Expecting privacy (or privacy-preserving security) from Google products has always been folly.
Mozilla used to be different. However, when Brendan was purged, first doubts may have arisen. Now that we also see cyber-bully Klabnik on their payroll, the probability has risen sharply that Mozilla has been successfully subverted into a political pressure group.
Since Mozilla now is enrolled in support of the dominant ideology, it has no incentive for supporting privacy anymore, either: The dominant ideology wants minority opinion holders to be outed and ostracised.
How could I not think of that! Hiring a kind of SJW-ey guy to write Rust docs is just a small step in the direction of clear-text passwords and the removal of HTTPS from Firefox. Better switch to Gnome Web, then.
If you combine that with the pain stim version into one device and give me the remote, I'll have you barking like a dog whenever I lift my little finger.
The good news is that schools don't have to drug unruly boys anymore...
Just so people don't think there's no third way to think about your work: I get nothing but snake oil vibes from Urbit, but loved the blog, which, among other things, was the venerable art form of Usenet trolling taken to utter perfection.
If you sum over all micro-insults suffered by victims of racists, caused by billions, possibly trillions of micro-aggressions, who knows how many death-equivalents you might get?
Anyway, whomever socialists might have killed, it was long ago: smack in the middle of the dark ages of widespread racism, to be exact. Which means those so-called victims of socialism probably all were racists.
Japan is betting that automation means they don't need gazillions of workers to feed their old.
If they're right, they'd win so big compared to "us" that in fact the biggest obstacle they're facing might be that "we" won't allow them to win the bet.
However, if their bet fails and automation alone can't make up for the shortfall in the labor force, they stand to lose more compared to other countries like the US and those in Europe that do a better job of integrating immigrants into society and the workforce.
Research/creative work is difficult to automate, and it seems that only a smallish percentage of population excels at it. Small population -> falling behind in those areas, unless the Japanese somehow revolutionize their education system.
Scheme has come up with the idea of pretending that an undelimited contination is a function, which is somewhat true-ish... in the degenerate sense of a function with empty domain.
This is fine for Scheme, which is an expression language, so every method of invoking a continuation would, syntactically, be an expression anyway.
In C, which has statements, making return look like an expression is somewhat pointless. It doesn't matter whether C "has" continuations (and it arguably has) or not.
Maybe you know about usenet. Of course, usenet is dead. However, one of the last groups to die was comp.lang.lisp, which is an instructive example in this context.
I submit that what, or rather who, kept comp.lang.lisp alive for so long beyond most of the rest of usenet was a guy named Eric Naggum. He may not have identified the sociopath aspect, but did have the entitled MOPs in his crosshairs and kept them out with (sometimes utterly brilliant, btw) flamage.
Sadly, comp.lang.lisp also points to something not mentioned in the linked post: Entitled MOPs and sociopaths will not just silently accept their exclusion.
When excluded, they attack, possibly indirectly through other venues. To this day, in an astonishing number of online discussions of Lisp culture, you're apt to find attacks on comp.lang.lisp in general, or Erik Naggum in particular, for the high crime of having once excluded (for example) an entitled MOP who wanted his homework done by comp.lang.lisp.
If you're in the west, KGB backdoors are less of a risk to you.
Say you're in the west. NSA has backdoors into your US-designed hardware and your US-designed OS. NSA also, probably, has access to your ISP's routers and
US net/web corporations like Google. As a result, NSA may hide C&C channels where KGB use of a backdoor to your hardware would still show detectable illegitimate network traffic.
Lower risk of detection translates to higher probability of use.
