And politics is the bread and butter of Every.Single.Thing that you do, including your fantasy of a detached parallel-universe "hacker world" that you think you're living in. You're not.

You're either actively doing politics or it is being actively done to you. Nothing that you do makes any sense outside of politics anyway.

Ain't my fantasy, I think you're referring to dang?

That was the point I was trying to make about how a "no politics" rule affects far too many stories.

"Story must have a tech angle / be on a tech topic" is much more defensible, although I think this story would also be off-topic under such a rule.

Yea, best clickbait ever :)

Reading Pushkin in original is pure delight. Really enjoyed this write-up. Thanks.

I don't just expect them to be on separate networks - I expect them to be fully air-gapped!

Entertainment systems typically can show flight info. They receive it through something like ARINC one-way serial link.

Air-gapped might get in trouble too in case of depressurization. It'll be almost vacuum gapped then.

So it's kindda like cows in Nigeria?

Except you can resell the cows... :)

Yes.

That's not how the economics of mineral resources work. The marginal cost is increasing with volume, because the resources become harder and harder to find. Economies of scale only operate on the scale of individual extraction operations, which individually are vastly smaller than the overall market. That is, if demand goes down, it will not be that the same extraction operations are run at half speed, losing economies of scale. Instead, the most expensive such operations will simply never be started, and the price will fall to reflect the new cheaper marginal cost.

No, that's not really the future. Here's the future: you don't get any privacy, period. Get over it. Live with it. Doesn't matter who you are - you don't get any.

Oh, and you know what? The future has already arrived.

> Doesn't matter who you are - you don't get any.

Really? I doubt it. The rich and powerful get plenty of privacy and protection. It's just the us remaining 98% that don't.

No, the rich and powerful pay boatloads of money for privacy, but don't get anything of substance in return.

That seems hyperbolic.

If nothing else, the thoughts in my own head are secret enough.

Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12800228

You seem to have some VERY backwards ideas of ethics...

Inequality is not the source of war, it is the source of everything that you see. It's also known as diversity and is the basis of life. You can't be rooting for diversity and against inequality at the same time - you're contradicting yourself. Unless you're also against diversity, in which case you really don't understand much of anything.

Inequality can only ever increase. The opposite is unnatural (and rather impossible).

Well sure, if you define "inequality" to mean any differences between people, then it includes diversity.

But of course, what people are actually talking about is inequality of utility, which is a mostly distinct subset of that, and fairly unambiguously bad when considered on its own.

You can then argue that inequality is necessary for other good things, but you're going to have to try harder than vague rhetoric like the "basis of life".

Diversity =/= inequality, unless you live in some weird universe where every unique state has a unique utility value.