The problem is that it’s all a huge “what if” amenable for any narrative you want. In the end it provides justification for the never ending cycle of violence on people having no personal guilt.

Outside of UK, Coventry is mainly known for the bombing, is there some connection to its current bad state?

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My POV is that old events whose participants are dead stop being relevant for future moral actions. We should prefer justice for the living as opposed to justice for the already dead.

If you condemn the events leading to the status quo, then it’s necessarily the case that you should not take the status quo as any sort of ethical baseline.

That’s quite impractical since all nations and their borders were established as a result of unethical conquest. This can be used as a justification for an unending cycle of violence.

The only people in Taiwan with the right to self determination are the Taiwanese Indigenous peoples and Taiwan’s proletariat.

There are no indigenous peoples in Taiwan. We all come from Africa.

Having established the extreme, where do you cut the line who can exert self-determination? Most inhabitants of Taiwan were born in Taiwan, on what ground can’t they decide their fate?

Some, like tschüß, servus or ciao are informally used by some Czechs, others like guten tag, bon jour, dobro došli are understood, but not used unless in some joke way. It would be pretty weird to encounter any of them when talking to e. g. hotel staff, though, unless there’s an expectation you speak that language.

Everything was simple and straightforward except for updating an app after new release before the distro maintainers updated it in repos (which often took months).

Have you thought about why Switch is the best selling console in the current generation even though it’s by far the weakest in performance?

Who cares what OS the AWS machines are running? I can’t touch it, it’s completely inaccessible for me and other clients. I can only touch the services which AWS provides. I wouldn’t know the difference if it was running windows, since the OS is completely transparent, basically a hidden implementation detail.

You keep making the assumption that AWS == EC2, meanwhile it is just one of many services AWS provides.

Abstracting away is costly. You can target only the lowest common denominator. The abstractions are going to leak. It’s like the criticism of ORMs, only worse since SQL is at least standardized.

Post-scarcity society still has to be backed by something. In the novel, it’s 3d printers. If you have more 3d printers than others, you can use it to produce weapons to capture even more 3d printers from other people, making them scarce, and thus introducing scarcity again.

Too bad that Purism’s stated values are the opposite of their real business practices.

In a post scarcity society, you walk away. Let them have your shit. You can build new shit, better shit

How do you do that if they take all your 3d printers (the technology which sustains the post-scarcity world in this novel)?

So far they didn’t complain. My manager is all praise too ;-) It’s kinda weird that I’m supposed to be the asshole for not being hateful of a technology. But you the hater are the nice guy?

The things is, I don’t diss on technologies without arguments. I’ve grown to recognize that they are tools, not a subject of passion, at least in a professional context.

Sure, but part of the claim was “without any compilation”. But bun/deno do compile TS into JS.

I don’t know iMessage, but some of the more advanced features in WhatsApp/Messenger are great. I use shared location almost daily, voice messages are great too.

Does anyone know what level of interoperability is required? Like basic text, pictures, emoji… or every feature including things like location sharing?

Lol, so angry :-D jQuery hating must be a real passion for ya.