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by 4bpp 1y ago
I would go further and say that even if these things are for criminals, that is okay; and allowing some amount of criminal activity is necessitated by the basic humility of conceding that we might not have figured out the best set of rule
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by 4bpp 1y ago
If the author's theory were true and social media dynamics were indeed compressing the Overton window, wouldn't these sorts of "the Overton window is way too wide" posts be exactly the reaction one would expect to it on
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by 4bpp 1y ago
> The "police state" is the one ensuring your family's safety. In our modern societies, we have outsourced the monopoly on violence to the police state, so that we can focus on work and hobbies, and that comes at the expen
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by 4bpp 1y ago
> Curios how liberal you'd be with the criminal who'd wronged you. Mercy towards criminals is a crime towards their victims. Most societies that we would consider worth living in hold up the principle that matters of justice sh
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by 4bpp 1y ago
Well, if you or one of your loved ones is considering going into the being-a-chicken business, I would hope that HN would likewise dissuade you.
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by 4bpp 2y ago
A quip ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_L%C3%B6sung ) from a more innocent era comes to mind- > Would it not in that case / Be simpler for the government / To dissolve the people / And elect anothe
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by 4bpp 2y ago
How does it not? His resignation is a direct reaction to the circumstances surrounding the resignation of a core Rust-in-the-kernel personality over an argument about Rust in the kernel, and as the article points out his primary area of act
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by 4bpp 2y ago
...except I figure that at least in the US (where most of the people who can exert pressure on Linux development are located), the phrase's use in this capacity is actually fairly widely known. (It even takes up a significant part of t
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by 4bpp 2y ago
The statement's recent place in the public consciousness is largely because it was used as a pro-police slogan against the BLM/"police abolition" movement in the US. The Rust community, being overwhelmingly progressive,
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by 4bpp 2y ago
It's as predictable as it is concerning how much the Rust community has hitched its wagon to the US progressive movement. Is this an attempt to remove an adversary in an engineering debate by appealing to a political alliance? Or an at
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by 4bpp 2y ago
I don't think that is a correct interpretation. As I understand it, Linux does not have a notion of someone being obliged to help facilitate a patch, especially if it's not the narrow case of a maintainer and a patch to the subs
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by 4bpp 2y ago
> "no one will be forced to use Rust in the Kernel" Is this true, though? One reason for this altercation seems to be the basic circumstance that in Linux kernel development, if there is a dependency between two pieces of code
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by 4bpp 2y ago
I do wonder if Linus is actually opposed to Rust in the kernel, but for whatever reason thinks that he can't afford to openly ban it or do anything beyond deniably letting it be obstructed by maintainers. The Rust language project and
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by 4bpp 2y ago
I think you are making a mistake in assuming that the social dynamics around censorship in China are fundamentally that different from the ones around censorship in the US or other countries. You could similarly argue that it is "funny
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by 4bpp 2y ago
> The final study population comprised 341 participants (90.6% females) who completed blood sampling and answered the questionnaire. A total of 232 (68%) were seropositive How does this compare to the base rate in a similar population? T
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by 4bpp 2y ago
Before the other side took hold of a major platform and started doing it to their ends, "freedom of speech is not freedom of reach", "you don't have the right to a megaphone" etc. were maxims that were regularly fie
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by 4bpp 2y ago
Depends on what you consider "influence". There are certaimly pro-Russian, or at least anti-American, posters. As for the idea that it is being targeted by a campaign of bots or payrolled humans, this seems unlikely - HN is good a
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by 4bpp 2y ago
Funny enough, the EU is currently calling the election results in Georgia illegitimate because they passed a similar sort of law ( https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/what-georgias-foreign-agent-law... ). This is not doing a go
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by 4bpp 2y ago
Russia, China, Iran or any combination of the three. Any correct response is bound to draw indignation from those who consider the enemy real rather than virtual, but this is to be expected - given that every popular story of manipulative g
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by 4bpp 2y ago
This sounds like what you would expect to see if everything subject to politicisation is politicised in a direction opposed by the same "kind of poster". I imagine you could observe the same sort of predictability if you looked at
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by 4bpp 2y ago
Australia did contribute troops to most US-led military expeditions of the past century. Is it that unlikely that in the event of complete nuclear devastation of the Northern Hemisphere, they would be happy to tip the scales in favour of th
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by 4bpp 2y ago
> Literally judging an entire book by it's cover. Yes, why not? Covers usually convey a lot of information about a book. Of all the books whose covers look like those an action manga, how many do you figure are a good resource for l
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by 4bpp 2y ago
The completely agrammatical "Latin" text in the AARO logo - somewhere on the level of English text one might find on a t-shirt sold on a street market in rural China - does not inspire confidence in the programme or its mission, a
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by 4bpp 2y ago
That's a fair objection, but given the context I assume he was not actually having anything other than Chinese in mind. Otherwise one might as well bring up Vietnamese, which has a similar history and lexical makeup as JP/KR and i
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by 4bpp 2y ago
Japanese is not really the right example, because unlike Chinese the writing is really more phonetic than not (and when it isn't, as in kanbun texts, it's basically an idiosyncratic translation to a completely different language).
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by 4bpp 2y ago
> Since 2022 the Russian president is sending 1000 Russians a day to a sure death, could stop the carnage at any time, and couldn't care less about it. Most Russians support him and don't care also. I will not accept any lesson
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by 4bpp 2y ago
I assume your interlocutor was referring to how he dismissed those who complained about the move as "Russian trolls" more than the original delisting itself.
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by 4bpp 2y ago
That's interesting, but these seem like they are just a slightly more structured form of the ways in which the CCP has been known to keep track of their own nationals abroad for many years. Not only is there no evidence or reason to ex
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by 4bpp 2y ago
I doubt this particular move will complicate Russia's war efforts in any appreciable way. There is no non-fanciful way in which the named, well-established and closely watched kernel maintainers could have leveraged their status for it
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by 4bpp 2y ago
Why should this be a problem for anyone outside of China? It's only when the same people can read your messages and send dudes with guns to your doorstep if they don't like what they see that things actually get dangerous.

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