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In my experience, once the issue is framed as 'Google will decide what you can do with your phone' every single person is immediately outraged.

I've had a lengthy debate about this (in the context of right-to-repair) with a friend of mine who's outside tech and he genuinely held (still holds?) the opinion that the manufacturer has the "right" to decide how their products are used. I'm willing to bet that this is a common viewpoint of people outside the tech sphere, they just want a device that "works", which for them is essentially just "I can use apps from the App store".

The person could be doing their job to survive, or they could be working a few hours on a fun job on the weekend for a bit of extra cash.

Your statement makes it seem as if these populations are of equal size, but in reality the vast majority works to survive.

An item should not have a minimum price as it is just an item, meanwhile every person is, well, a person, and should be able to sustain themselves.

I don't think that Elon Musk can be singled out as the source of these changes, he's didn't just magically appear lur of nowhere and start doing what he's doing.

A story is just a sequence of events, it does not necessarily have to be fictional (i.e. inauthentic).

Thank you for bringing up the Korean struggle; the main difference seems to be that South Korea has since acknowledged the injustice and brutality exercised by the military and brought those responsible to "justice" (in quotation marks as many were pardoned "in the name of national reconciliation").

While the events are quite similar, the continued suppression of the events on Tiananmen Square justify the "obsession" that you comment on.

On desktop it looks more like a footer than a ToC

The results that you get in Google also depend on your location

My personal experience from working with functional languages at my university is that there is a certain familiarity-floor which has to be reached before you start to see the language as elegant. This doesn't even translate between languages - I've now worked with F#, Haskell, LISP and Erlang and all of them have required some practice before their elegance was visible to me, even though certain solutions seem to have a similar "shape" across these languages.

Since is not about finding "the truth" as you put it, but it is about finding the current, most fitting truth. As circumstances change "the truth" also changes, as such science will never be able to find anything but "the current best bet".

One could argue that subscription based news orgs are incentivesed to provide you news which would ensure that you stay subscribed. For some people these news would have to be factual, but, for IMO most people news which are either not fully factual, or omit some information would be "preferred" as long as they (the news) conform to the opinion of the subscriber.

From understanding this is not supposed to add anything to existing workflows. The idea seems to be that the presenter can "live-code" the mathematical expressions during presentation, much like mathematics is taught at universities.

I mean, who made "photography" an "art" anyway that deserved to have such protections? I mean, come on, all you did was be at the right time at the right place and took a fucking picture, with a camera no less.

If that were the case, everyone would be a great photographer. Being able to envision a shot and then also being able to execute it (prepare for it, shoot it and process it afterwards) is not as simple as "being at the right place and right time".

I mostly agree based on my own experience, I rarely get distracted by the lyrics alone, what gets to me is bass. Whenever a bass-havy song comes on I feel like my focus breaks, which is also why I started to listen to more jazz and similar, more easy going, genres while working and needing my focus.

This stereotype is the reason why I wrote this post, i.e. to avoid starting a rewrite only based on my own, very limited, experience.

Seeing the contents of sister comments, I see that a full rewrite is likely a _very_ bad idea.