Lobste.rs is a tech-focused website quite similar to HN, and it's also affected (although they decided that the risks of legal action are low enough to avoid geoblocking UK users entirely).
Partially. Legally, they use both USD and Bitcoin; but it wasn't really adopted by the population [1] (it doesn't help that they've been using USD since ~2000, which is relatively stable by latam standards). It was also much more a political endeavour by their president to promote neoliberal ideas rather than anything to do with blockchains per se.
Even though social isolation may make someone more resilient, I don't think there's any good advantage to it. You can study better if you're not alone, and these relationships give you knowledge that'll be used in the workplace years later, when you need to manage a team. You can get proper resilience from bad relationships, not the lack thereof. And, well, the study also said that it can lead to stuff like alcohol misuse, which is not cool at all.
This is mostly another consequence of social media use by kids and teenagers. Why are 14 year-olds so worried about being attractive anyway?
Yeah I was 14 way before anyone had heard the word "instagram", and people were pretty obsessed with being attractive as a means to being able to express and experiment with budding sexuality. Social media seems to make this worse, but mostly when this stuff comes up I just think "same as it ever was...".
They shouldn't be worried, but it puts a lot of unwanted attention on them. They start to see it as a measurement and a prime metric to be judged by. I saw a lot of otherwise magnificent personalities bend because of how groups pressed them into roles.
Since, according to the article, wheat should be planted on already existing crops, I don't think it will be a big issue in the near future. However, soybeans are already a major cause of deforestation, especially in the Midwest, and this extra productivity may boost these activities.
I'm not an expert, but working with multiple crops in the same year can also further deplete soil resources, decreasing the overall productivity and increasing deforestation.
Brazilian politics is extremely messy right now, and it's hard to tell how we're going to face environmental issues in the near future. The recently-elected president has a strong environmentalist agenda, but is fighting with the Congress and may lose support for pushing forward such legislation.
I don't think we should blame Matrix for trying to get funding for their open source project, but it's also hard to blame everyone's reaction after such bad wording. Even marketing that their technology is used by governments is understandable - it does mean something. But it's no excuse for answering good-faith users in this way.
I think it's important to at least own your email domain, so you can keep your address when changing hosts. Hosting myself is too much of a hassle, so I go with PurelyMail. It's wonderfully cheap and works great. Had no issues with delivery so far.
Exactly, even folks using Gmail still (for some reason) have an escape hatch if they use their own domain. But if they use @gmail.com, they are basically using someone else's email address... one where the true owner, Google, has every right to revoke it at any time.
It's been a reliable (for the past 4 years I've used it) solution, with easy setup and laughably small cost. Currently it costs me about $0.3 per month to host personal mail for multiple domains (only one having some moderate activity in fairness).
All of these are mostly personal emails, I haven't tried to send large amount of emails to test their outgoing policies.
Besides the possible technical impossibilities, there's just no reason to do so. If there are clear markings, antivaxxers would just not get inside. And people that really cannot take the vaccines due to some medical condition or young age would be exposed unnecessarily.
You can read their community discussion at https://lobste.rs/s/ukosa1/uk_users_lobsters_needs_your_help...