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Those exceptions prove the rule. They're about what happens when they don't do what they're supposed to.

That is 100% false. There are scenarios where they can reject a FOI request, but they are specific:

https://www.ukjournohub.com/foi/foi-refusals

I had a vague suspicion this could be, and it's good to hear. I feel like Americans are incredibly cynical and pessimistic about themselves and the USA

Vegemite? Is that like shit Marmite?

Thought about the other way around:

Religion is culture. If you doubt that, go to country X and ask them about god(s) then go to every other country and ask the same. Even if one of them got it right and is following the word of god, it would still mean every other country has got it wrong, and _theirs_ is just culture.

Now, if we bend for one cultural norm, why not another? I'd say it's not that his culture shouldn't be treated like religion, it should! It's just that religion shouldn't be treated specially in the first place.

Not necessarily. There are little-known monopolies like the eyewear, travel agencies, and cargo fuel (there are many more!) where price fixing like this happens.

Well, it is where all energy on Earth originated/originates from :)

That's the point. Adobe misses out, not the AI companies.

I think it's more than that, the UK for instance, but I agree it's shocking how few. What I meant though, was that they were militarily independent before, and could be again.

I'm looking at this from across the pond, and I'm not convinced that's true. From here it looks like you have a choice between voting for the liar who says things you don't like, or the liar who says things you like. Neither will do what they say.

UK and EU politicians are also liars, but some are only so out of necessity. I see corruption here too, but I also see people trying to go the middle road and do what they believe is right. I do not see that in the USA.

Freedom of Information Act in the UK means I make a request, and I get the information I asked for within 30 days. No excuses, no nonsense "fees".

Just what in the hell is happening in the USA?

I just replaced a dependency that that fucked all its users with an open source alternative that can not do that in the future. Sometimes what you're replacing it with does make a difference.

All the ones that were doing so, before they started relying on the America. Believe it or not, the world still span before the USA.

Because until a certain orangutang broke it, the new world order was doing rather nicely.

Powerful people got together and decided the world would be a nice place if everyone worked together. Their solution for ensuring that happened whilst taking human behaviours into account was global capitalism.

Despite its downsides (some of which we're only starting to see the consequences of) you have to admit that it was doing its job. Countries were cooperating because it was in their best interest. It was always a delicate thing though, and the orangutang broke the trust it relied on.

It might seem naive now, but "bro, of _course_ you can rely on us for service X, why are you even asking?" was an believable response before the orange.

> Europe would first have to invest "tens if not hundreds of billions" themselves in order to develop any viable replacements and that is very unlikely to ever happen

It's _been_ happening. Why do you think something that delivers jobs, boosts the economy, and is an easier and easier political and popular sell everyday, is unlikely?

> They are politically and societally paralyzed from building even basic things like datacenters

That's also happening. It's just that we're not as gung-ho about doing things at any cost.

I heard about Jev by chance by a second degree link. I had heard nothing of it before then. It seemed immediately obvious to me that it wasn't just a good thing, but that it was a _necessary_ thing.

So if you feel people were "hyping" it up, you were likely witnessing genuine enthusiasm, not bandwagon jumping.

He calls that "bad capitalism":

> That’s a somewhat heavy macroeconomics theory paper, so here’s one analogy of what we have developed: we split “capitalism” into two

> - Good capitalism: Returns from capital that come from real growth, development, innovation.

> - Bad capitalism: Returns from capital that does not develop and improve the economy. The academic term is economic rent and rent seeking.

Also, I don't think it says anywhere that value comes from work or land.

I too once presumed that those people knew better than me and others. I can not stress how wrong I was.

I was so often flabbergasted at the incompetence and ignorance of those "in the know" that I now believe that their positions have nothing to do with being the best at what they do.

Some of it is Hanlon's razor read forward, but the rest is Hanlon's razor read backwards. Either way, it's terrifying for someone like me who doesn't think themselves as particularly intelligent.

We've all seen this sort of thing many times before, but I still don't understand how it works.

I transmit a radio signal in Dover that can be picked up by radios in Calais, the message it carries happens to be illegal in France ("Brittany is still part of the UK", say). Could I be taken to court in France? I'm guessing no.

That third mode only available when markdown is detected is the issue. I can't see Apple building in a special case at the best of times, let alone for something like markdown.

What would "show formatting" do in RTF? I'm guessing you don't mean show the byte codes that make text interpreted as bold (or however it's done in RTF), but then that leaves "show it as bold ... somehow". What would that look like?

Another Apple Silicon only app, another pass. This one doesn't even do you the courtesy of informing you you're downloading an Apple Silicon only binary, just presumes you're not on Intel. I honestly don't understand the thinking behind not clicking the checkbox for the universal binary when compiling.

10+ _minutes_? Really? What are you doing?

Writing just code isn't thinking, it's a fun distraction. Designing, problem solving, solution engineering, is thinking. So arguably, this project is more about the thinking than "traditional" programming, going by their docs.

That word you keep using, I do not think it means what you think it means.

Really? Just send whoever a link to literally any of a dozen cross-platform video calling services. They don't even need to install anything. Hell, even Google Meet is just clicking a link.

Christ, no thanks.

I've tried Safari every time someone raves about it, and every time I've felt vindicated.

Switched to Brave a while ago and everything works as it should (i.e. I don't think about my web browser).

I don't think that's true. The technologies that have made solar panels efficient enough to be worthwhile were being worked on at a pace that was not effected by not "going all in".

> It syncs flawlessly (for free)

Sync is a paid feature, not sure why he said this?

You get it.