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Given that it now takes an order of magnitude more time than it used to for newly added contacts to appear in my list of Signal contacts, I assume /something/ has changed with the way they exchange contact data.

> “Society is more willing to accept wealthy people paying higher fares,” said Chris Knittel, a business professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “But if the repercussion of lower fares in lower-income places is longer wait times, that’s probably what they want to keep an eye on."

I can't help but recall all the times Uber or its defenders claimed that its supposedly uniform fare scale meant that it could serve all neighborhoods equally, unlike the taxi companies. It will be interesting to see if this policy reproduces the same behavior while laundering it through machine learning.

This is really interesting! I can imagine it might feel quite different if, rather than having a persistent ability to ever retain short-term memories, you lost a small period every few months.

The author's experience seems quite different from yours, though, and I can imagine she might disagree with your evaluation that "Actually, it's exciting".

On the other hand, I think there are really good reasons for co-living beyond saving a bit of money. There's a great community aspect to it as well. On the occasions where I've lived by myself, I've mostly ended up bored and sedentary, whereas in co-living arrangements, there's always people to chat or cook with, hang out, etc.

Of course, I'm still in my late 20s, so take this with a massive grain of salt. But if my salary doubled tomorrow, I still wouldn't give up my flatshare. I don't see myself wanting to leave it for another several years.

> Reading about a patriarchy in the US makes me escpacially angry, because it belittles the suffering from women under actual patriarchies.

Oppression isn't a contest. It takes different forms in different places, and all of them merit smashing. This is not an "extremist" view by any measure.

I would absolutely start by running a threat modeling exercise, as that will help you focus on the important things and tune out unnecessary FUD (e.g. do you really need to PGP-encrypt everything and run TAILS if you're not being targeted by the NSA?).

Once you have an understanding of what you need to protect and who your main adversaries are, choosing the right tools should become more straightforward.

My favorite guide to threat modeling for activists comes from WITNESS: https://blog.witness.org/2016/11/getting-started-digital-sec...

EFF Surveillance Self-Defense (mentioned elsewhere in this thread) also has a guide to threat modeling, as well as a lot of good resources around how to use various tools.

But my advice: don't choose the tools first, or the non-techies won't understand why they have to use them and may become discouraged by the friction and poor usability they encounter.

The registry existed under Obama, but it was created in 2002 after 9/11, partially suspended in 2011, and fully suspended last month [0], though it looks like it remains to be seen whether the suspension will be undone.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Entry-Exit_R...

I travel DB long-distance twice weekly for commutes. The 116€ "standard fare" is actually the maximum fare. It only gets cheaper if you buy in advance, buy saver tickets, or get a BahnCard.

I have a BahnCard 50 (50% discount on flexible fares). It paid for itself in about three weeks. It cost 255€ and I've never had to pay more than 47€ for a flexible ticket, even last-minute on high-speed lines.

For anyone interested in Sebastião Salgado's work, I can highly recommend the documentary The Salt of the Earth[0] directed by Wim Wenders. He's done much amazing, gripping photography on ecological catastrophes and the people affected by them, and quite a bit of great nature photography as well.

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3674140/

Sure, but in the article (and your metaphor as I understand it), "heating" and "cooling" refer to the rate of change of the rate of change, i.e. whether the year-on-year increase in rental price is increasing or decreasing. "Hot" (and presumably "cold") would then refer to the YOY increase itself.

I'm wondering whether the clearer metaphor isn't to use "heating" and "cooling" to refer to positive/negative YOY increases, respectively, and "hot" and "cold" to describe the average prices.

I guess "Market still heating up, just not as fast" makes for a less compelling headline.

>Average rents, meanwhile, increased by 4.1% to $1,248 in the first quarter from a year earlier, compared with the 2015 first quarter’s 5% increase, according to Axiometrics Inc., an apartment research company.

So rents increased 4.1% instead of 5% as they did a year ago. Both of these numbers are higher than the rate of inflation [0]. So rents are still rising in real terms.

Can we really say the market is "cooling", then? I would think that the "heat" of a market would be measured by the first derivative of price, rather than the second.

[0]: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-inflation-rate-in-past-1...