twovests

twovests OP wrote

While I generally agree with this, I think the thinking of "How can we manage risk in one domain the context of capitalism" is small, while socialism answers "How can we most effectively manage humanity's resources."

If you and 20 friends decided to mutually insure, say, your $500 cell-phones, you'd have some realities to contend with: What do we price it? How do we protect against fraud? How do we balance that with avoiding falsely identifying legitimate claims as fraud?

Your small insurance company wouldn't be able to bring worldwide socialism. But it might be able to protect against your phone dropping in a river. That's, of course, assuming your insurance is a flatly-structured non-profit that exists out of that mutual interest in risk management.

... Maybe our economy should be flatly-structured existing out of mutual interest... But... That's also socialism.....

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How do you explain how inexcusable this is to most people? It's not even universal that tech people know what a CA does.

This breaks encryption, by letting a server that is not google.com say, "Hi, I am google.com, and here is my public key". The cert authority is the one that checks the public keys are good. You have to trust that Microsoft trusts the right CAs, and they seemingly do not.

bad bad bad!!

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in Molasses (superfood) by twovests

dear holly,

Unlike highly refined sugars, molasses contains significant amounts of vitamin B6 and minerals, including calcium, magnesium, iron and manganese; one tablespoon provides up to 20% of the recommended daily value of each of those nutrients. Blackstrap is also a good source of potassium.[13]

i think this is notable when compared to corn syrup, maple syrup, and even honey

i was considering making a pecan pie, but they are so cloyingly sweet. upping the pecan content and using molasses instead of karo sounds like a great move.

further, adding (superfood) makes this funny, because it's like. not a health food. it's still molasses.

yours truly,

  • john gr- hey wait a minute
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