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I've looked into it as well and it looks really interesting. The biggest downside for me was that at some point I still needed a backend server to hold secrets or run business logic. At that point, Postgresql was just another server / dependency that I couldn't justify as all of the nifty RLS was done inside Postgres.

It definitely introduced me to RLS though.

Well, many have sought absolute truth and "I think therefore I am" or simply "I am" is about as close as we've come.

Scientific truths are really useful for everyday life, but they're not guaranteed to be true into eternity.

There are countless examples of scientific consensus being overturned with new data, observations and experiments.

It doesn't mean we should ignore scientific consensus, but rather that scientific consensus by itself is not the most compelling argument.

A nice list but I'd also add row-level security (RLS): https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/a-postgresql-row-level-sec...

It's amazing how much effort we put into restricting access on the server, but ignore user roles on the data layer.

True. The only other challenge is that in production software you rarely want to call panic()

You could, but then when you get an error, you'll see the file and line number of the assert function rather than the code that actually produced the error.

I used to write only in Sass for these same reasons, but switched back to CSS.

CSS now has variables (if you really need them -- chances are you don't).

The redundancy of writing a selector multiple times is sightly annoying, but I don't think it rises to the level of value I need to include a new dependency in my app or build pipeline.

Some would say adding a dependency that doesn't give you anything new you can't already easily do is abhorrent and inelegant.

There's a trend to throw a library at the problem, but that comes at a cost.

> basically, when you want to stop a behavior, the worst thing you can do is prohibit it.

The results certainly sound encouraging.

I'm curious though how people from those communities who tried to do the "right thing" and not get involved with gangs feel about this leniency.

I'd imagine there's a tipping point where too much forgiveness and inclusion for too many criminals leads to a lack of trust in the rule of law.

Sass and other CSS generators were useful a few years ago for rapid code generation. However, CSS has caught up as have editors and it's hard to see what real advantage Sass has today.

Some novel things like a primaryColor variable to easily adust your theme is easily replicated with a traditional find/replace.

The fewer frameworks / compiles-to X languages you have to learn the better.

IMO, a little redundancy is better than a little complexity or a little dependency.

A question that needs no answer

The ricochet turns a goal from 2 points into 3. Seems like an extreme amount of difficulty to return kick an oblong ball in the air through the gates for only 1 point.

Maybe it's a low scoring game like soccer or hockey.

Right. And kicking a rugby ball at full strength from a short distance towards an unprotected goalie might hurt. In the video they're only lightly passing and kicking the ball.

Here's the sports official site: https://playspeedgate.org/

I was really impressed by this 4d toys video: https://youtu.be/0t4aKJuKP0Q

Now what if time is an illusion and similar to the video objects in life simply appear to be bouncing in and out of our 3d realm? That would look a lot like time.

But if we could see in 4d, we'd see that they're not really coming or going and could see all of their possible states at once.

It might be like being able to see an entire movie all at once rather than frame by frame.

More than that, it's just a Chrome browser with Ad Block by default.

A professor had us replicate this effect in college.

We broke up into pairs and one person put on a blindfold while the other person let them around campus.

After about 5 minutes the person being blindfolded could hear people, conversations, cars, etc. far sooner than their partner.

Are there any Nim benchmarks vs. Go, Crystal, Python, Rust, etc.?

> Maybe it could eventually become an atmospheric variation of seasteading.

It's like a miniature version of the Venus cloud city idea, but here on Earth.

It was a joke :)

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No, I think I said "We don't know" what the better way is.

But if your goal is to let animals roam free in their native habitats then captivity on farms probably doesn't seem like the better option to you.

> Stop ascribing human-like emotions and awareness to other species.

Well, take a monkey, orca, elephant, dolphin, etc. and it would be hard not to. Sure, many farm animals fall below that level, but they're not bugs either. Many mammals have some basic language, care for their young, give distress calls, migrate, find shelter, etc. which seems to indicate at least some level of future planning whether innate or not. And many intelligent mammals have been seen grieving the dead or rescuing animals from danger.

> In free range "captivity" they suffer less. It's as simple as that.

Yet philosophy courses still exist... Because it's not as simple as that. For some, life is more than just the reduction of suffering. And there are a million other ways to answer "why we exist" or "how we should live".

For animals, we don't know. I think it's absurd to say we're giving them a better/easier/happier life on a farm or out in the wild. We don't know.

Taking zoos as an example though (which is a similar form of captivity, except they don't kill their animals), most people don't think it's a better life, except in the case where the animal is so weak, sick or unable to care for itself that it couldn't hunt in the wild.

Tons of prey animals are reintroduced to the wild, without concern that they might be eaten (some will), but in the hopes that many will survive and reproduce.

So, I guess if your goal is to ensure that the most number of animals lead a somewhat confined life away from predators until they're done growing, farms make sense. If your goal is to ensure that animals get to experience life in their native habitats including the ability to mate and get eaten, then farms aren't so good.

I was curious if some of these docs were auto-generate or templated copy, so I double checked some of the text.

"The redirect_uri provided in Authorize User step" appears exactly once on the Internet according to Google: at smartcar.com. It looks like Otonomo did in fact copy/paste from the SmartCar website.

https://www.google.com/search?q="The+redirect_uri+provided+i...

Totally agree.

I think there's another class of substances though where withdrawal results in symptoms like fever, vomiting, etc. that are consistent across users regardless of their mental state.

I bet 10-15 years ago the Tianamen video would be undeniable proof.

But now with deepfakes and other video editing, it wouldn't be that crazy for an average person in China to simply not believe the video was real if their government universally denies it.

Literally anything can be mentally addicting.

I think people are referring to the idea that pot is not physically addicting, meaning that your body won't experience withdrawal symptoms when you come down.

Tons of people are habitual smokers though bordering on mental addiction.

> If most people in the world wanted "democracy" as it is in the United States, they would have chosen it.

Taking power from a non-democratic leadership is incredibly difficult, risky and almost always violent. And non-democratic leadership very rarely self-democratize. Unfortunately, we don't know if much of the world wants democracy as it's aggressively stamped out in many places and illegal to pursue it.

Starting a preemptive nuclear war with another nuclear super power is probably the fastest way to ensure the collapse of human society.

> 2) nuking some combination of India and China

No one is advocating for #2 or anything like it because it's a completely incompetent and reprehensible idea.