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Police sure seem pleased thumping skulls.

Anything we can do to make it easier for them.


Maybe your country should worry less about the technology and more about the people using it. You clearly have a personelle problem.


Maybe we should police each other more, and technology less?

But who is making the technology?

Circles. Circles everywhere.

Perhaps you should not anthropomorphize technology.


I am explicitly _not_ anthropromorphizing technology; I argued it is a logical abstraction with no rights.


I don’t like “let” because of my math dept in school was all “= is pronounced is” for some reason (long time ago)

“let n is 10”

Tear some hair out every time, as I can’t get my brain to stop


Why would the pronunciation of the equals sign not be "equals"?


Oh I dunno, seems like it’s an honest platform versus the euphemism and platitudes industrialists use.


Yes, let’s have your anecdotal experience be the basis for curbing speech.

I’ve lost dozens of friends and family to alcoholism and drunk driving.

I can’t really get behind the cherry picking; society is being damaged in other real ways to a much greater extent than heroin, yet we find the ennui to overlook them; freedom of choice, speech, too expensive to bother, political authority...

Portugal has the model we should adopt and let this be as solved a problem it can be.


Most advocates for decriminalization I’ve encountered have a platform of using taxes for counseling and addiction services.

The middle ground you seek is already defined clearly. Are you sure your perspective here is as informed as it could be?


All this suggests to me is Epic has a limited path to growth without courts deciding they indeed are entitled to more profit without producing anything net new.


This feels like an arbitrary perspective.

Text has all the same properties as an image.

It’s a composite of elements of varying height, width, and meaning to the whole.

Some sentences can be longer, or shorter. One element can be overloaded with meaning more than another.

I’m not really sure if there’s a point here at all.


I like how the modern meme can capture an entire gestalt in 640x480 px. It's an extremely efficient means of communicating amongst people.


Another billionaire talking about others having entitlement issues.

Insert line about smelling their own.

This blog post is yet another confirmation for me that similar to how we can have infinitely big small numbers, we can have infinitely verbose rambles around small ideas.


Is it hard to take pollen allergies from dozens of different plants seriously?

How about dust and smoke? How can someone be allergic to both! The temerity.

It’s less about chemistry of the materials, more about the sensitivity of the squishy, arbitrary human body.


Pollen I don't avoid, because it's not a new substance.

"Dust" allergies often have to do with the substances which are on the dust, which is covered above.

Smoke is certainly not good for you.

This squishy arbitrary human body is the only one I've got for today, so I avoid whatever I think may harm it, even if there is no dots on the i's and crosses on the t's with regards to scientific proof.

If you look at the history of teflon, plastics, cigarettes, VOCs, synthetic food ingredients, you'll see that this strategy would have served a human well in the past, and it's the best one I can think of to follow for the foreseeable future.


One problem with this kind of reasoning is that it's the same thing that the people with the 5G allergies say. It's tricky because VOCs probably are very bad for us, so there's a kernel of truth in it, but you don't want to balance your entire house on a single kernel, if that makes sense.


How about judging each case on its merits rather than shoving them all in the conspiracy box to feel better?


I agree that's how we should do it, and think we are both making the same critique.


Point and click or keyboard UX for this stuff is awful no matter how you slice it.

At most I want a prompt for my unlock password when the password manager sees I’m on a site or in an app it has a password for.

We still externalize way too much orthogonal effort on users.

One of the reasons I like 1pwd is their cli tool. I can put such a call to it in a script, authenticate and stop giving a crap about 1pwd


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