jack9

> a few companies are making a HUGE PILE OF MONEY, and I think everyone can agree that's unquestionably a good thing.

Unquestionably? No, it's a bad thing for the monopolies to maintain through capitalism's achille's heel. Weighing the costs would require insight into the cost-benefits of those mega-corporations, which we will never see.

> those are libertarian values

As a libertarian voter, in the USA, I find this kind of position to be juvenile. They are conservative values, that happen to overlap with libertarian goals. Libertarian values are neither fundamental (old enough to be the basis for any other system) nor complete enough to be considered a value system at all. They are just rough applied values (eg limiting government is a general preference, not an ideology). Trying to exaggerate libertarian values to mean something absolute shows a deep misunderstanding of the movement.

> kids are more depressed and lonely > No its not

Yes it is. More is not "largely different", regardless of study rigor.

> Get dangerous people -- perhaps with little to lose if they are already facing serious charges -- off the street faster

How does bail achieve that? If they are too dangerous to release, then it's no bail. If they are possibly dangerous, you're letting a financially motivated (exploitative) or ignorant entity decide who gets out of jail...be it a financial institution or the mob or family, but only if you come from a background which has finances to leverage. It's an effective tax on the poor innocent and guilty alike.

The vast majority of america does not have such a bias toward location. It's makes a good heuristic, in america. It's not surprising when there's exceptions.

In pony, floating point behaves 1.0/0.0 the way you might expect.

> If you have a program that's performing divide-by-zeroes, that's almost surely something you did not intend for

It's such a common case to consider, I don't think that's compelling. Knowing that a division by zero throws an exception or casts to zero, is similarly considered.

> they are hurting their users far more than they are helping.

There's no evidence of this.

> Toxicity is learned and reinforced (or not) behavior.

Not solely in a single game. That's some hubris.

> systemd's job is to start daemons

But that's not all it does and the dependencies of systemd alongside making systemd a dependency, results in a very different observable reality.

Chinese v Singaporean, Spanish v Mexican, it goes on. The belief that abuse occurs is intolerable (no compromise) is just lowering the bar as to who controls what is said and how.

> in fact it seems that safe spaces are one of the few things that counter infantilization of Western culture

How is that fact? De facto pronouncing adults unable to deal with reality and/or speech wherein they need to be protected by institution, is infantile. That's why we put children in schools or under guardian care.

> The words on Twitter do sometimes include slander and threats which would make them illegal.

The idea of a nebulous "illegality" is simplistic and wrong, in the US. They might open an individual to civil liability, but they aren't in violation of a criminal code, nor tort law.

> That doesn't mean the action of speaking those words are legal

Speech is always legal, in the US. What you think "legal" means is up for debate.

Ironically, the executive regulatory bodies also have mandates that aren't followed (across their existence), so I'm not sure that's a compelling reasoning.

With predictable outcomes. Liars avoid prosecution and weasel out of consequence, even with dedicated decisioning.

The futility of trying to equivocate truth was illustrated by the Clinton trial, or taking any community college philosophy class.

> They're meant for the public to provide new, unique perspectives

Citation?

> FCC does nothing that citizens need or want done.

Keeping emergency bands clear is something the general populace wants done and frankly, needs done.

TEACHERS? Teacher's Unions (as well as various other service workers...like the Department of Water and Power) are notorious. Their authoritarian and misappropriation has been the top story in California off-and-on for decades. This isn't to say that unions are a bad idea, but there's a direct correlation between union leadership corruption and 10th percentile income bases those unions derive from. They fail uniformly (over a long enough period of time) to prevent bad actors from subverting their purpose.

Both sides are criminalized in the US

> Landlords are only making a profit because of the exceptional last couple of years in California

That's a particularly pointless bit of misinformation. Holding property isn't free, in general. Land is quite the liability in California unless you make enough to justify holding it. Landlords make plenty of money. Currently 750/mo (or more) for single rooms out of a house in southern california for anything decent. With AirBnB you do much better. The math is straightforward.

> I started questioning what was even real.

The votes aren't real and they don't matter. This is true for FB likes or whatever else you can imagine. Reddit goes to a LOT of trouble to counter bad actors, but if you're in some subreddit that you think is full of abuse, then it's like any other part of the internet. Go somewhere else. This has little to do with Reddit as a whole, so the proclamation seems unnecessarily volatile.

Quite slow compared to what?

PHP was popular when it had MySQL bindings that were always up to date with MySQL changes and apache PHP setup was simplistic. Thus the LAMP stack, right? It has always been rather fast, in the larger ecosystem of web scripting languages (especially if you avoided particular BIFs) but it got a LOT faster in 7 as the slowest bits were optimized alongside everything else.

> letting internal exceptions define external behavior is perhaps a bad idea

In practice, I've preferred it for years.

I really don't understand how criticisms get so much attention, when it's nothing close to a constructive study. It's just some unhappy employee's porthole and it seems to be too successful to dismiss.

> as businesses interests have succeeded at undermining and destroying unions

Unions largely have done that to themselves, as they organized into the same structures they purport to combat and act accordingly, with a capitalistic bend.

This is like a horoscope. Everything in that article can be attributed to nearly every western nation (at any time since he said it). Ok, there's an ideological war...which there has always been. There's always been a conflict between those who want a capitalistic and more egalitarian economic system. Looks a lot like Russia already conceded that one.

> eBay is worth $37 billion today

> extremely profitable corporation

Yup, layoffs look like a classic pump and dump to fiddle with the numbers for a sale.

It's likely the superset of some transmutations. Categories or not, one precedes the other (for anything that we understand).

Why not? We started atomic transmutation with fire.

> There's a lot of scientific evidence

I would like to see this. Do you have a link to a peer reviewed study?