His global appeal was real, but his decision to give Opus Dei and similar conservative Catholic networks special status under the Vatican had serious consequences.
Elevating Escrivá to sainthood and creating a personal prelature for Opus Dei handed them unmatched moral authority—authority they used to push back on women’s autonomy, justify discrimination against LGBTQ+ people, and quietly influence politics from Spain to Latin America.
Popularity doesn’t erase the impact of empowering hard‑right movements that have harmed lives across the globe.
The church is never going to be pro feminism or pro LGBTQ. I don’t think many, many people find that to be a dealbreaker especially in many developing nations where the entirety of the medical and schooling framework is solely provided by the church and cultural mores already line up with those perspectives.
Let me think of a past example where a deportation machinery was built and fine tuned... It went well, right? Very efficient. Incredibly efficient. The world had never seen something so efficient before.
This is very nice! Is it open sourced by any chance? Most kids in the world don't speak English, and it would be nice to be able to contribute translations.
> That guy has a serious gift for explaining stuff
I'd like to challenge this idea.
I don't believe he's more gifted than other people. I strongly believe that the point is he spent a lot of time and effort to get better at explaining stuff.
He contemplated feedback and improved his explanations throughout the years.
His videos are excellent because he poured himself into making them excellent, not because he has a gift.
In my experience the professors who lack this ability do so because they don't put enough effort into it, not because they were born without it.
I disagree. He has always been excellent from the beginning of his Youtube career. Maximum potential skill levels and skill acquisition/growth rates vary from person to person. I think most people wouldn't have as much success even with twice as many hours invested in the 4 separate crafts (!) of mathematics communication, data visualization, video animation, and video editing. I know I wouldn't, and I consider technical communication one of my strong suits.
Everyone can improve with practice, but some people really are gifted.
To be very good at something it is necessary, but not sufficient, to have a talent for it. The other 85% is hard work. You aren't going to pull just anyone off the street and have the same level of instruction, no matter how motivated they are.
I think real genius is translating all the heavy symbolic manipulation into visual processes, that people can see and interpret. Suddenly, you are not seeing some abstract derivation somewhat removed from real world, but another real visual process which you pause and reason with.
Hundreds of milliseconds though? Seems highly doubtful, Cloudflare has latency in the range of 10-20 ms for most metropolitan areas, that they would that ten times that much for returning a blog post seems unlikely unless caching or other things are misconfigured.
Bunny.net explicitly names third parties handling user data, while Cloudflare’s policy is more vague, referring only to "third-party service providers" without listing specific companies.
I like the bunny policy more. It is more transparent.
But still good to know if someone pick a service with this intention:
"I’ve been looking at European alternatives to my current hosting situation, which is Cloudflare."
Haven't we learned that in the security and privacy domains that maxim requires its inversion? Especially with the passing of time! "Don't let temporary adequacy undermine lasting protection."
If things were perfect you only need 1 layer of security. Things aren't perfect, that doesn't mean we should just give up and have no security, we have multiple layers of good security as while it's not perfect, it's better than nothing.
Right. I think we're all in agreement about the end goal,... The "how we get there" is another story.
I'm partial to aiming for perfection — when there's time for it — after having been the person paying down the tech debt across different domains (i.e. untangle spaghetti code to unravel subtle logic errors, fix them, and write down documentation).
But I agree that sometimes you just need to ship a workable solution ASAP... I am of the opinion that that should be an exception, and that it isn't a sustainable modus operandi.
I think it would be best to focus on the deterrent effect for the future: we need a law that makes this business strategy not viable. Not on punishing bad behavior that already happened. Maybe such law already exists, but we need more enforcement. Or a better thought out law.
I don't think it's important if _that_ person gets jail time. I would not particularly rejoice at the news. But if somehow this practice was made impossible or impractical, I'd
One of the reasons for punishment is deterrence. It it becomes clear people consistently go to prison for doing something like this that will reduce the likelihood of people doing this in the future
Or at least make it mandatory to disclose such behaviours before purchase. Failure to disclose should result in the vendor and the manufacturer becoming liable for the repair/replacement costs (with the vendor similarly able to push the costs to the manufacturer if it was not disclosed to them either), as well as any actual damages resulting from the failure of the product.
Need the jail time and a safe harbor if the behavior is fully disclosed in advance with all advertising (a simple phrase will do such as: "Useful life limited to ~10 years, details at xyz")
Some people might be fine with a product with a known lifespan, or want to pay more for the unlimited life version
The penalty should be more like corporate death than individual prison, as that often gets fobbed off on some scapegoat rather than on the actual manager responsible
Elevating Escrivá to sainthood and creating a personal prelature for Opus Dei handed them unmatched moral authority—authority they used to push back on women’s autonomy, justify discrimination against LGBTQ+ people, and quietly influence politics from Spain to Latin America.
Popularity doesn’t erase the impact of empowering hard‑right movements that have harmed lives across the globe.
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