Yes, that's why truecrypt/veracrypt is a very bad idea because of only two possible filesystems inside crypto parititon. If you have only two possible secret partitions then they can demand two keys. But there must me at least 4096 entry points into encrypted volume. So your filesystem #1022 contains nude selfies and bad love poems, filesystem #4009 contains banking information and partition #28 contains excel file with log of brothel visits and expenses... Then it becomes ridiculous -- by design most of entries are decoys (obviously, decoys must be overwritten randomly with random data along with real encrypted sectors all the time to avoid wear leveling analysis).

That's why we really, really, REALLY need serious plausible deniability, despite of what security experts say about it. They force you to give up keys, you give up keys and they can't do anything else (unless they dismantle whole western law system). While it does not protect you from torture, does protect you from the law.

When socialism isn't working for you, you have NO alternatives and that's not about being rational. When government decides that you did not suffer enough and thus NOT entitled to be given Berotec inhaler then your only hope is corruption. Being there, done that. It's scary. And I was lucky that USSR blew up very soon after I've got asthma.

No. That's not communism, communism is much worse. USSR was socialist, they did not begin communist phase.

All games with socialism look great on paper but turn ugly in reality. You'll have to wait some decades in western countries before socialism takes its real toll because of current low level of corruption. But then it will be too late because everyone got used to corruption, both officials and people. Scarcity is scarcity: if you have no money then at least you can work hard to get them, but if you replace money with officials doing distribution, such a system corrupts everyone pretty quickly.

And there is a big difference between small monopoly on violence, law, etc and huge monopoly on many basic things, including health.

I have an asthma and I can tell you how bad it was in USSR with government monopoly on health. I lived there. If you replace market with bureaucracy you really don't solve anything -- scarcity is here, but money is replaced with bribes, knowing "right people", spending huge time proving that you really need treatment, long waiting lines. Money is more honest than bureaucracy.

The trouble is, on average government tend to be worse failure than the market. And when government is responsible for some important things it's afraid of being accused of doing it wrong, so it begins to screw up statistics, lie and hide real situation until it's too late. There is no much temptation to cheat public when government is NOT responsible for the same things.

The trouble is, socialism generates the worst thing ever seen -- single gigantic monopoly. Instead of companies that sometimes loose markets to new players, sometimes face fierce competition, sometimes go belly up because of internal stupidity and get replaced by many other competitors, etc you've got huge monopoly called Socialist Government. It decides what's better for you, but resources are always limited and then suddenly you wake up in USSR with "free healthcare", when free means you have to know right people and bribe them to get real treatment.

Single monopoly of Socialist Government on basic things is much, much worse that monopolies generated by capitalism. I don't understand people who are afraid of monopolies and yet welcome the worst possible monopoly...

This is so fucking wrong. These 50 people go to different destinations and you can't take single bus to many destinations, so they occupy two, three or may be four buses in sequence. Suddenly, your "equation" does not look that great because you need much more buses than one. And these buses have to run all day even without full load to provide reliable service and your "equation" is less great again.

I live in Moscow all my life and I *had* to buy a car at some point, because it was about 20 minutes of driving from home to work while public transport took about an hour and a half. Take a bus, enter subway, switch subway lanes, take a bus. Or, take a bus, then another bus, then another bus (much less reliable than subway and generally longer). Do that in -20C weather, wait your bus for 20 minutes while strong wind blows. Do that in 0C weather with roads covered with icy puddles. Then advertise public transportation...

"For the better"?!

Just installed Kubuntu 16.04 in virtualbox and tried to add a quicklaunch. Too small, need to resize. How to resize? No hints whatsoever. Hovering mouse cursor does not work, right-click does not work, nothing works. Some googling reveals brand new shiny and completely "intuitive" method -- left click and wait. Wow. Look, I use computers for more than 20 years and I had to google how to do it. 100% user friendly!

And where are screensavers? Gone...

You call that "better"?!

"Affordable" in Russia? What a horrible joke. Treatment in Russia is not affordable. It was kinda affordable in USSR but you had to spend a lot of time proving that you need treatment, and even then it was matter of luck and bribing the "right" people. Today nothing real is available through "free" system except very basic paperwork and if you need real treatment you have to pay a lot of money. And commercial medical insurance is outrageously expensive, impossible to pay for average people.

And if you've got cancer, you are done in Russia. They won't even provide painkillers because painkillers are "drugs" and to get daily dose your relatives have to stand in lines almost every day and still officials often refuse to give out painkillers! Medical personnel is afraid of being accused of drugs trade, cops are in constant search for easy prey to accuse somebody without real hard work.

About two years ago a well known rear-admiral Vyacheslav Apanasenko commited suicide because medical personnel refused to give him painkillers. His suicide caused serious uproar in media -- and NOTHING changed. So if you've got cancer in Russia you'd better kill yourself, because you'll be left dying without aid and even without painkillers.

Unfortunately, it can't force me to correct mistakes on other people's sites. And they will remain broken. A lot. And people are going to get used to "broken" mark and nobody will care about it after all.

Great. Exactly what we needed.

And then Jevons paradox will kick in and we'll see increased resource consumption instead of reducing.

Typical malthusian nonsense. LED lamps in every house equals to serious genocide. Why bother with genocide then?..

If you're using a newer version of Android, you don't need root to do most of those things anymore.

I'm using a newer version of Android on my brand new device Asus Zenfone 2 lazer, but non-root way of backup is still badly broken -- adb backup hangs randomly without finishing the backup. I know, Asus has its own backup but I don't want to use proprietary solution -- what if I decide that my next phone is NOT Asus anymore?

So I had to root it and install old venerable Titanium backup again.

Amazing. Nobody mentioned the main danger of "basic income": if it is going to be implemented, then the next thing ANY politician is going to do is to advertize for increasing it. Sure way into the office, appeals to 99% of people. Voting against it would be suicide for any politician. So, within a very short amount of time basic income will grow beyond any reasonable control and over budget. It's going to be like recent Greece crisis, but much, much worse.

You're going down the road, you'll hit the guardrail at an angle and be just fine.

You'll hit the guardrail and bounce from it. Directly into oncoming traffic.

Braking in your lane is the only safest option possible.

I think the 2-party system is seriously flawed

Quick fix. Just add a special, mandatory candidate to every ballot called "Nobody". If "Nobody" wins, rerun elections one month later without "Nobody" and without top two winners.