The main difference between software and physical objects like cars is that they degrade with the passage of time (due to wear, corrosion, etc...). If we would magically be able to get a brand new 30-year-old car, it would make absolute sense to use one for a trip where reliability is paramount, as the failure modes of such a car are better understood compared to a brand new design, and can be mitigated.

What if the "pirate site" uses foreign cloud provider, and regularly changes IP addresses? Will I lose access to all websites hosted by the foreign cloud provider once their whole ASN will be blocked?

> Block BEARD does not mention VPNs, but its broad definition of “service provider” could be interpreted to include them.

This seems easy to circumvent - you can just use foreign VPN provider, who don't advertise themselves for piracy use, for... piracy. IP/DNS blocking proven to be a good censorship tool though.

FWIW, communism actually forced Russian peasants back into Medieval conditions: first by punishing former peasants who became landowners (so called kulaks), who were declared as class enemies and persecuted. And later by forming Kolkhozes (collective farms), which were not that different from serfdom: children born by members of Klokhoz were forced to work in Kolkhoz too, members had to work state-owned land for free or for minimal amount of sustenance (about a pound of grain per day), and de facto were not allowed to legally leave.

> Maybe Communism was the only way to drag Russian society, kicking and screaming, into the modern era that other European nations had attained, centuries earlier.

It wasn't. Stolypin reforms implemented from 1906 through 1914 aimed at making peasants landowners was a better way.

Regarding the pirated content - I just started, so my experience have pretty low sample size. Still, majority of shows I downloaded so far are in 4K. The only one in 1080p is older show, for which I think there's no 4K source material.

Modern piracy (the so called *ARR stack) provide UX that is pretty close to what you get from streaming services. In some cases even better - now I will use just one app on my TV to watch everything, will not be affected by Netflix/Prime/Apple/Hulu or internet provider outages when I am watching a movie or TV show, and will not have to go through 4 or 5 apps when I am searching for something specific to watch.

The UX is slightly worse when I find a movie or TV show via Plex Discovery and want to watch it immediately, since I will have to wait for *ARR to pick it up and download it, but for now I have quite a few TV shows to finish watching before it will become an inconvenience for me, especially given the fact that this stack can subscribe to upcoming shows - I can tell it that I am interested in Fallout for example, and it will monitor releases and download the show once it will become available.

I don't think it is correct. If you asked Facebook to remove your data from platform, it will be a GDPR (and probably CCPA, etc...) violation for Facebook to not delete your data within 1 month.

Unlimited scraping makes some of privacy regulations moot. Such as right to erasure (ability to delete personal data from a platform).

Can you? According to apple website, “AirTag is designed to keep going more than a year on a standard battery you can easily replace”. Pixel probably wouldn’t last even a week.

[1] https://www.apple.com/airtag/

GDPR and CCPA (and probably many other national/state privacy laws) forces facebook/instagram/etc to let you download and/or delete your data without using third party websites. Usually people self-compromise their accounts in exchange for money: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook...

I am originally from Russia, but live in US. I actually feel safer in US than in Russia.

It is far easier to get assaulted as result of road rage or because somebody don't like how you dress in Russia. Hopefully Russia have stricter gun laws, so it's less lethal.

This trait wasn't implemented for vectors though, so you would have to write `let foo = u16::from_be_bytes(some_vec.to_slice().try_into().unwrap());`.

With new release you can drop `to_slice()` part. Nothing earth-shattering, but makes sense.

Here's why I think so: commits coming from Facebook in facebook and facebook-experimental github orgs have additional metadata fields like "Reviewed By:", "Differential Revision:", "fbshipit-source-id:": https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/864cdf338369...

Commits in hramos/label-actions repo don't follow this pattern: https://github.com/hramos/label-actions/commit/28c4884562c2a...