The main reason for the cooldown is so security companies can find the issues, not that unwitting victims will find them.

One problem of the central cooldown is that it restricts the choice to be able to consume a package immediately, and some people might think that a problem.

How is this like "tragedy of the commons"?

For some this comes early, like a "child" looking after a sick parent. For others (like me) this comes with having children.

My wife and I look back on the years we thought we were adults, because we lived on our own, had jobs and a cat, and chuckle to ourselves at how grown up we thought we were. This type of pretending to be an adult we call "adulting".

The problem just shifts. People with attractive voices would then have an advantage.

The positive side to "bias" is intuition. This is where a bias ("I'm pretty sure it'll turn out to work like XYZ, so I'll do this experiment next, rather than getting bogged down in some other area.") massively shortcuts the amount of resources required to come to a scientific conclusion.

During my PhD, I made many such shortcuts, following my nose. If I didn't, and tried to do everything objectively, I'd still be optimising buffers, and other such things.

Secondhand book stores are also usually much more interesting than even good new stores.

No one is reading them, and it would be practically impossible to do so. Signing something you cannot practically read and understand clearly does not mean you actually accept them.

How can we wake people up to this absurdity? The law should exist to help society. When it is not helping, reform it.

What is driving companies to want to get rid of people, rather than do more? Is it just short-term investor-driven thinking?

https://once-upon-a-boot.github.io/?action=view-event×t...

So then only rich people get to decide what they make available for free to poor people.

I don't think this is adding anything new to the way the world already works.

As I write this I realise that popping a small inedible magnetic bean in to food while cooking is a bit of a safety hazard, so that is probably why we don't see this at home. Although, you could have larger stirring beans, or other shapes, which wouldn't be a choking hazard. -- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_stirrer

He could afford not to rely on others, but instead he let people buy him food, give him a bed, etc.

This didn't sit well with me. If you can pay your own way, but choose to instead let others pay for you, you're just sponging off people.