I'm on a hybrid schedule, same "distance". With a balance of days between home and office, I no longer get tired of the commute.

Commute "distance" is definitely measured in minutes and not kilometers.

My standard for website fiction is lower. When you're unknown, there's less pressure to go through a long editing cycle. Pale and SEEK have been good though.

Would not consider myself well-read, if I read enough PKD stories I could probably find some mediocre ones; really liked the popular ones I did read.

When power is concentrated to the government, the corruption is concentrated with it. Incarceration and the end of privacy don't restore the victims. A consumer protection bureau could bring a civil suit against Polymarket to pay the journalist.

> When power is concentrated to the government, the corruption is concentrated with it.

This is a hackneyed neoliberal fundamentalist myth.

If power is concentrated anywhere, it should only ever be in government - where it's answerable to the public electorally.

Governments become corrupt when they are weak, and turn to serving private interests rather than the public they represent.

Corruption in general is far more prolific and fruitful where government is weak (the neoliberal ideal) - which is one of the reasons corrupt private actors look to weaken government - for instance by undermining public trust in it or lobbying for its parasitization by private entities. Or by stuffing their acolytes minds with foolish neoliberal fundamentalist myths.

Interesting tangent. This is the first I've heard the term "neoliberal" but it feels like it's being used as a perjorative term for libertarians?

"If power is concentrated anywhere..." The libertarian ideal is that it is not concentrated anywhere, because power corrupts. Maybe neoliberals want power concentrated in some entity that isn't government, and that's what you are arguing against? I guess I better do a little research on this new (to me at least) word

> If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.

A lawsuit would just be the "cost of doing business" for Polymarket. Until there is no skin in the game, there will be no change or accountability.

If CISOs can be held criminally liable for data breaches, the rest of C-suite can be held criminally liable for their own decisions as well.

In this case, the guy knowingly operates a betting market that illegally does not require KYC.

On the other hand, what often happens with high level corruption cases in my country is that people go to jail for a few years, but none or next to none of the money is ever recovered. So quite a few crooked politicians and business man just accept prison as nothing more than an unpleasant bump on the way to getting extremely rich, and roll with it. So you actually need a combination of both money and personal fault for really fixing some of this.

>In this case, the guy knowingly operates a betting market that illegally does not require KYC.

It's not illegal where he is. You can't go around arresting people in other countries just because they don't follow your country's law.

As a software engineer who thinks that qualifies me to answer other engineering questions, I think it's too hard to mount payloads external to missiles, but normal for aircraft.

"Digg is Just Resting"

Digg has gone to live on a farm in the countryside where it can run around and play with aol, myspace and all the other websites.

No you can't visit.

In theory the Windows Store will handle updates. In practice, I avoid the Windows Store version of applications. Also, you can't turn off app updating, only pause them for a time.

Windows Store could be great but it sucks. I haven't looked into winget yet but hopefully that takes off and doesn't suck.

If hours of preparation for college testing taught me anything, it's the difference between lend and borrow.

In this case, AI understood history better than the human.

Distract from crimes of those currently in favor?

Operation Desert Storm was when the US liberated Kuwait. The US played nice with Kuwait since then.

not recently

> In January 2026, the United States government suspended immigrant visas for citizens of Kuwait and 74 other countries due to the high dependency of Kuwaiti immigrants on American welfare benefits.[219] Kuwait is the only GCC country on the visa suspension list.[219]