jively

Best notes app I've used - love the encryption philosophy. Editors could be better.

I actually real like the blogging integration.

Definitely recommended over bloat ware like EverNote, OneNote etc.

> It is a naive take that does not allow space for discussing how to predict, detect and avoid those unintended consequences.

(I think you might want to reconsider using "naive", it's belittling and RealStorm of r/iamverysmart.)

Its not about the misuse of technology, it gets created without a Hobbesian leviathan, there is no universal overseer that knows when something is invented and can therefore pull the breaks on whether progress should be stopped. Nor can the invention of said technologies' uses be predicted, especially when it comes to fundamental research.

An example: Maxwell created his famous equations in 1860, they would become foundational in enabling radio broadcasting in 1890. Radio in and of itself has enabled all kinds of amazing communications breakthroughs to make humanity richer. But it also enabled true modern warfare as it expanded the capability of nations to orchestrate massive military engagements across multiple theatres.

Should we have stopped Hertz and Marconi? Where would this debate be held? Who enforces the outcomes of these debates in the modern geopolitical space we live in today? There's a simple practical problem with the whole situation.

Once the genie is out, it's unstoppable - see nukes, once the US used one, the race was on to invent it independently.

Perhaps your issue is down to me using "misuse" as that implies a correct one exists. Let's just say that a "correct" one (or many) exists in the eyes of the original inventor or creator. It takes the imagination and motivations of others to re-apply that knowledge.

One could go so far to say that all technology in and of itself is dangerous.

Bad in and of itself isn't a universal constant or pillar, morality is relative.

Not sure if you've read The Prince, but Machiavelli never suggested "evil" intent, just that as a good ruler you must embrace all strategies to achieve your goal, the ruler may not think of themselves as "bad", but should accept doing questionable things to advance whatever agenda they feel is "right". And what is "right" all depends on your perspective, doesn't it?

There's no moral absolutes, just majorities that ascribe to a similar set of red lines.

Capitalism creates machines that put profit and shareholder value above all else and creates some pretty twisted motivations of what is "right".

Historical Communism puts the will and power of the state over the welfare of the people as what is "right". We all know how well that turned out.

I'd rather say it's potentially naive to think that ideas such as "good" and "bad" are absolutes.

The fear of technology is the fear of man's capability to misuse it. It's got nothing to do with economic or political preference and all to do with the fact that Machiavellian people exist in all societies.

The conclusion of this article is basically "I don't understand how to use common sense and data at the same time, so I'll hark back to old-timey "gut instinct" and good-ol-fashioned selection bias hidden by my own lack of self-understanding to validate my ignorance, oh and here's some BS about lockdown policies."

What a joke, all of these posts have the same conclusions: don't deal in absolutes.

Go's GC is excellent btw, a massive benefit is also that you don't need the whole Java VM to run your app.

For pure performance, go write something in C or Rust. In fact for folks that are obsessed with performance rolling your own is the only option. Which is probably why the DO team went down this path.

For most use cases the benefit of working in your dev teams context / language of choice outweighs performance considerations.

And at Tyk the go plugins are native, you can slow down the GC activity to really boost performance if you have RAM to spare. Speed isn't an issue.

Ultimately it comes down to what you are trying to accomplish. What's best for your dev team? How can you innovate faster? How can you get this done cost effectively.

Performance comparisons are a dick measuring contest that are rarely relevant to the problem you are trying to solve.

This is the same issue that faces newspapers, publishers and TV stations. At some point the scale of reach and influence come into conflict with public policy and governance.

Newspapers are horribly regulated and most TV stations can say what they like within reason - especially in the US where being fair and balanced is no longer a requirement to run a news service.

This jurisdictional problem affects all media and isn't just limited to social platforms.

The difference with TV and Newspapers is that they can have their licenses revoked. So there is a degree of power wielded by the government over what is acceptable locally.

In contrast, social media infringes on sovereign power by existing and influencing on a global scale without being regulated on a local one. A great example is name suppression during trials, it might be illegal for a newspaper in France to publish a name, but that doesn't stop one in the UK from doing it, and because the paper has a website, that foreign paper inadvertently breaks local law in France because anyone can look it up, but it can't be held accountable.

Sovereignty and global digital media do not intersect well without an interface - and that just doesn't exist.

Expect more balkanisation of the Internet in the future as govts take back some control over media within their borders.

And no, I'm not advocating for dictator-like suppression of free-speech, but a mechanism of accountability for foreign firms breaking local laws.

It's a shame that the real-world example has to be Trump, if this had happened to Malala, or Thunberg, or the Pope, the advocacy for oversight and accountability would be a lot easier to digest.

NZ is pretty tight about who they let in, similar to Australia. There's a high bar for an experience/expertise based visa and its limited to certain industries (digital graphics for example - movies are a big deal in the South Island). The only thing it's easy to bring in are seasonal workers from the Pacific islands to pick fruit / work the vineyards.

Otherwise it's sponsorship, marriage, or family.

Residency (not citizenship) needs to be applied to while outside the country, and the application can take up to a year to be processed (you get a dedicated case worker, you need medical checks, xrays and all kinds of evidence - I needed to submit photos of my wife and I to prove our relationship was legit as well as a bunch of tax records and existing residency proof - it was a lot - also, very expensive!), citizenship requires several years of actual residency.

The NZ passport is like the UK one and they can compel you to relinquish existing citizenship if you naturalise.

I don't think that will happen with Gaben, Covid has stranded many temporary visa holders here without work or without access to benefits so there's a large policy question about what to do with those that are stranded.

But anyone hoping to just emigrate over here because we seem to have our shit together (we don't) is delusional.

A big reason that they are so careful about handing out permanent residency is that permanent residents (not temporary visa holders), can vote in parliamentary elections. Which is awesome - no taxation without representation - but gets the local right riled up because any govt can boost their voter count by opening immigration up, which means in general, there's downward pressure on immigration from all sides.

Why should it be easy? I live here and it was a PITA just getting residency.

That was under a government that played monopoly with our housing market. Bit different now

Citizenship is hard, residency takes forever and must be applied to from outside, and buying a place if you aren't either of the above is now quite difficult.