It seems US Government spending is less than 20% and has been since the 1970s? [1]. Curious if I am mis-understanding you here. 2013-2018 is also roughly in line with the spending % of the Clinton presidency according to that source as well.
I can't find my sources for this but I wrote a paper about it in University. The last time something like this was promised (by the previous Harper government), they made most of their progress by redefining "high speed" to be a barely usable speed, something like 3mbps if I remember correctly.
Looks like the CRTC has updated the definition again to be 50mbps down/10mbps up. Not ambitious at all compared to eg. South Korea and some European countries. But it is enough to eg. do video conferencing. So hopefully we can see some real progress. Northern communities experience a horrific digital divide due to their unusable internet speeds.
I feel this. As someone who grew up in the 4chan hey-day, the internet I fell in love with was extremely inappropriate and anarchic. Shooting the shit about whatever inane thing 4chan was going on about were the source of hilarious and open conversations we used to have amongst friends. Don't get me wrong, 4chan is wrong, messed up, socially deviant and not something to look up to. But all the people I know who used to browse that crazy site ended up being normal, well adjusted people. The social climate is so tense nowadays I would never think to talk about good old 4chan openly.
I'm curious, in the various responses to this comment people are really getting into this interesting concept of certain political ideologies replacing the church, and resembling a religious fanaticism in their application of these ideologies.
My understanding is that we have had secular societies before, eg. the Soviet Union, China, which explicitly try to reduce practicing religion. Did this same kind of "new semi-religion appears to fill the void" event occur in those societies? Is it the particular "holy sacrements" that the west has adopted that is unique? Or are we unique in even having something arise the "fills the religious void"?
Read up on the Reign of Terror during the French revolution.
They were very secular and extremely violent and even evil (making shows out of drowning believers etc).
As much as the Catholic Church has something to answer for with the witch processes around here etc, they are small guys compared to the secular/atheists of the French Revolution.
Same goes to some degree for USSR and to a large degree for Khmer Rouge.
Reign of Terror during the French revolution was neither secular nor atheistic. They have state religion 'Cult of the Supreme Being', which was deistic. Robespierre himself was deist and opposed to atheism.
Ok, I'll not argue about that even if I still think the topic is arguable.
Anyways in case you are right it probably makes GPs point even stronger: when established religions are chased away quasi-religions - and often extremely dangerous ones - take their place.
Here in Czechia power of established religions went away (~ less than 1/3 population is religious). They were partially replaced with folk esoterism (astrology and so), which is much better alternative, as folk esoterism does not have concentrated power of e.g. Catholic Church.
I don't disagree with your underlying feeling here, that is to say I'm on your side of the fence. But don't you think it's a bit extreme to label people sociopaths, insane, evil, incompetent, for expressing their desire to work in a place where they can focus on their craft? Your last sentence is actually really threatening as well.
I can think of many reasons people might find this appealing. They may be incredibly politically engaged in their personal life and want work to be a place of focus. They might disagree with the political solutions that their coworkers favour, which is totally okay! But it would be extremely draining for that person.
Please, start with the best interpretation of people rather than labelling broad swaths of people as wicked and mentally ill. This is a great opportunity for discussion!
> But don't you think it's a bit extreme to label people sociopaths, insane, evil, incompetent, for expressing their desire to work in a place where they can focus on their craft?
I don't think you can ever fully just 'work on your craft' without considering the consequences of what you are doing.
Do you think it would be ok to 'just focus on your craft' if you were hired to design computerized controllers for suicide bombers?
Obviously that is a ridiculous example, but it is a good demonstration of why you can't fully ignore what your work is being used for.
You don't need to care if your work is some great helper of humanity, but you do have a responsibility to make sure your work isn't evil.
It's all lies. I used to believe this line of thought about China. "We aren't expansionist like the US, we just want to do things our way inside of the country". It's not true.
China as a unified country has never been as large as it is today. They are actively taking over parts of Nepal, they have taken pieces of land from India, they invaded and took over Tibet, the are nearing genocidal strategies to eradicate any semblance of culture or different-think amongst the Uyghur and people of Inner-Mongolia (bet you haven't even heard of that suppression! They have banned the Mongolian language in schools and nomads are no longer allowed to _ride horses_ as of a few weeks ago!). Not to mention what happened in Hong Kong.
If not for India, they would have already taken over Bhutan. If not for their fighting spirit, they would have tried to take over Vietnam. They are building islands and taking over the South China sea. They are practicing debt trap diplomacy in Africa.
They are the most expansionist, imperialist regime in Modern times second only to USA. Chinese people feed us this line, that they aren't expansionist, that they aren't imperialist, that they are only inward looking. For some reason we in the West take them at their word. Look at their actions, the picture is not so rosy. As much as I hate Trump, his pressure on China has been a welcome policy shift.
Most Americans know literally dick-all about Chinese history and substitute a combination of Cold War and WWII history where we're the good guys and the antagonists are the bad guys.
That would be cool for aftermarket HUDs. As far as making a useful HUD goes, some carmakers are already doing that. I have a 2019 Mazda CX-5 and it has a HUD that is projected on to the windshield. It tells me my current speed, the current speed limit of the road I am on, if there is a stop sign ahead, and if I run the GPS system it displays the next cross street, and arrow symbols for upcoming turns.
I personally find it super useful! I don't need to look down at my instrument panel as my current speed gets sort of projected on road ahead of me. It's small and a barebones design but it works.
The thing you describe works by passing an image through lenses, and reflecting it off the windscreen. That way, you can focus on it and the road at the same time. For transparent OLED-based systems, you'd have to stare at the windscreen to look at them – so you wouldn't see them on the road; they'd look much nearer.
My 2011 Camaro also has a HUD, and I’d hate to go back to a car without it. I only use cruise control very infrequently, so being able to see what speed I’m going without taking my eyes off the road is great. I honestly think it should be a mandated feature.
I already think of Auth0 as being the stripe of the auth world. What frustrations did you run into with them, and what are your goals to differentiate with feather?
I really thought the same when we first integrated with Auth0 for one of our projects! Most of our frustration with them boiled down into 2 points:
1. The Auth0 universal login solution is not "white-label".
It requires pushing users to an auth0.com pop-up page which has rather limited customization options. Granted they do allow their customers to upgrade to "custom domains", but they up-sell on this point (minimum $23/month) which doesn't make it ideal for us bootstrappers just wanting to get a demo running.
We additionally had a handful of users mention our login flow felt insecure. We determined this to be more imagined than factual, but figured it was a result of the change in design language between our app and the auth0.com pop-up. It was particularly acute when transitioning from native iOS to a web pop-up when entering sensitive information.
The underlying feedback we kept hearing around the login flow was along the lines of “why am I giving my password to this sketchy-looking website rather than to your app?”
2. The Auth0 docs and interfaces are a maze!
We had a terribly difficult time piecing together tips and footnotes from the community support forums and tutorials on Google to complete the information provided in the docs themselves.
There were a number of steps we needed to implement which were completely omitted from the official docs. We found others were running into the same problems as well on the community support forums.
For us, this essentially resulted in a feeling that Auth0 was letting too much complexity bleed through the interfaces for the developer figure out themselves.
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So these are the two driving reasons we started hacking around on Feather:
- To have a truly white-label auth API
- To have more intuitive interfaces and documentation
If you are talking about the UPX, that’s not an LRT line. It’s just a regular train.
But I don’t think it’s a fair comparison based on routes. On the UPX line those are 1 direct stop apart. For comparison taking the subway would also be more indirect and longer, taking about 40 minutes I would guess.
Average wait time of 7 minutes if the trains follow the schedule exactly and don't bunch.
If things are allowed to drift randomly, you end up approximating the exponential distribution - which has an average wait time of 15 minutes for 4 trains/hour.
[1] https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/usa/government_size/