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> I do not want the government deciding "what purposes" e.g. non-commercial, serve the public good. The public gets to decide that. the public's "decision" on things like this is m…

i suppose it depends on the details, but if you're asked for state-issued identification when processing a return, and you present a falsified document that purports to be state-is…

> Don't hold back technology and society conversely, don't presume that what you're advocating for is "advancing" technology and society, either.

> Maybe just don't have a government where that's an issue oh, good idea. but i think that's quite literally the entire point of people's concerns in the first place.

your scenario isn't all that different from how the jdk authors view the use of internal classes, like sun.misc.unsafe.

So the hands dont speak to each other?

without a "minority report"-esque system, or preemptively putting the entire population in cages, you cannot prevent every ill of the world.

something is unclear to me - by 'how is it unacceptable', are you asking how people could possibly disagree?

protest activity. questions. demands for a commitment to human rights. support for democracy and the people of hong kong's efforts. maybe just annoyed at having to do lots of video…

> Criticizing Golang here in HN will get me banned for causing flamewar that's either reductive or a strawman, if not both. afaict golang doesn't lack for criticism on hn, but most…

i think this is true for AngularJS as well (not to say it didn't arrive with the right features at the right time).

platform gatekeeping, at a guess. though the existence of objective-c makes that status for swift be not-quite-technically-true.

> Anyway, why does the above mean there is no "American Dream" in China, when most the accusations you make can be levelled (in some form) to the US as well this seems fallacious. …

Or perhaps they are smart enough to break into such places :)

Unfortunately swift doesn't have a meaningful windows story, and giving up on 100s of millions of users is less than ideal for most "crossplatform" contexts. :/

my impression is that you seem to have an emotional commitment to your position. why do you say that bostrom is "that stupid" talking about "bullshit all the way down" and is "conn…

everyone has an expiration date. someone who wants to make the most of their time probably should not waste it on nonsense.

perhaps it's a category error to apply the notion of 'validity' to opinions.

what you describe does not seem to correlate with reality. > he was also wrong what do you mean?

so if a person puts a number on a page, that also means they want everyone scraping it? that's not a very privacy-friendly perspective.

I don't think anyone wants to read it for its own sake though, rather its something that's been shared and in that context its annoying. Not to mention people aren't exactly intere…

aren't most control structures just sugar for goto?

can you be more specific about these practices?

> says should not be questioned do you have examples of this happening?

i don't think the act of defining a term for later usage in an argument can be described as "no true scotsman", which is typically a mid-argument dismissal of a counterexample that…