If I put my Conspiracy Hat on, the reason they just did not Extend ipV4 to just add some more address space is to purposefully eliminate Privacy on the internet
There is a huge number of people that believe in things like a "Real Names Policy", and that Anonymous Access to the internet was a mistake, These people hold positions of power in organizations that make the standards.
The ideas of privacy were, but not the idea that someone really would go through the effort to store connection information for the purpose of surveillance. Naturally, because that still is a perversion.
We already know the political slant of "experts". Making "experts" write the community notes would lead to them being as untrustworthy as "fact checkers".
Painting all experts with such a broad brush leads to what is an epistemic waste land in which you are cut off from everyone else's knowledge, since you can dismiss any belief you dislike by simply declaring it expert knowledge.
I don't think he's painting a picture that all experts are automatically wrong about everything just because they're experts. Rather, that "experts" are as morally biased as any other person (it turns out that 8 years of university doesn't fundamentally change anything about the human condition), and that they shouldn't be granted unchecked epistemological authority over subjective matters. Someone who knows the truth and has a political agenda is not less likely to lie than someone who doesn't know the truth and has a political agenda, and that's even the case if you assume that all experts do magically know everything about their field.
Often the problem is that the guy who has made something his career posts incorrect things more often than the guy who hasn't. Some of the reasons for these are:
- self-interest
- intentionally since it protects their interests
- accidental since they've spent so much time they need it to be meaningful
- accidental since they want to please their fellow experts
- intentionally since they want to go with the herd
- selection bias towards being someone who cares about this very much goes with lack of aptitude
- historical bias
- most people are better equipped than experts to spot paradigm shifts because experts are over-indexed on the status quo
- no field expertise
Ultimately, it's up to you how you weight people's opinion, and may each person's epistemology serve them appropriately.
Like the field of psychology which surprisingly often produces results about very successful liberal-endorsed interventions (head start programs or growth mindset) that reliably return weaker results as they're tested more and finally stop reproducing altogether. These, sometimes massive, failures do impressively little to tame the smugness of their proponents.
You’ve just described the scientific method. That’s how it is intended, and that’s currently the best way to make decisions according to our knowledge. Failure is completely normal.
First, shoddy research getting published because it matches authors' and reviewers' bias is not some immanent part of the scientific method.
Second, that is not what the comment was about. It was about repeated debunking of reality's supposed liberal bias from which its fans consistently refuse to learn.
The recovery from that particular procedure doesn't seem to be significantly worse than getting a vasectomy, though the infertility is rather more permanent.
If it's any consolation I know someone who went through that and now wants them back. Ergo, there are problems if you go through that too. Perhaps it's too easy to do it...
Mine is not a philosophy. I'm closely related to someone who has to deal with the fall out of such procedures. The standards being met for surgery are fairly low and the psych evaluations are not always conclusive.
Did you just create this new account because your previous accounts were banned for posting racist, transphobic, and sexist shit, lies, and conspiracy theories, yet you're continuing to post racist, transphobic, and sexist shit, lies, and conspiracy theories from this new account? Didn't you learn anything?
>you know it well that you can't upgrade from php 7 to 8 without the site crashing
This is not unique to WordPress, this is how most any software running on an interpreted language would behave if you updated the interpreter by a major version and did not update the software to a supported version.
Major version upgrades in PHP are the only time BC breaks are allowed, for example.
Wordpress does very well on motte and Bailey - the core is performant and secure, but if you try to do anything with just core, you’re told to install any number of (quite good mind you) plugins.
Most of the time you get a new client and they have a website with a theme and plugins that haven't seen updates in years because the authors abandoned them. You have to constantly fix them. Even if you create the website yourself you really have no way of knowing for how long it will be supported, and even then, you are not going to do a complete security audit of the codebase.
For example because of latest updates to PHP 8 they have deprecated the $var{key} syntax - who the fuck uses that?! I did not even know it existed until some of my clients' websites crashed after I updated PHP.
It's an absolute minefield since we moved on to the PHP 7 branch. I am glad for PHP because the language sucked before because of how lenient it was. But it creates a lot of work for me.
> $31.66 a month for a wordpress hosting plan is an absolute rip-off.
Today, maybe. For the human costs of hosting support in 2123, given the cost of inflation, it might not be, and these plans include technical support.
(Although you could also that the technical support work on most of these 100-year plans should be dropping over time too - especially if the human being involved passes away. You could even argue that AI might be doing the technical support in 2123.)
Today for sure. But if someone twenty years ago said I could have 100 years of Starbucks lattes for $2/each, it would have turned out to be a great deal. It depends if hosting is affected by inflation or not.
