The 1619 Project is a representation what's wrong with our society today: It claims to be facts, but speculates on the intentions of our founding fathers and many other people in history, with no real way to know the actual truth...because we weren't actually there.

Ring was hacked because the victims used the same password across multiple websites and those other websites had data breaches.

You can't really do anything about this, no matter how great your security is.

I suppose Ring could enforce 2FA across the entire platform, but many people wouldn't accept this and they would lose customers.

I use a password manager and don't reuse any password for any site and have 2FA enabled on all of my important accounts. The problem is that most people don't want to be inconvenienced.

"google auth, facebook auth, github auth"

So you now have a handful of failure points. I also am against the idea of building my entire user base off of someone else's platform. It's just asking for trouble down the road.

"I find punching in a username + password extremely inconvenient, and this is why I never create new accounts from scratch."

Security is really never convenient. You need to have a good balance between the two. A password manager is pretty convenient, even my non-tech savvy parents can use one.

"So what I am hearing from you is "user authentication" is your greatest security challenge?"

No. I was making a comment about the recent Ring hacks and how if you are a startup and the exact situation happens, there isn't much you can do beyond telling users to use different passwords or forcing a password change.

Even if you have the most secure encryption in place and all the best security procedures, if your users pick terrible passwords (or another site gets hacked and they use the same password), they will get their accounts hacked.

" but with a plus of cleverness, strange ways to do things, uncommon hobbies and extravaganza"

You present autistic children like they are all little Sheldons from the Big bang theory, when the reality couldn't be further from the truth.

Autism is a spectrum where a certain percentage of kids are as you say, but many can't do anything without the help of an adult and certainly aren't going to have 'uncommon hobbies' or 'cleverness'.

This looks like spam and I imagine whatever you are doing will no longer work after awhile. Why not just create a legitimate business?

This law won't result in more people with full-time employment. It will result in more job loss.

Agreed. It's difficult to get on a full-time job after working on high paying gigs.

Any idea of how much is paid to content writes?

"The hate-filled vitriol of Trumpism, the barely-hidden hate of Brexit"

Before I got to the end of the article, I knew this was where it was going.

No mention of the left-wing violence on our college campuses, and the conservative speakers that have their freedom of speech violated regularly and their lives threatened with impunity.

No mention of the top tech companies attempting to sway our next election by misleading the general public through blatant censorship of the right.

The doom and gloom about poverty is ridiculous. The current US economy is the best it has been in a decade. Our gas prices are very low because the Trump administration has reduced regulations and opened up local drilling (which means less reliance on oil from the Middle East).

Unemployment rates for everyone are at record lows.

Our society might be dying, but it has nothing to do with what is mentioned in this article.

The ring doorbell camera is very obvious at this point and you can clearly see when it's being used by the logo on the front and the large glowing button.

Just like with the anti-gun zealots, I feel like advocates only want to help criminals and make it more and more difficult for law-abiding citizens from protecting their home and families.

I think a better social norm would be: don’t share candid video of strangers.

If your device happens to capture a video of someone doing something funny, and you don’t know the person so you can’t ask them for permission to post it ... just keep it to yourself.

You will not get this opportunity again. Almost nobody will pay you $25/hour for many months, to essentially learn anything at your own pace until work picks up.

Most companies are not busy between the end of November and the end of January due to everyone taking vacations, so you probably won't be getting much work until after the holidays.

You're right. Working on it.

We have the lowest unemployment rates in a decade. He has to be doing something right.

With all of the humans emitting CO2 from their bodies right now and population increase that happens every year, dreaming of other planets might be the only alternative.

The amount of CO2 human bodies emits is negligable. Methane from cow farts are a significant source of greenhouse gasses though. There should be fincancial incentives for more environmentally friendly diets. As well as greater taxes for air travel. In england it is cheaper to fly than travel by train.

A couple do things have to happen in tandem: 1. Switching to a predominantly plant based diet. Not necessarily fake meat, but reducing our animal protein coming from CAFOs. 2. Restoring habitat because we are a super apex predator and we need ecosystems below us to be functioning well. Insect loss and disappearing bird and reptile population is a scary warning sig. We can achieve habitat rehab with reforestation and rewilding 50% of land mass. It’s a start. 3. Protect marine health and eco system. After all, life on earth is only because of the oceans. 4. Bring most if not all food production indoors. 5. Find alt. Energy with a mix of clean nuclear, renewables and fossil fuels. 6. Bring population down to carrying capacity. There is no way avoiding the issue of depopulation. It is possible with non transferable 1/2 surviving child per person so we have genetic diversity. Alternatively, we can incentivize responsible rationed procreation if they have 1 or no children ..but this would lead to a class system. Procreation shouldn’t be penalized but there is no need to incentivize what is essentially bad for our planet. 7. For the above point, we must develop anti aging and genetic repair and tech to extract and preserve genetic material.

Mass depopulation is probably the only option either way. Whether it's under our control or forced upon us.

Even if we manage to colonize another world, there's no way we'll be able to scale transportation and settlement fast enough to move enough people off planet to mitigate climate change here.

This is only true if by mass depopulation you mean of specifically the US and some European countries judging by per capita GHG production.

Depends on the quality of life and final population level. Maybe our options are a billion people living in abject, third world poverty, or a few 10s of millions living a first world, middle class lifestyle. Depopulation will happen until we get to some sustainable ratio, whatever that happens to be.

How we get there might also be the opposite of what you'd expect. Maybe the poorest 6 billion die first, and the remaining rich manage to survive only by drastically ratcheting down their lifestyle. Or maybe world war 3 happens and almost everyone dies, but the small number of survivors are able to pick up the pieces and build something resembling a modern lifestyle.

I don't think you understand the situation that exists. Climate change is a problem that exists today and so is caused by current consumption levels. The global poor doesn't today produce the overwhelming amount of GHGs, the first world does through its consumption. So, if you want to depopulate anywhere to solve the current crisis, the only place you can depopulate is here.

That said, not all middle class lifestyles need be so carbon intensive. US in particular has the highest GHG per capita because of sprawl and lifestyle choices. As China and India develop (although that might take a while) we have to help encourage them to not copy the US' example but say certain western european countries which use much less GHG per capita that we in the US do.