Elsewhere in this thread there is a discussion about Terra Preta (the local version of sustainable soil). Simple techniques like this have been used all over the world for thousands of years, from Eastern China, to the Steppes, to the cow-dung based agriculture in India.
I wonder if there is an analysis somewhere on how much land will be needed to completely move away from harsh, "chemical" based fertilizers to naturally occurring ways to replenish agricultural lands. We don't have to eat meat all the time and may be 7 billion people could be fed a decent, vegetarian, varied diet with the existing lands without the modern fertilizers?
On a side note to that point, have you tasted the difference between simple, unsalted German butters and the ones sold in NYC? Oh my god. You will never want to come to America on that basis alone. (Sorry, a bit of hyperbole there; there may be one or two other reasons to not go to the USA).
FWIW, various arbitrarily strung together components (your OS, DNS, VPN, Browser, WebRTC) are not going to guarantee anonymity. Simply because it is not their job.
The only possible solution is a piece of software that guarantees end-to-end privacy by literally standing guard at each end (from the moment you connect to your network with your hardware MAC address exposed to the final moment when a web page is retrieved for you from your destiantion website).
>> TBH what disturbs me the most is how much data Facebook
>> has on people's children. There's going to be an entire
>> generation of people whose conception to high school
>> graduation has been archived in Facebook servers,
>> without their consent.
I find it unsettling that Facebook has built profiles on kids who can not, legally, _give_ consent, I mean, at all. Facebook probably has a profile on me (although I have never visited them) because I am active in a community of heavy smartphone users; but at least I am an adult and you could argue that people/institutions/organizations that I interact with have kinda given consent on my behalf (without asking me) by agreeing to these websites' Terms & Conditions. So for adults, you could say it is "Indirectly Implied Consent".
But how can you apply this argument to kids' profiles collected/built/scraped without consent?
We have a lot of work to do, as a society. A combination of laws, co-ordinated across countries, and social shaming perhaps?
Keeping yourself private is a hard problem, what with so many places in your software stack where you can leak your identity. This is why we need software that will _continuously_ and _automatically_ anonymize you on all your devices, from desktops to laptops to smartphones. And, then, on the end of your internet travels, all exit node vulnerabilities (in Tor Browser) need to be _automatically_ and _always_ mitigated.
May I point you to my project which solves these problems? I am just asking for your comments on my project description, not any money. You can see the link to my HN posting in my profile.
I think the scourge of mass surveillance (indirectly the problem of seeking complete anonymity) can be defeated with some patient work.
I wonder if there is an analysis somewhere on how much land will be needed to completely move away from harsh, "chemical" based fertilizers to naturally occurring ways to replenish agricultural lands. We don't have to eat meat all the time and may be 7 billion people could be fed a decent, vegetarian, varied diet with the existing lands without the modern fertilizers?
On a side note to that point, have you tasted the difference between simple, unsalted German butters and the ones sold in NYC? Oh my god. You will never want to come to America on that basis alone. (Sorry, a bit of hyperbole there; there may be one or two other reasons to not go to the USA).