skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many examples of Stripe leaning left, in terms of who they are deplatforming. They tend to take action whenever facing activist pressure from random people/organizations on Twitter like the "Sleeping Giants" group. From a quick Google search, here is an example I turned up, where Stripe discussed deplatforming Gab with activists directly - those activists then demanded Stripe change their TOS, and threatened to leak all their emails discussing Gab with them: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/10/29/left-wing-deplatfo.... The same article notes a couple other examples of people banned from Stripe towards the end.

I should also note, that I don't actually use Gab and don't follow these particular conservatives that Stripe kicked off their platform. However, I think free speech is a fundamentally important principle to uphold, particularly at the base layers of society. Payment processing is in reality a function that should just be a public utility (and therefore subject to constitutional free speech protection). When a cabal of banks and other payment systems (PayPal, Stripe) can be targeted/pressured to deplatform someone, and even act in coordination (as Visa/MasterCard have many times), the victims of their action effectively lose their right to free speech for all practical purposes.

This opaque, arbitrary process of judging who is allowed and not allowed on their platform also raises questions as to whether Stripe can be trusted as a stable foundation to build a business on. For example, if I am a business owner and I make donations to Republican candidates, will I now have to think about whether Stripe will suddenly block me? And with Stripe moving from service customers to enabling customers of their customers, does their political judgment also extend to indirect customers? I don't want to lend more platform power to PayPal 2.0 - Stripe needs to get away from political activism and come out in support of being hands-off except for what the law minimally requires.

> Your throwaway account is also very chickenshit-esque

Regarding my account...I am not sure why that is relevant. The name has 'throwaway' in it but this is my only account.
This sounds like a broken process.
I use 4K 32" with scaling at 100% and it seems totally fine. Lots of real 15-17" laptop screen at 4K makes no sense to me as I can't use 100% as the text size becomes too small.
Better doesn't mean good.

Currently I'm waiting for the beachball of death when trying to get into the boot volume selection menu.

I think this mac is bricked...
Yea it’s really quite wild and an exciting application of the ‘programmable money’ concept. Did some more reading. Thanks for the rundown.
"...But since you don't know when it all might come crashing down..." - Shouldn't stop orders help with this?
No ETA just yet, but we want to make Treasury available in Canada.
> If the upper management wanted to retract that paper then it seems reasonable to assume that preparing this paper did not produce any value to the company.

I don't know about publishing standards at Google but, assuming they are uniform for all researchers, I am pretty sure Google would be unable to retain talent if researchers were asked to prove value to Google for every paper they publish. I think for researchers, this reinforces the oft-dismissed notion that you give up significant academic freedom in exchange for a fat paycheck when you join an industrial research lab.

This can be particularly damaging for Google because many of its research projects don't have an immediate business impact, and it hires top researchers by offering an alternative to the slog of academia.
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Does water itself become activated? Or the problem is that something leaks into the water even during normal operating? Plus everything is designed to maintain containment, which makes the coolant loops a lot more complicated, right?

Putting a giant laser in space doesn't seems _that_ safe.

The proposed space based energy things are very low efficiency. After all, you can collect enough solar power on Earth already, the problem is efficient distribution. (And if you put a big laser/maser in space that still would not be able to provide baseload if it's not always in line of sight.)

And launch costs are prohibitively expensive right now. First we'd need to bootstrap a cislunar economy (eg mine and manufacture stuff in space, so we don't need to pay the launch costs from deep within Earth's gravity well): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOr-Gd58zu8
I think the main thing Bitcoin has going for it is name recognition. Would be better if we could leave proof-of-work in a flaming trash pile and migrate Bitcoin to Ethereum (and rename it Bitcoin)
> Not sure what shitty machine hes talking about, but my threadripper's are not impressed with some 4 core M1.

Gruber greatly exaggerates here. Particularly mentioning the Mac Pro in the same paragraph.

Apple's M1 isn't competing with higher end Intel/ AMD desktop class CPUs with external GPUs. The M1 is a laptop CPU, designed for good performance with good thermals and excellent battery life. It will be interesting to see what they come up with over the next couple years to replace the CPU in the iMac and Mac Pro. But that is next year.
Or if there were only 10000 of us. So what?
Nobody claimed a utopia. Extracting natural resources is always going to be a tough job that is ripe for exploitation.

Did unions improve the lives of members? They certainly did where I come from. American labour history is more complex (union corruption and take over by organised crime seemed to run deeper)
Please please please point me to instructions on how to build a low latency PC.

I crave some good old fashioned responsive computing, but moreover I want to fill my classroom with these devices and show a new generation that, to borrow a catchphrase from a far more noble cause, it gets better.
Whatever happened to the "cognitive liberty" movement? I always thought that was the best rationale for a regulated, open-drug policy. Buy whatever you like, with a license. Abuse the privilege (e.g, drunk driving) license is suspended.
Yes tower form-factor.
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I am a technology ethicist.
PhD in applied ethics of technology.
Interested in helping any company build an inclusive future.
She shared what she says is Google's response. She also said she would share her email except her account was cut off. Not trying to paraphrase it when lawyers are about to be involved isn't weird.
>>The studio's 2021 slate includes projects such as The Suicide Squad, The Matrix 4, Dune, Godzilla vs. Kong and Space Jam: A New Legacy. Other films include Little Things, Judas and the Black Messiah, Tom & Jerry, Mortal Kombat, Those Who Wish Me Dead, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, In The Heights, Reminiscence, Malignant, The Many Saints of Newark, King Richard and Cry Macho.

well this is an impressive line up! i usually take a pass of $20 or go on Tuesdays for movies that are worth $6-$7 , but with $15 for new movies and HBO shows this is a no brainer (YMMV)

But i do miss the big screen experience , may be cheap home theater ideas will rise up and grant a % of that experience
Oh I'm not against ARM at all. In fact I have many systems running it :) Raspberries but also a Pinebook. I'm also getting an M1 mini from work.

I just don't like the almost-religious overhyping of everything Apple. They're doing a great job. They're not perfect.

For example: Moorhead makes a good point IMO. Yes he's talking about software issues. But in the case of Apple, you can't separate those two. The OS doesn't work on other hardware and (in this case) the hardware doesn't work with other OSes. This works to their (huge) advantage in some cases, being able to optimise each component perfectly. But it can be a drawback too like it is here.
I've been using it off and on since late 2014, back when my code would stop working every week due to a new breaking change. :D
I would partly agree. We're all in a single global system of social organization and it's hard to see outside that (capitalist realism). Often these divisions are sown intentionally by the upper classes. I don't want to say humans aren't shitty, but I don't think they fundamentally have to be. I think they respond to their material conditions and an appropriate kind of social organization and material support can reduce the bad stuff a lot.
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You make a good point. More workers are just good for the capitalists, unless there is actual work to be done.
Null Characaters: Work arounds aren't good enough (Postgres)
I have a huge beef with "pet rent," as it's charging people a non-refundable fee for an animal each month, simply for existing. If landlords would prefer their tenants not have pets, simply do not allow them.
I still find people writing new code in Python 2 so I consider 3.7.x to be "new", but you are right.
> The companies don't want to have to look for qualified local talent every-time the visa renewal comes up.

I can't imagine any sane company would. Hiring people is an expensive process, not to mention the morale hit of essentially firing someone for things out of their control. If i was a company, i too would want to stand by an employee if they were doing a good job.
64GB of ram cost < 300 euros

A lot of studios sell their old GPU (as in a generation ago) for cheap

If you stay out of vertical integrated supply chains you can buy the best your budget allows

If you are saying that you cannot assemble a laptop of the same quality of an Apple one, I agree

If you are saying that Apple laptops are what people want because they consume 20 watt full load, I disagree

The market of the good enough products is always gonna be larger than 'the best money can buy'

Apple will never make 'good enough products' hence they are not competing with the bulk of what is being sold right now

It could change in the future, but not in the immediate future IMO
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I wouldn't worry about it. This doesn't happen. More likely to fail trying to be independent of all vendors than to be locked into a vendor.

It's only half a million dollars to egress 10 PB from S3. You'll be fine.
There’s no hardware instruction translation.
> They need to fix that and address the root issue

What does it mean to "address the root issue"? This is a platitude because any "address"-ing will have pretty clear winners & losers.
> The posted email specifically says something about behavior not expected of her position.

Yes, and its unclear what this behavior was.

> Is there an example you have, even self-reported, of a person who was merely critical of Google and was not given a rampdown?

No, which is my point. This is unusual behavior on the part of Google, because it's not explained (and certainly not obvious) what the failure was.
I always hated ushers. A little bit of power can go to your head.

I think we've found the talker/cell-phone-using cinema-goer.

If someone is making too much noise let them know.

I suspect that you've not tried this more than once, or maybe not even at all.
When can we end the era of shrieking babies on planes?
The same claims about TA/EMH are made as part of the CFA study materials that are made in the investopedia I linked.

I'm afraid I don't know what else to tell you, there's no public links to CFA Institute study materials and they're a pretty definitive certification authority in finance.
New Pip resolver takes a long time to complete
Care to share how much it cost?

I'm also surprised the players didn't just get to bring the pets on the charter plane they travel around the country on, if only for that initial move.
Same thing happening to migrants working farm fields in the USA.
Any urge to point out that, sometime in the future, someone will make the same noises about their work? :-)
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Ok, well let me add that I do find it good. I never seem to have the problems people complain about. I don't know why, so I'm always baffled by all the complaints.
It is, sadly, not in widespread public awareness. But some research is there, such as [1] [2].

If a hydropower dam has been built today on lower Mississippi it would over time fill with a cubic-mile-worth of toxic sediment on the top of currently existing problems. This is not an exaggeration, an additional superfund site with a volume measured in cubic miles, due solely to the hydro project itself I don't see how else can it be construed.

[1]https://waterlawjournal.com/sedimentation-in-california-rese...

[2]https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12665-019-8146-y
> Important to note: the allegations, if true, probably only indirectly impacted you or me. In other words, we all failed our Facebook interviews the good ol fashion way - through incompetence - not unfairness.

Not how labor markets work (:
Thanks for the work on Polylith! It was very cool when I looked at it initially... looking forward to trying the new version.
No, regulations would prevent Stripe from working with users that have business in sanctioned countries.
M A Screech's "The complete essays" is both my desert island choice and my most worn book.

Any other edition you'd recommend?
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The last I heard, Linux is not coming to M1 unless Apple opens up on technical specifications.
> can be trivially changed if certain people decide that it should

This is simply not the case - see 2017 bitcoin cash fork or Segwit2X push. At the end of the day money is a human invention, meant to facilitate value exchange between humans. So it requires consensus between the users of the money, if some fraction want to change the rules they are free to.

We went for something we found in nature with properties that were pretty good for that, but with some downsides (not absolutely scarce, difficult to transport, easy to steal) to something created specifically for the purpose.
Who do you mean by “they”? Unscrupulous private companies with criminal managers that break the law?

A company taking a person’s passport is explicitly illegal in the UAE: https://dubaihow.com/holding-passport-employee-uae/

It carries a criminal prison sentence and a fine. And there’s a big push by the UAE government to go after, and prosecute employers who break this law.

I don’t know why people in Western countries, always without fail, mention this whenever the UAE comes up.

Imagine every time the US was mentioned, a person always pointed out how some private companies in the US treated their employees poorly and abusively (which I’m sure happens). It would be absurd.
That requirement always felt weird. I can’t ask what disability a person has, but I can ask what the dog is supposed to do? Because if they say it helps alert to a seizure, I just learned they possibly have chronic seizures without actually asking that.
Well it's really good for a laptop, but praising it as the fastest and best cpu is just rubbish.
I haven't actually seen any convincing counter-evidence presented in a clear and concise manner. I've seen some stuff that gets off in the weeds, but ignores the mechanism of T-cell and B-cell mediated immunity and the most plausible mechanisms of transmission at an aggregate level, and that only focuses on primary outcomes of clinical trials, while ignoring secondary outcomes.

But I haven't seen anything that was written in a way that would convince a mildly skeptical human (and I've spent some time behind a micropipette) that vaccines do nothing to prevent contracting and spreading viruses in a meaningful (clinical - not analytical) sense.

I'm coming to this with an open mind, and I don't think I'm being a jerk about anything. I shared a quote from the CDC at face-value. You're just some faceless dude on the internet. Why should I believe you over the CDC?

"At the end of the process, our bodies have learned how to protect against future infection." <-- This is straight-up saying that the vaccine protects you from getting infected. I'm not quoting out of context or anything. If enough people are protected against getting infected, we reach herd immunity. Am I missing something here?

I promise I'm not masterminding some elaborate FUD campaign to undermine your premise. You're just saying something that's super-counterintuitive and then getting angry at me because I don't see clear evidence for it in what you presented.
Cash-only and cash-intensive businesses are an incredibly easy and common vehicle for money laundering. The less customer information involved, the more effective. Such businesses are incredibly widespread and vital to organized crime, and their ease of operation in this manner is baked into their DNA.

Despite this, they too serve a useful function.
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IDK at least for me personally, an injection every two months sounds way more comfortable than having to carry those pills everywhere I go.
This. You either care about security, or you permit BYOD. They are mutually exclusive.
Seems like an open secret that tech cos like H1-Bs because they can pay them less and they’ll work hard because the alternative is getting fired and being kicked out of the country.

It’s a really backwards system with messed up incentives that probably needs to be reformed.
Edit: Removed comment, sparked unconstructive discussion.
To keep the same pixel density you'd need an 8K at 30" or 10K at 36". I'm sure we'll get there but not anytime soon, at least not at prices almost anyone would be willing to pay, or not without sacrificing other specs that you surely want.
The divide between US citizen W2 employees and everyone else will define our generation.
No solid timeline—right now Stripe is mainly focused on helping businesses grow.
It's a little more complicated than that. Homeless people also will claim their pet is an emotional support animal. They are often homeless because they are disabled but being homeless means "Good luck jumping through bureaucratic hoops to register anything."

Sometimes someone's life comes unraveled because their disability has never been properly identified and accommodated. Being able to say "I need this" without having to jump through hoops to prove it can help such people make their lives work better.

Most studies suggest that something like one in five people has a disability. One study that asked about user needs and challenges in using stuff intentionally avoided using stigmatizing words like "disabled" or "handicapped" and more like three fifths of respondents said they had some degree of trouble doing various things and more accessible design would benefit them.

People who are only moderately disabled often try like hell to avoid getting labeled as disabled because it is stigmatizing and people start treating you like you are stupid and worthless rather than like you just need special accommodation in some areas to make your life work. Those who qualify for an official label of "disabled" are equally hostile to seeing only moderately disabled people being granted the label that grants special status and special accommodation.

The reality is that disability occurs along a continuum. It isn't an on/off switch where if you fall on this side of the line you are "normal, healthy and able-bodied" and if you fall on that side of the line you are "disabled." We try to categorize it like it works that way but it doesn't really work that way.
That's really not fair since pets do cause quite a bit of damage on average and as someone who likes pets, I feel like such a policy of not having pet rent would make it even more difficult to find a place that even allows pets.
Yeah, I agree that the sound system in the theater is painful (do they think we are all deaf?).
From my reading about this some years ago, I got the impression that they were blaming foreign drug tourists for causing trouble in the Netherlands.

One vivid example from one of these articles that's stuck in my mind was an account of some drunk German tourists vomiting in some Dutch person's flower pot. I've also heard talk of drug tourists falling in to the canals, and some of them have been violent. Of course, many of the violent ones tend to be drunk on alcohol, but I don't hear many calls for Amsterdam's bars to close.

An uptick in crime was also blamed on organized crime being involved in the drug trade, though why the response to that wasn't to just legalize it completely, I don't know.

Mandating that coffeshops be no closer than 250 meters (820 feet) to a school to presumably keep teenagers from using cannabis was also a factor.

Traffic in Dutch cities was up, and that was also blamed on foreign drug tourists.

Blaming foreigners seems to be rather fashionable these days, and the oh-so-tolerant Netherlands is apparently not above doing so itself.

Here are some articles about coffeshop closings: [1], [2], [3], [4]

It's also important to keep in mind that there are the stated reasons for doing something, and then there are the real reasons. In the USA, for instance, the drug war had roots in racism and a backlash against the counterculture and anti-war movement, with which drugs were associated, but the stated reasons for making drugs illegal have to do with health. As has become clear to most people in respect to cannabis, the stated health reasons for making cannabis illegal were complete and utter BS.

I've heard that in recent decades the Netherlands has been ruled by (relatively) conservative Christians, so the real reason might have to do with a Christian moral disapproval of drugs, though of course in a country like the Netherlands which sees itself as very modern, enlightened, tolerant and cosmopolitan such archaic prohibitions could never be stated out in the open.

Another reason I've heard for cracking down on drugs is France supposedly putting pressure on the Netherlands after it joined the EU, and just the pressure to harmonize Netherlands' laws with the rest of Europe. Of course, such pressure has always been there, and the Netherlands has so far resisted to some extent, but maybe their resistance is flagging.

[1] - https://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/548-amsterdam-closing-coffeesh...

[2] - https://cannabisnow.com/closing-time-amsterdams-famous-coffe...

[3] - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/nethe...

[4] - https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2017/01/10/...
> Just from a safety perspective

There is no safety perspective if there is nobody there to get hurt. It has been evacuated for a long time now. Putting people anywhere near it would create the safety concern.
Let's kill him.
> If i was a company, i too would want to stand by an employee if they were doing a good job.

Not if it meant violating labor laws, no?
They could use a spherical/360 camera and correct the viewing angle in post.
yes, that's correct. i used the wrong idea there.
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