at all. Doesn't matter if you want to deposit $500 or $5 million. There might be an extra "service charge" for the larger amounts, but there will be no questions about its origin.

There are plenty of HNW individuals who want to buy or sell crytpo for cash no questions asked. Just last week a Swiss guy wanted to buy 1.5 million EUR of bitcoin from me for cash at a 10% premium. He'd supposedly have the cash delivered anywhere in Europe.

Too risky for me, but if you're a drug cartel, that's business as usual.

That's insane. Is there a way to disable "Remote settings" in about:config?

Have you tried the mold [1] linker? It's a drop-in replacement with a single cargo config change and gave me a massive speed-up (> 10x) for incremental debug builds of a large project with around 450 dependencies.

[1] https://github.com/rui314/mold

I'm a fan of Julia and have used it and will continue to use it for a lot of my daily work which involves running numeric simulations, but I agree with your critique.

I feel like the ideal language would combine the strengths of Rust (static type checking, great LSP, better threading, better package manager, easy compilation without a large runtime, etc.) with the focus on the scientific computing domain and all the associated trade-offs that Julia has. Maybe it's not possible to have the best of both worlds, but it sure would be nice.