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I already do. I never touched anything Apple because i don't want to be owned by what i own.

Apple has no proper concept of digital property, as it thinks its entitled to do anything with the machines that i own, and of course, to make it less offensive, they will use the card that they are doing this always thinking of me like a loving mother.

Its not just Apple, but any company, giving the financial games they need to play, the goal is to maximize profits, so the well being of its user or consumer is secondary to that (You know that CEO XYZ that actually were thinking about the user first? gone.. the board kick him out of the company because the profits were bad in the last quarter). If they can get away with using BS, where people buy the reasons their are using to justify their actions, they will do it, because its good for their real goals.

If you want context, we can use the same on this thread. Where you can clearly see that is reasonable from the security perspective to bar some of them, but a lot of others, is to bar the web platform to compete with their app platform.

Its not just now, nor just this.. if you have been following closely, aware that they do this kind of thing, you see this pattern in a lot of other places.

With Apple is not even difficult to create a Dossie to point this out. But if you didnt notice this since the beginning of the iphone launch, i guess theres little i can do here.

Apple is very good at creating a emotional bound with its things.

I dont like this "evil vs. good" kind of narrative, and Apple is not evil or good per-se (this is a childish pointf of view). Its a tech company that will use their power and position to survive and thrive. But we also need to be aware that with novelties, new problems will arrive. And we need to be aware that sometimes with the sweet, there's also this sour taste that may become a big trouble in the following years, if we are not aware of it.

Cant you see which web apis, from the ones that were bared, that are not actually security threats, but would become a threat not to security but to their monopoly on the app platform in the devices they ship?

But wait, we can just use Chrome right? nope.. because Apple is forcing every other browser to use their own version of Webkit.

Even without the need to go through every move Apple is making, isn't that clear to you?

Its clear for me how Apple is and will be the new "IE 6" of tech, being a impediment not just to the evolution of the web, but all the tech moving forward, all because they need to maintain their feud where we end with less and less option of what we can do with the stuff that we own.

Its not very clear right now, because they are still moving the needle, but if you looked into te Microsoft of the nineties, you would also not believe it.. and yet in the 2000's it happened..
>allows bad speech to be rebutted by more speech
That might work where people are physically speaking, and only have one voice, can only shout so loud, and the time taken to speak is equivalent to the time taken to listen. But in a digital medium, on voice can be amplified infinitely in volume and ..volume, at little cost of time to the speaker
I agree partially, internet point systems give people a metric to optimize for (any metric that can be gamed, will be gamed) and it happens that sensationalism is an efficient strategy for accumulating internet points in most extant internet point systems.

However, I think what people say online will leach into what they truly believe, particularly with repetition. I believe humans have a cognitive bias towards consistency, particularly with respect to their self-image. If there's a large disconnect between what you truly believe and what you say online, I think there's probably a psychological pressure to alter your self-image to be more inline with what you've been saying.
Tencent isn’t slowing down this year
Walled Gardens: ambient computing stifled by the race for dominance
This article give me the impression that eBay is going to get off scot free in this whole episode. Did the scummy-6 not use eBay's resources in service of its corporate goals to harass/intimidate/terrorize the small-business couple? The operating motto for corporate rule-breaking is "while 1; do-nasty-shit; catch me if you can; oh you did; sorry-bye; goto do-nasty-shit;".
All I see here is someone who is mad that there would dare to be people that they disagree with on the internet, and has gone out of their way to find more of this content, in the hopes that they can stifle the speech of these people.

This is the weak action of a weak person who feels threatened by discussion. It's pretty sad that they have the kind of time to spend on doing this for no other purpose than to limit the range of discourse until it fits into what their level of maturity is able to handle.
> There might be a GUI replacement to LaTeX

The closest thing I know of is LyX. I actually started with it before diving into LaTeX.

https://www.lyx.org/
Thanks, I read it wrong!
I think your problem here is not so much that you don't know what RICO is, as that you don't have a tight grip on what the KKK is. It is probably the case that many, or even most, Klan members are also members of white supremacist criminal gangs. That those gangs are subject to RICO prosecution (a major Aryan gang was taken down that way just last year) illustrates the problem with your argument. The enterprise itself has to be focused on the racketeering-predicate crimes.
In ConTeXt many people use mainly lua for scripting. Not strongly typed but still an improvement. After the initial struggle ConTeXt also feels more integrated than just a system of TeX macros but that's just my opinion.

At one point patoline had promising future (ocaml is nice) but nowadays it's neither widely used nor under active development.
Programs aren't humans. They don't "remember" bad code and resist change.

Or, do they? If a program is built with a bad architecture, but "works" for all the inputs seen so far, it's much hard to fix than if it were built with good patterns from the start, even if it has some mistakes that need to be fixed.
I suppose spacex isn’t part of the fang nor do they have nukes but pretty sure they might just have the best aim :)
> You can't say "Get 2% if you use cash instead of VISA". (Notice that nobody ever advertises that?) Because VISA doesn't allow it.

> You also can't say "$1.99 + 20 cents processing charge" - no, the price must be listed including charges. (Notice that nobody every does this?)

We see these a lot in Australia. I wish they'd enforce the same pricing here for cash and card — I don't like to carry cash around, and I hate it that I have to pay a surcharge when paying by card.
It's like what a friends brother (cardiac surgeon) said about clot busting drugs. That knife is sharp on both sides.
I've seen accounts with green usernames that seem to have been shadowbanned for less. Typically, it's a new account that says some reasonable things, and maybe one or two fairly unreasonable things. Getting flagged for the unreasonable things can really kill a brand new account with under 10 karma.
They are allowed to propose laws (and amendments to bills). However, the House and Senate leadership has control over the voting schedule.

There are still ways around it (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discharge_petition), but they are not particularly fast and the legislative calendar is crowded. Worse yet, these measures also stick it to leadership – a plucky Representative has to not just want something, but want it badly enough to embarrass the rest of their party. That’s rare.
> once I have bought something from Walmart I can use it as I wish.

Not if it's a movie, music, or video game. I.e. anything with digital content.
But they are white and Anglos so it is OK.
I think the wisdom of the crowds is predicated on the individual members expressed preferences reflecting their "real" and substantial interests.

But if you apply a selection criteria to members of the crowd or the types of crowd recognized as such, you're likely going to get answers biased toward the selection criteria.

Likewise, to the extent members' expressed preferences reflect abstract arguments (i.e. ideology) rather than their real interests, then other dynamics will control. So, for example, if you go around asking the population detailed questions about their stances on abortion--when it should allowed, when, etc--you're going to get a ton of different answers and any consensus, to the extent there is one, will be sophisticated and nuanced. Ask those same people if they're pro-life or pro-choice and the majority consensus will simply reflect the ebb and flow of the dominate idealogical narratives and be as real and substantive as tallying the number of people who prefer cake vs pie.

In that sense I think Wisdom of the Crowds always had a sort of tautological character to it. And it reflected an optimism about the information age--that it would cut through rather than perpetuate all the complicated and complicating intermediate social layers.
Twitter also banned Sidney Powell, the lawyer of 3 star general Michael Flynn.
Please give some examples of where cancel culture has taken things too far.
Also there are services that log you out after some time. You aren't doing anything wrong, you're simply using the service, but at some point you open it and see a login form. Now, I don't understand why do sessions have to have a lifetime at all, this is terrible UX, but clicking one button to log back in instead of actually typing stuff on the keyboard is much more convenient.
But all of these topics are easily available on google. What is it you think they censor to protect the US government?
I don't really think it is. Regardless of the moral/ethical issues with China and it's relationship with it's own population, this is China serving it's population.

It is in China's best interest to provide maximum value for China, that includes it's citizens. I don't think it's "unfair" for China to leverage whatever tools are at its disposal for the benefit of China.

In context the argument being presented here is that other countries are failing to do what is in the best interest for their populations. I don't think that's something that China should be taken to task for in this context.

India has huge operations of illegal but semi-tolerated scams that target gullible Americans with tech scams. India is a huge developing nation and likely to become a serious economic power. They are partially doing this off the back of taking wealth from where it is concentrated and bringing it home. I don't agree with it but it makes sense for India to do it to serve it's own people.
Right! "We are allowed to discriminate because the ones we discriminate against are really bad and we aren't". Every oppressive movement in history started like this.
> IMO you've given enough consent by using their app store.

The entire point of consent is that your opinion doesn't really matter; mine does.
Slack, YouTube, and lots of huge tech companies use Vitess for extreme scale in mysql it’s started to move towards being much less of a headache than dealing with sharding and proxies
> As they point out at the very bottom, all their arguments apply to all third-party sign-ons, so they're removing Facebook as well.

Nope, not all their arguments. Only some.
Works fine for me, when I'm not struggling to make progress on my work due to waves vaguely at 2020, Patreon lets me pay my rent by drawing comics about robot ladies with reality problems and cartoon animal space operas.

YMMV obviously. I don't use any of its integrations, I just go to the web UI and upload a new page and type some stuff about it now and then, and also hit up my gloriously-unfashionable Wordpress-based site and add the same file to the secret-patrons-only whole-chapter-WIP page. Which does not bother doing any authentication because it's all ultimately gonna be free on the public pages of my site anyway.

I might get a bigger percentage if I fucked around with some other way to create recurring payments, sure. But my experience is that people now know what is up with Patreon, and are much more likely to say "okay sure I'm in, I'll give you a few bucks per page of your weird-ass comics for a while" than to sign up for anything else I've ever done. Like I think I got all of fifty bucks, once, out of the Paypal donation button I used to have on my old comics. I've gotten several years of paying my rent out of Patreon and that lower signup friction is well worth their cut IMHO.

(I will note that I do kinda feel like Patreon's sort of abandoned the per-creation model, it's not uncommon to see them roll out new features that only work on the monthly model. Which really doesn't work for someone like me who can go silent for months at a time due to depression.)
> YouTube is filled with virtually everything imaginable.

That’s the point FFS. I responded to the notion that google only allows fake disagreement by showing two ends of the same snake.
I think you forget a detail. Nation state, or any state, are sovereign.

If the national community agrees on something, it's all that matter. We don't have to abide by other countries standards on everything especially if we dont like it.

Im thinking as a French I had to fight a lot with free speech absolutists abroad, while at home we're quite okay with selective censorship... it sounds scary to an American sometimes, but hell we dont care :D
Implementing a System Call for OpenBSD
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Logic like "you can't sell book to teach things that are hard" is true relative to the popularity of casual nonfict and fiction, but not within the niche of people who like learning things.
Why would Rubik's cube be different from juggling?
"gender critical":"transphobic"::"race realist":"racist"
Dependence on H-1B has fallen significantly, says Infosys CEO at virtual AGM
Or, maybe the first ban shouldn't be a permanent shadowban. Maybe actually telling people what they're doing wrong would get them to not do it.

There is, in fact, research showing that this is how it works on Reddit: users who get told why they're being banned or their post removed go on to be better contributors than those who don't. I can dig up the paper if you're interested, but I don't have it on hand.
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MASTER Card Ha!
They are both making a SLAVE out of you.
> The concern is the coordination between Chinese foreign affairs/security services and the commercial sector.

> For US-based firms, that’s simply not the case.

Disingenuous or naive?
Being wrong about journalism is in fact a lot better than being a white nationalist.
Does anyone know if there are any effects from inflation [1] at galactic boundaries?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe
In search of the holy grail in product
Not sure if you're talking about China or some Silicon Valley technocracies.
The first week or two, your immune system ramps up to fight the infection. During this battle, the collateral damage is what gives you symptoms like joint pain, runny nose, sore throat, etc. Near the 3rd week of infection, 85% of patients are recovering and feeling better because their immune response has naturally turned itself off. For some reason, this doesn't happen in about 15% of patients. We call this a 'cytokine storm'. This is where your immune system has gone nuclear and is still destroying anything and everything it sees, including normal healthy tissue. This can ultimately lead to multi-organ failure and death if it can't be stopped. Dexamethasone tamps down that immune response, allowing your body to heal. Obviously it has to be timed right. It doesn't do anything to the virus, only your immune response.
You mean, like, compared to a random person picked off the street, right.
Utter nonsense. The Catholic church was heavily involved in the German resistance, and thousands of Catholic priests were sent to Dachau for it.
Woops! Yep, Model Zoo is somewhat of an overloaded name.
While cancel culture may not be new it certainly seems amplified by new conditions of media and the digital era, which seem specially able to manufacture larger polarized mobs and hermetic ideological bubbles.

He points a ginger finger at the left and its tendency of late toward puritanism, but I think this is too polite. (The modern right has its own tendency and gets no pass, by the way.)

One thing I find interesting amid the modern polarization of ideologies is how clearly the essence of "conservatism" and "liberalism" can be seen in their extreme lights. You get a much clearer picture of "where" each ideology goes when taken to its extreme.

Embarrassingly I grew up tacitly seeing "conservatism" as the "bad guys"; I reject that simplistic thinking these days.

People are people: the right and the left are cut from the same cloth, and both are subject to fundamentalist thinking. I'm speaking not just from media but how certain ideas falling from it have been trickling directly into my friend circles over the years without any kind of thoughtful skepticism or individualization.
Is the timing of this by chance related to this
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23671933? (visa denylisting builder of Gab)
Google's trove of collected personal information comparably powerful as nukes, if released.
Either you compare the CCP to the US government or Tiktok to Facebook.
I feel like this could be said for the rest of the world as well
Java has become more nimble in recent years and they have been busy copying many features from Kotlin and C#.
any company, giving the financial games they need to play, the goal is to maximize profits, so the well being of its user or consumer is secondary to that (You know that CEO XYZ that actually were thinking about the user first? gone.. the board kick him out of the company because the profits were bad in the last quarter).

This is an old trope that has been disproven not only in law but also in practice. Many public companies' boards allow their executive teams the discretion to sacrifice short-term profits for long-term gains and to build customer trust. Apple is one such company; Amazon another.

Cant you see which web apis, from the ones that were bared, that are not actually security threats, but would become a threat not to security...

I'm no security expert, but Apple is full of security experts. When they say a web API has the potential to be a security vulnerability, I believe them. They've earned my trust. Perhaps they haven't earned yours--which is fine--but if you disagree with one of their conclusions, why don't you point out which ones you think they are wrong about, and the specific bases for your disagreement?
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is a novel that bookshop lovers might enjoy.
How the new iOS 14 UI translates directly to Apple glasses
I personally think it's näive to think you can change someone's mind who has been politically brainwashed. Maybe your experience is different.
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Yeah but is it the algorithm suppressing such content, or is that outside of a vocal minority, similar tags reduce interest in the content, on average?
> which referred to the protests led by MLK as “riots” as well.

Were there riots along with the protests? Because there are now.

> I posted a link to a reputable news source. The right wing militias are well known, and the “boogaloo” has been well documented.

Can you show me a reputable news source with an exposé on them before 2019? I can for example with other far right groups like the proud boys.

> I’m on their side, 100%. You?

I’m not on Antifas side - I don’t condone political violence.
Birth control being used as a tool of social and population control? Imagine my shock.
I hate to play arm-chair executive, but I have this nagging feeling you're right. Many (most?) YouTube content creators are making a pittance that's growing ever smaller by the day - $1.75bn can buy a huge amount of organic content.

The obvious mistake was going all-in on the first (unproven) concept and leaving no time/budget to experiment with the latter. Smacks very much of the hubris of a entrenched, well-capitalized industry.
I didn't say that private platforms can do what they want. I said private platforms have a right to moderation of content on their platform. Does that not count as freedom of expression? The ability remove content contrary to the intended audience seems like something anyone should be granted. If I host a website for children can anyone post smut? Well I just have to keep it because the poster has a right to post smut, that's their freedom and I guess I can just never violate that ever because free speech is absolute and immutable. Likewise if I host a website for sharing videos can I not moderate what content I want shown? What if I don't want people suing me because someone posted pirated videos on my site. Guess there is nothing I can do, its there and it is immutable and I can never remove it because if I did I would be violating the freedom of expression of the user that posted the content. How is that any different from delisting users that post hate speech? Of course we should delist that content if we don't want it. It's my party and I can cry if I want to.
Glad to see the service still going strong. I seem to remember you being quite active back on Google+ during WriteLaTeX’s early days. I enjoyed following the progress.
> 1) The president was threatening physical harm to people who were destroying non-living objects. Violence and destruction are not the same thing.

They don’t have to be the same thing. It’s illegal activity and we shouldn’t have to wait for a person to be physically injured to stop a mob of maniacs.

> 2) An exceedingly large proportion of those statues were erected during exceedingly specific historical political climates, which generally feature the following:

It doesn’t matter if it’s a statue of Krusty the Clown. You can’t destroy public or private property just because you feel it shouldn’t exist.

This is why we have police. To enforce the rules that we as a society have agreed to live by.

The alternative is a bunch of vigilantes beating the rioters. I can assure you that nobody wants that.

> In other words, those monuments tend to represent oblique commemoration of racist violence, and seem to threaten future violence by their presence. Taking them down is not instigation, it's a response.
I mean, even without this context, how can one argue that the dismantling of an extant object is instigation? Its original erection would be the first act, courting a response of either general respect (it stays up) or general disdain/shame (it's taken down) over the course of its existence.

Then get public opinion to agree with you and have the city, State, or Federal government to get rid of them. Your misguided feelings, no matter how strong, do not supersede all others just because they’re not yelling loudly.
Pish.

If you have ssh access to a box; you have a git remote.

It’s obscenely simple, and contra to your claim the “managed” aspect is not the selling point of this software. The selling point is the project management features and integrations.

In githubs case it’s a managed service.

In gitlabs case, I can be a managed service or it can be a software suite you maintain yourself.

Not a universal truth.
For me the paradox of tolerance doesn't make too much sense is because intolerance usually is recursive. There would be intolerance, and intolerance of intolerance, and intolerance of intolerance of intolerance, so on so forth. It is usually can be used as justification against other groups, since everyone is in the intolerance chain.

Maybe it should be paradox of even/odd level of tolerance? Also, in practice, it's hard to define which are the primitive intolerances and which are not.
> Reddit is a private organization, they decided some other people are not welcome there

So, if they decided to openly ban Trump supporters, or perhaps Muslims, or black people, that would be OK also? Where do you draw the line?

In my opinion, all of these are just as discriminating as what they did so far.