Right. Russia has been grinding for 50km in eastern Ukraine for 4 years, and now suddenly it wants to attack an alliance 7x its population and 20x its economy. It sounds like yet another excuse to erode liberty than an actual threat to the west.

If Ukraine loses, Russia will be in a good position to attack the west because they think we're cowards who won't actually respond to, e.g., Estonia getting invaded. Also, it's misleading to say that Ukraine is 1/20th the economy: Ukraine is supported by NATO.

Of course, this is all irrelevant to the discussion around chat control: authoritarians want authority.

Scanning convos for leaks; spies, and so on.

Oh, okay, so how you are planning on keeping spies and so on on the platforms that will implement the scanning?

I am not saying I agree with that - just what the line thought of the folks at top may be.

Oh, right, indeed "are you a terrorist? " was always next to "think of the children!"

Sounds like Russia is Europe's Iran.

They're 2 weeks away from having ~~nuclear weapons~~ invading Europe! Sorry, we need to scan all of your communications to prepare for this looming threat.

I honestly don't see it. I'm far more wary of China than Russia.

Russia can't even take Ukraine, they're experiencing their own version of the U.S. Vietnam catastrophe.

surely there is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_as_theft

That is "tax in general", not income taxes specifically.

income tax is a particular instance of 'tax in general'.

great idea, let's people without skin in the game to vote for whose who have.

let us people?

you can but they can't. just plain hypocrisy.

I don't think this law is getting voted into existence by smokers, though.

i this context, "who cares" means "whose business". and the answer by the western society is that no ones but person in question.

bucketing ppl by birth year is literally a discrimination.

> i this context, "who cares" means "whose business".

I don't think so, but if the original poster is around...

Anyway, it's the government's business to keep their population out of trouble.

> bucketing ppl by birth year is literally a discrimination.

Contrary to popular opinion, discrimination isn't illegal or even undesirable per se. In this case, it has a health benefit.

H/L/M - would be helpful (High/Low/Medium) Escape as finish a game is pretty annoying (that's what you press after 'i') f1/2/3.. would be nice to - go to the next number in the row open all unflagged around current cell would be useful

Interestingly it has Thunderbolt 4 (40Gb), 6K typically saturates 30-31Gb, which leaves less 10Gb/s which isn't a lot especially assuming 2.5Gb network. Looks like a perfect case for TB5 and given its price.

actually it's quite the opposite: lectures are as approachable as one could possible make them, no fancy math and a walkthrough over attention is all you need

it's an ongoing project, the last lecture is about i year old

no doubt, jq language makes sense for hierarchical data structures but how much useful is it for table formats? ie duckdb can do all of that