I look at Postel’s law more as advice on how to parse input. At some point you’re going to have to upgrade a client or a server to add a new field. If you’ve been strict, then you’ve created a big coordination problem, because the new field is a breaking change. But if you’re liberal, then your systems ignore components of the input that they don’t recognize. And that lets you avoid a fully coordinated update.

No, before Trump 2 nobody would’ve taken bribes and gifts so openly like this. It’s not even in the same league and it’s some really self-serving argumentation to pretend otherwise.

Every complicity is another nail in the coffin of our democracy.

I’m very upset that iOS doesn’t support using a phone as a jump box.

Silicon Valley could easily pay their moral debt by not evading taxes.

But it’s how it will be sold to us. It’s sure a lot warmer in the abbatoir for some reason. And they give some of us cigarettes. Bill says they even feed him.

No he just wants to send our kids to die in the desert for Palantir’s profits.

AT&T was once broken up and then after that you could connect a modem to a phone line. The whole public use of the Internet is a consequence of breaking up a “superior product” that became a bloated market incumbent resting on its laurels.

If you’re betting with a friend that they won’t have chicken for dinner, what’s to stop them from having chicken for dinner? What if you bet with a complete stranger who also took the reverse of that bet from your friend?

Nothing, that is why you quickly learn to not make stupid bets like that. If you don’t learn, then I guess survival of the fittest and all that.

I would settle for a box in which I can dump sorted laundry and out of which falls folded laundry.

The second somebody manages this, I will rush out and throw my credit card at their store so hard it embeds itself in the counter like a ninja star.

This is the much more likely future of home robotics. Yes it will be a box, because it would be dangerous to let you stick your fingers inside that mechanism. It won't walk around.

I don’t want my toddler exposed to secondhand pot smoke. Unfortunately it’s more common than secondhand cigarette smoke in my experience. I wouldn’t get upset on my own behalf but he’s too young to choose and it’s my responsibility to act in his behalf as much as I can.

But is it more unhealthy? The rest are simply adult "preferences".

Are you arguing that my toddler should be okay with it? The point is that it’s not about what I am okay with it’s about my being responsible for my son and what his adult self might want. We had opinions about the positive health effects of cigarettes in the 1940’s and 1950’s that turned out to be wrong. There’s a possibility you’re wrong about pot smoking too.