Is your concern that a thimbleful of good faith for vandals is too much or too little?

If you confiscate my Diet Coke at security, you have created demand for Diet Coke on the other side of security.

Headline says “…if asked”

Article and facts are “…if served with a valid legal order compelling it”

∴ Headline is clickbait.

I would prefer “it is impossible for Microsoft to give the keys because that’s not how their encryption works”.

That’s the case if you change a setting.

The default setting is a good mix of protecting people from the trouble they’re far more likely to run into (someone steals their laptop) while still allowing them back in if they forget their password. The previous default setting was no encryption at all which is worse in every case.

You can change it it you like.

The way it is is important. Otherwise getting locked out is very easy. I think booting into safemode or messing with specific bios settings / certain bios updates enough to lock you out.

You are arguing semantics, whereas the point is that A) they have your keys, and B) they will give them away if they will have to

No, that’s binary thinking. The degree to which they will resist giving them away matters.

I’d much rather they require a warrant than just give it to any enforcement agency that sends them an email asking. The former is what I expect.

It’s really just A. Point B is pretty much just derived from there.

asked, not ordered. Seems fine.

PLA-CF is not particularly stronger than PLA. Some properties are improved, mostly geometric stability and appearance, but the carbon fiber acts more like defects in the plastic than strengthening. It’s got very little of the benefits that you’d imagine based upon n experience with regular carbon fiber.

This. CF rarely makes a print stronger, usually just helps make some materials more forgiving to print. Particularly useful for warping prone ones.

Do you by any chance have over a decade of coding and under a year of CAD? You might have forgotten how hard coding was when you had under 200 hours of experience with it.

It’s easy to understand, but not easy to live under. If the worst case is I lose 25% of every “extra” dollar in some range, I have to think about it way less than if I lose the entire benefit for being 1 unit of currency over a limit.

In the former case, I can think/worry about it for 10 minutes per year; in the latter case, if I’m close I have to think/worry about it a lot more and carefully plan out and estimate things like tax-deferred savings and capital gains/dividends/capital gains distributions to make sure I don’t earn an extra dollar and pay $10-25K of marginal tax on that dollar.

My understanding is that ABS in cars has surprisingly little effect on fatalities. It is a huge lifesaver when deployed to motorcycles, and a benefit to reducing non-fatal crashes, but not much for fatals in cars.

(I agree it's a well-solved problem and the reduction in non-fatal crashes makes it worthwhile from a convenience standpoint alone.)

> We are now treating it as a rite passage that qualified high school students can be mysteriously rejected.

How could it realistically work any other way? Each year, Harvard gets nearly 50K applications for 2K acceptances and 1.6K enrollments.

It’s not hard to see that tens of thousands of qualified high school students will unavoidably be rejected from just this one university.

> How could it realistically work any other way?

Well for one, what if universities like Harvard publish clear and transparent criteria for their students? For example it could say that the minimum required SAT score is 1580, and students with a lower score will simply not bother to apply, instead of sending in their application in the hope that other parts of their application will stand out enough.

For two, university admissions officers have internal adjustment algorithms to adjust the GPA from different high schools. They could publish that together with a minimum adjusted GPA.

The 50k application problem only exists because under the holistic process, everyone thinks they have a chance.

How fortunate that the only downside of frequent gunfire on the streets outside your house is the noise.

What else has significant impact on ability to study?

General downsides are irrelevant, so I don't see a point in your comment.

> children dying from diseases whose vaccinations cost 1$

If there’s a government anywhere that isn’t providing this for its citizens, perhaps looking into why that government is such a failure would yield greater and more durable change than a point patch of just a few vaccines.

> If the top 1% would spend 1% of their wealth

Why should we expect/demand more generosity from only 1% of the population? Maybe everyone should spend 1% of their wealth on these efforts? It’s easy to be magnanimous with someone else’s wallet.

> Why should we expect/demand more generosity from only 1% of the population? Maybe everyone should spend 1% of their wealth on these efforts? It’s easy to be magnanimous with someone else’s wallet.

I was mainly referring to the "super rich" (Musk, Bezos, etc.) since this topic was about how SpaceX treats people and because "multi-planetary civilization" is primarily a thing I connect with their companies. I do donate ~10% of my income. Not sure how much the average FAANG-CEO does donate.

> If there’s a government anywhere that isn’t providing this for its citizens, perhaps looking into why that government is such a failure would yield greater and more durable change than a point patch of just a few vaccines.

Failed States and Corruption do exist. They have various complicated reasons which to address would certainly not be "a low-hanging fruit". Of course, solving these would be a good thing, but not within the scope of "donate food, donate medicine, pay teachers"

Suppose there’s a failed state or widespread corruption somewhere and a child there who needs $1 worth of vaccine or $1 worth of food.

What’s the chance that or fraction of your dollar, my dollar, or a billionaire’s dollar will end up actually reaching and helping that child? We’ve all seen food aid donations fail to reach those in need for precisely the same corruption that caused it to be needed in the first place.