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Tiananmen Square happens in other countries - communist countries. Freedom-loving America could never do such a thing.

The US does routinely murder much larger numbers of people over much smaller crimes, like those fishing boats their AI thought might be carrying drugs.

That's why they said "also"

Could I be arrested and sent to Texas for running a site with porn that doesn't demand ID?

As long as Congress thinks drugs are shipped in giant parcels, it doesn't matter how drugs are actually shipped.

And when Age of Empires came out, Age of Empires 2 became the focus of development. You could still play Age of Empires.

Have you played the Factorissimo mod yet? It's literally abstraction.

Space Age is intentionally a different game. They did not discontinue the original game. Space Age is a mod. You can play it or not, just like you can play Bob's/Angel's or Pyanodon's or not.

I think given the past history it is reasonable to assume the executive branch will ignore the budget and spend and raise money how it wants.

Stop calling it a theory. It's an excuse.

"Chaos" defined as "Only Republican voters can figure out how to vote"

Popular mandate is surely 65% as the bare minimum. 51% is not a mandate, it just shows they hate you slightly less than the other guy.

Fascism is, and always has been, how capitalism defends itself from socialism. When the population starts getting the idea that the people who rules us (billionaires) are bad people or have too much power, the rulers defend themselves by redirecting it at one or more scapegoat groups instead (like Skaia in Homestuck, to make a particularly silly analogy). Often, this works. This is what happened in Germany.

The word "fasces" as in "bundle of sticks" refers to to the elites putting aside their individual differences and banding together to protect their class. They have no problem doing class consciousness.

The way your body detects foreign cells is the same way your body detects foreign cells. It detects anything that doesn't have your, specific, randomly-generated at conception, friend-or-foe markers.

Crystals catalyze their own expansion in a suitable solution.

In most of them you form coalitions.

Can you elaborate on "migration" being an "issue that plagues the voting population"?

Remember that North Koreans genuinely believe they are living in the most free country on earth.

It's exactly what we were doing before the semver hype cycle, but with 0. in front!

You don't have to hold a tool the way its creator intended. Do you call yourself a hacker?

Our society is already mostly parasitism-based. Everything in Bullshit Jobs is parasitism and that's the majority of all jobs, plus there's non-job parasitism as well.

some people think that's how humans got so intelligent. actually if you think about it, it's the only way humans could have got so intelligent. brains were our tail feathers for a while.

That depends if there's still a demand for educated people. Doesn't matter how good they are for society - only how much demand there is. If there's no demand, the schools have no reason to change.

Then don't do approvals. Comment "approved" and if someone merges without someone else commenting "approved" someone gets mad at them.

If your process is bothering you, change your process - it's in your control. Write a new bullet point: "doc-only updates can skip review and CI". When you make a doc-only update, you click the "skip checks and merge anyway" button. Some people are so preoccupied with making sure things can only be done a certain way, they don't stop to think about whether it's the right way.

Of course someone will object to doc-only updates not getting review. That person is now on the hook for reviewing all doc updates after you merge them. It's the exact same thing you were doing before - they only objected when it got formalised.

Before OpenVPN there was IP-in-IP encapsulation, which is as simple as a VPN can get (no encryption, but that hadn't been invented yet). Wireguard is basically IP-in-UDP plus encryption. You know what else is basically IP-in-UDP plus encryption? IPsec, and it really sucks, for the same reasons OpenVPN does.

It's called design by committee. It's when you get everyone in a room and nobody can make a tradeoff because it would hurt someone else's pet use case, so you don't actually design anything at all, just build a framework within which a design can exist.

Anyone who has used Wireguard and OpenVPN will spot the difference. OpenVPN is the design-by-committee, Wireguard is the focused opinionated design by someone with a vision. OpenVPN does more things, but if your use case is one that suits Wireguard, Wireguard does it much better.

You also see it with OSI stack versus IP. OSI invented all these layers for proving identity, establishing circuits, sessions, different billing models, collect calls, quality of service, all that stuff. IP looked at that and said: fuck that noise - we send packets, if they don't arrive we send them again, job done. Nobody uses the OSI stack, even though IP fits the OSI model loosely enough that they still teach it, and X.509 got reused as boilerplate for WebPKI certificates.

XML vs JSON is another one. Granted marked-up text, which XML was actually designed for, is very ugly in JSON, but even in that use case, XML has way too much complexity.

If the IP, Wireguard or JSON people designed an SSO system you'd telnet or HTTP into the authenticating party, perform its login steps, get a token you could copy-paste into the relying party and it would check back with the authenticating party to see if the token is valid and the username of the person who signed in - done. And then someone would make a browser extension to automate the copy-paste part. Or maybe they'd embed it in an iframe. Instead we got whatever the hell this is.

Protocol complexity is where bugs hide, including vulnerabilities. It also creates incompatibility wherever two implementations implement it differently - and that's intentional in many cases. It's just bad. You have to be opinionated about what you design or you designed nothing at all. If it doesn't fit all use cases you can design something else to cover the rest.

It is a private equity channel, so this is surely the reason. They have a team whose job is finding the most engaging content topics.

You can't refute someone by just saying "nuh uh"