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The problem is the scientific community did not immediately denounce those scientists that clearly were putting policy before science.

It wasn't just the masks saga. Anyone with basic comprehension of physics and particle data can see how and why masks work, so Don't try to fool the public by lying and don't sit by when some colleagues are basically destroying the whole of the scientific community's credibility just to appease some political interests.

Same for 'social distancing' in enclosed spaces. If you let that sort of nonsense stand, how can you not realize you are just throwing the whole of the scientific trust under the bus?

And now the latest one: 'Children do not transmit the virus' just because some political parties want to reopen schools ASAP?

Just stick to the science, and leave the politics to the politicians.

As I said here back in March, the damage done to scientific credibility is the most saddening collateral in all of this. There wil always be some persons willing to do someone's dirty laundry for fame, gain or even just because they genuinly believed it all 'white lies' for the best of intentions. The huge failure of the scientific community was not calling them out.
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> What risks to mail-in voting aren't already covered by mail fraud laws?

With ordinary mail fraud, the victim tends to notice. You have a bill for something but the something never arrives.

With mail in ballots, if someone registers people who didn't register themselves and then takes their ballots, the real constituents weren't expecting to get a ballot and then don't notice when none shows up.

There are also a lot of problems that have really nothing to do with mail fraud. When people fill out their ballots outside the context of a polling place with election monitors, anybody could be intimidating them or paying them to vote in a particular way and then verifying that they do.
I would think so, yes. In that case I wouldn't be surprised if the comment section is removed, or the moderation team of Fox News more carefully sticks to platform principles. Honestly not sure.
I think the place where this falls apart is that he's talking about future events. It's a prediction about the future. Unless you believe he's insinuating supernatural abilities to tell the future exactly, he's just expressing his personal level of confidence about his prediction... which is an opinion.

The real problem here is calling what Twitter did a fact check. Because what Twitter did was just promote opposing opinions/predictions about the same future event. Neither side can make statements of fact about the future, they can only state their opinion and express their level of confidence in that opinion.
The UK’s ICUs did not get overwhelmed, even in London. A few individual hospitals came close for a few days, but on the whole the hospitals coped fine and actually spent most of the crisis well below their usual occupancy levels.

Why exactly (or even if) our mortality rate is high is still an open question.
An executive order can neither overturn statutory immunity from liability nor overturn Constitutional freedom of speech.

OTOH, if Trump thinks that the Courts have changed (either in genuine opinion on the legal question, or if he thinks that the courts—or, ultimately, just the Supreme Court—has become partisan enough to simply favor his preferences independent of any genuine legal interpretation) then issuing an executive order conflicting with the present precedent on either of those points is an excellent way to get into position to force a test of them.

And, in any case, it's an excellent way to fan conservative victimhood into an election-year rallying cry to the base.
Please read the report by the GAI. 15,000 to 45,000 duplicate votes in the 2016 election alone. And that is only what was caught.

http://www.g-a-i.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Voter-Fraud-...
I'm trying to argue that this is a slippery slope.

Would you trust Elon Musk to put truth under tweets from his company? With his behaviour in the last month(s) I wouldn't trust him with shit.

The next step is Google putting "fact checks" beside search results? Or what? Or a ministry of truth?

Im from Germany, and we see what's going on in America. And we all saw it happening already here, years back.

But I guess every nation needs to go its path and needs to fix their problems on their own.
I don't think it is impossibly hard. The platform can just let users pick what they want to see. E.g. be it trolling, hate, or pornography (search engines already do the latter).

Another concept is just following a set of moderators.

Either way there is already Secure Scuttlebutt.
> The whole point of AWS is to use services on demand

That's a decade-old misconception about how people actually use AWS.

Most servers I've seen in AWS are permanent.

In fact, it's an anti-pattern to wait until you need more capacity to scale up, since those servers may not be available, especially in newer instance families.

Even if the needed instances available, typically ASGs don't react the way you expect without a lot of experimentation (ie. outages.) An example is if traffic increases load, your health check may consider the servers to be unhealthy and start killing them, creating a death spiral.
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This is events from 1970-1990.
I'm really skeptical as to the value of these courses. I agree absolutely that ethics/morals/ etc. are essential things to learn and develop. I don't agree they can really be learnt in the classroom. Many of these things (e.g. ethics) are emotional intelligence skills that don't really respond to standard study. In engineering school I did all these courses and didn't get any benefit from them, other than some academic knowledge of Kantian vs Utilitarian ethics.
Realistically, though, a year from now nobody will care. I mean, I started in this industry in the "MS is outright evil" era. How many people did they screw over? If I remember correctly, there was even a guy who was owed a pile of stock/stock options and when he got cancer they suddenly went missing (no need to pay the dead guy!). Day by day, year by year, these misdeeds are seen as irrelevant. MS is a different company these days (almost literally). Should we hold them accountable for their past sins forever? (I have a friend who still refuses to buy products from Nestle given their ancient "poison in baby formula is OK as long as it saves us money" stance. That's older than I am!)

In reality, these kinds of antics just don't hurt companies significantly -- even ridiculously horrible things that are arguably crimes against humanity (have I invoked Godwin's law?) In comparison to some of the incredibly awful things companies do (and get away with), this is minor to the point of not even being a footnote in the annals of evil (note to self: don't google that term to check the spelling...).

However, there will be a few of us who will be reminded of why we don't do business with MS (and hence will have no need of WinGet). It won't make any difference, but it will be there.
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I remember seeing somewhere recently that they had 8% market share while MS Edge after the update managed to reach almost 7%.

I'm sure it's a good idea to shift from Firefox and let Microsoft and Google duke it out /s

The reason they fell apart as a Browser IMO was letting Firefox get "old" UX wise, while Chrome felt VERY user-friendly (I mean to the common enduser, not people like us here on HN).
Yes, especially when so-called fact checking is also deeply flawed and does not link to the actual congressional reports and investigations.
You are conflating is/ought.

Constitutional amendments are hard to pass. That doesn't mean they ought to be.

I/the poster is claiming small states should be allowed to be "bullied" by larger states since smaller states have less people, and thus, are less important.
Just a quick notw, I think everythink (need to archive content, ease of migrating data etc) is solved simply by Obsidian being offline-first and markdown-only. I.e. you don’t need the app to be open-source in the end.
what is involved in managing backups? isn't that just a cronjob?
A significant portion of social media posts are filled with simply false information. I recently got into an argument with someone on Facebook, but stopped when they admitted they weren’t confident Covid-19 is caused by a virus.

The level of misinformation has reached a point where I wish I could pay for a service to fact check my Facebook feed, Twitter feed, YouTube videos, etc. I wish these platforms would allow third party filters to plug-in to their platforms and modify feed content and search results. I can imagine many more uses for these filters such as checking for inappropriate content for children or avoiding triggering content for trauma survivors. I can imagine a mix of AI and Humans being involved in these filters, and large number of people subscribing to popular filters.
You're right but, illogical or not, given a choice I'll always take the fresher one.
Can't say I've ever had personal email end up in Promotions, but would have thought it would learn after you move a message that had landed there into your inbox...
I think this is spam. It is a text post with a tinyurl Google docs link that contains other tinyurl links to a paid product.

For someone trying to sell social media presence... Git gud.
"incorrect or disputed information"

"This does not make us an “arbiter of truth.” "

Deciding what constitutes incorrect or disputed information in a political climate absolutely does.
Whether you choose to use clientside JS isn't related to any platform. Lots of people conflate this. They build ostensibly a totally empty scaffold site with an SSG and say "look how fast it is" - but the truth is if you built that same site with really any platform in the world, it would be just as fast.

Ghost doesnt require any clientside JS of any kind, it's totally user choice if/when they want to have that. Yesterday I built a Ghost theme with 2.5kb page size, and average pageload of 100ms. Super easy :)
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I only skimmed the second part, but this doesn't even seem to prevent the actions it complains about.

It's also interesting to think about reddit and subreddits. When a moderator of a subreddit engages in the behavior described here, deleting comments and posts and banning users arbitrarily, stickying editorial commentary in threads, are they acting as publishers? Are the mods now legally liable in the section 230 sense? If not, is reddit a publisher and liable even though they aren't doing the editing? If reddit can enable mods to do it without reddit or the mods being liable, why can't reddit just do it without being liable?
That's what its intended to do, but i think what it would actually do is kind of debatable. America isn't a dictatorship (yet)
Maybe not illegal, but is it good business to eliminate a user with tens of millions of followers?
I am 100% not straw manning them. I couldn't believe the conversation I was having. It's very few people that have this crazy of a hardline stance, but they're out there.
Wonder if with this we’ll all enjoy equal representation on twitter’s search engine, timeline & promoted tweets, or will they continue to discriminate based on rank

Twitter’s algorithm determines who sees my tweets. Based on internal criteria my content is ignored while other’s is promoted, limiting my exposure and damaging my brand

/s
Trump, Furious at Twitter, Aims Executive Order at Tech Giants
Not just that, I'm surprised at all the people here who switched to a delivery service. I'm sure some of them are high-risk--and I get it--but I bet a lot are generally low-risk, and the way things are looking, grocery shopping with 6 feet of distance isn't a particularly risky activity.
CLIs and GUIs aren’t an either/or proposition. They each implement very different paradigms; OP goes over them pretty reasonably. You’re not supposed to discover a CLI; you’re either supposed to remember the 4 things you do all the time (see git) or script it and build your own interface/program (see coreutils or stuff like troff). It’s an entirely different UI. Arguing that CLIs aren’t discoverable misses the point just as much as arguing that GUIs aren’t composable. They’re not supposed to be.
It makes sense. If Trump demonstrates that some (most?) of these companies act on behalf of or at the request of a government to suppress embarrassing facts/comments, it challenges the assertion this is "only" about flagging misinformation. It also raises the question of "What else are they suppressing?"

Neither point will be fun to respond to.
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Hello there false equivalence. Being upset about money as speech leading to unlimited campaign spending and supporting a company's rights manipulate their own product isn't internally contradictory.
No but there is bad press

"Microsoft is paying someone who develops piracy software"

The half assed articles from TechCrunch and such will cause a lot of drama around MS they simply don't want.
Well, as the law stands now, due to Google v Oracle, APIs are copyrighted. Hopefully the Supreme Court will fix that in the coming months (they’ve agreed to hear the case), but, as of now, that’s the law.
Sure they can. And then they can be treated as a publisher with ALL the legal liabilities. They can be sued in court as the 1996 Communications Decency Act. Section 230 will no longer be applied to them.
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1. I would think every conservative would look to the free market to make better, less biased social networks and websites?

2. You think you will be downvoted here, is it due to humans with differing views or this website’s management’s bias, and what does that mean for your point?

3. Do you not know that conservative talking heads and influencers go wildly viral every hour of every day on all 3 of these networks, reaching audiences far outside their conservative following?
It was Embrace, Extend, Extinguish for the web.

But they made not even a token effort at cross-platform, so it was a walled garden. People had only just broken out of the last MS walled garden, and did not relish entering another.
sorry to see you downvoted. People can disagree with your opinion but it is encouraging a debate.
there is no god-given right for these companies to become monopolies.
If this were to pass, it could break the monopolies:
Decision 1: they choose to stop all moderation
Out come 1: Advertisers ditch them because of all the objectionable content that will surely come.
Decision 2: They choose to moderate, and take on the liability
Outcome 2: Growing bigger becomes more costly and companies fall to some optimal 'Chandra Limit'
Trump to sign executive order targetting tech giants
It’s funny, because I did just as your post suggests and built my latest personal site using Gatsby and Tailwind and it was an overall positive experience. I loved that I didn't have to do any design (although, sure, you could argue that might be a negative in terms of the result) and the build/deploy process was really simple with Netlify.

My previous sites were built with Wordpress and before that I used AMFPHP and Flash (over 10 years ago!). This was a breeze compared to those sites.
Newer games in general have these humongous updates. I’m somehow pleasantly surprised when checking that GTA V total size is 90GB all in. An open world online game with endless possibilities. Fortnite, a way simpler game, is ~70GB with monstrous patches too. I really wonder what is in those files..
This will not really hurt the capabilities of China in the long term.
Use an external SMTP and several of them have free tier that includes several hundreds emails a day.
Pros and Cons of Nim
I'm not so sure. In recent issues as contentious as this we've had District Courts make Nation-wide injunctions against these EOs, and they've been fast-tracked to SCOTUS. It might take a year or so, but I think "years" is overstating how fast something that's this emotional can get to the High Court.

There's other problems with the "Nation-wide injunction" but if this EO gets issued that'll for sure be the next thing that happens, and I'm sure Twitter et al are counting on it.
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My account can no longer Add a Special Request. The big rectangular button just disappeared completely from every page type in the mobile and the web app. Is this some sort of passive-aggressive Unprofitable/Headache Customer-Be-Gone™ gambit?

It's not like we're making a zillion special requests, only one or two essential, common products by specific name and department. And we've always tipped well and only reported real, important issues (which, sadly, there have been one to three with all but one order).

I called customer service and they said they'd escalate to some other group, but the issue is still there and there's been no follow-up. (Oh, and we were cheated out of a $20 product that wasn't actually delivered on the last Costco order and customer service also never followed-up, so it fell outside of the 7 day window and so we got stuck with paying for something we didn't receive.)

I'm unsure about ordering again, and considering just risking going myself to save the headaches, time, and costs. I really want to love IC (YC S12), but the issues and the lack of communication, so far, have gotten in the way. :'(

Any suggestions?
It’s possible for something to be “protocol”, but also rude at the same time
It's deeply sad that one party is now so devoted to disinformation and the destruction of democracy that they whine when somebody provides a small-print link to third party fact checkers.

Such pathetic little snowflakes.
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From the same article;

> Basically, a distributor under the First Amendment would be liable for content it distributes only if it knows or should have known about illegal content. So that would be a bookstore or newsstand. But a publisher, which would be like a newspaper, can be sued and face the same liability as the author....

Would Section 230 just mean that all online services and websites should be treated as distributors, meaning they’re liable if they knew or should have known about material? But what the Fourth Circuit said is that distributor liability is basically a subset of publisher liability. So by saying you can’t be treated as the publisher or speaker, that means that you’re not going to be liable at all.

That could have been very different. If the Florida court had been the first to rule, there’s a really good chance that you would have had a narrower interpretation of Section 230 that basically said, “Once you know about potentially illegal content, you have to take it down or face liability.” But that’s not what happened. So Section 230 has been this really broad shield.

IANAL, but reading that it sounds like 230 arguably was trying to ensure platforms would remain liable like distributors even in the face of good faith moderation efforts for content that they did not write themselves. But somehow the courts interpreted the statute to remove even distributor-level liability (i.e. for content they know or should have known is illegal) meaning they end up not liable even for illegal content that they know about.

The EO is doing two big things. One it is highlighting the limits within the statute placed on “good faith” moderation efforts — that is to allow platforms to perform “Good Samaritan” blocking of lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable indecent content, without being considered publishers.

Two, it is directing the FTC to consider whether platforms are performing unfair and deceptive trade practices by moderating non-illegal/indecent content which does not violate their ToS.
In general I agree here. In case of bruised apples I am a bit picky because of patulin. It is a toxic produced in rotting apples.
You're forced to work in other systems, too. I don't see your point. Unless you want UBI to be high enough that you needn't work?
This won’t hold up in court. It will be challenged by a judge immediately, and then the only chance it will have is a long process up to the Supreme Court.
Can you link to the Kiwi you're talking about? I found https://github.com/danielwertheim/Kiwi but it hasn't been updated in 7+ years, so I'm not sure if it's what you're talking about..

NotePlan looks interesting though. It's not free, but it's on my list of things to try now.
I understand what you're saying and I would if I could (and I try). But my understanding of things is that shit's gonna get a lot worse.

If it was just me I'd say fuck it, party and watch the world burn. But I have kids, and I don't want to go down without a fight.
Don't forget that Trump has now appointed many of the judges who could decide it's "legality."
Did setting SF_FIRMLINK ever succeed for real? Firmlinks are an APFS addition, and AFAIU not only can't usercode directly create firmlinks, trying to set SF_FIRMLINK with chflags is non-sensical, sort like trying to use chmod to set the S_IFDIR bit on a regular file. Apple would hardly be the first OS to silently ignore non-sensical flags in a bitfield; such problems and their dilemmas have plagued Linux syscalls for years. Though if this is a change of behavior--it previously always failed but now it doesn't--that's problematic. Alternatively, if previously chflags seemed to work--st_flags reflected the SF_FIRMLINK bit on subsequent stat, even if the inode wasn't actually a firmlink--the change would be closer to a fix than a regression. I'm more curious why you were trying to set it in the first place. Maybe I'm misunderstanding.
As an aside, in canada, the first case overturning a law for being unconstitutional for violating free speech was kind of that situation, where the alberta government wanted newspapers to have to publish official "rebuttals" to previous articles, against their will. This was before canada had free speech in the constitution, but violating free speech was considered insufficiently "british", and laws had to be in the spirit of britian.

Obviously none of that is relavent to the USA, but kind of seems similar
> 163 cases of "fraudulent use of absentee ballots" over 1988-2017.

That's more than five cases a year, of those that have been caught. Five stolen elections a year seems like a lot.

> Probably a lot more useful to worry about the scantron machine accuracy.

The scantron machine isn't purposely trying to alter the election results so the errors it makes aren't all in the same direction.
In what ways is Twitter like a utility?
These are pretty interesting. Thanks for the links.

I like how this general direction is discussed a lot in France, and sad about learning a language taking so much effort.
The decision to invade Iraq in 2003 still seems worse to me than anything this administration's done.

That war was based on a lie and resulted in the death of more than 100,000 civilians and cost $1 trillion.
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