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This is what I've done for close to 15 years and I'm generally surprised by how few of my address have been leaked.
The U.S. isn't Germany. The U.S. has a first amendment.
> Censorship is coming back

Censorship never left. What's changing is who controls the Censorship and those few people are wielding very very powerful weapons of mass surveillance that will ultimately "disrupt" civilization as we know it.
> other bigoted ideologies

That's not specific enough. What about people who want to preserve European culture but don't think its "superior" to any other culture?
There are quite a few dialects. I don’t have the source off hand but something like 300. Also it is fun seeing the rupee notes because they have the denomination written in each of the scripts.
because it became the de facto place most of non tech-savy people go to to see videos online. They have a huge monopoly on our time and attention and that's extremely disturbing.

Imagine that the electricity company providing electricity policed what kind of devices you can use inside your home (you are allowed to connect a Samsung washer but not a Bosh washer). There would be a lot of outcry.
I agree to an extent. I prefer a world where extreme hate calling for death of others doesn’t happen and isn’t tolerated. So the McVeighs (and death calling mullahs) of the world and company are justifiably deplatformable and if possible prosecuted for terroristic threats (and whatever else applies).

What I don’t agree with is conflating that with being un-PC. Or having s difference of opinion on contentious social topics, even if they can be personally offensive.

For example, for some, abortion is seen as pro-death. For others denying asylum is tantamount to a death sentence and thus is also death and hate. Or saying “f the police”. Police will say that is calling for hate, etc.

Today it feels like the PMRC was just a few decades too early. Would music be better without misogyny, violence, yes, in many respects but also we would deny a voice to those who feel oppressed and need an outlet to voice against the mainstream understanding.
One way of looking at this is google admitting there's a need for technology that intercepts and tweaks requests, but that's only an enterprise-grade need (intranets, firewalls, block lists, etc.)

Consumers however shouldn't have access to those capabilities. The optimistic, parental, or (according to the article) gaslighting reason is consumers will shoot themselves in the foot by installing a spyware toolbar.

The follow-the-money reason is 80% of google's revenue is unaffected by intranets, firewalls, block-lists, etc., but IS affected by the consumer use-cases of this tech.
You don't really have a chance at an audience without using the platform..
I'm empathetic to the idea that for entirely uneducated populations differentiating between legitimate treatment and experimentation is impossible, so their instinct is to avoid it.

I'd still be wary of making too many excuses for their wanton attack and murder on health-care workers as mere suspicion, as that gives off an impression of racism of lower expectations, in my humble opinion. Or, I mean, even if it doesn't, at a certain point we need to draw the line at acceptable behavior. Whether it's their upbringing, or they are justifiably suspicions, they are evil, or they are uneducated, in the end it sort of doesn't matter, right? It's still some other group trying to kill other people, where we have a belief on which one is correct and which one isn't.
I did not buy a bike, but for a while I used the app on a spin bike at the gym. I can attest to the experience being pretty great.

I wound up recording a dozen or so of the workouts so I can watch them on my phone without a subscription. The bells and whistles of heart rate and pace are meaningless to me.
How is removing a video from YouTube the same as literally killing someone?
By all means offer a better solution for dealing with the problem of algorithms matching viewers with extremist content.
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>> You can buy much, much more stuff per inflation adjusted dollar.

Is it the stuff that works a 1/10th of the time it worked before because today we can "optimise" for longevity?
Actix-web is probably the most stable and feature complete Rust web-framework out there. I stopped using it in my personal projects after having multiple insulting and outright hostile experiences with the lead developer.

I know this was a lot of work and I commend them for doing it, but I can't support a project with that kind of maintainer in the Rust community.
Recently transitioned into consultant work, before that I was a silicon valley native who worked at big names and startups.

Remote work is difficult because when you are remote and care you feel pressured to do more work to make up for the missing office political presence you get from being onsite.

That human interaction is much more important than people want to acknowledge
I was wrong about the forceps. But there is now a new rabbit hole I need to go down - birth marks and what causes them. Plus this 'ventouse' gadget and the merits of it compared to ye olde forceps.

Haven't got time for this rabbit hole now, I might save it for when I meet someone with skin in the game!
"Being able to forcefully disclose a journalists sources would not be permitted anywhere else in the world." -- China would like to have a word with you, prehaps..
Why do you think you're right to free speech has anything to do with what you can say on someone else's property?
No, it’s totally non-obvious to me that this would be the case. It seems frankly ridiculous that you would think they shouldn’t - particularly when there is no evidence whatsoever to suggest partiality in this case.

The BBC news organisation often reports on statements or events affecting themselves or other parts of the organisation. Most high-quality news sources do the same. If anything, I’d actually expect them to be taking even more care than normal to avoid bias when they do so.
Over the years, I've tried all sorts of different approaches and tools for this, and some have worked better than others.

At this moment, I use four tools. On the desktop, I use a basic text editor for all of those. When I'm not at my desktop, I use an Android app called LectureNotes.

I use git to archive my notes, etc.

I also run my own Wiki, where I consolidate the current notes for every project I do (mostly to make it easy for future me to refresh myself when I need to change something on a project I did 10 years ago, and to make it easy to share the notes with others in a comprehensive way).
The constitution provides a framework for this contradiction.

+ Congress has the power to propose law.
+ The court has the 'checking' power to rule on the law.
+ Congress has the 'checking' power to change the law to invalidate that ruling.
+ The court has the 'checking' power to rule a law unconstitutional.
+ Congress has the 'checking' power to change the constitution to invalidate that ruling.

Congress always has the power to override the court.
I get what he means. You feel like they are people you know, not just instructors on a screen thousands of miles away.
There are a lot of medications that have the side effect of weakening the immune system, and it seems that there has been an uptick in such medications in the last few years. There are also medications that deliberately weaken the immune system. Sure, a weak immune system is a serious issue, but if the disease being treated is worse then it's less of a decision point for most people.
Perhaps they had a ruling in the past that during accessing a computer, things got changed, like the logs. And so now they have to have that in the warrant so that they don't lose their case.

It sounds stupid, but I could see it happening.
Vastly simpler, I understand what Bloom is doing after 10min of reading. I had hard time even understanding all of Varnish's scope in same time.

Written in RUST. Uses Redis. Uses custom headers instead of Cache-Control Seems more flexible cache invalidation, but maybe varnish can do this after understanding all of VCL/Varnish.

Seems written for an API developer not wanting to write own/reinvent cache layer for their REST API. vs written for a sysadmin who is building a system that is larger/more generic, less tied to one specific app, and who would reach for Varnish being old, reliable and having every feature ever thought of.
So, they're removing thousands of bad videos... thousands! Don't worry though, there are many, many other videos just like those on the platform. Your default recommendations are still going to suck.
Probably legal completeness. Think about it, log in to a windows computer there is probably an event log that gets updated. While checking browser history the history may be altered. Installing surveillance applications would modify the machine. Etc.
> They have a huge monopoly on our time and attention and that's extremely disturbing.

You mean that you willingly give them control over your time and attention.
Also, a corporate structure shouldn't shield you from criminal prosecution. The company pled guilty to multiple felonies... why aren't the executives facing criminal action, given that event the judge thinks they're not taking their responsibilities seriously?
‘It Puts You into a Process That Favors the Employer’
They should be required to clean the ocean of 100x the amount of waste that was dumped in addition to a $200M fine.
Sure. We might as well allow public speech in cities and towns to be controlled and limited as well, and if you don't like it you can always just go settle your own town somewhere. There's tons of open land in the US available for cheap after all.
Hate speech is free speech. We know this both through logical deduction and through multiple different Supreme Court rulings. The "impartial" label just obscures the fundamental problem of it being absurd to consider any speech harmful to anyone, ever, especially within the context of an online content platform that isn't meant to be a publisher with a prerogative to edit said content.
>You can read their policies as well as I can. Or better, perhaps.
>So, in that context, why were they silent for years about privacy risks of third-party apps?

My point was, you seem to have an interpretation of "Apple approved this app so therefore this means that X,Y, Z is true". I'm asking if that is actually what Apple is claiming.. officially, and also what X, Y, Z mean to you.

If you're claiming that "Approved third party app" == "no data ever leaves your phone" then this has never been the claim of Apple AFAIK.

>What I'm criticizing is the failure to clearly acknowledge limitations.

I see. But why would a company acknowledge their limitations in a commercial competitive marketplace? People who appreciate companies being honest about their limitations in such a public manner, and still end up buying their product are not in the majority, I think.

People try to avoid mentioning anything negative about their past in a job interview - which is kinda the position companies are in, when they go look for customers.
This is a cultural thing more than a remote work thing. At my company we're remote 2-3 days a week but can chat on Skype as needed. Our team (3 people supporting a major app on Android and iOS) talks several times a day to go over things and our team cohesion is good.
can someone explain to me this "trade war" between the u.s. and china? as far as i can tell, it is an entirely constructed thing (in terms of how it started) and is simply the new "war" just like we had the cold war, war against drugs, war against terror, etc. so now the trade war is just the u.s.'s new war fetish.

so other than the current administration's idiotic approach to anything, what was the impetus of all of this?
The actix library is good, but as I mentioned the documentation is pretty lacking. Also it's changing very fast and the little info you can find on how to achieve certain things on e.g. reddit or StackOverflow is mostly obsolete now. Those are the only reasons why I'd be interested in seeing alternatives (if any exist, which is doubtful).
From the article:

"In addition to tightening its hate speech rules, YouTube announced it would also tweak its recommendation algorithm, the automated software that shows users videos based on their interests and past viewing habits. This algorithm is responsible for more than 70 percent of overall time spent on YouTube, and has been a major engine for the platform’s growth. But it has also drawn accusations of leading users down rabbit holes filled with extreme and divisive content, in an attempt to keep them watching and drive up the site’s usage numbers."
"We are currently torturing asylum seekers, with unlimited detention periods (the only nation on earth who allows this)." - China would love a word with you..
This is far too reductionist. Of course there is a middle ground, from open work spaces that emphasize quiet (library style), to small "pods" that hold 6-10 people in a team, there are a lot of options that companies provide.

You also do not have to "destroy your hearing with loud music" to avoid coworkers conversations. Earplugs are cheap and available, and industrial grade noise protection (25db+) is available for <50 bucks. Unless you're opposed to wearing any sort of headphone/earplug at all, then you have to heavily screen your potential employers to get the environment you want.
What happens when they quietly start banning subjects that aren't as objectively bad?
I think the real problem here is that police, as an organization, has the power to inflict real and considerable harm on those that try to "get in the way". They're not doing sanitation or driving your bus - they can ruin your life or just kill you.
If you're not paying (via ads or otherwise), and you're actively trying to block analytics which make services better, then you're a leech that should not have access to the content/service.

Fortunately blocking the Firefox agent for non-paying users is easy, as is detecting the blocking of these scripts in the case that you try to change the user agent.
This isn’t censorship full stop. What you are advocating for is forcing YouTube to carry content that it doesn’t want to.

I also think it’s grotesque to quote an anti nazi poem in defense of nazis.
> No censorship. You are still free to create your own YouTube clone and publish your extreme political views there.

With that line of argument, there is no possibility for censorship anywhere, ever. You can always create your own country someplace else.
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>they will certainly close ranks and attempt to protect their own; however, that is organizational not individual.

Are you not talking about an organization conspiring to protect law-breakers from justice? Because normal people don't do that.
I can see where you’re coming from, but the work of the community is still (and forever) under the license that was in place when they contributed.

Someone could fork CoackroachDB and continue working on the open source license.
> A ⊇ B, max(A) >= max(B)

I think this is backwards - if A is a subset of B, max(A) <= max(B).
He just answered that.

It’s not only about it being our most important right. We also expect our communications platforms have morality, and criticize them when they do immoral things.

Many think belief in free speech is an important moral - doubly important for communications companies like Youtube/Google.
Why do you think it's right for you to tell someone what to do with their property?
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Indeed. Orcas are found all over the world, from the tropics to near the poles, in more climates than nearly every other animal in the wild -- but they are still only #2 in terms of climate adaptability. #1 is humans.

As for building dams, beavers evolved to build dams. They build dams because they're beavers. When humans build dams, it's because at some point in the past, some humans somewhere intuited that a dam would bring benefits (perhaps more water for fishing), figured out how to build one, and passed that knowledge onto other humans who were otherwise cognitively completely unprepared to build dams. As the knowledge was passed on, ways to improve the dam-building procedures were invented, and better tools were developed and used, to the point where the average human-built dam far exceeds even the best beaver dam. That makes the human story even more compelling.

Tying it back to the OP, we've seen that humans can train bees to associate symbols with counts, and that's remarkable. But if we find evidence of bees spontaneously inventing numeracy in the wild, and teaching it to other bees, that would be really something. And we'd better get ready to welcome our new insect overlords.
GoDaddy banned the gab.com domain name from their registrar. What's next? "No censorship. You are still free to establish your own telecommunications infrastructure and publish your extreme political views there." ?
I fully and without compromise support the right to free speech of all citizens, including "nazis" or whatever the overloaded term people are using these days. Rights aren't removed from citizens because you don't like their politics or beliefs.

If you cheer when someone is deplatformed, remember that it is a short walk for your own ideas and beliefs to be deplatformed when the winds change.
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I'm unsure what your point is? You can make the same claims about criminals and indeed many people people do.

Criminals are in fact normal people.
I think you’re actually agreeing with GP. It is the police organization that is criminal as a whole.
It's totally ok to not tolerate the extreme intolerant in some places [1]. Again, no laws change, it is just a company telling to very extreme people: Not here. Please go outside.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance#Tolerance...
I don't have to tolerate speech from people who threaten my life or community. And I don't mean 'threaten' in the sense of holding an opinion I find disagreeable, I mean threaten as in making straightforward threats to life. That speech does not have to be tolerated.
If nazis are fundamental to the success of their platform, that's... a problem.
the issue is not me or you but with the masses of people that don't know // don't care where they give their attention. And that's the huge majority unfortunately.
No wonder people are throwing around "censorship" when they don't understand the difference between a public space and a private homepage....
Those are strong statements. Are any of these interactions public?
It's a pretty big stretch between a company taking down content on their own service that violates their terms, and the holocaust. Have a little perspective please.
There is a definite market, but like gym memberships it is likely to contract during downturns. The folks I know with Pelotons are cycle infrequently and have a more general regime. As a cyclist I'd be interested to know how many get a Peloton versus sticking with traditional trainers?

Ignoring the all-weather cyclists it'd also be interesting to know how many ride into the shoulders of the season. Most of the folks I ride with have $5000 bikes and they may ride from March to November here in Philly depending on really bad conditions.
> How many people are willing to spend thousands on an exercise bike?

A lot, myself included. My wife and I gave it to each other for Christmas one year, right before our daughter was born.

At the time when we were new parents, it was perfect. We could exercise quietly without waking either the baby or each other, all without leaving the house.

Now that our daughter is older, we still use it albeit more infrequently in the summer when we both like to go out and run. However, the digital classes offered in the app are great for running & training. For me personally, it was easy to get stuck in a rut of just plodding along and not really improving my fitness. Having the coaches in your ear telling you what to do works well for me.
Sure - but you are missing the point. Youtube can publish videos they want to and are not owned by the government.

It's funny how right-wing people, who argue so hard for capitalism, fundamentally don't understand capitalism.
The problem is that "code quality" isn't just bugs per line of code. Maintainability, extensibility, readability, expressivity all factor into it.

Suppose I have to write 100,000 lines in language B to write something doable in 10,000 lines of A. Who cares if the defect rate is twice as high per line of A: I still have five times fewer defects due to ten times fewer LOC's.

Another thing to consider is the nature of defects. A defect that allows a remote execution exploit is not the same as an incorrect result being ignored and propagating to later calculations, is not the same as terminating with a diagnostic.
Agree with this, but most places set up to pair effectively have mirrored monitor set ups. Makes a huge difference.
Links? So we don't get one side of the story...
What about people with conservative religious beliefs that others perceive to be exclusionary?
Not by choice exactly I’ve done College -> Work -> Work/College -> Professional Job.

The first 6 months of my “real” career job in tech I learned almost as much as the first 2 years of college. I couldn’t imagine having a masters especially an MBA without having worked professionally, internships aside. I’m excluding the medical professions where the minimum to employment is a masters/doctorate. Even non-doctors have a lot of clinical/hospital experience before/during a masters.

I’m about to start looking at Masters or MBA programs in my area. I’ll have almost 10 years of experience by then and happy I didn’t do it straight after school.
To do app has always seemed an optimal one to me, since it should be relatively accessible, no matter your prior experience, but infinitely customizable. I remember a YC founder telling me that both pg and sama didn't think there was a broadly available to do app that met their needs, so they both rolled their own (and continue to update it as their needs change). That seems like a pretty optimal intro project to me
It would be interesting to see if they also start banning rap videos using the same reasoning.
Because I assume they have a headquarters which would be empty. Firing high-cost of living, high expertise employees to hire new ones (might be senior level, but not well versed in the problem) does not sound wise.
Then he probably shouldn't have released his content with the following license:

"This work is not copyrighted.

Do whatever you want with it, absolutely no restrictions, and no permission
necessary."

If you care about your fame, don't pick a license that literally states you are happy for people to do whatever they want.

I have no sympathy for somebody who writes a license himself (what's wrong with MIT), reassures people that they're allowed to base their livelihood off his work, then changes his mind once they start making more money than him.

He's of course welcome to have whatever restrictions he wants on his work. But don't claim to have some moral high ground when you're litigating against people who trusted you to be honest. At best he's doing it to satisfy his ego, at worst for money.
In the absence of a government that makes clear laws concerning hate speech it’s up to the platforms to find a good balance.

From the YouTube blog post:

> We’ve been taking a close look at our approach towards hateful content in consultation with dozens of experts in subjects like violent extremism, supremacism, civil rights, and free speech.

So at the very least they claim to understand that it should not be a random decision.
Take the tinfoil off. Extremist and hateful content on YouTube needs to be removed and your conspiracy theory that it could be used by execs to ban videos they personally don't like is not a good enough reason to go against this, even if it was somehow true.