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It means you were only interested in apartheid when it was on TV a lot, you completely missed the ending (and all news involving South Africa for the next 30 years), then you get all mystical about it…

French people did metric, meanwhile they prefer "four-twenty and fourteen" to "ninety-four."

People need to be allowed to speak in public without having their identities recorded by the police. Also, if you want to follow somebody around who has "violent convictions," you don't…

Yes. It's alright to do it when I don't like the person. Should a person I don't like really have rights, or privacy? Also, I'm sure that the people who don't like him like me…

The law is exactly the place to deal with entitlements.

Just from personal experience, Catholics are better at this. Other religions often consider religious instruction a charitable function. Catholics just help you, and you're moved into wanting rel…

> What is the purported lesson we should have learned? Not to automatically execute things within data that we have been sent.

I did understand the question. I think you're somehow confusing "built on git" with "we used git while we built it." But that's honestly just a weird guess. I really can&…

> crates.io is moving away from GitHub-only authentication Crates.io has not moved away from Github-only authentication, and got into the habit of yelling at people who complained about it. > cr…

Are you asking if the law can be changed by changing the law?

> My view is they both have a clear use case for AI, because every business has a use case for more intelligence on tap. They all do, but for small companies it won't be a benefit, it will be …

This is not good reasoning. You're offloading your thinking to "Turso" for some reason. You're also assuming that they haven't made the alternative judgement that instead of t…

> The challenged statement was an obvious exaggeration, cushioned within an undisputed news story. The statement could not reasonably be understood to imply an assertion of objective fact, and ther…

> So, what is Radicle? > Radicle is a peer-to-peer code collaboration platform (“forge”) built on Git. ----- > Why Git/GitHub are used as if they were the same category of things? They a…

I'd like to see radicle replace crates.io. I can't get over Rust's dependency on github/Microsoft, and I can't get over the lack of namespacing. All you would need is cargo co…

Of course they're a stakeholder. They've made an investment of time and effort, and they're hoping that it will pay off. The question is whether a maintainer will respect that. If you w…

As long as it was still GPL and it wasn't just license washing, I'd be elated.

> Programmers in the 90s weren't less evil or had a stronger moral compass. They simply didn't have the opportunity to reduce the need for their fellow developers on a massive scale. They…

They're already nearly there. Once everybody's computers are rooted for age verification, with government-approved OSes, it's barely even a step to only allow government-approved AI on …

The Telegraph does the same thing; it's the lwn.net model. Doesn't the WaPo have share links? I can't recall.

Better that than a press that won't say anything that will upset entire industries because they're afraid that ads will get withdrawn. It's been postulated that the only reason for ph…

In Western alphabetic languages other than French, English, and Portuguese, not being able to spell the word is virtually identical to not knowing how to say the word. People who spell words wrong i…

You're mentioning a bunch of stuff that has nothing to do with the UI, and also, when it comes to wifi, that most people don't have any problems with. Android has a horrible interface. I…

I don't see a single difficult example here. The answer is "NO." It's strange that you couldn't even find one. I mean "Is including likes an algorithm?" You might as…

This seems to be consciously dishonest. Show them "most recent" or "most upvoted" or "A to Z." Pretending like this is hard is bizarre. People have always selected sort a…

The premise is that the author is a libertarian, except that housing in the neighborhood they live in should be fixed at the price that they can afford, and that the character of the neighborhood from…

Their own countries' representatives, and certainly their intelligence services, are also CIA enterprises/fronts. And the CIA (and the US diplomatic corps as a whole) are just representative…

That's not what was happening. Anti-ICE activists are now against body cameras. > https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/07/democrats-fear-body... But when …

"Jive" is anacronistic black American slang for bullshit.

You can't know that it was a waste of time to read until after you've read it. Especially if the point is at the end, and is a good point.