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What would be then? Newspapers? Gossip?

News sources are always biased, even when they try to stay neutral. The trick is to learn to extract useful nuggets of information from a number of biased streams. Having these streams biased differently helps.

This is much like raw data in science: all data have noise and imperfections, but statistics help extract a signal if there is one.
GP didn't say it "doesn't physically harm anyone". Are you saying there's no harm except physical harm?
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Does anyone have a good report on facial recognition during covid with the prevalence of masks?
I get it that HN is all about minimal design, but the need for the parent post (in this and other threads) is a sign that the UI could be improved in this aspect.
> The folks commenting on Russian influence in 2016 were doing it with some basis in reality

Journalists qualify as "folks" I would think. But it's true I suppose, much of what they said had some basis in reality. Nothing to see here.

> If you don't believe either of these organizations, then there is nothing left to talk about.

There's this: "Is it composed of an aggregation of all(!) the "facts" asserted by all respectable, trustworthy journalists and politicians in the last few years?"

This holier than though "how dare you!" culture when someone asks legitimate questions about legitimate wrongdoing (here I refer to journalists and their tendency to wildly speculate, which clearly exerts psychological influence on belief formation in the public) is annoying. And on top of it I get a [reported]. Nice.
A good analogy is geocentrism vs heliocentrism. Philosophy suffers from the same bias that promoted a geocentric view of the solar system. The idea that humanity and human thought and human culture is central.

I believe this is where most of the disdain comes from. Yes philosophy has a lot to say about logic and science but then you get stuff like the philosophy of religion, education and of art which are purely human concepts unique to us.... similar to how the mating habits of the chimpanzee are unique to the chimpanzee it's easy to see a category error with philosophy.

There is a dichotomy here and philosophy does not respect it, science and logic apply to both the human and the chimpanzee (whether the chimpanzee chooses to understand it or not) but art and religion and mating behavior do not cross this divide and is unique to each species. This is the main issue with philosophy, by placing the philosophy of religion on the same level as the philosophy of logic it is saying that human centric concepts are no different then universal concepts and that humans are the center of the universe.
And you are conflating the principle of freedom of speech with the implementation (the 1st Amendment). Many believe that people do indeed have an inherent, natural right to not be censored, while also acknowledging that 1A is only partial protection and that companies are free to choose what content they host.
The problem with equity is that if everybody does that, a company is not worth 15 times their profits but 150 times. That would turn company shares into a form of fiat based money.

Or if everybody is starting companies, competition would be so fierce that nobody would be making a profit.
I never stated or implied that Section 230 barred censorship. It does, however, protect service providers from the liability that a publisher would take on for publishing content that otherwise should be censored. As these companies voluntarily embrace more censorship, they are calling into question their status as "service providers" since they are effectively operating as publishers; i.e., not protected under 230.

> there has never been a set of free speech protections “normally recognized by content platforms”

I agree; legally there hasn't been anything like that, but in the past, those platforms were demonstrably more reluctant to censor political content (e.g., views that didn't align with the company's political views) because they knew that more active involvement might jeopardize their classification as neutral platforms (along with their protections under 230 as described above). In effect, they stayed out of politics not by law, but out of fear of being forced to censor all content if they became "publishers". Now that machine learning has made the censoring part easier, they're less concerned about that happening. However, at the moment they want to have their cake and eat it too – controlling content as they wish while also enjoying the protections of 230.
I chose caffeine as an uncontroversial example, to demonstrate the breadth of the spectrum. I am not equating them; indeed it was chosen for maximum contrast.

Everyone on this planet does things to alter their mental state and status, from running, to masturbation, to coffee, to meditation, to SSRIs from the pharmacy, to drink, to cigarettes, to recreational illicit stimulants like cocaine, to intravenous heroin from the streetcorner. I could plot a continuous curve between the extremes, and it isn't any of our place to say where "therapy" ends and "addiction" starts for any other person, because of the wide range of procedures, practices, frequencies, dosages, and effects, both positive and negative.
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I bought it on Stadia and played for about 4 hours tonight. It ran pretty flawlessly, though I did have a problem where the game would think I was holding the attack button (heavy attack/auto fire) instead of tapping it (light attack/single shot). So there I was trying to line up a single headshot and imagine my surprise when I ended up dumping the entire magazine instead. To be fair to Stadia, I don't know if this is a Stadia issue or a Cyberpunk issue.

Pro tip: I thought my Stadia stream was having issues, turns out that motion blur and lens flare just make the game look like ass. Turn those off and it's gorgeous.
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I don’t see how this is a sensible decision for YouTube. Nearly half the voters voted for Trump. YouTube is gambling with those folks boycotting leaving the platform (BitChute?). It’s just not sensible and quite risky from business perspective.
The thing about the exodus is that it is a harbinger of an online community that resembles SF. The pandemic and the fires accelerated the idea of moving out, ofcourse many people in the past including Elon Musk, Palmer Lucky, etc wanted to be out. In this scenario , exit is becoming more than voice. Most of the things that make SF great are being uploaded to the cloud through various programs like Reforge, SUS, Pioneer, OnDeck. It is becoming more interesting to build in the cloud.
Capitalism has no morals.

Unbridled capitalism - one with little oversight and regulation - is destroying the US IMHO. Yet this is exactly what the Republicans endgame is.
Compute is pretty bad all around no matter what card, but it is egregious that their flagships aren't even supported by ROCm to begin with.
Yeap. This is the real answer. I guarantee you, if every government of the world came together and everyone said, "Okay, we're all going to pitch in 1% of GDP until we crack this thing," we'd have nuclear fusion in under 10 years.

Turns out doing cutting edge science is expensive... Jesus Christ, who knew?!
Your comment reads weirdly... Are you really justifying a business model in hindsight as a beneficial gatekeeper? Fees are a business model, that's it.

Let's get everyone in the market with small money, test what works for you with almost no money and then when you found your investment strategy, scale it.

Sounds like product development to me or do you think only people are allowed to code and "waste their lifetime" when they got x?
Simply the first google result. The internet is full of them, here is another first result

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3063752/barack-obamas-brother-...

So again, why are you calling Obamas family racist?
Bearing in mind that it's likely not practical to use 100% of available upload bandwidth for extremely long periods of time. Generally speaking anyway. :)
Whether or not you agree with the judge's reasoning:

> "By failing to weigh the benefits of an outdoor dining restriction against its costs, the County acted arbitrarily and its decision lacks a rational relationship to a legitimate end," wrote Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant in a tentative ruling issued Tuesday to a legal challenge from the California Restaurant Association.

Why is the judge trying to evaluate the object-level claim by the state? Isn't the legal question here simply one of authority? Is there some kind of standard in the emergency powers law that says they have to meet some scientific-evidentiary threshold?

Curious if anyone has more insight into this.
> It really depends on what the meaning of None is.

Exactly. This will generally be application specific so we can't choose The One Right Definition for adding `Option<i32>`s.

> Yours make sense if it means "zero", but that's far less useful.

Not in my experience but I agree there are different situations. Personally, I'd default to `Option<i32>::None` meaning "no number there, so just skip it"[1] and prefer `Result<i32, E>::Err` to denote "there should be a number here but we don't have one", which would behave like a SQL NULL (propagate in all calculations).

1. What's the length of data in a header-only packet? I wouldn't say it's zero, especially when trying to fit a read() like API on top of a framed protocol (read() returning Ok(0) marks the end of file).
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Philosophizing about why we have governments, self-executing organizations which can write new laws which become reasons for their existence, is a fools errand.

But there are good reasons we ought to have governments, and fewer reasons we ought to have a State. I would sum those up as keeping the four horsemen at bay, adjudicating disputes and delivering justice. A few decent reasons too, such as accelerating R&D with their justifiable actions, but pretty much everything else is an abuse of power and tax authority.

Also your examples are ridiculous. There are few places in the world where you can just throw up an 80 story apartment building, and even fewer people who can afford to to spite their neighbors. A world where police powers are not abused to the extreme that they are is also not one without a quiet place to retire without an organometallic peroxide plant nearby, nor one without remedies if a neighbor chooses to break ground on such a project.
> Declassified FBI documents indicate otherwise. Flynn actually notified FBI of all meetings with Russians and debriefed with them afterwards.

My "favorite" example of this is Carter Page, whose name was raked over the coals for years because a FBI lawyer intentionally altered evidence (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/us/politics/fbi-ig-report...) showing that far from being a Russian asset, Page had for years briefed the CIA every time he met with suspicious Russians. (Got to love how the Times describes said altering evidence as a "serious error".) For those who want an actual Russiagate-related indictment and guilty plea by an American, Kevin Clinesmith—said FBI lawyer—is your man.
It seems almost as though Pinker was confused about what he was betting on. Most of his arguments are against deliberate bioterror attacks, not accidents.
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This should be a thing.
It was a super cheap program as well. The post mortem should have been let’s build a bigger, better version with a similar budget, but instead NASA killed it to go all in on the 10X+ more expensive X-33 and killed that well before first flight.
anyone know what Dfinity is upto these days?
I literally had found it just a month prior to shutdown, and finished a show a few days before.

Extremely disappointing news
>Some faction in the ballot-processing chain with the
>ability to secretly discard the legitimate ballots.

This video does not instil confidence that 2 did not happen.

Dominion Voting Machine Flaws -- 2020 Election Coffee County, Georgia Video 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46CAKyyObls&feature=emb_titl...
Maybe they'll make more of their library available in my country. CR expects me to pay exactly the same subscription fee as in the US, but allows me to watch less than 1% of their library. Of course, I can always try to find a residential US proxy, but I ain't doing it to get access to a _paid_ service, sorry.

Needless to say, I continue to enjoy the convenience and non-discrimination of torrent trackers.
This is a good thing. Anime outside of Japan is still niche. I don't want N competing streaming services. Even with a Funimation+Crunchyroll subscription, I still have to resort to less-than-legal means to watch some of my favourite material.
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Like elevators where the brakes fail. If it's infrequent enough, we tend not to think about it even if it does still happen from time to time.
I nominate CDC's bioerror: allowing a test reagent to become contaminated and then distributing that contaminated reagent as part of its first batch COVID-19 test kits[1].

My recollection is that this delayed widespread availability of COVID-19 testing in the US for something like a month during the crucial early stages of the pandemic; that may well cause a million excess casualties from the pandemic -- especially if you count economic casualties (lost jobs). The FDA's regulartory approach (being slow to license tests and quick to crack down on unauthorized testing) contributed to this bioerror.

[1] https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200623/early-cdc-covid-19-...
I could understand that if in this case the situation resembled the power imbalance inherent between an organized mafia and a small shop owner, but I find this situation to be materially different.

In the scenario you've referenced, the shop owner has no recourse and in theory acquiescence could be a rational course of action for survival. However if the shop owner had lucrative infrastructure-nontrivial contracts with the mafia that would be mutually harmful if dissolved, and the resources and information necessary to apply real pressure to the policies and personnel of mafia leadership, then the new picture we've painted barely resembles its original form as you depicted in any meaningful way.
I agree with your post and I dont mean to tell you things you may already know but the phrasing of your comment strikes me - "the popular vote is not respected". In an effort to explain rather than talk down, and knowing no more than I do from the comment ...

The popular vote is not a criteria for the winner/loser of an election - never has been here - instead its a component to a larger outcome.

The US has about 327M people and by the nature of our geography they tend to be somewhat more concentrated around coastal areas. Big cities, small farms so to speak.

The reason for the existence of the Electoral College is specifically to prevent any one region/geographic faction of the country from asserting control of the nation via the popular vote.

The lack of respect for the popular vote is no accident. Its a feature, not a bug. "Every vote counts" is absolutely untrue in the US and thats by design.

The evils brought about by counting each vote towards an election are thought to be outweighed by the evils of allowing one regional/socio-economic faction of the population dictate the government for all by virtue of their popular vote capability.

Now lets get real - this is precisely what happens anyhow despite the Electoral College - the battle lines are not regional in nature but economic/religious/cultural. One foreseen evil has been prevented while allowing another situation to thrive. Both sides play this divide and attempt to sway things their own direction.

America has been subdivided into two groups - "Us" and "Them". Things aren't going to get better anytime soon.
That's not how this works.

The government cannot have "liability" for action or inaction because of sovereign immunity. No private person can sue the state without the state's permission.

The rule is default deny. There is legislation that allows you to sue the government in specific, narrow circumstances, but nothing really relevant to this situation. I'm sure someone will try anyway, but the suit will certainly be dismissed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity_in_the_Unit...
I don't know if there's just that:
Many French anime physical release, especially those handled by the now dead Déclic Images (they started selling something they did not have the right for as a counter-offensive against those that bought the rights, if I remember well), are quite cheap. And are soft-subbed. To the point where I often hear it as an explanation of why so few animes get DVDs in France.
But at the same time, Wakanim sells DRM-free episodes that are soft-subbed for 1€/episode. We are talking about a 95% discount compared to Japan here. Hope this won't change with this new quasi-monopoly.
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I actually stopped reading after the statement "[minimum wage] Americans are ungrateful, lack perspective and are entitled". Because a statement like that is kinda toxic and doesn't help anyone but the top 1% who've hoarded all the gains over the last few decades. Reading the rest now, I'm actually even more displeased at the poster's take. While it's very true some minimum wage earning americans are not understanding or hostile to immigration, this person seems to be wanting to stir trouble among groups of people who have the least in america. Immigrants and minimum wage workers both get the short end of the stick.

Telling a minimum wage worker who likely can't afford rent and are probably below the poverty line, they should be grateful because there's "starving children in africa" sounds patronizing, entitled, lacking empathy, and does no help anyone. It does not help the minimum wage worker or people in the other countries.

In America, the top one percent holds over $25 trillion in wealth, exceeding the wealth of the bottom 80 percent. That other people have it worse than the bottom of the 80 percent is only to distract from that bigger issue.
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MacOS is neglected because Macs don't have the video capability. I can't speak to the capabilities of the new M1-based machines, but historically no Macbook or Mini had the hardware for 3D-intensive games. Statistically-speaking, there are zero Mac Pro users, and none of their other hardware is up to the task.

I'm a Unix nerd. My first PC ran Linux for years before I ever installed Windows on anything. I've maintained a Windows-based game PC for the past 20 years solely for gaming. It's my most powerful and capable hardware. I wish I could get something remotely as powerful from Apple (for a comparable price) because I prefer MacOS as my daily-driver desktop for professional purposes.
If you read a comment in here, and you see the words "obviously" or "clearly", and that's the whole argument... That person is likely experiencing cognitive dissonance.
I agree, for the most part, but this is a separate problem to what the grandparent post was talking about. This is a common problem to most streaming services (except, as noted, GeForce Now) while GP was claiming that Stadia was the worst game streaming service. Honestly, of the ones I've tried, it's the best; games look good, perform well, and control with no noticable latency.

Now, why do I buy games on Stadia if I agree with your point about not owning the game? Well, portability is sometimes nice. I can throw a Chromecast in my bag and play a game anywhere. It's a supplement to how I game, but I don't think it will ever be the primary way.
"Non-hallucinogenic psych analogous could be useful for folks with schizophrenia or panic."

There was some early research which reported success in using LSD and psilocybin to treat schizophrenia in children:

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Remember that weev taught us that violating a EULA is now a felony (per the 'it's a violation of the EULA therefore isn't permitted access' theory).

Doesn't matter what the justification is. First they decide who to charge or raid. Then they conjure up a reason to do it.
> They want the Section 203 exemption, but they are acting as a publisher

You keep saying this over and over but you're wrong.

According to Section 230 they're allowed to "censor" all they want. It doesn't make them a publisher. That's literally the point of Section 230.

Repeating a lie doesn't make it true.
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Somewhere rubber meets the road. At what point are emergency powers "too far" so to speak?
hey there, there are cases from other areas of Hubei outside of Wuhan that predate the whole animal market / nearby research lab thing.

so it nullifies or decreases that theory
It wasn't even across the street. Same parking lot. The city or county attempted to justify it by saying film production staff are tested regularly (can't make this up!)
I think it's generally not worth paying attention to renowned experts opining about stuff outside their field.
If an epidemiologist and a biochemist had different views on this question, and posted their reasoning, that would be interesting. What does Jennifer Doudna think of the probability of catastrophic bioerror? (I hope that's in an interview somewhere.) Or perhaps there's a retired national security expert who could weigh in on which groups are most likely to attempt that sort of bioterrorism.
But these two are only in a position to make uninteresting and unconvincing arguments on behalf of their respective positions.
A ~30 years bet on a company is difficult in any country or any sector for the matter of fact unless it has potential to change the landscape of future wars, thereby providing ROI in the form of strategic superiority or at least that's what U.S. DoD hoped for with Boston Dynamics and it didn't happen.

On the same context,

Imagine if Boston Dynamics was only involved with drones, it would have never changed hands.
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When I visited Japan I was astounded by the high price for animation. I naively expected that buying from the source would be cheaper but... think 5000~7000 JPY for one DVD disc of a seven disc series.

For DVD at least, Japan is region 2 (same as EU). I don't know about Blu-ray.
The general consensus seems to be the http://moodeaudio.org is quite a bit better than volumio.
This stuff is for performance reasons:

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From the article: “You don’t send 12 armed officers to raid her computer for doing that. That’s Gestapo.

Exactly. The search warrant could have been served administratively. The officers weren’t just armed. They had guns drawn. It’s a bad look if nothing else.
Cutting edge high tech company goes to die under ownership of massive conglomerate.

It’s an old but consistent story.
yeah between cannibalistic raids by troops of chimpanzees, dolphin gang rape, necrophilic ducks, and the bloodlust of your average housecat, I don't get the people that refer to nature as harmonious or somehow more moral than humans. I mean have heard of parasitic wasps, or tongue eating louse?
> The fact that these lies happen to be incredibly damaging to the perception of US democracy is a good enough reason for a private company to decide not to host it.

This is the narrative, yes. Where is the evidence that Trump and his followers screaming about election fraud has damaged the perception of US democracy? So far, it appears that the system did the thing it was supposed to do: Trump is being removed from his office.

If people telling lies about a system is sufficient to destroy that system, then perhaps the system needs to die and be replaced with something less refutable.

Is democracy really so fragile?

A free society increasingly appears to be, as censorship ramps up.