digianarchist

It’s not one or the other. There are plenty of societies that meet the bar you describe without the restrictions Singapore has in place.

Valdi is a cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance without sacrificing developer velocity. Write your UI once in declarative TypeScript, and it compiles directly to native views on iOS, Android, and macOS—no web views, no JavaScript bridges.

The proscribing of Palestine Action as a 'terrorist group" is an absolute farce but that doesn't prevent you criticising the governments position on Palestine.

I don’t agree with that assessment at all. I’m free to criticise my government in the UK in any way I wish to. I would have no such freedom in Singapore.

Other platforms are over-policed and Twitter is under-policed.

There was a sweet-spot, subjectively speaking, for Twitter mid-2022.

Singaporeans have chosen economic security and social authoritarianism over the freedoms we enjoy in the West. That's their choice.

A powerful passport doesn't mean they can move anywhere to live permanently and if they choose to become a citizen of the country they do move to then they will lose their Singaporean citizenship.

No freedom of press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of assembly, government owns/operates roughly ⅓ of the economy that features many state monopolies, the PAP maintains a gerrymandered control over the electorate, criticizing the government lands you in court for defamation and conveniently bankrupts can't run for parliament.

Singapore is many things but not none of what you've written.

A wasted opportunity to explore related ideas.

A good point is made at the end of the article:

But preemptive surrender is no sign of wisdom. Any reality made by human beings can be remade by them. The price of this power is mutual obligation: we can never let ourselves off the hook. The things we can accomplish together are, by definition, within our sphere of control, even if we have to act through structures that are bigger than any of us alone to achieve them.

Stoicism doesn't answer the question "what can and can't we control" and doesn't claim to. I think the modern neostoicism trend is to make the reader believe that they have little control over daily life, encouraging an almost narcissistic-nihilist response to ongoing events.

I got a payout today from BMO Bank to my Paypal account for $38

I have a particular disdain for the profanity-laden slop that is works penned by Mark Manson. He's not alone as most "self-help" books are trash reads that only serve as some form of cathartic release to their readers.

That's not to say all books in the genre are useless. I have recommended Cal Newport's works before but they very much suffer from "this 300 page book could have been a blog post" levels of verbosity.

Apple is far behind the competition when it comes to image editing...

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DPWkNZHjebe/

Nothing. Filled out the form and heard nothing since.

It’s not just convenience. This single box is a single point of failure.

There's a tunnel between Detroit and Windsor. Faster than the bridge sometimes because no trucks.

You're probably right. I scanned the FDA website and wasn't sure how easy it would be to meet the requirements for personal medicine importation [0].

As a Canadian national in the US I wouldn't even attempt doing this in the current political climate.

[0] https://www.fda.gov/industry/import-basics/personal-importat...

$450 CAD I believe.

US consumers would have to travel to Canada for injections which isn't practical unless you live on a border town.

It's unlikely to meet the bar for personal importation as you say.

That probably won't stop people from trying. There's already a huge market for illegal compounds and GPL-1 drugs are available alongside the usual testosterone and other steroids.

Also Libation for Audible books.

Less than 24 hours after I posted this Musk intervened on the idea of winding down the creator program favoring an increase in payments.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1978721345279082596

I saw Nikita mention that X will flag account locations in order to be transparent around a poster's origin [0] which is a step in the right direction, though abandoning the creator program altogether more so.

Nikita has had a rough couple of weeks. Targeted with the most vile antisemitism I've seen after attempting to get doxxing campaigns under control. That is hard to do when your boss is overriding every decision you make.

I'm not sure X is salvageable at this point. The internet's town square is starting to look at lot like a 1930s German beer hall.

[0] https://x.com/nikitabier/status/1978132382868988310

Anything that requires state syncing between client and server.

I don't understand why frameworks that offer file based routing don't provide a way to define routes using either a configuration file or some library calls.

I recommend this talk by Breno Gazzola that details the history of the Rails-JS ecosystem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFgQco_ccgg

Stimulus is basically a very small event system with HTML hooks that integrates well with the Rails request lifecycle. I'd love to know if anyone has built anything sophisticated with it because I found it difficult to do anything remotely complex.

The exact text is:

Note: This decision was made without the assistance of automation.

At the end of any messages from the Admin team.

Reddit's appeal system should indicate if a human reviewed the decision.

Did it say the words "automation was not used in this decision" or something similar.

I have personally never seen reddit overturn a ban and they don't spend a lot of time on cases because they have so many nonpaying users it probably makes little economic sense for them to do so.

California has passed SB79 which is a minor step forward. The opposition it received was pretty high for such a limited Bill.

I don't have a huge amount of faith CA will get housing costs under control but doing so is clearly one of the prerequisites to get a handle on the homelessness crisis.

https://cayimby.org/legislation/sb-79/

Wouldn't that push people into black markets for day to day living?

If it's only applicable to citizens then how do they hope it will help on migration?

Edit: The Times says this is to include all workers:

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/digital-id-comp...

It’s 50/50 if the screenshot thumbnail screen shows for me these days. The action works 100% of the time.