Apple was forced to disable this feature by an authoritarian government.

The same can be said about encrypted iOS backups, and maybe we’ll see forced CSAM scanning return.

Why is anyone expecting a corporation to be an activist and not obey the laws of the countries they operate in?

The image of Apple employees turning the metaphorical noose tighter around the Chinese is interesting to entertain as it says something about the human condition.

Given that it doesn’t seem to be grounded in any kind of reality, what the image says about the human condition must refer to the minds of those who conjure it up.

Apple pushing an update to prevent people from talking about burning alive during zero Covid seems somewhat grounded…

If they market themselves as a human rights defenders, which they do, I increase my expectations in that regard and they need a justification.

Problem isn't solved that way either, but at least a bit of honestly and maybe integrity would remain.

> We're also perpetuating values like fierce independence.

I keep seeing this said, but I don’t see it. What are the examples?

Well for one, I think it's the first time that "It's better to die alone than to settle for someone who isn't ideal' is commonly agreed with. People feel they shouldn't waste their time, they will only sacrifice for a relationship with someone amazing. There was once a time this was seen as selfish. It still is in a lot of places, in fact.

I never heard about this sentiment being commonly agreed. What make you come to that conclusion?

Interesting. I’ve never heard anyone say anything like that, let alone agree it.

That said, it’s unclear why either view would be seen as ‘selfish’.

Selfish:

lacking consideration for other people; concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure.

It could be construed that you waste your possible partners time along the way, till you find the imperfection that ends your relationship.

Construing it that way is just flawed logic.

It presupposes that a person goes into a relationship looking for such an imperfection. This is the fallacy of affirming the consequent.

No, you have flawed logic ;) you're expecting logic from people.. ?

If you into a relationship expecting perfection, you will always be sadly mistaken as people are imperfect. Entering the relationship contract this way is "bad faith" but not unheard of.

I'm glad that you've never had to deal with it, but in reality it happens.

They aren’t millionaires until they exchange their Bitcoin for dollars. Let’s see what happens when they do.

Sorry, crypto isn’t about creating trust. In fact it’s the opposite. It’s about creating a system where trust isn’t needed. The natural consequence is that anyone who does trust, is exploited, and subsequently trust is driven out of the ecosystem as this reality is accepted.

There is nothing to rebuild. A trustless world is what crypto creates.

It’s not that it has to be written that way. It’s that people who have grown up with it have learned that this is the way.

This wouldn’t be an issue if people still read books

Very true. If the internet is making you feel bad, read a book!

> it only takes 20 minutes to walk a mile

Which means you have massive delays between stops, and can’t do much if you don’t have hours available.

You know in cities there's trains, buses, and cabs, right?

Especially in a city like NYC, essentially everything you need is within a mile. I live in Tokyo right now, and everything I need for daily life is within a quarter of a mile. I can get basically anywhere in the city in 30 minutes.

Awesome, you’ve named the features of the downtown of two of the densest and most expensive cities in the world.

You know cities aren’t all like that?

Tokyo doesn't really have a downtown, and what I described works for most of Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Sapporo. I think it mostly covers all 5 boroughs of NYC.

I lived without a car in SF for 10 years and I think it covers that city as well. A lot of international cities work the same way.

I keep hearing about this ideological individualism, but I never see it explained except as a cause for bad things. Can someone give me an example?

I'm in the 'schools are a moral disaster' camp. The final paragraph sums it up:

> So, I’m a sceptic of the ‘school is a moral disaster that we’ll look back on with shame’ position. Or at least, I think it seems weird to hold the view that schools are a moral disaster without thinking that most employment is a moral disaster.

That's exactly the point. I think that a lot of people who think school is a moral disaster would agree that most employment is too. The only thing that mitigates this somewhat is that you have choice once you are out of school. However school has a lot to do with setting us up for the moral disaster that is employment - that is its primary purpose, and it is very effective at it.

Personally I would call schools missocialization machines that extend into and shape employement. High school bullshit is echoed in office politics. Keeping up with the Joneses into debt is an extension of other bad habits.

> it helps no one

Incorrect. It helps people who are trying to relate to those with NPD.

Selling some Tesla stock and raising investment. He didn’t say it would be a Twitter phone. He said he would make it, which presumably means starting a new company.