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That depends on whether you believe in majoritarian democracy or in consensus-based democracy where the democratic system mediates the negotiation of powers between different groups of society.…

Surveillance capitalism is the accepted future of capitalistic society and both the UK and the US are experimenting with different ways (and sharing notes) on how it can be improved. I personally view…

The plant seems to have successfully upgraded two old models to the M1 or M2 variants and delivered two new bombers (built with old airframes). But yes, it appears that it can currently manufacture on…

That's not meant to apply to Google, it's actually a warning for its users - "Do No Evil (we are watching you)".

Russia’s Wartime Economy isn’t as Weak as it Looks - https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/comme... …

I agree with you that it certainly hurts the strategic wings (one of the 3 components of the nuclear triad) of the Russian military. But does it change the war in favour of the Ukrainians in any mean…

No, Russia won't use its Nukes against Ukraine yet . Remember that the Russians believe the Ukraine conflict is a NATO proxy war against it. And over the past 3+ years, Russian media has reporte…

The attack was certainly planned meticulously and can be termed a successful operation. Even the Russian media acknowledges it so, reporting that 5 airfields were targeted, attack on 3 were repelled s…

Recalled that Pale Moon is the only modern browser still capable of running Flash, and, looking that up I discovered that the last Flash installer for windows was around 425 MB! (Source: https:/…

I didn't realise how much cats depended on smell to identify us and each others, until I bathed one of my cats with a perfumed soap - once I dried her and let her free to mingle with the other ca…

You miss the point - someone can be living the "American Dream" but do they live anxiety-free, with the confidence / assurance that a medical condition wouldn't make them bankrupt …

And life is cheap in China and India - the 2 most populous region in the world. There's also the work culture where workers will actually protest against safety measures - some safety measures li…

aka "Nagware" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareware#Nagware

I don't get it - You are annoyed because people are complaining about a product they are unsatisfied with or really unhappy with?

Sometimes when I didn't have my contact lens solution with me, and there was some irritation in the eye I used to remove the lens, lick it, and put it back on. Cleaning the lens with my saliva wa…

All religion seem to be a "refactoring" of the core moral / ethical / ritualistic "codebase" of previous older religions. This is ofcourse most apparent when you study al…

And now we are back to BigTech all trying to again create their own ecosystem and even hold the user hostage to their whims. It's now all about control, not just over the users but even over deve…

Not my experience. For example, when I rented a house, I sent some personal documents to the landlord through such password protected email and also texted them the password to their phone. The called…

AKA, "Shadow profiling" - you can prevent it somewhat by sending Gmail users Protonmail or Tuta's password encrypted email.

Still do something similar by using a simple python script to import such files into SQLite and then query the db with SQL. And, if I remember right, now there are free SQLite GUI db readers that also…

Not necessarily - if it works offline (without internet), that also satisfies the "privacy" requirement for many of us.

True. An indian muslim friend of mine is doing his Masters + Doctorate in Israel. His fiancée also got into the same program. Two-three years back, he was quite excited to go and study there and went …

embrace. extend. extinguish. Cultural assimilation by the missionaries to spread Christianity, is one of the major reason. This is why different countries have their own "local" version of C…

I can certainly understand the government predicament around the world on why they are so hesitant to give up pesticides. Modern agriculture today is unfortunately heavily dependent on pesticides and …