>My one hope for AI, robotics, self driving cars, is that they can enable more people in cities to migrate back to rural places

Ah, the perennial dream of the technologist. Here's a Le Corbusier quote on the same theme from 100 years ago

> The cities will be part of the country; I shall live 30 miles from my office in one direction, under a pine tree; my secretary will live 30 miles away from it too, in the other direction, under another pine tree. We shall both have our own car.

Meanwhile the rest would be housed in "machines for living in".

If there is a hell, Le Corbusier is currently in it, eating the equivalent in cement to all the monstrosities he concocted.

> Ah, the perennial dream of the technologist. Here's a Le Corbusier quote on the same theme from 100 years ago

Except this time, the dream is actually real and cheaper than ever thanks to small EVs, batteries and solar power. 100 years ago it was limited to people with large estates who owned cars (and probably needed secretaries for their work).

These days it's more affordable than ever (except land/housing)

Some of us are living it. I plan to raise and slaughter cattle. Building a house now.

It's interesting how there's a negative correlation between tenant's rights and how furnished a rental is expected to be.

>axial twist orthodoxy

My impression is that this isn't exactly settled science. If you look in the history for the article you can see that it's mainly written by the lead author of the main citations. He also did the cute illustrations that everyone loves

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Marci68

Is it this, from Matthew Butterick?

https://practicaltypography.com/grids-of-numbers.html

No one checks names on Aussie domestic flights to this day

>how can you find what version of Gitlab is being run? (through the web interface on a CE instance)

It's up the top at gitlab.example.com/help

One of the reasons Schumacher was able to dominate was that he was one of the first F1 drivers to train for it as a physical sport.

Martin Brundle said if he’d realised earlier in his driving career how vital fitness was, he would have achieved much more.

The laws in Australia refer to "facilitating" copyright infringement. Whether or not a torrent website is a publisher is entirely immaterial

By this logic, google "facilitates" the defamation by providing hyperlinks to the article. The court disagrees.

"Facilitating" defamation isn't defamation, so not a crime. Facilitating copyright infringement is explicitly prohibited, whatever the definition of "publish" is.

This is absurd. Where does it end? iphone allows to watch copyrighted material. Should apple be responsible for any infringement?

I didn't make the law!

You're right; my spectacles-supplier makes it possible for me to watch infringing videos. So they're "facilitating".

Arguably a website operator can do something about it; Vision Express can't, and nor can Apple.

The battle between copyright maximalists and the "information wants to be free" crowd won't end until there's a copyright regime that most people think is fair. I think that means that (a) all copyright expires on the authors death, or after 70 years, whivhever comes first; (b) copyright infringement is a purely civil affair; (c) copyright holders get to sue for lost royalties, which they have to demonstrate, thus suppressing actions against people whove never made a penny from infringement.

That's how it was when I was a kid, and it seemed pretty fair. All the subsequent changes have been to favour the RIAA and the MPAA, enacted by the US government, and then rammed down the throat of the rest of the world through trade agreements and so on.

My workplace's solution was to simply turn off 2FA for my account

2CV's do around 6L/100km which is comparable to modern town cars