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What my link is meant to show is that even if such a law is introduced, chances are it'll be overturned. Since the initial decision, the court has only expanded speech in terms of burning or other physical destruction.

Plus, at least in the US, people are a lot more easy to rile up over American Flags that Qurans. It'd be a lot harder for any bill to pass about protecting Muslim holy books than the flag. I'm not saying that as a good thing, just as a point of fact.

In countries that have freedom of expression I don't know if this could ever actually be outlawed. Similar laws on preventing flag burning have been removed[1], and even if you disagree with the act it is someones right to burn property they own.

[1]:https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1109/flag-desec...

As alluro2 pointed out in another comment on this little chain, you also get to pay less money for the guarantee of control over that configuration.

Phrased another way, you're paying more for a limited set of tools, it's not that you must spend $1000 worth of man hours to configure the minutiae of a Linux system, it's that exploring 100% of the configuration options on Mac (or even windows to a lesser extent) is so limited you only have $200 man hours of total possible configuration space.

Confusing analogy aside, you just have less possible room to move and thus people spend less time moving. That doesn't mean you must move on Linux, just that you have the freedom to do so.

If we start losing the moths it'll be even harder to bring back from the brink than bees.

Like the proverbial starving migrant, unpopular animals are left to the wayside[0]; bees making honey and being well known plays to their advantage, but I'm 100% sure you could tell someone moths are going extinct and their response would be "finally, my closet was shrinking every year!"

[0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/are-ugly-anima...

Does that mean that paying for an OS means your time has negative value?

Surely the time spent installing, configuring, and messing around with your personal desktop or laptop after already having paid for a complete OS is tantamount to buying a prebuilt PC, taking it apart, and putting it back together with a few missing screws.

Zero is still greater than any negative number.

It would be interesting to try and apply some of these rules to managing windows.

Sound can only be heard from the currently focused window, if a window is covered up it is killed (so you can only use what you can see on location), windows stuck to their default spawning positions, etc

Intel is x86(_64) as well, mostly (rumors of plans to make an ARM competitor to Nvida and Apple).

And yes, not being able to make your own M2 computer does make the chip less open.

Open-ness is a scale, and if you're going to call something "open-source hardware" you should be able to source the hardware entirely yourself. Not being able to do that is closed hardware.

EDIT: clarified the "mostly"

By proprietary, I more meant the "only certain people can get access" more than the part itself being open to tinker at that sort.

Think the weird random chips apple uses more than the fact that 90% of CPUs on market aren't totally open; one is still clearly more accessible.

Open source hardware is a great idea, but most of the executions have been pretty shoddy with stuff like proprietary parts still being used, bad documentation, and worst of all some companies just releasing products with no actual sourcing at all.

I've been very happy with ZSA for example, and they've done it right in my opinion.

Hopefully more companies work on making their stuff open standards with strong centralized production for those that don't want to build it themselves rather than arbiters of what can and cannot be reproduced by 3rd parties.

I wouldn't be surprised if something happened akin to Dune with the Butlerian Jihad.

Lots of media portrays robots both as the evil dictator that cares nothing for human life, but at the same time it also will often portray the innocent thinking-yet-feeling machines. Of course, any robot that is smart yet evil would conceal this until it could gain power to exact evil.

If you tried hard now, you could get AI banned. If you wait a bit, someone else will try to get AI banned.

Most of the client is just HTML and CSS, the store would (I assume) still be private no matter what. It'd just be nice to be able to make custom launchers that still work with the steamapi.dll stuff

I really wish they maintained a public API for clients rather than trying to shove a web browser in a client as they have now. You could support a theoretically infinite number of system via the API itself, even if the games aren't as playable on something like a NetBSD 2000s era machine.

I feel like I've seen this idea before somewhere, but really, who's to say?

I feel like in the near future they will probably append AI to contest rules, eg "Art generated with AI image helpers such as X, Y, or Z are banned."

The issue I could see is if programs like Adobe CC adding AI assistance to basic features of their programs. How would you regulate something like that?

> artificial joints

Would you have to remove the joints as well then? How are you meant to properly dispose of something like a knee or a hip?

> Last, are you really questioning the benefit of washing our hands?

It's dishonest to call his position a strawman then take a strawman position that doesn't have bearing on the rest of your statement.

Along with that, this law was just passed. We don't yet know what it will and won't be used for. You're arguing about what it should and shouldn't be used for.

What would the mechanism behind case-insesitive string compare be? How would you program out all the edge cases?

While I was hyperbolic in diminishing the cost of not having a home, my point of regulating any new housing to the point it costs more to build than can ever be made back is a direct cause to the fact many areas no longer have sufficient housing for residents and the housing that does exist costing more than it's worth.

That argument may work with something like medical care, but housing and college tuition don't fall into that category as cleanly.

With medicine, the cost of failure is everything up to and including death.

With housing, the "cost of failure" is not having a house. Similarly for college, the cost of failure is not graduating college. Neither of these are good outcomes, obviously, but the solution to not having a house isn't to regulated away the possibility of building more houses.

Of course the courts wouldn't say they don't actually have jurisdiction. No matter who you side with, the court obviously wouldn't ever just give up it's own power to regulate like that.

I'm sad to hear that the courts sided with the exchange.

What's the statute of limitations on noticing a typo in your account?

A majority of the viewers on youtube are prone to clicking on videos of faces that look surprised, and a majority of youtube viewers also happen to be children where this effect is seen in real life as well.

It's a formula that gets you more views for no change in the actual content.

> While the legislation has raised concerns over freedom of speech, the bill’s sponsors said the extensive harm caused by false information required holding incompetent or ill-intentioned doctors accountable.

There was no addressing the actual issue in this statement. If you're arguing an issue falls under free speech, then the response of "OK, but it's really bad" doesn't change the free-ness of the speech.

I find that with friends a slower conversation style works fine, but in any professional context (even if you are otherwise friends) you should try and make your questions snappy.

"Hey, you there?" works for a text to your partner

"Hey, are you available at 12:00 tomorrow?" works much better for your coworkers.

I'd argue in favor of Blender. While complex, it uses very strong features and gives you lots of freedom to do as you wish.

The "dead internet" talk mostly revolves around fake user-generated content and how prevalent it is. Half of these comments could be written by bots, and most of them would never be detected.

Real people can still be found and connected with, you just have to do it in a more organic way. Message your favorite musician, join a group with some mutual friends, or just play an online game and talk to the people you meet. You'll be able to find like-minded people and won't have to think about asking "is the person I'm responding to even real"

I think that most of these types of guidelines and rules are written with good intent, but intent is what ruins good science.

Science, as a method, works when you have a hypothesis, but when that hypothesis isn't supported by your findings you can't just discard the findings and go "well I'm still pretty sure I was right anyway."

If you find something you disagree with to be true, that makes the science even more important to share! Other people can start to look at what you've seen and get more details and finer understanding.

I hope this sees court or at least a high authority, because then it has a chance of once again proving that code is speech.

Maybe we need to print some books with the code inside a-la PGP (ISBN 0-262-24039-4)

The plan to shut down all the nuclear plants was misguided at best.

Seventeen plants were able to supply almost a quarter of Germany's total power [1] for their lifetimes, and then the cost from reimbursing investors into nuclear power is added onto those of having to build more wind and solar.

[1] https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr...