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I'd say the opposite; it's the openness in the first place that is polarizing.

The current polarization happened before Microsoft stopped letting you make racist cars
I'm so tired of pretty much every car manufacturer offering jacked up extras that should just come as standard.

Trying to sell us on the idea that we can customise the car to our liking. Put out one version of every model car and just look people pick the color & engine size.

Don't own Tesla but god-damn do I like that every model is gonna be the same tech wise (excluding the Full Self Driving and battery size)

Not 300 different possible combinations.
> If I show up to a party with a six-pack of Corona, I'm projecting a clear message to everyone there that I'm a cool, relaxed dude. (Or at least style myself that way.) If I was going for sophisticated, adventure-lover I might show up with Dos Equis instead. And most everyone in America would understand.

The idea of someone showing up with a specific type of beer to attempt to project an image is hilariously absurd and incredibly sad at the same time. I guess that's just where we're at as a society, though.

I definitely wouldn't have received your clear message if you showed up at a party with your 6-pack of Corona hoping to let me know how cool and relaxed you are.
> Presumably a dynamic JIT like HotSpot would use this technique.

Not in practice in HotSpot no, but it could do and similar VMs do. execute|write is not fashionable these days! Some systems enforce execute^write, so you can't do it.
> I have many friends and acquaintances that do the personal version of this, and are part of the problem.

Why are they still your friends?
I hear these sorts of sentiments from the USA a lot - where apparently people are actively rioting and protesting against the health lockdown.

I'm from Australia - where while we've had some grumblings about the health measures, on the whole, we've been pretty lucky. Our death toll is 104 people - which even though (comparative) low is still a tragedy.

Yet the USA death toll is over 130,000 people - that is a terrible thing =(. I do not get how the USA can be so blase about it.

And that is with measures in place (although I'm sure there are breaches). Imagine if you simply let it run rampant, and let the health system get overhwelmed? (See Italy).

It does seem like its overwhelming the young who are very laid back about COVID-19, and chaff the most at restrictions.

To be frank - that seems very selfish.

Imagine if the virus had a 30% mortality rate in your cohort? You'd be terrified.

(I'm young, with two young kids under 5. My parents refused to see me or our kids for a couple of months, out of fear they might catch it from us - I missed them as did their grandkids, but I understand why - it must have been scary for them).

And even that aside - have you considered that a lot of the economic downturn isn't from the actual health measures in place - but from the uncertainty, doubt and fear caused by a virus pandemic? People are scared, and that's naturally going to curb some spending. We are a interlinked global economy, and you cannot escape that.

I hope that we'll have a vaccine soon, so we can go back to normal - but in lieu of that, trying to stamp out the virus or contain it isn't a bad goal.
A lot of not-that-illegal-but-still-illegal drugs that are manufactured in bulk in China and India are still coming in just fine.

Source: my sources.
Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer.

My understanding is that when interpreting the law and legal documents like a ToS or EULA things within a list are interpreted to be related to one another. So objectionable" doesn't literally mean anything anyone finds objectionable ever in perpetuity throughout the universe, it means "this list is not comprehensive, other things like the things in this list count". If you added 'saying fuck AWS' to the rest of that list would it make sense in context? The answer is pretty clearly 'no', so that would not be covered. And before someone says "well some people probably thing swearing is as bad as the other things in that list", the law also frequently defines things like this in terms of what a "reasonable" person would think. There is wiggle room, but for things where it's easy to get general consensus, not a lot. Again, not a lawyer, grain of salt, all that.
> Great, now how much does the median retiree have saved?

Whatever that number is, it's going to be much smaller after a stock market crash.
>The stars'n'bars is a relevant part of automotive history, see the Duke brothers, history of NASCAR, etc.

NASCAR has banned the flag too[1], and the modern General Lee[0] hasn't had it since 2015. And the point of these games isn't to simulate car culture or history, it's a racing game, so it's not even relevant. We're literally just talking about skins in a video game, here.

[0]https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/10/us/nascar-bans-confederate-fl...

[1]https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2020/06/16/bubba-watson-says-l...
I came here to say this. Transcrypt takes the approach that there are already many good JavaScript libraries that exist for web development, and rather than try and replace those, it embraces them. What it allows you to do though is to write code that uses those libraries in Python, and then transpile that into JS for deployment. It has allowed me to write React + MaterialUI apps using 99% Python, without taking a performance hit in the browser.
Well; speaking candidly: I once called one of our internal datacenters "trash" (for not meeting specifications, having no local support, overloaded switches and inconsistent hardware platforms) and I got a written warning for it.

So, yes. I would say it constitutes offensive content.
> I think Snowden had a point when he said that the answer to bad speech is more speech, not censorship.

Having grown up and seen the Internet come into being, I feel like all evidence suggests the opposite of that.
"Literally no reason" ?? He was recorded flashing a white power symbol while driving a (presumably liveried) company truck.

Now I think, after hearing his story, that a public apology and explanation would have been enough. But he brought the company into disrepute. Firing him seems to be a valid option they could take. I personally think that raising awareness with a public apology and a statement from the company would have been better for everyone, but so often, a company's first response is to cover their ass. Or maybe they didn't believe him, while the reporter did? I wasn't there and can never know.
If this hypothetical system's goal is to prevent convicted drug dealers from getting hired, this seems like a perfectly complete and unbiased data set.
Ah, fair enough. I was worried you might be professing some sort of expertise while claiming that.

I can assure you that whatever may be true of the electromagnetic field, it is not classical. We know that to about the same degree of certainty that we know that atoms aren't classical.

It's just that when considering atoms in an electromagnetic field, there are often situations where you can ignore the quantum mechanics of the field.
I got to ride on one at least once, but I always wondered what it was like on the upper level.
> On Wednesday, all 23 seasons of South Park come to HBO Max.

HBO is censoring 5 episodes

https://www.ign.com/articles/south-park-hbo-max-muhammad-cen...
Aaaand it seems to have registered itself at some point as default pdf viewer, overriding my previous setting. Not sure when that happened but isn’t it just lovely.
Python doesn't support static typing either unless you're using mypy which is experimental. Bash and Python both however have strong types, although Bash's are weaker than Python's.
Sometimes it’s some freaky ETL script that runs daily to put your address in a marketing message integration system. Not that it’s a great excuse, just usually more than a single flag update.
I disagree. The internet is a place and it's special - far greater than the sum of it's constituent parts (servers, networking gear, websites, etc..) might all be privately owned, but the concept of the network itself is free and shared.
If a dollar is for 1000 queries, a million queries costs $1000, not $10000.
That's interesting. I don't know that they will give ordinary people free reign like that. It could interfere with the government hacking operations.

The idea of cyber privateers is interesting. I would guess some companies are contracted in this capacity.
That's somehow beside the point, since the topic is organizational competence.
> The post office (Twitter) is _already_ opening every envelope. That is how the personalized feeds are created.

Oh I meant humans opening the envelope, reading and manipulating the content. Not just opening it. I should have been more clear. The feeds are still created out of reading it but it is not being tampered with. A publisher does still collect and read reports provided by the reporter. However, the decision to publish is only based on verification of facts because the ultimate liability rests with the publisher not the reporter. If the publisher still goes ahead (some do) with fabricated news they can and will be held liable for it. The reporter is not held liable for it. The max that can happen to the reporter is getting fired from the media house.

But with Twitter, once it attaches it's opinion to the tweet, it is essentially indulging in fact-checking. That is what a publisher does.

That is why I said that the key difference between a platform and a publisher is the step of "verification". With a feed you are still being shown unverified user generated content. The onus of verification rests on your shoulders. But once Twitter decides to verify a tweet, the onus of verification now lies on Twitter's shoulders.

> I do agree with you that new regulation is critical to help manage these systems.

Exactly. Either content is regulated or not regulated. Moderation I agree with because those are clearly defined by law (like no calling for violence, racial abuse, bomb threats, child pornography etc). But anything more than that needs to be regulated. Else these social media companies will have too much power in their hands. They can censor anything at will. I have seen many of my comments in Youtube get deleted just for the mention of the word "China". I never get an alert for it. Only after I refresh the page do I see that it has been removed. And I live in a free country not bound by any dictatorial laws. So I am sure that Youtube algorithms have some bias added into it. Censorship is so prevalent now that people are gaming the Youtube algorithms by using words like "Chyna". I remember during the initial days of the Coronavirus outbreak Youtube was removing any mention of Coronavirus and restricting/demonetizing any videos that spoke about the issue. So much so that even legitimate videos got shadow banned. So many content creators started using the word "ramen" for Coronavirus.

This sort of censorship is not good. This is not what internet was built for!
but things can change to make the OK sign tabu too, can't they?

We are saying that if you use a potentially racist sign (hand OK) in real life it's not a big deal, since you're not using it in conjunction with other racist stuff.

At the same time you cannot use another potentially racist sign (the confederate flag), even if you were just trying to make a videogame version of "The Dukes of Hazzard" and are not trying to associate it with white supremacists.

I mean, I assume the confederare flag was not too problematic at some point, but now it is, so likely the OK sign will become problematic too.

Think of the "pepe" meme, which is now an alt-right thing and can't be used anymore in a neutral way!
Isn't this totally unrelated? In your case it was your employer reprimanding you for your performance on the job. In OP's case it's him acting in his own capacity.
It would annoy their (Apple's) users more than necessary.
That's an interesting point, but there was certainly an increase in CPU usage with the switch from gnome 2 to unity and gnome 3, even though they were GPU accelerated. I guess CPU is still needed.
Also - I should mention - it's the job of governments to guide their people through these sorts of pandemics, natural disasters etc.

This is why government are engaging in stimulus spending, or increasing their social support programs.

This is why they exist.
It's not this. After all to get CERB you need to show how you've been put out of work due to covid 19. How do you do this when you have no job or fixed address? How do you do this if you're a sex worker selling sex for survival and your occupation is illegal?

A side effect of covid19 is that drugs have become more scarce and expensive due to the border shutdown. This may be having an impact.
On one hand I really respect your directness because you’re admitting it’s purely an aesthetic preference and not data-driven optimal environmental policy. That’s a perfectly good point of view and a fine reason to take something up as a business, especially if many other people feel like you do too.

On the other hand, waste is a literal side-effect of all possible life, going all the way to level of entropy always increasing. All life processes produce waste, even digital life would produce waste heat and whatever electricity generating process it consumes from can’t be 100% efficient.

I view modern packaging as a really amazing invention. People can mail me a fragile piece of art from across the world and it can reach me quickly and safely. Factories can massively produce safely sealed food items that prevent literally tons of food waste through packaging, increasing nutrition availability, water availability and more.

Most modern packaging is virtually a miracle.

Where I agree with you about packaging waste though is when it is used for branding and designed around aesthetic form or market testing rather than utility. Disposability is not a harmful goal at all, but waste generated purely to support branding is hard to defend.
Yeah, commit's weren't going to trunk/master without the extra eyes/PR.

The commits I was told to review if I wanted to stop thecraziness were the personal ones going to the bugfix/feature branch.
If people want to display pride in the south without supporting the Confederacy, they can do so without using the most iconic symbol of the Confederacy. Nobody has to wonder if you’re not entirely honest when you say your southern pride isn’t secretly about race if you use, say, a Georgia peach or a tobacco barn.
The economics were already marginal. You basically _have_ to fill the aircraft to justify its significantly higher operating costs over large twinjets today (and the fact that no airline has many means you lose many economies of scale). In addition, many of Air France's were some of the earliest airframes constructed, some of them non-standard compared with later aircraft.

With COVID-19 and an expecting reduction in travel lasting a number of years, all airlines are downsizing. An aircraft that's already marginal makes a lot of sense to drop, even it means letting it go while young. They're effectively getting replaced by the A350-900s Air France has on order which are _vastly_ more fuel efficient per passenger.
What you're not understanding is that the authority over the users is NOT absolute, because "or leave" is the mechanism by which users can influence the strategic direction of a company. That's the accountability. That's why we call this "voting with your wallet". To the extent that Facebook is the way that it is, it's because it's meeting the needs of a lot of users on the planet.

There's obviously no "ownership stake", because that doesn't make any sense: I don't have ownership stake in my toothpaste provider. But I can stop using their product if their product sucks.
Kind of a sad excuse for a list. Can't see it moving the needle where it affects share price.
Isn’t that the point though? Your phone works perfectly, shouldn’t it still receive OS updates?
I'm not sure I agree with the statement that the US has the "worst virus situation".

It has some of the most cases, sure, if you compare it by population though, it's still high, but it's not horrible. The US is #12 for cases per capita, most European countries are between 4,000-6,000 cases per capita, while the US is at 8,500, which is definitely more. But fewer people die per capita than in the UK, France, Spain, Sweden, Italy, and some other minor countries.

It isn't like the US has orders of magnitude more infections per capita, and there's more people dying per capita in many other major countries. In such countries you'd have about the same chance of catching the virus, and a greater change of dying, as in the US.

The majority of people that are refusing to wear masks are doing so because they believe the science/data supports that decision. You might disagree with that, and whether the science/data actually supports it is a different discussion, but they aren't just being "childish" and refusing to follow recommendations for no reason.

I think there's obviously political power to gain in making the situation look as bad as possible, so that a group can then use that as a foothold to advance their own political policies. It's unfortunate that the issue is so political already. But you can easily tell when it's happening when people are referring to "society failing" and needing to "reshape society" and saying how horrible it is in the US when it really isn't that bad, etc. You can't advance new politics without a narrative of the old way of things being bad.

I guess you can easily argue that there's political power for me to downplay the situation and make it look as good as possible, in order to prevent new politics from advancing. And that's true. But it's good to at least share both sides of the story.
As a recovering alcoholic I'm incredibly grateful to have built a toolkit to stay sober. Getting sober is a nightmare in the best of times. People in AA – which I haven't attended regularly for a few years – talk about being a "grateful alchoholic". It bothered when I heard that. I just wanted to have some bourbon and not put myself and others at risk. But over time I realized that they're grateful because getting sober forced them to deal with life in healthier ways. Or to deal with it at all.

While I don't think all of people that are overdosing are "addicts" per se, I know many non-addicts that don't deal well with life that great. Sure, they're fine when everything is going pretty well, but they fall down when the going gets tough.

I feel for people. I've never felt despair or shame like I did when I hit bottom.

Much luck and love to everyone out there. Life gets difficult, and sometimes it gets really, really difficult. Lean on people if you can, anyone that you can. Find a community if you can, online or not.

I know this advice rings hollow when people are worried about putting food on the table or keeping a roof over their head or just trying to stay safe. But you can do this. Don't worry about thriving, just survive.

Sorry, for the rambling, this just really hit home.
Similar : moved cross country for work, felt for a few days lonely, then somehow thought "not as lonely as pets in shelters", adopted one, total improvement for both!
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We haven't had real lockdowns anywhere. We've had please-stay-home recommendations.

If we had a sufficiently strict lockdown early on, we could have brought transmission down to near 0, identified all new cases (and quarantined them away from the healthy population), set up strict testing at every border/airport, and been basically back to normal in 2 months, like China was. These deaths of despair are just another consequence of the Trump administration's total failure to grab the bull by the horns and come up with a plan. Trump's refusal to act forced state and city governments to figure out how to handle this, which created a major conflict of interests. State and city governments are largely funded by sales taxes, so shutting down bars/restaurants/retail/events/etc takes a crucial funding source away from state/city govts, but to stop transmission of the virus, those businesses can't be open. State/city govts can't print money like the Federal govt, and the GOP Senators are refusing to provide funds to state/city govts, which lead to the current explosion in case counts, which will just keep this going longer.

TL,DR: we absolutely need stricter management of this, or it will drag on forever.
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C kind of does, right? A multidimensional array in C isn't just an array of pointers.
I also knew someone who built an app to try to help depressed people. She was pretty serious about it. As a person who has battled depression off and on, I also found it difficult to believe someone would take such an app seriously.
Like others have said, I think you're missing the point. In the past we've done something specifically because it was hard (going to the moon) but it would be a controversial statement to say it was done accidentally or for a terrible reason. For example, the state of computer science wouldn't be nearly where it is if it wasn't for going to the moon specifically because it was hard.