Natanael

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation

It's losing cost advantages as time goes. Long term storage is still on tape (and that's actively developed too!), and flash is getting cheaper, and spinning disks have inherent bandwidth and latency limits. It's probably not going away entirely, but it's main usecases are being squeezed on both ends

It's also what Google Maps live view is using. Street view imagery plus rough location plus on-phone camera sensor calibration data allows it to compute highly accurate positions relative to surroundings.

Taxing liquid capital is fairly straightforward, especially if it's tied to income (like company founders owning shares).

Taxing non-liquid assets is complicated because it's hard to make it fair in cases of family home inheritance and similar situations.

But taxing use of assets as collateral for loans (to create liquidity from a non-liquid asset) should be reasonably fair, it can be treated as an advance on capital gains taxes on the collateralized asset.

There's basically ideologues versus hateful people versus indifferent sociopaths (overlap is common)

I consider political ideologues and "technocrats" and extremely pedantic rule-following bureaucrats to be different flavors of ideologues (has a specific worldview they try to enforce / uphold)

I had Guinea pigs too. I'd slap down their little front paws on the keyboard to type

https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-making-process/types-eu-law_en

Each country may still have the equivalent of a constitution, and the majority of EU laws are directives which the country may translate to fit their local law, also there's various negotiated exceptions to EU laws. But the general idea is that the treaties establishing EU are meant to require full cooperation

Not unless turned into EU law, or a lawsuit over it reaches EU court. Individual countries can't change the rules of the union on their own.

There's already EU court precedence against mandatory backdoors

https://cdt.org/insights/the-european-court-of-human-rights-concludes-encryption-backdoor-mandates-violate-the-right-to-private-life-of-all-users-online/

Found the alt for swiftonsecurity

Technically only for non-classified internal communication. Classified stuff is restricted to be discussed only using military approved locked down hardware. But still, issuing a strong recommendation for Signal above all other options when communicating using regular devices is a good thing. Lots of "regular" conversations can still leak more than you expect through metadata, timing, etc, so they trust Signal to protect that

Bridgy started without that requirement and it pissed off too many Mastodonians so they reworked it

Have you heard of bridgy?