Blade Runner 2049

There’s an informative James Hoffman video about this.

Fraud is briefly discussed in the wikipedia page, but from the video, he’s able to estimate that 75%+ of the coffee sold as kopi luwak isn’t kopi luwak at all, it’s just normal, cheaper coffee marked up a ton.

And of course, the remaining <25% that is real kopi luwak is ripe with civet abuse.

So please don’t drink this coffee. If you’re that interested in gut-processed coffee, do it yourself like that guy in Portland.

Doesn’t bank account information have to be exchanged for an ACH transfer? Seems good between people you really trust (although definitely less convenient), but I’m not sure I’d be comfortable exchanging bank info with an acquaintance.

Thanks for the suggestion. At first glance it does seem “less bad” than most of the other options, assuming it works on custom ROMs. I think the problem will be finding others that also use it, since it doesn’t seem as popular as the other options.

I think you missed the part of my post where I said “it isn’t always a reasonable option to use cash or mail a check.”

Mozilla reviewed the privacy of a lot of dating apps. It isn’t very pretty, but there are some that are less bad than others. Article also gives some tips on how to improve your privacy while using them.

Privacy Guides also has a “Reducing the Risks while using dating apps” section in one of their articles.

Side note: I don’t think the commenters who are saying “go outside” have really dated in years. Like it or not, it’s by far the dominant way couples are meeting now, and unfortunately it’s becoming more and more of a requirement in the modern dating scene:

I love that video. One awesome solution he brings up is letting math draw the district lines, specifically the shortest-split line method. There’s also an updated version of the method called Impartial Automatic Redistricting, that uses an approach similar to SSLM, but will only make cuts along the boundaries of census blocks (the smallest geographic unit used by the Census Bureau) to avoid cutting towns/neighborhoods in half, although it can create some odd results sometimes.

However, I think both of these would currently be illegal under the voting rights act for not taking minority representation into account. That is one downside to these methods, even though they’re probably still an upgrade compared to the heavily-gerrymandered system in the US. So in our current system, the algorithms would have to be updated to somehow take that into account.

There are also a few other neat district drawing rules on Wikipedia that he didn’t cover which are worth a read.