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Congratulations!

I love BBEdit.

We've already established that they are perfectly capable of ignoring people.

The only people they listen to or care about are domestic nazis. Those nasty regimes should just register accounts on KiwiFarms and then CloudFlare will bend over forwards to help them.

Now do the scenario where the police help the Neo-Nazis commit the murders, but will not protect the library.

Because that's CloudFlare.

They are both caching, which is hosting. We'll leave out that DDoS protection is a PII nightmare, and that CloudFlare is essentially spyware. For now.

Their reasoning is the best that they could come up with under pressure. Which is to say - lol.

Kiwi Farms recently DDoSed a suicide prevention hotline.

So you are factually wrong.

This is a truly wonderful example of corporate communication that should be taught on university communications courses.

Because it is absolutely the worst example of not even bothering to lie to CYA I have ever read.

Every number is a number, including zero. Therefore some number of members of any given group have been discriminated against. Therefore any group is indeed discriminated against. You can't argue with objective mathematical proof.

Slightly more seriously, if someone is discriminated against for being part of a group, you don't get to appeal to the fallacy of composition applied to all groups in order to claim that there is no discrimination against that individual. Yes, yes, you're not actually writing out that argument, you're just leaving its ingredients lying around next to a naked flame.

Entirely seriously, here is your proof:

https://www.r-bloggers.com/2019/12/modeling-salary-and-gende...

Now switch to some other attempt at distraction via reducio of the actual argument.

Which of these options worked for you?

It's a Dunning-Krugerish non-solution, sold as an init system trojan that is replacing more and more of the OS with less and less understanding of how it would need to work in order to do so effectively. It's a monolith that is almost pure attack surface, which requires the rest of the OS to change to work with it, thereby making it part of that monolith and extending the attack surface.

Every admin issue I've had over the last decade save two has been due to SystemD. I'm not opposed to change, but I'm also not going to embrace change for its own sake, particularly incompetently designed and implemented change.

Then we get to the project's social problems. But people get very defensive about that, so I'll just point out that if change is such an unalloyed good we certainly can't argue against changing away from using SystemD, can we?

These wouldn't be FOSS, and wouldn't have the effects people hope for.

This article is status signaling, not critique.

Yes, yes, people are such snowflakes now, who would have been offended by for example being called a communist or gay in America in the 1950s?

There is absolutely a dynamic of status anxiety to some of this, but to claim that this is all that is happening amounts to asking some people to be bad bayesians.

So yes I don't want tribal society. But you can't privatise the public problem of people who are organizing to actually physically harm you, where they are, as a personal moral failing of being insufficiently stoic.

Political action rather than spiritual retreat is needed.

Or git, as it's known.

C doesn't have strings. ;-)

Eggs. How do they work?

Graeber didn't defend the Apple statement, he said it was an editing error and that it was revised for later editions.

Obsessing over that wasn't a good look for DeLong. It isn't for his alts, his stans, or whatever you are.

That Crooked Timbre post is not very good. It reflects much worse on the author than on its purported subject.

You've provided the wrong link. That's a link to a bad critique of Debt by Noah Smith. Can you edit your comment to point to the good one?

> I think the biggest actual mistake DeLong managed to detect in the 544-odd pages of Debt, despite years of obsessively flailing away, was (iirc) that I got the number of Presidential appointees on the Federal Open Market Committee board wrong. I thought it was one, actually it's three. Yup. Guilty as charged.

Yes it's an illuminating read. :-)

Are there any non-joke publications that critiqued his writing?

How exactly would they make a proprietary Linux distro?

And what happens when those signals are distorted?

Remove the state and there are still many things that can go wrong with a market. Price signals become a way of laundering this fact past a certain point.

How much should workers pay their employers for being able to work, since working is a benefit? We can differ reasonably about how much, surely.

A minimum wage is not set in a vacuum, and high numbers that ignore this fact do not illustrate anything useful.

I see that the humanities are continuing with their unexamined sense of entitlement to colonize other disciplines.

This obsession with teaching (tech) workers ethics is a bourgeois pastoral fantasy.

Someone needs to read some Foucault.

This is a misunderstanding of the concept of "trusted third parties".

Incredibly, yes, you have to rely on the software that you use to perform tasks to perform them. But this is not the same as placing another person in a mediating position where they can choose to betray you.

Confusing these two senses of "trust" results in an intuitively appealing but entirely mistaken family of arguments that aren't the gotchas people think they are.

The Very Short Introduction book on Trust covers different senses of the concept of "trust", including the ones I mention here, in a readable and compact way that I highly recommend.

"The co-signers unthinkingly assume they are entitled to free content."

Oh sweetie, no.

I feel entitled to Mozilla's management being competent and not killing the company.

Appealing to developers is a precondition for that.

MDN does that.

But there are free alternatives. So charging for it would be counter-productive.

If Mozilla had shown even trace amounts of competence at business development, rather than acting like a freshly-minted MBA parachuted into a university's administration, I might be more sympathetic.

As it is I've formed a partnership with a violin manufacturer. Mozilla won't see any money from it but we're going to play them a very profitable-sounding sad tune as soon as we recover our initial investment.

Good. The partnership with, acquisition of, and integration of Pocket was an embarrassment.

It was also an indication of just how bad Mozilla's management are at trying to make money. We'll see a lot more business theater like this before the team are replaces with people who know what they're doing.

I'm very glad that after I bought a VPN subscription from them they only needed to have sold another 49,999 or so to pay for that.

How much money would Microsoft save by cancelling MSDN?

Employee motivations have zero relevance when discussing corporate actions where those actions are contrary to those motivations.

The reverse is not true.

This.

Mozilla is misaligned incentives all the way down.