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It's possible the history books in 50 years will say a bunch of kids with unarticulated and poorly thought out grievances tried to burn down the country after being cooped up for 3 months and ingesting too much propaganda from Reddit and the public school system resulting in the re-election of Donald Trump.

One never knows when one sets out to be a hero what the end result will be.
People die. It's sad a fact of life.

Now people will still die + their families will be without a job.

This virus has a higher mortality than the flu, indeed.
But the jury is still out to see if the current scenario will be better that the alternative (after you factor in suicides, depressions, overdoses, etc)

But personally, I would have much preferred to live in the alternative world where the virus would have spread freely and we'd already be in herd immunity (and with the economy not destroyed)
Further division.

People who still continue to put all their faith in politicians, while voting for the most inept politicians; vs the new post covid, self aware, self efficient family unit.
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No different than what Google does when you visit any of it's properties.
If Windows 10's forced automatic updates were really being done just for security, Microsoft would offer the option to use LTSC. It's a painfully obvious solution—keep everyone secure, without changing their system out from under them. Microsoft is producing the code anyway.

It's not about security.
>However, should I and half a dozen of my buddies, armed an in full tactical gear, standing 10 ft from a BLM protest, waving my Confederate flags, all choose to make this sign for a photo, then a _reasonable person_ may choose to interpret this as "we know exactly what we're implying here, and we're not all just telling the cameraman that "everything is perfect"."

yeah, but that's the story required for your credulity.

another 'reasonable person' with an axe to grind could have a much more minimal story required for credulity, say someone resting their hand outside the window of their car, tweet the photo with a license plate, and ruin someones life.

my meaning : don't expect your reasonable demeanor is going to be the same as some other random bystanders' 'reasonable demeanor'.
By “indemnify”, I take it that you mean “agree to have prosecutors not press charges?” Or do you mean “agree to pay all costs?” I thought q.i. was about the criminal side, people win civil suits anyway.
What's the project? Maybe some feedback can kickstart your interest.
Didn't know the practicality of this in the demoscene - thanks for the info!
If you look closely you will find the state behind all major economical crisis.
In 2008 the State incentive to give subprime loans to people lead to the disaster.
If you have a truly liberal economy, without central banks, no poverty or economical problems should arise, especially in the tech era.
If I could venture a guess: what comes next is an era of some kind of communalism. In an era where natural resources are becoming expensive and climate change is becoming a daily reality, the way to maintain a high standard of living is through sharing things. You can see it happening through coliving spaces, coworking spaces, renewed interest in mass transit, and I think you’re going to see the growth of sharing economies of various kinds. This way to live abandons the total individualism of the market but without being a totalizing system like Soviet style communism. Obviously this is all guesswork on my part- but consider: this solves the problem of poverty (if most things are shared then they are available to all) it removes much of the overhead of huge militaries and policing (no poverty means much lower crime, and moving decisions down to the more local level removes incentives and opportunity for waging war), it allows a much higher standard of living with much lower environmental impact, if investment decisions are made on the communal level then financial engineering becomes much less prevalent- it just seems like localizing and democratizing decision making solves a lot of problems (no doubt it will create new ones but that’s the next generation’s problem). And as the article says, new ideas start on the margins and make their way inward, and I can tell you that these are the ideas on the margins right now.
I took our 21" class B motorhome to the hardware store and to get groceries today. It works perfectly fine as a daily driver -- it's a van, after all. Sleeps 2, has kitchen, bathroom, shower, ...
> This virus has a higher mortality than the flu, indeed. But I would have much preferred to live in the alternative world where the virus would have spread freely and we'd already be in herd immunity (and with the economy not destroyed)

Do you really believe there would be no economic impact if government's hadn't shut down non-essential services?

The world you're talking about would never exist, because a vast majority of the people sheltering in place are not doing so because the government told them to, but for the fear of infection or betterment of society.
The actual article title of "With Edge, Microsoft’s forced Windows updates just sank to a new low" is a better explanation of what the article is about, imho. The word "throat" appears nowhere on the page.
My first interaction with LinkedIn happened when they spammed me using my roommate's name, after getting "permission" through a dark pattern. After such a fantastic first impression, I have no intention of ever using LinkedIn.
Companies are also taking steps to limit liability due to the virus, which also depresses employment and spending.
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The chihuahua on the other side of a fence is not a threat except to an ego. Let’s be real.
We don’t have to guess whether or not COVID-19 could be contained to a meaningful degree. The EU seems to be succeeding at it right now. The U.S. is digging its own graves (unfortunately literally in this case.)

If you think fear from COVID-19 would not have crippled the economy, well, maybe we’ll get the opportunity to see if that’s true in some localities. I’ll firmly bet on No, it totally would still, especially as the severity increases.
Since this isn't our first pandemic, it would be interesting to look back on the 1918 pandemic and the 1950s pandemic and see if anything can be learned from them. I don't have an opinion either way because I haven't studied them. But due to how drastically this situation continues to affect the entire world, I'm kind of surprised that I haven't really seen any mainstream comparisons.

How long did it last? What did they do? Was there a mass economic decline? If so, how could it have been avoided? If not, why not? Etc.

I suspect that because these questions are not being asked, it may be the case that there are things to learn which are counter to popular narratives. I could definitely be very wrong about that. But it might be worthwhile to explore.
I couldn't understand where it came from. Turned off updates.
It might have been possible to curb the spread of the virus without drastic economic shutdown measures. Japan, for instance, was able to avoid such a drastic lockdown. However, Japan is not the US; it is very different in terms of geography, culture, and economy. Whether or not that kind of plan would have worked, the US response was (and is) suboptimal.
> iOS isn't free from this kind of snooping

They didn't say it was. They're saying they're looking forward to the next major release which alerts the user when this happens. That's why all these stories are coming out right after the release of the beta.
It's not necessarily nefarious though.

https://twitter.com/twolivesleft/status/1275776460918157315
Where the hell is this kind of job listed, because 90% of jobs I see in these sort of industries are for guys that have decades of experience particularity in those domains.
On the other hand the competitive landscape has changed. Apple doesn’t let you use any rendering other than safari on mobile devices. Chrome is google’s way of controlling the open web. Microsoft can point at these examples. I say, break them all up.
> If you have a truly liberal economy, without central banks, no poverty or economical problems should arise, especially in the tech era.

What do you think a "truly liberal economy" means exactly? Liberalism is a political ideology, not an economic system.
We need a revision of anti trust law as well as significant increase in enforcement.
You'd need two KC-46 to fully refuel a 747-400F. KC-46 holds about 120KL of fuel, the 747 takes about 200KL.
>That won't happen; context matters.

how many times does that have to be proven wrong?

Mob-justice is all the rage right now.

All that matters is that someone is pointing the pitch-forks at you or your cause.
Germany has in the past prosecuted anti-fascists for using a strike-through of a swastica. There were some considerations for changing the law, but I don't recall what happened to it.

https://www.dw.com/en/minister-wants-to-legalize-anti-nazi-s...
The thesis of the article is, essentially:

> If there was one dogma that defined neoliberalism, it’s that most people are selfish. And it’s from that cynical view of human nature that all the rest followed – the privatisation, the growing inequality, and the erosion of the public sphere. [...] Now a space has opened up for a different, more realistic view of human nature: that humankind has evolved to cooperate. It’s from that conviction that all the rest can follow – a government based on trust, a tax system rooted in solidarity, and the sustainable investments needed to secure our future.

This is naive and, in my opinion, false. At the outset, I should say that I am a fan of Kissinger and his realpolitik, but even if I weren't, you needn't look further than China or Russia to easily counter that thesis. This idea of a kumbaya moment is cute and sounds good from the ivory tower of your typical Oxbridge academic, but the real world is nasty and grim. And people, for the most part, will act selfishly. Capitalism (and the markets) function based on the same premise. I don't really see that changing.

> The going assumption – on both sides of the political aisle – is that most wealth is “earned” at the top by visionary entrepreneurs, by men like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.

The air-quotes around "earned" are unfair. I mean, a ton of people use Amazon, or Facebook, or have Teslas, or what-have-you. Is Bregman trying to imply that this wealth isn't really earned? I don't really get it. Yes, there's a disparity, but I remain unconvinced that this disparity is somehow immoral. Bregman throws shade at Bezos but, as it turns out, Mazzucato (quoted by Bergman) mostly criticizes big pharma. There's a difference between tech and pharma, and the author disingenuously throws the baby out with the bathwater.
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They don't all have the same engines and some of what they do have is non-standard.

Meanwhile from a user perspective some browsers differ in extensions and configuration etc. So if you get a monoculture which causes sites to start relying on non-standard features of only specific browsers, it makes it harder for people to use or create other browsers that aren't bug-compatible with the only one anybody is targeting.

The "fast iteration" browser makers like is also damage, because it causes cruft to accumulate. Once you add a feature, sites start using it and you're stuck with it basically forever. See how long it took to get rid of Flash. But now they add features at such a pace that Chrome is now like 35 million lines of code, all of which is attack surface which causes all browsers to have disproportionately many security vulnerabilities.

Having multiple independent browsers requires new features to go through a standardization process that requires buy in from multiple implementations before sites can rely on them, which causes the changes to be fewer and more carefully considered -- a good thing for something you'll be stuck with ~forever.
As long as nothing bad happened to you, right?

The mortality is around 1%. So in the US alone that would leave over 3 million dead. Due to this 50 state lukewarm solution I think we'll ultimately see 1 million dead. The economy is made up of people, by the way.
I believe that in most modern human cultures the sentence "the diameter of the Earth" has a very imprecise, very informal, but very recognisable meaning. In fact, I really doubt that most people on the Earth would think of what precisely is the shape of the Earth when talking about its diameter.
I'd love to know what OS you use that has a clipboard access permission for the foreground application.
You don’t have to look at 1918. You can just look at nearly every other country in the world and how it’s been impacted. South Korea, Italy, China, and so on are all reopening or have been reopened despite having been hit just as hard as the US in the beginning - they just acted much more swiftly in the beginning. The less action our government takes, the longer this is going to go on.
Thanks for the reference. What I'm talking about is quite different, though.

Leibniz's proposal and similar ones are about a language intended to represent knowledge (formal concepts), and usable by people (with training).

I'm talking about simply a translation layer. It doesn't "know" or symbolize anything on its own -- it's merely a central mapping between all constructs in different languages. Nobody would read or write in it directly, and it couldn't be used to make inferences or anything like that.

What Abstract Wikipedia is proposing is actually quite similar to what Leibniz proposed, an intricately detailed map of knowledge and true propositions.

What I'm proposing is vastly less ambitious and vastly more useful: just a way to store the meaning of text in an intermediate representation that belongs to no single language. But that representation doesn't bother with what are facts or propositions or anything like that -- just entities and relations that mapped to however we ultimately understand languages in the real world. And assisted with a ton of ML, rather than built up from elementary propositions or set theory or something.
This is contrary to the historical experience of the United States in the 19th and early 20th century.

For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1873.
It wasn't three weeks of forcing businesses to close. It was three months of doing almost nothing to stop the spread, and decades of being socially unprepared for a crisis such as this.
> Clipboard use is so core and fundamental, literally every app with any kind of entry box would need to ask ahead or you'd hit that so randomly all the time nobody would pay any attention to the warning.

That's, one way to implement it...

Alternatively, and how I'm pretty sure it already works, is that on paste the clipboard could insert content directly into the control, never involving the app in the process.

Apps with completely custom inputs would need to see the contents, but that's both rare and usually a bad idea in the first place.
>> I long for the old days of the libertarian hackers...

I share your feelings... I cam up in tech the early 90's, I can hardly recognize the hacker and free software communities any more

Very sad that authoritarianism is replacing individualism, free thinking and libertarian ideals that gave us soo much prosperity
Thanks. This like that old trope of a child's pet fish dying and the parents buy a nearly identical fish to swap it in and pretend nothing happened.
One thing we learned from the 1918 pandemic is to not to give 40 mg of aspirin to people. One of the major causes of death during that time was bleeding out internally. We now know that 4mg is the max. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091002132346.h...
> For starters, being deplatformed from major online players today would have serious consequences. Although it's true that these platforms are "private property," the entire society has become too reliant on them to be seen that way.

With is why the KKK was allowed to run full page, front page ads in national newspapers 60 years ago. No? We’ve always allowed private companies to block content they deemed unworthy, regardless of whether they were relied on by the public.
Especially in the tech era? What does that even mean... you can grind on sharing economy apps 80 hours a week? Or should every man/woman/child enroll in javascript bootcamps?
> Would it have been scarier to have let this virus rip through the population?

That's what is happening now in a lot of states that reopened. The lockdowns only delayed it. We wasted the opportunity of the lockdowns and didn't develop widespread testing, so as a result the lockdowns have done nothing except add government-enforced destruction of the economy on top of the damage the virus is doing.
Negligence from a trillion dollar corporation is a form of malice. They have the money to audit their products for quality and privacy issues. Instead they choose to not give a shit unless the media calls them out (and sometimes not even then.)
You're not alone. I like it. I _really_ like that Windows ships with a Chromium based browser by default, and I am running the canary build as my day to day, and it performs great on Windows 10 ARM (I have a Galaxy Book S, which is also awesome!).

Firefox is also fantastic! It's good to have some options besides Google Chrome these days!
But the thing is you need to get to the airport and there's no other way without missing your plane and forfeiting money paid for your ticket. Now what?

That's where we are with the market power of the big players. Google, facebook, apple, linkedin etc. Use the competition to linkedin in this space? You lose. The end.

The way we have always dealt with market power abuse in the past is via a combination of breaking up dominant players and regulation. The longer this wild abuse of market power goes on the more likely that this will be done in a bad way with pitchforks rather than a sensible, measured, outcome driven way carefully weighing the competing intrests to get what is best for the wider population in the medium and long term.

Also the fact this is legal at all is another case of everyone in law making, courts and enforcement having their brains fall out of their ears as soon as the words "using computers" are uttered. Do the exact same thing in any business where a computer is not used to do that thing and you are going to jail. It's break and enter. But "using a computer" so it's fine with the laws all no longer applicable.
Microsoft at least doesn't have a reputation for permanently removing access to all of your data because you did something horrible like dispute a false charge. Google, on the other hand...
Sooner or later you find yourself too far down the Zimbabwe Highway to do a U-turn.
If it weren't par, a new low would be better, right? I don't do sports ball.
don't pandemics contradict that assertion?
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I was born and raised in northwest Florida, which has plenty of the same sort of people.
Aristotle and Aquinas are indispensible (though you might want to begin with commentaries or approachable introductions, like Feser's). Contrary to the liberal tradition, "freedom" is understood as self-mastery not uninhibited indulgence of the passions which leads to misery (hence the Augustinian observation that man has as many masters as he has vices). Aquinas also distinguishes beatitudo from felicitas. You also have the virtues. Happiness is ultimately teleological.

Look to the ancients and medievals that we so eagerly forget and dismiss because we think we've unquestionably outdone them. Be careful, though, because your fallacious presuppositions may get in the way. They did for me, but with time, those vicious usurpers, that bad metaphysics, that poor substitute for properly understood science, has given way to a sounder picture of things dislodged from the tyrannical grip of error.

All that is to say that you should not be surprised if you find yourself reacting with incredulity until you begin to realize how unfounded and even incoherent it is. Give it time.
Ah, thanks, that's a case I didn't think of. And a pretty good reason to keep this out of a point release!
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You share more genes with the people in the same ethnicity as you than with people of another ethnicities. So using your exact logic:

>basically same reasoning as makes you prefer your children vs other children, just extended a bit to the whole nation.

still completely holds.
English and German have very similar vocabulary and syntactic structure. So this example is not very elucidating. Comparing it to Chinese, Turkish or Javanese would probably be better.
Here's a good example of ignoring preferences.

scorevoting.net/IrvIgnoreExample.html

I would disagree about Condorcet. Score voting and variants, such as STAR voting and approval voting, are vastly simpler than any ranked method, and perform better in voter satisfaction efficiency calculations, and plausibly make better Condorcet methods than real Condorcet methods.

https://www.rangevoting.org/AppCW

The biggest moral of social choice theory is: avoid ranked voting methods.
They're using readFileSync? Doesn't this lock up the thread?
"Turns out, high taxes need not be bad for the economy. On the contrary, high taxes can make capitalism work better. (In 1952, the highest income tax bracket in the United States was 92%, and the economy grew faster than ever.)"

If you ask most of the MAGA folk about what era they think America was greatest and most of 'em will cite the 1950s. When you point out what the tax rates were back then they're generally incredulous and figure you're making it up.
This sounds like a reference to the Great Firewall of China. (Though, on second thought, the GFW disrupts much more than 5%.)
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Do you mean truly neoliberal or truly liberal? Not that it matters much.

Blaming the state for something a bunch of bankers lobbied for is a bit rich.

You want to fix things in america? Take money out of politics. Get rid of the myopic two party system.

Political decisions arent on a sinle spectrum and ignoring this leads to an unavoidable escalating osciliation between too extremes when the majority wants anything but that outcome.
I've always liked the idea of starting a community that has two rules in its discussion threads: no cynicism/fatalism and no snark. It's just a silly thought exercise and probably wouldn't work, but it's fun to think about. It seems like both of those get in the way of good discussion.
The whole internet has felt like one big eternal September to me lately. I really do wonder where people go to get their philosophical itches scratched these days.
No, Moxy killed the alternatives with really shitty arguments and banning from using Signal official servers.
The fundamental flaw in your argument is that systemd-resolved is not a resolving proxy DNS server. Many other proxy DNS server softwares indeed are switchable between resolving and forwarding modes, some even doing both at once, but systemd-resolved only provides forwarding proxy DNS service. There is no resolving mode to default to.

Which is in fact the core of the problem. It's actually a fairly rare kind of proxy DNS server software, one for which there isn't really a sensible universal default for the unconfigured case.