> Iran is going to end up looking like Afghanistan (a broken country of small feudal states) at the end of this.

Soooo, lateral move from 1999 with the benefit of the theocratic regime that rules over those states having a bit of hindsight this time and being keenly aware that they ought not to let themselves be exploited puppet or proxy for larger international conflict? I'm not saying Afghanistan on track to be a shining beacon of modernity in an otherwise backwards region but things are looking pretty up for them and I wish them the best.

An equivalent for Iran would be what? Next guy shows up in charge, promises a few token reforms. Bombs stop falling, protestors go home, business as usual resumes but with a little more normalcy toward the rest of the world.

>In my experience most forums have private messaging.

Yeah but it's kind of accepted that the forum owner could read it all if they so chose. Maybe this is a hold over from back in the old days when encryption was nowhere near default during which forums arose.

>Keeping children safe and prosecuting are too different concepts, only vaguely related.

See also: That time the FBI took over a CSAM site and kept it running so they could nab a bunch of users.

Not necessarily saying what they did was right, but I think there's a strong utilitarian argument to be made that what they did in that case was, in fact, the best way to keep children safe.

What's more dangerous? CSAM on the internet? Or actual child predators running loose?

That stuff spreads and re-spreads just like anything else people download off the internet. There's a pretty strong argument for shutting it down right away. IIRC most users were outside jurisdiction.

Even if one more person was prosecuted it was worth it. If you shut down an illegal website a new one will show up a month later, with the same people involved, and you achieved nothing.

>Police cannot access your E2EE DMs with a warrant.

Well the kind of can if they nab your cell phone or other device that has a valid access token.

I think it's kind of analogous to the police getting at one's safe. You might have removed the contents before they got there but that's your prerogative.

I think this results in acceptable tradeoffs.

No clear objectives, blame when it goes bad and no credit when it goes good sounds a lot like being an IC with a crap manager.

> In some places a QA is effectively doing PO stuff.

Or your support team could wind up owning it without even knowing that they own it.

Plan for who's gonna own the product because someone will, and that task will just settle somewhere random if you don't specifically assign it.

It has nothing to do with enforcement and everything to do with roads being interconnected and naturally load balancing thanks to modern gps routing.

You slow down a main through road it puts that traffic right onto residential roads that formerly weren't worth taking and so someone's kid who used to ride their bike in the street has to either stop or risk getting turned into paste.

I live in a state with stringent roadworthiness inspections BTW.

All of the people who self flagellate on these topics know that the wealthy urban Northeast has similar stats to Europe on any given issue.

They're self flagellating because they can't just come out and say what "those people off in Iowa, yeah, well F them" or something along those lines.

I'm American and I find the way Americans misuse words, or completely misrepresent a concept, so we don't have to accept our failings to be really short sighted.

Americans lie to ourselves constantly to perpetuate our mistakes. We twist the meaning of words so we don't have to admit how selfish/shitty we can be.

You're right. Most Americans won't come out and say what they mean, so they'll dance around it. That's how so many racist Americans can say they aren't racist.

Seems like a list of stuff nobody had to ask fore because it was already being done for the 200th.

Stormwater is a non-issue and generally a waste of money racket unless you're talking about developing a many acre concrete jungle or some sort of facility that will generate pollution that it may pick up. Datacenters, warehouse, etc. don't really have that issue. "Treatment" in these cases would consist of the gutters simply running into a bioswale (i.e. a grassy ditch, god I hate how the industry intentionally makes the language incomprehensible to laymen). There'd be some number crunching regarding volume and stuff but nothing that any competent dirt work contractor couldn't shoot from the hip simply by looking at the building size. There's no real cost impact to over-sizing it once you've set down the path of engineered site plan which all these facilities probably will.

The wastewater I am concerned about though for the thermal reasons many have cited.

Water retention plantings like bioswales could help with the thermal impacts too if the wastewater can be treated there right?

The problem with pads and ditches and ponds and stuff is you'd still have to prove the out-flow from your is fine to enter the river so you're basically just adding the extra step of engineering your ditch and then proving it's not gonna erode or whatever.

I think the ideal solution would be to just run it over a concrete pad to cool it to ambient but the regulators are shit and if anyone anywhere has ever dumped clean warm water into a river your best solution is likely to be to copy them and pay your lawyers to cite all the reasons the other people found it fine. Anything you do is gonna get bike shed to hell and there's a lot less variables for them to do that with if it's just a dumb pipe.

The laws and rules are all a giant nightmare (and the enforcers are worse) that prevent common sense solutions, creativity and small scale development generally and force people to copycat cookie cutter stuff.