> this writing is so clear and good > Today, IUSS automatically detects and classifies both submarines and wales.

Do the British know ?

I am proud to say I noticed that one about two minutes before I saw your comment. It's not that I never copy edit, I just usually don't do it until two days later.

See, if you edit THEN copy, you'll get your corrections where you want them. /s

Of course the British know. Submarine and Wales is just two tube stops from Elephant and Castle.

Reddit has basically gone from a democracy to a dictatorship. If mods don’t obey they’re replaced until reddit finds someone who falls in line.

That has always been the case. Consider for example, https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/flpjcx/removing... from a few years ago where there was a situation and a number of the mods of the sub were removed.

The most senior of the remaining mods in there then became the top mod (note that it is ordered by activity in that graphic not seniority).

In what may appear to be a surprising coincidence, this is the same sub and it was three years ago that the current aggrieved mod got the top mod position by having others removed.

Did you properly set up DKIm, Dmarc and SPF? I have been hosting my own email through a VM in Texas for about two decades. Whenever I had problems with rejected deliveries, they were solved by moving to the new standards the internet invented to fight spam. Did you use a dmarc analyzer to verify you were set up correctly?

This was a very interesting read. The detail on the exploratory process was perfect. Can’t wait for part two.

#mefour. I have recommended this article in various conversations over the years. I love how it's grown to include projections from various diverse fields. I feel I have lived forever after reading through it. And the mind-numbing scale eases fears over death for me.

I think it is amazing you can read and understand 1,500-year-old writings on museum pieces. That is awesome!

> It doesn't matter.

It doesn't pre-determine your outcome.

It does matter, in that it helps to start out wealthy or smarter or better looking than your competition.

I think what he means is you shouldn't dwell on it. Make the best of what you do have and don't play the victim.

Have you even met anyone successful who whined about how disadvantaged they were? Or do they tell you what they did to overcome the odds onstead?

Survivorship bias.

Just because people can beat stacked decks doesn't make stacked decks okay.

Yes, genetics are a stacked deck. Aside from somehow modifying genes or picking a partner with wanted traits (intelligence, good looks, etc), there isn't really much you can do about it for now is there?

I've had a couple friends try to enroll me into their ponzi schemes. They were really emotional both during the sale and after I remained in "no". I think emotions are just the communication of the base animal part of people. No need to imbue it with prescience or exceptional intelligence.

Ponzi schemes are terrible. Many ICOs aren't much more. However, blockchain enables digital scarcity. That's an interesting piece of technology right there. Using it as a state-machine is a very interesting application of it. IMHO many negative emotional responses come from scamming applications, many positive ones from new possibilities created by the technology, some of both are just due to the transformative nature of its application.

> However, blockchain enables digital scarcity.

Eh? Scarcity? Ever looked at all the forks of bitcoin?

Blockchain absolutely does not enable scarcity. This has been proven time and time again...

You say that as if Bitcoin forks are unquestionable proof of increasing supply, which many people will disagrewle with. I consider them to be completely separate products, seeing as the forks are not backed by Bitcoin's hashpower.

It doesn't matter what someone "sees" them as, the fact remains that forks are possible because the scarcity is an artificial illusion.

Presumably it's a lot harder for a group of evil-doers to get a country into changing laws or printing more money. Your opinions may vary. I have my faith in (some) countries.

Thank you for sharing this. I am in charge of archiving the family files - pictures, video, art projects, email. I want it available through the aging of standards and protected against the bitrot of aging hard drives. I'll be converting any xz archives I get into a better format.

Mix and match, according to criticity and max affordable data loss: multiple locations, multiple solutions, multiple local copies (e.g. one cloud solution + DVD + NAS). See: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/

You should also write out ECC information.