I really like the hearty amount of configurability they make available thru the control panels. They're not afraid of giving you a lot of options, yet it's organized well, easy to use, and the defaults are sensible.
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That's a mismatch in moral expectations. One of many in our increasingly divided society.
I don't know the best way to lower/reduce such mismatches, but doing it thru the courts reactively seems arbitrary and unfair. It's hard to follow rules that haven't been written.
Get real. Scraped data is going to have problems. The expectation should be that reasonable measures are taken to filter proactively and that reactive measures are taken to remove illicit content found after that.
My source was Chris Miller's /Chip War/: "Upon landing in the United States in 1953, Morita was shocked by the country’s vast distances, open spaces, and extraordinary consumer wealth, especially compared to the deprivation of postwar Tokyo. This country seems to have everything, Morita thought. In New York, he met AT&T executives who agreed to issue him a license to produce the transistor. They told him to expect to manufacture nothing more useful than a hearing aid."
Certainly many Americans were aware of and were chasing the potential of transistors almost immediately. This is not incompatible with management at the top being slow to grasp same.
You can love him because rockets, EVs, and enormous satellite constellations are pretty cool, but you'd be a fool to trust him.
- no sex ed
It really feels like there are a lot of parents who think they can keep their kids safe by keeping them dumb about how their bodies work.
This part stood out to me. I've found it super helpful to include a reference to which piece of days in working with in log messages and exceptions. It helps isolated problems so much faster.
I think the reasons depopulation is generally depicted as a bad thing are: (1) if it happens too quickly then your society doesn't have enough young people working to support the old, (2) capitalism--the most effective economic engine we know of--works best with a growing population, and (3) states derive geopolitical advantage from having large populations.
And no, you can't just go back to playing flight simulator off of floppies. Your bank, your airplane and concert tickets, heck even your child's pediatrician will require it. Not that doctors are hungrily reading up new web specifications, but they'll be using a medical services platform that relies on some cloudflare defaults that all the security guys like because it cuts down on bots and DDoS.
You'll be left using walled garden operating systems that spy and advertise as incessantly as cable TV.
Maybe a big stink will cause Google to backtrack a little, or make promises they won't and can't ultimately keep. The only real solution is to use the government to prevent users from losing control.
The concept of reusable rockets isn't new, but Musk and Shotwell helped make them reality. What really made it work and where Musk doesn't get enough credit is in the iterative "fail fast" approach to rocket design... something untenable under risk-adverse bureaucracies like NASA and Boeing.
His contributions to Paypal are dubious (IIRC) at best.
I think his true genius was building a fan base with the technocratic class that appealed to their techno-libertarian dreams of a future utopia. This allowed him to raise huge amounts of money despite constantly failing to meet his promises. Trump for us nerds, basically.
Remember, the test of a true intellectual is that they can convincingly defend a position they find abhorrent.