Magit has a PR problem: most people think they need to be already using Emacs to use Magit, but that's far from the case. Indeed most Magit keybindings are single-letter like vim. I wish I could get more people to try Magit without being turned off by the fact that it's an "Emacs plugin". Hmm.. what if there were a standalone version of Magit? Would more people use it?

I don't have the stats you're looking for, but I would guess the prior probability of accidents and foul play in smaller communities is also going to be lower than it is for large urban communities, because these communities are more tightly-knit, and people drive less rashly to begin with, etc. Or maybe they drive more rashly - I don't know. The point is, there are a lot of factors to consider. So it's going to be hard to draw conclusions from stats.

In other words, how much of those numbers is explained by said lower probability, and how much by parents' willingness to trust their kids?

> Instant redeploy is very nice but hardly a huge deciding factor.

I think you're wrong on this one. A large number of devs care about dev experience at the expense of other important things like platform maturity, reliability, and security.

I don't agree with many of Steve's points in his post, but I do agree on this point. Both factors - x-platform development and instant redeploy - have contributed significantly to React Native's success so far. Indeed, if it weren't so important, I wouldn't expect Google to invest as much time and money as it did in getting Instant Run to work correctly (like others said, it was buggy as all hell when it first landed in Studio's stable channel and only became usable after many months). The fact that Flutter advertises "stateful hot reloading" prominently is just more evidence that it's important for attracting devs.

> Wordpress is a development stack that happens to have a Page/Post/Categories/Tags schema system. It is much more than a "blog."

This discussion is about blogging, so IMO it's a valid comparison. While WP can be used for a whole bunch of other stuff, that doesn't change the fact that it's one of the most popular blogging platforms.

> It sounds like you didn't know how to secure your server with at least chroot jail, selective port filtering, and njinx injection filtering or apache fail2ban.

Well, I shouldn't need to know those things if all I really care about is blogging.

We're evaluating Gitlab for use at my company and I'm really struck by the overall quality of the software. I've already started contributing to the codebase. Hope to contribute at least a few medium-sized features (currently working on web terminals for troubleshooting CI failures) over the next few weeks, and who knows, maybe more! Love getting back to Ruby after so many years, and Golang is interesting :)

How does this not violate Heisenberg's uncertainty principle? Unless the explanation is that the atom moves around a lot in that tiny space, so we haven't actually determined its exact position and momentum.

Yes, but GP never claimed they're equal - instead the claim is that seeing the animal alive and talking to its seller to get more info is a better proxy to judge those things you listed (healthy, sanitary) than Whole Foods' endorsement is, the reliability of which over time depends strongly on their financial status, management ethics and a number of other variables outside your control. The Whole Foods approach is definitely more convenient for the buyer, at the cost of assurance.

Also, it's going to be a lot more difficult for a street-side vendor to cheat you compared to a behemoth like Whole Foods with deep pockets, the latest and greatest preservatives etc at its disposal to make meat look healthy, and a large, existing customer base that implicitly trusts its products.

I appreciate your point and I learned something new from it, but I disagree with the last part. By your GP's own admission, pesticide overuse doesn't threaten all of humanity like antibiotic overuse does. So no, they are not "as right as" someone trying to avoid contributing to the antibiotic overuse problem. Not all problems are equally important.

> Or is it that the problem would be greatly reduced if everyone stopped eating meat. I expect this is true but it is not going to happen.

This is a classic Tragedy of the Commons. No single individual is incentivized to sacrifice for the good of the group as a whole.

But it's not correct to say that "it's not going to happen" - there are many counter-examples. The most notable is the ozone layer depletion problem that has been largely mitigated over the last 3 decades through concerted action among govts, NGOs and with public education. From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion:

"The Montreal Protocol is considered the most successful international environmental agreement to date. ... The ozone hole was seen as a "hot issue" and imminent risk as lay people feared severe personal consequences such as skin cancer, cataracts, damage to plants, and reduction of plankton populations. ... Americans voluntarily switched away from aerosol sprays, resulting in a 50 percent sales loss even before legislation was enforced."

So yes, at some future point, if govts/NGOs do their part and the average human comes to believe they face imminent personal danger (which we already do but it's hidden), meat production may well become heavily regulated and large numbers of people may switch to vegetarianism.

While your comment is in good faith, I don't think the OP was trying to minimise the complexity of a distributed ledger. Instead they were trying to distinguish their mentioned use-case from the currency use-case.