Half of the Great Depression was caused by tariffs.
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It seems that dipping the lens in resin is the best solution.
> I wouldn’t particularly want to have to exercise my right not to make statements in Canada if I were of indigenous descent.
Why is that? Seems like you're going to get a lot of natives in trouble with that kind of advice. Never heard lawyers saying that in criminal Common Law countries for any minority.
I have to work with a "kernel a-hole". Sure it sucks but when there's some mutex bug in a chip driver, he's the one we can call and fix the problem and push the fix upstream even though he's already overworked. He's an a-hole but I respect his rules because he's the one suffering and pulling in the work and I don't.
Yes the kernel is stagnating (patches and email mailing list, line length limited to be compatible with old tty terminal, etc.) but when you're at the helm of a ship you don't just steer it near the nice looking island just because it looks pretty and there doesn't seem to have rocks.
You are missing the whole point here. The kernel is a survival epic amongst millions of other failed projects. You don't get to tell the old captain and its lieutenants how to nail the planks and helm the ship when you just went pass the Titanic and Britannic wrecks because metal is so cool.
They're "old-school" because they have to be. Engineers will excrete their pet project and then leave and now they will have to support it. They are mean because that's the only "power" they have, as is explained in the post.
I'll leave you with this quote from "The Night Watch" by James Mickens (https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf)
> This is not the world of the systems hacker. When you debug a distributed system or an OS kernel, you do it Texas-style. You gather some mean, stoic people, people who have seen things die, and you get some primitive tools, like a compass and a rucksack and a stick that’s pointed on one end, and you walk into the wilderness and you look for trouble, possibly while using chewing tobacco. As a systems hacker, you must be pre- pared to do savage things, unspeakable things, to kill runaway threads with your bare hands, to write directly to network ports using telnet and an old copy of an RFC that you found in the Vatican. When you debug systems code, there are no high- level debates about font choices and the best kind of turquoise, because this is the Old Testament, an angry and monochro- matic world, and it doesn’t matter whether your Arial is Bold or Condensed when people are covered in boils and pestilence and Egyptian pharaoh oppression. HCI people discover bugs by receiving a concerned email from their therapist. Systems people discover bugs by waking up and discovering that their first-born children are missing and “ETIMEDOUT ” has been written in blood on the wall. What is despair? I have known it—hear my song. Despair is when you’re debugging a kernel driver and you look at a mem- ory dump and you see that a pointer has a value of 7. THERE IS NO HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE THAT IS ALIGNED ON 7. Furthermore, 7 IS TOO SMALL AND ONLY EVIL CODE WOULD TRY TO ACCESS SMALL NUMBER MEMORY. Misaligned, small-number memory accesses have stolen decades from my life. The only things worse than misaligned, small-number memory accesses are accesses with aligned buf- fer pointers, but impossibly large buffer lengths. Nothing ruins a Friday at 5 P.M. faster than taking one last pass through the log file and discovering a word-aligned buffer address, but a buffer length of NUMBER OF ELECTRONS IN THE UNI- VERSE.
> The volumetric display area created by the Voxon VX2 is a cylindrical space measuring 256mm in diameter and 256mm in height. This space is filled with the 3D image generated by the rotating LED array.
People struggle with emails everyday. Phishing, spam, identity theft, etc. We just delegated the complexity to Big Tech and even then it is barely working.
> Pick a server, sign up, share your handle(email address) with your friends.
Just "picking a server" is one step too much that the vast majority of people don't even know what it means or entails, hell most people don't even know what a server is.
Also nobody is going find friends and share their handles with. Facebook just proposes you people after subscribing. X and Reddit just gives you the front page that makes the news. Mastodon / Bluesky / Threads never make the news.
> Content wise it's a timeline so you, by default, only get who/what you follow.
People don't know what they want or what to follow. The "I just get a community of people I want and know" becomes an echo-chamber very quickly and echo-chambers are boring and doesn't get millions of views. Call it "random crap the algorithm throws" if you want but it doesn't change the fact that people want to be on the social media where everyone else is at.
Not simple enough for normies. Not enough people. Who wants to be on the 10th largest social media? Full of sketchy content.
> They don't need money,
These are normal people, what are you talking about?
> I'm very impressed at their restraint in choosing the legal system over violence.
That's not impressive, that's what the vast majority of people do.
That's actually very rare. Most cases get settled out of court and most court case don't make it to appeal; thus no legal precedent.
> Shouting Fire in a theater
This is a common misconception. This decision was reversed by the Supreme Court.
> sedition, inciting mobs, entrapment, accessory to a crime (by encouraging someone to do it). None of these are covered in the 1st Amendment.
None of which are what Jones was sued for.
That was part of the SH families' lawyer final argument to the jury.
> There is more to this life than money.
Sure. But there's not much a civil lawsuit can ask outside of damages and reparations.