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> "hate speech" is a made up word

Most words and phrases were made up, at some point. "Hate speech" still has a coherent meaning.

> and neither illegal

Nobody said it was illegal. YouTube is free to ban content creators that haven't broken the law. You agree to those terms when you use the site.

> or "bad"

I understand that the phrase "hate speech" confuses you. But these content creators openly advocate white supremacism. If you don't think that is "bad" I think you should take a deep look inward.

> You're applauding

Yes.

> a rebranded social score

No. YouTube is not assigning a "social score" - they are refusing to pay web hosting fees for racists. That has no effect on any other aspect of these people's lives - their ability to find jobs, make friends, start businesses, etc. is unaffected.

> and a secondary justice system

The comparison of YouTube consequences to the justice system is laughable. YouTube is saying "host your content elsewhere, there are lots of options." The justice system hands down things like forced confinement and the death penalty. There is really no comparison.
Maybe thats all you need from the browser. But I am happy that the browser can do all that stuff.

I can use BigBlueButton to participate in lectures, talk, share my webcam, even my screen. And why I should I care, if I can at any time, revoke that permission?

I use many web apps, which are incredibly sophisticated, from TickTick for todo lists, to LucidChart for creating diagrams, to google docs do collaborate on documents, to notion for creating documentation. I could go on for days.

I am happy, that the browser is as feature packed as it is, because it allows for so many wonderful apps, that wouldn't have been made otherwise, if they had to be made with any other technology, that is not as easy to develop cross platform applications for.
> Jeepers Forbes really has a thing for ~Apple~.

Clickbait *ftfy
I would say a cryptocurrency with more throughput than a 144p youtube video could confront this.
H2 database is pretty awesome. Such a pleasure to use vs SQLite and even vs some large-scale RDBMSs.
> None or practically none of these companies are actually doing anything real. Pulling ads for a month or two only to go back is an empty gesture.

Disagree a bit here. While it's not a huge gesture on the part of those participating in the boycott, it may have enough impact on FaceBook that they will change some of their policies. Facebook has already backpedalled a bit and tried to push through some policy changes as damage control, we'll see if there is any long term change.

Ultimately, money (and robbing them of eyes) is the only way to affect change at Facebook. This is costing Facebook a significant amount of money. Not huge amounts, but enough where the executives notice.
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Also less know:

GPS can be used as an additional "highish" precision clock source for servers.

It works based on the device having known GPS position and knowledge that the position didn't change at all.

EDIT: This as far as I know also applies to other GPS like systems.
I never looked at it this way but damn. You have a great point.
Why are they not? Ben Shapiro is literally a standard conservative talking head who only now is seen as controversial because American politics is insane. And I'm pretty sure it's Rogan's choice who he wants to talk to. Policing that ruins the entire appeal of the podcast and just turns it into exactly what people were trying to get away from, i.e. heavily produced and filtered content on mainstream television such as late night talk shows or whatever
Correction: Native apps on the platform this thread is about.
Not software engineering. What you are saying is that capitalism and infinite growth is impossible and at some point it will be needed to cut it back. But that is impossible so we will keep creating ways to postpone the downfall. Until it falls.
Couldn't we hide the rarely used features behind a checkbox in advanced settings?
Let's be honest here; if India's relations with USA had soured to the same degree as with PRC, Youtube would be the one getting banned.
The actual terroristic activities are illegal, and Klan members have been prosecuted (and successfully sued) for them. "Hate-mongering" isn't illegal in the US.
I’d love to see some action here but I’m skeptical. It seems like attacking payment processors is the main avenue that the thought-crime-police use to attack alt-tech sites that don’t play ball with censoring.
If there was any mass protest movement to push change here, the media would absolutely flood the public with scare stories about (insert evil monsters here) using payment networks to finance (evil activity here) and undermine the protest movement.
It doesn’t help that so many politicians are old lawyers and activists who generally don’t have the technical knowledge to wade through the BS.
There is no need to change masters, and if you have a Pixel, you don't even need to change devices: LineageOS.
This is also my bet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5J_6oMMG7Y

I have no idea how much of that video is real, but I think if the AR hardware is possible it's likely the next computing platform UI after mobile device displays.

Apple has been laying the platform groundwork for this for a while. If anyone can pull it off, I suspect it would be them.

I don't think the web will be able to compete with that.
There certainly are pain points. I don't work on this myself, but one of our other engineers wrote this blog post [0] that discusses the experience of running CockroachDB in k8s and why we chose to use it for our hosted cloud product. Another complication mentioned in there is about how to deal with the multi-region case.

[0] https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/managed-cockroachdb-on-ku...
I would guess quite a few browsers or operating systems would implement at least one virtual MIDI device, so that sites wanting to play MIDI would work. Those virtual devices wouldn’t all be identical.
I haven't been much of an ORM userm but what makes it so special? Anything comparable in Javascript or Python land?
I think it's practical in a very narrow, definitely-non-scalable sense.

Some folks on Patreon are experimenting with it. One of my favorite series Astartes[0] puts out episodes every rare once and awhile, but we all clamor for them nonetheless.

You couldn't run a normal show this way, for sure. But it is interesting to see the results of it in the small.

https://www.patreon.com/astartesfilm
Oh no, nazis are being deplatformed, what shall the world do, except be better :(
I am pretty sure I would never create an account on a website that wants me to chat with a bot on Telegram. This sounds particularly user-hostile.
Disclaimer: I'm not a big fan of Trump

The job of the political opposition is to oppose. What the democrats have done in the last 3 years is a whole new level of bitching. And they haven't learned anything, they seem to be following the same strategy as in 2016. Believe me that insulting the electorate to their face isn't a very good tactic. The polling situation isn't very different from 2016, but the arrogance blinds them.

I'm from an Italian-Spanish family that emigrated to South America during World War II. I lived in Europe for 5 years, in Sweden (study abroad), and I'm a European citizen.

I'm very aware of how much Europeans despise Trump. I'm also aware of how much time and energy Europeans dedicate to American politics that should be dedicated to European politics.

In a way, the Trump obsession is also destroying Europe.

Here's a list of things that Europe needs to address urgently and that the European press doesn't discuss because it's either too ignorant or too "politically correct".

- Intra-eurozone balance of payments

- Bank leverage and household debt in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Netherlands

- Debt mutualization, also known as "Eurobond"

- Uncoordinated fiscal policy that makes Luxembourg and Ireland suck up all the capital

- Runaway government deficits in the south

- Dollar-denominated debt and shortage of dollar liquidity

- Border security of the outer borders of Schengen (Frontex)

- Energy dependency, especially from Russia

- Chinese corporate takeovers

- Need to get real about defense spending, NATO won't babysit Europe forever (unless you PAY)

- Corruption in Eastern Europe, especially Ukraine
It's a tradeoff. Having separate hardware more fully emulates a cluster you'd see in the real world where you have to deal with cross-machine network boundaries and potential networking limitations.

Sometimes those can be masked when you run multiple VMs on one host, especially if you rely on whatever VM management tool's automatic networking configuration sets up.

The other thing a single machine can't easily emulate is having a multitude of CPU cores available across different machines, or the ability to have swapping on one application instance not take down the entire machine (well... that could be mitigated somewhat but still).
I agree on principle, but I don't think FB will refuse these advertisers when they return (and the advertisers know it).
Define evidence, companies share information all the time including their legal departments.

We have had multiple simultaneous ban waves this is not a new occurrence, at this point one would ask for evidence to show its not the case since the fact that this happening is self evident.
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I think quite the contrary, China has very limited interest in using propaganda to influence the western-sphere. I used to be very inline with these news but as my old friends from youth progress in their careers in China (many in those 'state based' sectors), I grow increasingly skeptical as I know more about their mundane jobs. Yes a lot of policies seem to be from a backward society, but actually a lot are benign and these perceived 'agenda' don't really exist in real life. To be quite frank technology-wise China is still vastly behind world's frontier.
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sscache and build servers, I believe
Here's where news about it was leaked over the weekend:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WatchRedditDie/comments/hh1pjd/redd...
18% is freakishly huge, we're talking about the whole of the US here.

What's worse, if you look at the details, there is a swath of products that are darn near impossible to buy without a credit card.
Do we really need a new post every time another company throws their hat into this? It feels like the 5th time this week seeing another "[brand] joins Facebook boycott" post and all the comments are always the same.
Please don't. It's not because it's possible that it is a good idea. The PDF itself clearly shows how it can get complex quickly. The great majority of people won't ever be able to do this properly, securely and with decent reliability. Of course I may have to swallow my words in the future in case a job requires it but unless you REALLY REALLY REALLY need PostgreSQL inside Kubernetes IMHO you should just stick with private RDS or Cloud SQL then point your Kubernetes workloads to it inside your VPCs, all peered etc. Your SRE mental health, your managers and company costs will thank you.
> However, my father also taught me to be careful with this pushing of the fringe. It is a delicate balance of liberty with liberty-destroying ideology. The paradox of tolerance, etc. It should be very closely watched.

Sounds like your father was an honorable man. Honest question: when does pushing the fringe go too far? Is it appropriate for banks to deny their business? Grocery stores?
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The browser is indeed an application platform. Even HackerNews is an app, although it uses a minimum of browser functionality.

Maybe you don't want things like videochat or paint programs or music learning apps to run in a browser, but lots of people do.

Imagine if Firefox said "we're not going to let any web page access the camera"... their market share would probably drop in half overnight.
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> the phrase about leaving it to someone who hasn't toiled for it is a rhetorical device to emphasize the futility of the labor, not a condemnation of welfare.

I wasn't asked about welfare, that you should correct me by defending the concept. I wasn't asked about someone just scraping by on a 60-hour work week. I was asked about someone who seeks an outlet for self-expression by making indie video games on society's dime. With this in mind, I reiterate: the fact that a would-be indie video game developer reaches for a future with UBI to achieve that is a strike against UBI being an effective vehicle for effecting charitable aims.

The description of Ecclesiastes was, "this also is vanity, and a great evil." You are right that there is a rhetorical device present, and that it highlights the futility of the labor, but it is an affront to the text to say that the thing described as "a great evil" is not, in fact, evil at all. The rhetorical device here highlights the futility by demonstrating and condemning its consequence. You are right that this is different than charity; so, too, is the dream of being paid to make indie video games.
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> What free speech? The government isn't preventing these awful people from spewing their hate. Companies refusing to host their content is not a violation of the first amendment.

By your logic, the first amendment has no salutary rationale. We allow Neo nazis to march merely because the first amendment prohibits us from stopping them from marching, and for no other reason. There is no animating principle that we might consider applying to other contexts even where the first amendment isn’t legally required. That view is anathema to how the first amendment has long been understood. (There is a reason the ACLU has repeatedly defended the right of neo nazis to march. And it isn’t because they’re preoccupied with the technicalities of the law. After all, the government does a lot of other unconstitutional stuff that doesn’t merit the ACLU’s involvement.)

If you want to say there is a substantive difference between say Facebook and public streets, that’s fine that warrants differing treatment, that’s fine and I probably agree with you. But saying that the first amendment doesn’t apply to private corporations doesn’t prove anything more than it’s not literally illegal for Facebook and Twitter to do this. It doesn’t say anything about whether it’s an appropriate policy in view of the principles embodied in the first amendment.
Sure, but Apple could solve that by requiring a user action to show that popup dialog. Or they could even block everything by default and force you to give permissions manually. That way average Joe is blisfully unaware of anything and completely safe while you just have to suffer a minor inconvenience of whitelisting that one legit website the first time you use it.
I much prefer just using RDS Aurora. Far fewer headaches. If I don't need low latency I'd use RDS Aurora no matter which cloud I'm hosted on. Otherwise I'll use hosted SQL.

The reason I mention this is that Kubernetes requires a lot of management to run so the best solution is to use GKE or things like that. If you're using managed k8s, there's little reason to not use managed SQL.

The advantages of k8s are not that valuable for a SQL server cluster. You don't even really get colocation of data because you're realistically going to use a GCE Persistent Disk or EBS volume and those are network attached anyway.
I have been running my own postgres helm chart with read replication and pgpool2 for three years and never had major trouble. If you're interested check out https://github.com/sspies8684/helm-repo
Nazis left out of the internet ?

I think most of humanity can live with that.
The Internet is fine. It's the Web that has become problematic. Choose open protocols to build your communication systems on (email, usenet, others), then let people establish their own servers and set up peering. Users can elect to use one or multiple servers and any client that can understand the protocol.
>In reality, it looks like treatment is going to be around $3000, which, if it improves my chances of survival by a few percent, is actually a sensible price.

But will you pay $3000 for each and every thing that improves your chance of survival by a few percent?
In my experience the “Sign on with Apple“ option makes it totally risk free to click and I don’t even think twice before clicking to create an account whereas a typical registration page will definitely raise the possibility of me bouncing.

Sign-in With Apple is perfect for those accounts that you basically never wanted to have anyway. If it’s something where I want a “real” login, especially one that I might want to share, then I’ll go through the trouble of actually registering and picking a shared secret that my wife and I know.

But for the average app that needs a way to keep a user profile for me, it’s just right, and from a UI perspective on iPhone it really is magic. Two taps and I’m just in with zero mental baggage and an email relay to eliminate the possibility of spam.
Isn't that a gross misstatement of the ruling? I'm not even a lawyer and it seems to be saying that when making a motion to dismiss, you assume the plaintiff's argument is true and then see if the case has merit.

So the ruling saying "even if the argument is hypothetically true, we can dismiss the case" is not the same as saying, "the argument is true".
It does to me, too.

Until I realize that some people are now defining silence as complicity with white supremacy. So let's hope that definition doesn't spread, right?
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If I install React it's because I trust React. If React installs 10000 packages, I see no problem because I assume that React knows what they're doing, otherwise I wouldn't trust them and I wouldn't have installed React in the first place.

If I don't like deep dependency trees, then I install packages that I trust not to use deep dependency trees (or rather graphs since they can have cycles).
It adds alot of complexity with the questionable benefit of driving more extremism.
This escenario seems an clear candidate for A/B testing since I would be conflicted by wanting to provide privacy but understanding it might impact user signups.

Seeing some actual numbers would help me in making that decision.
Git is still what you use to manage your project's "snapshots" at any given time. But GitHub/GitLab add a plethora of tools to make it easier to manage your project and facilitate collaboration. In addition of offering the service, GitLab gives the possibility to host your own copy of their solution (it's open source).
> population of 70m+,

I mean, this is a minor thing, but from what I can tell the UK had a population of ~63m in 2011 when last counted, and an estimated population of ~68m in 2020. Maybe you're referring to projections, which estimate that the figure will break the 70m barrier in about 10 years.
What would Hacker News be? How about email apps such as Gmail or Yahoo mail?
Fair enough. One of their posts was flagged, so I wasn't able to read the full context.

And while I may have my preferences, I don't know how to best to regulate those digital platforms either.
Good to know! I'll give Jarvis another look.
Not sure if you're missing it, but yeah, reverse racism is not a thing. The concept of racism is meaningful in the historical and societal context of systemic oppression. A black person saying "all white people are bad" is not feeding into and exploiting hundreds of years of prejudice stacked against an under-privileged group.

Edit: a black person in the US, different cultures are different contexts.
"The fact that you chose to accuse someone of denying such a thing as parroting CCP propaganda indicates either your story is entirely fake or you're just an asshole."

I was using her reasoning to make a ludicrous argument similar to the one she made to show her the flaw in the argument and her method of reasoning. I don't actually believe that and made it clear to her when I explained the association fallacy. The only way to argue against someone using a fallacious arguing technique, which can be used to prove anything, is to use that arguing technique to prove the opposite or something ridiculous.
They definitely shouldn't be here or anywhere. This is the right approach. Government power is not the only power and in contemporary times, not even the greatest power in most affairs. Megacorps have huge amounts of power. Often they use it to hurt people. I can't imagine a single american who hasn't been scammed by some megacorp like comcast, wells fargo, verizon, etc. But, sometimes their incentives align with those of the society at large. We should not hold them back by using the slippery slope fallacy. Most of the time, their incentives don't align with society's, so we should be thankful when these unregulated entities actually help society, even though that is never their goal. Yes, ideally this would be handled by government in some way, but our government is too inept to handle anything these days, including reigning in the power of these megacorps.
> If you don't like the counterarguments you're encountering here, you should consider that Gab feels the same way

I am genuinely curious why you are trying to divert my initial point into a different direction here. I gave an example of gabe to illustrate that there needs to be some hard point for private companies to be responsible or adhere strictly to the legality or public. Visa isn't a small private business that is refusing to work with you. They are a global monopoly. If your argument is there are more competitors, it doesn't matter if they all collude with each like master card does with visa to keep competitors off or does something to restrict people.
Indeed. It should not be a surprise that tiling window managers are probably preferable to every method of input other than mouse. That AU probably would be a good one.

(Keyboard included and especially. Do you know the keyboard shortcuts to move/resize/arrange windows and when was the last time you tried to use them? Part of my love for tiling window managers came from daily use of a laptop with a bad trackpad and wanting to automate more things with the keyboard.)
I don’t think that’s really a contradiction. Indeed I think that sort of language would be quite a normal thing for a mathematician to colloquially say when describing the problem. Probably they would say smooth rather than “curvy” but they mightn’t say anything at all. In plenty of contexts, “loop” means “map from S1 to your space” and “map” means “continuous function” (or maybe a pointed continuous function in some contexts). Usually I would expect such problems to be introduced with a brief description and some examples and nonexamples. If the proof had some extra reasonable requirements on the curve, one might just say that the curve has to be “well-behaved in some sense” and omit details which aren’t particularly interesting.
YouTube exposes these ideas to hundreds of millions.

Those fringe, extreme platforms are both unknown and already have the stigma or being fringe, extreme platforms. Take a look at Gab, and how The_Donald got laughed out of it because they were not white supremacist enough.

So, yeah, I think I can live with the white supremacists clearly identifying themselves.
I usually browse bookstores, take pictures of books that look interesting then download them in pirated form.
Why are you comparing HBase with Postgres? They are very different technologies with completely different architectural constraints?