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This is so washed up as a take. Let’s go to mars instead of pouring energy into blaming the British for everything.
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I was hoping we could keep our zealousness to tabs vs spaces, 2 vs 3 vs 4 vs 8 indentation levels, etc.
that is indeed all considerably superfluous and a distraction from the one true law. the first element of an array is at index zero. only a filthy heathen starts at one. to add a one to the beginning is arrogance, the mark of a human needing to see itself everywhere, while zero is pure, a beginning. in before some one-head leaves a half-baked comment about why it makes more sense for the first element to start with o…
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF>
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This is a good point you bring up. It is evident that everyone knows the correct level of indentation is a tab character that is four spaces wide; you never use spaces for indentation, only tab characters. Any suitable programming language will immediately recognize a space as a typo and fail compilation.
The correct answer to the "tabs vs spaces" debate is tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment. This allows people to use any tab width they want and it will always look good. However, in the real world, attempting this won't work because there will be a minimum of 1 person in the team that configures their editor to convert tabs to spaces. Ideally, that person should have their PRs rejected and be scolded into fixi…
https://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/>
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That was a point, but your first point was that domains are secure sources of web identity. That's what I disagreed with. I do agree that if your civil courts are knowledgeable you at least have some defense, but domains are more rent and less property which makes them an insecure form of identity imo.
You might own your house, but if you stop paying taxes, you will, somehow, lose ownership of it. The same thing applies here. There is no such thing as absolute property. Legal entities can confiscate and expropriate whatever they think they should, regardless of ownership. Everything is fluid and exists on sufferance. If you want absolute irrevocable control, use a darknet, like .onion.
My name and identity are mine even if I don't pay taxes. Identities aren't fully immutable but certainly not transactionally transferable. PGP, for all its flaws, is much closer to the concept of provable identity, imo.
I do understand your underlying message which is to function independently on the web you absolutely need a name you can rely on. We agree there, I just don't think the system or things that support it match the underlying needs/wants.
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Weird. Also: > And so, Britain traded the land illegally. Whoa, strong claim. Probably backed by facts below? Nope. At the same time, Wikipedia: > In November 1965, the UK purchased the entire Chagos Archipelago from the then self-governing colony of Mauritius for £3 million to create the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). So, they bought it for 3 million pounds. Doesn't seem illegal to me.
That's like the Cuba buying Florida from the USA. Floridians wouldn't consider that "legal" People can't be legally bought and sold.
The US acquired territory from Mexico as part of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, intended to end the Mexican-American war. Mexico lost 55% of its territory, but did receive $15M as some sort of compensation. Is that legal and if so in what sense, given that it was driven by a desire to end a war?
Much more recently, how about territory acquired by Russia in the vicinity of Ukraine. Suppose that the Crimeans truly did unanimously agree to this, would that make it legal? Is it legal if 50% of the residents agree? What about those with economic interests there who are not residents?
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that is indeed all considerably superfluous and a distraction from the one true law. the first element of an array is at index zero. only a filthy heathen starts at one. to add a one to the beginning is arrogance, the mark of a human needing to see itself everywhere, while zero is pure, a beginning. in before some one-head leaves a half-baked comment about why it makes more sense for the first element to start with o…
Here’s the ultimate authority on why computer languages should count from zero: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF >
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Well, the thought process is that cents from every .io registration go to a private equity firm. And none of that money goes to the people who historically lived there and were displaced. So... that's a pretty shitty thing to support (as someone registering a domain), when the alternative is simply "Pick a different TLD." Tbh, ICANN/IANA should either (a) dissolve the TLD as-is, as there is no independent country it…
The part I fail to follow is that denouncing the occupation of Chagos necessarily means that the two letter abbreviation "IO" becomes off-limits for all use cases. If ICANN were to actually step in, all they would realistically do (which, logically, should address your concerns) is designate that .io now stands for Input/Output and should be used for tech-related websites (which would merely legitimize how the TLD is…
But the private equity company that currently owns it bought it from him.
So I fail to see how the current PE owner has any legitimate claim to own the TLD.
They "own" stolen property.
ICANN should rip it from their hands, then re-bid it as a gTLD.
If the same PE company wants to rebuy it... that's their business, and fairly done.
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That's like the Cuba buying Florida from the USA. Floridians wouldn't consider that "legal" People can't be legally bought and sold.
How do you see the relationship between war and legality? The US acquired territory from Mexico as part of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, intended to end the Mexican-American war. Mexico lost 55% of its territory, but did receive $15M as some sort of compensation. Is that legal and if so in what sense, given that it was driven by a desire to end a war? Much more recently, how about territory acquired by Russia in t…
Sub-areas within a nation may secede and form their own nations, but recognition of the new nations by peer nations is required for legitimacy.
So from that perspective: Mexico, agreed to by the government and done. Crimea, not consented by the Ukrainian government, and an open question as to peer recognition of independence (or now incorporation into Russia).
The grey areas (e.g. ceding land under duress) are why land has historically been the chief casus belli.
Isn’t funding .uk and .us domains just as bad then, if you’re going by the amount of blood that is on a countries hands(regarding this particular piece of history, or all of it)?
Any time you pay taxes you're funding a criminal because all states commit crimes of various degrees, so... shrug