Devs are lazy. Any productivity gains are negated by them simply choosing to work less and have more free time. Which is not a bad thing.

There is one human character that has accurate “hunches” about the future in the first book. That’s dropped in the next books though.

I think you can allow others to relicense your code, that’s what permissive licenses effectively do.

EUPL does not seem to do that however. It only lists other copyleft licenses that are compatible with it (IDK why it’s done this way).

Yes and no. For polar orbit you can’t get advantage of Earth’s rotation so you will need more energy. However in order to launch into a perfectly equatorial orbit you need to correct the inclination of the orbit to bring it to zero which takes a lot of energy (unless you launch from equator which Europe can do because of French Guiana). For polar orbits the location of the launch site doesn’t matter, you just wait for specific time of day and launch straight at north/south.

The biggest hurdle are messengers, especially including cross-platform support and mobile devices.

Every projection deforms either size ot shape. The projection that this resolution proposes stretches everything vertically (but preserves the sizes). You can see it by looking at intersections between meridians and circles. The spaces between them are supposed to be closer to squares.

Russia didn’t use Mercator in textbooks even in Soviet times. As well many other countries I suspect (IDK about USA), it doesn’t require a great mind to see how flawed is it.

She is the queen of the Oldest House.

Jesse Faden would manage it just fine.

AFAIK compilot just provides integration with visual studio and GitHub, it doesn’t have its own models. You pay through Microsoft to use use other companies’ models (like GPT or Claude). Though agent harness itself has a big impact on the performance of models.

Yes, people who believe that are very dumb

Which ones don’t support it? It’s a very old format at this point. Every Android device in existence can work with it for example.

“True” leftists would actually agree with you that Biden was even more evil than Trump.

You can self host xray or sing-box server (which implement many of the protocols) on a cheap vps. A lot of documentation is not great and is either in Chinese or Russian but it’s doable. There are also paid services offering vless with various degrees of reliability and sketchiness.

Of course the real challenge when living in an authoritarian country is how to pay for it. I.e.you need to buy a vps abroad. I guess it will be easier in USA then in countries under sanctions or with internal restrictions where people generally can’t use Visa or PayPal.

You should also be against any kind of inheritance then, at least beyond a some threshold. Cause children of billionaires have a right from birth to rule over others.

Protocols that mimic regular https traffic in a way that survives DPI. There are many variants like vless+reality+vision, naiveproxy, etc. It’s still cat-and-mouse game since government’s DPI systems are constantly improving.

Anything that requires radio is inherently unreliable. Radio is too easily regulated and controlled.

The only option in a hostile state is to use existing communication channels. Such as encrypted networks (or just vpns/proxies) over regular internet that pretend to be https traffic. This is what works now in China/Russia/etc.

Not if they start using DPI and block VPN protocols. VPNs that use OpenVPN, Wireguard and other non-censorship-resistant protocols (including Mullvad) don’t work in China, Iran or Russia.

Mullvad and other mainstream VPN providers only work in free countries where VPN is allowed.

Some patched it to change the default in config.

There is zero chance it will be released (even if it’s true)