This is simplifying the definition to the point of defining the term out of existence. No one actually has any convictions in this world. This is actually kinda bad if your goal is for people to really think about ethical issues and try to maintain a degree of rational consistency.
Plus being so black and white in the manner you're describing would.. well actually be really stupid a lot of the times. The fact that Batman doesn't kill the Joker is a storytelling device, in the real world it would be monumentally stupid to do anything other than blow his brains out. Literally millions of lives saved. But it also makes sense, and his good, that Batman still maintain is strong conviction to not kill despite choosing to do it sometimes.
Rules necessarily have exceptions and it's healthy to do so, black and white thinking should be for the jedi/sith, not real life humans.
It’s interesting that you picked up The Dark Knight. The Joker says that he’s only holding a mirror to the society which I tend to agree with somewhat. He used the people from inside the system to take on Batman and in fact succeeds. Killing him would achieve absolutely nothing when the system is so insidiously corrupt.
Right but you have to look at this data honestly because we have one and a half generations of people who grew up with an unrestricted, and arguably worse in terms of content, internet. If you're going to point to a cause it had better be something in the set of things that didn't affect millennials or older gen-z, stuff like violent and pornographic content clearly aren't in it.
Browsers that have cookies and/or JS disabled have been getting broken experiences for well over a decade, it's hard to take this criticism seriously when professional sites are the most likely to break in this situation.
Yeah this take kind of surprised me, you really wanted Valkey to be the default option for cloud customers ensuring they'll have no migration path to your own offering? I just don't get it. You were getting $0 and now you're getting $0.
God the US is so far on the Authoritarian side of the graph that even our "burn down the government deregulate everything" party can't help themselves. Any voter romanticism about having the government have less control over your life surely has to be dispelled by this point. This was the GOPs moment to actually deregulate things in a manner that's good for people and they just said, "we're keeping everything the same, just with conspiracy theories added." I mean it's probably for the best that they're squandering their shot on stupid shit like this but I still wonder if they will ever wake up and realize their position as not the opposition party anymore and that they have to / get to lead — tackle the bigger issues and shape the direction of the country going forward. They won, they owned the libs mission accomplished whatever and now it's their moment to govern and they're still acting like pissed off back seat drivers.
In tech terms they're the principal architects now and they're using that power to get their preferences on minor PR reviews merged.
They're doing exactly what they wanted to do and planned to do. To a significant extent these were the goals of the american conservative movement going back decades. This is what leadership means to the right and what it always has. Death and destruction.
I feel like it’s a very strange person that is comforted by all of this. I am super susceptible to nostalgia, but in a nerdy VHS and Afghan blanket kind of way, nothing about any of what Trump is doing makes me think of the good old days. And I long for the good old days!
My condolences, the only thing Windows is actually needed for is playing games and thanks to Valve and SteamOS's work on Proton, Linux is a truly viable alternative now.
Generally specialist software for different industries will make you pick between Apple and Microsoft but I think that's a different beast because having a one-off (cracked) Windows box for say video editing meets the protest bar pretty well.
I know that you mean a system that transfers money but you are also describing Anubis because PoW is literally to make accessing the site cost more and scale that cost proportional to the load.
Sort of. Anubis is frontloading the cost all at once and then amortizing it over a large number of subsequent requests. That detail is what's causing the issue when browsing with additional privacy measures.
Yes! And once you have it the way you like it can stay there forever hermetically sealed with all your plugins and integrations on pinned versions until you decide to upgrade them. The feature of "will work exactly the same forever until I have time to spend to deal with updates" is underrated.
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