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by roenxi 1y ago
Even then shutting down the anxiety and paranoia is a good idea. You're friend didn't know how to process reality without feeling negative, maybe. But it can be done and they should probably learn how to do that. A calm & conf
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by roenxi 1y ago
Wayland, traditionally, has not believed that. It believed "applications shouldn't be able to spy on or manipulate each other" and doesn't give users any mechanism to suggest that they might have permission to do so beca
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by roenxi 1y ago
If you're happy to accept almost literally everyone as Stalinist I suppose so. But if the word is going to mean anything then no, spending a lot on propaganda isn't Stalinist. It is routine governance. If you intend to organise pe
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by roenxi 1y ago
> Banning campaigning would go a long way. With tongue in cheek, that qualifies you as the "people like Stalin" category. Not a good idea.
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by roenxi 1y ago
Yes, trivially. The tricky part is building a system that the median citizen (and the officers in the military) can verify has been optimised that way vs competing, poorly optimised systems that sound good. Factor in the median citizen has
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by roenxi 1y ago
Authoritarian overreach is itself a routine and widely accepted aspect of democratic governments. Authoritarians get 1 vote/person, same as everyone else. They're allowed to advocate for policies and score the occasional outrageou
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by roenxi 1y ago
I'm not inclined to believe Kirk actually advocated that. Where and when did he say that? I want to check what the context was. A quick search only turned up people apologising for spreading false stories about him.
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by roenxi 1y ago
When they bought that in it was an attack on using cash. People have been pointing out that cash is under attack for a while.
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by roenxi 1y ago
> Shielding is concrete and lead and water. None of those are particularly expensive. Well, anything is expensive in enough quantity. But there is a bit of a tell not covered where of regulatory problems because nuclear plant projects ke
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by roenxi 1y ago
> Okay... I thought you had something actually to contribute to the conversation > You start off incredibly dismissive You seem to think it is polite and reasonable to open a comment by being dismissive. I don't even think I was
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by roenxi 1y ago
That is an attack on self-custody. If you hold Bitcoin you now have an elevated risk of being picked up in some dragnet and suffering random consequences in unrelated parts of the financial system for reasons that you don't understand.
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by roenxi 1y ago
I can't claim to know much of anything about Java. But this sounds like it might be linked to Java's type system and Clojure is an untyped language. From what I know of typed languages I don't see how a Clojure style interfac
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by roenxi 1y ago
I don't agree with your characterisation of what the magic of protocols is. A protocol is the lightest possible thing that captures how two things can interface. That is magic in a way, but it is also the end of it, Clojure does a mast
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by roenxi 1y ago
The magic of Clojure is that if a problem can be solved with an interface Clojure lets you solve it with an interface. It doesn't have any magic to show off, it is just a relentless implementation of a lot of basic good ideas.
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by roenxi 1y ago
Well, yes. We expect most religious people to put up with society at large damning souls to an eternity of torment and whatever. And people are forever pushing economic schemes that result in needless mass suffering. Not to mention that for
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by roenxi 1y ago
I'd say the appropriate read there is to slip the word "unjustified" into a few key slots. The view is nearly impossible to avoid in context. How do you see society surviving if the prevailing view is that anyone with a diffe
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by roenxi 1y ago
If the issues you are worried about aren't present yet, then logically right now it would be a comparable to and a competitor with YouTube. People in the main don't avoid web services because of hypothetical technical problems tha
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by roenxi 1y ago
These stats are hard to interpret - this could all very well be consistent with the kids these days turning out to be the most literate generation in history. There is very strong incentive to get good at reading to interact with the intern
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by roenxi 1y ago
It is technically different and there are trade offs, but that isn't much of an argument - at the end of the day we need to send yea many bytes of data from server to client with a known format. I watched a PeerTube video yesterday and
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by roenxi 1y ago
> You're weaving a network of secret deep state authoritarians secretly colluding with tech CEOs, and leaving no trace. I'm really not, I just read political news from time to time. The Twitter files [0] were front page materia
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by roenxi 1y ago
> Feudalism is formed by birth right privileges, excluding peasants or merit Lots of systems have that property, including many democracies (the UK political system, for example, is quite democratic yet embraces birthright privilege excl
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by roenxi 1y ago
> This would seem to imply that the established internet, what we had before this relenting, was somehow left wing. Is that an accurate description of your view? When did this relenting take place? No, the left wing wasn't really in
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by roenxi 1y ago
Just to be clear, I never said anything about the left wing. I don't think they were involved in that one. Suppressing speech is generally opposed by the leftists.
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by roenxi 1y ago
That doesn't look like a factor in the article though, he isn't using many if any macros that aren't part of the core language. And the one macro I do spot (defcfn) is pretty mild in context.
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by roenxi 1y ago
Fun fact: the big difference isn't the syntax. Lisps only go from foo(bar baz) to (foo bar baz) which is a change but not really much of one. The change is actually the immutable and high performance basic data structures. Clojure can
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by roenxi 1y ago
The real counterargument here is that the DB systems that stored nested data mostly lose in competition with relational systems over time as it turns out they don't satisfy the large number of people who use data for things other than
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by roenxi 1y ago
It doesn't take a war to do that, in peacetime governments can also manufacture reasons to just not do things - up to and including just changing the law. The main defence against that is that if they are going to do that later on they
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by roenxi 1y ago
> ...but so far no place has determined it and no place gone on the other side of it... This is what I mean when I say I'm not sure if you're actually interested in the answer. The Wikipedia article is a pretty thorough treatme
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by roenxi 1y ago
That is one of those questions where if you're asking it, I do question how serous you are in seeking out answers. It is mathematically guaranteed that an optimal rate exists, the topic has been an ongoing research question for several
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by roenxi 1y ago
Or the entire concept of 'too big to fail', which a great slogan for a terrible idea. If reverses the incentives from spreading risks and organising them to be uncorrelated out to instead concentrating them and encouraging them to

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