If the financial or career incentives for management relies on 'Token usage growth', then that is what will happen to the detriment of everything else.

An outstanding voice for nature for all these years, and how kind nature has been to him in return. Long Live Sir David!

Israel's actions can only be described as inhumane and sadistic. In fact, it's similar to actual terrorism that they claim to be against.

In isolation the death of this brutal dictator is great news, but we have seen how previous decapitation strikes have not had the intended effect. And I can only hope the Iranian people somehow end up better for this entirely illegal war that the Trump administration has initiated, instead of facing up to a fractured leadership and a potential civil war.

Agree fully with the main points of this statement. Mass domestic surveillance is the hallmark of an authoritarian and undemocratic state. That such a state holds 'votes' regularly does not detract from the chilling effect on public discourse and politics caused by mass surveillance.

The guardrail on fully automated weapons makes perfect sense, and hopefully becomes standardised globally.

if the people broadly support and vote for mass democratic surveillance, is it still authoritarian and undemocratic?

Democratic maybe, authoritarian definitely

I disagree that surveillance on its own is authoritarian, it doesn't even come close to meeting the definition.

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

Indeed. People very easily conflate laws which every state since antiquity has had, with the rule of law, that exists only in a minority of countries even today.

My experience is closer to yours, and I've had to learn to enjoy without alcohol, which has been a positive transformation. I still drink, but now I know when to stop. Some of my friends still drink too much and would probably benefit from GLP drugs even when they are not obese.

Merry Christmas everyone!

I have an older car with the low light gauges, and so my eyes are more adjusted the darkness. Which makes the poorly calibrated bright lights of newer cars the bane of my life at night.

Exactly. Even if my eyes adjust well to the relative darkness with my lights, the effect is erased the instant I encounter a car coming on me on the opposite side of the road.

One thing that helps is to make sure you don't look at the headlights directly. It really helps to look at the white line on the side of the road when the other car is close to preserve your night vision.

That's an exceptionally high bar of talent and creativity. For the 99.999+% of us, the computer and the mobile has made completion of many tasks highly efficient. Like surfing HN on a lazy Saturday morning...