For most people, but especially for the rich, a liveable environment is far more important than a bit more money. Nobody who has saving money as their first priority is going to be living in New York anyway. But a liveable city that’s safe, fun to be in, and that you can move around in without fearing for your life, those are far more important to most people.

So I’m not surprised that Mamdani’s victory is drawing more people to NY.

Every action is a vote for something. It never hurts to consider the consequences.

By all means push forward a better candidate than Newsom. And I hope you succeed. But if you don’t, and it turns out that in the end it’s going to be either Newsom or Vance (or even Trump), then who would you rather have?

A big problem in computer security these days is all-or-nothing security: either you can’t do anything, or you can do everything.

I have no interest in agentic AI, but if I did, I would want it to have very clearly specified permission to certain folders, processes and APIs. So maybe it could wipe the project directory (which would have backup of course), but not a complete harddisk.

And honestly, I want that level of granularity for everything.

I want laptops with ARM processors, like Apple’s been doing, but not from Apple.

Of course it’s other people who are misinformed, don’t understand the context and have a one-sided view of the war. It can’t possibly be her.

This technology is wasted on smartphones. We need this on laptop screens.

That’s why dedicated lanes for buses and emergency vehicles are such a good idea. Emergency vehicles can get where they need to go, but with more people travelling by bus, there will also be less cars and less congestion. Everybody wins.

into space and strapping it to the exterior of the ISS, exposing it to the full brunt of cosmic radiation.

The USS isn’t that far out in space; it’s in LEO, well within the Earth’s magnetic field, and therefore protected from most cosmic radiation. But not all.

That doesn’t make the experiment invalid, just the phrasing inaccurate.

Yeah, why talk about preemptive strikes when they’re still not responding appropriately to the invasion of Ukraine? Kick Russia out of there first. That’s a totally legitimate non-preemptive way to block Russian aggression. That’s how you show strength, not with words that help the Russian narrative.

What Amsterdam did for visitors to the city, is put big parking lots at the edges of the city where you can park for really cheap on condition you combine it with a public transit ticket into the city. Much better than getting stuck in traffic and paying a small fortune to park in the center of the city.

Or of course you can take a train straight into the heart of the city.

In NL we’ve got mobility scooters for seniors and disabled people. They count as anything from pedestrian to scooter depending on the need. Doesn’t the US have these?

Pay workers the bare minimum they need to survive, and have them spend all their waking hours working for you. That’s how you get rich, apparently.

It’s been clear for some time that Trump must be very easy to manipulate if you know how to approach him. But most people end up debasing and humiliating themselves to win Trump over.

The way Mamdani won over Trump, who previously hated him and saw him as a massive threat, while keeping his dignity and even getting permission to call Trump a fascist, you can’t deny that’s spectacular. Even if you know it should be theoretically possible, it’s amazing to see someone actually do it. Especially someone as leftwing as Mamdani.

But that means he knows how to package his message, how to appeal to people and how to win them over. It would be amazing if Mamdani could also win over the many working class Trump voters in the US.

I’ve long admired Chomsky, but non-US imperialism has long been a massive blind spot for him. Only the US can be imperialist, apparently.

Warhammer? This sounds not far from the most horrific mission from a Shadowrun campaign I ran. They were making the new internet out of human brains.

“In science fiction, people have been living with these ideas for quite a long time,” he said.

That doesn’t mean you should do it for real.

Alcohol isn’t quite as dramatic or hard to detect, but you shouldn’t be sneaking alcohol into people’s non-alcoholic drinks either. Or otherwise intentionally get them drunk. That’s only for them to decide.

No. Drugging them is enough of a threat even if the culprit doesn’t manage to rape his victim. Treating at attempt to drug someone with a date rape drug as assault sounds like it might be a very good idea. Though I admit I haven’t thought about all the angles yet.

He might, but in the mean time all the frothing hate towards Mamdani has been silenced, for however long that lasts.

Are your unaware that you are arguing towards a tautology? “It’s not overvalued because this is what it’s valued”. That’s meaningless.

If the assets, profits and projected growth do not justify the current valuation, it’s overvalued. That’s the case for Tesla.

They want to recruit different people. Less women, people of color and LGBT, more racists. This fits perfectly in that policy.