You may be right, but this article is entirely about the author's kids and has nothing to do with any administration.

Unless part of the poly-crisis is one twin changing the page of the book to one with fewer moons, and the administration is the parental policies of bedtime warnings and teeth brushing.

it's really hard not to have at least one single point of failure. there's a case to be made that a single cloud account actually reduces the ways things can go wrong to just one point of failure, instead of a handful.

e.g. email on a custom domain. your domain registrar is now a spof AND your email provider for your domain is a spof. and that's just email.

There's obviously a middle ground and ways to have a strictly better personal data posture than before, but it's a multi faceted problem balancing usability, security, and resilience

Micron leadership probably just heard about Roko's basilisk.

Like Pascal's wager that absurdity is an appeal to stupidity. I expect the people running these companies are more interested in a different type of wager. One where they risk the future of the company to pump shares and make a quick profit.

Almost perfect. Inspirational.

It just needed to create a little box you can drag around when you click on nothing, like OS desktops have.

So here's the snippet to do that, toss this in the console and live the dream:

(() => { let startX, startY, box, dragging = false;

  const style = document.createElement('style');
  style.textContent = `
    .___selection-box {
      position: absolute;
      pointer-events: none;
      border: 1px dashed #2b76d6;
      background: rgba(43,118,214,0.12);
      z-index: 999999;
    }
  `;
  document.head.appendChild(style);

  function onDown(e) {
    if (e.button !== 0) return; // left click only
    startX = e.pageX;
    startY = e.pageY;
    dragging = true;

    box = document.createElement('div');
    box.className = '___selection-box';
    box.style.left = startX + 'px';
    box.style.top = startY + 'px';
    document.body.appendChild(box);

    e.preventDefault();
  }

  function onMove(e) {
    if (!dragging) return;
    const x = e.pageX, y = e.pageY;
    const left = Math.min(x, startX);
    const top = Math.min(y, startY);
    const width = Math.abs(x - startX);
    const height = Math.abs(y - startY);
    Object.assign(box.style, {
      left: left + 'px',
      top: top + 'px',
      width: width + 'px',
      height: height + 'px'
    });
  }

  function onUp(e) {
    if (!dragging) return;
    dragging = false;
    console.log('Selection rect:', box.getBoundingClientRect());
    box.remove();
    box = null;
  }

  window.addEventListener('mousedown', onDown);
  window.addEventListener('mousemove', onMove);
  window.addEventListener('mouseup', onUp);

  console.log(" Selection enabled. Drag with left mouse button. Check console for rect.");

})();

I just wanted to say, this is a very nice example of clean vanilla JavaScript. Well done!

Did you write this yourself?

$40k for dentures? She got fleeced.

$3M for retirement right now is plenty, but you have to live like an actually middle class person.

If you are living like the middle class (i.e. income comes both from capital ownership and labour) then you can't possibly be retired. Retirees are those who have transitioned into the upper class (i.e. income comes from capital ownership alone).

Assuming you have a paid off house and car, what else are people bleeding money on?

Medical expenses like OP said. If you retire at over 65 then possibly Medicare/etc can cover some of this.

But if you're wanting to retire early, it's a huge gamble on medical expenses in the US.

"The market is like a large movie theater with a small door. And the best way to detect a sucker is to see if his focus is on the size of the theater rather than that of the door." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Skin in the Game

(This is not to say that you, specifically, are a "sucker", and I don't love the term. But I think Taleb has a lot to offer on considering risk.)

Colorado's where the river's headwaters are: this is probably an even bigger deal for those in Utah, Arizona, Las Vegas, and Southeastern California.

Don’t forget Mexico who’s allocated 1.5 million acre-feet per year (59 cubic metres per second) by the Colorado River Compact [1].

Which I believe was drafted during the wettest decade in the Southwest’s history.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Compact

Wait, Mexico’s share is (as seems from both your comment and the link) specified in absolute terms rather than as a percentage like the US states? Leaving no allowance for that amount not existing?

More specific link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Compact#Provisi...

Minute 319 [1] determines how water allocations will change during conditions of drought or surplus. This is also covered a little at the end of the Wikipedia article.

In a max drought scenario (Lake Mead surface elevation <1,025 feet) it looks like delivery requirements would be reduced by 125,000 acre-feet, with different delivery thresholds above that range.

1. https://www.ibwc.gov/Files/Minutes/Min319_Env_Fact_Sheet.pdf

I believe that the water to be supplied to Mexico via the river was of such poor quality that we ended up either trucking or directly purifying a set volume of water downstream to meet our treaty obligations.

Yes, because who gives a fuck about treaties. After all, when your neighbor can't fight you it's a-ok to take their stuff. /s

No it's not. What do you think is going to happen to the migration or border once agriculture and clean water supplies evaporate down there?

Do the right thing, fulfill the obligations. The consequences suck for everyone.

Focusing entirely on the short term wellbeing of your own can be a big mistake. Sure, giving all the water to Arizona and ignoring the deal with Mexico is better for Americans long term. But what happens next?

Short term thinking is what gets us into these problems in the first place.

Sounds fair, as long as arizonians would stop culturing the crops painfully developped during thousands of years and generously shared with them by Mexicans (Tomatoes, pepper, corn), or Peruvians (Potatoes), or Argentinians and Bolivians (Peanuts), or Europeans (Onions, Lattice, Cabbage), or Africans (cup of coffee?), or Asians (return also the red jungle chicken please, and the apple native from Kazakhstan).

They can still culture the arizonian jackalope thistle and the sellfish redneck's muddy sweetgrass, and all the other members in the long list of wonderful crops developed there, of course.

That's a non sequitur if I've ever read one.

The fact is that the entire planet worked really hard so places like this can have an agriculture. Lets face it, Arizona didn't provided a lot in return to the science of agriculture.

And now some people is saying lets keep all the water, so people down the river don't have/don't deserve any?

A little understanding and maybe even gratitude would be a nice touch.

Think of it as a taste of what is to come when water will become more scarce. This is pretty much in line with predictions and the term 'water war' may well become commonplace in the near future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_conflict

The entire planet worked really hard so they could survive, it had nothing to do with being generous to other cultures or particularly to benefit the good people of Arizona.

"Fuck you, got mine"

Do you want a massive wave of unauthorized immigration? Because that's how you get a massive wave of unauthorized immigration.

Uhh, thing is, that’s been going on for the better part of two years now

And this is why we need nuclear proliferation.

That is somewhat true, but also in Colorado there's a plethora of westslope vs front range issues.

The collateral limit getting triggered isn’t a particularly big deal: it just means that MSTR needs to quickly furnish more BTC as collateral or they’ll be in breach of loan covenants. But they HAVE a ton of BTC, so there’s no effect on the market. The only way this gets interesting at all is if the total bitcoin owned by mstr starts approaching the price of the loan (which it’s not even close to, but that’s the point where silvergate could lose some money…)

Really all the margin call does is reduce the amount of additional debt collateralized by bitcoin that MSTR could take on. It’s clickbait!

They have debt too. It’s clickbait style writing.

This is my favorite article about inflation https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2021/11/24/the-truth-abo...

Inflation is not simply a matter of the government adding more money to the supply (although that's one of the actions that can help reduce the value of currency)... the flow of money (and power) is immensely complex, and inflation as a measure is a procrustean bed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes)