TheCleric

I keep forgetting that there is a requirement to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in US schools

There most certainly is not. The pledge is common in schools but the Supreme Court has ruled no one is required to participate and cannot be punished for non-participation. Is it still weird? Sure. But it’s not required.

I would take healthcare I have to wait a bit for over healthcare that could cripple me financially thanks.

This is so good and almost exactly expresses my own thoughts. There's a narrow window where it's capable and fits a need of tedious work (mostly around automating tasks it would take me a bit to remember all the arguments and commands I'd have to chain together to do it). But a lot of it is the stuff I actually WANT to be doing. And solving the hard problems makes me a better developer just as training in the gym makes your body stronger.

Yeah I’m still going to read AND write code thanks.

I think it’s both but depends on the device. For a tractor or car the author’s case is mostly correct. For a smart watch it’s more likely what you describe.

That’s because certain dog breeds aren’t more likely to maul and saying otherwise is ignorant fear mongering.

Are you saying we’ll be greeted as liberators?

This is the case in other areas though. I keep some of my passkeys in BitWarden and that is cross device/platform as well.

I have a Logitech MX Vertical and it works flawlessly.

Here’s a simple decision tree:

Do you run any exotic hardware? Do you run MS Office regularly? Do you run any highly specialized software?

If the answer is no to all those then Linux is worth a shot.

Yes but the headwinds of Linux adoption are (to some extent) that Linux is the best choice for A, but it is not far and away the best choice for B (not saying it’s bad or even worse than Windows, it’s just not CLEARLY better).

But when you approach 99% of the population who, to the extent they’ve even thought about it, will only judge an OS on B, Linux is just one of 3 main choices (sorry BSD folks. Don’t yell at me). Is it the best choice purely on functionality and app ecosystem? Maybe, but also maybe not.

Since the majority of Linux does not come on hardware by default what you’re essentially asking people to do is to buy a car and swap out the motor. We have to convince them why that new motor is better and is worth the effort of doing so. If it’s marginally better or worse, it just won’t be worth the headache to most people.

To be clear Linux (and MacOS) are my preferred OS. I haven’t owned a Windows box in at least 5 years.

I don't think I understand the point of this. I colored in the players for US, Russia, and China (should be that way by default I'd have thought). But I have no idea what to "simulate".

I do see in the site meta that it's purpose may be to just fill in so you can see who would have what population and area if an alliance was formed or area was conquered, but even that doesn't seem to work as selecting the US registers 0 population and 0 area.

I do things for free all the time. I love my kids for free. I serve the less fortunate for free. If I have the time and resources and it makes the world a better place free is my default price.

That being said I also produce software for a living as well and there’s nothing wrong with that either. It’s not either or. It’s yes and.

For sure. We could never have universal benefits like roads, childhood education, firefighters, etc. That would never work.

Considering Mozilla’s flagship browser (Firefox desktop) doesn’t even support the feature, I don’t exactly take that as a good sign.

Means testing has its own issues. How do you decide what the lines are? How do you design it for people just outside those lines that keeps it fair? Who enforces it? What happens when your means change?

Figuring all this stuff has a cost, both real (now you have to hire people to screen and enforce the means testing) and emotional/political (news story about a single mother who was rejected for making $1 too much).

So when advocating for means testing please keep in mind it’s a lot easier to not have it. Yes some who don’t need it will get it, but that can be better than a ballooned cost and some who do need it being blocked or dissuaded from getting it.

Ahh so the constitution doesn’t apply to non-citizens? The Supreme Court disagrees:

    There are literally millions of aliens within the jurisdiction of the United States. The Fifth Amendment, as well as the Fourteenth Amendment, protects every one of these persons from deprivation of life, liberty, or property without due process of law… Even one whose presence in this country is unlawful, involuntary, or transitory is entitled to that constitutional protection.

Free speech means you have the right to campaign for those very things. Criticism is the most fundamental aspect of free speech.

It would have been helpful if I had seen this BEFORE Christmas. lol

Rough English translation:

https://www-nzz-ch.translate.goog/technologie/proton-ceo-and...

“Here’s the thing: I am 100% sure these things are connected. The more people block ads, the more aggressive advertising became.”

This is naive at best. Some of the worst ads (popups/popunders/autoplay flash with sound) existed years before adblockers.

I don’t know what the adblocker usage rate is but I’d bet it’s low as virtually none of the non-technical people I know use them.

It would also be, in my opinion, very against the spirit of Open Source to require an account to download code for a piece of software.

If you know of one for iOS I’d love to hear about it.

A group is a collection of individuals. Anecdotes != data and whatnot, but by my observations people don’t always make purely rational economic decisions, so if you were going to a see people quitting over UBI you’d already see it.

Of course this hypothesis is as based in reality as yours, so the only thing we can do is try and find out.

Hope this becomes available on iOS.

Buddy I’ve seen people quit jobs over way pettier things without UBI.

I think this goes to something I’ve been seeing a lot of lately. People will hold an opinion for emotional reasons instead of logical reasons, and those speaking to them will get frustrated trying to “logic” them out of it (evidence, studies, facts, etc). It doesn’t work because they came to the opinion first and veneered it with logic afterwards. If you tear down the logic, the emotional substructure is still there. I have no idea how to solve this. The only people who have abandoned emotional beliefs I’ve seen have to come to that realization on their own.

I’m no economist but this seems like it would cause the government to now have conflicting priorities. The whole stated purpose of the tariffs were to boost domestic production.

But now if this were done, the US government would need less or the same domestic production to ensure the coffers are filled. If, by some magic wand, this passes and domestic production can meet all of our supply needs, what then?

Yeah my first reaction was “No they aren’t. That’s not going to happen.” and then I saw the actual headline and said “Ah, that makes sense.”

There is going to have to be a reckoning for these agents who think that they can do whatever they want.