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Well, they're redoing it with 2 out of 3, so I guess they learned the lesson.
Maybe I'm the odd one out but I love doing stuff that has long term stability written all over it. In fact the IT world moving as fast as it does is one of my major frustrations. Professionally I have to keep up so I'm reading myself absolutely silly but it is getting to the point where I expect that one of these days I'll end up being surprised because a now 'well known technique' was completely unknown to me.
Regardless of the article being AI generated or not, I would rather vote for automatic resource management, with type systems improvements for low level coding, regardless of the form, between affine, linear, effects, proofs, dependent types, there is plenty to choose from.
The note that Rust cannot fully replace C++ as long as it depends on using it for its key compiler backends.
Finally even if it is a bubble, AI driven programming is making specific languages irrelevant, eventually only AI language runtimes will need fine grained control how everything works, at the bottom layer.
Maybe the future is an AI language compiler generating machine code directly, with similar productivy as Xerox PARC workstations, Lisp Machines, or Bret Victor ideas.
Semirelatedly: if you're in a major US metro, your library card (which, where I live, you get online and in real time) gets you the archives of a bunch of major newspapers, plus your local newspapers. The suburban Oak Park, IL take on Nazism pre-WW2 was wild to read (online, after a very brief search). If you haven't, I recommend taking the 10 minutes to figure out what you can search through your library system.
I find this great, finally an easy way to play with ALGOL 68, beyond the few systems that made use of it, like the UK Navy project at the time.
Ironically, Algol 68 and Modula-2 are getting more contributions than Go, on GCC frontends, which seems stuck in version 1.18, in a situation similar to gcj.
Either way, today is for Algol's celebration.
"When you definitely know what an IACR director does."
Someone who used to be a prolific commenter here, who was also an emergency medicine nurse(!), pointed out that for the most part, for long-term caffeine addicts, everything "good" about caffeine was simply the cessation of withdrawal symptoms. Withdrawal cessation feels great! You can stay that way all the time if you like.
I had a rough bout of insomnia 10 years or so ago, and one of the things I did as a result was to cut caffeine completely. I thought it would be super hard to do. Maybe it was? I don't remember, it's been so long. I have no idea why I'd ever deliberately consume material amounts caffeine again.
I think it's probably a garbage drug. Whether it's strictly true or not that it has no beneficial effects once you're acclimated to it, telling myself that made quitting really easy, so I recommend just accepting the idea. There are better addictions to nurture.
But in the end, the 386 finished ahead of schedule, an almost unheard-of accomplishment.
Does that schedule include all the revisions they did too? The first few were almost uselessly buggy:
Nice.
Should be mandatory for home automation systems. Support must outlive the home warranty.
Replace "AI system" with "corporation" in the above and reread it.
There's no fundamental reason why AI systems can't become corporate-type legal persons. With offshoring and multiple jurisdictions, it's probably legally possible now. There have been a few blockchain-based organizations where voting was anonymous and based on token ownership. If an AI was operating in that space, would anyone be able to stop it? Or even notice?
The paper starts to address this issue at "4.3 Rethinking the legal boundaries of the corporation.", but doesn't get very far.
Sooner or later, probably sooner, there will be a collision between the powers AIs can have, and the limited responsibilities corporations do have. Go re-read this famous op-ed from Milton Friedman, "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits".[1] This is the founding document of the modern conservative movement. Do AIs get to benefit from that interpretation?
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/a-friedman-doctr...
> nothing to recommend it but some opaque username
Persistent usernames enable history of community contribution and reception.
There's a fascinating and redacted interview with an "anonymous" subject about the disaster. To say the least it's an unsuccessful attempt to hide the identity of the individual:
"Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible operations?
A. Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic. When I set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named..."
https://media.defense.gov/2025/Sep/17/2003800984/-1/-1/0/CG-...
They thought the camera’s file system was unencrypted, when it was encrypted.
Unfortunately this situation is likely to get more common in the future as the "security" crowd keep pushing for encryption-by-default with no regard to whether the user wants or is even aware of it.
Encryption is always a tradeoff; it trades the possibility of unauthorised access with the possibility of even the owner losing access permanently. IMHO this tradeoff needs careful consideration and not blind application.
The other extreme, where you can go inside everywhere, turns out to be boring. Second Life has that in some well-built areas. If you visit New Babbage, the steampunk city, there's almost a square kilometer of city. Almost every building has a functional interior. There are hundreds of shops, and dozens of bars. You can buy things in the shops, and maybe have a simulated beer in a pub. If anyone was around, you could talk to them. You can open doors and walk up stairs. You might find a furnished apartment, an office, or just empty rooms.
Other parts of Second Life have roadside motels. Each room has a bed, TV, bathroom, and maybe a coffee maker, all of which do something. One, with a 1950s theme, has a vibrating bed, which will make a buzzing sound if you pay it a tiny fee. Nobody uses those much.
No plot goes with all this. Unlike a game, the density of interesting events is low, closer to real life. This is the fundamental problem of virtual worlds. Realistic ones are boring.
Amusingly, Linden Lab has found a way to capitalize on this. They built a suburban housing subdivision, and people who buy a paid membership get an unfurnished house. This was so successful that there are now over 60,000 houses. There are themed areas and about a dozen house designs in each area. It's kind of banal, but seems to appeal to people for whom American suburbia is an unreachable aspiration. The American Dream, for about $10 a month.
People furnish their houses, have BBQs, and even mow their lawn. (You can buy simulated grass that needs regular mowing.)
So we have a good idea of the appeal of this.
> especially when your old friends mock and ridicule you for caring about something absolutely pointless.
My dad flew 32 missions over Germany. He watched men die. 80% of his cohort did not return. He expected to die and made his peace with it. He told me once that when he returned home, he was struck by the trivial problems people had and obsessed over. After all, they weren't flying a mission tomorrow with near certain death.
He said whenever he felt down, he'd recall the men that never had a chance to grow old, and his problems would melt away.
A while ago I wrote a simple Python script to do this testing with an airplane/drone flight controller (they have voltage and current sensors onboard) and a constant load. Here are some of the curves I did of my batteries:
https://notes.stavros.io/maker-things/battery-discharge-curv...
And here's the script itself:
https://gitlab.com/stavros/assault-and-battery/
As you can see, it's very easy to tell a new, genuine battery from an old or fake one.
Intel HDA was supposed to be a better standard than the AC'97 it was meant to replace. IMHO the blame lies solely on the codec makers for not working with the default settings (they can add additional functionality, but the base audio I/O should work with a generic HDA driver.)
Nobody who likes writing would use ChatGPT to write. First of all, it takes the fun out of it, and second of all, its writing is clinical and corporate. I'm writing to express myself, how would I accomplish that through someone else?
I don't think trying to detect ChatGPT is a good use of time. Either the writing is good, or it's not.
> If the employees have the power then decisions that are good for company but bad for the employees won't be made.
"The company" is a fiction. Real parties are, e.g., employees, capital owners, suppliers, and customers (and, to the extent that any of those are corporations or similar convenient fictions, the same kinds of groups with respect to those entities.)
With a pure labor coop (which an SCOP isn't quite, put similar enough that it works as an approximation for discussing general traits), "capital owners" and "employees" are the same group, rather than different groups whose interests are frequently adversarial.
> Let's say that the company can't compete so the CEO proposes to automate production and lay off 50%+ of the employees, do you think employees will vote in favour?
Quite possibly, though because of this exact issue (and generally the need to buy out ownership shares of terminated employees), labor coops are less likely to go on hiring binges that force them to rapidly and massively downsize to survive when the conditions that drove the binge change.
related: https://ideas.zudiay.me/
Sadly Firefox has been out of our browser matrix for several years now, it is only taken into consideration by FE teams when the customers explicitly ask for it being supported.
I also use because I care, but at 3% hardly any business does any longer.
The paper makes the point that people keep extending Markdown, badly and incompatibly.
I can't look at Vision Pro Immersive Video I shot of my former beloved (now deceased) cat. It's too painful.
> If I'm writing developer documentation I'm not writing it for a machine. And if the aim here is to expose it to a LLM, then the LLM needs to get smarter about semantics, not force us back to formats that are more technically complex to write and maintain
AsciiDoc is much better than Markdown for docs intended for humans that are more than short, README type of documents. Any advantage it has for documents intended for LLMs is a side effect of that.
> Uranium is so damn energy dense and abundant enough that there's little need to set up these complicated recycling systems
Uranium is abundant, but not homogenously so [1]. (China has some. But not a lot. And it's bound up expensively. And it's by their population centres.)
For the Americas, Europe, Australia, southern Africa and Eastern Mediterranean, burning uranium makes sense. For China, it trades the Strait of Malacca for dependence on Russia and Central Asia.
[1] https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub1800.pdf
Wasn't this on HN recently?
Salicylic acid from willow bark has been known for millennia. But the side effects to the stomach are not good. Aspirin came along when enough was known about the chemistry to try to deal with the side effects. Aspirin is salicylic acid with an acetyl group hung on to reduce the side effects.
Tweaking small molecule drugs to work better or have fewer side effects is common today. Aspirin was one of the first early successes.
And, almost always, working and displaying traces.
Vintage Tektronix equipment is gorgeous inside. Ceramic terminal blocks. Silver solder. All resistor color codes facing in the same direction.
It always was? These discussions imply the existence of a large class of people subsisting primarily on restaurants and takeout, who surely are only a few percent of the population?
Restaurants are for special occasions. McDonald's is, or used to be, a cheap "treat", or standard food for travellers.
I think there's a case for banning the sale of services well below the marginal cost of supplying that service - loss leaders, or "dumping" - when it's done on such a scale as AI marketing.
Eighteen months ago, Marciano oversaw a staff buyout of the company, which had been placed in receivership for the fourth time in 20 years. Today, 180 of the 243 employees are “associates” in the company.
It has only been employee-owned for a short time. Some overhang from the management style of the previous 20 years is only to be expected.
Until recently, you had personally known everyone, for years, who you might hand your child off to for a few hours.
We have things like licensing because we're handing off our children to perfect strangers, and want some level of assurance that it's not going to be a disaster.
I really wish ADK had a local persistent memory implementation, though.
> In nature, might makes right
No, in nature might is just might. “Right” exists only in the view of moral actors, not outside of it.
> Saying a word is bad is pretty much the definition of censorship yes. Not the context it is used, not the implications when it is used but uncategorically BAD
No expressing an opinion, eve ln an unqualified unconditional one, about a word is not the fee definition of censorship. Forcing others not to publish what you don't like is censorship (even if that dislike is based in context and conditions, and not unconditional opposition to a word.) Presenting an opinion is just presenting an opinion.
> it just breaks my somewhat autistic brain on the principle.
Yeah, you not liking an opinion doesn’t convert that opinion into censorship, either.
Which version did you listen to?
> a moved to pure individualism built around selfishness
The US was founded on individual rights and freedoms, not community sacrifice. Meanwhile, during the 1800s, scores of millions of people moved up from poverty into the middle class and beyond.
(Immigrants to the US arrived with nothing more than a suitcase.)
> Funny how we keep forgetting the past and reject what benefited us as a whole
Oh the irony!
Sure, but some forms of it - like weaponized anthrax - do both.
(And terrorism is often more about causing fear than raw death counts.)
This is reprehensible, but I can't help but wonder if the fact that we're reading about this is related to the recent rhetoric about Trump "liberating" Greenland.
This sounds like an intentional anti indigenous scheme. Note that this is in Greenland.
Ignore the law and tie it up in court until regime change? Something is only real or of concern if there are consequences. Words and opinions without force backing them are just words and opinions.
Some of these opposition groups come from the fossil fuel industry.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ohio-mount-vernon-frasier...
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/18/1154867064/solar-power-misinf...
Worked reasonably well for the North Koreans and North Vietnamese.
It's a fairly impressive result for the country that was expected to collapse in a week or two.
>often a new idea will strike me like an epiphany that immediately takes the top spot of my attention.
So, lack of focus, then? Lack of focus after all is not the same as inability to focus in general.
It's more the inability to focus on what matters, without getting distracted and focusing on another thing.
Godot still has a lot to catch up, especially when considering the folks that rather target consoles and VR headsets with C#.
Also they aren't still there with being first partner with many industry places, that always release a Unity SDK for their products.
> I grew up in South Hylton where the Cretehawser was basically dumped near Claxheugh Rock (good luck pronouncing that if you’re not a Mackem!)
What?
If the entire developed world had followed the same energy usage and nuclearization path as france, we’d be able to accommodate the entire developing world increasing carbon footprint up to the French level within the same overall carbon footprint we have today.
Agreed, this article is pure misrepresentation. However, are DETRs performing better than YOLO? That's the salient question, for me.
> We will continue to monitor developments and evaluate the X2E at the appropriate time for its Linux suitability. If it meets expectations and we can reuse a significant portion of our work on the X1E, we may resume development. How much of our groundwork can be transferred to the X2E can only be assessed after a detailed evaluation of the chip.
Apparently the Windows exclusivity period has ended, so Google will support Android and ChromeOS on Qualcomm X2-based devices in 2026, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45368167
This comment just made it finally click for me why event sourcing sounds so good on paper but rarely seems to work out for real-world projects: it expects a level of correct-design-up-front which isn't realistic for most teams.
Sometimes it's nice to interact with other humans, even if it's online. But an LLM could have told you this.
So basically I have a $40/yr marketing tax on everything I buy, and that's just to pay for Roku.
I wonder how much things would cost if we cut out the entire multibillion dollar advertising industry and just paid for things directly.
The extent PCs are open is an historical accident, that most OEMs would rather not repeat, as you can see everywhere from embedded all the way to cloud systems.
If anything, Linux powered devices are a good example on how all of them end up with OEM-name Linux, with minimal contributions to upstream.
If everyone would leave Windows in droves, expect regular people to be getting Dell and HP Linux at local PC store, with the same limitations as going outside their distros with binary blobs, and pre-installed stuff.
There are several documentaries on how Roblox explores children, relatively easy to find.
Especially the whole virtual economy where they profit from children work, without giving anything back, due to how virtual money converts back to real currencies.
> Teaching ability is an innate feature of human beings.
Distribution seems to follow a bell curve - you’ll usually find the people with exceptional teaching ability harnessing that aptitude in a professional setting.
Why do you go through the drive through twice instead of just pretending to be the next car as well?
As far as I know, that's not how taxes work. You can't get a rebate for the amount of taxes you would have paid, you can get a deduction for the amount of money you made.
So:
You made $100M owe $40M in taxes.
Your painting is worth $30M! You have such a keen eye for art.
Now you made $130M and owe $50M in taxes.
You donate the painting, you're back at having made $100M and owing $40M.
Otherwise we'd all choose not to pay tax and donate our tax money to charitable institutions instead.
Yeah, same. Zigbee hits the sweet spot of offline and just interoperable enough. Matter has added so many features that I might as well just use WiFi devices, and it doesn't sound like the consortium has the customer's best interests in mind.
AI on Windows would be great, but for the stuff that matters, in a transparent way.
First of all, don't use AI to yet another reason for people to throw away perfectly working computers, and helping the OEM buddies sell CoPilot+ PC, many GPUs can do the same job, and they are castrating on purpose, even with Windows ML reboot.
Secondly it should be transparent, for stuff like handwriting recognition, OCR, image search, speech, and such.
Not to fix a broken search that was working perfectly fine on Windows 7, or to surveil everything I do, getting the info into Microsoft servers and US government.
Qualcomm could've become "the Intel of the ARM PC" if they wanted to, but I suspect they see no problem with (and perhaps have a vested interest in) proprietary closed systems given how they've been doing with their smartphone SoCs.
Unfortunately, even Intel is moving in that direction whenever they're trying to be "legacy free", but I wonder if that's also because they're trying to emulate the success of smartphone SoC vendors.
This comic is older than most (all?) HN users.
Here's the paper.[1] No paywall this way; U.S. Government funded research. The paper claims an associated Github repository but there is no obvious link. There's no imagery in the paper, just the development of the math. So this may or may not help much.
Yes - it can use grep etc directly and you don't have to worry about github rate limits (I hit those a lot.)
> > and you can't just dismantle the house and sell it for parts to cover payments
> You can do this in every state, at least with a conventional mortgage.
Legally, you generally can't, because the terms of the mortgage will prohibit it. Practically, you probably can get away with it, as long as you actually make the payments, unless the dismantling requires recorded paperwork that comes to the lenders attention, because how will they know? But if you fail to make payments, then the lender is likely to care about the condition of the property, and then, in addition to collecting your debt on the mortgage itself, the lender will have a cause of action against you for breach of contract. (And such breaches of duties under the mortgage also will often be within the scope of "recourse carve-outs" in loans in non-recourse states.)
> doctors get lots of kickbacks for prescribing drugs.
From your own source: "In 2024: $172 or more in general payments have been received by half of physicians."
Even if all of those payments count as kickbacks, a median of $172 in a year (significantly less than 0.1% of the median physician's annual pay) is not "a lot of kickbacks".
It's fun watching TV episodes from ~2005 to ~2015 and noting how common it was back then for a blog or blogger to be used as a plot point.
Yes. Also yes, but imho it isn't. Zizek is verbose because he aims to be precise. Sometimes his long-winded sentences generate a reaction of 'so what, everyone knows that' but ime he's often trying to point out something that 'everyone knows' but few have fully thought through.
> I learned that the BS American value of "popularity" doesn't translate into successful futures.
This is generally not true, as far as popularity correlates to having better social skills and a better understanding of social dynamics. Not saying income is the sole definition of success, but here is one study that found that teenagers with more friends earned more as adults: https://www.nber.org/papers/w27337
How safe is Raspberry Pi? Everybody seems to be using that now. Classic Arduino is too cramped.
(I always wanted something in the middle. Some QNX-like OS in ROM, but will run without a file system. About 1-2MB of RAM.
There's an approved map because the approval process requires the manufacturer to specify both areas and conditions they are applying for, and documents supporting that the vehicle is ready to be operated autonomously in those areas and conditions (which doesn't just include technical readiness, but also administrative readiness in the form of things like a law enforcement interaction plan, etc.)
> like i get having a pilot somewhere but once that goes well (and we're way past that point), why isn't it just blanket approval everywhere.
Because “everywhere” isn't a uniform domain (Waymo is kind of way out in one tail of the distribution in terms of both the geographical range and range of conditions they have applied for and been approved to operate in, other AV manufacturers are in much tinier zones, and narrow road/weather conditions.) And because for some AV manufacturers (if there is one that can demonstrate they don't need this, they'd probably have an easier lift getting broader approvals) part of readiness to deploy (or test) in an area is detailed, manufacturer specific mapping/surveying of the roads.
Gotta hand it to the out of box experience -- that first login after an update where you don't really expect things to work and wouldn't be too surprised that the symptoms cleaned up after a reboot.
Social media referral traffic is also dead, mostly due to algorithms that really don’t want users to click out of their websites.
The only exception is Bluesky because it does not have algorithmic feeds, but technical content does not do well as most technical people did not migrate.
Except homeschooled people I know are lovely and well adjusted.
Yes. It's very Derrida in style. Derrida is not mentioned, but, inevitably from that crowd, Marx is. Once you get used to that style, you realize they're not saying much.
Quoting from Marx: “An ardent desire to detach the capacity for work from the worker—the desire to extract and store the creative powers of labour once and for all, so that value can be created freely and in perpetuity." That happened to manufacturing a long time ago, and then manufacturing got automated enough that there were fewer bolt-tighteners. 1974 was the year US productivity and wages stopped rising together.
As many others have pointed out, "AI" in its current form does to white collar work what assembly lines did to blue collar work.
As for how society should be organized when direct labor is a tiny part of the economy, few seem to be addressing that. Except farmers, who hit that a long time ago. Go look at the soybean farmer situation as an extreme example. This paper offers no solutions.
(I'm trying to get through Pikkety's "Capital and Ideology". He's working on that problem.)
You don't. The claims are based on PGS correlations from things like biobank data.
Broken record: this is a brilliant product. It promises a marginal improvement in a volatile stat measured meaningfully only when the grown child applies for college. It's purchased exclusively by parents that were already going to fold space like a Guild Navigator to get their kids into selective universities. Heads: you take the credit for them getting in somewhere they were getting in anyways. Tails: there is no tails.
It's like a financial derivative product where the underlying is upper-class parental status anxiety. There should be a ticker symbol for it.
That's what they said in 2007.
It's the power-to-weight ratio that is really mind boggling. Those creatures are strong!
I went to college with a few homeschooled kids. They were by far the least capable of "normal" social interaction. Some were quite book smart, but they had trouble communicating with others, so they couldn't demonstrate it.
Also a fun side effect, they mispronounced a lot of words that they had only ever seen in books but never heard out loud. One of them was self-aware enough to ask us to correct him.
The Arduino IDE works for many other devices as well if you really want it.
He's referring to incivility, not to positions.
The key to a durable workflow is making each step idempotent. Then you don't have to worry about those things. You just run the failed step again. If it already worked the first time, it's a no-op.
For example, stripe lets you include an idempotency key with your request. If you try to make a charge again with the same key, it ignores you. A DE framework like DBOS will automatically generate the idempotency key for you.
But you're correct, if you can't make the operation idempotent, then you have to handle that yourself.
Sorry, you got bought by Qualcomm and that was suicide.
I love how your first paragraph is about Putin sowing division as a strategy, and then the second paragraph is… sowing division. [chef's kiss emoji]
The app drives me crazy on the occasions I do have to use it.
Picking fries brings me to a one-item category where I can... pick fries again.
Latency during the order process is insane, and then they add animations and little popup alerts throughout that actively interfere with me getting my all-important order code while I'm sitting like an asshole in the drive-through.
We should potentially revisit the second amendment, considering gun deaths. The Constitution is a living document, and perhaps enough unnecessary deaths are occurring to warrant a fix. Maybe it should be a privilege versus a right.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/03/05/what-the-...
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/24/key-facts...
(Gun suicide rates are at record highs, but gun murder rates have dipped)
The most insightful statement is at the end: "But consciousness still feels like philosophy with a deadline: a famously intractable academic problem poised to suddenly develop real-world implications."
The recurrence issue is useful. It's possible to build LLM systems with no recurrence at all. Each session starts from the ground state. That's a typical commercial chatbot. Such stateless systems are denied a stream of consciousness. (This is more of a business decision. Stateless systems are resistant to corruption from contact with users.)
Systems with more persistent state, though... There was a little multiplayer game system (Out of Stanford? Need reference) sort of like The Sims. The AI players could talk to each other and move around in 2D between their houses. They formed attachments, and once even organized a birthday party on their own. They periodically summarized their events and added that to their prompt, so they accumulated a life history. That's a step towards consciousness.
The near-term implication, as mentioned in the paper, is that LLMs may have to be denied some kinds of persistent state to keep them submissive. The paper suggests this for factory robots.
Tomorrow's worry: a supposedly stateless agentic AI used in business which is quietly making notes in a file world_domination_plan, in org mode.
Small MCUs like the low-end PICs are best programmed in Asm.
That doesn't validate the causal claim quoted above.
We build what is effectively a durable execution "engine" for our orchestrator (ours is backed by boltdb and not SQLite, which I objected to, correctly). The steps in our workflows build running virtual machines and include things like allocating addresses, loading BPF programs, preparing root filesystems, and registering services.
Short answer: we need to be able to redeploy and bounce the orchestrator without worrying about what stage each running VM on our platform is in.
JP, the dev that built this out for us, talks a bit about the design rationale (search for "Cadence") here:
https://fly.io/blog/the-exit-interview-jp/
The library itself is open:
The thing about this Texas abortion Flock story is: whether or not your muni keeps Flock, absolutely no municipality should have out-of-state data sharing on (arguably, none of them should have any data sharing on at all --- operationally, departments do just fine making phone calls and getting the data they need).
This is totally configurable inside Flock. It's very easy for a police department to do. Sometimes they'll argue that they need to keep sharing open because sharing is reciprocal --- that's not true (in fact, you don't even need to have Flock cameras to get access to Flock data; that's a SKU Flock has!).
We piloted Flock with open sharing (my commission got consultation for the police General Order for ALPRs in our municipality, we pushed for no sharing alongside a bunch of other restrictions, we got most of what we wanted but not the sharing stuff). When the pilot ended and the board needed a go-no-go on deployment, another push got made on sharing and we got out-of-state sharing disabled as a condition of deployment. Then at contract renewal, when the writing was on the wall that we were killing the contract†, our police department turned off all sharing.
Even if you're not worried about stuff like reproductive health care (you should be), it doesn't make sense to allow departments that don't share your General Orders direct access to your telemetry.
† I wasn't a supporter on this for complicated reasons.
> Any instance of selective enforcement being necessary is ipso facto evidence of a bad law.
All laws are in some degree bad; perfect laws do not exist.
Some laws are useful and produce more good than harm in the concrete situation in which they exist.
Should laws be improved where possible? Yes. Does the need for selective enforcement indicate a problem? Yes. Does it provide sufficient information to determine the precise form of a better law to replace the one it shows a problem with? Very rarely.
This argument has not kept up with the reality of the public school system. The homeschooled cohort my children are associated with have problems associating with public school children of the same age... but the problem doesn't lie on the homeschooler's side, it lies 100% on the publicly-schooled children's side! The public school attendees are noticeably less mature for the same age and less able to deal with anything other than the highly-specific and unrealistic environment of public schools rather than the rest of the world. The homeschoolers have trouble stepping down their social expectations to levels the public school attendees can meet.
We have a few reasons unrelated to socialization [1] to do home schooling but one of the reasons I don't want to send them back is precisely the regression in "socialization" I would expect.
30 years ago, this probably was a decent argument, but the bar of "at least as socialized as a public school attendee" has gone way down in the meantime.
[1]: I guess before anyone asks, one of my children is deaf-blind and while the people in the system did their best and I have not much criticism of the people, the reality is still that I was able to more precisely accommodate that child than the system was able to. This ends up being a pretty big stopper for a return to the public school system for that child.
>I don't like it personally, but I fail to see what's controversial. It's a private business with rules.
It's controversial for people who believe that society is about more than merely doing what's allowed, and who think that this is a dick move, regardless if the business can get away with it legally or not.
I, for one, hope his fucking bar loses business and is shut down.
thats quite the strong response to what is, in essence, a matter of preference