They are going to spend those 4 years doing everything they can to fix the next election as well. Gerrymandering, voter intimidation, you name it. By all means hide in bed to get over the shock but, if you stay there, you’ll need to stay there more than 4 years.

So an EU-backed distro could be the same. Yes, they would fund maintainers, but their own maintainers, not maintainers of upstream distros.

How much of Ubuntu’s funding goes to supporting debian? I actually don’t know.

I don’t, for example, see Ubuntu listed here: https://www.debian.org/partners/

Well, what better way to embrace FOSS than dismissing the efforts of all the existing distro maintainers? Welcome to the community, guys. Good luck building your cathedral next to the bazaar!

How about they instead work together with the distros and create a way of certifying a distro as gov-ready?

Your wording seems to imply that inability to make a decision is anarchism and/or that anarchists are unable to make decisions, even though you blame the social democrats for the failure to march on Versailles sooner.

This is somewhat ironic. Obviously the anarchists could have dissuaded the National Guard from marching, but if they had the authority to prevent them, then they weren’t anarchists!

By contrast, in a setup where a decision needs to be made before people can act, then it’s very possible for a faction to prevent it. For example, they can say that key stakeholders are not present and therefore the meeting has no authority. If you’ve never witnessed this, I envy you.

Yes, if individual people have solidarity, then that is not incompatible with anarchism. In fact, that is practically the definition of it! It is important, for all of the reasons you said.

But you said “how can you have solidarity if you can’t have states or hierarchies?”. From that, I understand that you think that ‘solidarity’ can be something that is mandated by the state or hierarchy. I do not agree that that is important.

I am not sure what you are saying. If the Paris Commune had been able to order every man in Paris to fight, they would have been able to repel the French Army?

If you want people to fight and die for the cause, surely it is only right that you have to convince them that it is a good cause first. And, if it is a good cause then surely that should be easy? Telling them that they have to do it because there was a majority vote simply doesn’t cut it.

How do you and your friends decide what to do at the weekend when you don’t have a state or a hierarchy? It’s perfectly possible to make decisions by consensus.

I would actually turn the question around: do you really have solidarity if it is enforced by a state or a hierarchy?

Finally: is solidarity really so important? If the people are split in their opinion on an issue, exactly why is it so important to unite on one choice or the other? That seems like a terrible idea.

They don’t only say static types. They add classes, inheritance, subtyping, and virtual calls. Mind you, the difference between the last 3 is quite subtle.

So, since I’ve started nit-picking, Self is also OO and has prototype-based inheritance (as does javascript, but I’m not sure I’d want to defend the claim that javascript is an OO language).

In this post I use the word “OOP” to mean programming in statically-typed language

So Smalltalk is not object-oriented. Someone tell Alan Kay.

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I mean, it did happen under a Conservative government, and Sunak defended his failure to declare an interest by saying that he wasn’t privy to his wife’s business interests.

It’s quite possible that it’s that very scandal that prompted Starmer to seek additional guidance.

The author mentions that some of the changes broke things, but it’s a long way into the article before the word “test” appears. It’s only point 6/7 of his recommendations.

Making changes with no test coverage is not refactoring. It’s just rewriting. Start there.

AI developers: your copyrighted work is such a small contributor to the AI’s output that copyright doesn’t apply. Also AI developers: but our AI won’t work without it.

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If organizing multiple riots across the country doesn’t count as domestic extremism, what does?

Inciting religious hatred is what it is. That is a crime and it warrants prosecution, not criticism.

Is he following science? Recommendation 6 of the report recommends more research. Which recommendation says that they should be banned in the meantime?

Recommendation 10 says “All children should be offered fertility counselling and preservation prior to going onto a medical pathway.”, which implies that there is a medical pathway.

The report advocates all kinds of caution. It doesn’t appear to go where the Atkins and Streeting, who are politicians, not scientists, have taken it.

If we didn’t have FPTP, the Conservatives wouldn’t have been in power in the first place. They didn’t have a majority of the votes in any of the last 4 elections.

On the face of it, this seems ridiculous, but consider, a Supreme Court judge has been accepting large gifts from a man who had brought cases in front of the court, and that couldn’t possibly be bribery.