> after a nasty paragliding accident

I’m fairly new to paragliding. What happened? Have you returned to flying?

Anyone can request their residence be blurred on Street View. I did it myself about six years ago.

>Even Fable hallucinates

It’s in the name :)

In this case it was a warrant, and the Supreme Court’s ruling does not hold that the warrant violated the fourth amendment.

Edit: looks like I misunderstood what you were referring to by “this case”

There also isn’t a spa yet.

Minor note: when discussing electricity, abbreviating datacenter as “DC” is confusing

Haha good spot. And when the data centre is running on batteries, the DC uses DC. And if it's in the USA capital, it could be a DC using DC in DC.

What I’ve done:

All of my passwords and passkeys are in Bitwarden. My brother has emergency access, and I’ve documented in Bitwarden Secure Notes my device credentials, recovery codes, estate information, and instructions for accessing my accounts.

One unresolved issue:

I have private photos of current romantic partners in my iOS Photos hidden album. I want my next of kin to be able to access the rest of my digital life, but I also want to protect those people’s privacy.

As far as I know, Apple doesn’t provide a way to grant next-of-kin access to an account while excluding hidden photos.

My current solution is a note asking my brother to delete the hidden photos before looking through the rest of my account. I trust him to do that, but I’d prefer a technical solution.

Is there a better approach?

For the unresolved photos issue; I am not an iOS user so not sure if there's any application to help you easily achieve that goal on that platform. But in general, you can encrypt the sensitive files themselves(either files or directory).

You'll lose the ability to easily and quickly look at the photos, as in a single click and you're in, but the process would achieve what you want. To view the photos, you can mount a decrypted version whenever you actually want to look at them and can automate some of this process if it is time consuming or you do it frequently. This is all much easier to do on a computer rather than a mobile a device.

On Linux, there's ecryptfs. There were a few other similar tools in various states of maturity and maintenance when I checked. Perhaps look into something similar for your platform.

If a company has a specific knowledge advantage regarding the design or manufacture of turbine blades, wouldn’t they patent it?

Patents expire

Patents are difficult to enforce internationally

Where would coke be if the recipe was patented instead of trade secret ?

While your point is completely true, the specific example of coke is ironic because Coke's dominance is more related to marketing than their formula!

> it's currently difficult to get them prescribed by a legitimate doctor unless your obesity-related health problems are really severe

I think it’s more accurate to say that it’s difficult to get them covered by insurance unless your obesity-related health problems are really severe. In my experience, doctors have no problem prescribing GLP-1 drugs for weight management.

If you aren't significantly overweight a doc won't want to prescribe a GLP-1. Because if you die while on it for any reason, and your family sues, the expert witness will testify that a GLP-1 wasn't standard of care for a patient with your presentation. Then the doc's insurance loses the case (and he pays way more going forward assuming he can practice at all).

This is an argument that the litigiousness of American society incentivizes suboptimal health outcomes from the legitimate health care system because the employees of that system need to legally protect themselves; therefore a person might be better off if they go outside that health care system and buy grey-market Chinese pharmacy peptides labeled not for human use.

Thing is Bay Area folks usually make good money and these are not that expensive out of pocket.

> The threat of a Chinese moon landing

Maybe I’m naive, but what is the threat here?

> If it was canceled outright it would be much harder to react to any Chinese success

I feel like the appropriate reaction would be to congratulate China.

We need more people like you in government