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This is unfortunately full of very popular opinions. This is exactly what happens on reddit.
Just hunt for greyed out comments.
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>Free speech is overrated, and very misunderstood. Maybe your free speech is overrated. But as for the rest of us, it is not.
Hmm. Well the OP did say "unpopular" -But, "rest of us" suggests you think I'm in a camp of 1. I assure you a lot of people worldwide accept constraint on their freedom of speech, for social gain. Would I want to have my social credit measured by an app? Nope. Not even close. But, asked about it, most shrug. Plus, the misunderstood bit. I mean I get you know this, but do you think people actually know their 1st amend…
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>The free market sell off mania needs to end, real soon. We need big government far more than we are prepared to appreciate. Translation: I'm not prepared for what is coming.
Can you elaborate please? I'm interested why you think this. Nobody in the UK really thinks free market rail, free market water, free market gas, free market electricity has been a good idea. The overwhelming majority of consumers want renationalisation, its just about for how long really. Scotland, which retained significant state control over infrastructure is faring better.
i started producing my own food, water, and energy.
i suggest you do likewise. rather than expecting the government to supply all your needs.
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I think the USA has seen the good side of free speech for a while. Most of the former British colonies see the bad side - riots, deaths, civil wars. The Sunni vs Shia wars and torture in the Middle East. Israel. The race riots in SE Asia. India's Muslim vs Hindu conflicts, as well as Pakistan. You need a minority whose votes are negligible enough. Often those with enough power to be a viable threat (Jews, Chinese bil…
"Trump/MAGA is just following the standard politician playbook of vilifying minorities for votes. When it works, future politicians do the same because it's easy and proven. And then the hatred turns to violence. It's not just MAGA, it's also the people who compare Trump to Hitler and compare MAGA to Nazis." It started as the well-trodden "Southern Strategy" but now US' adversaries have poured fuel on the fire and it…
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> "...not having the calculator take 10sec to start due to telemetry..." Calculator fires up in 2 seconds even on my elderly Intel m3-6y30 machine. Not to pick on the parent poster, since I've seen far too many on HN say the same thing, but if the person who started this topic wants a prime addition to "unpopular opinions here that should not be", it's that those who aren't skilled enough to use Windows properly are…
> due to telemetry Not a CPU issue, but a network timeout one. Disconnect from ethernet/wifi, try again, report back. Circa 2016, it took 5-10 sec before it would give up on phoning-home & finally open. I put wireshark on it & timed it myself. No idea what it does now.
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> due to telemetry Not a CPU issue, but a network timeout one. Disconnect from ethernet/wifi, try again, report back. Circa 2016, it took 5-10 sec before it would give up on phoning-home & finally open. I put wireshark on it & timed it myself. No idea what it does now.
Just tried it, same 2 seconds. Perhaps it was changed sometime afterwards?
I've noticed that Windows programmers are very quick to work around what they perceive as bugs in underlying library code, and opaqueness in both code and motives is why.
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Just tried it, same 2 seconds. Perhaps it was changed sometime afterwards?
With Windows, who can tell? And that's the real issue. Is it a bug? Is it Micrsoft telemetry? Is it Microsoft being underhanded (which happens!)? I've noticed that Windows programmers are very quick to work around what they perceive as bugs in underlying library code, and opaqueness in both code and motives is why.
Aside from that, amen. "Get a byte, get a byte, get a byte byte byte" is a breath of fresh air compared to MS documentation. The situation has improved--if only because we can go to StackOverflow and ask Jon Skeet for the answer--but in the bad old days (where you might as well be on a desert island with your MSDN DVDs) it was pure pain.
Stop demanding you be treated absolutely equally to everyone else --whilst, at the same time, also demanding you be recognised as a special snowflake.
Opposing nuclear power was probably a mistake at scale. Now? it's too late to be effectively useful at scale, we can solve the problems via other methods but we've wasted 50 years of the problem by being "too green"
Tell that to the folks in Ukraine who now have to worry about one of their plants melting down in addition to everything else they're dealing with.
Imagine a conflict on the scale of WWII with developed countries bombing each other day and night. Sooner or later one of those conventional weapons accidentally, or not accidentally, hits a nuclear reactor.
Nuclear plants are great in Sim City, they just don't work in the real world.
Fighting a proxy war with Russia is better than fighting a hot war with either Russia or China. But, the people doing the proxy fighting are really unhappy being used this way.
Back in February, at the outset of the war, the U.S. offered to evacuate President Zelensky. His exact words were, "The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride".
Nice try though. I'm sure the pro-Russia contingent on HN will throw a few up-votes your way.