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Precisely what inconvenience does it actually cause those businesses?


Your personal info becomes public because it's attached to the business information. This can include phone numbers, emails, full names, home addresses etc. All accessible online by anyone, including spammers, scammers, swatters etc.


Yes... if you want to do business with people, then those people want to know who they do business with.

What a fucking tragedy.

I'm sorry you have to live in such a socialist hellscape.


Well, the problem is all the bad actors. Why don't you post your full name, home address, email address, and phone number right here? You "do business" too, right?

Should everyone in the world then be able to have access to the information I mentioned just because you work for someone?


Umm, yes? My contact information is attached to the business names I trade under? Which is publicly available information.

Is this an alien concept to you?


Actually, it's not. Speaking from experience. I'm a sample size of one, but that's still one better than your extrapolation from zero.

One of the local supermarket chains here in Denmark (Salling Group) even puts a star on the price tag for products of European origin.

For larger purchases, I'm doing research on the product anyway.

I still sometimes buy American at times; sometimes there's no avoiding it for certain items. But on the whole avoiding American goods isn't that hard, and doesn't require much effort.


Given that the US is the only country in recent memory whose politics have shifted from "pretty normal for a western nation" to "unpredictable rogue state", it's not as though the list of "countries to avoid" changes that often.

Countries like Russia, Iran, and China have been very consistent in their philosophies and actions; countries like France, the UK, and Japan have also been pretty consistent. The only real change lately is the US.


On a similar note:

There was a period post-Brexit when I hadn't moved away from Ireland yet during which I also did my best to avoid UK produced goods too.

Now that was a lot harder though due to the UK still being in the single market at the time, and on top of that just how integrated supply chains between the north and the rest of Ireland are.

I'm cautiously optimistic that the UK is moving back toward sanity though.


> One of the local supermarket chains here in Denmark (Salling Group) even puts a star on the price tag for products of European origin.

Many store chains in Canada have also started putting maple leaf icons on price tags for Canadian-made products over the last year or two, after the US did whatever they've done. But it's harder to avoid US-made products here, because so much is imported and it's the only country we share a real land border with.


It doesn't have local hidden variables. That's an important distinction.

I'm not sure a non-local hidden variable explanation of QM is any distinct from superdeterminism though.


> non-local hidden variable

Like, global variables?


Naked singletons in your locality.


Alright, who's been messing with the universal gravitational constant and making it not universal? No one's in trouble, I just want to know.


There's another tantalizing possibility, that it varies over time rather than across space.


It was far from exactly like that. GR was in part prompted by the precession of the perihelion of mercury for which there was plenty of data.



Dude, if you genuinely want to know what happened, you should read some proper history of science. Here take this: https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0405066

It shows both how Einstein very much didn't make the theory alone, was inspired to take impotat technical steps by work of other thats that created a theory based on his principles before him, and that actually he first created (in intense collaboration) a failed theory that got Mercury's anomaly all sorts of wrong.


> Linux developers should be doing a lot more of this. We should be making everything work better for us without caring how it's going to impact other irrelevant platforms

Linux developers already do. Using a BSD can already be a pain in the arse, thanks to (often poorly thought out) Linux-isms cropping up everywhere.


Many have a tendency to mix GNU/Linux with UNIX, unfortunely.

Which is why I enjoy at least on embedded we are having plenty of choice between FreeRTOS, NuttX, and plenty others.


A fun first project would be something to cultivate bitter almonds, and then isolate the cyanide compounds from them.

I don't know what you'd do with the cyanide compounds. But maybe you could get some inspiration from the current attitude toward "AI" products.


> 1) Be the only ones to follow the letter of the law, break a lot of people's expectations, and catch backlash for disrupting traffic

Yes, they should do that. The fact that others don't follow it is completely irrelevant.

I'm sorry if it doesn't help them meet their quarterly targets, but I don't think it's unreasonable for a Company to follow the fucking law when it comes to human safety.

And if they can't, they should be dissolved and the directors prosecuted.

If they truly can't grow without compromising people's safety and breaking the laws put in place to prevent them, then they shouldn't exist. End of.


> The fact that others don't follow it is completely irrelevant.

This shouldn't even be a discussion. Because someone kills a person, everyone else now needs to kill someone otherwise it breaks expectations? Madness...


The fact that both our comments are being downvoted is dumb.

Over the last year, the vibe on site has become... concerning.

Yeah, it's always leaned right wing capitalist. That's fine by itself—I like the contrast to my own views at times. I'm a lefty—very left compared to US "left"—but still have some right wing economic sympathies at times and in certain areas. There's actual discussion to be had there!

But recently it seems like this site has gone off the fucking deep end in delusion when it comes to everything. The misogyny and transphobia has started becoming less and less hidden too. This is the first time I've logged in here in over a month, and I've seen my comments today getting flagged for arguing against a person saying that bicyclists have more fatalities on the road—just asking them to cite a fucking source.

What you are saying is not controversial. You're not crazy. This site is just full of fucking idiots who haven't realised they're the next serfs in the reality they're bringing about.


> This is why they often have a massively higher rate of fatalities

It wouldn't perhaps be because they're (a) forced to share a space with cars and (b) cars have crumple zones, unlike cyclists?


Now I'm really curious. What field are you in that ndjson files of that size are common?

I'm sure there are reasons against switching to something more efficient–we've all been there–I'm just surprised.


> Now I'm really curious. What field are you in that ndjson files of that size are common?

I'm not OP,but structured JSON logs can easily result in humongous ndjson files, even with a modest fleet of servers over a not-very-long period of time.


So what's the use case for keeping them in that format rather than something more easily indexed and queryable?

I'd probably just shove it all into Postgres, but even a multi terabyte SQLite database seems more reasonable.


Replying here because the other comment is too deeply nested to reply.

Even if it's once off, some people handle a lot of once-offs, that's exactly where you need good CLI tooling to support it.

Sure jq isn't exactly super slow, but I also have avoided it in pipelines where I just need faster throughput.

rg was insanely useful in a project I once got where they had about 5GB of source files, a lot of them auto-generated. And you needed to find stuff in there. People were using Notepad++ and waiting minutes for a query to find something in the haystack. rg returned results in seconds.


You make some good points. I've worked in support before, so I shouldn't have discounted how frequent "once-offs" can be.


The use case could be e.g. exactly processing an old trove of logs into something more easily indexed and queryable, and you might want to use jq as part of that processing pipeline


Fair, but for a once-off thing performance isn't usually a major factor.

The comment I was replying to implied this was something more regular.

EDIT: why is this being downvoted? I didn't think I was rude. The person I responded to made a good point, I was just clarifying that it wasn't quite the situation I was asking about.


At scale, low performance can very easily mean "longer than the lifetime of the universe to execute." The question isn't how quickly something will get done, but whether it can be done at all.


Good point. I said it above, but I'll repeat it here that I shouldn't have discounted how frequent once offs can be. I've worked in support before so I really should've known better


Certain people/businesses deal with one-off things every day. Even for something truly one-off, if one tool is too slow it might still be the difference between being able to do it once or not at all.


> No one cares at amateur level

Except people clearly fucking do for some reason, and all that's going to happen is make life worse for women both cis and trans. Trans women will get excluded, and cis women who are "too good" or not fitting societal ideals of femininity will be accused of being trans. This is already happening to children.

> If you chose to identify as another sex

When did you choose to identify as the gender you were born with?


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