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What actually happens is that economic power don't stop at those boundaries but instead buy politics and courts

Yes that's racist to divide one million families just the same of cruelty, and also quite stupid because that's not how capitalism work when there is a cheaper source of labor of a call center that speaks the right language in the right timezone, it will find its way.

But racism and stupidity are usually good friends, so that checks out.

"Just block calls between France and Marocco" is a very racist proposal

FYI there is at least 900k+ people in France either immigrant from Marocco or with an origin and a 100k+ people with french nationality or origin living in Marocco

I'm not offensed, it's just wrong.

"Using your mother tongue is elitist" is bullshit on an epic scale.

It's litteraly your mother tongue man, everyone outside of the elite has a mother, and therefore a mother tongue, it's not expansive, it's your basic birth right.

Why don't people consume audio/video in a foreign language ?

I'm a polyglot myself, so I enjoy that very much, but the simple truth is that most people don't invest the time for becoming fluent in other languages in countries with a "big" language. Works for France, the US, the UK, Spain, Mexico, Japan or China.

Why ? Pretty obvious. Become fluent in a foreign language is a huge effort. Making that effort really only works if you either WANT to do it or if you NEED to do it. The WANT factor is the same everywhere but the NEED to learn a language is way lower if your mother tongue is in the top 5 - or top 10 languages of the world.

The only thing that is specific to French is that French & English have this weird shared history that makes the written langauges very similar and the oral languages very different. So a frequent compromise for french speakers is to become fluent enough at reading/writing, but quite bad at hearing/speaking.

It's not a good thing at all that what manages the secrets of my digital life is hardware based... on the hardware of one single vendor

Kotlin is a great langage, but Android being difficult was not about Java but about Android APIs being terrible.

The guy is a fascist, only a fool would NOT dimiss his ideas.

Nothing personal, I would say the same thing for Henry Ford, a huge antisemite.

Is that how the CyberTruck was designed? I would pass

Nobody has troubles reading a declarative DSL like

Tag1 { Tag2 { } }

That was always going to happen one way or another. The reason blockchain/cryptocurrency can be faster/cheaper is not because of a technical breakthrough, it's because it's a creative way to evade banking regulations.

Many people here comment on the title rather on the substance.

The title is indeed clickbait, but it is not scambait. Clickbait is when you want the reader interested in reading things, which is normal, scambait is when you do that but you have no points behind made after that.

Here are the points made by the article and what I think of them :

- Much more things can be improved than we think possible (100% true - obviously we can't to them all at once, but we don't need to.)

- We don't need a new plan, we already have plans (True, for example you can take the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations as a starting point).

- Coordination matters (And is possible, the UN had lead the historic achievment to eradicate fucking polio)

- We have enough resources to act in the real world, but the way we make decisions is broken (True, Elon Musk spent an insane amount of money to make a dumb website worse, while US Foreign Aid #1 top priority is to help the government of Israel commits more crimes with no accountability)

- Things will not change until a determined group of people take action (100% true, this is how every progress ever has worked out)