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Wouldn't this lead to snowblindness? It gets way brighter in the winter

Ok but that's different than free will as in, the premise of a society in which a person is able to choose their path in life

I bet it was something like the hardware id instead but she misspoke

Dunno, not sure there's a way to conclusively pick an amount that's "fair" since any metrics for that are arbitrary. Just going by productivity vs wages and the premise that what people were paid in 1979 was what they "should" be paid given that ratio, you could say 3x, but there's a lot of assumptions there. To me the bigger story seems to be the ongoing trend of how capital keeps accumulating capital, and the share of the pie owned by regular people continues to decrease regardless of their contributions, and what that might mean for our future.

This does seem to be adjusting for inflation; according to one of the sources they cited:

From 1979 to 2020, net productivity rose 61.8%, while the hourly pay of typical workers grew far slower—increasing only 17.5% over four decades (after adjusting for inflation).

That said I think there's some problems with how inflation is calculated, and the implications of the distribution of total ownership of wealth isn't really mitigated by increasing affordability of consumer goods.

I know that's how it works in the US, but the lawsuit is in Japan, which you always hear about having stricter copyright laws. Not really sure how this one will play out though.

IIRC it spammed websites with traffic, didn't conceal your IP at all, and some people got arrested for using it to make some websites go down for a very brief period. Basically a way to use people who didn't know what they were doing as cannon fodder

I once wrote and sold some extremely shitty software, most of the effort was in the testing and support "departments", which were merged as I just had my (fortunately mostly very patient) customers work through the bugs with me.

Really good framing of it

I think people saying that stuff are serious about advocating for political violence. I can't imagine how it wouldn't make things worse. Violence is a core element of fascist ideology, there's clear utility in using the attention it brings for recruiting, the trauma it inflicts for hazing, the experience for training. I remember when I saw a particular famous clip of a nazi speaking in public and being punched in the face by a masked assailant, I had never even heard his name before then, but after that clip was all over the internet that changed for a lot of people, and it definitely didn't get him to shut up. Maybe there's situations where people need to be defended, or there is need for someone acting as a bouncer, but I suspect in many cases it's some combination of useful idiots giving them what they want, or extremists on the other side who share their goals of agitating for armed revolution giving them what they want.

I support and agree with the concept of free speech and the 1st (though this topic isn't really specifically about the US). But a culture of tolerance is important for free expression, which isn't really about overwhelming the "wrong" perspectives with mob rule. Downvoting all the vegan memes to make sure they don't forget people disagree with them isn't what I would describe as truth and leadership.