Pretty sure this is exactly correct. I read the Kurzgesagt book Immune recently and it was a fascinating view into how our bodies are really the result of ancient warfare, with constant oneupmanship between us and the environment.

Thank you for answering, and for the work you do. I will increase my donation amount :)

Honest question; why does this have to be a volunteer role? Is there any room in the Open Collective fund to pay towards renumerating someone for something like this?

I completely agree, and yeah it does kind of seem like there is some spite in it. Very political, sadly.

Sorry for my misunderstanding. The second part as you point out is the main reason I think they won’t though. I don’t like the Girl Scout’s stance but I can empathise with it, as I believe it comes from the effort they had to go to to get girls access to a scouts organisation in the first place. To allow boys in now feels like a loss to them after so many years of being denied access to Boy Scouts. Mixed into that is all the politics around single-sex spaces etc etc

They’re separate organisations. From what I remember, Boy Scouts/Scouting America has been under fire for some time for their lack of inclusion, which they’ve been changing. Meanwhile Girl Scouts is and has always been vocally against anyone but girls joining the org. Could be different now though.

I don’t really know why your cables would be falling so fast, but to be fair part of the design of USB C is that, inverting the design of USB A, the connector is on the cable side, in the hope that the cable should be the part that deteriorates first. That way fewer devices get trashed for having dodgy sockets.

Me too! Thanks for the info. I was never a part of that community and I have to admit I’ve been wondering when someone was going to realise my 3 year membership should’ve finished

Absolutely love that this is a Newsround article

RoR will always have a special place in my heart, but yeah… DHH sure does have opinions. What possible justification is there for removing it when it’s already there? Guess someone could just shift the types out to DT.

Edit: So I read his blog post about it. He’s dropping it because he just doesn’t like it and he’s allowed to not like it. Okay then 🤷

What Typescript drama is there? It’s fantastic. It’s been an industry standard for years. In my anecdotal experience the only people that hate it are juniors who did pure JS at their bootcamp and seniors that have refused to learn anything for the last 5 years.

You’re correct, but so is the person above. These stars are not (entirely) crossing the event horizon. Lots of material is left orbiting around the edge forming a disc. It’s this disc, the formation of it, and the ejection of material from it, that’s relevant here.

Couldn’t agree more with this comment and the thread in general, it’s a relief to see. I get so frustrated as so many of my colleagues seem to cling to this very old concept of the testing pyramid and associated definitions. It’s completely meaningless in a modern setting. We should mock as little and as far back as possible, yet others seem to delight in locking huge chunks of functionally out of the test base just ‘because’.

Thanks for the distinction, I enjoyed reading your message. I would still say that in a colloquial manner it’s not reaching that far to call piracy stealing, but I take your point.

I wouldn’t try to make the point you said about not paying $10 being theft itself, I agree that that isn’t a valid argument. What I do feel is that to say “your work is worth nothing to me” while simultaneously consuming and enjoying it, is hypocritical and similar to other less favoured actions like trying to pay someone in ‘exposure’. It does largely have damaging effects on wider communities.

I agree with you that there’s nuance and that I probably came on a little strong in my original comment. When it comes to TV, films, games, and music though, which is what I’m guessing is the vast majority of piracy discussed here, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to pay or to otherwise just not consume whatever content. Again I understand there’s more than just those 4 things, and even within those listed categories there may be things like games and films that are not even purchasable. I’m not trying to suggest we should all be perfect and piracy should never happen or whatever, it’s just odd to me that it seems to get so much defense that it almost feels like the consensus is that it’s something to be proud of.

I’ll grant you that I may have used an overly absolute statement, and your example of the free distribution of scientific materials is a great counter-example. Maybe a better term is ‘morally grey’. The key point I wanted to make was just that in the majority of cases it is near impossible to argue that it is a ‘right’ thing to do. It’s not hard to see the more complex moral arguments sharing scientific studies, however I don’t think this really applies if we’re talking about an episode of Suits.

As for a system of ethics, to me this can be approached very simply. What would be the consequences of piracy if we all did it? At least for arts and entertainment, I don’t think there would be anything to pirate very quickly.

Insults aside, I think this is a bit of a stretch honestly. You could say the same thing about huge swathes of the information sector.

This is a pretty weak analogy, but I hope it illustrates my feelings on this. Imagine a museum that charged for entry, to help pay for its staff and for maintenance. And say you could break in at night without damaging anything, just to look at the artifacts for free. You may not be stealing, as as you say perhaps you would never pay for entry, but you are choosing to deny other human beings any kind of compensation for the work they’ve done. If everybody did this, how would the museum continue to function?

I absolutely agree with you that piracy is largely a response to real issues that businesses should address. Of course it’s not fair that a subscription fee will feel different to people of different economic status. I guess it’s tough to feel the individual side of that.

I enjoyed the first few seasons of Star Trek Discovery (another reason for me to get downvotes lol). It was on Netflix in my country and then shortly before a new season was due to start CBS pulled it for their own platform. It wasn’t even available for months. I was disappointed but I’ve never seen the newer episodes. I really appreciate your reasoning and don’t judge you for it, I just personally feel that I won’t buy a product if I don’t like the box it comes in etc.

I’m sure this comment will receive plenty of hate, but I’m really struggling to understand why piracy seems to get so staunchly defended by seemingly everyone here. Piracy is stealing. It is morally wrong. We can argue all day about how it’s a ‘victimless crime’ or how media conglomerates are greedy and deserve it, but at the end of the day there’s nothing that makes it ‘right’. With maybe a few exceptions, no one needs the things they’re pirating and it’s just childish to refuse to pay for content and go on pretending it’s a necessity. What needs to happen is more money going to the creators whose content we all enjoy so much.

There’s plenty of places to go where you can still interact with these communities, and we shouldn’t be surprised that a large and general instance wants to be distant from them. Personally I applaud the decision.