skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, technically no they don't. But that's just being pedantic. They charge the bank based on gross dollar volume, and the bank gets the money to pay for that from... interchange fees. The more volume the bank does, the more they pay and the more they get from interchange fees.

Interchange fee pricing is set based on how much mastercard charges the banks, so while technically true, the interchange fees are basically set by mastercard's pricing.
I wasn't asking a question on the legal theory, but a clarification on the OP's own statement that one should be "careful with this pushing of the fringe", which is presumably a moral or pragmatic one.
It's tricky. I'm not a fan of Nazism myself, not least because I wouldn't survive very long if they succeeded. Punching them in the face is the least of what I would need to do to survive.

.. but what stops me from calling you a Nazi if I personally don't like you? You can take a few steps away. Someone can say something, and a response can be, "the logic of this argument is Nazism." I've seen this argued (badly). Now are we in scope yet?

And if someone wears a red tie (or a MAGA hat), does that then bring them in that sphere? And if so, if that represents the views of, I don't know, 40% of the population, is it wise to censor that? I mean, is it even practical, morality aside?

Let's add them to the list. OK, we get the red hats. Now, someone says something that support police? OK, good, we found more Nazis. OK, now, someone criticizes feminism ... etc. etc.

The circle of verbal hygiene slowly expands, and it comes for you eventually.
There are email clients.
Given that the act was, as said in the article you cited, never enforced by the government, the deplatforming through ideological purges, 'cancel culture', and media suppression is what actually killed the movement.

So, yes, this actually proves my point. Buring ideas, and canceling the people espousing them does, in fact, kill political movements.

If your goal is to drive a political movement into the fringe, deplatforming works. If your goal is to have an utterly tolerant climate for political movements, regardless of how abhorrent they are, then, well, we're all observing how it's working out right now. Not very well, I must say, but there's always time for things to get worse.
China is a shithole fascist country of oppression and slavery, not a race. That you associate a nation state directly with a race, is frankly racist. Maybe you should be canceled, Björn.
From what others have said, they also need it to add to their marketing list....
Their blog post is well written and explains point by point why implementing it would be problematic for them AND for end users. Strange that you arrived at the conclusion "they didn’t like the additional work Apple made them do"
How is Mastodon able to defend against abusive single-message throwaway accounts registered by a distributed swarm of malicious human beings?

My stalker of 20 years has been registering a new account every time they contact me for 20 years, specifically to abuse the “your first message is trusted and delivered” approach, with every social platform they’ve stalked me on. If my stalker has known how to do this for decades, then clearly these forum folks know how to as well.

By my read, Mastodon is vulnerable to this distressing and threatening behavior as long as each account is treated as a throwaway, even if it’s banned as soon as it’s caught. This allows the flash mob of abusers to sign up for a mass of Mastodon accounts, send a single threatening abusive message from each to one recipient, and then throw away the accounts and start over. They would succeed in their targeted harassment goal, while Mastodon would - as it defaults to “allow untrusted third parties to contact anyone” - continue acting as a delivery platform for abuse that cannot be stopped.

If I’ve misunderstood and there is some aspect of Mastodon that protects against anonymous users being treated as innocent long enough to deliver an abusive message, that would be invaluable to know.
IOPS limitations and network latency are the reason I want to run my Postgres replicas in k8s. Every machine gets NVMe and a replica instance. They're still cattle, but they can serve a lot of requests.

Database CPU usage is negligible.

It was easier to put a replica on every host than try to rearchitect things to tolerate single-digit millisecond RTT to a cloud database.
And why a country that puts snipers to shoot on protesters and is planning the annexation of territory belonging to others (after several other illegal annexations) is the US's best friend?
"Private" property becomes morally murky when you extend an invitation to the general public to use that space. Doubly so when a small handful of these privately-owned websites are responsible for carrying a the vast majority of the of the discourse on the internet.

As it stands, Google+Youtube, Facebook, and Reddit (1st, 2nd, 4th, and 6th most popular websites in the country) currently have the power to ban, or worse, guide, all discussion of any topic they wish, with no accountability whatsoever. That is a frightening amount of power to have, and one that I don't believe the free market is equipped to deal with its abuses.

This latter problem is something I'm legitimately surprised more people are not concerned about. Just because they're using this power to target something you don't like doesn't mean it won't be used for more nefarious purposes in the future.
Apple operates on behalf of profit. As it should.
My app is not the App Store. The user has already paid to download my app from the App Store and Apple has gotten 30% of the cut. What users do on my App after that is none of Apple's business, though of course Apple would like to claim otherwise.

Similarly, once I have bought something from Walmart I can use it as I wish. Our business transaction ends there, so your analogy isn't really apt.

> Does Walmart let you sell your product in their store and say you can look at it there but get it cheaper from Amazon?

Funny you say that, because Walmart and many other brick-and-mortal retailers will happily price-match Amazon and each other. You know why? Because they are not a monopoly or pseudo-monopoly and so need to do good by their users to compete.

Of course you can justify Apple's behavior any way because you can claim that I am on an iPhone so I am on their property or something and so they are my overlords but that is precisely what users here are trying to argue against.

Or to be honest, you don't even need to justify it that way. The magical market justifies it because the fact that these apps are on the Apple ecosystem means that staying on it is better for them than staying off it. And no other justification is necessary. And you would not be wrong.

But people have a moral intuition about these things based on how they see the world work, and so they have an intuitive sense for when something seems 'off', even if the market seems like it's working. That's why they complain against things like exorbitant pay-day loans despite them too being an example of a market that seems to be working.

Last I checked, I did not get an iPhone on lease from Apple. This attitude where just because I am on an iPhone means I owe Apple in perpetuity needs to die.
I wonder how would you explain why the US always feels threatened. For example [0]:

"“Russia is the most significant threat just because they pose the only existential threat to the country right now. So we have to look at that from that perspective,” the commander of U.S. Strategic Command, or STRATCOM, Air Force Gen. John Hyten said during the Association of the United States Army’s Air and Missile Defense conference Wednesday."

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/28/nuclear-commander-russia-is-...
Anecdote time!

My father thinks that Trump is the best president in 100 years. He thinks that helping the coal industry is great, being tough on immigration and China is too, and so on. He thinks the Left is out to get Trump because they rabidly hate any conservative.

When I talk to him about issues, though, things change. He thinks "no one should die from being poor" - in the context of healthcare. He thinks there should be price controls on drugs, better pricing transparency, and perhaps even price controls on doctor salaries.

I explained to him that "defund the police" can mean different things, but that the moderate, Dem Party version of it involves reallocating funds from police to social services, and reducing the kinds of calls cops get. He said "that's the first time I've heard anyone describe it that way". Despite that being pretty much one of two ways that the entire Left sees the idea, and despite the fact he watches "news" hours a day. (Fox).

When I told him that even the radical "defund" camp doesn't want a total lack of law enforcement, but a total teardown and rebuild of police culture and procedures, he understood! He didn't buy into it 100%, but acknowledged the issues with police corruption, and the idea that good cops who hold others accountable will get run out of the system.

What does this all mean?

He is a victim of far-right media manipulation, and hyperpartisanship. On many of the most pressing issues in this country, he is a Democrat by all accounts. But he sees the "radical left" as part of the big tent, and hears about those boogymen day in and day out, and takes a contrarian view on certain progressive ideas, and boom. Trumpian Republican.

My money on fixing this is to have voting reform that allows new political parties to vibrantly exist, so we can have new parties with a better mixing of ideas.

Coalitions should exist as groups of political parties, not as one big tent.
Why limit this to the USA and 25-50 years?

If we can look globally, even within 50 years, Marxists (e.g., Khmer Rouge, and Mao's Cultural Revolution) have killed many orders of magnitude more people than have racial separatists or supremacists.

If we look back further, you at least pick up the Nazis on the racial supremacist side, but that still doesn't get you within an order of magnitude of Mao, Stalin, and friends.

Within the USA, the Constitution has protected us, but we can still see pernicious effects of Marxism. It's harder to quantify this, but I don't think there's a clear case that either side is "winning".
I agree, the sanity check is not sufficient. It confirms the concept that as pressure decreases, area increases, but is not sufficient to confirm a linear relationship. In the limit, the area clearly does not become infinite when pressure drops to 0.

For the case you suggested above, this is essentially how run-flat tires work. Of course, the sidewall of the tire isn't as stiff as the support ring, but they do provide some support.
> I wonder how the US would react to Mexico hosting Russian troops and weapons...

I imagine if they put missiles on cuba, some kind of crisis might happen.
50gb - multi TB
I think KDE contributors are mostly knowingly contributing to free (libre) software. To call this only open source does a disservice to KDE as a community. It's not the nicest thing to say. I guess you were unaware of this and not intentionally mixing up the terms. I think KDE devs would pro ably disagree with you calling it only open source.

KDE devs correct me, if I am wrong please.
Thanks. I didn't answer because it common for people making a lowest common denominator comment to just pepper you with questions that never land on a final point.

I think your point is interesting. What do you mean by "power alliances" in this context? Do you mean that they're mostly (or entirely) allied for their combined war making power?

For my part, I think the relationship is based on a general understanding that their people are alike in custom, beliefs, traditions, geopolitical place, etc. After all, America is the troubled child of the UK that grew up to dominate the world.
Ah I see, I had the typical use case wrong. Thanks for your response!
> I don't know how important the stiffness effect is for real tires, but I suspect they are sufficiently stiff that it matters a lot.

It's odd, because as I was reading your comment, I was thinking the exact opposite. I am considering the force it takes to squish a flat tire. A person can squish a (regular car's) flat tire with his/her hands.

My gut-check tells me that the stiffness of each tire can lift less than 10kg/20lbs... multiplied by 4, that still is not a huge contributor to the overall weight.
The price they're asking is pretty reasonable. A couple thousand bucks for a few percent increased chance of survival is well below the benchmark set by drugs in less public disease areas. If this was a cancer drug they'd be charging an order of magnitude more.

Edit:

ICER, which is a drug price watchdog, suggested using a value added analysis that the max price remdesivir could justify was 4500[1]. ICER is not pharma's friend, and they dont usually end up suggesting a max price twice what the pharma company charges[2].

[1]https://icer-review.org/announcements/alternative_pricing_mo...

[2]https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/parp-drugs-from-az-clovi...
Thanks. I suspect there may be no actual cases of YT actually banning videos for anti-veteran speech, but it is on their list because it is on a list of protected classes.
I am pretty sure when rules are written "vague", it's done that way on purpose so they can interpret it and abuse it in whatever way they like.
Only ~1-2 apps of the several dozen I use support them. For folk that aren't super tech savvy, still a struggle
Consider the income instability these days with many types of jobs.

A park is on the affordable side compared to overseas travel, or plane travel in general, for many households.
Thank you, I’ll email you directly. Your super quick response on a previous HN thread was a key reason we decided to sign up with Mercury in the first place...
> You seem to not know about what marxism's goal is

Is it to oppress everyone equally?
>> The job of the political opposition is to oppose.

If that were the case than there’s no point in having a political system, is there?

Regardless, we’re back in the false equivalences territory. The GOP doesn’t have any policies. It’s a block of resentment that’s not even trying anymore to pretend.

The democrats have policies and as you say, they do their job and oppose (based on their policies). They don’t oppose for the sake of opposition like you’re suggesting. They have policies they seem to be able to articulate and stand behind.

Republicans don’t. Not any more at least not since they’ve lost two election cycles to Obama.

Your problems and complaints about the EU are not relevant to the discussion. Opposition to trump is based on his action, or inaction mostly and deliberate policies written by lobbyists and white supremacists. I’d say that’s a reason to be busy opposing him.

Ps you’re. Unless your talking genetics, how does this qualify you as a “European”?
I loved the switch to Intel, it made virtualization on par with Windows and Linux, and lately it's easy, for example, to load games from Steam. I'm glad I got a 2019 MacBook Pro, I hope to use it for many years, then I'll have some decisions to make.
> AND for some reason couldn’t use my cloud provider’s built in solution (AWS RDS, Cloud SQL, etc.)

Money.

> Pay someone else to handle that part

Aside from the money (managed Postgres is expensive), I'd actually like to understand what good, high-availability Postgres solutions look like.
That's a myth:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm

Private companies can refuse cash.
Wuhan China I'm sure. Poster's objective is probably not to different from those who insist on "China Virus."
dang has commented on this a lot lately and he says it is because we see the other side much easier than our own side.

I agree with him to a large degree:

I personally see mostly problematic content from the left[0] but I guess that is partly my bias.

[0]: for example this comment earlier today that I thought[1] was absolutely crazy "I don't want to participate in spaces where religious white nationalists feel safe" - just try to turn that phrase around to "I don't want to participate in spaces where atheistic colored globalists feel safe" and see if it wouldn't be flagged to death immediately by everyone including me.)

[1]: someone had to tell me that this is basically an euphemism for nazi, to which I had to reply that I would prefer if we just said nazi then because then I could join in despising it.
I guess the far right activists on trial for the murders of both the law enforcement and security personnel killed during the protests can try the 'actually we don't exist: it was the left or the Feds' defence but I'm not sure it'll work out for them...
Speculation? Yeah, sure. Baseless? Not really, considering the great firewall and all. Racism? Where?
Wirecard: 'It’s bad. I’m left with nothing'
Well, the idea is nice, but, as others have said, we need to account for sidewall stiffness. But we can do better with law of large numbers and employing metering tape to measure difference in car height with different pressure in tires. First we need to collect baseline data - tire brand, model and size, tire pressure, and car height difference , for known car weights, for two different pressures (say, 20 and 35 psi), this way we could deduce tire sidewall stiffness for given make/model/size of the tire. After that we can do the same for all cars with same tires, by measuring car height difference between two pressure points. Measuring height changes on both axles (wheel center to lowest point of the wheel arch) will get us weight distribution ; but we'll need to account for staggered tire setup .
Free a.k.a. libre, not open. Ot's even in the name this time …
If you read the article, you'd see they address the reason they cannot implement it on Android yet. Apple hasn't provided documentation for it. Apple doesn't seem to be taking it seriously.
This is probably just leakage to due to mismanagement. Russian government may prioritize well being of population but nuclear accident would drop land price economy would suffer and people who have power would suffer from, so I hope self-interest and The lesson of all lessons make me hopeful that the rain outside my window not radioactive (in Lithuania not Russia but still in the path)
>Forget Google

How about NO! How about we go after all three of them? Google should not be left off the hook. This is just whataboutism by Google's PR.

Anyway, Google's employees are all over this thread.
That’s not a party problem, it’s an artifact of our mass experiment with various flavors of social media and unfiltered mass communication. The situation with Twitter giving maniacs a megaphone, Facebook radicalizing anyone and YouTube offering a twisty tunnel of crazy to drive engagement isn’t sustainable.

The counter response will be a lockdown and that will address most of the issue. Unfortunately there is plenty of suffering and discord to be had before that happens.
Does that mean you're never going back? I would find it difficult to never see my family again.
Why do you need to log in in this app? All the problems indicate that app is used on one device only
The article does not indicate that VISA/MC makes their money directly from the 'interchange' but it's perfectly valid to indicate that VISA/MS are in fact the lynch-pin of the credit card 'system oligarchy'.

In particular, it is they that are able to set rates for transactions, and do anti-competitive things like ban e-retailers from offering relative discounts like 'save 2.5% if you use cash' etc..

It's absolutely an ancient cabal banking network, that would be disrupted in any normal, competitive system.

2.5% of a transaction considerably too much, were there efficiency, it would be less than 0.5%.

Edit: monopoly->oligarchy
> it just so happened that by choosing the JVM they gave the ability to the community to decompile the game and add the content they want

That wasn't their intention; Minecraft code was originally obfuscated specifically in order to combat reverse engineering and modification.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/mpslv/why_are_mi...

https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Obfuscation_map
Well one of the reasons why they (MasterCard and Visa) backed Libra is because they were after the potential of cryptocurrencies, but in a controlled fashion, which Libra was perfect for them, Unlike other alternatives until they themselves left Libra.

Anything this duopoly can't control is a big no-no to them which is why they detest Bitcoin and the other alternative cryptocurrencies. Some online services are beginning to accept cryptocurrencies, which is a start. Cryptocurrency ATMs are a thing to cash out money, thus one could say that you might have bypassed them.

A side note, for those offended by master/slave terminology perhaps now you can ask Mastercard to change their name. Since, its pretty much has somehow offended somebody out there. /s
They are called Tankies by leftist for a reason. They're cultist dogmatist and shunned by all but their peers.
so all of this could be fixed by AnyList just asking the user to type in their email address instead of tying it to a data mining operation from their login name

well at least they are honest!
Posts about it have been flying for about a day or two now. Example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DeclineIntoCensorship/comments/hh1s...
In a word: "no."

In some more words:

I don't see the problem. Reddit is a private organization, they decided some other people are not welcome there, that is their prerogative. Hateful racists can go start their own forum, which they did. They are free to welcome other viewpoints or not.

In specific words:

> The last wave of bans across multiple platforms have got me thinking that we're on a bad version of the Internet.

We aren't, people are free to conduct their own business as they see fit. It's still the Internet.

> In general, I dont like shutting up the opposition and with traffic consolidated so heavily on a few platforms/companies, bans effectively shut people up.

Great, you can run your own forum and amplify the voice of whoever you want. Other people are free to moderate their platforms as they please.

> On the other hand, I cant deny that even the most outrageous claims find willing ears on the internet. Diseases that were all but exterminated are now flourishing in Europe thanks to anti-vax propaganda.

Right.

> Is there a middle-ground here, where people can speak their minds, engage with others - likeminded or not - without the damaging effects? Or are we destined to end in some form of dictatorship where 10 people determine who says what?

The internet is the middle ground. I see no reason we are destined to end in some form of "dictatorship", unless we maintain this insistence that all platforms have to allow all speech.

> And what happens when we no longer agree with these 10 people? Can we even get to that point if the entire narrative is so heavily controlled?

You can just... use the Internet. Register your own domain, pay for your own hosting, or buy some servers, take out come ads. It's the Internet, you can still do anything.

Sure, if you host a bunch of white nationalist toxic garbage your registrar may revoke your domains. Your hosting provider may pull the plug on your servers, etc. That's exactly how it should and does work.
Irrespective of the OP's stance, I just don't get true crime media. I've tried a few of them, and they hold my interest about as well as CSI/NCIS, or watching a weather channel for a foreign country.
At least Marxism tries to make a utopia for everyone (and fails) vs Klan tries to make a "utopia" for only white people. If you want to base on purely aims and purpose.

If you want to base it on application/reality, the Klan and white supremacist have murdered a lot more people than Marxists in the past 20 years in the United States (maybe not always the case but I don't have that data). Maybe in a country like India where Marxism and armed rebellion are a more real threat I can see your point but the Klan doesn't operation in India.