Chill out, I explicitly said that bars should be appropriately cutting people off. That would be long before they are drunk. If they can't do that, they lose their licencing and ability to sell alcohol.
Fortunately, drunks at home have never hurt themselves or their families. /s
I dont drink at all, so you can keep your assumptions about my social life to yourself.
And no one is talking about peer pressuring others to drink, where did you get that idea from?
I dont have an HN account to roast them directly, so I'll do it here:
They correctly realised that sending 5 packets at a time is faster than 1 at a time, but didn't go to the logical conclusion of sending ALL of them at once?
No arguments there. My intent with the proposal was more centered around making alcohol consumption actually social. Balancing it against the obvious harms of alcohol is non-trivial.
Bars could be required to have cheap booze in order to keep their licences. But heinekin owning the establishment is a bit of a conflict of interest there.
If allowing problem drinking could cause the alcohol service licence to be revoked (therefore no more cheap booze), perhaps pubs would be incentivised to prevent problem drinking. Requires a working regulatory environment though.
Many governments are jacking up prices on alcohol, for the obvious health detriments. Instead of doing it across the board, they could make take home alcohol cost significantly more, but bar/pub/restaurant alcohol significantly cheaper, on the understanding that its a lot harder to problem drink in a public place with a bartender who will cut you off.
It would encourage moderated drinking in social places, discourage excessive home drinking. Doesnt completely solve the health issues though.
I use Zen as well, but I dont like the idea of calling any browser fork "privacy focused". It only takes one malicious update and your entire online life can be exfilled to wherever.
You can sue Mozilla/Google/MS (maybe unsuccessfully, depends on functional courts) if something goes wrong there, you cannot sue a random github repo.
That makes sense, hopefully the scales suggestion pans out. I'd look for one with a big range of weights (up to 5-10kg), and physical buttons instead of touch. I have touch buttons and they suck. They trigger if a metal bowl gets close, and dont work well when I do try use them.
There are thousands of federated instances, and datamining isnt an obvious bad activity, so realistically, dataminers will fall through the cracks.