aahhahahaaa

How did we slip away so far from this being fairly obvious? Cities have worked well this way for hundreds of years.

Maybe the industrial revolution made cities too unpleasant? Were we too spoiled by the automobile industry and government roads? White flight from cities into the suburbs?

I think it's hard because the bullying has been done and the law is already in their favor. This isn't a grey area case of "is it legal or not" it's a case where the IA broke the already established rules. They're fighting upstream.

Despite its importance I don't think the Internet Archive is a common household name on the level of Wikipedia and I don't think any sort of boycott would have the legs (I would love to be wrong about this).

Right but we're operating in the reality of the American court system. Idealistically I agree with you, but it's not pragmatic — the law is very obviously in the publisher's favor (they whimmed it to their side years ago).

At the end of the day I think this will be a battle over whether or not the Internet Archive can continue to exist... and it's incredibly important for them to live to fight another day.

It's troublesome, but I find it relatable if you boil things down to strong ideologies and hyperbole which is a lot of the problem with our current state of political discourse.

For example, it might be your stance that all Trump supporters are racist. Would I hire someone who was openly racist? Absolutely not.

Is the reality that all Trump supporters are racists? No, probably not.

A counter-example, you believe that abortion is murder. Would you hire someone who supports murder? absolutely not.

Is abortion murder? Not definitively. It depends on your personal outlook.

Hiring/firing is just not an objective process anywhere, and you're going to be subject to the personal biases of the boss... and we're in particularly biased times. On the bright side, I suspect historical numbers would be worse... and at least it's not a civil war.

Yeah like any legal battle it's a lot of posturing and back-and-fourth. It's just anxiety producing to not see what their survival plan is (and of course it wouldn't really benefit them to share that publicly!).

It's not really 1 vs the other IMO. I use flexbox within grid quite often, for example. They're two different tools with some overlap...

Grid is absurdly more powerful for full-page layout than flexbox (which is amazing for individual columns or rows). Especially once we start getting subgrid. The common comparison is 1 dimensional (flex) vs 2 dimensional (grid) layout.

It's in their best interest to settle in a capitulating way that will hurt them but not kill them. This might have to include a public apology that admits they're in the wrong because publishers can be petty about this type of thing.

It doesn't seem like they're willing to do that, and while I agree with their viewpoint and the troubling future with licensing... it may be the hill they die on and I'm not sure it's worth the trade off in this specific case. IMO the Internet Archive is incredibly valuable to humanity.

I admire them for taking the stance, but worry about their future. Hopefully they're playing tough publicly and aren't as willing to die by the sword in private.

So they sent an email to their users that states:

>We can assure you that your DNA information was not compromised, as GEDmatch does not store raw DNA files on the site. When you upload your data, the information is encoded, and the raw file deleted. This is one of the ways we protect our users’ most sensitive information.

This is kind of BS right? It's encoded... not encrypted.

It's got to sting a little to use the platform you were laid off from to look for a new job. I wish everyone the best.

If they wanted a better outcome for all then they wouldn't be billionaires, IMO. The fact that they exist is the sign of a problem that they're happy to exploit and automatically warrants suspicion about their motives.

They're already a significant value that others cannot meet. That's why a billionaire wants to kill it and ingest the money elsewhere.

The elimination of money orders from the USPS alone would push more people to already-abusive payday lenders.

They don't use a GDS on the front end, but doesn't all that data feed into a GDS somewhere on the backend? I don't know much about Sabre but I know Amadeus reaches pretty far across everything.

This is like saying "stop making everything political." It's not even possible.

Everything is a statement, the lack of intention can be doubly so. There are entire utilitarian schools of thought in fashion just like there is in everything else.

Also fashion doesn't exist solely to please others! I wouldn't dismiss an entire massive industry as inane. Vanity is a big part of it like a lot of other things, but if you're making a conscious choice in what you wear... fashion is playing some small role.

I would buy these pants in a heartbeat. I'm fairly slender, like tight fitting pants, but hate the hip pockets. Cargo pants are baggy and everything rattles around in the large pockets. These are a really thoughtful middleground where you don't have to sacrifice style for utility.

All fashion has symbolism. Just because you ignore doesn't mean it isn't there.

Nurses get about double the salary and literally signed up for this type of work. School teachers often buy their own supplies and aren't remotely prepared for this.

It shouldn't be, but the bleeding edge of markets have always relied on having the latest data from anywhere that can indicate a shift and I don't expect it to change anytime soon.

If you're already logged in to a Twitter account you can deactivate 2FA by disabling the account (aka deleting with a 30 day window) and then re-enabling the account.

It's not rocket science, it's because they don't have to raise the kids - I'd be surprised if elon saw his kids for more than a third as much as the middle class sees theirs. Hell he wasn't even at the birth of his latest.

Following this logic (and ignoring the increase of suffering as a raw product of addition) it's totally possible there'd be less suffering if we stayed in loosely connected hunter-gatherer societies.

It's obviously very difficult to predict, but there's also some expert speculation that affluence will spread widely enough to slow the birth rate down to be close to the death rate and we'll reach some sort of equilibrium.

Yes! I stopped building working prototypes because of this misconception.

Computer literacy is often vastly overrated, especially by people in tech.

>In total, across the OECD countries, 26% of adults were unable to use a computer.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/

I've worked for companies with large call centers, and anecdotally I don't have a single doubt about it. To close this gap computers need to be easier to use... these people aren't even at a skill level where they can reach the web.

I guess I could just link to the tweet where the president supported the display of the confederate flag. You don't have to dig deep on this one.

There are exaggerations on both sides for sure, but despite those you can clearly point to a "worse side" here.

Kill every coin except the quarter.

Eh, there are a lot of legitimate questions around the validity of IQ tests in general

While this is true, it's also true that significantly fewer families can do it now than could in 1970.

It's also true that the most predictable factor when it comes to student performance in school is household income.

We're not exactly a species that's content with what we need.

Yeah that's fair, on the other end I think cities should take noise pollution and reduction seriously. Banning things like fireworks and gas powered leaf blowers can have a bigger impact on mental health than many people realize.

Yeah sure but in the meantime there are hundreds of millions of us living in existing housing stock (and many rent), if a room device worked nearly as well as noise cancelling headphones I'd pay $2k for it. That's still fairly cheaper than renovating and soundproofing an entire room.