That is exactly what booing is, but citizens are allowed to boo. I can boo you, you can boo me. If you are booing me then I can walk away, and likewise you can walk away from me. If I'm booing you during a public performance that is indeed rude but then I need to be thrown out by security, which is perfectly allowed and expected.

Citizens, i.e each other, are not the problem when it comes to free speech, ever. The only entity which needs to be defended against is the entity that has a monopoly on violence, which is of course the government.

I like this idea but I fear the population, in the US at least, is not able to process something like a debate effectively. Any given debate, if won decisively enough, could shutdown any discussion on the topic for a long time. Imagine if you got Jordan Peterson and he absolutely shut-down someone else. I don't think the audience will accept the idea that the other person may have just been a bad debater, or that the ideas that they debated still have merit. It would effectively end the discussion.

People love winners, not ideas. It's just more us-vs-them. Especially because the US population only ever sees the word "debate" when it comes to a political debate on a stage, and those are not debates.

Again, I love this idea in theory but I fear it's time has come and gone already.

Thanks so much for your support and perspective. I’ve seen some debates where one debater dominates, but so far it hasn’t ended discussion of the given topic but has rather led to more questions raised for discussion in future debates. But I could see an outcome where it does end the discussion for some amount of time.

I’ve also seen a surge of interest in debate outside just political debate, especially on platforms like Jubilee, podcasts, and X spaces.

At first I thought this was from a site called "DBUS Hell" and I was excited to read war stories about building the Linux desktop.

I hear that often, unfortunately it's just my name and I have too much equity in the domain!

  import { SystemDBus } from "npm:@clebert/node-d-bus@1.0.0";

works surprisingly well, in my experience.

When it finally dawned on me that taking no risk is the biggest risk of all. I was "afraid" to get into the stock market when I started my career in 2009....I didn't change my tune until about 6 months ago. I missed out on life changing gains.

My trash can is very small and expensive but my recycling can is huge and basically free. So even though plastic recycling is a scam I put my plastic in the recycling container.

Similar to other posts, LI is probably the website that changed my life the most. It's made finding a new job so easy it's almost embarrassing to discuss with non-tech people. I just set my profile to "Open to work" and recruiters just stream in and eventually I get a job that is awesome and pays well. No other website has had a larger impact on my life.

You can feed the LLM-generated essay into an LLM and ask it to critique the essay.

I do this. I pay 2.19 a month, but like the other comment implied, I've never tested it.

I'm impressed and pleased that you admitted this on such a public place. I feel a lot of those same feelings and I'm willing to bet a lot of people who read this will too. Humans are emotional animals and what you said smacks of reality. Thanks

I'm 37 and I still have dreams that I forgot to attend a class all semester and I'm about to fail to graduate high school. It's always English that I forgot to attend....