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It's bad because it doesn't work. Your hypothetical is just that, hypothetical. Doesn't work in practice. Also, violated due process.


Yes bad ideas are criticized and good ideas are celebrated. That's the way it's supposed to be.


Its obvious what is good and bad here. But do some roleplay; Its 15th century CE, and you (and all the people) have been conditioned since your childhood that the christian god is one true god and that the christian god is good.

Now if a person declares something "blasphemous", everyone will think that the person is on the "bad" side.

Setting a precedence lead to ugly slippery slopes and keeping to the absolutes in the guidelines is generally more inclusive.


You can ask to be paid to make the soup and then let others take it for free. Or to make it more apt. I can ask for money to build an unlimited soup dispenser and then let others take soup from it for free.


> You can ask to be paid to make the soup and then let others take it for free.

But you cannot cry and moan if you give away the soup for free to someone and then find that they are reselling that to someone else for money. Or to make it more apt, I can ask a Softbank for money to build an unlimited soup dispenser and then let others take soup from it for free. But I cannot stop the people that took the free soup I offered to give away/sell it to others


"But you cannot cry and moan if you give away the soup for free to someone and then find that they are reselling that to someone else for money."

Actually I think charities get really pissed off when you try do this? Isn't this why the individual packets of stuff often say 'not for resale' or whatever?


If you buy food products in bulk, the main bulk container contains legally required disclosures, disclaimers, ingredients etc. Individual packets within said bulk container lack such notices.

Compare a box a granola bars from Costco vs the same bar from a grocery store.


You mean like licensing terms?


> Imagine if the US suddenly had a dictator

Not so hard to imagine these days.


They have 5 good minutes per day.


The weather?


In principal you're right. People can also use technology to manipulate others. So we could create technology to encourage and manipulate being mindful and having empathy.


There is no such thing as an unlimited supply of fish. Even if there were as many fish in the middle of the ocean as near the shore we would deplete it quickly.


The "artificially generated speech" is really interesting. There's no reason why it can't happen on the other side of of the bell curve. Global right wing movements are a good example.


I can't see where the article talks about this?


GraphQL has nothing to do with graph databases.


Why? GraphQL is about modeling business domain objects in graphs [0] and querying them. Isn't that basically what Graph DB languages do too?

[0] https://graphql.org/learn/thinking-in-graphs/


It is a query language for APIs, name like RestQL or JsonQL would be much more suitable.

The expressiveness of GraphQL is severely limited, it doesn't allow you to express even simple patterns like triangles, depth n, paths etc..


Exactly. GraphQL solves the same problem as REST. It is not a graph query language despite its unfortunate name.


aside from google search results for GQL :)



I think linking to dgraph may actually support "has nothing to do with". DGraph's query language was inspired by graphql but it also explicitly diverged from it in order to make a more suitable db language.


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