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>People reliably will come out to defend white nationalists in every topic it comes up here.

...and they will be voted down quickly.

> And people denouncing white nationalists will be voted down.

Examples please :-)

The closest thing I can come up with is when I kind of reliably get downvoted every time I say I'd support a ban on nazis but that seems to be die hard free speech people, not nazis.
They have chosen to have their site or app only allow login with Google accounts, they don't support any other form of authentication.

It's a choice they made, nothing specific to Google or OAuth.
We switched to Mercury only to discover you don’t support wiring money to all countries (we need South Africa support). Perhaps this (hopefully temporary) limitation could/should be included in your FAQ? In the interim we’re going to look into Pilot for team payments. Anyone here using Pilot?
It's bad, but not a "massive leak". Few people keep much more than the FDIC limit in a commercial bank for their personal account no matter how much money they have.
> Based on that last observation I think most of us can agree, can't we?

HN is in a weird place today, very similar to where the Slate Star Codex guy was a few years ago. That is, racist Whites seem to feel safe commenting here (with appropriate dog whistles and what not), but you wonder how long that can last…

In the end, the SSC guy banned more and more commenters but it wasn't sufficient to save him and he ended up deleting his blog [0] when the world turned its eyes to the kinds of discussions he allowed. I expect the same to happen with HN.

dang does a good job keeping people on-message politically (and I'm sure tptacek did as well), but being "racist-adjacent"—which HN absolutely is [1]—isn't a long-term viable position.

Someday soon I expect the racist-adjacent user-banning to kick into high gear on HN (like SSC did) but it will be too little, too late. Eventually, HN will inevitably shut down—and it might be sooner than any of us think.

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/

[1] This is from an hour ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23683033
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> Any reasonable person would have agreed that silence isn't an expression of complicity with white supremacy

I'll repeat. Silence -is- complicity.

Now, the thread is over.
As moderator of a top-100 subreddit: this is SO incredibly accurate. You must be another moderator of one of the big subreddits. 90% of my work is nuking flamewars, spammers, trolls, and low-effort meme replies.

Without automation and human moderators to clean up, it's basically impossible to have a free exchange of ideas or any good discussion. Free speech disappears into the noise.

The idea of free speech is great and was a big step forward in an era where government oppression was a primary fear. But in the Internet Age, I think Civil Discourse is a better goal to aim for.
Good. I wouldn't want these communities on my website either. And it's not about censorship, it's about not wanting to give shitty hateful trolls a platform and let them run wild on your site ruining it for everyone who chooses to remain civil.
> if he had progressed towards cuddly-bear Molyneux instead of I-want-to-run-a-cult Molyneux

This is an interesting thing I don't hear talked about much. People often criticize social media because it recommends increasingly extreme content to consumers because doing so drives up engagement.

But what I hear less often is how the reward systems of social media radicalize producers.

If you make your living off YouTube and see that you nuanced, reasoned video essay got 50 views, while you're angry rant got 50,000... you'll start feeling the pressure to make more of the latter. And your natural desire to rationalize your own cognitive dissonance will lead you to believe the things you find yourself spewing.

This is why it's so important to get incentive structures right. Because incentives do what they do whether you want them to or not.
Funny enough, the Coldfire series of 680x0 derivatives were marketed at "smart home appliance" manufacturers.
FTA:

> And it could potentially have been even worse. Had their few competitors also gone down, literally all electronic payments would have broken at once.

This... is not true. As noted by another comment here, a vast majority of the value transferred (82%) is ACH in the US.
Nah; I've listened to a number of his shows. He's a popular political commentator who is anti-communist/leftwing -- that's why they banned him.
Bernie Sanders is as much a communist as my goldfish is a whale.
TikTok apps add a vector for arbitrary code download and execution. What "algorithm" you get would seem to depend on what they'd like to run on your device that day.
Yeah. By his own admission, Richard Spencer wants the creation of a white ethnostate in America [1]. A lot of debates featuring this person were going on in college campuses across the country after the 2016 election moved the Overton window enough for people like him to get an audience.

I was not born white, and there is no way I can become racially white. So from a purely self-interested point of view, I'm glad that his "robust philosophical discussions" about this topic are no longer available to Americans.

[1] https://time.com/4293564/the-billionaire-and-the-bigots/
You can individually lock comments now (new as of a year ago?), but in practice it is incredibly painful/time consuming to do so for a whole subthread of comments. Eventual consistency also sucks there. Easier to nuke the whole thread and remove it from view.
Telling someone to fuck off is fine. If we're talking about Reddit and some group that goes around spamming other subreddits, that's a different topic than the "punch a Nazi in the face" meme that repeats itself among the Orwellian types who see no problem.

Threatening someone by punching them in the face or social ostracism (which can range from discomfort to job loss) is a restriction of freedom of expression. That today people can talk about that casually while in the same breath saying that they support freedom of expression is deeply disturbing. "You don't HAVE to hand over your money to me right now. But, hey, there might be consequences..." - no one would argue that this coercion and a robbery. But "If you say the wrong thing there might be consequences in your job or life" is somehow getting a free pass.
That's fair - I definitely buy that during the pandemic people will go to open places that they can drive to, but his comments felt more like they were addressing the post-pandemic world.
> So we can never denounce hatred and bigotry without being hypocritical?

How do you get from "don't hate the haters" to "don't denounce hatred and bigotry"? Seems like you're missing a step like, "denouncing entails hatred". Do you actually believe that's true?

There used to be this notion of condemning the act and not the person. It actually used to be a progressive principle arguing for criminal justice reform geared more towards rehabilitation than punishment. It's sad that this nuance has been lost.
I think Apple does allow apps to limit social sign in options where it makes sense. So for example, an email app could have sign in with Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! but not Apple.
That’s what I was thinking as well. Why not just treat it like any other OpenID provider and show it for all platforms?
The fact that Reddit is an echo-chamber is one reason I never joined, & never will, but there are some communities that would be useful like the android & kustom subreddits, the former of which already exists on Lemmy. I'm only holding off with Lemmy because they don't (yet at least) have a privacy policy, which to me is essential especially considering the nature of the site. The fact that they didn't at least put up some sort of template of a privacy policy before the site was ever available to the public when that's a common part of any site that provides accounts, as a way of informing you how they will handle the data you give them, is very troubling to me.
No. If someone says or does something to me based only on my race, they are a piece of shit racist. I don't care how many years his people has been oppressed by some other group of people.
With the breath holding, or other things in your body, it takes a few stages. First is just noticing when something happens in a non-judgmental way. Just a neutral awareness of it. For me this was a challenging part because if I did notice the breath holding I would mentally chastise myself and try to force the air more violently. After that it’s becomes more about taking that neutral awareness and doing something for it. Either taking some deep breaths or checking in with myself to see if I’m feeling anxious.

It’s a continual practice, no one ever gets perfect at it. But building up the skills let’s you ride that bicycle :)

As for therapists it’s really a personal call. Research some ones in your area. Most will list their qualifications and their therapy modality. And then give them a call and ask for a consultation. Kinda like a first date you chat over the phone or in-person. You will get a personal sense on how they respond to your question or needs. I called 5 and picked one after those consults.

My main reason was I felt more at ease with the sound of their voice

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists
That stat won't change much in the US. It's illegal for a store to turn down cash.
I think it's very, very important to understand that power, not unlike variable scope, is a collection of nested contexts. You could be a member of a dominant ethnic group in a society, but if you are surrounded by a group of armed members of a less-dominant group, in that moment/context, you don't have as much power as they do. If you survive said attack, and the attackers are brought into court, suddenly they would be right back to the system level context where they lack power.

The fact that it's so incredibly easy to poke holes in these theories is, in my opinion, a result of them being created by professional essay writers rather than true social scientists who follow the scientific method and view data as foundational to advancing theory rather than anecdotes.
> The UK won't have access to PRS service from Galileo. It isn't entitled to equivalent access to GPS

Do you have a cite for GPS claim? I would have assumed that UK would have access to GPS military services as a member of NATO.
The fact that Biden still hasn’t picked a VP is pretty good proof that you’re wrong.
Perhaps you don't use AnyList? It doesn't make sense to use with a private mail relay because they use email as an addressing system. And honestly, few users will go look up their per-app address and tell people to add them.
> But considering the fact that political positions appear to correlate with brain structures

The do now, but didn't historically. So (presuming the correlation is true) are any of the historical factors relevant to changing things today?

It seems like historically there were more dimensions to consider such as class, regional interests, religion and then within those combination of factors you could have a more-liberal or conservative view.

> There's nothing in evolutionary theory that says the impediments can't be social and behavioural instead of anatomical.

There is some data to support this. Charles Murray's Coming Apart cited a big trend of separation amongst the urban/liberal/educated and rural/conservative/religious. It really isn't enough to drive evolution, it certainly has an impact on culture and politics. There is no "reversion to the mean" if the distribution is binomial.
My anecdote is similar. I first created my Apple account when the iTunes music store was introduced in 2003.

But, when I setup the account for my mom and my wife, I just created an iCloud email address.

My wife never uses her iCloud email address. I don’t think she uses the default mail client - she uses the gmail app.
Aw, the poor white supremacists can't find anyone who's willing to work with them because of their hateful ideology. I shall shed a single tear for them.

I'm really upset that the site, which was started to host neo-nazis and violently racist mass-murderers, founded by a person who was kicked out of ycombinator for harassing and threatening other founders, can't find anyone else willing to stand alongside them to fight back against decency and civility.

The reality is that their site is a toxic boil on the internet, and if other companies don't want to have anything to do with them, then I see no problem with that.
> harder to create lots of phony email addresses than phone numbers

I think you got this the wrong way around.
Foreign propaganda broadcast and pushed by a hostile foreign government isn't protected speech. Not sure why anyone would need to say that out loud, but here we are. 2020, going hard.
Coincidentally I just read a post from a business that's finding ordinary bank transfers getting more traction from customers than they expected:

https://www.revk.uk/2020/06/beyond-credit-cards-is-this-way-...
Oops that's a great point. I completely forgot about sidewall stiffness. My messing around with treads was probably just me adjusting things to make myself look good then!
Yes, it got significantly edgier after going private.
What you are saying is, you and you critical theory pals have redefined the word to suit your purposes.
It's a good example of something being flagged because it's a baseless claim with no evidence-- one that tries to use an unarguable fallacy as a winning argument: "You're silencing me because I'm X", not because you're just wrong.
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I guess "I personally disagree" with genocide.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-facebook...
Heck, I've been happily using "Sign in with Apple" on linux anywhere I can.
There is empirical evidence from the multiple natural experiments that happened on subreddits at the start of Reddit.

I personally had to come up with arguments to justifiably censor people to stop the sub I became a part of, from becoming more of a chess pool.

I was a card carrying member of the market place of ideas/ free speech camp till 12-13 years ago, at which point it was clearer to me that giving free speech to certain groups was the same as allowing prions to proliferate in the food chain.

Which is why stronger moderation was required to reverse the descent into madness - it worked.

The people who were hateful bigots were ejected and made their own forums, where they promised never to ban dissenting voices.

Sure enough, they too started banning voices because

1) they weren’t there for free speech in the first place, just for indoctrination.

2) free speech meant that They became petri dishes for even more extreme material and eventually had to be banned or risk getting the entire forum/subreddit removed.

————

I’d love alternate interpretations for it, if possible, but the experience from these multiple natural experiments show that letting malicious Machiavellian actors on your platform will result in the abuse of normal users and the tolerance of the system.
"I cant recall NATO invading or annexing the territory of a sovreign nation."

Funny you can't recall NATO bombing and partitioning Serbia.

Funny you can't recall NATO members invading Iraq.

Funny you can't recall NATO members bombing Libya.

Funny you can't recall NATO members occupying parts of Syria.

And most likely you haven't even heard that supreme NATO commander in Europe ordered to attack Russian forces in Prishtina [0].

"Russian on the other hand, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovkia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia"

if you've decided to talk about WW2 and its aftermath, don't forget that Germany and countries which joined its war against the USSR -- Italy, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria, are all NATO members now. This invasion from the West cost the USSR 26 million lives.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Clark#Pristina_Internat...
I would say its suitable, but I wouldn't say it's a good general purpose language for a variety of reasons. The first being that "good" is totally subjective. It feels like it has lagged behind its competitors both in terms of language features and API design. Its generally crappy for GUI apps. It doesn't really excel at anything in particular unless you're already invested in it. Even it's original premise of "write once run anywhere" is mostly irrelevant now, and there doesnt seem to be a future for client side Java apps outside of Android.

Overall I'd prefer to use just about anything else in pretty much any domain where Java would be a consideration. It may not be an inherent problem with the language itself, but its ecosystem in my experience leaves it as one of the worst general purpose languages in terms of productivity while not offering a sufficient advantage to make up for that.

All that being said, Java is still good enough most of the time.
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And get rid of all the other non-garbage sign-ins too, correct?
Kudos, for My first inclination would've been to jack up the car and look at pressure differences of unloaded vs. loaded tyres... then look at loaded wheel center height above ground vs. nominal radius, compute the the reduction in volume, and assume contact patch to be the area of the flattened section of the tyre cylinder... giving me a whole lot of parameters with wild inaccuracies and probably equally wild results :)
If China can ban websites and apps (for whatever reasons), why can't India?

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
In my personal opinion, there are three database types.

'Small' Databases are the first, and are easy to dump into kubernetes. Anything DB with a total storage requirement 100GB or less (if I lick my finger and try to measure the wind), really, can be easily containerized, dumped into kubernetes and you will be a happy camper because it makes prod / dev testing easy, and you don't really need to think too much here.

'Large' database are too big to seriously put into a container. You will run into storage and networking limits for cloud providers. Good luck transferring all that data off bare metal! Your tables will more than likely need to be sharded to even start thinking about gaining any benefit from kubernetes. From my own rubric, my team runs a "large" Mysql database with large sets of archived data that uses more storage that managed cloud SQL solutions can provide. It would take us months to re-design to take advantage of the Mysql Clustering mechanisms, along with following the learning curve that comes with it.

'Massive' databases need to be planned and designed from "the ground up" to live in multiple regions, and leverage respective clustering technologies. Your tables are sharded, replicated and backed up, and you are running in different DCs attempting to serve edge traffic. Kubernetes wins here as well, but, as the OP suggests, not without high effort. K8S give you the scaling and operational interface to manage hundreds of database nodes.

It seems weird to me that the Vitess and OP belabour their Monitoring, Pooling, and Backup story, when I think the #1 reason you reach for an orchestrator in these problem spaces is scaling.

All that being said, my main point here is that orchestration technologies are tools, and picking the right one is hard , but can be important :) Databases can go into k8s! Make it easy on yourself and choose the right databases to put there
Unpopular opinion here (from my experience), but crypto / blockchain is ever so slowly and deliberately destroying the moat around payments and the artificial barriers constructed. Probably 5 more years for some very serious mainstream business movements into it, and 10 more for non-technical consumers, but I believe with the rise of stablecoins (USDC) and Ethereum scaling via proof of stake (ETH2) their days are numbered.
Is this news? I thought this was the theory for decades.
I agree that higher tire pressure results in smaller surface area, but it's not clear to me that the tire itself does not support the car, skewing the result. So I'm not convinced this sanity check is sufficient. For example, as another commenter mentioned, run-flat tires can support the car on stiffness alone.
These books were my absolute favorites growing up. I would spend entire weekends poring through them, making knots, building paper airplanes, juggling, learning magic tricks, etc. I can still juggle and it never stops impressing people. :)
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> What do generic "Europeans" have in common with each other?

Civilization.
So it's a difference in degree, not kind. My point stands. I'm far more concerned about an organization that has imprisoned thousands with essentially zero consequences than one that hired some paramilitaries and got in significant legal trouble for it.
People using fish antibiotics on themselves is a thing:

https://www.thebugoutbagguide.com/fish-antibiotics-for-human...
If you email us we can enable support to South Africa (and most countries). We need some extra info right now to do that.

We should be able to do most (non sanctioned) countries by default soon too.
Thank you for your reply, Zaroth.

I wish that graph showed absolute numbers instead of percents, but it is very nice as it is. Interesting points to ponder.
> Facebook does a great job at removing violent content.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19245537
Last year we pulled all social logins (facebook, google, yahoo) out of our app, after supporting them for years. The UX / customer service issues mentioned in this post are absolutely legit, a complete PITA. While we were nervous about adding the extra signup friction, a year later I can easily say it was worth doing.
> They did get downvoted pretty quickly, but I was still surprised by them appearing in the first place.

Apparently many people feel like this is not enough, but what more can be done? I can imagine a few policies that would reduce the chance of such comment even appearing, such as:

- Some problematic comments could be instantly removed algorithmically, e.g. by having a list of forbidden substrings/regexps. Trying to avoid that list e.g. by intentional misspelling would result in a manual ban. (And the misspelling would be added to the list.)

- Moderation could be so strict that even a hint of heresy would result in a ban. If you merely seem like a person who probably would say something racist or sexist in the future, let's ban you before you actually do it.

- The values embraced by the website should be expressed by (e.g. anti-racist and anti-sexist) slogans at the top of the page, along with explicit warnings against heresies, so that people would immediately know which opinions are allowed and which are not.

I do not really think any of these suggestions is good. My question is, without them, how can you avoid the situation, apparently very unpleasant to some people, where problematic comments sometimes appear, even if they are soon downvoted/flagged.

(I suspect than a combination of the second and third option is what the author of the article would like to see. But I'd rather hear it explicitly from people who mean it.)
Not exactly .. people will come out to defend "free speech". But somehow the cause in question is nearly always far right.
I mean, if they feel like the US is a threat to their sovereignty, and may use the platforms to push public opinions that undermine their stability, yes. If not, then why bother?

Governments may seem dumb and bureaucratic, but good ones tend to have some level of pragmatism.
I'd say the moral is to write standard-conforming, well-defined code, and use standard-conforming compiler options, e.g. not the Intel defaults. Also use the available warnings and diagnostics.