You can email hn@ycombinator.com the request and they may grant it, there are plenty of precedents.
oh, thanks :)
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Mx Goat added a note about their real-world qualifications for pitching in on this sort of question, presumably because their user name didn't really make it obvious why we might wish to listen to their thoughts on how a society should function for the benefit of all.
hah – yes, it's an old username, it's not possible to change username on here or I would :)
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I just want to highlight one thing about this whole government takeover debacle. The reason you have the separation of power (legislative, judiciary, executive) is not to be efficient, it is to prevent generational abuse.
Even a well intentioned benign autocrat if given power would not part ways with said power voluntarily. So even if the current administration is "good" there is no reason why this kind of power couldn't be abused by subsequent administrations. Even the most die-hard republican should be thinking "if the democrats take over 1-3 elections from now, what would they do with this power?".
It is really the same reasoning with dictatorships, even if the dictator is good, competent and capable his successor most likely won't. Democracy is the best form of government because there are clean, regulated ways to transfer power. Not a scramble for dominance that once settled is meant to last in perpetuity.
cleric here, so excuse me for getting theological: but there should be (and at times truly has been, even if flawed) a shared understanding of the dignity and worth of every person. if we have that, then when one party or another is in power, they know that they are expected to care for minorities and for the stranger, and for the 'other side'.
we should be willing to vote for that.
that seems to be breaking down, throughout the western world.
we should never denigrate or infringe upon the personhood of anyone. we should take the higher road. and I'm not arguing that the oppressed should accept their oppression: I'm arguing that the oppressors should listen to the oppressed, and change.
I live in Australia – our constitution is a strange mashup of the UK model (which is certainly the primary influence), and things gleaned from the US. Something I observe is that we're more willing to admit the possibility of non-partisan spaces. For example, rather than electoral commissions being bipartisan, they're non-partisan, with partisan input. It is a serious matter if an official of such an organisation is found to have publicly stated political views. We have some people who make it their profession to be boring, and to simply uphold the precepts of society: including the rights of minorities. That's a serious sacrifice, made routinely by judges and senior public servants.
I find myself quite terrified that this is being eroded. I don't know how we turn it around: but I certainly speak up for the dignity of all through my ministry. We all ought to speak up.
angrygoat commented on JavaScript Temporal is coming developer.mozilla.org/en-... · Posted by u/SigmundurM
I'd suggest `whenever`, which has taken inspiration from Temporal: https://github.com/ariebovenberg/whenever
For Pendulum, I'd suggest folks take a gander at its issue list to see if the bugs reported are 1) real and 2) something you can live with.
Well, when GitHub is back up anyway. Lol.
thanks to you both, I'll check whenever and Pendulum out! :)
angrygoat commented on JavaScript Temporal is coming developer.mozilla.org/en-... · Posted by u/SigmundurM
I used this (via polyfill) for my Typescript implementation of the calendar of the church, and it was fabulous. Using the old Javascript dates I felt like I was always tripping over something... this was actually nicer than Python's (already quite good) datetime support.
How are decentralised platforms managing abusive content? TikTok had some bumps in the road maybe five years back with this, but got it under control. I know I don't want to be scrolling through video content and see illegal or unethical content.
That compliance aspect seems like one thing that pushes us towards centralised architectures for social media, but I'm guessing that AI models to screen images / videos are pretty widely available now and cheaply deployable?
Professional content creators need to get paid reasonably. AFAIR Tik Tok spent a lot of money getting good content creators in the beginning. YouTube and X pay peanuts but due to scale it's a significant amount of peanuts for top earners.
The platform is important but the content creators and the viewers are 10x more important.
Some extension of the Patreon model onto decentralised social media could work. I pay a few bucks a month to the creators of webcomics and other content that I enjoy, just because it's the right thing to do, and I dunno, it makes me feel more connected to these people that I've never met but who bring me some joy?
thou is the singular intimate. (compare the tu- form, in french).
You could be singular or plural, but it was always formal. (compare the vous- form, in french)
Knowing this puts a whole new spin on things like the KJV, since as moderns we hear "thou" and think "fancy old timey speech! very formal!" and it is exactly the opposite.
Quakers/Friends chose the thou- form as the preferred form to address everyone; this was part of their scandalous behavior at the time, because it was heard as being entirely improper. (For their part, Quakers figure we're all equal before God, so why pay too much attention to social status? -- and that's not a bad point, really!)
I was taught Biblical Hebrew by an Australian scholar who learned hers in the south of the US, and I picked up from her the habit of translating the second plural as "y'all" :-) You can of course do the same with Greek. For some reason I preferred "y'all" to the more Australian "youse."
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