This is brilliant, exactly what I was thinking. Knowing russians and Russia very closely, this is a very likely scenario if Russia prevails in the next few months.

Rewarding Russia now is bringing much more war very soon. Unfortunately there is a disagreement on this fact even between well-intended people who genuinely want peace.

Inertial systems are all equal in a certain relevant here sense, if there is no need for account for your movement relative to Sun, Galaxy, CMB, or anything else. Yes, in this sense, Sun also rotates around Earth.

How are many other similar bans enforceable? Like CSM itself. With a lot of difficulties.

Software which may be made illegal.

Very interesting. How likely is it to be approved though, given the opposition? Alao, what about the rest of the EU countries?

Interesting, maybe it shows that welbeing is not sufficient for a good life. People strive for struggle and progress. Even in hardship, in war, they may feel uninited, fulfilled, and motivated. It just would be better if this drive was not expressed in physical violence.

Also, good to read a well-thought comment! It is an interesting question when a radical position is justified. Normally, I would radically appeal for nuanced and balanced discussion and progress within liberal institutions. But sometimes this progress is slow or near impossible.

I find that anti-comunist sentiments in Poland, Ukraine, and some other formerly soviet countries usually refer to the soviet state, not communism as such. It is actually anti-soviet and anti-tankie.

Soviet occupation left very bitter memories, and poisoned any potential for communist progressivism in this part of the world.

This should be considered while criticising anti-communism.

This is a remarkably specific and disturbing fact. Thank you for sharing.

It does make you wonder what caused spinal injury in these mice. I do not suppose there is a sufficient natural supply of these kinds of injured mice.

But, if not animal testing, how do you propose to develop the treatment?

You can buy quantum computer hours right now from amazon, check it out :) It is used for research.

And it is not so crazy complex to get liquid helium and some below cooling. Even small labs have it, I worked with one like that.

Quantum computers are real. You can get some on Amazon, no joke. People think it is only a matter of time before they are big enough to tackle the real world encryption.

It is extra worrying that once they are ready, they break encryption used today if someone happens to have stored some encrypted, assumed to be safe, traffic.

So better encryption now should resist breaking for years, as long as the information is relevant. And better protocols are needed now.

Actually I like the very fact that it is paid. Supporting the developer, and some sort of accountability.

Also, after trying connect, liftoff, jerboa (all perfectly good apps), etc I find that sync is most smooth and customizable.

They certainly do. They undermine HTTP too. And would have done much more harm if the Web was not founded with a different governance model.

EU actions like that in the title post stress this original, less centralized, model. It was naive to assume that free internet will remain free if left alone.

Paradoxically, preserving freedom relies on constraints and regulations.

You still, presumably, use HTTP for your internet needs, even though facebook totally works over it.

What’s the problem with a protocol for chat?

there is not almost any attempt to organize public participation. Except maybe admin posts with discussions in comments. Also users can vote with their feet.

I agree that the admin instinct is mostly honest and democratic and they should be regarded for their work. But the instance governance is mostly autocratic. And this kind of structure usually devolves in despotism, since power corrupts.

Would be nice to see an institution-based instance, with a constitution, elections, balance of power. Would be a great social experiment!

This is really interesting, also in comparison to governance of “traditional” social networks.

I would not be surprised if someone did scientific research about it.

An interesting difference is no need to fight for land and resources, anyone can go and create another microstate.

Still, there is some benefit of larger states, they can resist spam better. But as much as they implement spam filters in the code, smaller instances can them. Political benefits of open source are real.

Analogs of Colloseum in MMA and video games exist, but they are not “real” enough for some people. In fact, the Colloseum is not big enough for some people, they want a bigger fight and glory. Like a war.

So while the article raises interesting points it’s really proposing only half measures.

Of course, big conventional war is destructive, self-defeating, and cruel so it’s no good.

So what I propose is to direct the drive for adventure into facing the “real” of learning and creating the way technology and science does it. I wish I learned how to communicate the heroic nature of this quest .

It’s just going to be other bots fighting the little flying ones. Little air defence, or other flying bots. This technology is another next step in warfare for sure, but it is not unstoppable like the video shows.

Drones and AI is the new shape of the arms race.

Big states will be ahead like with other tech. US Senate will be safe.

Another way is to restrict and regulate the technology. Luckily the chip manufacturing is not something which a small group can do in their backyard. Right now the chips can make their way anywhere despite sanctions but sanction implementation is being improved.