And arresting the users solves none of that. Maybe it hides it from casual observers, but if you actually want to help people, treatment programs and assistance, not cops, are what you need.

Obviously you have to go after supply … but both Japan and Singapore successfully tackle outdoor usage. You don’t see people openly using illegal drugs in either place. Obviously if you are able to procure and do your illegal drugs at home the police can’t stop you unless your neighbors rat you out.

I don't think you can compare East and West cultures like that. I think a big reason the West has so many open drug users is because shame and rule-following are not deeply ingrained parts of the culture. I don't think enforcement is what's doing the grunt of the heavy lifting in the East.

8 years ago I bought a house. My monthly rent was 1300 and mortgage/escrow/repair savings were instead 2000. Rent went up $100-$200 a year.

My son is looking for rentals in our same community and the equivalent rental to what I had is now around $3000.

Even ignoring appreciation, in the long term there was a cash flow savings.

Agree. I wonder though if the tone of your comment doesn't come across as casting blame on the person who got the mortgage years ago.

It's not intended to, although it is intended to be blunt.

> there was a cash flow savings

... in your case. There was a cash flow savings in your case.

I've moved several times and done the math each time. Sometime it's been more cost effective to own, sometimes to rent. There are a lot of factors that go into that calculation, and the math doesn't always fall on the side of buying. That's especially true if you don't expect to be in a house for decades.

The issue is not that companies don't have the funds to chase these bugs (which will impact future trust/revenue), it's that they don't want to spend it chasing these bugs. Next quarter thinking leads to bad software.

Not free, but this was one of my favorite things when learning to program. https://everybasic.info/lib/exe/fetch.php/basics/vbdos-3.png Visual Basic for DOS.

The report includes notes on certain messages having durations set before they would disappear. This indicates intent.

Sure, but I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on that count. I’m fairly sure that’s because they felt it would be safer if the confidential info they sent wouldn’t stay around.

A broad UBI plan would likely not have every single person's income going up by a known amount, either.

Most of the plans I've seen taper off and then become a tax at certain income levels.

Taking the U and the B out of UBI? They should pick a different name.

I agree with you, and I support archive.org, but let's be clear.

The US gov could shut them down tomorrow. Illegally, but that's not stopping them elsewhere right now.

So support archive.org, and support backups elsewhere.

Support is looked at as a cost center only.

This policy was meant to make people give up, it's literally anti-support.

Imprisonment is worse, being kicked out of university is also worse, but a company taking your money for a product and then banning you from use of that product without a reasonable (and inexpensive) appeals process is also evil (and imo should be illegal).

Our town has Installed several crosswalks with flashing lights in common crossing areas away from traffic lights. It feels many times safer.