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It can evict other things for space reasons, sure. But it doesn't make their contents invalid.

Yep, reading something doesn't invalidate your caches. Or everyone else's caches.

Or even something about how writing usefully on a topic requires higher expertise than reading and understanding what was written.

It's tedious, which is a particular kind of being hard.

In that case how would you interpret the "we can just do better"?

I haven't seen any emails about it, so I'd lean towards it being something that doesn't rate sending emails.

Replacing "something you know" with "something you have" is actually not an unalloyed good.

Those things are important when you want to use making software as a fun social activity. (And are of the appropriate tribe, for the ones with political valence.)

They matter rather less if the goal is to have useful software.

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There's also the possibility that you make something commercially valuable, and forbid corporations from deriving value from it; in which case you'll suddenly have to share space with something that's (somewhat?) interoperable and outside your control. As was seen in the news a few times when project owners got annoyed at cloud providers and tried to restrict them.

For now.

I'd imagine that just because they've decided it's good enough to go public with it, doesn't mean it's done getting better. Or that someone else can't do it better, now that it's been shown to work.

> The internet is not what’s being censored.

Well there's that thing with some countries blocking like all of Cloudflare during sportsball matches, since Cloudflare deliberately makes it impossible to block only whichever of their customers are serving unlicensed sportsball streams.

And I think the "Great Firewall" is still a thing.

And IIRC there's a couple times I've heard about countries taking down connectivity entirely during civil-war / major-unrest type incidents.

> makes moderation some form of censorship

Censorship is when Mallory decides that Alice is not permitted to talk to Bob.

Moderation is when Bob does not want to hear from Alice and Mallory blocks her for him.

The difference is on who's behalf the blocking is being done.

> Most people prefer

I would expect most people to not have much of an opinion on what other people are allowed to talk about when they're not around.

There's a section at the start that talks about what "understand" actually means.

It cannot be usefully analogized to things you can experience (or even to other things you might already understand).

Are you trying to suggest that the issue in the current post has the same underlying cause (not doing business with countries on the other side of a war)?

Path dependence causes problems, it's better to make sure you can just use current state instead.