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> or at least what some Christians take from it > Doesn't matter what I do, Jesus will take care of me

Well yes let's be clear that only a very selective reading of the New Testament allows you to conclude Jesus doesn't think it matters what you do. It's the same kind of logic that leads one to preach the "prosperity gospel". It's very clear that loving Jesus goes hand in hand with loving others and living his commandments as best you can.

Yup. And I wish they'd make it clear. Not that I think people should be allowed to take the law into their own hands, but as courts are imperfect, I get why a good and loving parent might do this. There's a world of difference in how I would respond if I saw a concerned parent with their child illegally than how I would respond if I knew I was seeing an actual child predator.

In some places the system is overused and alerts get issued in custody disputes, claims of abuse, etc. It doesn't always mean abducted by a predator or stranger and that's part of the problem.

Maybe it could help them when designing APIs for new products to be consistent with previous design choices. But perhaps it's too late for that.

Do you mean freely available in a technical / security sense, or legal / financial sense?

I'm sure that would be as effective as laws against exporting open-source cryptography software.

And I can't say it's ever actually caused a problem, but something about Indian Standard Time being a half-hour offset from UTC has always bothered me so much... But now we're fully off-topic.

Because there are technical nuances in what they're actually reproducing, where it came from and how it was shared with you.

Are they actually reproducing content wholesale? If so, I would think copyright law would allow content producers to stop that unless it's properly licensed anyway.

Are they posting content from meta tags that use Facebook's OpenGraph standard for specifying how content should be previewed when linked? Then how is that not intended for this exact use case in the first place?

Are they scraping content, and using heuristics / ML to generate an appropriate subset of the content for a preview and choose an appropriate picture, that they then reproduce? Okay - that's more of a grey area. But do the people debating this even understand the difference between what would actually be happening for these different use cases? Do they know enough to clearly write a law that allows one but not the other? I hardly think so.

I just had a meeting with some lawyers at a massive tech company, whose job it is to approve the use of open-source licenses, who couldn't grasp the concept that viewing a web page results in code being downloaded and executed by the browser. Because somebody assigned that job to corporate lawyers who don't understand technology, thinking it wasn't a technical issue and didn't require any technical education, experience, or understanding.

"I may not agree with where you post your links, but I will depend to death your right to post them" -- Voltaire, probably

I own land in this general vicinity, and part of the purchase process that the title insurance company covered when I bought it was ensuring that not only was I really purchasing what I thought I was purchasing, but that access to the land was guaranteed: I and all the plots around me have easements where a quasi-government entity guarantees roads that connect my plot to county roads, then state highways, then interstate highways.

I would say that if land was purchased that completely blocked off access to public land without such easements, somebody screwed up royally with regard to such easements. Not sure if that's what actually happened with the land in question?

edit: actually reading an article linked within the one linked here: "This is a murky legal area, due in part to the failure of Congress to ensure access to landlocked federal public lands". So yeah, someone screwed up royally and it was Congress.

I think skrebbel was parodying prox's reply as a commentary on drive-by comments about a seemingly orthogonal technology.

Agreed. One reason you can't "policy away" snark is another reason it's best to separate your sense of self from your work: what you hear as snark when you're feeling down, maybe wasn't even snark, it might have been lightheartedness. I can think of a review I gave recently where I saw someone having to work around something confusing that my team is ALWAYS having to work around, and I just commented on what a mess it was. In hindsight, it could have sounded like snarky criticism of the patch, when in reality it was meant as supportive, empathic, camaraderie. If I was giving the code review face to face verbally, probably would have come across. At least we have emojis.

I had a job where they gave training on how to constructively engage with the open source community, and one of the big points was, "you don't suck, the patch sucks".

Oh you have a bug in the patch? No, there's a bug in the patch. Oh you missed an edge case? No, there's an edge case nobody had documented yet.

The point was mostly about how to give feedback on the patch, and to never phrase it about the person personally, but perhaps it would help to try and catch yourself thinking of the feedback this way and have your internal dialog look at the patch as being separate from you.

Yes, it's your work, but it's always a work in progress, and it's everybody's work to try and make incremental improvements to the code, to the process, etc.

I used to think I didn't like working with inexperienced engineers, but I noticed that what I actually didn't like was people who were unwilling to candidly discuss ways to improve, whether they were junior or senior - it's just a little easier to spot in people more junior than one's self. So kudos to you for recognizing this, because if you can learn to absorb constructive feedback it's a real game changer for you and for everyone around you too.

I am wondering what qualifies as "complete", though. Any reasonable definition I can come up with is redundant with "representative" and "free of errors".

Allegedly identifying AI written homework.

> no more exciting than video cards

Um... That seems like a pretty high bar to me, actually. Are you forgetting about how much they've done to speed up the training of quite a lot of deep-learning models? And really the only competition is TPUs and other dedicated chips that, at the end of the day, are also just chips optimized for matrix operations. The graphics in state of the art video games? Were I fan of crypto, mining rigs? That's some pretty impactful tech right there.

Much like cybersecurity, the safety of nuclear at this point pretty much comes down to people, and whether or not they choose to invest in the best practices or if they get too lax. Right after a nuclear accident, the math suddenly looks different to the bureaucrats and investing in safe, reliable operation suddenly becomes worth it again.

I'm sure it's fine if you use James Mickens' Mossad / Not-Mossad threat model.

Oh I see, that makes sense. Speaking of the upstream / downstream imagery, I suppose a fish ladder would actually make a pretty good analogy here...

>> Why pick Ubuntu instead of (basically) upstream?

"Upstream" for Ubuntu is more like Debian, which is the basis for MANY distros (much like Red Hat - founded around the same time as Debian - and the .rpm ecosystem is a significant core component of many systems including current versions of SuSE, etc.). Ubuntu has traditionally been a slightly more newbie-friendly / commercial-friendly version of Debian. I don't think many of the changes you're describing were really trying to defy Fedora, especially not the choice to use .deb over .rpm.

That said, I did use Fedora for a while when Ubuntu started messing with Gnome a lot and I found it very refreshing, easy and reliable. It's a great distro, but the relationship between the two is absolutely not "upstream" and "downstream".

She also works for media studios who would see themselves as the poor victims of digital piracy. Instead of dismissing her viewpoint based on her status, maybe try addressing the point that stealing a car is actually not at all the same as copying software or digital media, and arguments that they really are equivalent miss the point and lead to pretty dumb laws.

Her most famous role was on The Office, which constituted a significant portion of Netflix's bandwidth (7% is one hand-wavy estimate based on related data), and Netflix has been estimated to have been an even more significant portion of worldwide Internet traffic (25% - 35% in some data). They're hand-wavy numbers but I would be confident that the show Mindy Kaling is best known for having written and acted in has easily made up over 1-2% of global Internet traffic at times. I wouldn't say she's entirely divorced from the issue of digital media piracy.

Also it's from a stand up comedy routine. It's okay to laugh in life.

"You know what? I would steal a car. If it was as easy as, like, touching the car and then 30 seconds later I own the car. And like, I would steal a car if by stealing the car, the person who owned the car they got to keep the car. And uh, I would also steal a car if no one I had ever met had ever bought a car before in their whole lives." -- Mindy Kaling

That's a pretty snarky response. Between the popularity of dairy products (and whipped cream in particular), the problems caused by obesity, the environmental impact of dairy cattle, and a growing segment of the population that has a moral objection to raising them for food production. You really need someone else to spell out the practical applications of an advance in growing something like this in a lab?

So your own comments can be more informed, you're commenting on TFA where those HN discussions are aligned with what the actual Wikipedia contributors think. And those comments started after several very well-sourced articles on the Foundations finances were shared.

Do you have anything more HN-caliber than that to share with us?

I think that's exactly why we have a republic with representatives, but I don't even think people are qualified to pick good representatives. A campaign can easily pander to people who are acting selfishly or stupidly. At the end of the day, if you have people who can't even understand compound interest by the time they're entering university and who can't do a cost-benefit analysis on loans, why are those people supposed to catch nuances in monetary and fiscal policy and select from a panel of alleged experts?

And yet that's the same kind of distinction that you need to understand to be able to make decisions about household debt. If we're honestly at the point where this is considered too confusing for the masses, I think I've stopped thinking democracy is a good idea.

Losing jobs will eventually happen regardless for any business that loses money like they were. When the company has over-hired, layoffs at least mean they're taking corrective action now.

Sucks for the people affected now, possibly impacts fewer people long-term though. I doubt many Twitter employees will struggle to find reemployment quickly.

I'm not sure what you're saying "is it" to. If your insurance does not go up when living in an area with conditions like downtown SF right now, it's only because you're in a risk pool with other people not having those problems. It still does no good to deny those problems like it isn't a clear breakdown of society. And if you're talking about San Francisco your rent is hardly a baseline of affordable as you said, so I'm not sure why you make that comparison or why greedy developers price gouging is somehow NOT also a sign of dysfunctional society.

That's also why insurance gets so expensive. Insurance spreads out risk. It doesn't lower it.

On my last 3-day business trip to San Francisco I stepped over multiple unconscious bodies on the sidewalk daily to get from my hotel to my office, walked into a pharmacy that had had shelves cleaned out minutes earlier, and saw a ton of cars with signs asking to not be robbed because no valuables were kept in the car. The backdrop was signs extolling the success of the city in social justice. Such a stark contrast between the city's obvious problems and some alternate reality it lives in.

Edit: oh, and I accidentally stepped on (and broke) a crack pipe on the sidewalk and had to run from the angry person it belonged to. Remind me to refuse to accept another business trip there.