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A better parallel is the fall of the republic with the rise of strong men using populism and power to dismantle its form of democracy in favor of authoritarianism.

Not OP but the book ”The storm before the storm” covers what sets in motion the fall of the republic. I think the foreword or opening chapter notes the similarities with the state of the US (Trumps first presidency at the time of writing).

The author is the podcast host of ”History of Rome”, which is also great, and he does the audiobook narration perfectly.

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How long are your compile times?

Using map, fold etc. is not the hard part of functional programming. The hard part is managing effects (via monads, monad transformers, or effects). Trying to convert a procedural inner mutating algorithm to say Haskell is challenging.

Thanks for the info!

Are these defaults part of Skia or Chromium, i.e. will all Skia dependents benefit from this change?

Didn’t they release a pair of VR glasses last year?

There used to be a YouTube subscription called Premium Lite which was just ad-free YouTube. I happily paid for that until they shut it down and tried to force the much bigger subscription on me (nothing else in premium is relevant to me).

Now I use smarttube which is not only ad-free but also has tons of nice features which YouTube will never deliver. However, should premium lite comeback I would pay for it but keep using smarttube.

Interestingly (at least in Sweden) most chips used to not be vegan, but it's getting better. A lot of chips contain animal based flavor enhancers.

The first facebook issue that you mention is unrelated to the App Store, it’s an OS restriction. Side loading won’t affect this.

Apple can clearly make the OS secure/privacy friendly if they want to. The only layer of security that you may lose is the dubious “review” process, which clearly doesn’t do anything considering the amount of scam apps on the store.

Why not?