You have to show ID to vote in my country, I thought that was the normal thing.
It is, many states in the US are abnormal in this way.
Readit Newshexis commented on Digital ID, a new way to create and present an ID in Apple Wallet apple.com/newsroom/2025/1... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
> let IA be what it is
IA is the eccentric, untamed idealism. You can’t have the Wayback Machine without the National Emergency Library and the Great 78 Project.
We had the Wayback Machine for years before those two projects. What am I missing?
hexis commented on Facts about throwing good parties atvbt.com/21-facts-about-... · Posted by u/cjbarber
Is there any precedent in US history for what the administration is asking of the nations top universities? Incredible they have to deal with this.
Yes, the federal government of the United States has always attached conditions to federal funding.
Seems pretty awful that the manager let him work on software upgrades for two years without telling him that work would not lead to the promotion he was clearly planning on.
Have you filled a car with gas any time in the last ~5 years? The pumps around here (New England, USA) start playing ads with sound once you start pumping fuel. It's an absolute delight when your pump and the pump on the other side of your island are playing different ads with different audio or the same ad with the audio just out of sync.
Usually, one of the soft buttons on the left or right edge of the screen is a secret mute button. Occasionally, none of them are, and rarely does anyone else seem to even try to mute their pump.
This is one of the top things pushing me to an EV, so I can charge at home and be done with gas stations. As EVs get more market share, these intrusive ads will only get worse.
hexis commented on Why are there so many rationalist cults? asteriskmag.com/issues/11... · Posted by u/glenstein
I personally (for better or worse) became familiar with Ayn Rand as a teenager, and I think Objectivism as a kind of extended Ayn Rand social circle and set of organizations has faced the charge of cultish-ness, and that dates back to, I want to say, the 70s and 80s at least. I know Rand wrote much earlier than that, but I think the social and organizational dynamics unfolded rather late in her career.
Albert Ellis wrote a book, "Is Objectivism a Religion" as far back as 1968. Murray Rothbard wrote "Mozart Was a Red", a play satirizing Rand's circle, in the early 60's. Ayn Rand was calling her own circle of friends, in "jest", "The Collective" in the 50's. The dynamics were there from almost the beginning.
hexis commented on Online Safety Act: What went wrong? therectangle.substack.com... · Posted by u/olyellybelly
The test is whether or not the desired outcome is being achieved.
Yes, but my point is what weight would the desired outcome have? Why not just observe the actual outcome and judge it directly?
hexis commented on Online Safety Act: What went wrong? therectangle.substack.com... · Posted by u/olyellybelly
Maybe I'm being pedantic, but I really hate this statement: Until we start thinking about the true test of any policy: implementation and enforcement.
The true test of policy should be the desired outcome behind that policy.
Why would the desired outcome be a more true test than the actual outcome?