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How and where does YouTube present itself as being "agnostic" to content?

And if you think it's only natural that YouTube disallows "propaganda" that "reasonable people" would object to, why are you surprised that they would remove other varieties of propaganda? Of course, different people will have different definitions of reasonableness.
Then why was this legislation introduced ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...
> America literally has a nobility class right now.

Literally nope. For example, there is no law that says the word of one group of people is worth more in court than another group. There are no laws saying only certain people can be in power based on their ancestors. There is no law enshrining divine right.
Tell that to Netflix.....
You're going to have to specify...

You talking like, U.S. declaration of Independence, or more/less recent than that...?

While my mind is fuzzier now, I like to think it was a "things change for the better" else - engineers/scientists completely stop giving a fuck about helping the U.S.
> You realize Trump lost the popular vote right?

I am well aware, but that has nothing to do with the almost half of eligible voters who didn't vote at all. Californians who didn't vote in 2016 (~9m) far outnumber Hillary's margin over Trump (~4.3m). There's only "no point voting for president in California" because 9m Californians don't vote. That's nothing to do with "the system", that's a choice that every single one of those 9m voters is making.

Which brings me back to my original point, which is that voter apathy exacerbates the influence of gerrymandering and campaign spending in winning elections.
The wasps and hornets we have in North Anerica don’t chase you half a mile and sting you to death quite as much. Nor do their stings leave quite the same large scars. Our CDC stats didn’t say whether the decendent was allergic.
Ordinary yellowjackets can force us out of their territory in my local parks, I really don’t want the AGH’s getting a toehold.
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I would argue if not using the OS python is the correct way to do things then python by default should not install at an OS level. Installing in the OS should be left to the OS only and the default should be that python installs per project which special instructions for installing it as a default for a user and special special instructions for how to replace the OS level one.

I really wish this was the default for all languages but the majority default to "install in your system" and then I run into the problems you and the OP mention.

As it is, finding out/figuring out how to work around the default is always magic incantations and spells buried on page 947 of appendix G if you're lucky or else spewed around the internet in drips and drabs by unreliable and or outdated sources.

As an example I wanted to contribute to some conformance tests for some browser API. The test suite used selenium which uses python all of which wanted global installs. I tried for a few hours to get it to run with local installs but I failed to find the correct secret ritual to perform and after a few hours decided I no longer felt like searching for the correct oracle to enlighten me.

ps: For my particular needs a VM was not a solution
How likely is simultaneous failure of 9 out of 30 of them? Totally unlikely if you ask me. And some redundancy is built into the system, so it's not like failure of 3 will cause loss of power in 1/3 of the U.S. - most likely none at all (or maybe only scheduled blackouts in peak times in some of the places).

In Cyprus, we had such an event in 2011, when 2000 tons of explosives Russian tried to smuggle into Syria, were intercepted by a U.S. Navy and redirected to be offloaded here (because the ship carrying them was formally registered here and flew a Cyprus flag - really being owned by the KGB), and these explosives went off in the summer heat, wrecking a power station that produced 70% of the electricity here.

We only had about 2 hours of blackout per day and a recommendation to limit a/c use, for about a month.

Power transmission is super resilient and relay protection is a whole science of it's own. Especially in the U.S. when there are many virtually independent, privately owned and loosely interconnected transmission systems, which puts it at a relative advantage.
Great... now I have to re-watch Northern Exposure!
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Hard disagree. IKEA LED lights are excellent. Maybe some early models were bad, but so were CFL back then too. Current IKEA LEDs are reasonably high CRI and are available with low lumens options. It’s often difficult to find a quality LED bulb that isn’t super bright.

(By the way IKEA was almost single handedly responsible for the rapid plummeting of the cost of LED lights. They invested early and drove up volume before anyone else.)
And what term would the ancients have given to a plague of hornets?
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You don't want to use sqlite for logs -- it is way too complex, and in particular, it may roll back (=lose log entries) if it is low on space, and permanently damage data when writing onto disks with errors. It also makes wrong performance tradeoffs for logging -- your choices are either sync() all the time, or roll back on unexpected termination.

I don't like the that journald goes backwards in space and updates indices -- I like "append-only" attribute -- but at least it writes data sequentially one after another, which makes it pretty tolerant of data loss.

As for "without escape hatch", I don't remember any functionality like that? In fact, systemd is full of escape hatches which are documented and supported. Just recently, I had to modify "is computer online" check -- it was amazingly easy, all I had to do was to drop-in a fragment file for the right service. I remember doing the same in upstart -- it was a total pain, requiring reading the source code spread over dozens of undocumented files.
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There's a few airliners that would disagree with you there. KAL007, for starters.

Not to mention legitimate targets like Gary Powers.
> Kojima interrupts the entire game with a character monologue about some tragic past or some modern geopolitical issue. Makes sense for every single boss to launch into 30 minutes talking about all this stuff right before a gun fight.

and then you had the extremely awkward scene in MGS5 in the back of a truck with Skullface where nobody talks for 20 minutes and you can't skip it, because they "forgot" to record a long monologue. So bad.
I agree, but at least it seems like we're incrementally moving in the right direction, even if at a glacial pace. The fact that a 27-year old AOC was elected shows that people are fed up with establishment politicians and change is possible (prior to being elected she was a bartender with no money or connections, who ran on a grassroots campaign of being fed up with politicians taking corporate money and serving corporate interests over their citizens, and beat a Democrat who'd been in power for ~15 years).

Once the older generation dies out and the younger generation takes over, we'll start to see some real progress. Imagine where we could be if more of our politicians resembled people like Andrew Yang - young normal uncorrupted people who grew up in the internet generation. The problem is that most of our politicians are too old (average Senator is 61 years old) and are completely removed from the real issues facing Americans.
Google doesn’t make money from increased traffic, they make money in ad spend. It doesn’t matter if more people are staying at home if the bottom falls out on the ad buyers.
When the temperature sensor in caked with something that provides thermal insulation the resulting lag in temperature feedback would mess with the oven's temperature control.
Section 230 does not require that YT or any other service be neutral. It is extremely common for people to represent 230 as if it requires neutrality, but it absolutely does not.

Here’s the entire text of 230, it doesn’t have a “unless they’re biased” clause.

> No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.
The apple watch ECG corresponds to lead I. Lead II and III is right and left arm respectively to left foot, so they will be possible with a bit of flexibility. The 6 precordial leads are not possible, since they are measuring the voltage between an electrode on the chest and the mean of the 3 extremity electrodes.
My first reaction is that this is sad but that is incredibly biased based on my expectation of having anything on demand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email

More seriously though, the organizations still using faxes are not interested in "disruption", or anything else that is newer than the 80s.
> If you'd like to share an explanation of how the spread of ideas leading to the revolutions of Europe could have happened without an innovation that had the same effect as the printing press ded, I'd be genuinely intrigued to to read it.

History is more complicated than a single invention! It's needlessly reductive.

I could also say: "how could have the revolutions of Europe happened without mercantile capitalism challenging the economic structures of feudalism?" But that's just imposing a post-hoc narrative on history that happens to fit my existing views.

> So what is it you actually want to persuade us of, about the appropriate levels of constraints on speech in the modern world.

My sole reason for participating in this thread is to firmly reject idealism and the teleological view of history. Ideas aren't magic. Technology isn't either.

(P.S. it's kind of hilarious that you're invoking HN rules regarding my speech in the same breath as you are defending the merits of free speech.)
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Usurped how? Who and how forced Debian and Arch to switch to systemd?
How would you try to describe the future of software development based on these (excellent) questions of yours, e.g. in 5 years from now?
Actually a symlink to xcselect, which looks up the command based on the current developer directory.
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Per Encyclopedia Britannica[0], 300 miles is the widest, and no part is more than 75 miles from the sea.

It's smaller in land mass than 10 US states, coming in just behind Oregon and just ahead of Idaho.

0 - https://www.britannica.com/place/United-Kingdom
GP argument is similar to the common carrier argument. Some communication channels (e.g. post, telephone, and maybe YouTube) are so pervasive, important, without comparable alternatives, that they should be considered as common goods and regulated as public services, rather than private companies. In particular freedom of speech applies to their users.
"A picture is worth 1000 words", as they say. The photo-essay format of his posts allows him to 'show' more than 'tell'.

Additionally, auto-loading of images can be disabled client-side either with a built-in browser feature or with an extension. That is what I do when I'm on a mobile data connection.
A language that is unable to solve the problems would not be listed at all

I was pointing out the absurdity of using these two criteria in isolation to judge languages, turns out there are other important things like finishing correctly, number of bugs, and clarity, not compactness. I don't think the ideal language can be judged on two criteria (or that there is an ideal language for everyone).

However, I completely disagree that verbosity isn't a major detractor to readability, since it introduces a lot of noise that detracts from what actually happens

Sure I agree extreme verbosity can be terrible too. So also can extreme terseness, unless it closely matches the problem domain, because otherwise now you have two problem domains you have to be familiar with in order to get work done - the actual problem domain, and the jargon invented by the programmer/language in order to solve it. This depends partly on the person reading and their preference for abstraction.
Even ignoring any potential issues with Homebrew, it has the inherent disadvantage that every macOS package manager has in that it does not ship with the system by default.
"Give your worst political enemy the power to decide what is "hate speech" and what is "disinformation" and then you'll realize that free speech isn't something we should ever compromise on". - Naval Ravikant
Allergy meds in the antihistamine class seem to kill my ability to focus for long periods.
> An extra complication is that, as a casual OS X user, it seems to me like OS X terminal emulators and tools are more likely to munge with the path than Linux terminal emulators and tools, so even if you get everything set up "just right" you end up having it not work properly in certain contexts like plugins because something has modified the path for some reason.

GUI apps not being able to access $PATH is a big one, I have found.
The degree of a corporation's control over the flow of information matters because the harm done to our society is different.
hellofax.com works for this. I just used it a couple weeks ago took a minute to send a fax live to the receptionist.
> trade secrets

I got this excuse when I wanted to know if “natural ingredients” included cinnamon in the cinnamon spread I bought once.

After stating that I had a cinnamon allergy, they confirmed to me that it did.
Trump's election reflected a popular belief that rule by establishment experts was so intolerable, literally anything else would be better. It was the same passionate, desperate anger, the same "fuck it, let the world burn" strategy, just pointed in the opposite direction.
It’s very easy to maintain a logically consistent belief system that allows for private censorship. It’s called “the person who owns the servers makes the rules”, and if you don’t like then rules then buy your own servers.
One of the reasons distributions appreciate systemd because systemd unit files are easy to write and can easily be written and maintained upstream and used with very few if any modifications downstream.

Your average HN user doesn't see or particularly care that it makes things easier for distro maintainers, so it's much easier to push the corporate conspiracy angle than to accept that a lot of the hand-wringing takes huge amounts not-very-fun volunteer labor for granted.
If it was decided you had a valid GDPR claim but Google doesn't give you a decent way to download it that's Google's problem.

The question is if they have to give you your emails if they still have them. I think it would be decided they would have to. It might be worth getting ready to be blocked, get blocked, and then demand the data to set the precedent actually. But I am lazy; the virtue of a programmer, the vice of a concerned citizenry.
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RDR2 blew me away. It’s a masterpiece.
In a discussion about morality and the health of our society it is perfectly reasonable for decent people who are exploring the question of 'what ought to be' to set aside the decisions of the courts and the letter of the law.
> Nobility still exists!

Only as formality in some countries. In America, there are some people who call the Kennedys "America's aristocracy", call JFK's white house "Camelot", and make references to members of the Kennedy family being "entitled" to office, but there's no legal basis for it.

Apartheid in South Africa is also gone.
> If you live in California or New York, there's basically no point in voting for president because there's such a large Democratic majority and it's winner-take-all.

Winner-take-all in any state that leans predominantly in one direction means that your vote doesn't matter. Unless those 9 million people happened to all be of the Republican party (extremely unlikely), it wouldn't have made any difference had they voted or not. Winner-take-all means all the delegates go to the winner.

It has everything to do with the system. Instead of just preaching that people should vote, maybe take a look at why they aren't. Maybe some don't because they can't get off work and unlike many other countries, election day isn't a national holiday. Or maybe because they don't feel like it makes a difference. If you don't live in a swing state, then one is right to feel like their presidential vote doesn't make a difference because as I just explained, it doesn't, and it shouldn't be that way.
> this magic incantation communicates in a way that the usual people who compile this package can understand to use it without being intimately familiar with the code?

Define “usual people who compile this package”. In my books those are distro maintainers who indeed should be familiar with options provided by the init system they choose. If you decide to include oddballs who compile everything themselves (Linux from scratch?) then again, yes, they are expected to know a thing or two or dig into options or even code from time to time.
I've tried to do this multiple times, and yet I have always kept either a Windows machine or (more often) a Mac for a bunch of things. (e.g. Keynote; Outlook in a corporate environment; etc)

I loved it in the past, but now I simply don't have time or willingness to spend hours to configure drivers, etc, or do my own system maintenance.

My dream is a laptop with a solid linux distro, maintained by a company that doesn't die too easily, with a 3-5 year maintenance guarantee (kind of Ubuntu LTS, as a concept, but for laptop use, not server), where everything works, including a (possibly amazing) trackpad.

The other thing is: Mac's trackpads are absolutely the best in the market. That single item is responsible for a big chunk of my productivity boost. When I use a non-Apple trackpad on another laptop, I feel my productivity goes down significantly. I guess twenty years ago it was being able to use vim and bash properly :) - but not today, not anymore, for me at least.

Anyway, all of this to ask: what laptop are you using to run Linux?

Edit: forgot to add that I've been looking at System76 and Pop OS, but somehow they failed to convince me (together, or separately).
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> Again, I’m not saying that systemd is perfect but that most of the complaints tend not to acknowledge the many problems it solved

It solved nothing but the problems made up to justify its existence. And the ones those faux solutions created downstream. Boot ordering problem? Feh. What a gaslight fest. All caused by chasing 1.2s faster boots. What a colossal waste of everyone's time. This is the same cancer that Shuttleworth tried to foist on everyone with that UI abomination. Servers are desktops are laptops are tablets are phones!
See this comment which makes this point already, and the subthread discussing the differences between YouTube and Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23064505
IIRC holding the board accountable for director non-compliance is more of a thing after one or more settlements with regulatory bodies.
> how likely is simultaneous failure of 9 out of 30 of them? Totally unlikely if you ask me.

It's quite possible because their failure probabilities aren't independent. A geomagnetic storm could take most of them out at once. Like respiratory pandemics, this is an event that happens every ~century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_storm
> Here you need to remember that the W stands for "World".

So they give dubious advice to the entire world since the good advice doesn't perfectly fit the world in entirety? There are many better options: don't give advice, explain two sets of advice, ask for advice from governments to be followed, make the advice generic enough that it still applies to the world.

An example of advice that might apply anywhere in the world:

"Face coverings will help to reduce transmission. In most parts of the world, masks will be in short supply and needed by health care workers much more than the general population. Masks can be made from any type of cloth. Although these may not have the same efficacy as high grade masks and the efficacy will be dependent upon the material used as well as the degree of seal against the face, these will help to reduce transmission."
> Some subjects are literally unlearnable for certain individuals and is not the teacher's fault.

This feels like a controversial starement to me. There are certainly some subjects that are currently beyond some individuals’ ability to learn, but that seems to reflect more on a lack of prior required learning than a fundamental inability to learn that subject.

It’s certainly much harder for some people, possibly to the point of economic infeasibility, but impossible seems a stretch.
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Not commonly, but you can make porridge out of many things, including almost any grain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porridge#Varieties

Wheat flour's talents tend towards baking because of its high gluten content, so in a sense it's "wasted" on porridge. But if your oven isn't working it's less of a waste than literally throwing it away!
>Why are calls to violence bad, but spreading misinformation about a pandemic

How do you know what is 'misinformation' ? WHO claimed that face masks were worthless, now you are forced to wear them in lots of places. WHO also claimed that there was no human to human transmission of COVID-19, etc.

The powers that be will not stop spreading misinformation when it suits them, they just want no one to be able to question it. The right to question is something we can't give up just to avoid bad actors.
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Yes.

The First Amendment is one specific protection of freedom of speech. It does not equal freedom speech, which is a general concept that private companies can also uphold (but I think everyone here acknowledges they are not legally obligated to)
> All of the things you mentioned were already solved adequately

really?

Let's say (not entirely hypothetically) that you have a daemon. This daemon has a config file, which is large and complex. This daemon's /etc/init.d file builds command-line dynamically, then passes it to start-stop-daemon as usual.

Puzzle level 1)

You made a typo in init file, so that daemon does not start. The "start" command succeeds, but there is no output anywhere, and process does not start. How do you debug it in the sysvinit world?

Puzzle level 2)

Turns out this daemon used LC_ALL (PATH? HOME?) when parsing config, so it works fine when started or restarted from command line, but fails when started as an part of startup process. How do you debug this?

Puzzle level 3)

One day, you happened to be in the server room, watching server boot (you normally reboot it remotely). You have noticed a red message scroll up the screen. This looks important! Too bad it already scrolled off the screen and out of the scrollback buffer too. How do you see it?

The problem of all the init systems is they could be great, but their development just stopped at some point -- and instead of fixing the real annoyances in a general way, they were just saying "this is all fine". Until systemd came and ate their lunch.