Understanding assembly coding makes you a vastly better C coder.

Nah, not really. Not anymore. Nice skill to have when debugging weird stuff, but nothing you can't get by without.

And the massive damage this did to children's education. I think people who didn't have a child in the school system at the time might not understand how poorly the schools functioned during that time.

My child had two intelligent and supportive parents, including a stay-at-home mother, and it was still rough. Many of her classmates just flat-out lost a year of education. There's still obvious effects on her cohort years later.

Absolutely true.

I used to think I was socially awkward... but man, even at my worst I would have known better than to send this link as a response to anybody.

Maybe they changed. The inability to change shouldn't be taken as gospel.

"post about it in a local artist community" is not exactly "talk about it with their friends."

It's bullying.

And if the shop owner is Jewish, it would be anti-semitism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws

I consider a boycott threat a non-violent threat; legal but an exercise of power that has moral dimensions.

Imagine if it said "post about it on Hacker News". That's not bullying

It's informing people that there is something a business is doing that they might not approve of and they might want to change their behaviour accordingly.

In the same way that sealioning is just a debate strategy.

Yes. Anybody can, including the person in charge of spending in a corporation.

so someone with more money should have more influence over an election? you really agree with this?

Strange how you substituted "a corporation" for "the person in charge of spending in a corporation", those aren't the same.

That was deliberate, because a corporation makes no spending decisions, ever. All decisions are made by people inside the corporation with the proper responsibility.

That is a major part of the reasoning for the Supreme Court rulings on the matter of corporate political funding.

Legally, the corporation itself makes the decision and is responsible for the consequences.

I feel that attempts to replace customer service with AI have and will continue to fail. It's not able to do that for both technical reasons (the AI is still to dumb) and business reasons (the AI is usually deliberately scoped to be impotent at helping customers with any important issue).

But, when properly used AI can reduce the customer service load. It can handle a lot of simple questions and status updates. There just needs to be a human available when there's any request that escalates past that simple case.

>The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

An amazing book. I'm not sure how it's particularly career-path-impacting, but it is fascinating being able to follow the cause and effect chain in Germany leading up to and all through the war (in excruciating detail).

I'm proud of our long and amazing climb upwards, from brutality to technological civilization.

Thanks to all our forefathers that have passed their gifts onwards.

You have a propagandized version of human history

Life in a hunter gatherer tribe doesn’t look anything like your ignorance portrays

Similarly, when I was younger, I came across this test: Sit down on the floor (all the way, butt on the ground). Now stand without using your hands at all. I was told that inability to do that was a strong indicator of failing health.

I imagine there's lots of different ways to evaluate general fitness like that.

That's a good one, I can get up without hands no problems. Sitting without a thud is a bit harder.

Watch a toddler move around on the ground, they are incredible flexible and strong.