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If you already believe the CIA is usually lying, then the accusation "But you believe the FSB!" when the FSB says "The CIA is lying" may be technically true, but meaningless.

Hey, I don't even believe the CIA quite always lies: I'm sure it has sometimes said "The FSB is lying", and I believe that too. Because the FSB is pretty much always lying... Just like the CIA.
Talking about distortion fields, let’s try and penetrate one.

You are asserting that Apple slowed down phones in order to sell new ones.

- Why only target specific handsets (with degraded batteries)? Why not entire model lines?

- Why allow users to get their speed back by replacing the battery? Why not keep it slow to encourage the new sale?

- If they got “caught”, why is the exact same feature available on a brand new iPhone 12? The only thing they changed was to allow you to turn throttling off if you prefer reboots. Surely they would remove the feature if it’s only purpose was to slow phones down?

- Android phones suffer the same problems when their batteries degrade. Apple updated phones, some of which were out of warranty at the time. Is preventing reboots of older hardware planned obsolescence? Or the opposite?

The only thing they did wrong was to not alert the users to the fact that the throttling was happening and how to remedy it. Now they do.

I’m all about punishing companies when they do something wrong, but the environmentalist in me hates the fact that so many manufacturers drop support for phones after only a few years and the phones end up in landfill. Apple extended the life of older phones by doing this. People would be more likely to buy a new phone if it randomly rebooted vs ran slower.

Anecdotally, my wife’s phone was throttling at the time and she didn’t even notice because she just used it for calls and texts. If she had encountered reboots she probably would have bought a new phone. Even once she knew it was throttled, she didn’t get the battery replaced because it still did the job until she upgraded last year.
Isn't that energy what we call "heat?"
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Refusing the vaccine is not the same as believing COVID-19 doesn’t exist. You are proving my point.
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About local election, I seen just a bit of this village vs village thing, but 99% of voters blindly vote the same party since they could vote (only exception if the party got split or merged then they are forced to may think a bit).

We did not had the issue here of "the other village got our funds so our roads are worse", usually the complaints are something like "the party in power does not like our mayor because is a different party so this is the reason , or if you do not like the mayor then the reason is because he is a thief".

As an example a house burned down in the next village and people from neighboring villages donated funds for the poor family(empathy)
Well, so then maybe you want a couple of unified inboxes - segregated by your personas rather than by service provider

Or maybe you don’t. There will never be a one-size-fits-all for these things which is one reason why walled gardens and full vertical integration are horrible.
Can we make Kubb a replacement for golf please? I’d be on the fast track to CEO :)
> It's impossible to have a good-faith discussion with these people.

To clarify: obviously bigotry, racism, sexism, etc are all real and occur. I am specifically addressing the baseless, knee-jerk accusations towards dissenting opinion. As are you, from what I gather.

I think there is something to be said for the idea that secular ideologies (be they libertarian, MRA, "classical liberal", environmentalist, feminist, woke, intersectionalist, etc) have replaced the religions of yore for large parts of the population. With those secular religions come all the incidentals of religious community: social control, virtue signalling, one-upmanship, splinter factions, standard texts...

You are not so much having a discussion as questioning articles of faith, which people don't generally budge on, can take very personally and which can be somewhat impervious to reality. That's also why it devolves into ad hominems: where you might have been called a bigot before for disagreeing with, say Christian orthodoxy, you are now called a racist/misogynist/transphobe/etc for disagreeing.

In short, I think the "culture war" is a real thing. It's just not nearly as new, widespread or tangible as Fox News (for instance) would have us believe. For some reason, academia and tech seem to be disproportionately affected. For tech specifically: maybe because we sectorally skew young and tend to live on the Internet more, increasing exposure to fringe bubbles?
People bringing their biases is not the same as people ramming in their toxic politics.

It used to be possible to do new things without being toxic. E.g. Ripley vs the female Doctor Who.
The shift on trans rights isn't simply a shift to the left though - it's more like the mainstream/"liberal" view on trans rights has shifted and the left-wing progressive activists have been dragged along behind it, whilst insisting all the way that they were a vital spearhead of trans rights and that not agreeing uncritically with them about everything and censoring dissenting views is an attack on trans people's existence.

For example, one of the last things the UK's more left-wing party did when they were in power was add a special exemption to anti-discrimination law to deny trans women access to rape and domestic violence services. (As in, this was literally the stated goal.) Pretty much the entire mainstream progressive activism community covered for them and the lobbying group who campaigned for this, demanding that everyone shut up about how the law got there, until 2019 when the same group started lobbying the Conservatives for similar purposes. Similarly, only half a decade or so ago the folks currently trying to cancel J K Rowling and insisting everyone support beating up random elderly lesbians for holding transphobic views were just as confident in their insistence trans women were misogynist bigots for just speaking out about what TERFs were actually doing because supposedly feminist women couldn't have any affect on the real world and so the only reason to blame them for anything was hatred of women. Even the term TERF itself was apparently only coined in 2008, though the ideas it describe go back decades before then.

This becomes even more true the further you go back, to the point that maybe a couple of decades ago, probably three at the most, trans rights seems to have been outside the normal range of progressive activist viewpoints entirely in the sense that - at least in the UK - the people who rose to positions of dominance and influence did so by shunning anyone who actually treated trans women as people, and worse. I mean this very literally, not in the usual hyperbolic sense where any dissent from the activist canon of views is spun as dehumanising trans women - it seems people had a choice between being willing to talk to trans women or gaining connections and influence.
Here I am thinking there's finally a working file storage coin for truly decentralized and anonymous file hosting and no... it's another proof-of-waste thing.
It’s hella late so I’ll keep it short. I’ll just say I love the land tax idea. I’ve been toying with that idea in my head. It does seem like it would solve a lot of issues we’ve been facing.

And honestly I’d rather them buy 1000 Ferarris and crash every single one. I don’t even care if it doesn’t go to the government, on a more serious note it could all go to the American Cancer Society or a charity of their choosing, or local municipality…

I’ve personally committed to dying poor. I’ve met trust fund kids (not that I’m anywhere near that level) but money breeds entitlement, especially at a young age where they may not be emotionally ready. That’s not something I want for my kids. We’re all in tech here, we do well enough to corrupt at least a little

And it’s still unamerican.
For very tall VAWTs in a grid, could you dampen the resonances by tying the tops of the masts together with guy wires?
> for clueless clients stuck in manual FTP workflows

This kills my soul. UML is being presented as a way to abstract away from the actual processes. But not everything can be abstracted away. The fact that we need to picture a UML diagram to represent a user stuck in FTP is outright a waste of time, money and human labor.
This is why modern competition pools are 10 lanes wide but only the inner 8 are used in competitions.
Assuming Pidcock was in front on the actual finish line, his hub would have been about 5cm in front of the photo-finish line. That leaves about 3ms for him to finish the bike throw and return his hub behind Wouts hub. Seems like a stretch, but still a possibility :-)

Maybe you could also look at how deformed the wheel perimeter compared to a perfect ellipse to estimate the speed at different points?

EDIT: Or you could calculate whether it's humanly possible to move a bike a few centimeters forwards and back again in about 15ms, which I think the hypothetical bike throw must have been for Pidcock to be the actual winner?
Would you be so kind to provide a short high level summary on how the transponder tech works?

I always assumed the transponders were mostly used for GC timekeeping in multi-day stage races and maybe help automate the initial results shown on TV post-finish.

The live telemetry (wattage, speed, heartrate) we've seen in some races the last few years are also very interesting. But that's probably a different tech stack from transponders used for timekeeping.
[I rewrote the post at the same time smhost replied to the previous version, apologies]

I get an impression you are trying reduction ad absurdum in a way that might work to sway the audience, but just skims on the surface of actual argument.

Obviously, you can still have lots of competition under constraints (though you cannot have constraints at the highest scale), but that I believe has no bearing on my argument.
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"The idea we need war or war-like circumstances to perform our best is a foolish idea (or something worse). "

I do not like that idea either, but denying its plausibility seems like a bit of wishful thinking to me.

As you mention, competition works. Competition between corporations is not friendly, it is a fight to the death (of the corporations), and governments spend a lot of energy to prevent the participants from crossing multiple red lines - that were established precisely because earlier bouts of competition had destructive side effects. Competition is a business equivalent of a Cold War.

And yes, it works, threat of being wiped out is a strong motivator. Multiple corporations that failed to compete no longer exist (does anyone remember DEC?), which is the equivalent of a country losing war so badly that it disintegrates. Much like the old Habsburg empire did.
It just takes one person to take offense to something for your life to be ruined.

It is not worth the risk talking to anyone about anything remotely "honest" unless you have known them for years and know how they will react.
This is a catch-22 because to really trust someone you have to be willing to talk to them (which kind of makes it moot to begin with, right?)

Even now I find myself curbing my opinion strongly based on which words have been weaponized with malicious connotation, lets not discuss which 'truth-telling business' could be seen as responsible for this.
Lets not discuss the other points which are too numerous to start on, and too political for the likes of this conversation. We could touch on the destruction of Western Academia as a point of origin for all this, we could muse on the comparable style of current social interaction to how things are depicted in 1984, or Communist Russia, but based on the keywords I already dropped, there is surely a large enough group of bots available to run this into the ground.

These are all my opinions, none of it is considered some unchangable, unalterable worldview, and I don't believe you can engage critically with anyone if you are not willing to compromise.
That being said, compromise comes from both sides, and one side is way better at yelling racist, sexist, misogynist, whenever the bargaining starts.
Worse yet, the language gets so abstract and contorted it becomes hard to find areas where there is strong consensus matter of practice. We can't agree on concrete policies because people can't agree on why something shoud be done and not how. And even when there exists consensus for both for some subset everyone wants to use it as leverage to get their entire position so we end up with more status quo. You see this with Republicans and Obamacare, as well as the DSA crowd and Medicare expansions proposed by Warren/Clinton/Butti.
I'd agree that a twitter mob getting someone fired is in most cases a bad thing and I can think of a bunch of reasons why it's a bad thing. But "infringing on the employees right to free speech" isn't one of them.

This might seem a bit pedantic, but I do think it's important. If something is a violation of someone's rights then there doesn't need to be any further discussion - it shouldn't be allowed. I think claiming that this is a free speech issue is not only wrong, but also shuts down much needed discussion about where we set the limits of our tolerance.
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On what basis are you spewing out BS like "second waves are always deadly"
The PM had massive election rallies. Govt allowed Khumb mela to happen,
now in process of allowing Amarnath yatra. Remember how offended people were during Tabligi, but the above doesnt matter because you can't scapegoat your main voter base.

Instead of all self praise and putting the guard down too quick, govt had an year of time and multiple warnings to ramp up everything which they all ignored. This is the result of all the ministers wasting their time in campaigns and rallies rather than monitoring the deadly pandemic.

Chennai High court called Election Commision of India Murderous, for allowing these rallies to happen.

PM instead of being responsible person personally went in for campaigns.

Also look at how they are handling the criticism by passing laws against sharing of criticism on social media and also by deleting the content on those sites.
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In the article it was made very clear that this wasn't about propaganda, what is being alleged is that they have evidence that Amazon threatened and coerced people into voting against the union.

Propaganda may or may not be dirty, but threats of firings, plant closure, etc if the Union passes is illegal. Very very different.
As an Italian constantly exposed to American videos showing clear irrational US based police brutality, I am not sure what you are talking about. Have you got any sources supporting these claims?
> USENET is another one, but well out of favor. Fact is, someone could spiff USENET up and it could very easily come back.

Fwiw this does seem to work pretty well:

https://forum.dlang.org/help

> About

> This website is powered by DFeed, an NNTP / mailing list web frontend / forum software, news aggregator and IRC bot. DFeed was written mostly by Vladimir Panteleev. The source code is available under the GNU Affero General Public License on GitHub: https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed

> This DFeed instance (forum.dlang.org) is a frontend to the DigitalMars NNTP server and mailing lists. Portions of the web interface (including style and graphics) are Copyright © by Digital Mars.

I've looked at dfeed a couple of times, but it seems just a little bit convoluted to set up - and I wouldn't really want an irc integration.

But the web forum is snappy and the NNTP integration seems like a great idea.
It was the late 90s. I was 16 or 17. I used to sneak out, literally out the window and over the roof, to the fence, and to the ground, after bed time and trek to the city, to go to "61 Regent St". An "underground" club in Sydney. Techno all night, strange new media generative video art projected on the walls, people with glow sticks, UV lights, dreadlocks. A "drinks counter" that also sold marijuana. Place was tiny, always filled with cigarette smoke. Sort of like a hippy culture vibe, but techno. Dumonde's Tomorrow. I was so tired one night I fell asleep under the pool table. Somehow sleeping even as the bass reverberated everything. Dancing until early, then if I wanted more, walk over to the slightly more hardcore "Icebox" in the Cross. Both places closed for many, many years.
Collocated teams and physical meetings work far better than trying to do 100% remote.
This is exactly why I like to use this analogy as well. Being all naïve and starry-eyed about the potential of data without considering the fallout from its use belongs to the pre-GDPR stone age of technology.
I have trouble describing any view wrt. trans folks as "mainstream". The dynamic you describe is quite real but it looks like the result of salami-slicing politics within progressive activism itself, rather than any discernible 'mainstream' influence.
All who politely disagree are not members of the KKK, but those who are should be ignored. The range of casual racism and misogyny that can safely be dismissed and ignored has increased. This seems to be the source of most of this conflict, but it is unlikely to change in the future.
It's a shame if that's the case some of my favorite discussions have been with people tht disagree with me. I hope we haven't lost the ability to have a disagreement and remain friends.
I know this, but I think that most of the time the cause of the war is an psychopathic individual/group that will sacrifice others lives for some bullshit reason. We are all easy to manipulate or do stupid things when we react hot-headed.

My point is that the average person is not thinking and calculating on how to risk his children lives in some war because some piece of land somewhere is strategic , or some guys somewhere are persecuted so let's sacrifice ourselves for some vague reason, what I think always happens this ideas are implanted in people or most of the time you have no choice, you are forced into a conflict with no option to not participate.
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> Its kind of weird that this hairsplitting curiosity about consent always comes up exclusively in the context of rape and not other crimes with the same “without consent” rule, like battery

It isn't weird at all. There is no reasonable expectations of getting consent for battery outside of very specific scenarios.
In the article it is made very clear that what is being alleged is that it wasn't a democratic vote. What is being alleged is that Amazon threatened to close the warehouse, and/or fire people based upon how they vote. Something that if I understand correctly is illegal, and even if not illegal is definitely not a democratic vote.
Yes, FPTP is the worst.

The left might have lost a lot of elections, but I think you can still make a case for the original point the "right-of-centre" are a minority in the UK, even if it's only a narrow majority. The Conservatives haven't won a majority of the popular vote in nearly 90 years (but then neither has any party)

https://www.statista.com/statistics/717004/general-elections...
I'm deeply familiar with FAT andamera systems in track and field. I often wonder if they are a relic but in track the timing can be trickier due to location of the torso. Wouldn't a transponder on a each headtube in the race potentially work better? They could talk communicate with sensors all around and in the finish line.
> Beneath the surface it's an oppressive circumstance for many, in Canada.

As a Canadian ... what are you talking about? What's oppressive? Oppressive compared to what exactly?
Will the company help is funding the home office? I am not talking about the computer equipment here.

I am talking about internet cost, a portion of the mortgage / rent, a cost of the furniture etc. AFAIK, these are funded personally.
You argued that we shouldn't always have viewpoint diversity. If you don't have viewpoint diversity you have viewpoint monoculture. There is no way this is going to happen short of enforcing it legally (even then there is going to be dissent, so you would rather need something like brainwash, which should already tell you everything about whether this is a good idea, really.)

> I have never seen _anyone_ other than a frightened white male use the term 'virtue signalling'

I think this statement is fairly telling regarding the degree to which you seem to interpret everything through your particular political lens. Together with your use of "conventional" almost as if it were an insult, and talk of "sides"/the KKK/"losing" it's like you think you're part of some revolution. I would seriously consider whether that's true.
We do that all the time with humans! “Having a hunch”, “trusting years of experience”.

Or think of the “uncanny valley” in 3D graphics -- most people can tell when a rendered image looks slightly off somehow, but most people can’t pinpoint the exact problems. “Something about the eyes just isn’t quite right”, etc.
Lots of interesting details. I especially liked the section on gamma handling. I knew most of the theory there, but it was a readable refresher and seeing before/after images of emulated games really helped to make things understandable.
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That's the beauty of cycling isn't it? Sometimes the race-winning move is decided in a team car 150km from the line, and the next day it comes down to millimeters. This unpredictability is what keeps most viewers hooked to their TV sets for 6 hours on big race days.
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Their track "Moody (Spaced Out)" shares a strange similarity with Atmosfears "Dancing in Outer Space". I'm sure it's independent, it just made me think of it right away
The same "apprenticeship" also applies to tech companies.
1. At their best unions protect members from managerial malfeasance, but unions also go out of their way to protect incompetents who should be fired. That is soul crushing as a coworker, bad for the company, and possibly harmful to customers.

2. Unions are heavily involved in politics. As a worker, part of your paycheck is being seized to support politicians whom you may vehemently oppose.

3. American unions fixate on seniority and credentials as metrics of merit. This is a poor fit for professions like software engineering and educators, where those only loosely correlate to actual performance.

4. Unions foster adversarial relationships within companies, an us/them mentality against "management". Sometimes the environment is already toxic so nothing is lost, but it can also turn an otherwise reasonable workplace sour.
> We're not talking about nuclear warheads here.

No, we're not. Those damage the physical world. Facial recognition will damage something else in the long run - the society - which is just as dangerous.
> Any actual solutions? Tag me on twitter

Sigh.
We could do it in swimming by building the pools a few cm longer, and then having adjustable touchplates to give the precise distance for each lane. :)