If Ireland is still used as a tax haven for large multinationals (including the companies that provide widespread encrypted messaging) then it would be the ideal venue for anti-privacy lobbying -- large companies may be able to close a token office in a small country to move beyond the reach of sanctions, but if that country is enabling billions of dollars a year in tax savings, then their influence may be the biggest global threat to user privacy.

> The same goes for the literary canon that college professors claim as a requirement for real literacy.

Reading a canonical set of old stories gives you shared experience with readers across continents and centuries and civilizations and class and complexion. It's not inclusive of everybody, but its a broader than just the "affluent in-group" it might currently include.

While working under a master isn't available to everyone, some schools are trying to give students more apprentice type experience.

I met a high school shop teacher who has his class buy, renovate, and sell a house each year. Students plan, use real tools, meet with building inspectors. It's a very real world experience and makes an indelible mark on a nearby neighborhood without committing everyone to a life in the trades.

The feedback I've heard about this class makes me wonder why more of the schooling experience isn't more like this.

I run a pair of the 43" model listed on the page (U4323QE). Coming from a desk full of 24" 1080P screens which I used with no scaling, the selling point for me was that the DPI was similar (~114, no scaling needed) while the total real estate was larger.

This 6K panel seems like it would scratch a similar itch.

Is the PPI not too small with the 43"?

I have a 4k 27" which has nice PPI and I was considering this 43" as a replacement but the pixels looked quite prominent in youtube reviews.

The PPI is small, but this is what I wanted because it better supports native resolutions with no scaling on legacy apps I run.

To preserve the PPI you're used to, you'd want 8K resolution as you approach 50".

A plausible fake is otherwise known as a honeypot; they way others interact with your creation tells you their role in the system.

I can't comment on the authenticity of JPMHC. But it's interesting to think about who might benefit from creating a similar fake and observing how the world reacts to it. Will job candidates fraudulently list it on their resumes? If people publish articles claiming to have attended, what are their incentives? If you promote the conference ahead of time, will real researchers pitch talk ideas to you?

Toys/gifts are important, but you'll find most of what you need (baby toys to bicycles) for pennies on the dollar at your local yard sale, estate sale, or free as hand-me-downs from an older family.

I would hesitate to include the retail prices for these kinds of goods to a CPI type metric because the price are incredibly flexible.

For many of us the language itself has been feature complete for decades.

> There's not a shortage of lawyers

I spoke with a VP of a state bar association who described chronic, widespread lawyer shortages, constant attrition in the pool of eligible judicial appointees, a growing backlog of cases (compounded by the effects of COVID) with trial dates many years in the future, declining law school graduations, and declining projected law school enrollment. These conditions may not hold across every county and metro, but in a lot of places the system is buckling (citizens already waiting 5-6 years for a ruling on open-shut civil matters) because there’s so much more work than workers.

More people in my social circle are using CL again after AI moderation/anti-fraud issues at Facebook. A few examples:

A colleague listed his son’s high school archery equipment. Facebook banned him from marketplace for life for violating weapons policy. He still has social network access.

I helped an elderly widow create her first FB account from an Apple device, registering from her home cable modem IP, giving FB her cellphone number and ISP issued email address — all strong signals of authenticity. But after she added five relatives within half an hour, her account was locked, and Facebook closed it permanently on appeal.

Another acquaintance was brigaded by people reporting his comments. Troll or not, he lost access to Facebook/Marketplace and has to satiate his used electronics habit elsewhere.

You can lose access to FBm suddenly and with no recourse. And when that happens, Craigslist is still there to help you sell stuff you can’t eBay, like your old lawnmower, or find a CRT television for your Super Nintendo.

I just looooove (read: hate) the ratings system on FB Marketplace. We bought a house semi-recently and it conveyed a front-loader washer dryer set. Wife wanted to get rid of it after about 6 months. I list it for an incredibly reasonable rate based on local past sales, eg a standalone washer routinely sells for $200 so I sold a set for $200.

Then come the low-ballers, they want to offer only $50 or $100 for my set. I click through into their profiles and see that they are resellers of washers and dryers in bulk so they want to buy and flip my set. I decline.

Well, after only 3 messages a “buyer” can rate you as a seller so I have a stack of 1-star reviews from resellers angry that I politely declined to sell to them when I had a queue of asking-price buyers lined up to buy same-day.

Trash system.

CL right now is like the best and worst place. Theres some good deals, from honest people; unfortunately, you have to wade through the scams sometimes though. Itd be great if there was better moderation, and we could find ways to bring it back to life that dont involve the awful things other companies do to survive

It's always been that way, and Markeplace is the same too. At least you can actually use search filters on CL, and it doesn't just show you whatever it thinks you want to see.