Readit NewsI've mostly scribbled notes on paper for now, trying to be exhaustive about all that before scoping MVP (maybe SLC[1] would be better but I'm first doing that for myself so I'm not really pressuring myself for now).
I'm using modern C++, and will probably start from SDL3, plus a couple other libraries, but nothing too big or framework-y beyond that.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44038209 [1] https://longform.asmartbear.com/slc/
https://github.com/ad-aures/castopod/blob/develop/app/Views/...
Tight coupling of the HTML/PHP and JS.
If they were going to use PHP, at least they could have used Laravel or Symfony and had standardized libraries for authentication, views etc.
I just checked their Composer.json, looks like it uses CodeIgniter ... so maybe there is a framework in there but still the code quality is atrocious: https://github.com/ad-aures/castopod/blob/develop/composer.j...
Don't try to tell me Disney adopting a "keep white characters white" policy would have made everyone happy, there would have been no controversy, and we'd all be judging this film based strictly off its cinematic merits.
I'm not Caucasian but to distill a growing population of people's irritation with film studios wanting to rewrite all major iconic characters of their childhood as minorities of LGBT as simply them being "irrational" is a very shallow way of looking at it.
Disney has access to more data on sentiment and consumer choice than we do and they would know just as we do there is growing push-back against this sort of thing.
From what I've seen, people would have no issues with a bunch of new characters being introduced that are minority, LGBT or whatever social issue we're servicing this quarter. They might express surprise that big companies are willing to spend so much time and effort on characters that don't represent the majority of the population and they'll probably vote with their wallets by not seeing films that don't represent them or pander to social issues instead of focusing on entertaining. But you wouldn't have this growing vocal annoyance.
You'll need to explain why having access to customer sentiment and demographics... and seeing the reaction to multiple big releases that have been panned / been commercial failures, they want to continue making such choices. At the very least they could vary it up right?
Unless their ESG overlords don't allow them
How many times does this have to be repeated --- no one is proposing to eliminate cash.
Everything that a CBDC will do is already being done --- in a slower, less convenient and more costly manner. See ACH.
But a CBDC is certainly useful when the current fiat system has been blown up through hyper-inflation and there's no alternatives. It will usher in a new era of mass surveillance and control which for some inexplicable reason you seem happy to welcome in.
This only happened because of Canada's CBDC. Oh, wait ...
Not really in the mood to join such a community.
Feb 1992 - a Soviet defector revealed to Western intelligence that he had overseen an extensive, illegal programme to develop smallpox into a highly effective biological weapon:
> Ken Alibek believes that, following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, unemployed or badly-paid scientists are likely to have sold samples of smallpox clandestinely and gone to work in rogue states engaged in illicit biological weapons development.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/pox_weapon_0...
June 1998 - The WHO recommends that all smallpox samples should be destroyed https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199808203390811
Feb 2002 - WHO says that Russia and US can keep their smallpox samples https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2002/02/wide-ran...
Nov 2002 - CIA claims that Russia, France, Iraq and North Korea have "secret" stashes of small pox (erm you already know Russia has them, that's not a secret) https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2002/11/cia-beli...
Sep 2019 - Explosion and fire break out at Russian lab known for housing deadly smallpox virus https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/17/health/russia-lab-explosion-s...https://www.livescience.com/russia-lab-stores-smallpox-explo...
Or because the government didn't prevent a stupidity from a private company?
Never attribute to malice...
https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2022/03/its-going-to-be-...
So why are CF Industries needing to beg the administration to intervene and allow shipments.
https://strangesounds.org/2022/04/fertilizer-giant-cf-indust...
Also ask yourself why Union Pacific is imposing these restrictions?
Maybe it might have something to do with the latest rage in the world financial markets? Blackrock and the WEF set up ESG certifying companies that award ESG ratings and punish those that don't comply. So you have companies forced to push for completely bonkers restrictions and policies because they're mandated to top down:
https://www.up.com/aboutup/esg/index.htm
If sometimes their incompetence lead to a winning situation for us, we could say it's just pure incompetence. But this is anything but incompetence.