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One of the problems is that the UK legal system has a presumption that computers are reliable. They are assumed to be working properly unless proved otherwise, which shifts the burden of proof on the person trying to claim that they are not working properly.

Many commentators are saying that this presumption should be changed:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/12/update-law-o...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2024/01/15/law-o...

> After Guardian Australia’s report, a US-based YouTuber, Jack Gamble, revealed Harrison’s true identity.

The Youtube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmSXQrVlk0M

I had the strange experience of reading all of Paradise Lost and finding it very understandable, but having the opposite experience with Aeropagetica, where I had to give up because I couldn't understand what he was saying. Prose should normally be more comprehensible than poetry, but something about the organization of Milton's prose sentences made it very difficult for me to follow.

This website is a reminder that if you have $64 then you are a millionaire in binary.

The full song finally got released today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml_mAoOZEAM

I have a half answer: not a result, but a proof that was found to be invalid.

And it's a famous proof too: Euclid's very first proposition: "On a given straight line to construct an equilateral triangle."

Euclid's proof assumes that two circles intersect, but there is no axiom to ensure this. There is no Principle of Continuity.

All I know about that book is that Aaron Swartz's last ever Reddit comments were about it:

https://www.reddit.com/user/AaronSw/

If anyone wants to test it, someone wrote a short code that simulates doing that 100,000 times:

https://www.techiedelight.com/generate-fair-results-biased-c...

The coin is biased to come up TAILS 80% of the time, but using Von Neumann's method in the program I got HEADS 50.035%, TAILS 49.965%.

The new API price is not ridiculous. There's been misinformation about the pricing.

Here's the standard API prices of three websites:

(Price for 50 million API calls)

Imgur - $3,333

Reddit - $12,000

Twitter - $42,000

> Reddit has been terrible and dishonest in their communication

Partly true. They have been awful at communicating with the devs and with Reddit at large. The "dishonest" claim is debatable.

> Reddit is dropping Twitter-like pricing out of the blue.

False. That was a piece of dishonesty spread by the Apollo developer. Twitter's price is 3.5x Reddit's price, which is 3.6x Imgur's price. Reddit is midway between the two.

> These prices seem to have the goal of killing 3rd party apps instead of merely being ‘realistic’ or ‘fair’, like Reddit is claiming

False. Relay for Reedit just announced plans to continue their app by offering a $3 paid version. This moderate price wouldn't be possible if Reddit's price was aimed at killing off the apps.

> Reddit is dragging well respected devs through the mud and trying to make them look like the bad guys

Maybe the devs ARE the bad guys. I've not been impressed by them.

I agree with you that the timeline is tight.

Relay For Reddit has just announced their preliminary plan to offer a $2-3 a month paid version. They sound cautiously optimistic and are hoping for some flexibility on the tight timeline.

This is in stark contrast to a week ago when they were very doom and gloom.

If it made 3rd party apps impossible, then all or most of them would have announced they were shutting down by now. In fact, only three have done so. The rest are still trying to work out the economics.

I expect that quite a few will survive, despite people saying it is "impossible."

I have to hand it to those app devs. The way they managed to dupe millions of Redditors into protesting was masterful.

They didn't produce any good evidence that the new API price is excessive (some cherry-picking here, a deceptive comparison there) but they still managed to convince 99% of Reddit that it was true anyway.

Bravo! It was a beautiful exercise in propaganda and the delusion of crowds.

Something can be both legal and unprofessional at the same time.

I don't think that's a good argument. If someone says something sexually harassing to me at work and I politely say "Oh, I guess I misunderstood" to defuse the situation, it would be specious for them to later claim that my statement of misunderstanding means that no sexual harassment could have taken place.

> Step 1 is to clean every tiny little crevice of your bed frame, bedding, box spring, and mattress and if possible, get a mattress bag. Step 2 is to put bed bug traps under each leg of your bed-- they can't jump or fly, only climb. Step 3 is to make sure no part of your bed or bedding is touching the wall or floor. Step 4 sprinkle diatomaceous earth around the base of your bed and the edges of your room.

I can confirm this through personal experience. I had a bad bedbug infestation two years ago, did the first three steps and haven't had a problem since (I didn't use the diatomaceous earth in Step 4).

You basically turn your bed into a castle. No bedbugs currently in your bed + defenses so they can't get onto your bed = no future bedbug problem in bed.

One good trick I used is that you can make "bed bug traps under each leg of your bed" yourself by putting little plastic containers under each leg that you fill with an inch of baby oil. The bedbugs can't get passed it.

Milton was blind when he wrote Paradise Lost and left us a beautiful description at the start of Book 3:

Hail holy light, offspring of Heaven first-born,

Or of the Eternal Coeternal beam

May I express thee unblamed?

...but thou

Revisitest not these eyes, that roll in vain

To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn;

So thick a drop serene hath quenched their Orbs,

Or dim suffusion veiled.

...as the wakeful Bird

Sings darkling, and in shadiest Covert hid

Tunes her nocturnal Note. Thus with the Year

Seasons return, but not to me returns

Day, or the sweet approach of Even or Morn,

Or sight of vernal bloom, or Summer's Rose,

Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine;

But cloud instead, and ever-during dark

Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men

Cut off, and for the Book of knowledge fair

Presented with a Universal blank

Of Nature's works to me expunged and razed,

And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.

So much the rather thou Celestial light

Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers

Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mist from thence

Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell

Of things invisible to mortal sight.

Good post on the quote:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/07/30/hour-play/

A photo of the Orion Nebula from the same book:

The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy (https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00mitt)

also provided the cover of Joy Division's Transmission 7" single:

https://imgur.com/a/NNWuUDC

> The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge.

> ― Aristotle

If the quote works for you, that's all good.

But for the other people adding it to their quote list, it's unlikely to be a real Aristotle quote. In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle concludes that the highest activity of human life is contemplation or speculative thinking.

The Google Trend of the search term "blog" probably gives a good indication of the change in widespread interest:

https://i.imgur.com/I4jLBo0.jpg

There was a beautifully made book from 1936 called "The Bible Designed To Be Read As Literature" that was set out and edited to be more like a normal book:

https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.10239/

I picked up a copy secondhand years ago and I'm happy I did.