The Paul Street Boys. I still remember it fondly!

I’ve read a few of his books besides the trilogy and all his characters are “terrible”.

They seem to me more the personification of a type of personality rather than real characters, while the real protagonists are the groups / factions.

I’m ok if they are used to extend surveillance and actively prevent a problem. For example in a shop to block shoplifters or in a swimming pool to spot someone drowning.

I find them a lazy and often useless solution in most of the other cases. It’s nice to have the video of a robbery or a car accident to investigate later, but I don’t want the robbery or the accident to happen in the first place. Imagine the case of an homicide: it’s cool to catch the killer, but the victim remains dead. Cameras are a cheap “solution” to have the illusion of control.

Plus: the whole face recognition thing is going to be a huge problem in the future in the less-democratic countries.

Just one: don’t panic, it happens.

More than one in a short time or you find droppings: you may have an infestation and you need pest control as soon as possible.

In doubt, start with a spray or traps.

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Using legit regular banks would be your best bet to avoid scams or being accused of fiscal crimes.

It depends on where the billionaire’s and your bank account are located (some restrictions may apply), but a normal bank transfer works perfectly for any amount. Of course for large amounts it’s better to contact the banks first because it may reject a large deposit if it comes out of the blue.

For donations there will be taxes and some bureaucracy, the anti money laundering will be triggered, but it’s nothing impossible to handle.

Building a filesystem essentially means linking a directory of filenames to physical blocks and handling CRUD operations. It’s not that hard. The hard part comes when you go beyond the basics to build something efficient with useful features. For example, fast access, journaling and fragmentation are all challenging topics. You can try without messing with the kernel by creating an in-memory filesystem (essentially a block of RAM) and playing with the I/O.

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I’m reading Blood Meridian right now and I can progress only when I’m fully rested for how much focus the writing style requires. It’s such an amazing and terrifying book!

Coming back later when I’m done.

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There is the left and there is uncritically praising China and Russia as the best countries in the world (while probably not living there) ignoring a whole series of facts.

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I suggested the Catholics because they just did it, but that idea seems to appreciated by autocrats and fascists worldwide from China to the US. Here in the EU we are hypocrites: we do it “for the children” to make it palatable to the general public that will never dare to oppose to that excuse. “If you are against this, you are with the pedos” is a frequently used argument.

Obviously porn will not disappear from Internet, and there is no regulation that can achieve that, but the goal is not porn. The goal is to make it harder for a child to access scientific information about his sexuality while growing up, or for an adult to access historical information about what fascism really meant. Things like that are the real targets.

Because ignorance is a fertile ground to cultivate idiot voters.

I guess UK, but it may come to the EU soon since the Catholics are trying to do the same, the right-wing parties hope for the censorship of “adult” topics spanning from gender issues to history, and the left is sitting on their thumbs.

I would not hold my breath considering that GH was already supposed to die in 2018 and we are still predicting its imminent end in 2025.