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Mary Magdalene is called "Equal to the Apostles," one of the highest honorifics that can be bestowed on a saint: https://orthodoxwiki.org/Mary_Magdalene

If encryption is treated as a munition[0], does it mean that the Second Amendment could actually be used to protect the right to use it? If the intent of the Second Amendment is to protect citizens' ability to combat government overreach, it seems like it should...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...

This idea of combining NFT and GPG to demonstrate both ownership and authenticity is very intriguing. Would the artist's public GPG key have to be something similar to a verified Twitter account, i.e. some kind of due diligence by a third party that the key actually belongs to a specific person/artist? How would the artist "sign" the artwork with the private GPG key in such a way that the signature wasn't simply duplicated when the digital artifact was copied? Is there a way to combine some identifier from the NFT with the GPG key such that there was a way to cryptographically demonstrate authenticity?

19:22:18 in which timezone?

If anyone in the San Francisco Bay Area is interested in learning botanical illustration, Filoli Gardens offers courses in it: https://filoli.org/classes/botanical-art-classes/

The article points out that MUNI has low ridership due to other issues besides cost, namely frequency, safety and predictability. MUNI scores poorly on all of those, so if making it free to ride MUNI doesn't address those issues, or makes them worse, there won't be an increased interest in riding MUNI. (I'm a little baffled why they don't include speed in that list...it's just brutally slow to go any significant distance in San Francisco. Biking is now the fastest way around much of the city.)

Why is there an assumption that the tunnels have to be for cars? Create tunnels for bicycles instead: - Tunnels don´t need to be nearly as big, and would still have higher capacity - The friction of ¨I won´t ride a bike because it´s dangerous¨ is reduced or eliminated - Weather as a factor in commuting by bike is eliminated - Like a railway grade, you can basically eliminate any significant elevation ascents/descents

So San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties are some of the most disconnected places in the United States?

Yet more evidence that there is an entire generation in the western world that is incapable of communicating, navigating, planning or discovering anything without a device telling them what to do.

In 50 years, smart phones will be viewed the same way as automobiles are now: a catastrophic mistake from which it's almost impossible to extricate ourselves.

>They're completely out of touch with reality and the consequences of their beliefs.

That only applies to people in rural areas. It is not true of urbanites in any way. /s

And as one of the comments pointed out, many of the rural states are completely at the mercy of the Federal government. When the Federal government controls 48% of a state's land (Wyoming), yet doesn't allow logging, mining or agricultural activities on most of it, what exactly is the local population supposed to generate revenue from?

This piece is exceptionally good.

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That's pretty much how all class-action lawsuits work. You (the victim) get a check for a single-digit dollar amount that isn't worth standing in line at the bank to deposit, and the lawyers/firms on the case make millions. It's how the ABA can claim they're fighting for the little guy.

This article about the same event has a correction that says NASA says the data was anomalous: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/2/29/1493107/--There-is-a...

MySQL is free and has been since its inception. Most developers will always choose (free + good enough) over $10K-per-installation licenses for functionally complete solutions. The same is true of PHP.

This has huge privacy-rights implications...I don't have much to add, but this should be upvoted.

The article makes no mention of services like Uber, or the myriad new delivery services popping up. Surely those must increase traffic and thus an increased risk of accidents, fatal or otherwise?

Has anyone else noticed that safeway.com doesn't sell their in-store brand of sandwich bread, which usually costs $1.99? You can only buy loaves of bread that are $4.00 or more. Their entire online store is stocked only with crappy, expensive, name-brand items.

So, yeah, in theory you can get your groceries delivered to you, but none of those services are intended for cash-strapped families and/or conscientious shoppers.

The prospect of lugging 4 bags of groceries plus 3 kids on a late, crowded MUNI bus is just sooooo inviting...

Is it just me, or does there appear to be some correlation between people who follow "news" and a willingness to assume the worst about those who hold different opinions? Yes, following the news doesn't necessarily cause incivility, but maybe someone should take a look. After all, if one doesn't follow the news, then there's nothing news-related to get worked up about...

Sweet, a link to a pay-walled academic publication. "Economic-Elite Domination" indeed.

I found a great ad-free social network called "Real Life". I don't need an account or even a device to access it. It has this great feature called "Eye Roll" that subtly lets my friends know when they've shared too many baby pictures and cat videos.

Yes yes yes yes yes yes YEEESSSSS! I hope this is the stake that goes through the heart of that undead thing known as MUNI.

I love this idea. And for anyone who doesn't like it, ask yourself why we are using it for juries...