grahamjameson

Is the worldwide peace in the room with us now?

I hear this quite frequently and I’d have to disagree. While it’s certainly hard to complain about getting paid to ride the bench (I’ve been there myself), garden leave inhibits one’s freedom to work on what they find interesting. Not to mention missing out on bonus.

I can’t help but appreciate the irony as someone who has been forced into numerous non-competes that were too broad. In Texas, nonetheless.

I would like to expand on this and suggest that this applies to humans as well.

“In a few decades” assumes we gain the perspective to see the storm from the outside, to use your analogy. I certainly hope we gain that perspective and are able to learn from our mistakes until we make them again when the pendulum swings once again.

Does Congress “make” laws or does it just push through laws written by lobbyists?

Rust + Polars comes to mind.

I do not know the details of their contracts, but assuming these are cost-plus contracts then it may be fair to equate structural dysfunction to intent.

Perhaps someone has already commented this, but LE can still purchase data from data brokers circumventing need for a warrant. That’s not to say that this isn’t an important step in the right direction, rather it’s to point out that there is still work to be done.

Unfortunately, historical examples of real estate markets rationalizing aren’t pretty and usually they aren’t pretty for the wrong demographic.

I find your comment overly optimistic. Review processes are already highly automated and effective, but even as they advance there will always (short of AGI) be (1) effective tricks to mask behavior from analysis and (2) a need for a human in the loop to verify findings.

I do agree that we need to continue to apply pressure to tear down walls around the garden as a means of protecting code as speech, including the ability to distribute and run it on our devices without burden.

Sex, sex-adjacent activities, extreme sports, van life / nomadic lifestyle are examples for which I know people who have either lost a job or experienced retaliation in a professional environment.

They are also all experiencing pressure to be criminalized and in certain places are already criminalized or otherwise regulated in a way that is harmful to individual liberty for a perceived gain in safety.

Lastly, I’ll add that cost of insurance, general ability to be insured, and the litigious nature of the USA apply a great deal of pressure to limit our ability to enrich our lives with risk.

Risk is an important ingredient to a fulfilling life. As we continue to de-risk our lives, we lose our ability to evaluate risk and aggressively criminalize what we do not understand because we perceive it to be dangerous.

There are many types of activities which, while not criminalized yet, are “anti-social” in certain environments and can cost you your job.

Any number of ways also includes more tedious. There are already a lot of workers effectively performing QA on ML/AI verdicts (e.g., object recognition, malware analysis).

While perhaps specifically Canada does not have this type of asset forfeiture, I’m not sure they’re a good example of financial liberty that we should aspire to here in the US.