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> Thinking that "people are easy to manipulate, thus we must prevent lies from spreading to protect society" is too paternalist and (in my limited experience) does not reflect reality

If the last few years have proven anything, it's that people are far too easy to manipulate. Otherwise we wouldn't have successful political campaigns built on outright lies.

I honestly don't have a solution for that - i don't think there's a way to filter information so that individuals susceptible to misinformation don't get anything but truth ( actual facts, not whoever's in charge today's version of it), but i also think that it's the only way to have a fully functional society ( i don't think that a society that believes the Nigel Farages, Marine Le Pens, Donald Trumps and Jair Bolsonaros of the world is functional, it's really trivial to see through their shit and lies, yet far too many people don't).

> You are right in that propaganda is a very powerful weapon (I openly admitted that on my previous comment) but, then again, we are all adults that should be able to navigate the ocean of misinformation to find out what is true in order to form our own opinions

Ideally, yes, we should, but sadly not everybody does.

> Having all the Nazi propaganda available today is an invaluable tool to prevent it from happening in the future

In theory, but in practice most people have very vague notions of WW2, often with plenty of misinformation sprinkled in ( e.g. Holocaust deniers, people thinking the US won the war singlehandedly, people who deny there were collaborators, etc.). I absolutely think that had Nazi propaganda been limited, they wouldn't have gotten as successful. It took years of Nazi propaganda in people's homes for mass deportations and mass murder to become somewhat acceptable.

>As you say (and this might be a bit far fetched, but bear with me) in this instance, voicing their hatred was beneficial for them, at that time, but not for "genocides in general", as now (thanks to how public their whole ideology became) we have data to fight it, were something similar to happen in the future

Plenty of people have taken pages of the Nazi handbook on dehumanising, violence, exploiting democracy and freedom to sow discord, and i really don't think it has helped - if anything, the comparisons to Nazis are usually portaid as overexagerations.
Very cool tool! Any chance that you're going to add it to Homebrew?
Just curious, would this slow down the rate of conversion to Christianity around the globe (India, Africa, etc)?
The Catholic approach, at least, is that the Bible contains a variety of literary styles, and so it's both. Some books are records of events, some are letters, some are myths in the Joseph Campbell sense of stories that are meant relate deeper truths about human nature and mankind's relationship with God. Most of the people who did this preserving over the centuries didn't subscribe so much to literal-minded fundamentalism.
Because you are comparing the best and most well known authors of the period to the writings of a crazy underground offshoot of a minority religion. Masters of the craft vs that guy that believes in lizard people.

If you want a fascinating case study, look at what happened with the "book of mormon". It's a hot mess of gobbledygook and plagiarized stories yet to mormons it's the best book ever written.

Meanwhile, you had literary giants like Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo writing time honored classics in the same time period which are still very readable and accessible today.
But making a separate commit for the minor fix is onerous once your working copy has accumulated other changes. That's what the OP says -- you have to use "git add -p" and that is onerous.
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I just rely on reviewers like NYT Wirecutter and then buy whatever the reviewers suggest (and is cheap) on Amazon.
Here's a somewhat good compilation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovWoznPIBhw
Okay, I thought this would be little more hyperbolic than it is. TTLs under a minute is a little ridiculous. 5m is plenty long for sessions and plenty short for migrations/recovery/what have you.
Alternative, non-state-controlled currencies serve a basic human need under authoritarian regimes.

They also enable trade to continue between nations that trade-sanction/blockade one-another, which is usually seen as a global-economic net good (in the sense that a trade-sanction/blockade is essentially an infinity% tariff, and economists have analyzed to death how tariffs hurt both the target and source economies.)

(Some countries accomplish this by just using some other country’s physical currency — e.g. Venezuela using USD. But in really authoritarian [and technologically-modern] countries, any type of movement of physical currency exchange is heavily tracked, so this isn’t usually an option.)
Honestly, the criticism of the freebsd code review process seems way overblown. To me, it looks like a smaller team that works well together in a less formal manner, and someone exploited that.

They caught it, the person has lost trust, they all moved on. Big whup.
How does this work then? If you raise electricity prices people who need it for everyday living won't be able to afford it
Is that before or after he tells the guy in charge of the salvage operation to shove the sub up his backside and go back to fiddling children?
Actually that entity demands both. Man's justice and God's justice.
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Hindsight is always 20/20, we all know now that it would of been a bad idea. I do think this, along with Project Orion, are great thinking by people to utilize terribly destructive weapons for outside the box peaceful solutions.

Again we know now this would be bad and the consequences would not outweigh the benefits. I do think it is vital to have this kind of thinking (I mean outside the box). I think some people may find it crazy that this was even thought of, however I find is an interesting read.
You can just wait for your order to clear.
I don't think there's a safety issue if there's a reasonable advance notice.
One road not taken could have been to define a rich document format in ASN.1 and write an application to display it, maybe call it something like "a browser".
Banishment from the city state is a convenient and humane punishment so long as it’s not abused. If a portion of your assets are invested in the city it also makes for an effective bond against criminal activity.
Agreed. these ships are full of electronic sensors... but the tech installed the AIS transponder what did he use for heading? the ship gyro or one of the dozen gps receivers installed. This was not well defined and sloppy. Nobody asked questions..you just wanted to be compliant. They were not initially thrilled about being constantly tracked. Ideally always use the GYRO.. dont complicate life using GPS heading. If the gyro is out the ship is anchored most likely.
I'd rather quit the EU, but if status quo is the only alternative then I'd prefer centralizing it. The current setup is pretty much the worst of both worlds. Individual states don't have much sovereignty left but all the useless bureaucracy remains. It's just duplicating all the work for no good reason.

Maybe I'm wrong, but if I recall correctly the EU already has a floor set on VAT rates. You may have yours be lower but not by a lot.
If you want more solid evidence that the Catholic Church is the right one, check out this miracle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_Sun
Problem is, burning the exploit this way only works if someone does the work to find it.

Of course, it could appear in the server logs (or be detailed on a file dumped on the filesystem) - but it seems PHP have just decided to move to Github, and may not actually care about this, so it may not see the light of day.
Er, this party ain't over 'til the weight-challenged lady's cleared the exit door
I'm surprised to learn less than $2M per year goes into this type of research in the USA. Given the massive unknowns, it's something we certainly need to better understand.

Kind of like research on deflecting asteroids.

"the U.S. Government and Accountability Office (GAO)"..."estimated that about $2 million were directed to “albedo modification and less conventional CDR approaches,” so less than 0.1% of the U.S. climate change budget focused on the strategies discussed in our report." (page 185 of the report)
Agreed.. but I think that intent factors into it a lot more than people tend to give credit for. If one of the key takeaways of Christianity is "don't sin", then right behind it is "you (and everyone else) will screw up, try to be better anyways". And that applies just as well to things like lying and cheating as it does to scrupulosity and being judgmental.

Your typical fundamentalist might be nominally Christian by declaration, but they give short shrift to so many things they deem not important that it amounts to shallow virtue signaling. The moral guidelines are all-or-nothing. You either accept it all or you might as well save yourself the time because there's no such thing as partial credit. Sin is sin.
It is a drop in the bucket. As expected the distribution of energy usage among distinct countries follows a power law distribution. Of the percentage of the highest consumer (China), it’s less than 1%.

Comparing the usage to China makes sense because each country’s consumption of energy for the purposes of mining Bitcoin also follows a similar power law distribution. We find that the vast majority of Bitcoin mining happens in China.

These types of arguments are based on bad reasoning and misuse of statistics. If you compare the usage of any small industry in the largest consumer country, it will likely dwarf the total energy usage of many smaller countries. I see similar tendencies in activist pieces that make population policy arguments without using per-capita analysis.
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Overtime abuse seems to be a thing. I bet if people were looking into these, they probably aren't working all the hours they claim. Same thing with the BART janitor they found sleeping in a closet who was racking up massive overtime.
More judgemental than the church? How do you reconcile the entire gay communities experience with this statement?
This comment really made me chuckle. I did enjoy reading the suggestions on the other thread, but not many were entirely... practical (edit for spelling)
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I'm not cherry picking out of context. The following lines don't make it any better to me. The text is ultimately still saying women should bow and submit to their husbands decisions in all things, as long as their husbands treat them well. Yeah, I get that this was 'progressive' for its time. I still find it absurd people follow text like this as holy.

Your interpretation is well and dandy but perhaps as a society we need to stop holding text that's so dated in such high regard, where many peoples interpretation is far less optimistic and charitable than yours.
I really hate this trend of including benefits in someone's earnings. Yes, it makes sense logically, but 90% of people are going to assume it means salary, especially since a lot of the time they don't even know the monetary value of their own benefits.
That's fair, but to play devils advocate, every sect can point the finger at some other sect, or at heretics within their own sect. No sect will agree to any negative critique, and because their doctrines tend to be self consistent, critique is pointless anyway. Yet the sects are not completely separate, but are collusive to some degree. And individual beliefs may be a mishmash of ideas from multiple sects. Indeed for this reason, the divisions between sects are not hard edged.

American fundamentalism would have no political power without the tacit consent of the mainstream. The predominant sects in my state are mainline, yet they voted en masse to outlaw gay marriage (before the US supreme court ruled otherwise).
I guess the feedback to switch roles is accompanied with reasons. Would be very weird to say the former and then hang up
Great, very handy! Just FYI `readlink -f` doesn't work on macOS

May I suggest the name txtree?
I thought the Ars article was a pretty good overview for the context of this current issue and why there needs to be a statement on FreeBSD development practices at all. I don't expect Ars to get into too many kernel specifics, so won't knock them for that. But as far as bringing more attention to how the mess started in the first place (and was dealt with), I think the Ars article is a pretty good place to start.

I mean, the question of how the rough-draft Wireguard implementation made it into the kernel in the first place without sufficient review is a pretty big question.

I'm happy the FreeBSD team is addressing it directly.
I'm surprised that small engine mechanics are #18 and supervisors of mechanics are #19. Since the two are so closely correlated, perhaps this is caused by duels or something violently similar, between mechanics and supervisors of mechanics. It just seems it shouldn't be life-threateningly dangerous to be a small engine mechanic.
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> We need good lifeguards, sure, but we don't need to pay them $300-400k a year...

I wonder, why does that apply to lifeguards but not to a FAANG employee?
> Do you really think that linking to dailykos, which considers Reagan only slightly worse then Bin Ladin is really a good link?

I don't see how that interpretation is that wrong, except maybe for offending some American sensibilities.

But the Reagan Doctrine was really not that different from what OBL did: Finance and support subversive elements in other countries for the sake of overthrowing the established political order, to replace it with one more aligned to that of the perpetrator.

These similarities get even more blatant when looking at incidents like Iran-Contra: Using drug trade to finance such operations, which is really not all that different to what a lot of terrorist groups are doing.

Heck, there's even somewhat of a direct link when accounting for the US support that flowed to the Mujaheddin to oppose the Soviets and what later became of that.

Again: I realize this interpretation might be offensive to some Americans, but for a moment try to see it from the PoV of those countries and people that were directly, and often very negatively, affected by that kind of foreign policy.
A doomsday cult is planning a doomsday machine to get one up on the deniers. They want a mandatory tithe (carbon tax), they sell indulgences (carbon credits), they have a child prophet (Greta) and of course now they want even more to fund the doomsday machine. They think they're saving the world and there's no amount of upending society that bothers them.

You're not worried enough about this. If you think religious people being religious is scary, wait until the non-religious people take a turn.
> [religion] fills some of the gaps.

But what does it fill the gaps with? All monotheistic religions demand that you believe that an all powerful deity underlies and motivates everything in the universe. That's a pretty bold premise, especially since we're told that belief must be based not on evidence but solely on blind faith.

A 'gap filler' like that doesn't passively serve only to connect one social principle with others. In the case of Christianity, it compels you to believe that all of human existence arises from an invisible monarch who rules the universe and will damn you to eternal hell if you disobey Him.

If a 'gap filler' is what you seek to give life a bit more meaning and coherence, religion is a very inelegant way to do just that.
The antiscience movement is only in existence because too many people have instead used science as an appeal to authority rather than bothering to explain things or admit any ignorance.

This has been heightened with the cult of science gaining ground where instead of fostering an environment of questions and seeking truth it's instead been viewed as the mark of a heretic to question any official source or "scientific study".

Finally the reproducibility crises has now shown the gaps and issues in much of what we've been told is "science" and thus disenchanted many people from an uncritical faith in science and then been driven off because of the above mentioned cult of science.

Note I am pro science I am pro discovering truth and I am pro vaccine, however I am anti-anything that tells people to just shut up and do what you're told because some expert knows best.
Aaaand... that’s why nobody should heed my predictions...
> If they can’t get something basic right, why would they be right about something more complicated?

Compartmentalization.
I've tried to have this type of conversation many times with many people over the past few years. I've found that not only are they resistive to this sort of take, but it frequently makes people angry if you try to take this position in the argument. And this is even with people who I can debate politics with for hours without it devolving into a shouting match.

I'm not sure what it is about the idea that triggers this reaction, but it's always very exciting for me when I find other people who are having the same lines of thought on these matters as I am.

We're just extremely complex machines, and IMO that means free-will is just an illusion. If we're deterministic machines, there is no free will.
> They simply boil down to a question of 'does this harm others, in a provable way?'

And when there are interest groups pumping money into research to ensure the thing does not harm others in a provable way?

It's like cigarettes in the 40s. Tobacco usage was both moral and socially acceptable because big tobacco pumped money into the research to ensure the perception was that it did not cause harm.

That was eventually disproven, but it took decades, and we no doubt have modern day "big tobaccos" pumping money into research to ensure their product/ideology/etc. is "proven" not to cause harm. You may think something is moral now but will change your mind later. For example, you may think it's perfectly fine for a person to attend church today, but what if research comes out later that religion provably harms children, would you then be on board with banning religion? And if so, doesn't that disturb you that a slightly different society might come to an equally "proven" conclusion that atheism provably causes harm to society?
> If this is correct, it means modern Christianity, is not based on Jesus stated future direction of his church.

One view is that this was resolved at the council described in acts, and all agreed. The view that there was some paul-led split that is covered up by the selection of the NT canon is often used by detractors of christianity, who typically try to frame Jesus as purely a jewish reformer, and that Paul was some 'kook' that invented his own religion (despite the texts that he was working with, rather than against, the rest of the apostles).

YMMV, but probably useful to be just as skeptical to sources on both sides when trying to ascertain what might have actually happened historically
> If the fundamentalists are a problem, maybe there’s a problem with the fundamentals?

That line would only hold if fundamentalists have correctly identified the fundamentals. I wage they have badly missed it, which is why their theology is so bad.

> being a good person or not is largely disconnected from religiousness

Being a good person is not the primary point of religion. It is rather a hoped for outcome. Religion is not therapy.
It sounds like the division is really if you make a living from investments vs. from labor. In that case, a Doctor has invested a lot of time and money into certification and skill building, so they make a living more from investment and only partly from labor. Someone who owns apartment buildings is making an even higher percentage of their living from investments, however there is still a labor component to it (maintenance, management, etc). Which can be performed directly by the owner or it may be farmed out to others (which elevates the owner a bit higher in this class).
>The urban legend that DNS-based load balancing depends on TTLs (it doesn’t - since Netscape Navigator, clients pick a random IP from a RR set, and transparently try another one if they can’t connect)

That's just not how this works at all. While you could use RR records for this purpose, I believe the author is suggesting that load balancing will happen automatically when the client simply can't connect to one of the addresses. That's not load balancing. That's failover.

Additionally, most of the use cases for this that I'm aware of are Cname -> A record. This is to say, this method is being used with precision rather than RR.

I agree that running 60 second TTL's regardless of need is inefficient, but at a fast glance, the full argument doesn't hold up for me.
If we disallow circumcision, what other traditions will we disallow next? Animal sacrifice? Stoning people to death? Cutting off thieves' hands?
If we count only missed revenues for Egypt, this incident cost them about US$100 million. Canal revenues were US$27.2 billion in the last 5 years (https://www.reuters.com/article/egypt-economy-suezcanal/egyp...) which is US$15 million in revenues per day, and the canal was closed for 7 days.
The monetary value of the benefits are stated in the article.