free speech can be good. free speech can also be bad. overall, it’s more good than bad however society seems to agree that free speech has limits - you can’t defame someone, for example

free speech absolutism is fucking dumb; just like most other absolutist stances

this also isn’t even about free speech - this is about someone having access to information requested by investigators to solve crimes, and then refusing to give that information

wait you don’t use scales when cooking?????

every day make the best choices you can with the energy you have available. you may or may not win; you may or may not even make a difference; one day you may just need a fucking cheeseburger from macdonalds despite your usual moral misgivings… and that’s fine!

make choices to change the system, sure, but be aware of the direction you want and head in that direction… change is proactive; participants make the rules

you work with what you’ve got until you have something better… right now, you have a vote between 2 teams… get the fuck over it and vote, and in between work for something better

but right now, in this moment, in november

YOU FUCKING VOTE AGAINST THE MOST FASCIST

i’m am not an american

i live across the other side of the world

we have to live with the consequences of your decisions

we don’t get a choice in the matter

getting a small laptop as a dumb terminal and using a cloud server as a more beefy “as needed” machine isn’t a bad option either

trade agreements likely don’t cover this though

and sure there might be diplomatic pushback, but… is that really going to happen?

the EU already forces companies to make products to certain specifications if they want to be sold in the EU… as does the US and most other countries, and California in the US tends to set the standard that everyone else lives by

countries “invade” the autonomy of other countries’ markets all the time. the US is the worst offender. this is kinda the reason the EU exists: to have the power to force things to happen that is “outside” their jurisdiction

apple doesn’t have to comply. they don’t have to sell iphones in the EU. they’re making a choice

any efficiency gain outside a bottleneck doesn’t effect the end result at all: if you make things more efficient before the bottleneck, things just pile up before; if you make things more efficient after the bottleneck your resources are just waiting for work

in the context of storage, this means that if you don’t have hardware capable of using the data provided by the storage controller, or flash capable of feeding it then really there’s no point in having it

battery efficiency is of course cumulative, but as the author points out… meh; this is a drop in the ocean

immigrants are almost universally good for economies: they disproportionately start small businesses which leads to jobs and employment. they work hard because they’re thankful to be in the country they chose to be in

well, there’s a schema description built into compliant graphql apis and a tool called graphiql that consumes that and provides exactly that api explorer that you’re looking for. many graphql backend frameworks embed graphiql

https://docs.github.com/en/graphql/overview/explorer

ideally more immersion, whatever that means: perhaps by way of VR that’s tailored to each students experience, but i think you’re right on with less desk work

i’d say things like maths taught around a topic that the student enjoys: for me, for example, it would have been far more effective to teach me maths using space as a kinda framework to explore, and a universe you could play with… heck i might have finished a physics degree before i left high school if it hadve been presented the right way

theatre yes but they’ll never show anything other than that we should do UBI so let them have their theatre if it leads to a good outcome

i believe the article suggests that the current way of communicating biology - that genes are the code that runs the machinery of life - is dogmatically adhered to by science communicators

it also suggests that when we communicate our new understandings that we are careful not to fall into another dogmatic theory, because it’s complex and we just don’t know

this is language used in the article, i don’t have enough information or understanding to know whether it’s true or not