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Maybe there's a part of the left outside of the USA that still stands up for free speech? Not here in the USA. That game is over. Except for a few voices in the wilderness like Brett Weinstein and Sam Harris, the left is comprised of those whose interests and actions now align with the tech giants.

Once the loudest champions of free speech because they were trying to break down the old power structures, the Left is now consolidating its power and sees no need to allow upstarts to criticize the new order.

We're talking about communication platforms where politically motivated decisions are being made to filter out information that the decision-makers don't like, and the users are saying, "We don't want you to make those decisions for us."

But also think through my original point. Why should we value democracy, the notion that each person has valuable and necessary input in building a society, when we hand control of information over to the very few? Shouldn't we cut out the middlemen and just have our information overlords be in charge of creating and implementing all our policies? Why trust people to vote when we don't trust them to choose and evaluate information?

The arguments for free speech are fundamentally the same arguments for democracy itself.

If people can't decide the value of information, why again are we trusting in the decision-making value of each and every voter?

If we filter speech, maybe we should just cut to the chase and filter out voters by testing of some sort?

In this war for democracy, which side of the war do you think wants everyone to be able to access any information and which side do you think wants to control the flow of information?

How can we value each and every voter's input if we don't value their ability to filter for themselves what is true?

I'm not a fan of Trump's personality, but on HN, can't we be intellectually honest about politics?

The statements above are not in fact what he said if you allow him any honest amount of context.

It's astounding to me that people hate Trump so much that they refuse to recognize the historicity of this moment. We're seeing a fundamental change in the dynamics of a conflict that has been ongoing for generations, and there's no denying that a huge impetus for that change has been a rethinking of how to solve the problem by the Trump administration.

Personally, I don't get too wound up on people's opinions on psychological studies. They're fun little conversation filler, but psychology isn't a science.[1]

Plus, you make assumptions about what I'm saying is obvious and what the study actually showed. At first when I got a GPS, I even noticed the effect of not knowing where I was, so I even tried to pay attention in case I didn't want to use the GPS later. I noticed that even paying attention, trying to learn, you just don't engage the full set of neurons that you do when you're struggling to do something yourself. I still felt lost in situations where prior to a GPS I would have felt confident in my ability to navigate.

How could the study show that people were trying to learn when they were being told what to do? You can't control for that or see into their heads to see if they're making the same efforts in the same ways.

This study makes the same mistake of tons of psychological studies. It attempts to simplify mental processes or abstract them and then pretend that the simplification or abstraction stands in for some other mental process result.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/08/27/6422183...

I've been using Elixir for years, on and off. The syntax is approachable, the actor model is solid and easy to reason about with many threads running. The Phoenix ecosystem is fantastic to work with, particularly now with LiveView making quick web UIs so effortless to create.

My main practical problem with Elixir over the years has been handing the tools I've created to others who might find them useful. Bakeware looks like the right way to proceed.

And yet medical organizations backed government efforts to force it upon our society.

"Calories in calories out is 100% valid for weight loss" "A calorie is just a calorie, so much as color is color."

Yeah, and you can tell an obese person to cut off their legs to lose weight. Sure, you'll be factually accurate, but are you honestly talking about weight loss?

"If you care about overall health then obviously there is a lot more to it than just calories."

Is weight loss without health considerations really the subject you think people discuss when they talk about weight loss? Nobody talking about actual dieting and weight loss is talking about thermodynamics. We're talking about the complex interactions between food, exercise, mental health, and our individual bodies in order to reliably lose weight and be healthier.

Is all that really necessary?

When it comes to human health, the unknowns are legion. Medical science is in its infancy, but too many act as though it's a mature discipline built upon rock-solid theories with few problems.

20 years ago, I noticed that my mental fog cleared up and I felt healthier when I ate very low carb, I looked to pioneers like Atkins and others who predicted my results much better than those pushing the "food pyramid". Those pioneers were called "quacks". I was told over and over by supposed experts: "Calories in equals calories out.", "A calorie is just a calorie.", "You're going to ruin your kidneys on a high protein, high fat diet.", and on and on.

The problem isn't science. Science is the best method we have to discover the nature reality. The problem is with science used as a religion or political weapon without humility or appreciation of its flaws and limitations.

You might try reducing your fasts to just 24 or 36 hours on weekends.

Currently, I do intermittent fasting where I don't eat before noon or after 6pm, 7 days a week. It helps me to manage my weight, I feel consistently energetic (I work out most days, cardio and weights), my mind feels as clear as ever, and I have no trouble following the practice as a lifestyle.

I'd say that I don't feel quite that clarity of thought when meditating after fasting for 30 hours or so. But it strikes the right balance of achieving some benefits of fasting without feeling like a huge chore that I have to overcome.

That way when you get there, you already have a little muscle memory that helps you know where to turn, which direction to head out of the hotel, etc.

Remember not long ago when neutrinos were thought to have been observed moving faster than the speed of light? Cold fusion?

Before people jump on the idea of re-evaluating Einstein's theories, it's always good to get more people looking at the data, independently verifying it, thinking about it. In a few months, it's likely that this blip will disappear like most others.

I remember the rumor that Apple was going to get into search back when altavista was a thing.

It happens at all levels of government. I have an HOA that I've participated in over the years. My HOA's job is to maintain a clubhouse, the pool, the tennis courts, a small kids' playground, and some other common areas. For some reason, every 4 or 5 years, some person decides he wants to leave the traditional HOA lane and "go big" on special projects. Email flamewars and special HOA sessions ensue and "some person" gets the message to stop trying to find ways to increase our HOA dues.

That makes the experience a little uncomfortable as an always-on thing.

I'd definitely like to know that resource use was minimal when I wasn't in a conversation or actively engaged with the system.

I think that having the system as an appliance is a plus and makes it more comfortable to just leave on - versus something running in a window on a screen from my work laptop.

Lately, I've had a laptop in my office's cube with Skype and VNC set up so I can connect any time I want and leave myself virtually present for hours at a time. I like it. I'm sure that a dedicated product could offer more features and efficiencies than I have with my jury-rigged setup.

Best of luck to you.

You're talking about an electorate that has been shown the abuses of its data by Google, Facebook, and others time and again and couldn't care less.

For a while I was using Phoenix<>Elm as my stack and I enjoy programming in Elm. But there's a lot of boilerplate you have to tediously connect for every input and output on both sides of the server and client.

LiveView eliminates all that boilerplate by letting you write templates in Elixir that are macro-compiled to javascript. Getting rid of that boilerplate eliminates time writing it as well as time debugging the extra complexity that boilerplate introduces.

I wish you guys the best of luck with it, though. I would like for my country's notion of "who owns my data?" resolve more to "me". I'm torn about how much it'll cost me to own my own data, though, in a reduction of frictionless free stuff on the internet.