I think the point is that SSNs are already pretty much public data thanks to those previous crimes. Those previous crimes took that genie out of the bottle. You or I could access that existing public data. So what does it matter if they were released again, when they were [likely] already public? It's not an identity theft concern if the data was already out there. And, there is no expectation that SSNs are secure, in any way, in this day and age. They are written down in doctors offices, attached to every insurance filing, and on literally thousands of forms that are not securely stored all across the country. Crying about a few leaked SSNs for people who are mostly dead already, and the remainder of whom won't be here in a decade, and are already likely part of previous public breaches, seems like a petty cry for attention to me. People need to go find something else to do.

I don't see any comments to this end, nor was it mentioned in the article, but corporate ownership of single family homes is a problem. They buy up entire blocks of new homes, post the homes for ridiculous rental prices, and effectively price people out of home ownership. Homes should be owned by individuals, not companies. Let the ebb and flow of the new housing market's supply and demand be dictated more organically by people willing to buy the homes and live in them, not the corporate overlords looking to make a buck. There are lots of places for companies to make money. Why do they need to be in housing too? Admittedly, this is a complex issue and any law is going to have unintended consequences, but it seems to me that keeping for-profit entities away from housing is a great place to start. I'm not talking about individuals who have rentals, I'm specifically talking about corporations that do this en masse.

Environment regulation is choking oil and gas companies. Instead of doing what they do well, producing oil and gas, they are forced to spend ungodly amounts of capital in order to get the tree huggers to stop fining them into oblivion, who instead of thanking them for producing the oil and gas that allows them to continue being the useless, lazy people they are, and who produce nothing but regulation and incessant whining. Good for them. Oil and gas won't be around forever. Technological advancement will make it obsolete within the next 100 years, insofar as energy production is concerned. It will still be valuable and critical for textiles and modern materials. But it will too go the way of killing whales to burn their fat. It will disappear, slowly or quickly, but it WILL disappear. Instead of crying about it, maybe some of these useless sacks should go learn something, get a degree, start innovating, and find us the next thing that will change the world. Of course, I doubt they will, because the people who cry the loudest are also the stupidest people in the room, incapable of building or creating anything but the hot air they so vilify. /rant

This is why jury trials are terrifying. A random jury is NOT a jury of my peers. A jury of MY peers would know that someone does not have to aid the state in making their case, that silence is not incrimination, and is protected by natural law and the bill of rights. A random selection of people would not even be able to list the five rights guaranteed in the first amendment. In my book, if you can't do that, you have no business being on a jury of my peers, or anyone's peers, and you should be disqualified. An informed electorate is necessary for any functioning society. US citizens are mentally lazy and unfit to exist in this ever-more-complicated world as judges of another person.

It's undebatable that US internet speeds have lagged much of Europe, Japan and South Korea. How much do you think the landmass size difference has played into that equation? And what do you think is the solution to the problem? Is there a specific government regulation that can bring us faster speeds at the same or lower prices? Should we adopt a policy of government subsidized infrastructure buildout of private networks? Should we federalize the entire network? I don't know the answers here, curious what you and others think might get is faster speeds, quickly and without ballooning our monthly bills, either to the ISP or the government, either one.

Do you think section 230 needs an overhaul? It seems to me that it is too vague and it's been a shield behind which these major companies hide from liability so they can continue to ignore the abject evil that persists in the darker corners of their ecosystems. I don't know what that overhaul looks like, but section 230 seems problematic to me, and I would think it would be a bipartisan issue to get some clarity around how the internet has evolved over the past few decades.

For those of us who might be ignorant of this event, *cough* not me, never *cough*, what happened in '93?

Does anyone remember the apocalyptic rhetoric used to vilify the evil republicans and Ajit Pai, when they ended net neutrality and how the internet just imploded? How all the ISPs started blocking all the traffic? How entire websites could no longer be reached? How poor, oppressed peoples all over the US suddenly lost connectivity to the internet? What, none of that happened? Wait, what? We all have the fastest internet we've ever had? I think someone might have been lying. Maybe it's a good thing the FCC is in deadlock, not mucking up the works like every government agency, ever. But you know, I'm just one guy on the internet. What does the truth even matter...

Providing banking services to an entire continent that has largely been ignored by the wealthy and the banking industry, I THINK would qualify as "something useful." https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/2...

The article says "a more universal coronavirus vaccine." How about an actual covid vaccine. One that actually does what vaccines do: stop infection in the first place, for the purpose of preventing transmission. That's what a vaccine is. I got the vaccine. Then I got covid. Whatever the covid thing we all got, trying to do our part, is clearly not that. It is NOT a vaccine. So, I'm still waiting on the FIRST covid vaccine to hit the market.

This is why people should use open source home automation solutions. Well, one reason. Another is big tech's tendency to abandon these platforms and brick the devices. Or change the terms and start charging [more]. Or spying. Or security leaks. Or any of a dozen other problems. Look at Home Assistant for an alternative.

I don't see any mention of the lifespan, which is one of the biggest hurdles for perovskite cells, if I recall. 30% is a great milestone, but not if they only last 24 months.

"It's well established that these companies actively misled the American public for decades about the risks of climate change," said Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., who spearheaded the investigation with Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., who leads the House committee. "The problem is that they continue to mislead," Khanna said. It's not the role of a company to tell you that their product is bad. In fact, they have a fiduciary and legal responsibility to their shareholders to NOT tank their companies. They are oil and gas companies. Their job is to produce oil and gas so that the world doesn't starve and freeze to death. The exec quoted that "net zero" "has nothing to do with our business plans" is 100% correct. They would all be in prison if their business plans included the literal destruction of their core business. That's called fraud. THAT would be deception. "Here, please, invest in my company. Oh, BTW, our goal as a company is to go out of business. No, really, we need your money." The environmentalists will always hate O&G. Bending the knee to them is folly. It was folly when they said the world was cooling, it was folly when they said the world was warming, it was folly when they said increased hurricanes and increased intensity. All of the predictions made by the catastrophists have been wrong, without fail, every step of the way. If anyone is deceiving the public, it's the alarmists. That said, I agree with Elon Musk that this is an experiment that we can't afford to run. If we're wrong, we all die and the planet becomes uninhabitable. However, the transition to alternative power sources can't happen yet. Technology hasn't figured it out. When it does, no one in their right mind will think burning black dino-sludge makes sense anymore. O&G is very much a dead industry. But expecting them to nod enthusiastically in agreement and take steps to dismantle their operations without any clear alternative is ignorant, prideful, and asinine.

What a load of shit. Several of these firms have tried for YEARS to be in compliance. The SEC's inaction on defining the applicable rule(s), or even defining what crypto is and how they might regulate it, and their duplicity has made any sort of compliance impossible. They say that securities are their purview, but then don't offer the crypto firms a means by which to comply. They just tell them they have to comply. With what? Uh, we're not sure. Just comply, or else!

ACTUAL Texan here. Glad you hate us. Glad you hate BTC. Please keep it that way. And please stay out of Texas (physically) and out of our business. Much obliged, sir.