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> A) the marketplace of ideas is explicitly designed around the concept that some ideas win, at least at a broad cultural level.

Right, but "this idea won in this local market, therefore it must not be challenged in that global market and doing so is a hate crime" has giant issues.

> B) the consensus doesn't need to be adopted by everyone and hasn't been adopted by everyone, but private communities aren't required to engage with ideas that aren't furthering their own conversations/goals.

But that's not what's happening. If something gets defined as hate speech, it's not a private matter, it's a criminal matter. Once we accept that as a valid process, we're just asking "who has the power to define" and give them a carte blanche for criminal punishment. I find that deeply troubling, and given that definitions, majorities and power has changed, I believe so should everyone, as the weapons they build today might be turned on them tomorrow. A somewhat recent example for that was the introduction of FB's anti-hate-speech rules that suddenly outlawed "men are trash", much to the outrage of those who asked for the rules.

Especially when it's on individual personal feelings and the only question we ask is "how man Twitter followers do you have" ("you have more, the market place of ideas has decided"), we're setting ourselves up for instability where it's best not to talk to anyone you don't 100% trust. I have relatives who lived under the Stasi, and that's pretty much what they described - if you don't know somebody very well, you limit yourself to talking about the weather and parroting the party line.

> A lot of cancel culture falls into those bounds: I see people who are angry about boycotts, public criticism, markets responding to consumer demand, private communities like Twitter choosing who they host.

I think there's a lot to say about what is a private community (and at what size it stops being one) and what they are allowed to do. Discrimination is generally considered bad, but the law enforces protection only for protected groups as it's assumed that everybody else will have no trouble to find a competing business. This cannot be said for the local monopolists on the web.

Personally, I'd prefer to not get into all out war where you get cancelled and ostracized and need to move to some place where "your people" live (by whatever criteria you define that) because the local majority rules absolutely and destroys everything that is unlike them.

That said: if anybody prefers the segregation, I'd love it if they were honest about it and said "I don't want to see that opinion, you must leave". The moralizing and pseudo-science rationalization of it makes everything hazy and dishonest, like an invisible mine-field that we must not acknowledge even exists, much less talk about and say where the mines are buried.
I'm jealous that you get to live up there! I summered up there as a kid (on Long Lake) and my uncle and aunt raised my cousins there in the 80's and 90's. We try to go up for a week or so every summer. COVID is putting a damper on this one.

My wife and I would move in a heartbeat, but for the kind of IT work I do the prospects seemed very limited (outside of Munson). I'm not ready to try to bootstrap independent contracting all over again. The property taxes seen nightmarish, though. The house on Long Lake is easily 3X what a similarly-valued house in my part of Ohio would be.

My aunt and uncle lived on Cherry Bend, not too far from where this went down!
My claim is not that people aren't willing to pay for content. My claim is that people are not willing to pay for "this" content at that price point (5 USD) in a saturated market with dozens of competitors launching at the same time with premium content offerings (Disney+, HBO Max, etc).

Also you have staple names like NBC launching services in this space for free (Peacock).

The problem with Quibi is actually a ROI problem and that's why it doesn't work IMHO. If you raise north of 1 billion to build this you are confident that your revenue is going to be significant. I think that there's not a sizeable market for this type of content, in this current market at that price point.

As a reference point, Patreon has only paid $1 billion to creators since its inception. Granted, Patreon is still growing at an accelerated rate and the trajectory seems to indicate that there's a lot of room to keep growing for the foreseeable future, but you can see that if you were to map Patreon payouts to a potential Quibi revenue trajectory they are far from turning green.

I don't think that's a good parallel but just making that comparison since you mentioned that example.
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I would even happily suffer through Electron in this rare case
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Limits on pre-existing conditions mainly affect individual policy pricing, corporate health insurance are already pooled and because of that always had fewer pre-existing condition limits.
Thought people would have learned after they were caught the first time installing backdoors and then saying they'll spy on you unless you pay them.
It's hard for me to take seriously claims that we're in an Orwellian world when there is so much open controversy on so many topics.

If anything, I think we're in a Huxleyan dystopia, not an Orwellian one; so much distraction, there's no way for an average person to gain enough footing to expend energy with practical utility.
Where is the vertical video app that lets you watch your favorite YouTube/IG/Twitch-type “content creators” on your phone in the same easy/addictive format as Stories?

That seems to be what people want, not network produced scripted tv made brief + vertical.
While I’m not a huge fan of romaji itself, I disagree with converting foreign words from their japanese spelling to their original spelling.

It might be easier for foreigner to understand the word, but at the same time no japanese will ever understand if you talk about cutlet curry instead of katsukaree. And that’s something i’d guess this would be used in; reading something out loud you don’t know how to read.
Just like how your partner isn't cheating on you if you never find out? Seems like a silly view.
"Freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences of that speech"

That's not true, it doesn't even really make sense. Freedom of anything is freedom from consequences for it. If I say I believe in freedom to have an abortion, noone would reasonably be said to agree if they said they also believe in freedom to have an abortion, and then immediate execution by the state afterwards.

Freedom of speech in the constitution is freedom from reprisal by the government

Freedom of speech as used idiomatically in speech generally means a certain level of freedom of reprisals from employers and society.

Directed racial slurs is a straw man, almost noone believes in absolutist freedom of speech when it comes to directed harrassment, they normally believe in freedom to discuss topics in the abstract.

It's not a monarchy if someone has the freedom to speak, that doesn't make them a king just a citizen.

I've noticed a trend with the woke side of the debate to get into like high-school level semantics - redefining words or misinterpreting statements in a nakedly disingenuous way - does anyone understand why this seems to be a trend?
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He does! And unless I'm wrong, historio.us has been around as long as Pinboard but never gets half the HN love.
They're banned in most theme parks and a lot of other places because they do bother other people. There seems to be a serious overlap of people who spend money on them and a complete lack of awareness for surroundings. I think the main reason initially was people trying to take selfies on things like rollercoasters but the ban spread more from people taking them in other dangerous places and disregarding others around them to get the selfie.
It's still pretty ugly and doesn't work as well as the office version, though.
I think the issue arises due to the nature of the internet being such an amplification tool. In-person social networks are on the order of 100s or 1000s.

What I'm really afraid of is reaching an audience of hundreds of millions, and having them potentially inadvertently take my words out of context. Doxing is a hard problem to solve, but I'd really prefer a SWAT team not show up at my door. Statistically, you're much more likely to reach those few bad apples with an internet-sized megaphone.

I think disagreements are fantastic to work through and how we better ourselves, but some people react pretty horribly to them.
Eh, you only need strong games to get your platform started. As you pointed out, HL/CS helped really kick starts Steam, and similarly Fortnite helped kickstarts Epic. But once your store picks up, I don't think game exclusives are as necessary as you imply to keep it going. Do you think all Steam games are just going to leave if Valve never makes a game ever again?
Disabling Google 2FA doesn't need 2FA if you're already logged in.

The author's core issue is that once a machine has logged in, it is considered trusted for a period of time. Google should probably make this configurable for particularly security-conscious users (assuming it isn't already), but it strikes me as a perfectly reasonable default.
This is the same issue that plagues SMS 2FA. Services constantly treat SMS as 1FA so by sim swapping someone you can get access to their account. If SMS is truly used as 2FA, and is part of MFA, it is a much more reasonable solution. These days most services should probably gather three forms of authentication and require at least two to do anything. Username/password, email, and SMS at a very minimum, with the ability for users to opt in to QR codes or FIDO devices.

It is a good thing that most devices will be shipping with platform FIDO support soon, will make some of this a lot more bearable.
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I am really really afraid this will make governments consider IT contractors employees. I hate this.
This is a very subjective idea and is not always true. Ymmv
I dunno, SteamVR and the Vive (and later Index) are pretty noteworthy. Not to mention all of the progress on Linux gaming.
Curious what your prof thinks about Mozart's Dice.

Pretty much any generative art is still shaped by the artists input and choices.
The REPL is still something that I haven't quite mastered, but what I enjoy doing right now is working in files and using a REPL connection to evaluate expressions within the file. It feels like a happy medium between "do everything at an (ephemeral) REPL prompt" and "do everything in a file, save, and reevaluate the file."

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I think the context was of soon to be college graduates trying to get their first job. Which somewhat makes sense given how little information employers have to go off for those hires to begin with. Once you have your first job I can’t imagine most employers caring too much unless you work in a field like marketing where public perception is part of the job. (And connections to others in the industry are generally a better way to get good jobs anyway if you can swing it)
There's only so many people any interesting/unique platform can pull in, because the same features that attract some people repel others. So such platforms eventually plateau, no matter how much you push engagement.

But, given a platform that gets big enough before it plateaus, it has usually already hired on a CEO and taken on investors that now expect it to keep growing anyway. It can only do so by tossing away the things that made it unique, in order to appeal to the people it previously repelled; and hope that the people it previously attracted with that uniqueness, will stay through inertia.
Sorry about that. The point is, at least by now, HBD is a thoroughly confusing term that gets used in many, sometimes mutually contradictory ways. The SSC community has spent many years trying to handle the multiple sides of the many "nature vs. nurture" debates that are also referenced in OP's article, and ultimately decided that the 'HBD' term itself was not very helpful to that end. To ask for a "clarifying definition" of HBD given these circumstances is indeed rather pointless.
If the compromise of the machine could be turned into a permanent compromise) with the ability to manipulate the UI (which seems likely on mainstream Desktop OSs, you could use that to intercept the 2FA token on the next login, and use it to turn off 2FA.

The only way to prevent that would be making the token purpose bound, and displaying that purpose on the trusted 2FA device.
I built an internal web app a few jobs ago around 2015.

Windows server vm, IIS, PHP 7, and sql server. This replaced an asp app.

My only major issues were SQL driver or coding. I did struggling with session timeouts for a while.

I really wish I had known about nginx back then. Even if it were just to show a "down for maintenance" screen while doing a release.

Edit: I upgraded to php 7 in early 2016 before the app officially launched
If they have a computer, they likely already have stationary and pens.
I find your statement surprising. The ease of changing or removing a subscription is the largest reason I would subscribe through iOS to anything. Is there something specific to Quibi?
Why are you afraid of this?
I'm not sure which one is more "impressive," between Wirecard and Quibi, as a mechanism for making around $2 billion disappear.

On one hand, Wirecard at least maintained the illusion that the money had not been disappearing, for years and years. They fooled auditors, regulators, and investors all over the world, again and again. That takes major cojones.

On the other hand, Quibi is managing to vaporize the money very quickly with Hollywood glamour and spectacle. If you're going to blow things up, there's something to be said for doing it with style. Peter Sellers would be proud of their unintentional "performance."

At least Wirecard did it intentionally.
Sorry, I left out a *not.

I vehemently disagree, in 2007 NOBODY liked the ribbon. My wife's company refused to upgrade until absolutely forced to because it was such an atrocity. The most glowing reviews I ever saw were "I guess I'll get used to it eventually" and/or someone who used office once a year and found navigation easier when the extent of their workflow was changing font sizes.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/oh-the-horror-why-is-microsoft...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/turn-...

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2651076/microsoft-s-ribbon...
The article isn’t about Scott Aaronsen.

Also I mean your phrase “uncritical childhood exposure to radical literature” is .... weird.

“Childhood exposure to radical literature”?

“radical literature” almost sound like a disease.
Come on. There have been paintings for 100's of years considered by a master, and later study disproves it. Were they valuable all that while? Sure they were.
Always a good sign when guilt is used to coax someone into using a product. "Don't you want the best for your family?"
The mechanism of action behind the broad symptoms we see is actually reasonably straightforward- the ace2 receptor the virus uses to enter cells is everywhere in your body. In vitro, they replicate in pancreatic cells and intestinal cells, which lends a mechanistic explanation for the link to gastrointestinal distress and diabetes seen in correlative findings. Heart muscle also has high concentrations of the ACE2 receptor. One of the mechanistic hypothesis for clotting [0] proposed is that the complement system and immune cascades trigger clots, since they saw evidence of the virus binding to an element in the complement cascade. This could turn out to be entirely wrong of course, but that's a hint at the other key aspect of this that allows varied results - your immune system can react poorly and is capable of screwing up in fascinating and varied ways. It could be the virus killing pancreatic cells, or an autoimmune response triggered by the virus that causes pancreatic cell death since the virus infects them and marks them for destruction.

Are these the driving forces behind increased clots etc? Maybe not. Maybe its contributing equally with people staying at home, or maybe not at all. But the mechanistic reasons for the broad symptoms are there and they're relatively straightforward, driven by the ability of the virus to infect lots of different cells and the variability of the human immune system

[0]https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2020/07/what-is-known-ab...
Microsoft is now using Medium as their official blogging service?
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I just clicked to make sure someone flagged it already. We regresssed and are no longer able to have a civilized discussion even about trifles such as the usage of words like "dummy" in IT, so how on Earth could we be ready to discuss more fundamental isses John is talking about?
>according their prospectus Sampa is the second most active city

Sampa is a nickname for the city of São Paulo, in case anyone was slightly confused.
Maybe I'm an optimist, but Valve doesn't release games unless they are very happy with it. HL:A was excellent and I don't see why HL3, if it does come out, would be Vaporwave. Valve heavily tests their games internally and if it is not a huge success, they will not go forward with it.

Yes, I do realize they did release Artifact, but that suffered more from economic issues, which internal play testing don't really catch.
Also Google requires you to re-enter your password. The fact that his browser was set up to auto enter passwords without any prompt (not the default) and the fact that his machine was open to the internet means that Google probably had enough security here.
You can look that up. It means something like, the materials or useful value (as a tool etc) gives it a price in the market.
Would a good compromise be if you work less than say 15 hours a week you don’t get all the employee benefits and if you work closer to a full time schedule you do?

I hate the idea of closing it off to people that just want to side income.
i wasn’t going to hell until i was told about the whole “God” fiasco
I clicked the link thinking the title said 10 million. haha!
> The survey, as reported by the Washington Post, asked 500 people who identify as Native American to pick from a list of words which one best described their feelings about the Redskins name. The word most picked was “proud.”

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/08/10/poll-of-nat...

I think that Redskin in this case is very similar to Yankee or Queer. All are reclaimed epithets that many people now proudly identify with. We should no more consider "Washington Redskins" as insulting than "New York Yankees" or "Queer Eye". Such "reappropriation" seems to me wholesome and admirable.
To be responsible for the feelings of others requires the assumption of good faith on the part of the "feeler".

Personally, I want to be able to make this assumption, to have this trust. Because the A/B balance seems to be tipping.

But it's so easy to say "I feel Less Safe when you say X". It's only human to notice that some words and phrases take on power. Only human to want to use that power to protect yourself.

So instead of owning your own feelings, you own that of everyone in the group. And online, that's everyone. Some people online will claim injury even when there is none, or when they imagine they're speaking for others who are staying silent.

The result is a discourse so sanded-down and smooth that it achieves only the distinction of offending no one.
That's what backup codes are for, or backing up your 2FA app. Enabling 2FA is an acknowledgement that you expect to be responsible for maintaining access to your second factor: It's reasonable to require you still have it when you shut that off.

That being said, Google is far from being unique in this issue.
Does "klout" mean something else these days?

I watched the Morning Show on AppleTV+ and enjoyed it. I also watched the Homes series, which I really enjoyed. But, this is just a "free with iDevice purchase" kind of thing.
macOS is actually a certified UNIX, the rest being enterprise OSes most people will never see.
The ISP -- The government should mandate ISPs to setup a filter that filters such results.

However that option should then be forced upon the customer asking if they wish to enable such service or not.
Psychological fragility is a real thing. It may well be more common than we realize.
Well, it's true. So how is that related to the topic we're discussing?
I’m all for employee protections but I also worry we are nipping the emerging gig economy in the bud.
Has any individual faced consequences for refusing to rename a branch? Are you saying that cancelling a word is a thing, and a dangerous one?

At this point people are diluting the phrase "cancel culture" to mean "thing I don't like that is vaguely related to politics or political correctness". That's not a useful concept. It's just a thing to be angry about.
This is 100% false. You need to have a 2FA authenticated connection or be on a 2FA authenticated device within validity period to change 2FA settings. You can elect to have 2FA not remember the device you have logged into as well (ie, the remember this device for 30 days option) if you are particularly paranoid.

The headline should say - You can disable Google 2FA on 2FA authenticated connections without re-authenticating.

This is a fantastic balance in terms of security and usability. I switched iphones and google authenticator did not bring my 2FA's over, I got on my machine that had already authenticated and setup a new 2FA. Whew. Other systems were MUCH much harder to restore AND you could still get around 2FA but now with human involvement (social engineering risk). I've worked govt jobs with security so "tight" that everyone got the workarounds worked out - the social engineering would be as easy as I need reset for user X and they stopped even checking who anyone was the volumes were so high.

The loss in security is minimal here, and the loss is controllable, and it reduces pressure on other reset approaches (seriously, if you lock yourself out of google you will REALLY want to get back in).
Why makes you say this? They wouldn't spend a billion dollars to launch without testing this concept in great detail. Right? Right?

It would take absolutely Katzenburg levels of hubris to think you knew what customers would be without testing it.
What's your opinion of your grandparent post's description of my comment as "grandiose", "strident", and "hyperbolic"? Are you saying those are fine (without explanation), but "ugly", "disingenuous", and "stupid" (with explanation) aren't?

Are you sure that you're not focusing on language to avoid engaging with an argument that would lead you to a conclusion that you find undesirable (i.e., that the NYT intended harm to Alexander, and the New Yorker stepped in to excuse their actions)? That's another easy trap to fall into online.
Because PHP is not "buzzword-worthy." I was told, in no uncertain terms, that the fact it was written in PHP would mean that "no one would take it seriously," and that I would not get anyone interested in implementing it.

Considering the lack of interest in the project, I have to agree with that assessment.