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I get what you’re saying but it’s a false premise. In today’s era, racist parents already block their children from even attending school with someone of a different color. Merely blocking comms would be a step before that in severity of control.

Parents have always had the ability (though maybe not explicitly the right to) control their children’s environment for the purposes of teaching personal beliefs. So long as the belief itself wasn’t deemed harmful to the child, society would allow it to continue propagate that way. Racism unfortunately has never been seen as innately harmful. It’s looked down on, yes, but not to the point of making it illegal to enforce in family life.


The main advantage of json is that it’s human readable and writable. Beyond that, it has no notion of user created data types so anyone using it has to do custom unmarshalling to get a type apart from sting, number, dict and list.

It would also be nice to see benchmarks of how much faster PyPy is getting each version. I know there is a tracking page but it tracks dozens of tests and has no absolute reference summary by version.

An easy chart to show v3.x is 10% faster than the last version would be great.


I would include the USA, with the caveat that in the US being sent to the military is often seen as a punishment for rich children where as in the Middle East being sent to the military can be an opportunity to build an independent power base for yourself or your family.

The USA has a volunteer military. Occasionally there are cases where the criminal court system might agree to dismiss a minor charge if the defendant enlists. But that doesn't happen to rich people, or those joining as commissioned officers (pilot track).

This is all true but I can’t see how it’s relevant to why I said.

The saying it’s true for officers seems to need greater support since historically officers were always nobility or from the leadership class. Today, in countries that are not full democracies, the leadership wants the military controlled by favorable people and that means family members.

But the risks that running a red light pose aren’t civil in nature, so it feels like a perversion to use civil infractions as an excuse to get sloppy with enforcement.

The alternative would be an actual criminal record because you misjudged a yellow light.

If the yellows are set correctly there should be very little of misjudging. You see yellow, if you can reasonably stop you do so. Judging only is an issue when you're going below the speed limit.

“If you can reasonably stop” needs to be judged and can be misjudged.

I’m not sure I’m against the bill since it’s implemented at the App Store level. They wanted a walled garden and became a duopoly. If we aren’t going to dismantle the walls, then at least the public has right to determine what happens at the gates.

For the same reason, I’m okay with the UK regional monopoly ISPs blocking all adult content by default, and requiring an adult user to disable the default block. It doesn’t give the ISP any more info than they already had on their customer, and puts the responsibility of fine grained monitoring of the device in the users hands.


The “app store” model they are defining will encompass some Linux distribution repositories, and will be used to regulate FOSS software distributed through those channels. This is not just about commercial app stores (though it should be limited to those).

Hobby software should not be subject to regulation. Nobody will write FOSS if they have to pay a lawyer or worry about fines, compliance, and such. (Actually some will continue to write it, but will move underground.)


Accountability according to reputation is exactly what is happening for AI providers. All these articles about Claude destroying systems makes people trust Claude less, and maybe even “fire” Claude by choosing another AI provider with better safeguards or low privileges built in.

I know a certain senior manager who refuses to use Figma because complex designs aren’t easily printable so you have to use the tool directly. Instead, they have my manager transcribe all the Figma interactions with screenshots into a PRD, then they print that and handwrite notes on it for their meetings.

They’re not old enough to have this be a habit from the pre compute days, but now AI has made it more and more possible to automate this kind of transcribing so I think everyone is happier for it.


Codes is a proper grammatical word in English, but we don’t use it in reference to general computer programming.

You can for example have two different organizations with different codes of conduct.

There is though nothing technically wrong with seeing each line of code as an complete individual code and referring to then multiple of them as codes.


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