I disagree with almost all of your political opinions, and some of your positions I very much hate. But we should be free to have the argument, without the thread of handcuffs or the threat of starvation. Although I use my real name here, sometimes I prefer not to, and that should be allowed.
The right to actual real privacy is the same thing as the right to actual real freedom of speech, and we should harm anyone who is trying to take that most basic foundation of all rights away.
Regardless of how we (mis?)align on social and economic issues, we should align on dislike of authoritarianism and surveillance. It is our common enemy.
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Edit: I can't respond to comments anymore (HN rate limits on downvotes and commenting within a single thread), but I also wanted to respond to a sibling comment:
> "your team"
Just because I believe in personal freedom of people from the government does not mean I'm left-wing. I agree with some democratic party policies, and I disagree with some others.
I'm not strictly a libertarian either, because I believe government regulation is necessary to prevent monopolies. But over-regulation is also stifling to progress.
But it shouldn't matter what my politics are. Social and economic issues are orthogonal, and frankly, not as potentially dangerous as this one issue.
Democrats and Republicans alike should be aligned on their disdain of surveillance and authoritarianism. Either party in power (or any power) can use it against the "other side" (or the entire population outside of the oligopoly).
These tools are nothing but evil and designed to control. Once they start sinking their teeth in, they only sink in deeper. Every free person should hate them.
20 years ago boredom wasn't a thing and we weren't addicted to screens? No, no.
This dopamine-addiction screentime crap has been a thing for several generations. It's what fucked up the Boomers, I think, and it was definitely a thing for gen-X'ers like me.
This isn't some new thing that just happened to the kids these days, it's a longer term trend that everyone talking here grew up with, and we should examine it as such.
A few thousand years ago we used to literally set them loose in the wilderness with some wolves for a few years, and it was fun & educational.
We understand reason and organization because we have explored the chaos, in our youth. It is necessary to explore the chaos, in order to fully grow into a fully functioning adult human man.
i’m not sure a single thing you wrote in here is true. it feels like each sentence is further than the previous.
we set them loose with the wolves, and it was fun? i don’t think this is true.
> We understand reason and organization because we have explored the chaos.
again, i don’t think this is true either. there are many ways we can learn reason, and if by chaos, youre implying from your previous paragraph, we can only understand reason if we’ve roamed in chaos with wild animals, this is absurd from front to back.
> You don’t get wise men from boring kids.
Again, this is just more meaningless phrase, with no basis in reality.
I know plenty of wise people who had extraordinarily boring lives growing up.
I know plenty of “fully functional” adult humans who had entirely unremarkable and non-chaotic childhoods.
I would even venture that the literal opposite of everything you said is true, the most broken and screwed up people I know grew up in chaos while the most sane, rational (and yes, wise) people were “boring kids.”
Back when my family was in the old country it really was like this. Children were free range as soon as they could walk. They’d scarcely be able to speak and would be running all over the village and up and down the mountainsides. When the Germans came during world war II, the boys would hide in bushes with a stolen pistol and take shots at the troops.
I believe the "boring kids" statement was intended to mean something like "You don't get wise men by boring (verb) boys in a classroom all day." Boring them because the teacher is boring, rather than a judgement about how interesting the boys are.
Nicely put. The problem though is our society requires children to behave in a certain way at a certain age, late bloomers will simply be left aside in most cases.
The claim is "filter-free", but the device also uses an "electromembrane".
So... how is that not a filter? Because it's electrified?
The selling point of this device is that it doesn't need filter changes in the field. Okay. So, how many liters of seawater can in process before it needs an "electromembrane" change?
It's not my field of expertise, maybe I'm just really missing something obvious. Or maybe it's hype and BS tarnishing an otherwise good advancement. Can't tell.
As others point out, it's not a filter since it pushes contaminates away from a particular zone on the membrane, and that zone is where they harvest the fresh water. Flush those contaminates away from the surface of the membrane with contaminated water, clear a new zone of uncontaminated water, harvest, (literally) rinse and repeat.
Nothing to wear out. I'm sure it will require cleaning of some sort (what doesn't) but it sounds like the membranes are designed to be a permanent solution with minimal maintenance. Pretty clever!
> So, how many liters of seawater can in process before it needs an "electromembrane" change?
It doesn't need regular changes, because it's not a filter.
That's also why it's called an "electromembrane" and not a "filter"... Because (can you you hear me in the back) it's not a filter.
If you want technical details in how the device operates, you should probably not be consulting pop sci news articles that are written from press releases... Maybe Wikipedia has an article about it, say https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromembrane_extraction ?
At $DAYJOB all the commits have a particular uniform format and are quite restrained and professional. I wouldn't say 'amused' but I agree with you, it did bring me a smile to see this person showing their humanity in their side project, especially in such a deep technical context.
Well, for starters Gab is banned from the App Store for their near-absolutist stance on free speech.
More than that is the general culture of suppression of the "wrong" view of reality. Most people who were merely to the right of center moderates in the 00's are now accused of being absolute evil if they voice any opinions. I've been told by well more than a dozen former co-workers that they're afraid to say anything or let anyone at work find out about their political opinions because they're afraid of getting fired & won't be able to feed their families. The suppression and censorship is very real.
One or two exceptional counterexamples do more to prove the rule than to disprove it.
> I've been told by well more than a dozen former co-workers that they're afraid to say anything or let anyone at work find out about their political opinions because they're afraid of getting fired
In fairness, there are multiple explanations that don’t involve this being objectively true, while also being how these people perceive their situation.
True, but as long as people are willing to self censor then it doesn't matter if they would be punished if they spoke out, because they won't. Perceived risk is indistinguishable from actual risk if that risk is avoided by total avoidance.
Aside from that, there are a lot of "cancellations" in the news, even if they're exceptional and only highlighted as a result of sensationalist reporting (or, more conspiratorially, behavioural control) the risk may still be actually too high. You only probably only have to be de-personed once for it to have a lifetime effect.
I use a variant of Emmymade's variant of Maangchi's recipe. It works really well.
Rinsed pickle jars work great, a head of Napa cabbage usually fills about 2+1/2 ~ 3 jars. If you're not into high spicy, dial back the red pepper by about half, for your first try. If you don't like funky, skip the fish sauce or any seafood component, I always do this so that the flavor won't clash with some dishes, you can always add fish sauce to a dish but you can't remove it.
I ferment it for about 3 days at about 65 ~ 68 degrees(f), then into the fridge. It keeps indefinitely but is best within a few months.
Do not bring it into work, just as you would not microwave fish at work. The aroma is very much not to everyone's preference, even when made without seafood.
it would never have occured to me not to bring kimchi to work. Durian? Stinky Tofu? ok but Kimchee? I'll bet most company cafeterias have blue cheese around
The right to actual real privacy is the same thing as the right to actual real freedom of speech, and we should harm anyone who is trying to take that most basic foundation of all rights away.
I agree with Alexander Solzhenitsyn.