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this Dune/Blade Runner future we keep trying to attain

That's grossly inaccurate. We are speedrunning a William Gibson future.

Then: well played, you got me

I'll wager that rabbit and that pheasant that you see skinned and cleaned in the shop were shot by a man in a field. I'm open to counterexamples, so let me know what your butcher tells you.

I like your attitude of charity - we should not rush into judgement. But mschuster91's comment said:

most of Europe simply has banned guns in the hands of civilians

This is bullshit. GP must be aware that they are profoundly ignorant on the topic, so why are they holding an opinion, let alone posting it? Should we tolerate bullshit on HN?

Europe is a fractal mix of polities ruled by a constant flux of elected representatives, and consequently exhibits political behaviour from a wide range of constituencies. Each citizen agrees, presumably, with some policies and disagrees with others, then they vote as best as they are able - which is not very, since every large electorate in the world falls short of adequate political competence. Some of those people vote for authoritarians, which i consider a shame but which is also true in your closest democratic nation.

European citizen surveillance is something i oppose, but at least it's balanced by a robust bill of human rights. America's surveillance state does not have that balance, because America wrote a bill of rights but didn't bother with the follow-through.

Kindly don't use my continent as a punching bag, thanks.

Well, most of Europe simply has banned guns in the hands of civilians instead, so that's some data as well

No, that's some bullshit. How do you think we eat pheasant and rabbit and venison? Show me a pheasant farm and I'll show you forty acres of unfenced woodland littered with empty cartridges.

Observe! https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gun-owner...

Have you accepted Bertrand Russell into your heart? Here's a pamphlet.

OT, but seeing "alot" always sends me here: https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-bette...

Language is what people use, and "alot" is close to critical mass, so you'll outlive this species of pedantry. I just like the cartoon.

Germanium is used to dope silicon, excuse me, sometimebernlikestuff, so i guess it might be gridnudgestuff.

Cameras are a mitigation for high waistlines, and only a partial one. Keep your cameras and alerts, and give me a car with better fields of vision.

I think there are important dimensions of safety that go unmeasured. You have much less road awareness in new cars.

Survivability is great and all, but not at the expense of children and pets becoming invisible.

All the focus on survivability provided another incentive for makers to put ever larger pieces of steel on the road. I disagree that new cars are safer.

I have experienced driver aids glitching, and i want none of it. Anything that can take control of the car needs to be bulletproof, and it isn't.

That raises an interesting point.

The big religions of the world all explicitly teach kindness - personal and concrete kindness practiced by you, the follower.

Is that what they effectively teach? Or is it just window dressing on top of underlying hegemonisation?

A/B testing is likely impossible and i can't see how you would measure kindness. Nonetheless, my conjecture is that religion likely shifts people in the direction of kindness. I suspect that believers who are cruel would typically also be cruel without the religion.

I assert that there are more direct and effective waits of developing compassion, but that they require a base level of self-awareness higher than the median found in neoliberal nations. Perhaps religion is close to optimal for those who need extrinsic motivation to develop any self-government.

Furthermore, it looks to me like neoliberalism leaves a philosophical vacuum which demands filling with something, and that something is all too eagerly supplied by charlatans. We should evaluate religion relative to whatever philosophy would take its place. Tribalism, fascism, supremacy: these are perennially seductive. Religion is not incompatible with these, but it might crowd them out.

I agree that "metaphysical" and "unverifiable" are traits of spirituality, as i understand the word. I consider theorem and animism to be categories of spirituality, but not the totality of it.

I describe myself as a humanist, and to me that approximately means a spiritual existentialist with no belief in spirits. From existentialism you can, of course, reach nihilism, a philosophy that is not so much wrong as unhelpful. But existentialism doesn't teach that there is no meaning; it teaches us that meaning is whatever we want, and it's important because we say it is important. From there you can end up back in any school of philosophy you want, but with a grounding that's compatible with living on a ball of rock hurtling through space.

I'm also impressed, but not in a good way. I consider certainty to be the biggest tell of falsehood, and I wish to deny the vote to people with certainty.

Certainty of opinion on a complex topic reveals a belief that organic brains can, in practice, judge the correctness of their own reasoning - a conceit that borders on the psychotic, and at minimum a complete failure of self-awareness. These people don't need agency, they need thorazine.

The usual distinction between rent and mortgage is that your housing costs build equity when you are paying off your mortgage. Either way, your salary vanishes, but if you pay off the mortgage then you own a six-figure asset.

What the calculation looks like is extremely dependent on local constants, of course. I'm some countries, housing depreciates.

No-name android boxes are a concern, too - and they might not have the honesty to spell out their spying in the ToS

Your embarrassment could have been avoided by reading TFA.

People were desperate for an alternative

Sure, why not. They were looking for a community that would let them speak. But that's like complaining your product review on amazon got deleted. It may be part of the amazon experience, but it's not the point.

- industry pivots to AI - SO traffic tanks - "lol, they killed themselves with their shitty moderation"

OT, but "ferriting” made me think of a steel stoat, or a magnetic mink. (I did also appreciate the insight in your comment.)

What killed it in truth was RAG, but let's stipulate that it was policy that drove users away.

The thing that killed it was the thing that made it prominent.

According to a blogpost i can't find any more about "how to speedrun social media" or similar, it's basically impossible to pivot a community once established given the levers of voting mechanics and mod policy. (I distinguish between Facebook's and Reddit's enshittification and a pivot.)

IOW, the seed of a community property's growth is also the seed of its decline. Analagously, the charming village is attractive to new residents because the existing residents resist the changes that new residents embody.

Very broadly and by no means universally: techies don't like lusers, because lusers don't put effort into understanding, they just want turnkey answers. This is totally counter to the archetypal techie value system.

SO optimised for grumpy misanthropes over bumbling newbies, which, in tech, is roughly congruent with optimising for people with knowledge to share over people who want their homework done for them.

The questions are not the scarce resource - you can browse Microsoft Community Answers to verify that. The answers there are correspondingly useless, which is why "blindly copy from SO" is a meme and "blindly copy from Microsoft Answers" is not.

Here ITT, and more generally on HN, comments are excoriating about the cost of being offputting to new users. Those commenters should recognise that it's not a pure cost, it's a tradeoff, and the upside has been a treasure for a decade. A million projects completed by people who found quality answers, mostly by searching for existing questions.

That resource is still relevant for stacks other than the latest web framework hotness, and i personally still get benefit from it in my archaic hobby of learning to code.

That resource is not still directly relevant for coders deeply plugged into AI, but it did train that AI.

It's one of the most successful endeavours on the web and a towering community achievement. It is a superficially a shame that people experienced gatekeeping, but if "gatekeeper" has only negative connotations in your lexicon, then I advise you to compromise your principles and firewall your network.

Your paradox is easily resolved thus: the government pays too much attention to _current_ retirees

I think you're ascribing intent to a stochastic outcome.

China's rise comes because it acquired, from inauspicious beginnings, competence at planning an economy.

Britain's decline relative to China comes because it is a democracy - which is to say, vacillating.

Britain has been particularly callow over the part decade, because we indulged ourselves in a bunfight about Brexit to the exclusion of all other concerns. This created a purge of ministerial talent and a sequence of governments primarily occupied with propping themselves up. Elections have been fought on Get Brexit Done and I Would Have A Pint With That Man, not on policy.

The entire edifice is deeply stupid, but it is a stupidity orthogonal to questions of industrial policy. Ministers haven't been in post long enough to reveal any strategy about such.

In a microcosm, the compulsory land purchases were done for HS2 and it was as on-track as infrastructure projects get, when Sunak cancelled half of it, writing off the sunk costs but crippling the long-term value of the project. Meanwhile, China laid more track than the test of the world combined, because it has the will to make large long-term investments.

It is candid about the negatives of off-shoring. It certainly does have its back foot in economic orthodoxy, but a mouthpiece for the Rothschilds? Read three editions and see if you still think so.

Thank you, thank you, we're the Fast Fouriers, good night!

In my experience, grout doesn't go mouldy but silicone sealant certainly does. It's the caulk and the sealant that you want, i think, to replace

You can infer direction from observable actions, and Microsoft is visibly going for dev mindshare with e.g. Typescript and VS Code. They recognise that they lost the battle for the dev desktop and the server OS, hence the pivot to xplat.

You can code in strictly vim or JetBrains with no friction, and run on mono with no friction in the happy case. It is possible for the SDK to be the only Microsoft product in your stack.

I don't see a way for Microsoft to return to funnelling users to their own ecosystem via dev-ex, and they seem to recognise that.

Well, let's be friends then - I'm somewhat robust. But your calibration is off for good-natured ribbing. Either you skewer someone and they have the self-awareness to acknowledge it in good humour, or you reduce their life experience to a bullet point and not even a correct one.

My bullet point would probably be "champagne socialist" or "trustafarian"; you can tag me as such; the truth is never libel.

The flaw is reported to affect the "start VNC" feature — an attacker can inject shell metacharacters via JSON payloads in HTTP requests to this endpoint. No authentication is required, no user interaction is needed, and attack complexity is low.

I reassure myself that close to 100% of fortigate costumes have the control plane locked down.

I have come to believe that not a single embedded web server is without critical vulns, after deploying maybe a million patches to HP boxen for the iLO mgmt interface

I that it's largely only software companies that have a red team mindset, and only a minority of them. Everyone else is patching when upstream patches and job done.

It's not presently visible, agreed. Two problems with your gates: 1. "intolerant minority" - america's christ-reagan constituency is shrill enough to get its way without coming close to half the electorate, and 2. you can refuse social credit systems like you can punch mist. In other words, you only need perhaps 10% of the electorate to be utter cunts and you're fucked. I don't know what country has below 10% utter cunts... Bhutan?

F# is nice, i like it.

Sweetheart, on this showing, you could insult me for twelve rounds and not land a single blow.