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It's a big story, Biden was caught in a quid pro quo almost exactly like the one Trump was impeached over -- but the one Trump was impeached for was for investigating Biden's corruption.

The projection from the Democrats is unbelievable! To think they impeached a sitting President who was lawfully investigating the crime his predecessor committed and accused him of the very crime he was investigating. The only indictment that even stuck was obstruction... Of an investigation that did in fact turn out to have no merit. It was, in the end, a witch hunt like Trump said.

And all anyone can think about is the election. Maybe this is proof to those of you who still only trust the legacy media that many of the things Trump has been accused of are in fact projection.

The fact that BIDEN COLLUDED and Trump was impeached because of it is just the tip of the iceberg. Then there's Crossfire Hurricane and the interference with Trump's campaign by the Obama administration during the last election.

Election interference and collision? Whoops that was the Democrats, not Trump.

Quid pro quo with the Ukraine? Turns out that was Vice President Biden. Oops again! Impeached the wrong guy!

Vote Trump; he's not the corrupt one. Can you believe it?
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No. Determining truth is a hard problem, and trusting huge corporations to arbitrate truth for us is extremely dangerous to our democracy[0].

[0] https://youtu.be/ZggCipbiHwE
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The way to preserve free speech (really "free promotion" or "free publishing" in this case, as there are other avenues for these videos) is exactly what you say — consequences. Newspapers have free speech, but are subject to libel laws, for instance.

There's no real mechanism to hold YouTube to account for promoting and spreading this stuff, and they are naturally incentivised for that mechanism never to come about. To try and ensure it never does, they're obviously settling for this.

Want "free speech" back? Give it meaningful consequences.
This ideal served us pretty well in the last century. Trust in objectivity grew in proportion to our investment in free speech and liberalism. Incidentally, we see a breakdown in this trust at the very moment that society is becoming more illiberal (Trumpism on the right and woke progressivism on the left). Correlation isn’t causation, but this seems to be as strong a causative signal as we get for these kinds of abstract social problems.
Maybe it's rose-tinted spectacles but my memories tell me that search results were more relevant back in those days, as far as seeking information was concerned. Nowadays, I get the feeling most of the search results I get are directly or indirectly trying to sell me something.

FWIW Alta Vista was my goto search engine, back then. I've not got much memory of using the others.

I do have a vague recollection that Ask Jeeves painted itself as revolutionary, on launch, in that they encouraged you to formulate your queries as 'proper' sentences, rather than the staccato shorthand we used on all the others.

In reality though, I seem to remember that a search on Ask Jeeves would usually follow this pattern:

ME: What is a <something>?

JEEVES: I don't know that. But I know what a <something completely different> is.

Hmmm... a bit like Alexa now, come to think of it.
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Yea, banking/PoS and travel are the two industries where you can't just expand internationally without having some sort of physical presence. Mostly due to local regulations around both industries.
Isn't it easier just to run an emulator?

I grew up with an Amiga 500, and had hundreds of floppy disks, but it's slow, error prone, noisy, cant freeze arbitrary state or fast forward ... I find the emulator is better in every way
Don't forget manage several printers. At home I only have one so this doesn't matter. At work I need to choose between one of several printers in the building. In a school lab: students want to print and have whichever of the 3 identical printers right next to each other print it, depending on which printer isn't busy with some other student's work.
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I have two suggestions to solve these problems:

1) Try uMatrix. It blocks third-party JavaScript by default, which is what's used to power a lot of these elements. I don't see the big "subscribe me" bar at the bottom, so I assume uMatrix is preventing the JavaScript that creates it from loading. This will also help with performance on your "ancient workstation".

2) Reader mode seems to eliminate all of this cruft and give you just the meat of the article to read.
That's not what "whataboutism" means. For one, I neither torture cats nor salvadorians.
No, it's not you.

I can't tell anything either, the doc is both too abstract (aspirational marketing) and too low level (buzzwords) at the same time. I can't tell what the entities are, what they do, and what the actual user experience is.

What would help is put on the front page (1) a concrete system architecture diagram and (2) a UI screenshot. That would go a long way to answering WTF is this thing.

They seem pretty active though! https://github.com/urbit
Why would you design one from scratch? The hardware out there is excellent and inexpensive. Start with that and write the firmware in a similar way that the Magic Lantern group did for cameras.
It’s almost as if his direct experience fighting the USSR in Afghanistan in the 80s and seeing how costly the war was for them, in both blood and treasure, and how it was a massive drag on the Russian economy, gave him a good idea. But since the US understood this, and directly funded Afghan groups through the Pakistani ISI to prolong the war, we were well positioned to not fall into that same trap. And yet…
Ink cartridges is only a $1B global industry [0]. That isn’t a small market, but the global printing industry, with all digital content being transferred onto any 2d mediums through automatic means is probably closer to $1T. Think about every book, every magazine, every coffee mug with a funny saying, every graphic TShirt. In the world.

The ink cartridges are good money, but it’s not where the money is at.

[0] https://www.rfdtv.com/story/42630937/global-ink-cartridges-m...
How well does this actually work ?

Wouldn't Ubuntu+ Wine be a better combo for most ?
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I'm unsure about the statement. I've repaired many printers mechanically. The hardware is generally repairable and the mechanical parts aren't proprietary.

The software on the printers is whatever you buy. Some of them run on available print languages that you can code up your own driver for should you really want to.

And for the example cited, cartridges, Epson had offered a more expensive printer with a do whatever you want ink setup. And Brother lasers have so far accepted any carts I use without complaint.

As for hard to manufacture the entire printer is a molded plastic to reduce cost (massively) and a fabrication plant made printhead. Mass manufacture only for the huge price-break.
My bedphone experience was not good. Spouse complained about noise leakage, and they stopped working within a month. Otherwise, they _could_ be more comfortable than ear buds depending how well they fit. Most wired earbuds survive <6 months in bed. Generally they short out from being slept on, crushed, rolled over etc.

Wearing silicon tipped in-earbuds all night is likely courting ear infection. I have settled on JBL T205 Earbud Headphones. They are in-ear but without silicon tips (i.e. ear canal is not sealed shut all night), are comfortable enough, last 6-12 months and are cheap.

Wish someone would make a pair that would last at least a couple years. Hate the waste.
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> the "alternative" sources suggest bleach, un-proofed and not working medication, global conspiracies involving chips and 5G and what not.

There’s a lot of alternative sources, including actual doctors, you don’t get to pick out only the lunatics to strenthen your point.
Because the professional printing doesn't buy not-official ink, exactly.
> The real problem is that people are looking for solid medical advice on YouTube

The thing is... solid medical advice does exist on YouTube, so it's not entirely unreasonable to go looking for it there!

"Just go to your doctor"

Yes well, a) that's not free in America while YouTube is, and b) your local doctor could have been bottom of his class, you have no way of knowing. It's like saying don't watch world class programmers on youtube, hire a local programmer instead.
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I think I have read somewhere that it refers to the "leaders" quadrant in Gartner's magic quadrant.
Mortality rates change, they are also dependent environmental factors including population genetics, diet, prevalence of pre-existing conditions and the quality and availability of medical care.

The statistics around case mortality rate and overall mortality rate also changes as new and more reliable data is gathered and analyzed, the WHO estimates was quite likely “correct” for the time frame and data they had available.

The fact that Sweden published a data set that contradicts that doesn’t make their assumption false, or that “they don’t know what they are talking about”.
> abolish democracy and copy the Chinese system.

That's exactly what a bunch of serious and respectable people want to do: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/what-covid...

"In the debate over freedom versus control of the global network, China was largely correct, and the U.S. was wrong."

This is what influential people in the US actually believe and tech policy people follow along.
You are absolutely right. The distinction between hearing aids and hearables is blurring. We would definitely like to be in that space down the road.
I’m going to make a note to try that this week.
OTOH, free speech is not a right on itself, but a tool for the betterment of society. If speech is used for a purpose opposed to that - to bring on fascism or risking our extinction - then it's natural, and necessary, to react against it.
I found an interesting service provided by HP called "Instant Ink" [0]. You pay a subscription and get a fixed number of pages per month. Once the printer is low on ink, they'll automatically send you a new cartridge.

What makes it interesting is that there is a 100% free tier that offers 15 pages per month: perfect for infrequent use.

0: https://instantink.hpconnected.com/
At the end of the day it's all about good faith. You either have it or you don't. It's completely obvious to me that it's ok for a product company like Apple to have industry / journalism ties that they provide information ahead of time for a bigger launch day.

I could go essentially any situation with marketing and that's what the ethics boil down to for me. It's simply not good faith to rig voting on a social network. I hate it when my friends ask me to upvote their HN post just because they've asked and they know I've been around here a long time. But if they write a cool post and say "hey if you like this spread it around a bit" then that is fair and I'm happy to submit it to others here.

So to answer your original question: Yes, it really is less ethical and the continuum does not range from spammy to sophisticated. Spam can be quite sophisticated. They're correlated, but they're different measures and, really, a true master doesn't employ these techniques because they're playing a different, better game.
“Where’s your chain printer?”

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If you treat other markets as being cookie cutter versions of your own market, you're going to fail. Nigeria has a fundamentally different set of payment institutions in the norms.

Even within European countries, there are really different processes and flows. Going to The Netherlands? You'd better setup iDeal or you're going to have lower conversion. Are you setting up a retail grocery store in Austria? Get ready for MaestroCard (which is owned by mastercard but is a totally separate platform.)

Let's take the country I spend the most time thinking about: Kenya. Do you want to support M Pesa, the most common digital payment method by a mile? Great, you'd better get ready to set up and integrate against a baroque set of XML apis that require a specific VPN configuration to access. Oh, you want to use the new rest api? That's fine, except that after you go live you find out that it doesn't support all the flows you need and that actually in some weird edge cases the transaction totally falls apart and you have no idea what happened to the money. You can access the MPesa portal to get a giant excel file of all the transactions on your account that are at least a few minutes old, but you can only access that on a few specific machines that have a root certificate installed for the telco and use internet explorer 6 on windows. Also, the excel file format changes... occasionally. But how long do you wait to get the excel spreadsheet? There's retry logic built into the platform, and ...

Or, if you're a product manager who's working at Stripe you could look at your CRM and see that if you can implement these 3 types of reporting features you can go and steal an extra 10% of Netflix's business and pick up a whopping 2 billion $ of revenue. If you add payment support for Mpesa, you've added support for one payment method, but the entire GDP of Kenya is 90B$. Which one would you prioritize?
I feel your pain, I once made a PHP template engine called Farty and needless to say, it didn't take off :-)

That said, I feel a bit dumb right now, but can you (or anyone, really) elaborate what's funny and/or sensitive about the name BYOB? I really can't figure it out. It seems like just an abbreviation to me.
As far as a way to remain untraceable (organized crime) or untaxable (the elites) the main use cases for crypto have moved on particularly to things (like designer handbags) that actually accrue value over time and/or are not numbered and tracked publicly.
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> Do you remember printing in 2000?

The impression I get from HN comments is users of monochrome business laser printers from 2000 are the only people who are happy with their printers :)
You're straw manning my position. You can advocate for your rights as provided by existing legal and regulatory policies. If an individual feels they have been harassed or discriminated against, that individual has a right to engage their company to rectify this situation, through mechanisms like filing a grievance with company HR department, or their union (if part of one), or through the legal system.

What I'm against is creating a corporate culture that openly biases for or against certain political parties, religious or secular beliefs, or contentious policy or culture issues (like abortion). Keep those things out of the workplace, because those topics elicit emotional responses, and you want to maintain a neutral professional environment.

>The system as I've seen it works pretty great for youngish cishet white men like me.

I'm glad you had a comfortable life. Don't throw your personal experience on the rest of us. You being 'youngish cishet white man" says nothing about the experience of others with those same immutable characteristics.
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Centre-right, National Review.... You made me spit out my tea when I read that. I'd ask you to go to the op-ed section, and tell me it's even close to "centre-right" and not fully right.
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Could you indicate some cases where the precedence of hate speech law has been expanded? Thank you!
They have plenty of powerful droids. But those droids win by virtue of sheer firepower, shields, and numbers. You don't get the sense that they're individually more competent than a human. They're just soldiers that happen to be robots. 1-3 is generally not aligned with 4-9 either way and this series takes place in 6.1.

If we're in a world where the "robot advantage" exists, you'd have to question why humans pilot the ships, or man the turets, or what not.
It feels weird that they'd pay any attention to the 100 midpoint. These questions feel like they're written to make the authoritarians look unreasonable. Which I feel they are, too, but the way it's written the only way to give the more authoritarian answer would be to be either truly delusional or performing as if one were.

That doesn't mean it's useless, but it does mean that the midpoint is arbitrary. If nobody scores above 100 it says more about your test than it does about people.
This, plus the thermal throttling in MacOS makes my same Mac hardware run noticeably slower than it does under the windows partition.
I don't understand your reply or what you're trying to disagree with; comparing a Yubikey - a product intentionally designed to interoperate with many other services and hardware platforms at it's core - is being compared to a RSA SecureID key which is a singular, targeted Enterprise solution ($$$) which does not intend to interoperate with other competing solutions (TOTP e.g.). RSA SecureID and Yubikey have different core business models.
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It entirely depends on what kind of things you want to do. For example if you want to program microcontrollers with a modern language and 0 overhead over C then Nim is a great language to learn. Or if you want to write a web front-end and back-end in the same language that compiles to JS and C respectively then Nim is yet again a great language. Or if you just want to get into programming with macros to boost your productivity or make nice patterns in your code, then Nim is a great language. Or if you are just curious as to what else that is out there, then Nim is a great language.
Absolutely. I work with Wordpress for the day job it'd be horrible trying to do the same for my own site. Every issue would feel like work.

For clients though? If they want WordPress (or give a feature list that sounds up WordPress' alley without needing a bespoke Laravel build) they get it. We'd lose all our customers if I tried to get them editing Hugo markdown files!

Netlify could do with watching their PR at this point I feel. The honeymoon period is over. I've personally switched my site to a fiver DigitalOcean box and Cloudflare because I already had the DO box for another project. The deploy is infinitely faster and I don't need to worry about hitting limits bumping me up to a 50 quid a month account
For the moment, yes it will be a better combo, with much greater hardware support and compatibility with Windows applications/games.

ReactOS is still in alpha, it's a very unfinished operating system. On the plus side, there's a lot of low-hanging fruits to attack if you want to work on a operating system, especially if the Windows NT design intrigues you.
IMDF looks like it is based on, or is an extension to, GeoJSON
> ... have we? Much of the 20th century was spent at war, with a death total somewhere in the region of a hundred million. As were most of the previous centuries.

In fact, casualties of war, as a percentage of population, have been more or less constant for hundreds of years.

https://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8832311/war-casualties-600-yea...

Perhaps the rules have changed now, due to mutually assured destruction.
If you take the time to write a PR for a project, chances are you have taken the time to read the contributing guide and have tried to submit a passing pull request. There are conventions that may apply to a massive code base, such as those on some of the big providers that not initially clear, so I think spending some time in ensure that you explain why they haven't had a PR merged is worthwhile. Sometimes a PR can be ignored completely.

I guess it depends on whether you want people to try and contribute to your project or whether you insta close the PR because they missed a semi colon, which it seems would be your approach.
You'd probably want to charge something like $5 for it still. The power of free vs not free can be surprising.
Social media is a disease, regardless of the messages dispersed over it.

However, a war for democracy - democracy is about what the people want, not what the self appointed overseers want. Unfortunately if the majority want to indulge in corrupt thinking then that's democracy. That's how you end up with Trump.

If you want to fight for democracy then you have to let people express themselves. Free speech is the cornerstone of democracy so a fight for democracy is a fight for free speech.

What you seem to be asking for in terms of sacrifice is an authoritarian intervention where we appoint people to determine what is truth and ban alternative thinking. This obviously is just as bad as what is going on now. Once you have the truth committee in place you can predict where that goes once "misinformation" is under control. Start with enforcing scientific truths, and then leaders will abuse this power to further their own truths. Imagine corporations lobbying the Department of Truth.

We are fked for now. I imagine a lot more pain and difficult change is ahead of us. I lament for pre-internet times. I used to champion the idea of the internet giving equal platform for all but I never foresaw the internet being such a huge part of everyday life, and with that comes the good and the bad of humanity.

The 2020 US elections are a storm coming at us, and no one knows just how bad the west will be ravaged after it's done.
I bought an espruino once and built some basic LED lights setup. I switched to Arduino (Arduino as in arduous) however, for the larger ecosystem of libraries. It was easier to learn basic C than to redo Fastled library in javascript. For everything that does not require a library, I liked espruino a lot.
I agree as well. Hell, even the vscode official extension doesn't support multi-folders workspaces.
No no no, this is such bullshit. People wouldn't believe in these conspiracy theories if they weren't in a state of downward mobility. Look at the suicide rate in the US, especially for those without more than a high school education. Look at the increasing opiate addiction and overdoses. Is it any wonder malevolent conspiratorial thinking is increasing? It is unfortunate people are unable to correctly identify the actual cause of their suffering, but we shouldn't silence these voices.
I'd agree here for sure. I'm not sure how we even go about dealing with it as every converstation seems to spiral into madness
> has great support.

Anecdata, but my experience with Sendgrid's support during a production outage was that to get a response from a human being we ultimately had to reach out to somebody on LinkedIn. Everything else via official channels just received automated replies promising responses in x business days. Also FWIW while our production e-mails weren't being sent, the Sendgrid API was happily returning HTTP 200 success responses.

I agree that it definitely was a breeze to integrate with though.