> While banning TikTok is not fair to me, saying Google isn't banned in China is lying.
No. You are lying or you are dense. Google operated in china til 2010 or so. It tried to foment a color revolution in china like google did throughout north africa, middle east, ukraine, etc. So china instituted more stringent laws to reign in google. Google chose to leave china because the laws would prevent them from spying and destabilizing china.
So you could call it "banned" if you like, but it isn't "banning" in the same sense as tiktok being banned.
> I mean... we did put nearly all the horses out of a job. Ditto oxen and other beasts of burden.
Don't forget farmers. Most americans were farmers in the early 1900s. Today it's about 1%.
Sure, jobs were eventually created for the unemployed farmers but "robots taking all the jobs" was a cataclysmic event in the early 1900s. You could argue it was the driving force for much of the 20th century. WW1 was primarily a result of european and american societies having excess population to "thin out". The excess population was also a reason for the anti-immigration movement that dominated the first half of the 1900s.
"Robots taking our jobs" isn't the end of the world. But it can be very painful.
Why? You want to host a blog in the afterlife? All kidding aside, why not just hand over your internet assets to a trusted family member who will handle everything when you are gone?
> which doesn’t really make sense to me when I consider the weakness of the currency
When there is war, financial crisis, etc, money seeks the safest harbor. The safest harbor in the world today is the US. Rising interest rates, war in ukraine, competition with china, etc means that the world is buying treasuries. Demand for dollars goes up, demand for most other currencies goes down.
If there is a significant crisis in the world and the dollar doesn't gain in strength, then we'll know a paradigm shift has occurred.
Neither Database Systems, Concurrent Programming nor Network Programming are foundational knowledge for CS. They are good knowledge to have for a specialized programming job, but not foundational computer science.
It's like asking why someone with a degree in theoretical physics cannot fix my car.
The real question is why so many people with CS degrees don't know what CS is really about.
> Zero toxicity and probably several magnitudes more meaningful conversations with people from all around the world.
In other words, you've built yourself a tiny echo chamber. The only way you have "zero toxicity" is that the group is exceedingly small or you force group-think.
> (3) I once saw a post from a German IT mag (heise, I think from November 2022) that claimed that they have more traffic through Mastodon than through any other Social Media thingy.
That's not a good thing. It means that the german IT mag has no readers.
> It isn't about Russians or Russia. But the root cause of the crimes committed in Ukraine.
NATO imperialism? I don't think the ICC is going after anyone in NATO.
> Now he faces arrest on any soil where ICC has juristiction, no matter where they come from or currently reside.
That's funny. Putin wouldn't even face arrest in the netherlands. How many nukes do you think the netherlands is willing to suffer to arrest putin?
> => 123 countries or so, not Russia.
Countries that are not party to ICC - US, Russia, China, India, Turkey, Indonesia, etc...
The oldest democracy. The largest demographic democracy. The largest geographic democracy. The largest islamic democracy. Are not party to the ICC. It's almost like the ICC is the enemy of democracy. Hopefully the great democracies of the world put an end to the ICC.
It's not just a matter of our subjective experience of time, it's a matter of the laws of thermodynamics and entropy. Time moves in one direction is another way of saying entropy always increases. If time could move in the opposite direction, then entropy decreases which breaks our understanding of physics.