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It’s not one or the other. There are plenty of societies that meet the bar you describe without the restrictions Singapore has in place.

> Valdi is a cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance without sacrificing developer velocity. Write your UI once in declarative TypeScript, and it compiles dire…

The proscribing of Palestine Action as a 'terrorist group" is an absolute farce but that doesn't prevent you criticising the governments position on Palestine.

I don’t agree with that assessment at all. I’m free to criticise my government in the UK in any way I wish to. I would have no such freedom in Singapore.

Other platforms are over-policed and Twitter is under-policed. There was a sweet-spot, subjectively speaking, for Twitter mid-2022.

Singaporeans have chosen economic security and social authoritarianism over the freedoms we enjoy in the West. That's their choice. A powerful passport doesn't mean they can move a…

No freedom of press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of assembly, government owns/operates roughly ⅓ of the economy that features many state monopolies, the PAP maintains a gerrym…

A wasted opportunity to explore related ideas.

A good point is made at the end of the article: > But preemptive surrender is no sign of wisdom. Any reality made by human beings can be remade by them. The price of this power is …

I got a payout today from BMO Bank to my Paypal account for $38

I have a particular disdain for the profanity-laden slop that is works penned by Mark Manson. He's not alone as most "self-help" books are trash reads that only serve as some form …

Apple is far behind the competition when it comes to image editing... https://www.instagram.com/reels/DPWkNZHjebe/

Nothing. Filled out the form and heard nothing since.

It’s not just convenience. This single box is a single point of failure.

There's a tunnel between Detroit and Windsor. Faster than the bridge sometimes because no trucks.

You're probably right. I scanned the FDA website and wasn't sure how easy it would be to meet the requirements for personal medicine importation [0]. As a Canadian national in the …

$450 CAD I believe. US consumers would have to travel to Canada for injections which isn't practical unless you live on a border town. It's unlikely to meet the bar for personal im…

Also Libation for Audible books.

Less than 24 hours after I posted this Musk intervened on the idea of winding down the creator program favoring an increase in payments. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1978721345279…

I saw Nikita mention that X will flag account locations in order to be transparent around a poster's origin [0] which is a step in the right direction, though abandoning the creato…

Anything that requires state syncing between client and server.

I don't understand why frameworks that offer file based routing don't provide a way to define routes using either a configuration file or some library calls.

I recommend this talk by Breno Gazzola that details the history of the Rails-JS ecosystem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFgQco_ccgg

Stimulus is basically a very small event system with HTML hooks that integrates well with the Rails request lifecycle. I'd love to know if anyone has built anything sophisticated w…