I reject that USA has been a totalitarian cause it has had slaves or women has not always been allowed to vote.

I think you must look at the way the rest of the world was during the same time to get a honest picture of the "totalitarian state" of USA.

Hand pick some historic situation and then comparing versus a "Perfect World" (and since USA was not as good as this Perfect world.. then it must totalitarian/evil/..) This is not an honest way to frame the argument

Throughout the more than hundred thousand years humans have been organizing societies there is ample evidence for vastly more egalitarian societies than anywhere close to what the usa has achieved. I'm not comparing to a mythical utopia, I'm framing within the definable boundaries of human history.

The fact that most of human history has been abjectly totalitarian is not a defense for the US being actively totalitarian.

Huh? Totalitarianism was invented in the 20th century. It never existed before that.

You can read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism

To me it looks like like a very clear case of a writing/speaking words which they know (or the company clearly should have known) not to be true.

One could perhaps call this a "communication problem", but I'd like to think most people would call it lying

I think determinism would be way better than a system with some pseudo random setup. I think hand waving away the specific language used, ie "determinism" without really talking about what it means or why it does (not) matter is dishonest.

Causality and determinism are different, and it honestly makes sense to have it be random to tease out bugs as early as possible.

For a prime example see hash maps in Go, which is specifically non-deterministic when iterating over them to prevent users from relying on any kind of implicit behavior.

> "When iterating over a map with a range loop, the iteration order is not specified and is not guaranteed to be the same from one iteration to the next."

https://go.dev/blog/maps

> [...] prevent users from relying on any kind of implicit behavior.

Except now you just _know_ that somebody out there is using hash map iteration order as a source of entropy. ;)

Hush!

> "Is map iteration sufficiently random for randomly selecting keys?"

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41019703/is-map-iteratio...

I think that most social media is increasing the power of bad faith compared to good faith actors. Normal perspective versus an extreme perspective then I fear that the more normal perspective people often has a more diverse situation with many other sources and influences.

A less extreme person arguing in good faith probably has many other things in his/her life to worry about, like children/parents/work/neighbours etc.

While bad faith actors often have much less distractions, and can more easily afford to just keep the point going. I think a bad faith actor will relative easy force out more moderate/normal people out of the forum or conversation thread. Why keep going, if you got a family and work and .. to take cary about, and arguing in good faith will be hard to get anywhere good ?

I think this give a much bigger loudspeaker to people with more extrem views, and help shut up people with more moderate positions. I suspect the the setup of social media and the tools they use, and the tools within forums influence this.

Engagement is probably increased if such extreme versus moderate is argued, and I think the more extreme position win is likely increasing income for social media.

I think store documentation from the 'food store franchise' have been publicly shared in Sweden and had instructions on how you should place the milk.

The dairy section is the most infuriatingly obscure section in Swedish stores. To the point that I've seen it hidden away in a small subsection only accessible by a rather narrow entrance.

In a debate when someone say they understand the motivation of their enemy and that the enemy is evil, this is often not very accurate. When one side of the political side express why someone on the other side is doing something, then it is good to take a big chunk of salt..

What is evil?

I don't believe that Thiel wants harm to come to people as a primary goal. But I do believe that he and I have extremely different values. Thiel has said that the world would be a better place if women never got the right to vote because, on average, women vote for policies that he thinks are bad. This indicates that Thiel values particular policy action more than providing franchise to people. That's... pretty bad in my opinion.

If svn covers 99% of your use cases, then you need more experience with distributed version control systems.

Able to commit locally, examine changes work with them and then push is a something you might not need or require if you think about version system like SVN.

But if you have learned Git or Mercurial or some other distributed system you would never go back to svn.

I have lots of experience with git (5 years of usage, 1 of those years was writing tooling in and around git) and pretty much the same experience with perforce, and I much prefer the centralized model of perforce to all the extra fun that comes with git

I was molded in "git" way of thinking about version control, but I was forced to use SVN in a job. Not having local branches is not that bad. Like, people find ways to work around it: e.g. maintaining changesets in patch-files, or just keep multiple different checkouts.

My counter example is slavery, which would lead to a very big wealth gap. I think that large slavery state or system would need metal working, but will guess it has existed without.

Yes, but what does slavery have to do with technology...? I don't understand the connection to the parent post.

Probably you need at least farming so you have something for your slaves to work on that can scale easily.

A storage with pure diff would be impossible to recover if you get a error in any commit. It would also be much slower to examine the data, and newer version control do not use pure diff.

The version control system Mercurial had description about these problems on the homepage, "behind the scense", which was good reading.

I am not sure if GIT is the best solution, but at least a "pure snapshot" is okey, but where a diff storage must in practise include some snapshot logic as well.

Diff based, but with snapshot "control frame" every N commits, like video?

Obviously joking though.

I disagree, he has DONE a common data format that works. If you do mod it, for example add comment to the data sent, 99.9% of the people agree, it is no longer JSON.

Which is neither here, nor there.

People still do it, and they still call it JSON. Heck, many JSON parsers, who otherwise work fine with regular JSON still accept it.

Even parsers using a different name like JSONC still allude to the JSON connection - and still are an argument that people found a lack in JSON.

Etymology/originology never produced much benefit over pragmatic non-prescriptive examination of how people use things. If anything, it helped confused the situation with pedantic objections.