It is amazing and confusing to me, too, everytime again I read something like that, e.g. also for "animals have feelings, empathy" etc... seriously, really?
Ask anybody who has a pet or observed animals in freedom for a longer time! How can you assume the opposite to begin with, please?
And it is also so directly obvious for most, in the end they are us... we just have developed recordable speech and have the best "hands" it seems... we are not too far off from "them".
The Berlin scene is partly very touristy, what is also good for the city (and sad to let the clubs go), but please also don't underrate it - there are still so many clubs, you just need to find your more undergroundy experience ;) As a tourist, of course, you are also part of the problem, but also well welcome. Every "hype" is not true and show quickly symptoms, and everything was always better back in time, but there is still a lot of reason for Berlin ;)
Definitely, don't know why not more places are like that. The majority if techno clubs does it.
There is a reason more clubs are also dark etc.. not only to hide the maybe existing wasted faces, but also to completely let go and dissolve in the music, this is very necessary.
I generally agree, but also disagree. The problem with drugs and people is that they usually overdo everything and dont know their limits. Who figures that out can also have their fun 8+ hours even at age, with a limited amount of alcohol(+weed) consumption at a certain constant level ;)
And then there are also that amazing sober ravers who can do 8-12hrs even without any drug.
Shouldn't be underestimated how much some people like the music and their trancy dance therapy. (but yeah, those only also buy water/cola/maté).
And even this comment will get a lot of explanations why cars and the infrastructure as it is is absolutely necessary for them. Yes, given your setting you built and the only pov you can imagine! The opposite is easy, fun, and proven in many places to work well and better;)
Not getting it.. yeah the famous 32 bit ms overflow after 49 something days. But why then 51 here? Shouldn't they be required to reboot after 49 days please please? :D
Yes.. I agree to the example and reasoning in the article, but on the other hand metaphors can simplify things too much, and even tell lies. E.g. politicians using them is the prime example. Thus, not convinced...
> and it's not end-to-end encryption this time. Not exactly.
Not exactly, but as you mention that... of course, if you could open up that too, that would be great. lol ;)
Why are these Orwellesque desires not more frowned upon? Our crimefighters barely need it, they stay as incompetent as before, but our freedoms and civil rights will suffer, a lot. Even the most conservative ones should be afraid of what they constantly try to enable in face of all the right wing pushes everywhere.. social and even most liberal parties don't hold against it, it is shocking and hilarious at the same time.
It is a matter of getting used to, childhood imprint.
Most Europeans will smell and taste the chlorine immediately, even in a coke in a fast food chain in the US where they mix that tap water in, or even just in ice cubes.
This conditioning works also the other way round. Read often that Americans usually find the tap water in Europe to be not "fresh", because of the missing chlorine.
I don't think there is any self-lying involved. People notice it the first time going and trying, certainly not because they have been subconsciously indoctrinated. Personally strongly confirm!
Sorry if I gave that impression, but it is wrong.
"I feel" indicates that this is a not very certain assumption by me, and "We wouldn't be where we are" meant that I believe this is a contributing factor, not the only reason, I even gave one of many others (unfair distribution) few words later. shrug
We wouldn't be where we are with right-wing votes if we wouldn't have this much panic pessimistic breaking news everywhere I feel. There are definitely more perspectives. (And yes I know, unfair distribution plays also a huge part in very different perspectives..).
Get the point, but no, actually not, we join nouns, not sentences ;) (but english does, too, just with spaces between?)
Further especially that word few germans could tell you why it is called like that:
Spieß is spear, so Spießbürger/Spießer is just a spear citizen, or a speary?! ;)
(One explanation is the medieval simple citizen that could not afford a better weapon than a simple spear. Not even sure if the only explanation attempt though..)
"A Spießbürger is a derogatory term for a narrow-minded person who is characterized by mental immobility, pronounced conformity to social norms and aversion to changes in the usual living environment."
That's human... there will always be the kind of people that have their lists ready why the future will right now and also never in the future work for them, fortunately there is a long time perspective in evolution also in regard to ideas&thinking.
"Demystifying" is a big word for what the original docs document quite well, and is also not like you couldn't read and understand that in few hours, if you are not totally foreign to protocol design and serialization? This post gives even much less information?!
Sounds really like you used them for the wrong use case. If you are in need of a binary compact serialization, they are not prefect (is there any) but fair enough.