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The courts have ruled that @RealDonaldTrump's twitter feed constitutes official government communication. How does that square with Twitter having the right to restrict, block, limit distribution, or attach addendums to tweets?

Given that the situation with Twitter a mess right now, the only responsible thing that should be done right away is for the President to issue an executive order barring the use of Twitter for any official purpose. Remove all tweets and close all accounts. A third party should not be intermediating between the government and the public.

If microblogging is a value, then he should also issue an EO which directs the appropriate federal agencies to establish standards defining protocols, create baseline implementations, and regulations around use, free speech, and the like.
The First Amendment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_...
> I heard it was very eurocentric.

It is.

> Are there more global alternatives?

If you refuse to count English, no, none.
We often share projects on Orbital Index (https://orbitalindex.com). Some ideas:

- Work with https://satnogs.org/ to build an open source ground station network.
- Check out https://www.opensourcesatellite.org/
- KubOS is an open source flight OS in Linux & Rust.
- work on tracking bolides with AMS (https://www.amsmeteors.org)

What are your skills? There's tons of work to be done using Earth observation data and space data for interesting things.
This is straight out of Cory Doctorow's book 'Pirate Cinema', can't wait until hats with these become commodities and I can repurpose them to knock out CCD security cameras!
"Free speech" cannot be held to account for anything, only people can be held to account for speaking. Accountability to whom?

Every "whom" has an interest. Any way for any entity to hold any other to any artificial consequence for saying anything at all will assuredly be perverted. This is why free speech is held as an absolutist value. Any compromise will inevitably lead to abuse. There can be no legitimate mechanism to enforce this. There can be no criteria required to say whatever you want or learn whatever you want. Anything less than everyone having the right to say anything for any reason is an unacceptable compromise. You as a free individual cannot allow the normalization of speech policing to occur. If you do so you will inevitably be victimized.
Yeah—if there's one misgiving I have with the article, it's that they never really address the question of "who makes the rules?" It sounds like one reason Germany and France have fewer problems is that everyone there is just... more responsible.

> Two days before [France's] national election, the Russians posted online thousands of emails from En Marche!, the party of Emmanuel Macron, who was running for president. France, like several other democracies, has a blackout law that bars news coverage of a campaign for the 24 hours before an election and on Election Day. But the emails were available several hours before the blackout began. They were fair game. Yet the French media did not cover them. Le Monde, a major French newspaper, explained that the hack had “the obvious purpose of undermining the integrity of the ballot.”

Can you imagine the American media completely ignoring a major leak because it had “the obvious purpose of undermining the integrity of the ballot"? I know I can't!

But also—that blackout law is an example of a measure that seems like utter common sense! Don't allow sudden bombshells to go off right before voting starts, when there isn't enough time to calm down and examine them reasonably. America should adopt something similar.

My overall takeaway from the article was that free speech can both protect and threaten democracies. Russia is certainly an example of what can go wrong when speech is restricted, but Hitler is an equally salient example of how misinformation can be used seize power. The harsh reality is that Democracy is extremely fragile, and faces threats from both sides!
I’d wait for the X1 nano. Same thing but better quality.
>Sadly with some of our members, they will do anything to snatch another user's ip addy and use that for blackmail and hacking...

This is pretty interesting all by itself. How does this work?
Where have bad ideas won under free speech?
Some powerful laboratory IR lasers come with a built-in visible tracer laser. Mainly, it's useful for aligning all of the optics. With the IR laser enabled, I'm still wearing my safety goggles.
This is the long-term consequence when you force out a CEO that has an engineering background and replace him with a lawyer over perceived social juatice reasons. The market is now more fragmented (see Brave) and nobody is better off for it.
It's worth listening to the people from censorship-heavy countries. The US is better off for not having censorship. Free speech is messy. But it beats the alternative.

It's useful to read what the extremists have to say, if you read the extremists from both sides. You can still read Dabiq, ISIL's magazine, online. (That may have backfired. Their position was, it's a war to the death between our Islam and everybody else. The opposition agreed and crushed them.) It's worth reading what the gun rights people have to say. (Do not carry with a round in the chamber is good advice.) What the "defund the cops" people have to say. What the cop-rights people have to say. What QAnon has to say. What the "FEMA Death Train" people have to say. (Those big windowless railroad cars are car carriers. One believer followed one and put a video on Youtube, and was dismayed when it reached an unloading point and new cars came out.) What the "FEMA coffins" people were excited about. (That was a private storage yard for grave liners. Turned out FEMA doesn't stock coffins, just body bags, and not enough of them for the peak of the coronavirus epidemic.)

Within those extreme points you find the BLM people (who have had it with being shot and harassed), the white supremacists (who are mostly working-class guys who saw their way of life evaporate), the evangelicals (who right now are rudderless, having latched onto Trump, who represents their fears but not their values), and the Universal Basic Income people (that used to be called the "dole" in the UK). All have legitimate grievances. Within that perimeter lies reality. Those people are exploitable by politicians who don't have good solutions but can direct their anger.

That goes back a very long way. Read Shakespeare's version of Caesar's funeral oration.
That's great to hear! I try not to buy into the "what's hot right now" mentality, but I'm just cautious after being left in the dark on products I've depended on. Glad they're continuing to invest in it.
Not up to date on the gun control issues in the U.S., but just wanted to comment on this:

> Why bother making murder illegal?

I think having consequences for murder is very different from restricting someone's freedom.

My freedom is not infringed on by the fact that murder is illegal. Why? Because I can still go out and murder someone (not that I would, lol - just making a point). Totally up to me. Feel like murdering someone today? I just go out and do it.

The "restricted freedom" version of outlawing murder would be if my hands were cuffed behind my back every time I left my house, just so I wouldn't be able to murder someone if I felt like it.

I hope I'm getting my message across (not a native speaker). My point is that, to me, there's an ocean of difference between forcing me to do something in order to prevent me from possibly doing X (no matter how likely / unlikely it is that I would do it), and having consequences in place for actually doing X. The former is a violation of my freedom; the latter is justice.
Sometimes hacker news people finds it shocking that you can receive an education from places other than blog posts on Medium and Substack.
I think you might find The Road to Serfdom interesting:

http://www.iea.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/files...

There's a long tradition of the notion of collective responsibility in conservative thought. Even Hayek agreed with this.

Stuff like Spooner and Rothbard is very much fringe and likely would have no audience if not for heavy promotion by Koch-like entities.
The problem I run into sometimes, is when I use only HTML or CSS or native javascript to accomplish something. Someone will always ask "Why aren't you using the <library's code> here?" Answer: "Because it's easier and/or more efficient to accomplish the same thing doing this instead.

I get it, sometimes you want to keep the syntax the same for future maintainability, while other times Ij just want to use something I already know that I know will work just as well.

Ah well.
You are asking too much of the galvanometer, and not enough of the system it is part of. Do your own muscles satisfy your requirements? Muscles no different can put a basketball in a hoop from half-court, blind.

The return signal from progessively-focusing beam can provide the closed-loop control needed.
That's what I'm saying, it's irrelevant.
Here's the context, from the author:

"Simultaneously, we were forced to deal with a board member who was beyond counterproductive. After we bought him out fully in 2019, I sent this feedback email detailing the ways in which he had disrupted our board and company. Dealing with this issue was one of the loneliest times I faced as a CEO. To be clear, this email is unlike anything I’ve sent in my life, and I’ve thought long and hard about the decision to share it. I’m not doing so to disparage the individual in question; the only objective is to help others who might find themselves in a similar situation. (Nothing has been removed, including typos, from the email except for names.)"

https://ryancaldbeck.medium.com/transitions-fa7ce4af435
China was able to do it with a massive outbreak and the largest number of people. Clearly it has to do with social dynamics and a competent government with a lot of power. Rather than the specific size of the country
Let me change that, a traveller expecting to go anywhere and speak their native language is rude, expecting all travellers to learn every destination language of everywhere they go is unworkable. Every employee learning the language of every company and customer, also unworkable. A universal intermediate language that isn’t any nation’s preferred language and hasn’t been part of any colonial efforts in the past, is a possible way to dodge both those things. Not rude because everyone’s stepping out of their home language.

But it would have to be grassroots - if the English government mandated that everyone speak Esperanto in school then tried to spread it round Ireland and the EU it would ruin it. Same if the EU adopted it en masse, Brexiteers would reject it on principle. It could only ever happen if it grew in a balanced way where more and more places distributed around the world use it, and more and more people around the world learn it because it’s useful, and it somehow never becomes one country or one group’s unfair advantage. (That is to say, it can’t ever happen).

Would you still oppose a universal language if it was voluntary, not pushed by one nation into others, and not a replacement to primary national languages?
I'm getting a lot of Error 526: Invalid SSL certificate errors.
Good point. Although, arguably, "fact checking" is merely replying to what others are saying. It's a "the solution to free speech is more speech" approach.
> Another commenter correctly pointed out that these claims would violate the diffraction limit by more than an order of magnitude, and that's assuming zero atmospheric interference, which is absolutely not the case.

Yet this comment was refuted, and you have not addressed that fully.

> Why do you think film is relevant here?

As per the timeline, my comment with the film reference was written prior to any discussion about noise, or diffraction.

It was simply there to demonstrate the lengths gone, 2 decades prior to the 80s, in the 60s, to get imagery back to Earth.

I was curious how they did it in the early days, as video transmission technology was nascent. It quite certainly would have been a potential massive blocker on quality, from satellite to surface. Film seemed to solve that aspect of things in those early days.

I found this highly interesting. Film, from multiple lenses, the ultimate sneaker net (yes, it's analog, but still...)

Anyhow, over the years I've seen so many technical issues overcome, with sideways attacks on the problem. When people start saying "But... impossible!", I tend to have a high degree of skepticism.

I will say this though. Yes, it certainly could have been propaganda.

Doesn't mean it was, but I certainly do agree the potential is there.
try and help others if you see yourself in the email
Do you believe the effect of the spread and adoption of bad ideas is a price we should always be willing to pay?

I would say that we should "always" allow bad ideas in the same sense that we should "always" avoid torture. In the sense that you can construct hypotheticals where not doing so would lead to catastrophic results, but it's necessary to have a very strong presumption in favor because anything else has a high likelihood of abuse.

a political party spreading lies and conspiracy theories

Like the allegations of Russian collusion?

widespread disbelief in the legitimacy of modern science and medicine

Like Kamala Harris saying not to take a vaccine if Trump recommends it?

all regulations and laws can be abused

Yes, and I would claim that this is even more of a problem for laws about speech, because they're inherently highly subjective. According to some, citing FBI crime statistics can be "hate speech".
The state is forcing people to go to work so much in the first place, via the debt treadmill. If most people were allowed to accumulate savings, and so could take time off without losing the roof over their heads, then it would make sense to talk in terms of voluntary choices.
Not sure if you watched the video at the top of that page but the word "allegedly" was emphasized in describing the emails provenance.

Where's the verification?
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You don't buy a dell without the four year "come to my house and fix it" service contract. Basically you can get a dell for $1000 and it will fall apart or you can buy the same machine for $1400 and it wont, and if it does, they show up the next day and fix it or replace it. I sometimes wonder if they actually do quality binning or have a different production line. But basically a Dell costs $400 more than you think. And they are fantastic, in my experience.

I was in the UK on business when my keyboard broke, and the next day a chap showed up with a UK keyboard. When I pointed out it was a US keyboard. Didn't bat an eye, just walked back out to his van and came back with a US one.
They have to do more than just proxy, or image/video/audio format parsing based attacks still exist. They probably re-encode them to simpler formats.
You only have one life to live. You don't have to spend it in slavery to possessions.
Releasing this as-is seems like a bad idea. He's likely addressing a former board member by name, as well as their firm. Couldn't you just look at all of the names of board members and their firms, compute the metrics of those names with the typeface being used, and then figure out exactly who he's talking about?
We are no longer in 2005. Javascript, especially in its Typescript flavor, is a perfectly capable modern language.
If you are the smartest person on the room or the team it usually means you are in the wrong room/team.
Too bad the Babylon Bee is unfunny trash Onion wannabe.
> You're a hack

I'm kinda amused, I don't think you know what the word hack means when referring to a person.

Regardless of your personal beliefs I still hope you stay healthy and safe during these trying times.
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> I personally know someone whose father likely died due to being unable to access health care in a timely fashion, as well as someone else who died of cancer after their chemotherapy was postponed. And I also know of two suicides in my extended social group in the past few months. It's tough to pin specific blame on lockdown for things like that. But it's certainly plausible that deaths like that would lead to excess deaths.

Sure, but we can look at when the excess deaths happened. Instead of being evenly distributed across the lockdown period, or peaking towards the end when people had longer without access to support, they came exactly when you'd expect deaths from an epidemic wave to peak before plummeting to normal levels towards the end of the lockdown period. Undoubtedly, individual deaths have resulted from lockdown, but the pattern of excess deaths matches COVID rather than lockdown being behind the aggregate increase.
I regret that we went thruogh the "diligence" process in just a few weeks

Does anyone work in M&A? What in your experience is a sufficient timetable for diligence and discovery? I ask working for a company that "grows by acquisition", and being in a middle management role I find myself often playing clean-up crew to some alarming things that should have been caught during diligence, but am growing increasingly weary being told "we didn't have time".

This is no attempt at malingering my duties, but I've lost one staff member already to the burnout from this, and am quite fearful I'm about to lose another. Both have told me "it's not you, you've been a great manager" yet both have lamented feeling like their jobs have turned into playing the 'janitor' role for messy acquisitions saying "you did what you could"

My own complaints up the food-chain have been returned with shrugs by a director who seems equally powerless in a process that is burning people out--and I'm considering looking for the door at the end of the year from it.
I don't know about the UK, but where I live dealers can issue a cheap temporary 10-day registration document to let you drive it off the lot and deal with the registration authorities later, and if you already have auto insurance for another car, there's a grace period to cover newly purchased cars before you have to explicitly discuss it with the company. It doesn't have to be an admin nightmare, in other words. I assume the money reported on the credit report would get reversed or marked as paid if the loan is cancelled.

That said, my experience is with an all-cash/no-financing face-to-face purchase of a used car much cheaper than any Tesla, following a test drive and inspections both by the dealer and an independent inspector I chose, so mine was not all that similar of a situation.
AIMA is too big and contains to many irrelevant approaches for modern AI.
Netflix doesn't sell ads (and doesn't rely on user-generated content, so they can't really threaten democracy), but if you read interviews with executives, they also seem to be optimizing for maximum time spent on the service.

Apple, too, reportedly told developers it's increasingly looking for Apple Arcade games that will "keep users hooked" over a long period. [1]

Consequently, I'm not convinced removing ad-supported media will fix the problem of companies optimizing for engagement at all costs. Humans are stupid, and so we're more willing to pay for services where we spend lots of time, irrespective of the quality of that time.

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1: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/06/30/apple-arcade-game-strat...
~20 years ago, naturally getting it was the go-to in our area. The idea was "let's just get it over with", because the vaccine isn't 100% effective.
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This is often true.

Alternatively, some people come to see the err of their parents' ways and realize that in spite of their good intentions, they lacked the emotional maturity to build (a) a healthy marriage and (b) a nurturing environment for their children. I love my parents but realized in my late 30s that many adults are just large children with gray hair. What's important is understanding how you may have been impacted, breaking the cycle, and trying to do better.

In the same way that one can learn a ton from being part of a failed project at work, the same applies to those raised in a less-than-functional home. I'd also say that healthy debate (read: experience arguing with family) can foster skills in conflict resolution. Make lemonade from those lemons, folks!
I know a few people on Twitter have tried, but AFAIK no names have been leaked. But let's say he had said the name... is that a problem? People write blog posts about bad experiences quite frequently.

[EDIT: I was wrong, yesterday the person publicly acknowledged it's him.]
SSH tunnel from localhost to prod on database port?
I've seen some names you've named, and I don't like or follow those individuals, but I assume you don't like what they have to say.

So as a thought experiment, ask yourself, is there anyone you like and follow that you believe is feeding you misinformation? Or are you the only person that is not basing your worldview on misleading information (or, maybe not alone, but others very much like you)?

If the answer is no (and how could it be otherwise) then you start to see the problem: where is the practical distinction between people spreading misinformation and people simply disagreeing with you? In every disagreement over fact, one person is wrong. One person is basing their view on some flawed premise or information. How is banning misinformation any different, tangibly, than banning dissent?
The reality of “adding horns” or “scavenger skills” to an animal is that’d take thousands of years. So I saw each round as thousands of years at a time, from that perspective I think it’s realistic, carnivores are highly effective until they loose supply.

I suppose it speaks to the benefits of being an omnivore like us.
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> if you already have auto insurance for another car, there's a grace period to cover newly purchased cars before you have to explicitly discuss it with the company

Wow what if you've insured a $k car but use the policy to drive a $100k car and then total it?
How is reporting an IFR you disagree with the same as denying germ theory?
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If your conscience hasn’t been forcing you to face the fact that you thought “my kids can’t go to yale, and I blame minorities” was a badge of victimhood you can hold up against slavery and segregation... fellow human, you’ve got some reckoning to do.
But it proves my point that you either have no solution to contribute, or you yourself know that your solution is wrong and are afraid to say it out loud. When I find myself in that fork, I take it as a signal that I should question my assumptions and values, before getting in the way of those who’ve come out with and committed to theirs.
Oh I see where you’re going but to throw cold water it’s actually a board game :P