Inorganic population growth by immigration. There are heaps of millionaires in China and the banks are giving them quite some leverage.

Manning leaked facts about actions of the government that most citizens wouldn't want to be part of, prompting change. He/she also released stuff that was ethically good or neutral, but damaged the security. On the balance I'd say that was a service to the mankind and the US, motives irrelevant.

Motives are irrelevant to being a hero?

It's a pretty low bar these days.

That's "Plattenbau", a much later invention. Khruschevkas were built using traditional technology onsite, plattenbau is prefabricated and assembled in a fraction of time.

So, we have: 1) Blackbox on-board computers, probably dozens of subtle configuration variations 2) Blackbox binary-only, possibly obfuscated firmware 3) Possibly TiVo-ized runtime. 4) Farmers as the ones who'd possibly be interested. 5) Then, manufacturers could sue for various DMCA violations

I'd say the odds of this happening would be some 1e-3 a year.

This is a policy issue that shouldn't be attacked technically. Better get the farmer write their Congress members.

How long before Facebook starts grading people and choosing whom to prevent from suicide and whom to push towards it?

They could always sell that data to companies that are interested in not employing persons with mental health issues.

Something like Cambridge Analytica could use it to do terrible things.

I can think of quite a few awful things data like this could be very useful for. I feel just a little gross that I had these ideas.

How would you ensure that the news service doesn't accept side-channel donations for the "right" news? How would you ensure that the news service doesn't keep telling the subscribers what they want to hear?

The news service could have an independent accountant affirm that all revenue comes from subscribers. As for bias, this is not something I'm suggesting would be prevented. I'm only suggesting it would be a news organization incentivized to serve the readership and not advertisers.

Newsflash: "race" is a bullshit concept that's a leaky abstraction on top of "ethnicities" at best (which is in turn a leaky abstraction on top of genetics and ancestry).

Some are, some aren't. Russia is big.

Also, we take it to mean that he's talking about traditionally western culture, Russia doesn't have a western culture.

And all I can think of is stupid greentext about Pepe.

Well they probably do crack the tiniest bit of rare pepe on their rare pasta. (Pepe is Italian for pepper.)

>su filindeu falling out of my pocket

I'll have 2 tickets to the dick concert thanks.

Those ones were hilarious.

Duh, the Bible is not true?