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> safe-space participation trophy kids...judgment over all us unwashed masses...[s]urely even the Silicon Valley socialists...

Personal opinion: when you pepper your comment with dismissive angry pejoratives, it makes me think you're not at all interested in discussion, so I typically ignore comments like this.
racism is just a subgroup that is a type of ingroup/outgroup behavior.
I am one of those obnoxious people who is trying all the time new web technologies, without deepening the skill for years in just one. Out all the frameworks I have used (Django,Phoenix,Node/Express in all its flavors,.NET Core, Echo) Rails is by far the one in which I feel more productive. Ruby is a lovely language, the ecosystem is mature, there is always a gem for everything and for the kind of applications I do (just 1-3 developers) Rails suits the needs perfectly. All the rest have been very solid and enjoyable frameworks (except for the Node-based ones, sorry) but I still prefer Rails.
Try reading the links for once. It has nothing to do with National Bolsheviks. The links talk about more modern forms of left-wing fascism.
Ah I get it, the savages don't deserve it.
Couldn't agree more. YouTube premium and Google Music for the one price? Works on all of my devices, no ads, and totally seamless. Such good value for money.
> Close to every single journalist uses Twitter though

This isn't true, that's just your impression from within the twitter bubble. Even if it were true, you can easily contact journalists through many avenues, being easy to reach is part of the job description. Getting banned from twitter is a totally unimportant internet triviality.
I think it says a lot more about how strict the readability standards are for submitting stuff to corp/production. Even code written by a moron by me looks decent after code review.
I'm not ok with it, so I actively chose not to be on those platforms, like everyone else could.

If people want to be useds, that's their choice.
I love this comment.

I think every so often I get the urge to make a comment that ultimate burns off a few Karma points.
Well, if someone is predicting an event 3 years into the future, then... yeah!
I partner up with people who dont have the diagnosis. I also dont base my indentity on adhd.
Cuties led to a lot of cancellations
Soylent Founder's Politics Rant Shows Tech Execs Don't Understand the World
Of course that would be a better solution; but its not a feasible one at this point. Our governments are corrupt and businesses are too large; the best we can hope for is protecting consumers as much as possible in attainable ways.

I would like to see a law which states that businesses cannot revoke your access to any discrete good you've purchased. Arguably, media companies wouldn't be the primary aggrieved party of a law like that; it really hurts Amazon (et al) more than anyone, being legally forced to continue serving video files you've purchased even in the face of Terms of Service breaches and such.

Which is perfect. That's exactly what we want. If Amazon has to guarantee access to content, the easiest way to fulfill that requirement is to offer downloads for customers (which I think should be a fulfillment of that requirement, and its alright if they terminate an account so long as a download was offered for all content). Of course, the Media companies Definitely don't want that, so now we have the media companies and tech companies fighting each other. Laws which disrupt the alignment of incentives between companies are the best kind of laws.
People are being detained & tortured because they've been recognised on footage of public demonstrations.

Looking at China it's pretty clear how having a model of peoples face with facial recognition has been key for their total control of the population
How does this nbc news related to Glenn's writing?

Because there is a fake story on Biden, so all Biden stories should be censored? Wow, I hope you discovered this principal at the time of the golden showers story.
It is not correct.
Here in the Netherlands we have Avery efficient and sustainable food production (vegetables and fruits). The systems are getting so efficient that in 20 years from now it is expected to have almost fully automated production factories which can operate indefinitely (theoretically)
And our export is big. When other countries adopt our technologies we can provide food for billions with just a tiny environmental footprint.
So there is absolutely good progress made in that field.
"make the argument using some definition of best"

I won't take the bait to dive into that discussion! ;)

Luckily she never tested us on it, I think she was understandably biased from working in C++ in an earlier job.
But if you do have the dificulties associated with adhd then starting and running a company is not for you. At least not to do it alone
But, there is no need to work for a law firm prestigious or otherwise to practice law, you just pass the Bar.
The question was whether there were any overly negative predictions about climate change that failed to pass. Facts were presented. It is a fact that there are many climate change predictions that were the opposite of conservative. That some of those overly negative predictions might happen many decades later wasn't questioned and therefore commenting about it just derails the discussion.
I agree. "Deconstructed" is better since Mehdi moved somewhat on to greener pastures. Anyway, neither Grim nor Scahill seem to have disagreed much with Greenwald, that I can recall. He certainly enjoyed this episode of "Intercepted":

https://theintercept.com/2019/03/27/the-day-after-mueller/
> Instead, my argument is that news media should not publish any and all information without the due process of journalism. If the claims hold up to scrutiny, then sure, publish it! If the claims don't hold up, then don't publish it.

The emails exist and I think have gone through the same amount of due process as other leaked documents. Here's NYTs David Barstow (who broke the Trump tax returns) discussing why the faith of the leaker/hacker does not matter:

https://soundcloud.com/user-593288826/the-investigative-jour...
It's worse than that. If you say something bad will happen unless we do something about it, and then we do something about it and it doesn't happen, then years later when you say something else bad will happen unless we do something about that...people will say the earlier bad thing didn't happen so why should we believe you this time?

For example, in the 50s and 60s we had rapidly rising levels of smog and other particulate matter pollution in the US, and scientists warned that bad things would happen if we didn't get this under control.

We did get it under control, and indeed massively reduced it, and the bad things did not come to pass.

And now, bringing up those predictions from back then and saying that since they did not come to pass we shouldn't worry about current predictions on climate change or do anything about them is a staple of climate change denial arguments.
The Economist has just endorsed Joe Biden for president.
When my wife (46) and I found out that she was terminally ill, I promised her that I'd never let her end up in a Nursing/Hospice home. She'll get care at home. When the time comes, she'll die at home, too.

Myself, our adult daughter, and close friends have all banded together to make sure that she never ends up in a home. We reaffirmed this after Covid hit. If she goes into a hospice care facility, I'll never see her again, and she'll suffer even more from lack of care.

I've also seen healthy but less able older folks put in homes so that their kids could collect their inheritances and sell off everything else. In one case, the older woman was forced out of her home into a nursing home. Her quality of life was erased. She went from thriving at at home to dead in just a few months.

These greedy nursing homes are profiting from greedy adults who don't care about their parents and from a system that makes money by warehousing people.
Speaker Rider
Most consumers probably don't know much about the transition to Apple Silicon.

However, this quarter included back-to-school timing and with kids still doing school from home, there were probably a larger number of parents that bought computers for kids. Anecdotally, 2 of our kids used an 2013 11" MacBook Air (old, low RAM) and 2015 15" MacBook Pro (on-loan from employer) in the Spring. When they weren't going back to school, we were in a fortunate position to be able to purchase them 13" MacBook Airs to continue school at home. Other parents probably made due with what they had in the Spring and purchased something over the summer. When I purchased at end of July, there was 2-3 week wait time to get them.

I knew that Apple Silicon was coming later this year, but the timing didn't make sense to wait. Back to my first point, most consumers probably are not aware that Apple Silicon is coming or why it matters and could not have made informed choice to buy now vs wait.

I predict next year's sales will be flat or lower.
That 80% number is meaningless. Back when only 20% of people had internet or email or cell phone, would you have said it's ok for the internet, email, or phone company to be able to cut service if someone uttered the words "all lives matter" and offended the employees of the monopoly. It's silly. You lack perspective.

Every legislator, politician, celebrity, and public figure is now using Twitter is their primary way to reach audience for written communications...except the banned ones.
A lot of malls I've been in have a "terms of conduct" sign near the entrance when you walk in. Similarly bizarre are the signs at the parking lot entrance that act similarly.

I'll take that one further! Every street that enters the city I live in, has a sign with text that you'll only be able to read if you park your car, get out, and walk up to it. I've lived here 5 years and I still don't know what the heck those signs say lol. My guess is it's something about parking enforcement? Sigh. It's completely absurd lol.
The broader point is that the politicians’ power is dependent entirely on the success or failure of their public theatrics, so public theatrics is what they seek and what satisfies them.
Just curious why the (negative) callout for Node-based frameworks like express? How, technically, were they inferior to Ruby (or any of the other languages you listed)?
Hmm, who to believe, a hacker news headline about sun activity which has shown no correlation let alone causation or the IPCC panel?

Tough choice. This is like picking who to do a life saving surgery between an actual surgeon and a clown.

You aren't being skeptical, you're just poisoning the discussion.
>You're searching on Grubhub and then calling through their app or website. If that isn't a referral, I'm not sure what is.

No. You're searching DDG or Google or Bing and a website for the restaurant comes up.

It says it's the restaurant. It has the menu and the phone number. But it's not the actual phone number of the restaurant. Nor is the website set up or endorsed by the restaurant.

Both are owned and controlled by a third party (in this case, GrubHub) which claims to be the restaurant, and by virtue of SEO-spamming the site to the top of the search results, you get that site instead of that of the actual restaurant.

I'm trying to decide whether or not you're ignorant or just being deliberately obtuse. Care to settle the controversy?
Ask HN: How to Get Traction for Startup?
I am founder of a bootstrapped startup and don’t necessarily have big network advantages that others have. I am making use of my network. To validate an idea, I created and emailed a lot of people. However, most people don’t respond back.
Reddit and other forums ban surveys flat out.

So the question is, besides paid marketing and spending big, how to get traction and initial interest in my product?

What are channels and resources that can help validate the idea before I build it spending 3-4 months?

Cheers.
Yes it's primarily a social and media issue, but the novelty is the impact that technology has on these things.

In short the velocity of everything has increased by many order of magnitude. Anyone can publish anything quickly and share across aggregators instantaneously. The distribution of that data from the major platforms is completely opaque, unlike newspapers or tv which had known distribution and self-evident editorial decisions that apply to the entire audience all at once. In the new world, there can be infinite content and infinite eye balls all seeing different slices of it. It's all done by algorithm and no one except data-savvy internal staff have any idea how many people are seeing what and when.

I agree this can all be explained without much technical depth, but two problems with congress: first is that they are out of touch and still think in terms of the disappearing era of broadcast network news having massive monolithic reach and corresponding journalistic standards and ethics conferred by their unassailable moat of limited media options. Second, you can't legislate this if you can't reason about the second order effects due to the economics of how tech companies are run (ie. editorial in any old-school sense of the word simply does not fit any social media companies unit economics) as well as the information economy (ie. people prefer watching things that confirm their biases, and there are unlimited media options with many young people having no idea what a television schedule is).
great idea @ repository with talks and speaker rider

related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider_(theater)
It doesn’t matter. License violations of different kinds are broken all the time and go unenforced due to cost, time, and energy.
I relate 100%. Switch back to a technical leadership role from people management at the start of the year, after three years as an EM.

It’s like a massive weight off my shoulders, and I appreciate the time I get to focus without distraction now.

Great thing is since I proved myself in that role, they kept my compensation the same in the IC role, so there’s really been no downside thus far.

Might reconsider once my toddler and infant have grown up a bit more, but right now an IC role is just the ticket again.
Before we start socializing the property rights of websites, can we do housing and medical infrastructure first? Especially all the companies with exclusive rights to life saving drugs.
If you think Twitter isn't the most important Journalistic tool nowadays you're living in a cave. It is.

There's literally no way to get more accurate news faster, by following sources you trust.
You just fell into the same trap. It is tiring to read news from a Trump-centric context. I cancelled my NYT subscription last week because I feel I’m taken for ride over their politics.
Exactly how long before the election would something like this have to surface for you to believe it's not fake? 6 months? A year? Two years? And anything after that time frame but before the election would automatically make it fake?
About 250 years ago a bunch of guys on a remote land, far, far away from the "civilized world" came up with a wild idea that all men are created equal and are endowed with some inalienable rights, and started a big social experiment that turned out to be quite successful. And then Europe took notice and copied it eventually. The main thing that Europe got from America was not cheap tobacco, or cotton or rum. It was an idea.

Those who think there's nothing of value on Mars to bring back to Earth, don't realize that ideas have more values than minerals or crops. The colonists that we'll send to Mars will form societies that will experiment with new social contracts. They'll come up with new solutions to social dilemmas. And some of these solutions will just be good. And we'll benefit tremendously from them back here on Earth.

Or maybe I'm just a dreamer.
What algorithm is resulting in Glenn Greenwalds article being so low?
"The walls are closing in!"
If radio involved typing another url into my browser or installing another app, and the telephone didn't require running cables across large tracks of public land with the cooperation of government, yeah, maybe that would be how it could work.

In your social media example, the only case where it doesn't involve easy alternatives is the size of a public audience; so it would be more like a television host being dropped by the network because they don't like their views. If you are trying to communicate with friends and family, or even with large section of the public, there are absolutely alternatives. What you want is more akin to compelling a television network to air someone because they can't reach as many strangers without that television networks large audience.
"I've not seen this before, so it's weird and I don't like it."

Unfortunately, that sort of dogmatic cargo-culting is not restricted to security articles, although it seems a bit more prevalent in that area.
I've been doing Javascript for a long time and have rarely run into issues with a lack of documentation. Maybe in projects with like 10 stars on Github ran by a single developer but in all of the major Node projects, you're going to have ample documentation and support for implementing said libraries. Just my take.
Come on. You are here throwing stones at Joe Biden because of some nebulous tie in with his son that has now been litigated to death, and you have nothing whatsoever to say about Trump's obvious nepotism?

Jared Kushner made deals with corrupt regimes to try to boost his daddy-in-laws reelection. Nothing else.

Unbelievable. Trump supporters live in a world of untruth and hypocrisy.
For a sample of one, I've run rails in containers for years without problems. Is your problem the containerization, or trying to split a rails app into microservices?

I've also split a rails application into separate services, but if you really want the MICROservices approach, then you're going to lose most of the advantages of rails.
> To be fair it was usually small, inconsequential things

I’ve always wondered about this bit:

“One nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all”
Last one is correct, actually.
Matt Taibbi: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/glenn-greenwald-on-his-resigna...
Spoken French is just a subgroup that is a type of communication behaviour, which is an inherent feature of all social animals.

Doesn't mean speaking French is innate or inherent.
Governments can fall if the people feel they aren't protected, although in practise that rarely happens. Groups like the FLQ, IRA, etc may have bombed civilian targets that really didn't have to do with the government, but they were still clearly aiming at political change.

Which groups do you think is fear for the sake of fear? Lots of groups are characterized that way for propaganda purposes, and deep down inside there are probably more than a few that just want the world to burn, but im not sure any exist that literally claim to just want to cause fear without tying it to some broader political goals.

> Trying to quickly or quietly overthrow a government is pretty much the opposite of that effect

I agree generally that quiet coups aren't generally in the terrorism category, but i still think they have much more in common with terrorism than (apolitical) ransomware does.
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My reading was the opposite. It's interesting with the media's use of "the world" to describe itself.
This is a government problem, not a privacy problem. If your government is intent on detaining and torturing dissidents, then privacy laws aren't going to stop them. Who do you think makes and enforces the law? The solution to that is to change your government.
A stroll through my 2020
Thats a problem too, but not one that will be solved by blockchains.
Perhaps it's because they ban (shadow or otherwise) anyone that dares too voice an opinion that is contrary to the narrative they support, and skew the posts that they decide to show people in a similar fashion.
You'll see the US's extended ZIP codes referred to as Zip+4, as they have nine digits instead of the usual five. So, 90210-1234 refers to a specific Delivery Sector and Delivery Segment within Beverly Hills. The segment can be a particular building or even just one floor of a building. Or, it can refer to all the buildings on one side of the street. It's up to the post office.
IIRC the money wasn't his, but rather Pierre Omidyar's.
Disclaimer: IANAL, caveat lector.

Taking the argument at face value is probably not the right conclusion [1]. The linked court case establishes what we would call in American law Informed Consent. If you can't read disclaimer at the door until you are in camera range, is that really informed consent? And if the disclaimer does not actually list the policy in question, but refers you to a website to read it, can it be considered sufficient? A quote from the ruling is relevant here - "The more onerous the exclusion clause the more explicit the notice must be". Now, this case was related to legal liabilities related to injury in a ski resort, but it's the closet thing I've found. I suspect a judge won't take long to rule in favor of the plaintiff.

[1] - https://www.canlii.org/en/bc/bcca/doc/2020/2020bcca78/2020bc...
Scientists warn of new coronavirus variant spreading across Europe
Except this isn't dogmatic cargo-culting, I've explained why it's a dangerous design decision to get in the habit of making on /r/crypto: https://old.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/jkeq0z/bizarre_desi...

This might be deep lore that not everyone knows, but if you muck around with open source software for a while, you will discover that a lot of developers are somewhat impressionable. I've seen the "I did X because project Y did something similar and they were secure" genre of reasoning play out more than I care to remember.
No, we're supporting having facts before trying to smear someone the week before an election, by someone with an obvious axe to grind.
My experience is that everyone is sharing with everyone. This person share their Netflix. The next their Disney+. A third, their Hulu. End result is that each person subscribed to only one, but ends up with access to many.
That is great. Thanks!
When I read that first part, I thought, yup, could have been me right here, even if that weren't your point. I think sometimes I reply online for many different reasons, typically emotional ones. I'll read something and I'll feel excited/confused/angry/annoyed/etc. about that topic or something related and will share it, often not being so aware of why I commented or how it was a mostly non-sequitur comment.

This part of human life fascinates me, where one person may assume the other posted something to show how smart they were, but the person who posted actually did so because they had an aha moment in their head and felt so excited to share it. The differing, sometimes even opposite, perspective on the person's intention.
> It "doesn't work" on ARM simply do to the extreme heterogenity. To ask for otherwise would be asking for AMD drivers to work for an Nvidia graphics card.

If what you're saying is that on ARM there are 15,000 different kinds of USB controller that all need their own driver, that's one thing. But if all you're saying is that there are 25 different USB controllers and 25 different drive controllers and 25 different network controllers and that means you get 15,000 different possible combinations, the fact that every combination needs its own separate drivers is the bug. Even if various controllers are combined into one SoC.

> They paper over it with ACPI which is based around a VM that has to be run in the kernel that's basically a giant binary blob, in contrast to device tree's description of the components and how they're connected.

It seems to be doing a useful thing in abstracting away the various binary blobs into a stable interface that allows them to continue operating with newer kernel versions.

Getting rid of the binary blobs entirely is a separate fight, presumably related to getting open source firmware (rather than drivers).