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Truth. Yes. Problem is that sometimes the truth is very, very inconvenient for someone (important), then it is forbidden, called lies or conspiracy theory or hate speech.

Before Snowden we had some conspiracy theories that NSA is spying on everyone, but those who claimed that were ridiculed.

Before the communism fell the truth that Polish officers were murdered in Katyn forest by Soviets was considered a lie (official "truth" was that Germans did that) - this truth was so annoying that for a long time (until 1980ties) even Western countries official policy preferred lies only to maintain good relations with Soviet Union.

For a quite a long time (till 1960ies) people thought that this is a good idea to check if shoes fit using X-rays. The truth of that times was that X-rays used in that way are safe.

And I can go on like this for hours.

People lie, people make mistakes, people have shady interests and motivations, human knowledge is restricted. If we enforce official "truth" we never learn the truth. Maybe this will help to keep societies in peace (in the Orwellian way).

Communists tried that, luckily they failed. Chinese half Communism half Confucianism tries that now, we will see how it will end up.
I think nationalism and its more “accepting form” patriotism so far, in history, had a net negative impact. I am reffering at relations between states.

I also think that we have a wide range of problems which cannot be solved at national level.

So why it is bad if EU wants to have less of that?

One of the initial premises of EU was to facilitate cooperation between states which were at war for lenghty periods of time. And by facilitating collaboration the making them feel more “together”.
To be fair, it wasn't Apple directly that doomed Nokia's phone business, it was Android. Of course Apple set the gears moving with iPhone though.
For me, the separation between hobby and work is more of a matter of responsibility than pay. If I feel responsible for some activity/task/project I would classify it as work. It does not matter if it is taking care of kids, growing a garden, being a board member of some charitable organization, or one of my free software projects: I do not get paid, and I like doing it, but I think of it as work rather than a hobby.

Building some software prototypes for ideas I have, that I count as a hobby. Reading all the books I do, however more time I spend on it than some work activities, I still think of as a hobby.
But that was part of my origin point, with:

> It’s also allowed for different sides of things, because you can interpret things like socioeconomic statistics and facts differently and write about them as such, but you can’t make up things.

But maybe my English wasn’t good enough to carry it through.

I don’t think narratives are a problem as such. People are allowed different opinions in a free society. Our laws are there to prevent people from printing things that are outright false, but these laws are being circumvented on the modern media platforms because they apply to editiorial staff but not private citizens.

Which is a problem in a world where influencers have more viewers than news papers.
The actual fact that geese can eat that much and double size (or more) is natural and necessary for their migration. It's possible to make foie gras by just letting the goose eating itself. Acording to my parents when they were living on farms when young, that's the way they were doing it.

Just banning the practice of force feeding would make more sense.

You can find a few things online about those alternative way
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> Hobbies I hate. By definition I'm an amateur and I don't perform well.

Doing it as a hobby just means that you don't do it for money, not that you aren't good at it. For example often your hobbies overlap with your work. I program games as a hobby and program/design extremely performance sensitive things at my job, they overlap quite a lot.
The apple store always distribute apps under a proprietary license. So even if the code is open-source, if you install it on your device through the apple store you are still installing proprietary software.

They say on their Github page that their app is licensed under GPLv3. Yet they can't publish it under GPLv3 license to the apple store. This means that if you contribute to the project under the GPLv3 license, they can't redistribute your through the apple store. So if you contribute your code it will always have to be licensed under a permissive license.

Still can't wait for the F-Droid release though.
> a special crowd that’s rarely targeted these days: technical people who aren’t serious coders

Flash had a bit of this too, especially in the ActionScript 1 days - albeit from a design rather than a business background. So too did every 8-bit micro that booted into an adequate BASIC. It’s a shame that we’ve largely lost this.
I am not saying you are guilty of this, by I think this is sad in a way. My prejudice is that many frontend developers are interested in CS for the wrong reasons; I don't know if it's true though.

But CS as a career boost is very instrumental. I think it's better to focus on the good parts:

a) CS is fascinating,
b) I also think there is an ethical side of CS. For each year, more 'logic' ends up in the frontend - I think. If this is true, there is an ethical dimension to it; not everyone have a new computer with the latest browser - performance has a ethical dimension.

Also, I for one hates when web sites are slow (so I guess there also is a business/economical side as well). But my main point is that - and no, I am not saying you're guilty of this, you clearly like CS (why comment otherwise), but the reasons you provide would gain from adding the perspective I am trying to provide, I think - is that CS should be studied because it is important, and fascinating. :)

I will never be good with CS. But if my own take on CS were only instrumental (career boost), I would most likely end up with less knowledge in comparison with reasons related to fascination (and ethics). I think this is an important point. Sure, it is perhaps made often. But in that case, I think it is important to repeat it. I see ads for many CS courses on i.e. Udemy with titles like CS for interviews and so on. I am not saying those course are bad (don't know); all I am saying is this is an instrumental view and that we (developers as a community) sometimes should be better at finding the right reasons.

Sorry, this was a long reply. :( :)
How does Spain oppress people who speak another language exactly? I thought it was totally legal to speak catalan everywhere in catalunya including schools. Am I missing something?
Except that

(1) The Danes who wrote those laws were elected by the citizens in a fair and open democracy.

(2) The enforcement (presumably) falls on their judicial system. One that is transparent, progressive and highly respected around the world.

(3) That Denmark has one of the lowest rates of corruption in the world.

(4) That Danes are free to pursue information elsewhere (as in the entire internet) if they don't like whats available locally.

But besides those things, you're right. It's just like the situation in Saudi Arabia, China and Russia. /s
yeah and then your feed gets bombarded by whatever political leaning that person has coz twitter has no way to "follow" someone without seeing retweets/likes
When you spend years going to work every day in the presence of external sources of motivation (a boss who could fire you, a mortgage to pay, coworkers who depend on you, etc.), it's easy to underestimate just how much of a factor those sources play. It's quite difficult to have to rely entirely on intrinsic motivation to get things done if you don't have a lot of practice doing so.
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I'm pretty sure weapons go missing all the time.
Not if you have hobbies that require mental exercise and effort. Go try out a bunch of stuff, stick to a few of them, see yourself improve, rinse and repeat.
I know. That's my point. The EU very much much wants them to be and had imposed trade sanctions on its financial sector as part of applying pressure during a treaty "renegotiation".
That's been proven? Where? Because at least anecdotally, I recall reading so many stories of people who were talked out of a cult by having better information presented to them.
Nah, it works, it just takes a loooot more money than people imagine.

Especially because if you want to tackle local problems that require local service providers (education, healthcare, craftsmen) you'll have to pay local (very high) prices.
I support this, but I’m not sure about its moral groundwork. I’ve never tried foie gras, and after reading about it I’m increasingly sure I never will. The fact that I find little pleasure in food delicacies and am thus not affected in the slightest by this ban makes it hard to sympathize with those who resist it; It’s just wasteful to me, after all. But someone could just as easily say that about my leather jackets and my fast fashion, or my snazzy tech purchases or all those luxuries I thoroughly enjoy. It feels unfair to decide this by a vote of people who are likely not affected, who don’t reap its value. But how, then, do we choose what’s right and what’s not?
It's just a step in the right direction.
And not deciding to pay to be tortured by a psycho after detailed explanation how you'll be tortured by a psycho, that is.
> In America, we understand that there is absolutely nothing more dangerous than an entity that feels entitled to control what is true. It might make things easier, and it might actually produce better results so long as the entity doing so is competent and benevolent, but nearly every structure in America is meant to serve as a bulwark for the cases in which the entity in power is precisely the sort that you do not want to be making those decisions. And to be frank, Europe should probably be more wary of that.

I'm not trying to be snarky, but in all honesty, how do you feel this is working out for the US at this very moment?
This is just whataboutism. Banning political ads does not affect whether people can misrepresent truths. Preventing lies does not affect whether misrepresent truths.

However, banning political ads on Facebook does ban political ads on facebook, and banning lies does ban lies.

Tech is not some magical playground disconnected from reality. Time for SV to grow up and engage with society and politics - they’re not an “optional, inefficient” part of life.
You can do the same in Java.

Netbeans with Swing UI designer and database bean components.
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Or you know, keep the lie because "publicly apologize for using the inaccurate “Polish Death Camps” phrase does not apply in Germany as it would curb freedom of speech." https://polandin.com/38606816/apology-for-polish-death-camps...
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With flyway you need to pay for a license to get down migrations. You can always write the down migrations anyway and apply manually when needed.
None of those sources of info feel like you're reading information written by a human - there is limited emotional context or web context(ongoing internet history is often excluded)

Some of the stories ARS presents you won't even be able to parse as to why they were written unless you're aware of the general tech and social zeitgeist - which you can see on reddit somewhat
Thanks for the link. I've read the Independent article, clicked through and read the author's Facebook "footnote", and also read the paper referenced in that.

I can't see anything that disputes the claim "The Tories are the clearest benefactors" of the UK's electoral system.

The author makes a repeated assertion that boundaries are currently biased "15 seats" against the Tories, but I cannot tell where this number is coming from.

The fact remains that the Tories have won the last few elections by receiving a disproportionate number of MPs relative to their vote share. Moreover, polling suggests that they will continue to have the highest vote share.
I did a masters and then a juris doctorate in my 20s. I am now in my early 40s, and I am doing another masters with the goal of doing a PhD when I am done.

Before I started, I was pretty concerned about whether I would be able to do this even. Most of my peers are in their 20s and 30s, though it was surprising to me when I started this program that I am not the oldest candidate and there are a couple of us in the higher age ranges. Anyway, I had wondered if I would be able to keep up with the youngsters. In fact, I don't think it has been an issue at all. I think that I am performing at least at as high of or possibly a higher level today than during my first run at graduate education.

I think there are certain factors that I, as an older, more settled, less let's-start-living-life(!) person have as an advantage over my young peers. Many of them still focus a lot of time on socializing, whereas I have my spouse and kids and old friends whom I don't have to see every weekend (the old friends--I see my spouse and kids every day). My younger colleagues do a lot of dumb things still, ones that I sure did also when I was that age and have gotten out of my system.

I would say that there were certain advantages to doing graduate work when I was young, and certain advantages now. I find it impossible to say which is better, but it is at least no worse now than then.
|Honestly I was very sad to hear it. Selling out your country for the low amounts he did is such a sad thing.

yeah he def should have sold his country out for a lot more.. 0.o
If the event planner is a single centralized global entity, then the end-user features are less significant, that is correct - well aside from no one being able to take down the data and it being open source. If you are talking about everyone hosting their own, then this is incorrect - even if you think they could be federated "discovery" of new groups and members is practically impossible when a new server is added. There is a significant advantage of having a global registry, when it comes to discovery.
If there's something I'm glad to see banned, it's fua gra. Disgusting, cruel, and belongs to the dust bin of history.
O365 still gives you desktop versions of the Office software. It does makes me a little worried, but I'm hoping Microsoft isn't suicidal and won't pull the plug on desktop software, leaving us only with the half-featured web versions.

Flow is interesting, but AFAIR it requires extra clicking in the administrative interface to get running, so it might not work for shadow IT as well as Access does.
I should say for some parts of business it seeems impossible to entirely avoid political messaging. If BP, Monsanto etc. make 100 ads, 90 of them will not be political. 1 will be actually political, but 10 of them will definitely be accused of being political. It will create a problem for those trying to draw a line.
I don't disagree with most of what you say, but I do disagree with your implied conclusion.

Setting a baseline of limiting/banning provably false information is a good thing. Yes, it doesn't stop all forms manipulation of people towards any given agenda, but it certainly doesn't make it easier, and means things have to be at least slightly anchored to reality.
Votes to get accepted, votes to get kicked out.

Like any "social ring", esoteric or not.

Edit: and vouching, if someone messes up the person that introduced her wll be obstracized as well.
That may not be the best analogy.

If shark fin is illegal, then being able to order it in Mandarin isn't a "loophole" -- it doesn't magically become legal on a technicality.

It's just a means of avoiding enforcement of the law, by making the illicit activity less obvious.
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I guess I have missed that. What was the change?
Hopefully a (theoretically) infinite amount (assuming infinite time) ...theories should continuously be re-tested, although it probably makes sense to spend an exponentially lower and lower amount of money on re-testing theories we know are true. But they should be re-tested, even if some experiments you'd only redo every 50 years or so!

For two important reasons:

1. as a species we must maintain technical capability to perform certain types of experiments - only way to 100% be sure we do this is by re-doing those experiments periodically

2. the fact that the "laws" of physics are fixed in any sense of the word, or that there even are such things as "laws of nature" is at its core a very very likely but UNPROVEN ASSUMPTION... we should always be open to the possibility that we live in a much stranger universe than we imagine and that the laws of physics themselves could vary and that we mush have capability to re-discover the new/changed laws, or to poke deeper at meta-laws

Also (2) is not as much lunacy as it sounds considering that the most likely (in the sense of "mathematically probable" considering the math of probability and information, not in "what we can determine experimentally with our primitive capabilities") setup from our universe models is more like we're in an N-th level "simulation" (a simulation in a simulation ... etc.) maybe running on a something like a "Boltzmann brain" in hell knows what soup of multiverses...

We may live insignificantly short lives and be practically meaningless on a grander scale, but if we dare the play the game of "guessing the laws of the universe" on a large scale, we shouldn't have the arrogance to assume that what we measure and deduce on an insignificantly small space-time volume in our ant-farm corner of the universe actually holds up directly through longer stretches of time and space!

Otherwise we're not really doing science, we're adherents to the religion called scientism, and we're not truly honestly rational, but merely praying in the church of rationalism! These are very very different things!
Same, I read all cameras were "malfunctioning"
Just fyi people now say Hackernews is a cesspool and devto is the new hotness. or is it mastodon? all i know is i keep going back to reddit to actually get some meaningful discussion on a topic and not just an echochamber of "yeah that's what i think too!"(if you sort by controversial)
> I am a fan of Twitter. It is a much better social network then Facebook and Instagram

I used to follow a lot of blogs of people on Google Reader, when it was shut down everyone just chanted "What's the big deal? Just use Twitter it does the same thing".

Now to follow the same creators I did before I have to experience everything with a side order of hot takes about American politics (I'm not American).

Twitter is one of the worst things to happen to the internet, I can't have any sort of healthy interaction with the internet and actually keep up with what I'm interested in anymore. It sickens me that every time a platform or service shuts down the answer from Twitter addicts is always "just use Twitter".
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I find immense meaning in my work, and I've gone through long stretches in the past 10 years where I would've said more or less what the parent commenter said, that experience for its own sake is meaningless.

However, my perspective has evolved somewhat, or changed might be the better word.

Just because something is productive and rewarded by society doesn't mean it can't be addictive. And just because something is rewarding and meaningful doesn't mean you're fully enjoying your life as the present. It can be easy to get caught up in always working for the future as life passes you by.

A life algorithm that's always focused on improving future moments, but that never takes the time to enjoy them when future arrives and they become present moments… it's almost like some sort of tragic Greek myth.
The support forum page for it links to a parked domain, so it probably isn't very active.
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That goes against typical IT policy that if people don't use something they can't break it, so let's make sure they can't use shared IT resources.
I enjoy foie gras and i happily live in a place where it's unlikely to be banned in my lifetime. No nation which has only recently turned to service economy from agriculture-driven economy and most population grew in the countryside, will do it, because they know and readily accept that all agriculture is the torture of animals or it just doesn't pay for itself. Also, it's just tasty.
Then you have to wade through miles of posts calling out "blatant astroturfing"(people paid to write positive forum posts) on the site.
Finding open and honest discussion is really hard
You were the one talking about "future". Can you explain better what did you mean?
Gravity is very similar to magnetism, a "magically" attracting force of distinct objects. The explanation is very easy via fields. Just trying to explain it via particles will get you into trouble, e.g. the flawed standard model, or the Higgs.

Einstein was pretty close in his spacetime bending explanation, but this still doesn't explain dark matter or the recent gravity experiments with fast rotating magnets in strong supra conductors.
There are better gravity field theories out there, but they are lacking experimental verification. Some experiments are cheap, but most are cosmic scale, beyond simple galaxies.

This army guy came up with nice and cheap experiments, similar to Tajmar's experiments. We will see what will come out of it. Tajmar is also holding an old patent of an Anti-Gravity device, which nobody built so far. The army device with two rotating fields seems to be much better.
this is a tiny script/hack that someone did 2 years ago and was kind enough to open-source. That person probably did not post the link to HN. So, what do you expect?
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If you don't need it to be on the web, Python + Sqlite isn't too bad. Then a GUI like pyqt could do the trick (with UI designed in Qt designer). It still requires some coding, though.

If you need it to be on the web, php + Mysql is probably one of the easiest to learn. The cool kids might have moved to something else, like node or django, though. It also requires learning done basic HTML, but the complexity is reasonable.
Denmark? You mean one of the least feminist countries in the developed world? Not to mention the openly racist narrative about immigrants in public media. Compared to other Scandinavian countries the Danish media is extremely toxic so not sure about portraiting it as a role model in "well informed and critical thinking".
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+1 for clearplay. My folks use it religiously (I don't mean it's literally because of religion, it's just an expression. But if I'm being honest, religion probably has to do with it) and I'm very grateful they do. My youngest siblings are adopted and have special needs, so while they're getting older and are really quite smart, they're extremely vulnerable to the influence of any media they consume, especially when they can't quite understand fiction vs nonfiction. Putting on clearplay 100% of the time when they watch a movie helps keep a lot of nasty surprises from doing so much damage.
Culture is what gives value to a web forum. If it's just an exchange of ideas it gets bogged down with astroturfing
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