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Or we should make it so companies can't write an unrepealable law and then dump hundreds of millions of dollars into a disinformation campaign to get it passed.

Both are probably wishful thinking though.


It's repealable the same way it was passed: by popular vote.


Seems like @d2v has fallen for some misinformation.

They think this law is "unrepealable" which doesn't even make sense if you take half a second to think about it.

Kinda says more about them than anything else I guess.


> Kinda says more about them than anything else I guess.

Shit that's deep I'ma have to think on this one.


Have you tried out ghcid? It basically just runs ghci on your program every time you save, and gives an updated list of errors and warnings. Not interactive in the sense that you don't manually test your functions with it, but like 95% of debugging in Haskell is just fixing errors at compilation time. I find it to be a very nice developer experience. Just need a text editor and a terminal with ghcid open and you get immediate feedback as you program.

https://github.com/ndmitchell/ghcid


Haven't heard of it before, but this looks super interesting! Thanks for the recommendation. I really like the fact that my whole development workflow could be a text editor and a terminal.

I enjoyed developing Elm with TCR[1] a while back; also with an editor + a type checker (plus the revert part). I recompiled my whole source on each save; incremental recompilation should scale better.

[1]: https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/test-commit-revert-870bbd7...


I don't think Wikipedia fosters the kind of nihilistic hatred that lead to harassment campaigns and real world violence the way 4chan does. I get that not all of 4chan is pol and r9k, but that's still a decent chunk of the users. I can't think of a place on the internet with a higher concentration of incels and alt-right nazi types, besides 8chan.




Yeah. Worth noting that the Democrats helped make things significantly worse with the crime bill as well. Nixon and Regan got the ball rolling, but the Clinton admin doubled down on all of it.


That's because the Overton window was being dragged rightward in the wake of Reagan.


Couldn't we use that money to create jobs that have a more meaningful impact on people's day to day? Invest in alternative energy, fixing our infrastructure, improving public transit, etc... Put that investment in technology into technology that is more productive instead of the nth iteration of some piece of military technology that we'll never use.

I want that sweet high-speed rail, baby!


That would cool, but it would be a multi-year, probably multi-decade process. Not overnight.


> The two-dimensional variant of the theorem (also known as the pancake theorem) can be proved by an argument which appears in the fair cake-cutting literature

This is the first time that reading about math has made me hungry.


>To be an open platform for free speech, no censorship.

Unfortunately this kind of rhetoric is frequently coded language meaning "Hey Nazis, we won't kick you off of our platform for threatening to shoot up a synagogue". I think people should still legally be able to create unmoderated platforms, but the majority of people won't participate in them because they quickly become cesspools of hatred and harassment. Gab is the newer, shinier tech startup version of this, but it's existed before in the forms of 4chan, 8chan, and probably other platforms that I'm not familiar with.


I've gotten better service and respect for my privacy from USPS than any telecom monopoly like Verizon. If anything this feels like an argument in favor of municipal broadband. If the telecom industry is any indication, eliminating the USPS would just result in private mail carriers divvying up the country into a few regions run by monopolies, with lower quality service, and profiting at the expense of users. The point of a public good isn't to profit, but to serve a need that can't adequately be served by the private sector.


Definitely felt a little off, but if I didn't know that this was a deepfake, I would probably accept it as real. As usual, I don't know if that fits more in to the "remarkable" or "disturbing" category.


Eh, I'm not entirely sure I would have. The effect is near identical to when you have one person behind another, pretending to be the front person's arms and hands - the motions just don't match up right.

Maybe people who use faces more than full body language are more affected by this particular one?


I kind of agree, but it's hard to separate knowing that it's fake from my reaction to it. If this were presented without that context, I might feel like it's off, but not necessarily question it, especially if it came from a source I believed to be legitimate.


I also think, on top of all your points (which I agree with), keeping it shorter would make it more convincing. I think with the current usage of social media, short clips created through some synthetic means will be harder and harder to identify.


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