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> "the state" is just shorthand we use for "other people in my community" It's a very different abstraction layer, in the same way as individual cells vs the entity that is you. Th…

I don't think that "dystopian" necessarily goes far enough, this would be one of the rare times where I would call it a fascist mentality - the idea that everything's primary alleg…

I suspect that BASIC may have got a bad reputation in the same way as PHP or JavaScript did, where the accessibility of the language and infrastructure around it allows people who …

This list really limits itself in terms of Xilinx price-to-performance by disallowing anything with a SOM. You can get a combined SOM + Carrier board with https://www.xilinx.com/pr…

> I don't really understand why anyone who claims to be a proponent of a free market economy has an issue with a private corporation deciding what type of content they want to broa…

Protest needs to be disruptive or inconvenient in some way to draw any kind of attention or have an impact. Otherwise the complaints can be entirely ignored, but that often seems t…

With TP-Link you can run the Omada controller for their EAP line on a local device (I have it running on a Pi4).

I think many businesses will be happy with this change. Currently you have to run an instance of WhatsApp in a container that connects to the WA servers and provides the API that y…

Laws don't matter without the ability to enforce them. Apple and Google reap the benefits of forced centralised control, but that is what allows those countries to very easily enfo…

Maybe, as with the opposition to the Citizens United ruling, rights that are given to people should not automatically apply to companies.

Did it take 50-60 hours in ancient times to gather enough firewood to burn a fire for an hour, or does this limit the definition of artificial light to some kind of higher quality …

Projected Electoral College votes could still be based on post-certified results from the states. The projection they're talking about might be the projection of who the electors w…

I think it's difficult to approach a problem with a Depth-first Search mentality without using "Strong Opinions, Weakly Held". If one goes in with "weak opinions" it's easy to find…

From an individual perspective I don't think there should be any doubt that solving death is a fantastic goal. It's the threat that is poses to the system, threats to which we have…

This thing of misleading people on the details so that they make the Correct Decision in the short term seems very dangerous. I know in tech there's a tendency to do something simi…

This kind of statement always comes with the underlying assumption that Apple is where it is without any kind of artificial crutch, and likewise the developers should suck it up an…

Shouldn't one at least start by giving tough punishments to officials i.e. years in jail etc, before reaching for the more monstrous punishments? I worry that the extreme suggestio…

I think you see point 3 come through in the discussions talking about privilege and lived experience. It's a natural step after point 1 or 2 where the dominant group rebuts with "w…

This seems to just be a set of general steps for the dominant culture to downplay dissenters or individuals for whom the system isn't working. It doesn't tell you anything about if…

A moral framework is only useful if it can be adhered to. If we define "good" as a standard that can't be maintained it ceases to be a valuable definition. Sometimes "whatabouism" …

The hot bag thing is a pain and has so many different reasons. I've been caught out with it in the move from a 2012 rMBP to a 2019 16", where on the old one if I was connected to W…

I also thought that, as I do have a 32" 4K DisplayPort monitor with plenty of scaling options presented in macOS (and even more options if you hold Alt/Option while clicking the "S…

Yes, I'm just using tech as an example. It still requires them to be excellent in any one field and then move into another field on the basis of that excellence, but then fail to h…

I would think the Peter Principle would be better represented if there was someone who was a star on the technical side, but messed up as the CEO in a role they couldn't handle. i.…

> In fact I suspect that a sense of frustrated talent is what drives some people to become haters. They're not just saying "It's unfair that so-and-so is famous," but "It's unfair …