Once social trust (or assibiyah, to use Ibn Khandun's term) in a region collapses, it often returns slowly or not at all. Sadly common pattern in history. I think one could plausibly argue that in this way, Calabria never recovered from the collapse of antiquity, the Gothic wars, and generations spent as a Christian-Muslim war zone.

Love this. Make it into a chrome or Firefox extension, let people freely switch from "normal" to "honest" any time they want.

Wow, thanks a lot for a deep and insightful comment like this. I've learn quite a lot just by following your links. This is one of the reasons why I love HN and keep participating after all these years.

Thanks, that's very kind.

> What are we losing, what are we taking away from life, now that we ourselves have become a resource to extract. Probably, a lot.

Beautifully said. And sad.

Were they going to "move" Jakarta to a new location, because of climate change?

Thanks a lot for sharing this. Yours is a truly outstanding comment. I am so glad that sometimes here on HN I find little gems like this one.

Have you considered writing something longer on the subject? Or have you done so, and would you mind sharing links?

Is there any known adverse effect for human health?

I researched that before and I think it's considered generally safe. Toxicity required huge doses.

Though the instructions recommend ventilating the room a little after letting it settle, and I don't use it every night. Also I like to cover pillows before spraying.

It's very similar to the WHO recommended stuff used before and during flights - https://www.inchem.org/documents/ehc/ehc/ehc243.pdf

It was a personal project by ex-Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, a guy who spends insane amount of money for weird/fun projects.

In 2010 he gave a TED Talk about a laser that could kill mosquitoes and therefore "end malaria". AFAIK, the project never worked properly, and it has been dead for a while now.

[0]: https://www.ted.com/talks/nathan_myhrvold_could_this_laser_z...

Notably, Chris Sacca (now a famous VC), when working at Google in the early 2000s, got in trouble for mentioning that telecoms were preventing Internet from being Net Neutral, and instead of being fired, he got promoted by Larry Page and given a huge budget to work on it. I can't find a reference but I'm almost certain this is correct.