Protecting children from real or perceived threats, temptations, evil things, etc was much easier in the physical world. In the virtual world it's much harder to put up fences.

ZFS is part of the OS on FreeBSD. Integrated more tightly in every respect.

That was back then when people believed in their country, in republic and democracy...

> If you own a house you are part of a Ponzi scheme in most developed nations.

Not unless you explicitly choose to. If you own a house to have a roof above you, to have a comfortable and safe place for you and your family, if you love and care about that place, then that's what you are getting out of the house. Its monetary value changes are "just" a side story.

But if you buy a house purely as an investment, then yeah.

It's part of a Ponzi scheme either way. Even if not an investment, you have to buy it, and it will eventually be sold.

100 cable "faults", but only 2/3-rd are from ships. And, then, how many of those have been in the Baltic Sea in prior years? 66 incidents per year sounds like a lot, but there are so many cables and shipping lanes all over the world.

Read the linked page, and its infographic. 38% + 25% = 63% ~ "two thirds". There are another 11% caused by "human activity", it's just neither "fishing" (trawler nets) nor "anchorage", but "other", which could even be a keel severing the cable close to shore.

https://blog.telegeography.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2017/submarine-ca...

74% human caused (38% fishing, 25% anchorage, 11% other)

14% environmental (8% natural, 6% abrasion)

12% neither human nor environmental (6% component failure, 6% other)

"Deliberate sabotage and shark bites are exceedingly rare"

Rad idea: limit H-1B to product companies, exclude consulting / body-shop companies.

You don’t need to even do that. Just make 150k a minimum salary, (or 200 if you want to be extra safe) and you will get rid of most of these body-shops. And yet, Meta will continue to be > 50% Asian, so will other Big Tech, which is what I think is the real source of all this anxiety. If you want to reverse that, you have to either have a racist immigration policy, or radically reduce the number of H1bs

> Just make 150k a minimum salary

Then that will be the next complaint... these immigrants are being paid $30k more than me... and I am a citizen!

But H1B exists because no American can fill this position - hence the position by its definition MUST be paid a premium

Want you or not, there will be a Putin's successor. No one is immortal.

You may find esp-link interesting: https://github.com/jeelabs/esp-link I've built a WiFi<->RS232 bridge using the firmware, ESP8266 and a UART<->RS232 converter module. All hardware is very cheap.

Those wars do affect climate. They do affect global economy.

The point was probably to reduce accidental casualties. Also, the wounds can be quite severe. Finally, a device like a pager cannot hold a lot of explosive substance in its spare space anyway.