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Before I start - by "what is a book worth in the 21st century ?" do you mean non-fiction? Because then we agree on that point. However...

There is no such thing as "intellectual superiority". All life (I will grudgingly accept limiting it to humans for this discussion) has equal value regardless of perceived intellect. I may be good at growing plants, you may be good at researching nuclear fusion. This does not make either intellectually superior (ego and god complexes notwithstanding).

Second, books in bookshelves have value beyond the $ value or content of the books in them. At minimum it's an interior design tool that brings life and warmth to an otherwise soul- and lifeless house (look at houses on YT with a value > $10m. - virtuall all of them clinically and lifelessly designed by "x" who is "amazing darling").

Books do what a drawing of your child does when framed and hung on a wall - they make a house look lived in. The people in it automatically gain depth that a framed photo by some famous photographer of a landscape or half-naked person can never deliver.

Books can give insight not found on the Internet. King Rat, by James Clavell (himself a former prisoner of Changi) gives insights that are rare as hens' teeth on the Internet, if they exist there at all. Another stand-out is The Ugly American which surfaces some uncomfortable truths that can alter lives. And they start conversations, excercising intellects.

Finally, worth. A book in the 21st century is worth at least as much as a movie. I say at least because it has secondary benefits like improving grammar, spelling and sometimes writing style. I don't believe a Twitter feed or blog can match a good book for unadulterated storytelling.
We're getting into technicalities here, but in my opinion the ethical thing to do is to share your code freely for everyone else to use, however at the same time use a license that requires them to do the same with any code they derive from yours. This is absolutely nothing new, ref. the GPL.
This has nothing to do with the properties of Go/Rust as languages, but all about organizational structure. Go is supported by Google who can put necessary resources to include a bunch of high-level batteries in the stdlib and keep it coherent. Rust community does not have such resources and even if there are some big players joining the community, they don't own Rust and won't be able allocate resources for continuous support without a proper org structure that allows this to be sustainable and efficient.

Philosophical reasoning like "Rust should have small stdlib" is horseshit. Ideal language has every function perfectly designed in the stdlib (kinda like PHP in 2003, lol). But to get closer to that dream you need some sustainable organization that maintains and expands that stdlib, wishes to do so and has resources to do that continuously.

If it's just random 5 people doing maintenance and hacking at their spare time, that's not enough for an expanding library of diverse code. That could be enough only for keeping very core features working/improving like const generics and borrow checker.
People need to join forces to battle corrupt tax policy or corrupt laws that benefit one politician or businessman at the expense of a whole county's or even country's worth of taxpayers.

People need to join forces to organise labour unions to have any equal negotiating power against their employer.

People not being allowed to organise is the wet dream of corrupt autocratic politicians and business owners around the world (which is also why China or Russia have such tight controls and surveillance over their respective messaging app ecosystems).
They're wrong: the D parts of the compiler were released under the GPL in 2002. What is now called gdc got started shortly thereafter, bolting it on to the gcc backend, creating a fully-GPL D compiler.

This is easy to verify by looking at the archived releases.
You can also call it the Hubble parameter. But I think even then the current value of the Hubble parameter is still called the Hubble constant and it is still not constant. But don't worry, those are just labels, it doesn't really matter that a constant is not constant. We also didn't rename atoms once we realized we could rip electrons out of them or even smash them altogether. There is no tin in tin foil, no lead in pencil leads, no chalk in chalk sticks, and not all blackboards are black.
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This isn’t really responsive to what I’m saying or what you asked me.

I didn’t make any assumptions about what Swedish law can or cannot do. Swedish laws apply to people in Sweden. If Swedish law says that you can’t use Helvetica font on your website, and the punishment is 10 years of hand-tracing a better font on stone tablets, then they’re able to apply that law to a Sweden-based web developer, regardless of whether or not he works for a company that’s registered in Spain.

Likewise, yes, the Swedish government surely has many laws with carve outs for different use cases. Taxes are a great example here: there are laws that apply only to activities of foreign corporations, and laws that apply only to local corporations. But the Swedish government gets to make those laws and determine which apply to whom. Likewise, you are correct that Sweden can make laws that apply to Swedish corporations even when their staff reside abroad. This is because by registering in Sweden, the business has given the Swedish government a measure of control over their activities.
I would take SML, freshen it up with some conveniences inspired by Haskell and OCaml, and add a mode with region-based memory management only, so it can be used without a GC. This so there is a simple but principled language targeting low-level programming. Rust is nice, but it has so many features and a syntax aimed at C++/Java folks.
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In the same line of thinking as the parent comment, there's no 100% security either. If you loot at IT, everything can be hacked, secrets leak, intelligence agencies hoard vulnerabilities, or even have insiders in security firms or larger corporations.

In the real life, no lock is invulnerable. Most can be picked, frozen, melted, etc and surely have other weaknesses too.

But to achieve their goal, they don't need to perfect. Just reasonably good. And so, I wish for people to be mindful about the nature of these. That they are not perfect, they are not hidder, nor secure. Just, maybe, reasonably so.
German here.

While I do agree with her that something must be done about Telegram given that criminal activity including Holocaust denial and plotting murder of governors [1] can go on there without any moderation while requests for providing IP addresses and other user data are being routinely ignored by the service, she is falling into the same trap as many interior politicians do and thinks that the solution is primarily to put pressure on Telegram.

It would be better to put police pressure on the ringleaders and participators of such Telegram channels. They are often enough known by clear name and march on the streets so they can be arrested there, but that requires actual effort from a police force that is already under suspicion of far-right infiltration.

[1]: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/kretschmer-drohung-razzia-1...
> I blame management, the alternative is believing Firefox just had bad luck or that developers at Firefox suck (which they do not)

There are other factors at play than managerial incompetence:

- the entire iOS part of "all web users" uses WebKit because Apple doesn't allow other engines. For Android, most devices ship either Chrome or a WebKit wrapper (the default Android WebView), and many users don't bother switching browsers from the default. As ever more Web usage moves towards mobile, the disadvantage towards Firefox only accelerates - which is part of the reason why Mozilla tried to build a competitor.

- Many users also don't bother very much to switch their desktop browser. Apple users, especially on mobile, tend to stay with Safari as not even Chrome can keep up with the battery life optimizations Apple did, much less Firefox (not to mention Apple probably doesn't even grant non-Apple apps access to entitlements, but that's just guesswork).

- Netflix and other DRM content. A lot of people went to Chrome back in ye olde days when getting Netflix to run in HD resolutions (or at all) was a nightmare on everything sans Chrome (and Internet Explorer), and thanks to inertia (see above) they stayed on Chrome. And I'm not even wishing to fault Mozilla's management for resisting DRM for as long as they did, but in the end customers voted with their download buttons for convenience.

- The desktop users that do switch their desktop browser switch mostly to Chrome because Google blasts out tons of ads to switch to Chrome, not to mention website developers suggesting their users to move to Chrome or outright announcing that bugs involving browsers other than Chrome won't get addressed.

The last thing is undoubtedly the biggest issue - it is impossible to counteract the advertising and other financial firepower of Google. In ye olde times, regulatory agencies should have stepped in long ago to ban the cross-promotion that Google did (similar to the MS judgements), but they didn't and now we're living in a browser duopoly that is rapidly devolving into WebKit monopoly.
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I don't have faith in true (aka direct) democracy. It relies on the average person being well informed enough about everything involved in running the government to make good decisions. It also relies on every person in the country acting in good faith for the benefit of all, which at best you could convince _most_ people to do _most_ of the time.

I do have faith in representative democracy to do _approximately_ the right thing most of the time, or at least minimise how bad the bad results will be.

In other words, I think people are better at deciding who to trust to run the country than they are at actually running the country. Given that, it should be no surprise that I also think there will be situations where the person trusted to run the country will realise that telling the public the whole truth will be a bad idea, because they are better at interpretting that truth than the public is.

Lying to the public is not (imo) a slippery slope that inevitably makes anyone who goes down it a monster. Polititians can be something other than perfectly honest and actually satan, and in fact they must be. I think a perfectly honest polititian would be a bad thing overall, even beyond the fact that their career wouldn't last very long.

Where on that scale they should be is in the end in the hands of the public, via our democratic vote. Certainly I don't support constant lies and hiding of things the public needs to know. But that isn't what we're discussing here, we're discussing a single lie used for a good cause (though I admit it was probably not the best solution to the problem, it was at least a logical concept: convince people who need masks less to not panic buy masks, leading to more masks for people who need them more).
Let me give you some contrasting views on this: we already know that serde has (serious) limitations and sooner or later a completely new version will be needed. HTTP and Client library will not make sense unless async is also in the core. Moving async in the core is going to raise serious problems for people trying to port this to new ecosystems and there is not even agreement on exactly how async should continue into the future.

In fact, there are people (like me) who are very happily pushing back on moving stuff into the standard library unless it's clear that the code there can live for 30 years. And I do not see this for almost all the things you just mentioned.
I'm am predominantly Pennsylvania Dutch (not Amish or Mennonite) and currently live within a few miles of both Amish and Mennonite farms. What I can tell you is that they are people - if you tell them a (good) joke they'll laugh and if you tell them a joke that's not funny, they'll smile awkwardly. They also have prejudices just like we do (even from one sect to another.) I'm a bit older than most here and what I've learned is that you can have an engaging conversation with almost anyone - take time to listen and you'll probably notice that the other person finds you interesting and curious too.
Is all organization you can think about organizing to kill someone?

People have the right to organize themselves, regardless of their political views, whether it is a telegram group about organizing a school festival, or demonstration about a topic you agree or not agree about.

You can also ask to ban phones because people can use them to organize a murder. Or ban a postal service, since postal mail can also be used for bad purpose.
It’s clear that your preference is that people do that. What’s not clear is why the MIT license and closed source software are unethical.

Not everything we dislike is a violation of ethics.
I can whole-heartedly recommend "The Ray Tracer Challenge" by Jamis Buck. It's a fun project-based book without all the computer graphics theory, where you focus on building a ray tracer in small increments while Jamis holds your hand until you can walk on your own. As a small bonus, you get to generate some awesome images pretty quickly.
I read 86 books last year, completely missing my goal of 100. I used to be a voracious reader as a kid and stopped completely when I had kids and was in grad school. My kids are of the age where I want to instill in them a love of reading and the best way to lead is by example, in my opinion. It was an added benefit that I was doing it mainly before bed as a part of my attempt at better sleep habits (i.e., not using electronic devices before bed).

We make a big adventure out of going to the local bookstore and buying a bunch of books to read. We go in with some idea in mind of what we're looking for but we want to be able to explore and open ourselves to new ideas and experiences too.

My goal of 100 last year was lofty but not impossible by any stretch. I decided to try and read 1 book that was recommended, 1 book that was on a banned list, and 1 that was something I chose myself. As someone who generally reads police procedurals, it was amazing to widen my horizons and I really enjoyed being exposed to the books others have loved themselves; I feel it brought us closer together as humans.

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This year I'm already on Book #6 for 2022. The current was recommended either here or on Reddit in r/books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pillars_of_the_Earth. I'm absolutely loving the adventure aspect of it and it reminds me a lot of a recommendation from a friend to read Lonesome Dove: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonesome_Dove which became a favorite of all time for me.

Another favorite for this year was Hench: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hench_(novel) a comic book in novel form taken from the perspective of a background person working for a supervillain. This would NOT have been something I normally would have read and I would have ignored it completely. As something I randomly picked up at the bookstore, I was super pleased and have recommended it to others several times now.

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By all means, do you. I'm not forcing anyone to have a number goal or a process similar to mine when it comes to reading; however, everyone should dedicate regular time to reading, particularly outside of their comfort zone.
> The sad consequence of OSS is that the value of software is fast approaching $0.

You are confusing cost and value. The cost of software might approach 0, but the value of software depends only on how useful it is to its users. One could even argue that a consequence of OSS is increasing the value of software in general, due to an ever growing collection of easily-obtainable useful software.
Sounds like I have my first follower :)
Some right or every right?

There's a difference between the right for you and a few others to set up a group when you already know each other, and the right for you to search for those others by interest.

Technically: Private groups are different from groups that are publicly searchable by or or more of name/blurb/message content.
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This is a great example of why people don’t have privacy. Ethernet cables exist, and wholly forgo these problems. But, they are less convenient. Consumers complain a lot about privacy, but do little to really demand it. Of course manufacturers deserve much of the blame here for actually implementing these things, but it doesn’t seem as if consumers are trying to steer them in the right direction at all.
Sure, can privacy advocates stop down playing what we lose because we value privacy though?

There needs to be a balance, location information will be very useful for a lot of things, but only if we have it fully implemented. I want things to sense when I fall and call for help for me. (If I was at a big risk I'd have a button, but for the average young person the risk is non-zero but very small). I want my home automation stuff to figure out where they are and configure themselves. I want my routers to suggest that I'd get better coverage by moving it.

Yes there is privacy concerns and they need to be addressed, but don't lose the good with it.
Imagine another headline then.

How about that (hypothetical):

Galileo Galilei believed the earth wasnt flat - but feared debate could hurt ‘international churchly harmony’
I first learned about SAGE through an unlikely mechanism: sitting in the cockpit of a CF-100. There is a switch labeled "attack" that really confused me. It turns out the SAGE could be used to direct aircraft directly to a target.

After learning about this, I did some more research and it seems a signal was broadcast that could be received to direct planes to a target SAGE had identified. I don't have a link to the documents, but originally it was a relatively small transmitter that was upgraded to a much powerful system, I think around 30000 watts of output. It was interesting to me because today I assume an attacker would either jam such a system or actually interfere with it in such a way to send the interceptor off course. I never could find any info on the actual signal transmitted and if it had any form of security.

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/33205/why-does-...

Another cool fact: at the opposite end of the SAGE project we have the "Safeguard" project which was completed in 1975. It spent less than 24 hours in operational capacity before being cancelled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_R._Mickelsen_Safeguard...
Usually I don't read books to increase my book reading skills
One thing to consider is the number of artists employed by businesses. I dont have actual numbers but i know video game companies employs many. Businesses have different values than an individual human, and won't care if the art is made by a computer if its cheaper and passable. Theres also huge market for NSFW art. Whos going to know who or what made the image?

Comparing photography to hand drawn art is silly. They are two different mediums.

Your company could be the first to capture the market. I guess if you can sleep with the consequences of your work,who cares? Im not judging because if its not you, it will be someone else.

Personally i think we as a society need to step back and press pause and really consider the consequences of this technology, and even existing technologies.

If you become rich, could you set up a charity for all the future starving artists, if that future comes to pass? I dont want to live in a world where theres no room for human creativity.

Not an artist, just a concerned human.
Seeing lots of stories in US about refugees revitalizing post-industrial towns in Upstate NY. And I've certainly witnessed a bit of it in the Capital District / Albany when visiting. I think the question for Germans is: what is it about the American system that allows immigrant communities to come here, plant roots, and thrive in mere months. At its most basic: equal access to opportunity ;)

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/in-depth/news/2022/01/1...
I hope that in the future, new code written is C will be seen as similar to using unencrypted communication on the Internet.

It is not about how easy is it to write rust. It is about how, as a C programmer you are going to explain that your code is safe.

I know that as a long time C programmer, I still make occasional mistakes that lead to memory corruption.

In production code, there are still way to many pointer bugs. Use after free, etc. That needs to end.
> Nokia had those markets under lock and key for a long time, back when EU/US had already moved on to iPhone-like products; but then consumers inevitably gravitated towards the fashionable.

“fashionable” is the wrong word: it should be “functional”. Those old Nokia phones were very good at being phones but that's it — maybe a minimal messaging app, but anyone who used one knows just how limited those old mobile OSes were.

I think FirefoxOS was an interesting idea but there are really important thresholds you need to be able to hit and that was the critical error they made. There was no plausible way to grow the low-end feature phone market into a large enough business to get there when competing with cheap knock-off Android devices. If they'd started years earlier or gotten a major vendor on-board, maybe, but at their funding levels there was no way to make the numbers work and it was pretty clear at the time that this was a low-probability gamble.
And I love when ppl are so sucked into a particular narrative that they ignore the question being asked:

Where were the stockpiles of appropriate equipment? Or did the playbook say such things would fall out of the sky, like manna from heaven?

Fact: The 45th didn't discard them. In fact, the gov bought masks from Facebook and (I think) Google who did have a stockpile (but evidently not for pandemic purposes).

You're loving the playbook but missing the fact that some basic and necessary execution never happened.
Fake news, a.k.a. information and opinions we don’t like and that go against our narrative.
I'm a freelancer/contracter in the UK working through my own limited company. Most of the time I try to use my own contract, but if clients insist on using their own, I will sometimes use them.

I've gone through a few of those where the client supplied the contract and only two out of maybe a dozen had any caluse related to convictions (from a quick search of them).

One was a clause about people working on the project being:

> fit and proper persons for the tasks assigned to them, and in particular have no unspent criminal convictions for any offence involving dishonesty or computer crime

Another had a clause about terminating the contract early if the contractor is:

> being convicted of any criminal offence other than a minor driving offence under the Road Traffic Acts

None of the others I looked at had anything else like that. I don't think any convictions would be a major barrier for OP if they are working with typical private sector companies. As other have said, it's likely any public sector work or specific industires such as education, defenece, or finance might have more checks in place.
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Fact checkers being called opinion in a legal argument is very different from what they deal with in the real world.

No one is using legal arguments when they spread things like vaccine denial.

Those are things that fact checkers are used to Combat.
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Which is great by me, because most native English speaker I met didn't bothered to do me that favour.

How else can one improve and pay respect to a foreign language?

On the other hand, if they did, it would have been a lot of work.
Switching to an N95 mask gives a 75x boost in Covid protection