Of course. It's a classic technique of totalitarianism seen in both Nazi Germany and Stalin's USSR.
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I suspect it comes down to how we define "socially progressive".
This useful for me, both for ML and for adding effects through sounds. Would much rather use python than a DAW. I know enough signal processing to prefer running code I can inspect rather than using some opaque GUI.
> Then there is the per kilo-watt hour cost of nuclear energy which is way higher than solar or wind when taken over the full lifetime of the installation including the eventual cleanup / disposal.
If we went full nuclear the cost per kWh would go down a lot. Costs are high because of minimal investment in the last several decades, western countries have not been building NPP and therefore aren't good (i.e. efficient) at it.
> The best thing we can do is to limit our consumption. But that's easy to say from the point of view of the developed world, where consumption is excessive. It will be more than offset by the developing countries gains leaving us with a situation that is net worse than things are today even if we do our best.
The cognitive dissonance is jarring. For the reasons you yourself state, clearly limiting consumption is NOT the solution.
But the greens put a stop to that, so I find it hard to take them - and anyone else who, like you, writes paragraphs about things that in reality do not matter - seriously.
You might want to ponder what propaganda you have been falling for.
99% of code that matters is written by experienced people in my opinion. I.e. the OS, the browser, your favourite apps, websites and programming libraries.
Would you agree with that?
If you're writing code for a tutorial for newbies then yeah, it makes sense to add obvious comments. But that's really it. The author is overstating his case.
That's just wrong. Try actually talking with a UK doctor about their experience instead of blindly following Labour dogma. They don't have the equipment to provide the level of care an American or Swiss hospital can.
To me, the point of the article was that the influencers are just a symptom of a deeper malaise stemming from social media of raising everyone's expectations of themselves, the increased isolation as people spend more time online and have less real friends, and the (flawed) assumption that the average person is a good judge of quality.
All the comments just talking about influencers are missing the point.
This photo is a well known to be staged.
Makes me doubt the authenticity of everything else.
Funny you say that while clearly knowing nothing about the context of his comments!