> load up planes and physically ship gold.

they would not load planes, they’d load ships, because it’s much cheaper.

About your sister, feel free to discard this thought as we don’t know each other at all: You did the right thing to save her; somehow separate that from the relationship animosity (not sure how); but it’s 2 things, don’t combine them.

And the islands keep getting smaller and more expensive as the ocean expands.

If the lifestyle attracts you, go for it. It’s not for me.

Taking a semi-opinionated swag, the core went from Rome to Constantinople, then Venice, then London.

This was so well-written and convincing that I just subscribed. I believe they are doing this the right way, and more power to them!

The house in TFA costs more money and seems smaller. Maybe not a good value for the money?

[1] https://maps.app.goo.gl/yYaUYM3bdc7Ec6Lj6?g_st=ic

[2] https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1408-Palisades-Rd-Signal-...

If you actually enjoy the process of debugging, discovering root causes and fixing things, emergency medicine can be quite rewarding & fulfilling on very human level.

Fair warning: There are also some really bad experiences you will never un-see, if you're not ready for that I would stay away. Seeing death is objectively worse than the most catastrophic datacenter outage.

In the future when the “AI viruses” are endemic and impossible to eradicate from our infrastructure, will we need “good guy AI” viruses chasing down the bad guys?

The annihilated culture was not worried about its haplogroups, it was worried about is survival; its dead now; its haplogroups survive so everything is fine, yes?

If your physical copy of the Sunday Paper got up and walked around your house, rifled through your personal effects, then made a bunch of secret phone calls to shady numbers, would you say “Well, they gotta run a media business, it’s wrong of me not to let them make money this way, after all I agreed when I subscribed”

It’s basic caveat emptor stuff.

Whenever a message starts with “Hi (emoji) (first name)” it’s 100% spam.

So far they are not training to fix this (all they have to do is drop the prefix), which is somewhat surprising. Zero messages that address me correctly seem automated. Maybe because in today’s day people can legitimately have emoji in their names?

A better title would be “Sending email isn’t decentralized”

A mailbox is POP or IMAP and there are many decentralized ways to run these.

SMTP is delivery, sure there are many gatekeepers, because spam is so bad. It comes down to trust. You might have to pay for transit if you can’t get the world to trust your SMTP server, which is hard for many good reasons.

[1] https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/