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Music is a strong word for the contents of those tracks.

You live in the Western world buddy. You're not going to jail for playing with mesh network gadgets and Twitter isn't going anywhere. There will be the threat of a huge fine for non-compliance, Twitter will threaten to leave the market, users (voters) will freak out, politicians will be like "Crap I'm gonna lose my job" a wrist slap will ensue and we'll all move on.

You guys should really campaign to get real freedom of speech like... properly on the books. Dunno why that isn't a thing.


Look at what's happening in the UK right now to see how illiberal Western democracies can be when up against the wall. Don't forget that it was only about 2-3 years ago that there were temporary going-outside-without-a-good-reason bans in the USA, while Irish police were inspecting people's shopping to make sure they weren't buying anything non-essential[1]. Most recently, the UK has now jailed several people for significant periods for being racist on Twitter. Ireland won't be far behind, because we're not clever enough to write our own laws, preferring to crib from the UK and then ratchet up the severity and hand-wringing during implementation.

Broad liberty is not a thing because people don't know anything different, prefer safety to opportunity, and don't want it badly enough to be willing to clog the courts and jails until the economy suffers. And the power that has become entrenched is more interested in maintaining maximum control/the appearance of harmony, and punishing severely any who dissent, than in doing anything that might see their control diminished. The EU is pushing for 'chat control' (invasive surveillance of all encrypted instant messaging) again, despite it having been defeated previously. Why would encrypted RF comms be treated any differently, especially when it's as simple as passing a law saying 'not permitted without a license as of 1 Jan' and then refusing to issue any licenses?

God's sake, they're lowering all our non-motorway speed limits to 37MPH in October. That's not something esoteric or technical, and in a country with as poor public transport as Ireland, affects pretty much everyone for the worse-- and yet I can't find a single person who has even complained to their representative! Worse, they all seem to be OK with it. Nobody actually asked for this, and everyone is both powerless and uninterested in doing anything about it.

[1] https://extra.ie/2020/04/16/news/irish-news/gardai-inspectin...


I've been using Sublime more and more lately when I'm not in a JetBrains IDE. I can't feel a difference between it's speed and Zed's on my machines. If I could get Supermaven in it I'd SWITCH completely.


Excellent.


Agreed. Five eyes law enforcement is already all over crypto; can’t imagine they’d go easier if it became geopolitically influential.


I’m not sure I understand the argument. Is he saying crypto will be viable as an alternative to traditional reserve currencies once stable coins are actually stable? I’m a little confused.

Either way, we’re gonna burn this planet down before the money runs out. A process accelerated by crypto mining. cough


It isn’t the worst thing in the world to occasionally take a moment to be like “okay… we made some progress. Cool.”

As long as people know we have a whole lot more to do shrug is it coping or just stress management?

It can be fatiguing to perpetually feel screwed.


more than that


It sounds a lot like they’re finding a very inefficient way to open local bars that host open mic nights.


Depends a lot on whether you’re transitioning between different roles and work styles when you go to a new company.

I think there is a bit of a glorification of being outside your comfort zone amongst tech workers, and a lot of FOMO about staying put simply because it is technically possible to be hugely rewarded for taking career risks. However unlikely.

IMO if you’re secure in a job that you enjoy and you like the culture there… that’s a perfectly valid way of being employed.

You mention not growing as fast being a concern — growing towards what? More pay, more influence, more skills? It’s a question worth examining when talking about this.


Well put.


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