That’s an easy one - no. You can look back to various periods during middle ages Europe for examples. An even stronger one would be China from about 400 CE-800 CE

Of course, those weren’t capitalist economies - but they were economies. Capitalism’s instability is what requires constant growth to maintain. The better (and harder) questions would be what to transition to that avoids the issues of feudalism and how to transition with a minimum of societal upheaval (violence and death).

Not tipping only punishes the victim, not the employer.

Not everyone that disagrees with a law is in a position to immediately change it.

Because it’s a shit job with minimal pay, physically demanding, and the hours are usually cut in the off-season.

I didn’t (and wouldn’t) down vote it, but I’ll bite.

1. To the extent that the US tax system is progressive, this would be putting the most money into the pockets of the portions of the Black community that are suffering the least from the latent effects of slavery and racism. This is truest of income tax.

2. Waiving sales tax would be better targeted. Unfortunately, it would most affect states and localities with the highest Black populations, with the side effect of reducing services to the exact people it was meant to help.

3. Even if sales tax is addressed (unlikely), this would probably be in the form of tax rebates. This probably means a once a year infusion of money, subject to all the same exploitation that currently impacts income tax refunds. (Edit: Also, sales tax rebate would likely still take income into account, and thus also be regressive. If it assumes all income is spent for determining the amount to rebate, it would be even more regressive than income tax exemption.)

4. Unless issues of structural racism are addressed in conjunction with this - issues like food deserts, differences in rates of home appreciation in predominantly black vs white neighborhoods, pollution burdens in predominantly black areas, education funding which is tied to those home values, and many other issues - the existing racist systems will suck that money back out of the Black community in ways that minimize the building of Black wealth. “Mission Accomplished” will be declared, and the political will to “do something” will need to be rebuilt from scratch.

5. Direct cash payments (monthly, like social security) come without the drawbacks of 1-3, are simpler, and will build up a type of immediate feeling of support that will be harder to withdraw at the end of the stated term, while also proving the case for universal basic income later. That would have knock-on effects for other exploited communities (LatinX immigrants, neurodivergent, deaf, disabled, etc).

It’s actually even worse than that. It’s once a month for the rest of your life, because studies have shown that you gain the weight back when you stop taking it.

That wasn’t luck - it was best practice backup strategy.

This. The first session with any therapist is mostly giving background, checking fit, and building trust. An app that gives you a different random therapist every time means only superficial help based on a bunch of assptions of average needs that won’t all fit - and no chance to correct those assumptions.

At least in the US, most therapists offer televisits since the pandemic. Your best bets are to either search your insurance’s provider list or to search your location here and then filter by “Online” and your insurance carrier

Nah. Replacing the kernel is probably planned for the next point release - it’ll just be GNU/systemd

It doesn’t break apt, Canonical just broke their version of apt just to prefer snaps now.

FTFY

Only reason it wouldn’t work is Canonical killing the .deb package. That was an unforced error. So no, still not a good idea.

Depends who you need privacy from. I recall Stallman’s advice about VPNs - that to avoid having your information turned over you should choose a VPN from a country whose government is no friend of your government. Depending on your threat model, I could see this being the same principle

Even easier and more comfortable - count the pads instead of the knuckles. You can count to 12 with one hand, or 144 with two

Probably not. It looks like it’s setting the fake address before reading the tunnel parameters, where the real address is stored. Probably a kludge in case the connection address is undefined so the program doesn’t crash. So check whether the address is included there.

Also check the function that establishes the connection. 10.1.1.1 is not a public subnet, so unless there is a VPN device listening at the local address, the tunnel should fail to establish and throw an error, triggering the exception clause in that code. Again, you’ll want to confirm that in the code.

The money in calligraphy is usually made on wedding invitations, diplomas, “fine fining” menus, and corporate award certificates

Manually keying in the pin is only needed when plugging in the device. Challenges for TOTP, FIDO2, etc. are a configuration option, and are only 3 digits if enabled (press any button if disabled).

As for “excessive amount of security”, security as an absolute measure isn’t a great way to think about it. Use case and threat model are more apt.

For use case, I’ll point out it’s also a PGP and SSH device, where there is no third party server applying the first factor (something you know) and needs to apply both factors on device.

For threat model, I’ll give the example of an activist who is arrested. If their e-mail provider is in the country, they can compel the provider to give them access, allowing them to reset passwords on other more secure services hosted outside the country. The police now have the second factor (something you have), but can’t use it because it’s locked.

Aldo that it has sun sensitivity as a side effect

https://onlykey.io/

Built in hardware pin entry means your unlock code can’t be captured by a compromised machine. Emulates Yubikey if you need that, handles Fido / U2F, stores up to 12 passwords, acts as PGP and SSH key if you install the (open source) agent.

The SSH agent implementation is forked from https://trezor.io/ which is advertised more for crypyo wallet uses.

Nope - it was Unix not Linux. The minus makes the command invalid on many Unix versions of tar (though most modern BSD versions allow it)

Sorry, it was Solaris - you just blew it up (the minus is invalid on many Unix versions of tar)