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The problem with USB-a isn't that it's non reversible, it's that it's non-reversible _and_ rectangular, so it's not clear at a glance which way round it should go.

All they had to do was make the connector have a non-symmetrical shape so that it's immediately obvious which way round it goes when you pick it up - you could do it without even looking. Think of how much time we'd have collectively saved with this minor design change.

"They don't gotta burn the books, they just remove them" - Rage Against the Machine

Or just buy real books. I ditched my Kindle years ago and have never looked back.

Nothing beats a hardback.

I think the argument is that the further left you go, the more likely you are to explicitly describe yourself as an anti-fascist and make a big deal about your opposition to fascism, as opposed to just quietly disliking fascism like most of us do and not feeling the need to announce it.

Like all sane people I oppose fascism, but I don't put "anti-fascist" in my Twitter bio, wear antifa t-shirts, or run around loudly telling everybody about how much I hate fascists, because why should I need to? Of course I'm an anti-fascist, who the hell isn't? It feels as unnecessary as having to tell people that I'm "anti-genocide" or "anti-pedophilia".

It's also true that communist regimes have always used "anti-fascism" as an excuse for their atrocities, just like fascist regimes have used "anti-communism" to justify their atrocities. The original Antifa was an offshoot of the German Communist Party, and (as GP pointed out) the Berlin Wall was officially called the "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart". That doesn't mean that all anti-fascists are communists, but history is what it is.

Don't take any of this as my denying that there are still fascistic forces in our world that should be opposed. If "anti-fascism" is an important part of your identity and you feel the need to tell the world about it, good for you, I'm not going to stop you, but personally I don't see the point.

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Maths, science.

How old are you? If you're reasonably young, and vaccinated, you really don't need to worry about COVID this badly. Practically everyone I know has had COVID by now and for most of them it was not much worse than catching a cold.

COVID is going to be around forever. I don't know why anyone is still letting it disrupt their lives.

Plenty of people, myself included, use Brave as a privacy-focused web browser without using or caring about any of its crypto features. Hell, I've been using Brave for years and I'm still not even sure what its crypto features are.

there are still no discernible use cases for it.

You are wrong. There's at least one discernible use case for Blockchain: the facilitation of crime. To that end, it's been very successful.

You don't put those on until you're actually in bed trying to sleep. It still messes with you that it doesn't get dark when it's late and bedtime is approaching.

I'm so lost. I'd never heard of this guy or FTX until a couple of days ago. Can someone give me a link to the best and (this is important) most succinct summary of what the hell happened here? Why did all this money vanish, and what crimes did SBF commit?

That's Scott. Steve's dead.

Genuine question: which cryptocurrencies and/or crypto companies do you still believe in? Which part of the space still stands a chance?

4 month's paid holiday? This is the kind of severance that would make me wish I'd been laid off.

"Is Web2 bullshit?", he asked on Web2.

It's a buzzword used to disguise the fact that blockchain has completely failed to live up to any of its promises.

In 2017 everyone was saying that "blockchain" was the future of everything and you'd be a fool not to invest. Sure, it hasn't proven itself yet, but it's still early! Imagine if you could invest in the Internet in 1994!

This line doesn't work anymore, because it's been five years and blockchain still hasn't proven itself, and no-one's come up for a use for blockchain except currency speculation, money laundering and scams. It's hard to convince people that we're still only in the early days when you've been saying the same thing for years with no progress.

So now, blockchain has been rebranded to "web3", and we can go through the whole hype cycle again and hope no-one notices that nothing's changed. Web3 is the future! It might not have proven itself yet, but it's still early days! Imagine if you could invest in the internet in 1994!

Thankfully the noise seems to have mostly died out since the big crash earlier this year. I except that the next time there's a bull market we'll go through the same old bullshit with another new buzzword. It'll be early days, like the Internet in 1994!

Elixir has some case studies written up on its official site.

https://elixir-lang.org/cases.html

Also there's https://elixir-companies.com/en

Honestly the only place I've noticed it is the petrol pump. Fuel prices shot up dramatically early in the year. They're back down now from the peak, but still higher than they were a year ago.

In the UK? Typically just one race: you vote to elect your local MP.

You might also vote for someone to represent you in the devolved Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish governments if you live in those countries, but that's only 15% of the population and those elections aren't necessarily on the same day as the general election.

What does 'advanced parole' mean in this context?

"Europe" isn't a unified system. Those benefits definitely don't exist in the UK, and I'd still consider our labour laws to be well-balanced and reasonably fair to both employees and employers.

Which country is that? Those benefits are insanely generous - the type that would make me never want to start a company there.

A lot of people reading this aren't going to understand what you mean by "checkout Postman". I'm guessing you mean "read Neil Postman's books"? If so, I agree - especially Amusing Ourselves to Death.

Historically, sex and gender have been used interchangeably.

This really isn't true. "Sex" was the only word anyone used for most of history; the idea that there's a distinction between "sex" and "gender" was invented by the sexologist John Money in 1955.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender#History_of_the_concept

"Gender" was originally a term from linguistics that had nothing to do with biological sex.

Free speech is a value, not merely a legal concept.

Only upon reading your comment did I realise that the Substack article I just read was not written by Jesse Singal.

"Intentionally killing someone" isn't synonymous with "murder". E.g. intentionally killing someone in self-defence is not necessarily murder.

Please consider using the correct definitions of words when telling others to "please consider applying the correct word".

When it's widely perceived that the police don't care about property crime, people don't call the police in the first place.

Perhaps "largest single attack on a civilian target by a non-state actor" would be more accurate.

Hmmmm, I suppose we did just spend two years crushing small businesses into the ground, so I imagine that big corporations do have less competition than ever at the moment.