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"within its jurisdiction", the "its" refers to "states", ie individual States within the United States. The Constitution (and the amendments) apply to all residents, except those, like diplomats, that are not "within its jurisdiction".

Granting a visa for a non-resident into the US is not subject to either the 1st or 14th amendment. There are SCOTUS cases regarding the border that explicitly have excluded customs and immigration enforcement at the border from these rights.

The US Govt in 1953 (!) expanded the "border" to mean anywhere within 100 miles of the US borders, which is what allows them to stop busses etc and do roadside checks.

Whether this is entirely legal is subject to court challenges.

So yes, anyone resident in the US has freedom of speech under the 1st amendment, including illegal aliens. However, the US govt is entitled under immigration law to hold illegal aliens in detention and deny them a route to express that speech except through legal representatives.
Piracy is not something that just replaces all forms of paid ownership of digital media.

Piracy is just another competitor on the market; if for the customer the pirated copy provides a better experience at a cheaper price, no IP law will be able to stop the customer from using the better solution. That's capitalism at work.

If you want piracy to stop the solution is simple; provide a better product. Either by providing a better experience (Netflix until recently, Steam) or at a cheaper/equivalent price (Offering your product for free or under an open source license).
> The US used to stand for fairness, equality, and due process. We've allowed the worst of ourselves (fear of the other) to destroy the best of ourselves (openness, fairness, justice).

Where do you get this ahistorical mythical belief? When we were deporting millions of Hispanic people (citizens included) in the 30s, how just was that? Was it fair to upend their lives and send them to a foreign land?

When we let the Klan sweep over the Reconstruction south, was that just? Jim-Crow southern laws and their constituent sumptuary codes sure don't seem very open to me.

Fear of the other is deeply ingrained into the US. See the Japanese internment camps, see white flight post segregation, see the modern xenophobia aimed towards Russians.
1. Wanting to hire people that can scale to millions of users when you only have less than 10,000 users

2. Agism
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Yup. Google a search company, any technology that doesn't impact their bottom line, is dispensable (to a lesser/greater degree) to them.
Pocket directly competes against the open web (in the form of RSS/Atom). If Mozilla was a values-based organisation they would be promoting the open web at least as much as they promote their own proprietary system.
Anti-Japan is more about the atrocities committed during WW2. Anti-America is more against the imperialism China experienced during the "century of humiliation".
Thanks for the link, the to-read list never seems to stop growing but that book certainly sounds like one I'll have to add
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Some markets are viable - even well suited - for electrically propelled planes.

Norway is sparsely populated and it has been a strategy for decades to have small airports everywhere out in the boonies.

Most flights are operated by twin-engined turboprops seating 20-80 passengers, in part doing short flights between islands in the north - an excellent use case for electrical planes.

The big question is whether one can recharge them fast enough - by swapping battery packs if need be. No airline is interested in replacing 50 turboprops with 100 electro planes to serve the same routes.
Not if you have 4 kids, are an "upstanding community member" etc etc etc. Not all outings are the same....
Not yet. The court decided the restrictions weren't okay but IIRC since it's now being appealed on a higher court, FB isn't free of them until the higher court comes to a decision unless they can make a good case that it would bankcrupt them.
For all the guys having clever strategys to hide their passwords or data: if you are not a us citizen, then you have zero rights.

If anything at all looks evem a little suspicious, the agent cant deny you entry and you can do precisely nothing. Theoretically if he has a bad day, even.
It says so multiple times when you apply.

This is of course mostly a problem when you come from the wrong country or religion.

So Id rather create a facebook account if I didnt have one, than delete or hide one.

And if you think youll make it through with a clean phone, you really have no idea how this works, at least for non europeans.
Yeah, this part rings totally true:

> I actually do a double-take when a company says "Military-Grade", as I start to question how well they know cryptography, and if they may have picked an inferior algorithm thinking it's safe.

"Military grade" might sound good to marketing people, but to everyone that's actually involved in digital security, it sounds like it's made by people who have no idea what they're doing.

Another phrase like that is "patented technology" or "patent-pending". Maybe it sounds good to some people, but to to engineers it's a big red flag.
A fair number of universities and research institutes already use Nextcloud, e.g. the Max Planck Computing and Data Facility offers a Nextcloud installation for all users and TU Berlin also offers one for all of its students. There's no reason for these things to live in a "public cloud", whatever that means, self-hosting them is much more efficient, privacy friendly and secure (if only by compartmentalising).
I'm pretty certain the quality control for taco bell meat sourcing is leaps and bounds better than most boutique restaurants.
Sure, but that's a weird publication of hers to take issue with. For context (from Wikipedia):

> In a paper entitled "The Five Sexes", in which, according to her, "I had intended to be provocative, but I had also written with tongue firmly in cheek." Fausto-Sterling laid out a thought experiment considering an alternative model of gender containing five sexes: male, female, merm, ferm, and herm. This thought experiment was interpreted by some as a serious proposal or even a theory; advocates for intersex people stated that this theory was wrong, confusing and unhelpful to the interests of intersex people. In a later paper ("The Five Sexes, Revisited"), she has acknowledged these objections.
How about 3rd parties collecting video feeds from a number of city locations, analyzing and face-recognizing people in them, cross-referencing that with other sources and building a database that they sell to private investigators and other interested parties. Combine that with license plate DBs and you can track movement of anyone both by car and on foot. Then you can get even more creative and cross-reference that data with marital status of people and find those who're seen walking the street or having a drink with someone who's not their partner (which we can find thanks to soc. networks). And boom, you've got yourself a mass-scale blackmailing tool that runs on auto-pilot. Possibilities are endless, and it's not even that hard to build something like that anymore.
If the containers were the only concern, they could be melted down and shipped back to China in a far more compact form.

Container manufacturing is very automated, so it can be very cheap to do so.
Beyond this model, Nokia builds amazing phones lately. They don't have the best specs so they are only average in tests, but I don't think those are focusing on things that are important, to me at least. They have really good update policies and their Android version is very clean.
Problem is not just getting the Visa, its the border check.
Here, agents have literally unlimited decision power and you have no recourse.
> As a first step, browsers should make extensions more powerful again.

That is a solution (though more like a remedy) to the symptom instead of the actual problem: Browsers trying to become operating systems and websites trying to be apps.
The US Constitution only applies to US citizens and those others resident in the US.

If you're not in the US (legally or illegally) then you're not resident and you're not covered.

However, the US is also a signatory to the UN Declaration of Human Rights which is also an international self-executing treaty, and therefore of equal standing to the Constitution in US law. But whether the US Government recognizes the rights under that treaty need to be determined by court cases that haven't happened yet.
Also possibly because it's a lot more difficult to cover these things up nowadays (but doesn't stop people trying; cf. Bolsonaro's attitude to indigenous people or denying flu vaccine to detained migrants on the US border.)
Because those are conciously produced when asked for? Otherwise they are inaccessible. There’s a massive difference.

The only way to avoid face recognition would be to wear something like a burka or maybe a hoodie. Two things that have been attacked over the last couple of decades.

And it’s not just governemts doing face recognition, at least with thoses there’s some semblance of democratic oversight - private companies with this data are far more insidious.
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> I actually do a double-take when a company says "Military-Grade", as I start to question how well they know cryptography, and if they may have picked an inferior algorithm thinking it's safe.

While I despise the term as well, this seems like an exaggeration. It's simply marketing, nothing else. Developers implementing security aren't also making sales decks.
You aren't wrong about that. The problem current prototypes have is range is limited especially when you include 'reserve fuel' requirements. If the aircraft can only fly for an hour and you need 30-45 minutes reserve you only can fly for 15-30 minutes. Double that and now you can fly for 75 to 90 minutes.

Assuming 300 mph. The first case gives you an effective range of 75 to 150 miles. Second case gives you 375 to 450 miles range. That's 3 to 5 times more effective range.

Go on google earth and start drawing 450 mile radius circles around population centers. Yeah that.

Bonus: Eviation is claiming an estimate of 650 miles range with their yet to fly Alice.

The two big advantages with electric flight are fuel costs and maintenance costs. For electric the fuel cost is a third to a quarter lower. And electric motors should have a much longer service life and lower maintenance needs than turbo props.
Depending on the particular school system, teachers can often shut out or minimize out-of-class work, but it takes a tougher attitude than many teachers have.

Also, many teachers don't think "no parent engagement" is more desirable than high parent engagement. Differences in the parents ability to engage the school (available time, money, language skills etc) contributes to social and ethnic disadvantages in many nations' school systems.
I would consider it a continuation.

Thatcher's era saw the breaking of union influence and control over employment in many industries. The few jobs that have seen year on year increases since then were those that managed to retain strong union membership such as teaching and nursing in Australia.

Deregulation, market liberalisation and financial globalisation were then factors enabling the offshoring of manufacturing to lower labour cost countries.

We've been talking for years now how technology and automation will be the next job destroyers but I think the flood of cheap capital is having a bigger effect. Even shareholders are getting left out due to share buyback schemes that's leaving the means for wealth in fewer hands.
My worst red flag is "proprietary". It gives me an instant head ache because it makes me think of bad quality, terrible documentation and just over all pain.
> - is more centralized

Any form of energy production with decent prices is centralized, that also includes wind and solar. Solar panels on rooftops has to be the most inefficient way of producing electricity right now.
You’re going to need to put up credible citations for this, because this is an extraordinary claim.
Just a heads up, it's great to have an RSS feed, but readers won't automatically detect that you have one. I see you already have a link to your RSS feed so if you put this

<a rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="/rss.xml">RSS</a>

That then tells all RSS readers that the link is a feed, and the reader will then detect this. Then say if I use Feedly and want to subscribe to your site, I can link to your homepage and it will automatically detect your feed.

You can also use a meta tag instead if you'd prefer not to display a link. More information can be found over MDN[0] and I also created a blog post on the 5 most important things all blogs should do.[1]

[0]https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/RSS/Getting...

[1]https://michaelbrooks.co.uk/5-important-things-i-learnt-when...
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Ask HN: Can public internet services solve privacy issues online?
Would having our government/s create public internet services like Search, Maps, Storage(Drive), Social Media solve our privacy issues?

If our governments created this service, we'd have more oversight into how these services are monetized and why decisions are made. We could avoid data exploitation by designing applications that don't save as much personal data.

Open source developers could contribute to the code base and not worry about "keeping the project alive" as its backed by the government.

The main issues I can think of are around quality of service (Gov services are known to be slow and frustrating) and continuous innovation.

Thoughts?
There are two issues here:

The visa application process should (does?) include this sort of vetting. Why go through the whole visa application process just to have that happen when entering the country?

On the other hand, third parties' social media comments are useful and relevant. If you have friends and/or are part of groups which, for example, discuss djihad then that raises a real red flag about you even if they don't find any such comments from you. This is relevant information to take into account during the vetting process.
The tunnel isn't to prevent suicides. It's to enable running six trains per hour. With the tracks at street grade as they are now, this causes traffic issues and increases the risk of train and car collision, which cause massive delays.
> If you only observe the ripples in the bucket, you can reasonably derive where the thing was likely dropped.

Akin to the Polynesian wave navigation using stick charts: http://thenonist.com/index.php/thenonist/permalink/stick_cha...
It's clearly an unintentional typo, and also not possible to confuse for something else.
Imagine you have a cave the ceiling of which is covered by a thin film of water. At t=0, there is an explosion which shakes the water and make it fall vertically to the ground as droplets.

You have a grid of water detectors on the grounds, which can tell you where and when a droplet hit the floor.

If at t1 you detect a drop of water at floor coordinates (x,y), you know the height of the ceiling at (x,y) is h1 which you can compute from t1. So you can make an image of the ceiling.

The paper algorithm is a fancier version of this, where the droplets are not falling straight down to the floor, but spread out like sphere ripples. So you need some fft math to deconvolve.

The added benefit of using waves, is that you can see behind the objects, and you have a real 3D and not a 2.5D image.
The stakes can indeed be high. However risk exposure (impact multiplied by probability) is often less than people think. An operational order betraying a strategy, for example "take Wimbledon Common at 4am tomorrow," must remain secret only until the order is carried out. So (gross simplification) any encryption that takes longer than from now to 4am tomorrow to break will suffice.

The harder problem is guaranteed delivery, which is impossible using only technology. You might email that order to the General in charge, and if he's out on a toke and doesn't read it within 5 minutes forward the order to his 2IC. And if the 2IC is on the john your only recourse is to forward the message to the nearest permanently staffed guaranteed action point (GAP). The GAP will send out one or more despatch riders to hunt the recipients down in meat space and deliver the message.

In any other scenario the same security best practices apply as in the commercial world, albeit with much more money.

Edited for spelling.
Was WhatsApp healthy or profitable before it was bought by Facebook? I'm not sure if there's any way we can know for sure, but it all played out like a pretty standard Silicon Valley "unicorn" - couple of rounds of investment by a big VC followed by a mega-acquisition by a FAANG.
Well, there wouldn't be that much of the difference because StackOverflow is just the most popular site for asking coding question, if it didn't exist there would a different one just as big, as long as the internet is open there will always be a site like that. A better question: "How many programmers would have been unsuccessful is the internet was not open to the public?"
They don't draw similar criticism, because the scale and possible applications are not comparable.

You could say you are comparing a kitchen knife to an AK47.
Please don't make unfounded accusations under the guise of asking a question. Your claim is unusual and as pointed out by several other commenters, goes against prior experience and existing arrangements. In such a situation, it is perfectly reasonable to request additional evidence beyond "I've heard" or "Some people say..."

Thank you for providing the additional detail.
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I have a very American/European centric view on this so I won't speak to the Asian market which I'm sure also has some companies that aren't going to survive but I think any company that can't become profitable relatively quickly or has a recession proof business is going to be in trouble.

Honestly I'm pretty bearish on just about anything that isn't recession proof, but I am interested to see how companies like Airbnb perform which in my mind has a chance to capture even more market share and mind space (if not the most profitable customers) during a downturn. Coliving spaces in general, lite entertainment co's that distract people from life, cannabis startups, part time or freelance job platforms, medical tourism and other hacks around market inefficiencies, etc. Basically anything that helps use an underutilized asset in a cost effective way, saves people significant money (or does so very easily), or helps distract them from the bad times are interesting.
The browser is a platform that runs applications aka websites. Nothing wrong with that.

But I want that the user can configure the platform any way they like.

If you look at Linux, it's a bunch of files that you can alter until it behaves exactly the way you want it to.

Browsers feel much more monolithic. I would prefer them to be as open and accessible as Linux.
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There's such a funny mismatch of culture and display of poor international PR sense too.

Based on some cursory search, it looks like it's another one of those local-government-pioneered pilot/experiments [1] like the credit score (except there are dozens of cities in that pilot).

The second tier city local government, trying to tout their achievements at the national level, then goes on a PR spree [2] (probably to earn points for the local party secretary). They even proudly market it as "Guiyang has 'Skynet' everywhere. No matter where you go, there are eyes on you,". I can totally visualize the locals thinking, who wouldn't think this is cool and an indication of Guiyang finally being ready to join the ranks of the civilized world.

Meanwhile, nobody at the local level thinks (or has enough international context to know) that this is a huge negative rather than an achievement from the western perspective. They probably can't even wrap their heads around why wouldn't everyone want this. Smelling the big story, in goes the BBC also, presenting this story as this state of the iron curtain, straight as constructed from Xi's directives.

The 2 sides of the story are just living in very different worlds.

[1] http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1093864.shtml
[2] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eoO1dqE...
Tell that to Microsoft haha.
People from much worse regimes have always been escaping to the US, to get some of that openness, fairness, justice, even if it's not perfect, it's usually better than where they left from.
MazeRun is an experimental VR Locomotion game exploring different methods of movement in virtual space. You need a HTC Vive headset to try it.

We are considering to open-source if the work is done :)
The generic term in industry is SME, ie Small to Medium Enterprise. Mom and Pop stores often don't even qualify as "Small".
I don't think this wisdom will ever be applied, so for now I do support vandalism of CCTV. It is self defence because I am pretty sure my constitutions says that surveillance doesn't happen.

(Not based in the US)
Both your clauses seem to contradict one another
So large companies outsource the breaking of the law to minions, while getting all the benefits. They even make a profit from it!
Really? I think a number of them provide pretty useful services that would last through a recession. Sable, Metacode, GreenTiger all seemed to add enough value to justify even during a recession. A number of the startups also have decent revenue already and could survive by staying lean. This latest batch doesn't seem to havethe next Facebook or Google, but definitely still good companies solving useful problems.
Am I the only one that gets a NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID when I visit the page in Chromium? Quite ironic, considering the title of this item.
I'm not sure in which category you put the hundreds of million of Africans/south asians who will be forced to migrate north.

Sure the whooping 4 dudes living in Siberia will be able to cultivate more things, but for the rest of the world (aka were people actually live) it's a net negative in every aspects.

Besides that, even if climate change doesn't exist or if it is positive for some people, fighting pollution will always be a good thing if you care about your lungs or your health in general.
Yes, it certainly does, for a variety of reasons.

First of all, it is much easier and cost-effective to gain full knowledge of the graph data in a centralized system. Instead, by working on a distributed system, we could change the protocol to increase the effort needed to mine data.

Second of all, we gain the opportunity to know who or what has requested our data. We can decide to block these requests if they are used against us.

Lastly, we can distribute the available power of information over multiple nations. When policies change, data (and information) can flow to places where these policies have no effect.
Democracy is fair, not efficient.