Cloudflare monitors and tracks all traffic, and provides fedgov with easy access to that data. Just like all large scale internet service companies.

It's not a honeypot per se - just another cog in the ubiquitous panoptic surveillance machine. Collect it all. Big brother is always watching.

Corda is way more interesting tech than any of these "me too" crypto coins.

Unity is great. I love it, and I will miss it.

In fact, Unity is the main reason I use Ubuntu on the desktop. And using it on the desktop is the main reason all my servers run Ubuntu. Get rid of Unity and I'll be a whole lot more motivated to try different distros.

Canonical seems to have stunningly bad leadership in recent years. You get the feeling they spend all day thinking of ways they could fuck over their users and squander their good reputation.

Stock Android is way better than any of the carrier mods I've seen.

Most of those deaths are on the (underdeveloped) highways outside the major cities. There are quite a few minor injuries, but comparatively few deaths, in the 30kph urban traffic.

Intentional! It's surprisingly efficient.

Already working, no computers needed. Check out Ho Chi Minh City, old Saigon, a city of 8+ million people, 10 million motorcyclesâ, and about two dozen traffic lights.

If you've never driven a motorbike through a high traffic unsignalized intersection, you should try it. It's said that one achieves a certain sort of enlightenment the first time one drives through Ben Thanh Circle.

Back when I used to do Airbnb, one of my nicer guests was a Harvard neurosurgeon. His skin was dark brown like good topsoil, and he wore his hair in an afro. Did that matter? Not one little bit.

However, it freaked out my Chinese-born girlfriend. If it would have been up to her, she would have discriminated against this man. We did not discriminate - our guest had a pleasant stay, we made good money, and everyone was happy.

Just something to think about: In my experience - I've met a lot of people from a lot of different countries and cultures - American-born Americans are (collectively) the least racist people in the world. Scandanavians are (collectively) the most racist. Sorry if that goes against the narrative pushed so hard by the semi-official media about how we Americans out emulate those enlightened northern Europeans.

Have you been to Los Angeles in the past few years? The city has made great strides in improving public transport. Last year's completion of the Expo Line "subway to the sea" was the last component needed to make a truly useful system.

The subway system - already the second largest in America by mileage - is finally getting big enough to be genuinely useful. Downtown LA has seen an incredible urban renaissance. All neighborhoods with subway service are rapidly urbanizing.

Imho there are two factors making this work so well for LA. First, the traffic is line some sort of biblical plague. Surface transport is ridiculously broken. At rush hour cars often move little faster than pedestrians.

Second is Uber/Lyft. They handle that critical last mile of many journeys. Remember, during busy hours, a subway trip can take less than 1/3 the time of a car trip. So the small inconvenience of hailing an Uber to go the last mile is a great trade off.

If I eventually repatriate, I'll most likely live in LA. :)

Leftism = rightism = centrism = authoritarian financialism

America still has a middle class??

Everyone knows it's way way more pleasant to stay in the average Airbnb than in the average hotel. That's why the hotel capitalists are trying so hard to make legal apparatus suffocate Airbnb. Obviously if it were put up to a popular vote Airbnb would win by a landslide.

It's fair when my side disproportionately benefits, of course.

How can we even speak of reform, when the hands of every judge in the Empire are soaked and dripping with blood?

Thank you, Dr Pedant, for that enlighteningâ commentary.