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> I can tell you one kind of content that can get someone banned from Facebook: pro-China content. Even if someone genuinely believes that being pro-China is right, and that that person is not a bot.

I don't see how you came to that conclusion. CGTN is still there on Facebook for example. They weren't even kicked out despite blatantly faking their subscribers count (yeah it's that obvious).

> This looks like a huge contradiction to me. "Private companies in China have to follow Chinese law, so private Chinese companies are associated with CCP, so we should ban private Chinese companies, but I'm only against CCP".

In China, if you did not know, there is no rule of law, the CCP is the law. Any large companies needs to have a CCP representative. There is no independent large company in China, that's not a thing yet.

> Imagine someone disagreeing with PRISM, and making the same statement as above, but substituting "CCP" with "American government".

The problem isn't just the data, it's the propaganda and the reach of the CCP.
I agree, but I prefer to call them "flamewar topics".

It is not only used in social media sites, it is also used be journalist in newspaper and TV. (Sometimes it is more evident is the sport section. Every time the national soccer team lose a match, there is a tempest in a teapot about each one of the decisions of the team manager and the players.)
For the life of me I would think that this should be illegal somehow.
Fence sitting does not automatically make you right. Half way between two falsehoods is still wrong.

For the BBC they HAVE to keep the government happy to continue to exist, or they will be legislated away. Same as any other state owned broadcaster.

Although the threats from the current government against the BBC seem empty. Why would they destroy the most successful government controlled media operation in the world?
Why limit your worries to “foreign” apps? Assuming you’re American, Facebook and Twitter can and do carry a ton of “foreign” propaganda.
The one time fee makes me a little doubtful if this project will really continue. Especially because it seems to me you are selling less quickly than you hoped for (only 25% of the 'early bird' packages are sold after being 17 hours on an important channel for such product).

Maybe you should explicitly commit to X blocks and X templates within X time? X year(s) of support for Bootstrap 4.x?

I like the idea but am not sold yet for those reasons.

Another thing: there is nothing about custom theming. Do you use css vars, so I can customize a color in one place? Some source code example (downloadable?) would be helpful. Maybe one template with its different blocks to give out for free as an example for the rest.
Markets are never fully free - ask any US company that has tried to sell to the Chinese market. What we are seeing here is the first truly global Chinese app. The US is grappling with the fact that China makes it very difficult for American companies to access the China market, but the US generally does not do the same for foreign countries. However, maintaining that approach puts US companies in a distinct disadvantage.
Sorry, I can't resist:
- "charlatan": I understand reasonable people can disagree with his analyses and policy recommendations... but how does this add to the discussion?
- "property law that benefits rich folks is magical and natural": this doesn't sound like Sowell? Also, I was under the impression that property law benefits everyone in a society like the U.S., who has more than precisely zero posessions...?
- "...law like taxation law is artificial regulation": is this a fair reading of Sowell? I have to admit I haven't covered all of his material, but from what I have encountered he puts forward points with more nuance
>that doesn't change the fact that the thing discriminated PoC.

Intent matters. Every policy you can ever create will always have differential impact on any group you create. That's just a fact of reality. If you set a policy that you can only get a mortgage if you have 20% down, that could impact some ethnic group more than another - but that differential impact does NOT mean it is a racist policy.

> in the case of the soap dispenser a lack of testing staff with non-white skin leading to misadjusted sensitivity for the photosensor - not being adequately filtered out.

On a side note ... the criminally under-appreciated show, Better off Ted, did a bit about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyXNmiTIupg
How do you reckon the seemingly contradictory statements in your post?

1) "...it also blocks registrations from anyone outside of EU"

2) "But to just block their entire instance...is to sweep a bunch of HUMANS under the carpet and not even attempt to communicate with them"

Unless your instance is specifically dedicated to taking action in EU politics are you not sweeping a bunch of humans under the carpet and not even attempting to communicate with them by blocking everyone outside of the EU from talking to you?

Forgive me if I missed something, I am just truly curious because you don't see some seemingly contradictory statements in close proximity often which makes it likely I am just missing some core fact.
Bank loans are very hard to get for properties like this. Further, there are many extra opportunities for minority owned businesses. The hard truth is that being black is an advantage for loan seekers, not a disadvantage. It simply doesn’t outweigh the risk of failure. My spouse is a minority but with no interest in business. Man, would I like to take advantage of that, but I’m on my own ;)
> First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist...

Thank you for this. I understand your view better like this.

This is my point of view:
I use my money and my time however i want. No one should feel entitled enough tell me if i am allowed to boycott a product.

This is why i don't think it is cancelling and that you are doing the term a disservice:
Neither i nor 488643689 did say "don't use and/or participate with this product, he is transphobe". 488643689 just informed me, and others, of the product owner views on trans people, and that he cofounded spinster.xyz (which is a TERF platform).

Our society and economy is build on the myth of homo economicus. That people will take the best decision for them with the right informations. Having this information without haviong to dig in makes everyone stronger and able to make better decision.

Preventing someone to do business with perfectly informed economic actor is totalitarism. But informing people about the personnal deed of a product owner, not shaming them if they still engage with him, is something you should absolutely do if you believe in liberal capitalism.
Congrats Adam and team! We've only been using Tailwind for a few months but honestly its completely changed how we approach design.
TikTok is well within their rights to close their US business.

If they want access to the US market, perhaps they should take that up with their own government.
You'll run into a lot of non-EE advice from people who haven't run the numbers or accounted for all the costs of electrical power vs modern hardware equivalent costs and given GIGO analysis, their estimate of the financial breakeven point is mere months. When in reality its sometimes never or thirty years or similar when using actual numbers.
Its Telemetry, normal data everyone else collects.
Just to let you know both of those issues have been solved with Roam, although page loads are still not super fast.

You can have multiple workspaces now too but they've started charging for that I believe.
Also, an author could write books that are given to some type of trust or foundation with explicit orders not to publish them until certain favorable copyright or distribution laws are available.

So it could be possible to “be incentivized” to publish new works even after you’re dead. For the estate of an author that has developed a reputation, say like JD Salinger, this would be a very smart thing to do if you wanted to influence policy beyond your death.
This seems to ignore the Snowden revelations. I don't think most of the world trusts US companies qualitatively more than they trust Chinese companies for these kinds of apps.

Also, the discussion was about national security and you are giving different arguments here. How is this related to national security?
I think I just realized the crux of why some folks dislike agile but weren't able to express it and it has to do with the idea of what-is and what-isn't and how much dominance the "isn't" has over the owner of the belief.

If someone tries to get you to believe something and part of that belief is the active suppression of certain types of thought, and those types of thought are what actually make us intelligent. Then in some regards, agile is trying to make us less intelligent. It might be accidental, it might be unintended, but it is there. Agile attempts to create a social norm where certain thoughts are banned. Yet our ability to anticipate and predict the future is one of our largest defining traits.

There are some aspects of agile that have cult like qualities. I think agile has _improved_ many software teams and projects, esp with how those teams approach planning, but it is still important to be cognizant of thoughts that have been removed from view.
This is the fallacy that led to the current broken model.

Suppose that instead of paying $17 a month to get the NYT, I pay $20 a month to get that and five other similarly high quality news sources. Does this make it harder to fund journalism? Not at all. The NYT now has (for argument's sake) six times as many subscribers, all paying slightly more than six times as much. So do the five other organizations. And, since the consumer has a much better proposition, people who previously weren't paying will sign up and the total pot will be even bigger. Since all the costs are fixed costs, it doesn't matter if everyone reads six times as many articles. But they won't. They will read slightly more, but benefit much more by having a bigger choice.

This is what we saw with Spotify. You pay about the price of buying one album a month. But you get to listen to much, much, more. Even if you only listen to a few songs a day, the utility of being able to choose from anything is huge. Of course, some people used to spend a lot more each month on physical music. But lots of other people used to spend nothing, since if you only had $15 a month, you could't get much for it.

One problem is that the NYT, the the FT, the New Yorker, etc, each assume that they are uniquely trusted and loved by their audience. But that's only true because of selection bias. No one who values their output to the tune of $3 a month is part of their readership.

In the music industry, the huge monopolists could force adoption of the new model. But they're also the reason musicians don't make much money, since they are now supporting two sets of middlemen - the tech companies and the 'record labels'.
> allows side loading

All iOS Devices allow side loading currently. You don’t even need the source to the app, you can sign any app binary (compiled yourself or from another) using a free Apple developer ID for 7 days. Don’t want to refresh every 7 days? Pay $100/year and not only can you run non-Apple approved apps for a year now, you can do the same for friends.

There’s even MacOS apps to make this trivially simple to do, even for lightly technical users.
I recently led an $80mm mixed use investment in a 10 derelict properties in an offbeat part of Memphis next to a few large government housing projects. Some takeaways reading the article. Banks are not the problem; banks are just doing their jobs by trying to make securable loans. Appraisals aren’t the problem; appraisers are hired and paid to be non-creative and non-biased they assign a value to property. If a group of properties were acquired for next-to-nothing because they’ve been vacant for a decade, it’s tough to assign more than a pittance because there is simply no value comps. The market agrees with the banks and the appraisers, hence not enough people have attempted to concurrently try to develop in Ensley, thus there’s not enough value.

What succeeded for us in Memphis is threefold: 1) proximity to jobs, 2) group buy-in of participation into the vision, and 3) some very wealthy investors who believe in the vision.

I’ve toured Ensley, I looked at buying that mid rise in the back of the article’s picture, and it’s a neat place. It has the fabric of old small towns that used to thrive. However, I don’t think Ensley has any proximity for high quality jobs or prospects for job growth, so that’s probably square one for Ensley. Historically, this has been “the creatives” who need cheap space but also like to buy expensive lattes And generate a micro economy, but in our case in Memphis, a bank wanted to move its headquarters into the neighborhood, alongside several smaller businesses.

Modern day construction is extremely expensive and complicated, to the point that acquisition price in cheap parts of town are a rounding error on the project budget. You need to find a way to guarantee that rents will be sufficient for the long haul, and if you believe banks and appraisals are being short sighted (and they always are..) then you have to provide that guaranty yourself by setting aside a pile of cash or stock to secure the debt.

I could write for days on this topic, more than happy to continue discussion offline or elsewhere
I also fired up a 2006-era original MacBook fairly recently, running the first Intel version of macOS (I've always had a soft spot for Tiger, its version of Aqua is honestly one of Apple's prettiest interfaces in my mind), while it works with modern-ish WiFi all the certificates are long expired so few things actually connected. I'm not sure how bodge-able this problem is, I never had time to find a solution.

It's a shame, because I'd love to use Tiger as a distraction-free environment. I'd even try and build a controller app for Tidal or Spotify so I could still have modern music streaming facilities. I spend a lot of time SSH'd into servers anyway so the lack of modern compatibility doesn't matter as long as a terminal's available.
He calls it an iBook but I’m pretty sure it’s a PowerBook 12”. I got one of those when they were released and it soon earned the pet-name of ‘sparky’ because when charging it wasn’t very well grounded and would regularly give me shocks.
So looks mine is on the right track:)
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Back when I worked with such things, THEOS was one of those ancient-ish obscure OSes. It was used to run a multi-user veterinary clinic management package.

I actually quite liked it - it had a feature mix reminiscent of VMS, DOS and UNIX.

I wonder what's still out there running it!?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THEOS

* http://theos-software.com/
Check out the area where he wants the bank to “invest.”

608 19th street Ensley. Look on Google Streetview and Google Earth.

Roofs have collapsed. Half the windows around there are smashed. A few large holes in walls.

What would you value buildings in that area at?
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Well there goes me buying any ADT security products
The lengths wealthy people go to outdo one another are just absurd. I heard a segment on the radio about the Atlantic salmon fly-tying community, who tie based on historic patterns that used ever rarer bird feathers.

Modern tiers are faced with a choice now that the birds that were rare then have become even rarer (or extinct): Tie with something else, or find a source of authentic feathers.

The segment was an interview with the author of The Feather Thief[0], who investigated the lengths one "enterprising" tier went to to acquire authentic feathers, destroying the historical scientific record for whole species in the process.

It seems insane that a fad of rich men from a long time ago becomes the obsession of a subculture of the larger fly tying community and that the result of that is a hole in the scientific record. It's enough to make you wish that folks would get obsessed with growing rare pineapples instead.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44153387-the-feather-thi...
> It's hard to say how popular the service really is though.

If it was popular, wouldn't they try to hide how popular it is? ;)
Talking face-to-face is contrary to Japanese culture.
We're not talking opinions tho.

Spinster.xyz is build on Soapbox and _run by Alex Gleason. It's hosting a community, which was banned from reddit for actively harassing and willfully hurting trans people. That's actions not words. Maybe people underestimate how organized and funded these hate groups are, how coordinated and planned the gaslighting of the public is. It's also not just "feminism" but more and more intersection with ultra right and "christian" conservative thinktanks.

Just because you are not directly affected doesn't mean it's all just opinions and words, and nobody gets hurt.
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Create your own festival lineup with your favorite DJs' sets
EDM Nomad just released their own web app platform which allows you to create your own Virtual Music Festival with just a few clicks.

Just after the pandemic had started cancelling music festivals all around the world, we have decided to create something that comes in help for every music lover out there.

Because we are living with music in our blood, we put together EDM Nomad app where anyone with an account can easily create multiple Virtual Music Festival playlists with their favorite artist for free. As the demand for virtual festivals has risen, we have come with a solution for all those people who want to create their own music festival with their favourite DJ playing their favourite sets.
Why is the public funded media in direct economic competition with private media? Because the public funded media IS directly funded by the taxpayers.

I can imagine they have a "popularity" competition in terms of viewership and so on but why economic? Can you elaborate please?
You might try the keto diet for a while and see how you like it. There are two ways in which it might help you.

1. Very low carb means your blood sugar never rises sharply, and then your body doesn't over-correct which can lead to that hypoglycemic feeling.

2. Adapting to utilize primarily fat means that blood sugar largely doesn't enter into the equation and urgent eating to raise blood sugar can go away. It usually takes people days to weeks to get adapted and feel back to normal.
> No but there's evidence of CCP propaganda already, just try to make a video about Taiwan, Hong-Kong or the insecurity issues within China and notice your account being banned.

https://www.tiktok.com/tag/uighur
https://www.tiktok.com/tag/hongkongprotests

Go to any of the hashtags for those issues and you'll find the hashtag still active, people bringing awareness and jokes about how they'll be banned.
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Ask a Chinese citizen to publicly speak out and push back against the CCP and see if they are (rightly) afraid to do so. Ask an American to publicly speak out and push back against the US government, and you'd get laughed at since basically 99% of Americans do that daily.
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Probably searched for "Java script" and got "JavaScript" as a result
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If you want a happy version of this try -

Apple TV's "Home" S01E02, Chicago

The show is more about artistically showing peoples Home's physically and spiritually for lack of a better word, not figures, but you can see the money it would take in Theaster Gates's project.

If you can't see the money it would take, jump to something generic with $ like Grand Designs.
Exactly. I've clarified this here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24036190

The operative word is "force" which tends to translate to threatening harm or violence. At which point, one tends to contest the prerogative of dominant authority which is usually a sovereign nation state. Depending on where you live, this prerogative is legitimized through a democratically elected mandate and codified in a constitution.

This principle sanctions a state to prosecute private citizens exerting violence against each other over differing opinions, beliefs and so on in front of a court of law (separation of powers!)

The 1st amendment is the cornerstone, in that it protects private citizens from that same legitimate authority trying to curtail freedom of speech by passing laws that do so, or by sanctioning violence against people who hold particular opinions.

... which is why I posted the cartoon.

The 1st amendment doesn't shield anyone from criticism, feedback or being ignored by others. If Mastodon instances block or blacklist each other, the principle of free speech wasn't violated. What really happened is different groups of private individuals deciding to stop listening or acknowledging other groups of individuals.

Is this a morally right or even healthy thing to do? That's highly debatable, depends heavily on the context and who you're talking to and I don't think there's a one-size-fits-all answer to this question. Your mileage may vary, as is always when confronted with murky human behaviour.
WRT ancient see http://www.retrochallenge.org/

Last years entrants had more homemade computer designs than usual. Historically there seem to be "a lot" of pdp-8 and IBM mainframe type entrants.
You were being sarcastic , not sure why you're downvoted.
Yes, it's pretty ignorant to say you can't build stuff of scale with Rails, there are so many multi billion companies running on Rails it's getting ridiculous. Shopify is slowly becoming the size of Oracle in terms of market cap.
So the next argument is yes you can build it with Rails but why not choose something productive AND performant like (Go / Elixir / Kotlin / Crystal / Node etc etc).
I think you can build anything with anything nowadays. Rails is still one of the leading options, it's a productive, battle tested, mostly stable, well maintained and overall nice framework to build on. Can you build product X with something other than Rails? Yes you can. Does that mean X is definitely superior to Rails ? No it doesn't.
The basics go a long way: two factor auth and privilege minimization.
Agree 100% and I was imprecise in my wording.

I'm actually using AMD CPU drivers (OpenCL2 on Ubuntu 20.04) in a project that I hope will be in production over the next month or so. Speed is more than acceptable for my purposes.

Tried to use Intel but didn't manage to get working. AMD's were a breeze by comparison. I'd be very interested in hearing about others experiences and any benchmark AMD vs Intel comparisons.
There are two big things you want to do:

1) App whitelisting. This is not the strongest mitigation (attackers with exploits can move in memory), but it stops drive-bys and 99% of malware, plus it massively reduces noise on the network.

2) Reduce lateral movement. If the attacker accesses an employee laptop, encrypts it, but can't move to other devices, that's not a very compelling ransom.
Someone down thread posted addresses and this one on Zillow kind of matches the background pictures in the article. It may be for more than one address, since he could own contiguous buildings that got tagged to one transaction. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/610-19th-St-Ensley-AL-352...