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I don't have much to say about the piece itself other than express broad agreeement on what is a fairly common sensical topic, but just gonna say it's interesting how many commenters here are up pontificating on their soapbox while still clearly confused about the distinction between strong and static typing.

Thanks for clarifying. I'm not familiar enough with this organization to either stake a position for or against, but one passing observation based on that wiki page :

> Right-wing groups and pundits, including right-wing Jewish groups, have criticized ADL as having moved too far to the left under Jonathan Greenblatt, labeling it a "Democratic Party auxiliary"

> In August 2020, a coalition of progressive organizations launched the "Drop the ADL" campaign, arguing that "the ADL is not an ally" in social justice work. The campaign consisted of an open letter and a website, which were shared on social media with the hashtag "#DropTheADL". Notable signatories included the Democratic Socialists of America, Movement for Black Lives, Jewish Voice for Peace, Center for Constitutional Rights, and Council on American–Islamic Relations.[179] The open letter stated that the ADL "has a history and ongoing pattern of attacking social justice movements led by communities of color, queer people, immigrants, Muslims, Arabs, and other marginalized groups, while aligning itself with police, right-wing leaders, and perpetrators of state violence.

Always interesting to see entities criticized for being both too far left and too far right.

You seem to be implying the issue is the messenger and his dimwitted minions, when really it's the message itself. If these guys are as nefarious as you're implying, surely the richest man on the planet could dig up something that's not prima facie absurd?

> It took far right wing people + Elon bringing the issue up to even have a discussion on pushing back against ADL (and now ADL can just say thats just clearly anti-semetic people being anti-semetic) so the issue is already dead.

The issue is dead because Elon's grievance is patently absurd. He's accusing the ADL of singlehandedly engineering a 60% drop in Twitter ad sales. It would be genuine comedy were it not for the fact he's handing a megaphone to the worst-of-the-worst groyper kindernazis.

> Hippies in my head

Maybe this is part of the issue? You're comparing a contemporary social phenomenon through to one you've (probably) only learned about through history books, media and cultural osmosis.

> somehow I feel like in the US libertarians seem to be seen as left wing

That is the polar opposite of my "feeling", which is that US libertarians overwhelmingly skew right. Just look at the most prominent figures who self identify as such : The Pauls [Ron, Rand], Gary Johnson, Thomas Massie - all either current or former Republicans.

I agree more with you than the GP, but reaching for the nuclear comparison is ineffective here. You might as well cite weaponised smallpox and the infinity gauntlet while you’re at it.

You’re the one promoting the counterfactual position here, so the onus is on you to substantiate it.

After multiple rounds of doubling and tripling down on your dubiously representative stance you have now reached the “game development studios don’t know how to make games” stage.

Maybe stop and consider what led you here, and if this is really a position you sincerely believe and wish to defend.

Prior to releasing the chat history "feature" there was an opt-out form that could be submitted, which did not have any impact on the webapp's functionality. I'm not current enough to know if that form 1) ever had any effect, and 2) if a form-submitted opt-out is still valid given they now have the aforementioned in-app feature.

> xmonad

I got rid of xmonad in favor of i3 ages ago - precisely because it doesn't force me to edit a Haskell script just to change a keybinding. Obviously just my personal anecdote, but this 'feature' alone probably accounts for a significant % of users either jumping ship, or never boarding it in the first place.

You should consider the possibility that you're the one with a one-finger grasp on reality.

What kind of answer are you expecting? Your low effort comment deserves what it gets.

The idea isn’t unreasonable, but your idea of a scientific dissident is probably not mine. In this very comment section we have folks promoting literally any disagreement as valid dissent, up to and including social media DIY researchers, as a valuable voice in this space. I disagree with the bar for validity not only being lowered but removed entirely.

You are giving culture an awful lot of credit while completely omitting geography. Culture is locally adapted, and countries that are flat as literal pancakes are particularly logical places for a bike friendly culture to develop.

These decisions were taken years before the conflict in Ukraine, and German energy policy at the time was largely predicated on Russian imports. Hence, peace and stability in Europe seems to have been an underlying assumption rather than something that was being hedged against.

> Fukujima was essentially the event that made the government speed up the whole plan.

It's wild to me that Fukushima was held up as a reasonable justification to accelerate nuclear decommissioning in Germany. Even ignoring the extent to which the disaster in question could have been mitigated, was anyone expecting a tsunami to suddenly manifest over Bavaria?

> I'm out of my depth when it comes to loading something up in a debugger or whatever (is ghidra a debugger or what's the difference?)

When you hear "debugger", think "breakpoints". It's any tool that lets you do things like set breakpoints and step through code execution.

Most debuggers will let you view machine code or bytecode respectively, but they won't decompile binaries or bytecode into the original higher level language.

Ghidra does include a basic debugger, but it can also do lots of other stuff (including decompilation).

> I don't know if that makes me teachable or beyond help, but I'd be an eager student.

It would probably help to get some baseline familiarity with systems programming. Check out the "15-213" CS course. The lectures are on YT, the reference book is probably online, and the labs are here :

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~213/labs.html

Broadly speaking, European citizens probably have a reasonable expectation for data deletion as per GDPR.

I say broadly because I don’t necessarily think this particular UI interaction gives the impression of permanent data deletion.

Unsurprisingly, the top comment complaining about top comment quality is the worst of them all.

This is one of those cases where the most obvious and mundane answer happens to be correct. The government is attempting to nip an existential threat to the wider banking system in the bud. Everyone who uses said system (read: literally everyone) has an interest in seeing it survive.

This might be of interest to you :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deK98IeTjfY

It's a video essay on ammunition stockpiles on Ukraine and Russia by the youtuber Perun. It doesn't paint a rosy picture per se, but it does directly refute at least a few of the points made by the author of the RM blog you linked.

For what it’s worth, I think yours is a dope name.

You are approaching this discussion as a rational human being. Classic rookie mistake.

Not the parent but I’m pretty sure that comment was meant sarcastically.

Whether stated plainly or satirically, the point should honestly be obvious.

I applaud your decision to stay off social media, and think you should continue to abstain.

That said, if you actually want to understand why the platform is or was popular to begin with you have to go beyond just viewing it as a masochistic FOMO factory. That’s an angle that gets talked about a lot in the wider media but it really is only a part of the story, and IMO a lesser one in the grand scheme of things.

There’s certainly an element of curated bragging to be sure, but in my experience what really keeps people engaged isn’t the unsubtle boasting but the outright fighting. FB users will quite literally treat their friend list as a stand-in for the broader world and vent their rage accordingly. For every “check my sunny vacay” post there are like 5 more along the lines of “YOU STUPID LIBS/CONS ARE RUINING THE UNIVERSE AND HERE IS WHY…”

That animosity and the back and forth exchanges it fosters is the really dark secret sauce at the heart of the experiment. Hate will always generate attention with the quickness, and it easily trumps envy as an engagement driver.

Preventing literal fascists from seizing power is a collective responsibility that cannot be offloaded - both morally and practically - to any single institution. Especially law enforcement.

"the cops will protect us against authoritarianism" is quite the sizzling hot take, even by HN standards

Apparently Vlad Vexler has also been demonetized. Which, if true, is as confusing as Perun.

It's still visible if you toggle 'showdead' in your profile settings. To your question, I don't know exactly why this particular comment had its visibility disabled - it appears to simply be repeating a claim made in the OP, so it's unlikely this was the result of downvoting.

They just vented all over the Capitol. It was far from harmless, and could easily have been much worse. Continued appeasement makes little sense.

If you can provide something other than hand-wavy speculative justification for your theory, I'm all ears.