I'd get behind that, but it won't happen at this point.
I would like to see abolishment of speculative property ownership. You either use it, or it gets given to someone else.
You can't hold it and wait for the price to go up. You get a year, maybe two, and then it becomes public domain to anyone that will use it.
I find it absurd that people are born and indoctrinated to believe that because someone else says they own this bit of land that they've never used, no one else can use it.
People are literally born homeless. Their parents may have a home, and they may let their children use it, but they are born without anywhere they can legally be without someone else's permission.
> You get a year, maybe two, and then it becomes public domain to anyone that will use it.
Sounds like a reasonable policy, yet there's a loophole. What would prevent owners from trading on paper their goods so that they can remain empty under a different name? Or from lending a huge space to a single person so that the space isn't technically empty although it could house 10-100 times as many people?
> People are literally born homeless.
Love that argument. I've never seen it that way before, but that makes perfect sense!
> Heads up, US Customs does not have to respect to GDPR.
Customs is part of a sovereign nation. What customs can and can't do has precious little bearing on what companies can and can't do. It's basically irrelevant.
> Neither does the walmart he shops at. Neither does Amazon if he orders something online.
Sure, if both are OK with not being able to operate in the EU _and_ believe the US government will take the political heat for refusing to enforce the EUs laws.
We also don't strictly _have_ to extradite criminals to other countries. But we usually do.
International law functions nothing like domestic law, because there is no higher power to say "no, you can't do that". If the EU can get the US to punish US companies through diplomacy, force or trades, then that's how things work. If they can't, then it's not how things work.
My guess is that the US won't shield them. It's not critical for US defense, largely redundant with data available from Facebook, and we're already fighting to keep our existing tech giants abroad. Clearview is more useful as a sacrificial pawn than trying to get it crowned a queen.
The political heat for refusing to enforce EU laws? Is this a serious claim?
American's by and large don't want others laws enforced here. Not China's, not middle eastern laws, and they fought a war of independence against having European laws apply in the US (ie, the US killed folks over this).
A current political issue is partly the US enforcement of its laws overseas, which has rubbed many countries the wrong way. Because of the significance of the US in the current financial system the US has exercised really outsized power internationally.
> We also don't strictly _have_ to extradite criminals to other countries. But we usually do.
As far as I know a country won’t extradite one of their citizens for something that isn’t illegal in their home country.
Or extradite for something that is legal in the country else we’d be seeing a bunch of Saudi expat women getting extradited for gasp driving a car or something.
Thailand was mulling over extraditing Nur Sajat, a Malaysian trans woman, on charges of blasphemy for "cross-dressing," a crime implicitly defined in its Sharia court system. I'm not sure where happened in her case, but the very fact Thailand didn't reject Malaysia's request immediately suggests people are extradited even when the charges wouldn't apply in the extraditing country.
Yeah, I can't read it, but "millions" sound rather high to me. In 2019 there were 157 million American workers. That's expected to increase by 2 million in 2022, to 159 million workers. The number of workers is higher than it was, although perhaps that growth is lower than it would normally be, I don't know.
"Millions" does imply full percentage points of the workforce have long COVID. That sounds high to me, because it either means long COVID is pretty common or that a lot of people have gotten COVID.
It's entirely possible we're over-diagnosing it. The symptoms of long COVID overlap with practically every common condition out there, not to mention a lot of them can be stress induced. There's been a lot of stress going around, too.
I don't know if we'd expect to see an uptick in Social Security just yet. Unemployment was covering people up until fairly recently, and I believe is much easier to get.
More generally, I doubt the government will make it eligible for disability, or they'll limit it to extremely severe cases. I don't know that we can fiscally afford to not only lose whole digit percentages of the workforce, but to pay out benefits as well. I won't even pretend to be an economist, so I could be wrong, but it's not intuitive we can run the money printer like this in the face of declining productivity due to people dropping out of the workforce.
We're still not done yet, Omicron looks likely to infect a lot of people, including those who are vaccinated (and especially those who aren't boosted). If long COVID is as prevalent as the WSJ believes, letting people not work will be a big problem, and paying benefits will be unthinkable. If we're at millions of people now, we'll easily be at tens of millions by the time Omicron makes the rounds.
> Trimmers I met were earning $500 to $1,000 a day. $100 per lb trimmed was pretty common.
I don't believe this, the numbers don't line up. If it's wet, doing 5 pounds in a day is reasonable, but nobody's going to pay you $100/pound for it. 5 pounds of wet is a little over a pound dried, so $500 is around a quarter of the total sale price. I just don't believe anyone is paying that much for something a child with safety scissors could do (albeit much worse). I also don't believe that growers wouldn't simply buy automatic bud trimmers. They're not as good, but I would be willing to bet that consumers would be happy to not pay the apparent 25% trimmer markup in exchange for slightly less pretty buds.
If that's dry bud, the price is reasonable, but there's no way in hell anyone is trimming 5-10 pounds of dry bud a day. That's like a rolling curbside garbage bin full of weed.
I don't think they're using slave labor, but given the number of people I've heard wanting to do it so they can work with weed, I'd be surprised if they're paying significantly more than minimum wage. I'd wager it's very close to $15/hour + perks, where "perks" mostly means "all the free weed you can smoke".
The other poster is right, I can't see any way this is an accessibility issue.
You could try pushing back with a First Amendment complaint. Say you have a sincere and deeply held belief that using Facebook is wrong, and that forcing you to use it violates your First Amendment rights. The Supreme Court has held that beliefs do not need to be strictly religious in order to be protected. It's the same route anti-vaxxers take.
I still wouldn't hold my breath. You might win, but your children will already be in college by the time it's all sorted.
It's also not really safe to drink. Probably unlikely to kill you, but you're not going to get any assurances E. coli isn't in there.
It's pretty hard to mess up growing weed bad enough to hurt someone, unless you poison yourself with pesticides on accident (which aren't really necessary at least at the personal scale). If something bad happens, it's almost always to the plant.
I would think a prototype supersonic trebuchet would come with a lot more rules than a standard firearm.
They would be much closer to the safety precautions for a prototype firearm, which includes things like being behind a blast shield because there is no safe zone if it fails catastrophically.
I don't even trust that the sides of that thing are safe from shrapnel or the rubber bands whipping parts around. If one side of the machine gave way for some reason, it could absolutely swing sideways. That tiny string at the end is probably going fast enough to slice through skin and veins, and it's concerningly close to neck height.
He should have parked his car off to the side and used the engine block for cover. The paneling of the car will stop minor wood shrapnel, and the engine block should be able to stop any metal pieces that come off. Ballistic barriers would be better, but at least you're not standing there tempting fate with your squishy and easily separable limbs.
I'm a little doubtful. I think your standard pebble would vaporize from the friction with the air. A pebble certainly wouldn't survive re-entry into the atmosphere, so there's an upper bound on the speed before it disintegrates. If you made a vacuum between you and the wall, it might work?
One reason to use larger projectiles is to deliver similar amounts of energy without having to fight things like that.
Just to expand on that, patients aren't the only ones with a legitimate reason to access that data. Insurance companies need copies as well, so they would still want some kind of mass-data portal even if customers don't use it. If you change doctors, they want copies of your old medical records. If you see a specialist, if you go to the hospital, etc, etc. Pharmacies might call and ask if they think there's something weird about a prescription.
Direct patient contacts are a vanishingly small percentage of records requests for a doctor. Doctors could likely handle those via phone, but it doesn't solve the issue of needing an EMR.
Google owns the stuff you make during 20% time, iirc, so they use it as a feeder for new products.
Allegedly (I can't verify, but can't see why they'd lie) GMail, Google Maps and AdSense were all born out of people's 20% time and Google just swooped in and turned them into full on products.
It might be worth staying #3 in cloud if they could pull off products like that again. I can't help but notice that those products are all old, though.
From all I can tell, Google Maps was not started from within Google, but started in early 2003 as Where 2 Technologies [1] and was purchased by Google in October 2004 [2].
Google Maps started off as KeyHole, a technology company that was funded by In-Q-Tel aka the VC arm of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), it was acquired by Google.
I would like to see abolishment of speculative property ownership. You either use it, or it gets given to someone else.
You can't hold it and wait for the price to go up. You get a year, maybe two, and then it becomes public domain to anyone that will use it.
I find it absurd that people are born and indoctrinated to believe that because someone else says they own this bit of land that they've never used, no one else can use it.
People are literally born homeless. Their parents may have a home, and they may let their children use it, but they are born without anywhere they can legally be without someone else's permission.