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Why would "A blue Ford just parked in front of the door. Jim still hasn't truly fully woken up but he was already making breakfast..." incite me to read the book?
Compare that to The Poppy War which I just discovered:
"Take your clothes off. Rin blinked. What? Cheating prevention protocol."
Why? People all say that but it is never stated how or what he said.
Western "propaganda" is the most insidious and frankly insane. At least with other state media it is clear they are being advocates and their own population don't believe it and won't defend it in private conversations. But in the West we have a way to make people want to believe, it is very uncanny. If I see another "let's go to war for Afghan/Iranian/Syrian women" documentary from the CBC I will lose my mind.
A distributed git object cache is what is really needed at the moment.
Would you pay their legal fees if they are sued? It's easy to say when you don't have your future on the line.
Are we going to classify every single variations of the political beliefs of every domestic terrorists even if they are shared by millions of others law abiding citizens?
1) They are public corporations and are legal creation of the state and benefit from certain protections of the state. They also have privileged access to some public infrastructures that other private companies do not have.
2) By acting on the behest of the government they were agent of the government for free speech and censorship purposes
3) Being monopolies in their respective markets, this means they must respect certain obligations the same way public utilities have.
Any subject important enough in any public forum is potentially going to have wrong opinions that are going to cause harm. While some people could be wrong, and could cause harm, the state itself being wrong is far more dangerous, especially with no dissident voices there to correct its course.
Edit: I see you're getting downvoted for simply stating your honest opinion. But as a matter of principle I'm going to upvote you.
This study is a very good step in the right direction. The other direction is more quantitative methods such as measuring the brain waves response to a retinal laser flash to detect mental disorders (look it up, it's real)
This is just asking for trouble when the API will inevitably break as all APIs will do eventually. In our projects I mandated and pushed really hard that we create intermediary data classes that correspond one to one to the protobufs (at first).
I got a lot of angry faces and reactions in PR due to the seemingly useless boiler plate code required but it saved our butts so many times when the API changed just before a release that it became the de facto standard.
Also, protobufs and GRPCs are a de facto standards. Are there better alternatives? Yes. Should you use those? Most likely not because the point of serialization frameworks is to be used by many people in various tech stacks.