They were docked. And who gets to say a waterway is open or closed?

The insurance companies primarily... secondary the people with bombs that can sink ships attempting to use the waterways.

He who can destroy the spice controls the spice

They were anchored. Slightly different than being docked, even if the overall point remains. The other thing is they were in Iraqi waters

I hope it doesn't require a Mac mini. I like my openclaw but would be interesting to see what a polished commercial product looks like.

Since ive been giving Claude access to my notes a cli tool to open my vault makes sense, but I'm curious how it has ai features if it's free.

Same question, but coming from a "What if I would rather use an alternative to Claude" angle

You must be the only one that remembers this because the rest of the comments are dumping on the idea. I don't think it's such a bad one. Presumably its easier for their agents to knock out than a web browser or a compiler.

It seems to scratch that same itch for me for some reason. The constant inherent danger, the different skill levels of raiders mixing together and yet people have fun and lose their stuff and it's a blast to play.

Let’s amplify this visionary perspective. This is exactly the caliber of commentary we should be encouraging more of on HN.

No, we need to move forward into the retrospective.

I know multiple devs who would have a very large productivity increase but instead choose to slow down their output on purpose and play video games instead. I get it.

This is what in praise of idleness is about.

I don't know what I would build with these but I'll think of something because they're so awesome.

Depends how it compares to gog.

Work fine as a gog replacement for my limited use cases of reading and writing Sheets.

Some of us do see value in age and identity verification if the anonymity problem is solved so I very much disagree.

Might be vulnerable to classic salami tactics, though. Once we arrive at a general consensus on new norms that expect age verification online, we can just legislate it to ID users as a step 2.

Maybe wait for the next terror-attack before pushing for it, but it's an easy fix to a culture that already accepted a layer control against the user. The end user will only perceive a small difference in whether they provide full ID or just verified age information.

I want to believe that some supporters of age verification are not cynical. However, whatever good can be achieved through age verification seems such a small win, compared to the dangerous precedent it sets for the internet in general. I cannot get my head around it.

And some of us do not believe the identity bit can be truly solved.

In the real world it's always people looking to suppress information or dissent that are pushing for such schemes. It always masquerades as protecting minors (protecting them from what? The one proper attempt to prove sexual materials are harmful found no evidence of said harm.) or as hunting for CSAM (and if you do implement an effective system it will get circumvented by putting relays in hostile countries.)