The impact is more for bind and fly drones that are FCC approved so you don’t need a HAM license to operate them.

To me it also looks like there are also loopholes you could drive a truck through in terms of importing partially assembled drones that can be assembled by the end user as well as approving components by making their use not exclusive to UAS.

What actually happens remains to be seen because it really depends on what the enforcement actually looks like and how well work arounds work.

I think the real goal of the regulators is to ensure an onshore supply chain for government use and there won’t be a focus on civilian usage.

Isn’t that multi-Paxos? Paxos is leaderless.

Very odd opening sentence.

Granted I DIY it all just for entertainment.

Getting into nicer cars and real sports cars was one of the best calls I ever made.

Engineers punish themselves with pretty terrible cars when they could easily afford something that is better in many dimensions.

I was spending the money anyways, why not own a copy?

Streaming is primarily just for specific TV shows, subscribe, immediately cancel, watch the series, then resubscribe when something worthwhile exists. I can't stand the bugs, slow interfaces, forced ads in ad free tiers, bad audio quality, and bad video quality.

I have a few continuous subscriptions, but they are for weird stuff and they are pretty inexpensive (5-6$ a month). Dropout TV and some D&D podcasts for example.

What most streaming services are asking in no way aligns with the content they offer that is worth watching.

Even very stupid animals can think about the future and have anxiety which is pretty direct evidence they are thinking about the good things and the bad things that happen to them. You could argue well yeah, but they don't have an opinion about it, but Occam's razor suggests otherwise. We are built from the same plumbing in most cases even if ours is better.

I don’t want much and Mastodon lets me shout into the void just fine.

Social networking with people I know is so fragmented now it feels like no service really matters.

I do not want to end up in a Medicaid paid for nursing home or family home.

Even the stories of her residents coming from other expensive family homes were horrifying.

Elder care is horrifying.

People die in pain all the time from neglect and incompetence. People who came to her were regularly on their way to a painful death and she brought them back by just not being an idiot and putting in some effort.

Broken bones and many other conditions went undiagnosed or improperly diagnosed/treated. Doctors prescribing medication after medication to deal with the side effects of the medications they already prescribed that weren’t needed in the first place. Dosages all over the map that are inappropriate for someone in the given age and condition.

You better hope you keep your brain to manage your own medical care or have someone who can do it for you.

My choices would be very different if I didn't think I was more or less on my own.

Pensions are kind of always problematic because you take control away from people and give it to people with misaligned incentives.

It's the same if you give people control over their own retirement because they can not contribute or mismanage how the money is invested. Defined contribution pensions are maybe an improvement on this because at least you know there is money there and can have a regulatory framework that is simple and heavily restricts how the money can be used. I would really like to see broad market index funds only. Dumb money should stay dumb.

Maybe if you pull the responsibility up to the federal government you minimize the risk of mismanagement, but it's still pretty large.

Seems like we are doomed to pick an option that is still risky and it's every person for themselves. You need to super save and not rely on any framework provided by others. And this is where 401ks shine. Sure I am stuck relying on the stock market, but I think the distribution of outcomes there are more in my favor than if it were managed by someone else. Whatever is in my 401k (or IRA or whatever) is owned by me and is heavily diversified.

A lot of great gameplay mechanics have been added over the years, but it hasn’t all been forward progress.

No Man’s Sky is the total opposite and I really want to come back to that at some point and get lost in it the way Elite was in VR.

Truly transported you elsewhere and gave you presence in an empty uncaring galaxy that made the tedium and grind still feel like something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAHaYXBFnJo

We need more right to repair and requirement to make things repairable regulations. The balance is in the wrong spot right now.