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Well, every cloud has a silver lining

Will probably work as well as their prohibition of knives for underaged people

(That is, none at all)


Reminds me of my favourite UK totalitarian politician fantasy story: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ianmorris/2019/03/14/yes-a-poli...

The UK went culturally off the deep end a long time ago.


Orwell wrote 1984 after working at the BBC

> is this considered a violation of free speech?

Not in principle

See the limits on curse words on TV. Or MPAA ratings for movies.


> "MPAA ratings for movies"

(IANAL) That demonstrates the opposite: that's a voluntary system with no force of law behind it—the private sector "self-regulating" itself, if you will.

The film rating systems were created under threat of legislation in the first half of the 20th century (so, in lieu of actual legislation). The transformative 1st Amendment rulings of the Warren Court would have made such laws unconstitutional after the 1960's, but the dynamic that created these codes predates that—predates the modern judicial interpretation of the 1st Amendment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hays_Code (history background)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_fil... ("The MPA rating system is a voluntary scheme that is not enforced by law")


There is only a limit of curse words on over the air TV under the theory that the airwaves belong to the public.

good? That POS is the one SW that 100% deserves it place in hell

Yes it really was quite good despite all the hate it seems to get in internet comments. I used it for several years. The feature set, particularly config specs and dynamic views, was brilliant. The product was pretty mature and complete 25 years ago. I agree that administration was complicated and performance could be slow if misconfigured. We configured right, it was very intuitive and pleasant to use. IBM has effectively killed it by continuing to charge an excessive premium while adding nothing significant since they bought Rational (for Clearcase, DOORS, Apex etc.)

It's not stupid when you can bill for $1Mi instead of $100k ;)

"Any kind of scale" No, there's a long way of better and more straightforward solutions than the simple SELECT

(SELECT * from EVENTS where TIMESTAMP > LAST_TS LIMIT 50) for example


> The big argument against kafka-delta-ingest was Apache Kafka. If an organization has Kafka for other reasons, then kafka-delta-ingest can be a useful “sidecar” process to persist data flowing through Kafka. If however the organization is running Kafka just for ingestion, there are cheaper options available. As the organization evolved, the other consumers of Kafka drifted away, driving the value proposition of kafka-delta-ingest lower and lower.

Sounds like how most of Kafka stories end.


> We can expect videos of unpopular minorities, doing horrible things

While manipulation of photos exist, and real photos misattributed are very common, for the most part a lot of that does happen as well. And some people are too quick to ignore or gloss over it


I'm sure this will be exactly the popular attitude - yes, the evidence and videos people see and form emotional reactions based on are fake, but the problem is real and so we should let it slide and just assume something exactly like the AI video happened anyway.

The real problem here was releasing 3.0 as if it was stable, when the real usable version was 3.3/3.4

I recall 3.2 being okay. But it was definitely better by 3.4.

+1

This is the "exception that proves the rule" I guess

One of the best OTC medicine for motion sickeness hand down

Dramamine is (almost literally) a bad joke


What's the deal with Dramamine? It's pushed everywhere but it has zero effect on me, I even tried 4 pills at once, nothing at all

I think it is generally pretty effective for most people. Science says it is roughly comparable to hycosine.

For me, I find that one Dramamine I (dimenhydrinate) pill is very effective at preventing motion sickness, but it will put me to sleep quite reliably a couple hours later. Two pills and I can play Unreal Tournament 2004 until I'm too tired to sit up. I'd be quite concerned though with 3 or 4 pills about hallucinations -- and from my understanding, the hallucinations you get on dimenhydrinate are not good.

Dramamine II (aka Less Drowsy), which is meclizine, is a little less effective but usually adequate, but still reliably makes me really sleepy the rest of the day.

Kwells (hycosine) is the least effective overall for me, but I can take a little more if I need to, and it does not make me drowsy at all. I would take original dramamine every time based on effectiveness if not for the drowsy part.


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