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My understanding is that one of the changes we made is we stopped feeding cow brains to other cows, which was the root cause of the problem.

If you must know some reasons I got banned is horrible awful terrible evil opinions such as

- suggesting that COVID-19 was the result of a lab leak due to not following safety protocols

- Questioning if the full shutdown of schools for a disease which had a relatively low mortality rate in children was the best decisio and if we fully had considered the impacts.

- suggesting that predators could abuse gender self identification laws to gain access to new victims.

- and one satirical posts advocating "let us grill it all in a beautiful nuclear inferno."

It seems though you are suggesting there are only a narrowly defined opinions that are acceptable to hold and that deviations outside of those are so heretical that should not be allowed to exist.

This seems inevitable for any effort that seeks to make a "platform" for "connecting market participants" it always ends up becoming awash with scams, shams and flim flams.

It strikes me that this is enabled by the Internet because it suddenly removes all external checks one cane do in the real world to validate a claim. Back in the day if the Miller boy was in a tragic accident the community all knew and could pitch in. Nowadays I don't know if Eliza who is a 13 year old with cancer is actually a suffering young girl or Fransicojeet in Elbonia.

Ultimately this is the end result of altruism in a system with bad actors and low trust, the generous are taken advantage of by the unscrupulous.

Now show us the percentage of those that are real people and not bots, and the number of accounts that are from previously banned users. I mean heck I've gotten to the point where I can only go 2 or 3 months before my account gets banned and then I have to spin up a new one.

Come to think of it that might be a reason why their ban happy, more people you ban who come back looks like a new user signup.

Important quote from the article before this desencds into the same climate change vs anti-climate change arguments and doom posting

> Human-caused climate change is likely playing a role, researchers said, but is probably not the only factor. Climate models predict a steady rise in sea surface temperatures, but not this quickly, and ocean surface temperatures also fluctuate and can be affected by natural climate variability, including patterns such as El Niño and La Niña.

This is as much a suicide as Epstein was.

Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/1968/

Glad to see were going to start letting the justice system become dependent on black box stochastic parrots.

After all the government + technology is always right and incorruptible it's not like horrible things like hundreds of innocent government employees being imprisoned and prosecuted over errors in software ever happens, right? right?

Fact of the matter is Psychology is at this point more pseudo than science.

The biggest factor impacting the outcome of an experiment in psych is what the researcher conducting the study wants to be true. The whole subject is broken down in this article: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-o...

That's just realpolitik. The fact of the matter is that we have recognized that a substantial part of a nations war capability comes from their unity and willingness to prosecute a war. Naturally with the Advent of the Internet and mass communication the weapons to begin to wage war on a populations resolve and unity without kinetic action came into being and are now a battlefront.

The TL;DR is that hearts and minds are the new battlefield and technology is the weapons.

A case of Poe's law in action.

"We must destroy democracy to save democracy."

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The OP strikes me as the kind of guy that would side with a group of religious extremists trying to unilaterally execute the democratically elected head of government because "He's too dangerous to be left alive." during the middle of a civil war.

The problem is not that the ransomware attackers attacked. It's the fact that $10 says they've been systematically underinvesting in security and nows it's biting them in the a*. But it doesn't matter because they've basically managed to be come a monopoly through acquisitions and using the bludgeon of government regulation to ensure no competition occurs.

The next step is to move to declare this critical national infrastructure and create all sorts of new obtuse rules and regulations that will be in the name of security, but will mostly be theater and whose only real effect will be to create tons of new "compliance" jobs by low skilled morons who couldn't cut it in a real security job and whose primary job will be preventing actual security and sapping energy from anyone who builds things, because "it's not on the checklist".

Not to mention the dozens of new vendors who will pop up soliciting a product that will promise to ensure customers are in complaince with the new regulations.

Meanwhile Joe blow will still be unable to get his prescription filled and have his personal health data stolen and sold all over the black market.

Dell precision 5680 just moved from Precision 5500. Running Ubuntu mate 22.04 on the first and Ubuntu 22.04 on the latter.

Not many major issues, on the 5550 everything worked pretty great except using VMs slowed everything to a crawl and some weird networking issues where the connection would randomly drop to 2mb/s.

Just started with he 5680, and had to do some back and forth with the graphics driver to get it to work and am now running into a weird issue where an electron app will open and display blank for several minutes before loading and working fine. Still investigating.

Still not worth going to Windows even with the challenges.

So the TL;DR is a pair of activist investors have been submitting the same or similar proposals around carbon emission reduction repeatedly for years and Exxon is alleging that this is in violation of SEC rules about how often the same proposal can be filed and seeking enforcement.

Desktop interface design peaked in Windows 95 and it has been consistently downhill since then.

If purchasing isn't owning piracy isn't stealing.

It is very possible. For example Costco. At one point an executive tried to suggest raising the prices on their $1.50 hotdog and drink, the founder threatened to kill him if he ever suggested something like that again. That's a man who understands trust and what it means and how to lose it.

Plus trust is something that pays long term rewards, all this advertising that companies spend money on is less effective than my neighbor or friend saying "I've got this thing I love it, you should try it.".

> What concerns me is the possibility of a zero-trust society that nonetheless shambles onward by having a lot of law enforcement.

I consider law enforcement a critical part of a high trust society. I can operate a business and offer lower prices because I don't have to spend extra money on security to defend my goods because I trust that the law will punish thieves. Many times in society I won't do something because, e.g. speeding, because I know the law will come down on me for doing so, even if I know in the short term it would be advantageous for me.

Maybe, but maybe not. Once there was a young man who became a martyr under an autocratic and bloodthirsty regime, this young man's name was Alexander Lenin. Although his death was not circulated in the newspapers, or widely known by many, there was one man who was changed by his death, his brother Vladamir, and his brother Vladmir did quite a bit to change the course of Russian history.

I don't understand when it became this was FOSS was always about "Free as in speech." But for some reason it became "Free as in beer." and many of the arguments I see around dev pay seem to be conflating the 2.

Open source merely means the source is open and free for you to view look at modify, etc. At no point does it mean it costs nothing. Now with code it's not exactly a super reasonable business model to sell a software product but make it's code freely available, but that would still meet the definition of open source.

I've seen this argument often but I'd guess 50-75% of the meetings in my organization could've been handled in an email. Often times the only reason we have a meeting in the first place instead of an email is because of the politics around things, which to me is a sign of inefficiency in the 1st place.

As a clarification this is specifically about the unreal engine asset marketplace. Not in general.

The government is also just as much bad actors whenever [insert whatever side you are opposed to] is in power.

Cycle of frameworks:

Young dev: it is way too complicated to do something as simple as a todo or hello world app. You have to configure a dozen settings, install 10,000 dependencies and fiddle with too much stuff. I'm going to create a framework that is simple, lightweight and easy to use.

Time passes, framework becomes popular blogs write about how framework X is the future. If you don't have 10 years in framework X you can't get a job. People start using it for things features get added to accommodate needs. People argue saying it's necessary it fits the demand. Framework X becomes a gigantic bloated monstrosity, development slows as useless bureaucratic leeches posing as developers create a "foundation" to "shepherd Framework X towards a bright future." At this point usually the creator leaves or is driven out.

A young developer comes along and says to himself "it is way too complicated to do something as simple as a todo or hello world app. You have to configure a dozen settings, install 10,000 dependencies and fiddle with too much stuff. I'm going to create a framework that is simple, lightweight and easy to use."

The Wheel of Development turns, and frameworks come and pass, leaving defaults that become best practices. Best practices fades to srandards, and even standards is long forgotten when the problem that gave it birth comes again.”

This seems overly reductive. Why would you want to take business advice from people who weren't able to build a sustainable business. I get that starting a business is fraught with risk and there are factors outside your control that can impact, but the reasoning on this seems to basically boil down to. "There is nothing you can do to be successful and everything is at the arbitrary whims of fate."

Or to put it about another aspect

"Career advice plagued by survivorship bias." That souns equally stupid.

That's the part I don't get about people comparing this to slavery. You have the right to refuse. Everything I've heard from people actually in prison say they're grateful for it because it gives them something to do. Do we need to have reform around the prison system? Yes. Is targeting the one place where they are able to do something productive and earn some money the way to do it? Probably not.

We've had these incentives since we started science. Remember Albert Einstein wasn't able to get a teaching position until after he was winning the Nobel. It turns out the people that really love science will do it even if it doesn't pay anything and brings them nothing.

We just need to make sure the salesman scientists and parasitic beuracrats don't squash the efforts of those doing real work.

> It just requires competency, money and an infrastructure that isn't for profit.

Uhhh.... Most of the nationwide infrastructure was put into place by the railroad companies that were definitely for profit organizations.

> Nope, you can’t the-free-market-will-fix-everything this one. The telco lobbyists wrote the government regulations

Just a point of clarification, the free market generally means independence from government regulation. This isn't the free market failing so much as incumbents using the power of government to force their advantage, part of the argument of the free market is that by not allowing the government to interfere in this manner no one can get laws written to benefit them because the government doesn't get involved in the first place. Now granted that's in a frictionless airless world with spherical cows. But to say the free market failed and the very next sentence say it is because of regulation from the government is oxymoronic.

Everyone I know that is an economic doomer is much more worried about inflation than they are about unemployment.

All I know is that I am able to save less, because everything costs more especially food. I know that many of my peers who are looking for work or have been let go. I know that despite the rise in interest rates housing prices have stabilized but haven't dropped.

But who am I going to believe my own lying eyes or the honest upright and trustworthy government?