Father, Hacker (Information Security Professional), Open Source Software Developer, Inventor, and 3D printing enthusiast

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  • I have an extremist view of the legal system: I think all lawyers should be government employees and they should be assigned cases based on their area of expertise in law.

    So no matter how many people sue you and no matter how much legal harassment any given entity attempts, it’s the government’s problem to manage all of that.

    It shouldn’t be possible to bankrupt someone with legal fees alone. It shouldn’t be possible for a billionaire (or corporation) to always have the best legal team. It shouldn’t cost millions of dollars to defend yourself from or litigate a patent.

    The only way I can think of to solve these problems is to get rid of private firms.




  • The moves were announced and I believe they were following along with chess-specific score/move sheets in their hands. I wouldn’t be surprised if the move announcements were all that would be necessary, though for a bunch of chess fanatics.

    I saw a documentary that featured a dramatic reenactment of a scene like this and that’s how it went 🤷

    At the time of this match, I do believe they had overhead projectors (the kind that magnify whatever is placed on their surface). So they might have had a projector-specific (with the necessary transparency) chessboard projected behind/above the camera also showing the moves.

    Another way I’ve seen it done is with magnetic pieces on a giant blackboard-like surface that had the squares drawn/painted on. There would be a person on each side with a pole that could move the pieces. One person would be assigned to white, the other to black.

    If everyone is sitting up high like that a simple extra large chessboard on the floor nearby would suffice as well. They could even place it down at an angle for the audience to view. I don’t know if they did that but I was thinking about it, “how would I do it without modern technology?” That’s probably how I’d do it 🤷


  • I’m just telling it like it is. The old ways were terrible! However, being local and requiring proper collateral instead of just giving n people money en mass—knowing that the percentage that default will be outweighed by the percentage that pay the loan back (and ripping people off by making them pay the interest up front)—was probably better for the economy.

    Not everyone should be allowed to amass debt the way we currently allow it. Furthermore, if people couldn’t get loans for school so easily (in fact, guaranteed!) then college tuition would be but a fraction of what it is today.



  • Collateral and, historically, age, race, sex, and ethnicity. They’d also look at how well you were dressed because 100% of the time you went to the bank in-person to get a loan. Also, your bank wouldn’t be far from where you lived and the local population wasn’t so large that they couldn’t just “ask around” the local social network to see if this man before them was upstanding enough to warrant giving them money.

    Also note that people didn’t need to borrow money as much as they do today. You wanted a new home appliance like an oven or refrigerator? You saved for quite some time to buy it.

    There weren’t as many things to spend your money on either!













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    11 days ago

    I’ve seen this before. Last time I looked, it required that everyone live in cities with good public transportation. It also didn’t factor in modern necessities like air conditioning (which will be actually necessary in many more parts of the world due to global warming).

    Basically, for this to work, everyone needs to live in 2-bedroom apartments… Without air conditioning or anything like a desktop PC. You’d have a small refrigerator and heat your food with a microwave (and nothing else because stovetop and ovens use up too much energy).

    It also makes huge assumptions about the availability of food, where it can be grown, and that all the necessary nutrients/fertilizer are already present in the soil and that transporting/processing things like grain is super short distance/cheap.

    Also, communism. It requires functioning communism. That everyone will be ok with it and there will be no wars over resources/land.


  • Everyone’s joking but this is a serious problem. Imagine you’re a billionaire and someone wants to assassinate you. The would-be assassin could figure out when you have a doctor’s appointment (or similar) and force a train to get stuck, blocking their route.

    It would leave the billionaire stuck in traffic with no escape until the train(s) started moving again. An entire cavalcade of security personnel would also be stuck (if they had one).

    Aside: It could also work for robbing something like a Brinks truck but let’s be honest: In this dystopian world it’s more likely that this vulnerability would be used to rob a food shipment 🙄