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> I still don't think the policy itself is actually discriminatory: at this particular point in time that executive level has a disparity, and that's the issue, not the policy.

Look, it isn't particularly controversial that policies that are discriminatory in effect are problematic, even if the policy is on its face non-discriminatory. This isn't even a particularly new idea:

"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread." — Anatole France

> my being unsympathetic has less to do with the disparity aspect

What is the source of your lack of sympathy, then?
TransferWise already exists. It requires your recipients to have bank accounts but they could easily get them.
Oh that's awesome. I haven't been able to pry my family away from those two, even though they openly admit that Facebook is evil/sucks.
Common Problems in Financial Services Reconciliation
It's been a lot longer than a century. This is the natural order of things. Bertrand was not criticizing the media as much as he was pointing out its natural tendencies, which originate in the natural tendencies of humans. His solution was not to fix the media, it is to learn how to interpret it.
Yeah I agree on both counts.

I do think people in government should be held to a higher standard. If only for the public’s benefit.
The long promised and teased suit is finally out in the wild.

Interesting that it seems to focus so heavily on acquisitions.
Compared to California, most states depend less on income taxes and more on property taxes, which is part of the reason why property prices are higher in California.
> We don’t have an easy solution.

Which is why you keep it simple by allowing all speech. Once you start down the road of a little bit of this, not much of that, and who gets to decide what the complexity only goes up.

Not to mention the honest concern of where that censorship power is held.
If I'm not mistaken Texas has pursued large investments into clean energy, outranking California in terms of wind energy and adding solar at a very fast scale: https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuarhodes/2020/09/25/even-re....
Who would have guessed? If you give away your product, it's hard to make money.
In Washington's case, the Washington supreme court considered income tax inconstitutional as it would be double taxation as you were already taxed on property.
How primate researchers are protecting great apes from Covid-19
> It's a pity that we aren't capable of sustaining a situation like that without dismantling the very core of the democratic system: freedom of speech.

What about Google's free speech?
> and then disprove them.

It is impossible to disprove conspiracy theories. No matter how many judges laugh Trump out of court millions of people will believe for the rest of their lives that their was massive voter fraud.
I know a lot of people think Manifest V3 is here only to break adblockers but it seems like it's trying to solve a real problem. Adblockers currently only work by having full access to every tab, iframe, page, etc. What happens when an adblocker is sold and the new owner secretly installs spyware to steal all of your passwords and cookies? This has happened multiple times already with extensions in the past.

It seems to me like Chrome is trying to limit use-cases that require full access to every single site you visit. How will Firefox solve this problem better than Chrome or Safari? It seems inevitable that the status quo for these extensions is going away.
That's really the entire point, IMO. If the people holding the election can't prove they did everything by the letter, how do they know they did everything by the letter? You're talking 100's or 1000's of different precincts across an entire state.
That is all true, but you wouldn't use those "probability" statements to support a boolean outcome. For instance, a trainer might be better, but you wouldn't use that to conclude that someone shouldn't exercise without a trainer.
I support this, though have low expectations the divestiture will actually happen.

It would be quite the twist though if Kevin Systrom testified for the FTC against FB, though.
The popularity of other equally-good services should have no bearing on whether a service has a "moral obligation" to do something. There's nothing preventing all the conspiracy theorists from deciding en masse to move to Vimeo, or setting up their own video posting system on Gab or Parler.
I don't see how Russiagate is at odds with what neogodless said. The democrats collected evidence, went to court, and lost. Russiagate, however misfounded, was legal. To imply that there were no other avenues for them to go down so they turned to voter fraud is laughable.

Also, I will try to say this in the nicest way possible, but you are repeating, nearly verbatim, talking points that the President has been using for months in various rallies. The idea that the democrats needed to turn to voter fraud to ensure Biden won a Trump talking point - not something born out of any sort of rumor or leak. What is particularly nefarious about this talking point is it's not something he crafted out of the blue, but it is one that he has been forming since at least July. He has carefully planned to use pandemic and the growth in mail in ballots to throw chaos into the electoral process. In other words, I'm asking you take a step back and consider if voter fraud is a credible rumor or if its something that has been manufactured by the right wing media machine.
I'm an optimist and forward looking person at heart. But the last couple of years have made me cynical enough that I researched the 'most free' country in the world as an expatriate destination[0].

We are witnessing super-wealthy individuals, I think the word is oligarch, use their out-sized wealth to advance causes outside of the domain that made them wealthy. Obvious examples include Bill Gates advancing world health, Mark Zuckerberg funding Freedom of Expression initiatives, and Soros' Open Society Foundations.

These initiatives can be impactful simply based on the resources supporting them. For example, LinkedIn reports 1,100 people currently working for Open Society Foundations. That number would require an annual budget in the realm of $200,000,000. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation shows 2,500 people working. Both Soros and Gates could easily fund those workforces out of their passive income.

Certainly, we've had relatively super-wealthy persons in the past. What's new is the reach that these current oligarchs can leverage. Their wealth is drawn from a global revenue, their workforces can easily travel globally, and they can promote their message globally using the Internet and Web, which have supplanted both the print and radio media that earlier oligarchs were confined to.

Whether or not you see this as a threat, my take is that I did not vote for Gates as world health oligarch or Soros as societal transformation oligarch, but they have taken those mantles on themselves. Whether for better or worse, I didn't have a say, but they can impose their initiatives on me. That bothers me.

[0] https://www.cato.org/human-freedom-index-new
They were flat out blocking any links to certain competitors.

https://heavy.com/tech/2018/10/facebook-block-minds-com-unse...
That is no excuse. They had 10 years to fix it, and many issues steem from Google's HR to promote doing shinny toys instead of fixing broken stuff.
Splitting those two properties off would be fantastic.

I know it's a pipe dream, but an independent Oculus would make me so happy. I suspect this is impossible due to the early nature of the VR market. Maybe just an FTC requirement _not_ to require a FB login?
From a privacy point of view I agree that it sounds like a good thing and I hope it happens.

From an entrepreneurial point of view I wonder how it will affect the future of big tech players acquiring other companies.
This has not been announced, unless I've missed it in the last 36 hours, only speculated about.

There are NHS vaccination reminder cards which you'll be given at your first appointment and recommended to keep in your wallet - with sticker(s) of what dates you had / will have jabs, and a little info about how to find out more info.

This is standard NHS practise for vaccinations that require multiple spaced out injections - I've had two cards pretty much identical to the photo I've seen of the covid ones in the last few years, for other vaccines from the NHS.

The UK's Health Minister confirmed to Sky News yesterday morning that they are not for providing proof you've been vaccinated, and that they do not need to be kept after your final injection.
> In actual leftist media NYT is considered conservative. The reality is that they are mostly mainstream.

"Actual leftist"? Nice No true Scotsman you got there.
It’s different because they can get it elsewhere. Government censorship makes any source illegal. Extreme government censorship puts you in jail for reading about a dangerous idea.

A company censoring information on their platform seems deeply different, no?
You can't though. Bitchute was banned on Twitter for a long time. The barriers to entry for a new competitor, including network effects in addition to hostility from other platforms, is incredible. YT have a monopoly in their domain.
Being “cryptographically secure” is a relative thing: during the 90s, md5 was cryptographically secure, until it wasn't in the early 2000s. What we take for granted in terms of cryptographic security could collapse after one breakthrough (that's why SHA-3 was designed completely different from SHA-2, to have a replacement handy when the later will be broken).
I don't know why this is downvoted.

Do folks not understand how taxes work?
One thing I recently stumbled upon that struck me was Bryan Cantrill's writeup at http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/12/14/open-source-confronts... and https://sfosc.org/docs that was linked from that blog post.

Quick takeaways about open source business models:

- Dual licensing: Well, poison. Who's want to sign away their copyrights so that some company can make a buck? It's essentially proprietary software that also happens to be available open source under some as-tedious-as-possible licensing terms.

- Open core: Essentially proprietary software with an open source loss leader. Or for the supermarket chain variant of this business model: "We're opening a new supermarket! Free plastic buckets to the first 1000 customers", causing hours-long queues of people that really want a $2 plastic bucket for free. And as we've seen, it's not much of a protection against big cloud providers with armies of programmers that can easily recreate whatever proprietary juice you have added on top, adapted to their particular environment.

- Public goods: Like Linux Foundation projects like the Linux kernel or Kubernetes. Can work, but is not the direct core value of any of the companies participating. Similarly, a company in some other industry may share some code as open source in order to reduce the maintenance burden.

- Free software product: The flag bearer being Redhat. Code itself may all be open source, but a company call sell a particular version of it with support, training etc. Might not get the growth numbers and scale that gets VC's excited (as can be seen in the blog post the parent linked to), but can be sustainable.
> Let's be clear: there was no widespread election fraud, certainly not by large enough margins to overturn the election. Videos that purport otherwise are not improving public discourse; in fact, they're causing it to disintegrate.

I think there almost certainly was some fraud, but not enough to change the outcome. (Whether or not "some but not enough to change the outcome" counts as "widespread", I don't know.)

But I also think it is true that the US electoral system is very poorly organised, creating a lot more scope for fraud–or at least the appearance of fraud, or the appearance of the possibility of fraud–than in some other countries. In a number of other countries, national elections are fully run by an apolitical independent national agency (e.g. the Australian Electoral Commission), not by a hodgepodge of state and county officials many of whom are politicians or political appointees. That system provides a lot more professionalism and a lot less opportunities for suspicion of fraud than the American system does.

Yet, I think some people are so committed to "everything Trump says is 110% wrong" that they want to shut down discussion of the flaws in the US election system. It is possible that both there are real flaws in the election system, including flaws that permit fraud or the appearance of a possibility of fraud, and that simultaneously those flaws while very real and in need of being addressed didn't change the outcome this time around.

Possibly, one outcome of this election might be support from Republicans for some reforms in the way elections are carried out. Given America's toxic political polarisation, there is the risk that Democrats will oppose such reforms simply because it is Republicans proposing them.
And nothing will come of this except a slap on the wrist. I have more faith in the EU if fines are to be made big enough to make any difference at all.
Ask HN: Large TypeScript Open-Source Enterprise Codebases
I'm currently trying to learn Typescript for a few days.
A thing that always helps me more than examples of different small use-cases, is looking at a large production-ready codebase of the language.

I browsed through github a bit and found the biggest one's like VSCode or Typescript itself.

Can you recommend any other, more business-like applications where I can learn how to structure really large codebases?
Its just part of his naturalization package. Are you really American if you didn't non-consensually penetrate California's electrical grid and resources before doing an energy play in Texas?
Proofs Should Repair Themselves
A stable belief system is not shaken by a hypothetical question. You can dodge the question if you'd like but it probably doesn't make your world view appealing to outsiders.
Oil is taxed quite a bit there, along with higher property taxes (some of the highest in the nation). But you'll also notice the roads aren't stellar, and many areas have issues with public education. Lack of state tax is reflected in all of this.
I used a coupon once then got an order confirmation email that didn't show the coupon. Tried disputing it to get them to apply the coupon, they refused and demanded a screenshot of the order before I clicked checkout which I obviously didn't have since I didn't expect them to scam me. I pressed further and they basically responded saying they spent more time on this issue then allowed and just offered a $5 credit for a future order. After using that I'll never order through doordash again. That $5 coupon just brought the price down to what it would be if I ordered directly from the restaurant.
>they then drop the product entirely

Or sell it to Micro Focus
Would be interesting to see a modern day trust busting, wonder how deeply embedded Facebook's infrastructure / P&Ps is for Whatsapp development.
The publisher can choose to remove the option to bypass the modal after a certain number of visits or after a certain period of time.
Sounds like he was punished for raising money in bad faith which is exactly how you describe it.
Maybe they should apply their own Core Web Vitals penalizations and drop in Google Search because of it.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-core-web-vitals-r...
Texas AG is just doing that to get a Presidential pardon.

It's pretty despicable that he is willing to throw the country under the bus for his own personal benefit.
The POTUS is lying on an hourly basis (many of those lies just brazenly, ridiculously false), and has millions of people believing his every word - he's personally profiting hugely, while brainwashing them and whipping them up into frenzy. Also, I believe his forces should have all the best guns.

Is that a reasonable rephrasing of your point?
There's still going to be controversy. For example, Turks not admitting Armenian genocide (~100 y.o.). Also, the winner writes history. I guess within those 20 years, the losers get mostly assimilated.
Or you know, maybe explore ideas for humanity to uhhh, you know, not NEED trained killing machines anymore?
California has a ton of people moving here. That means there'll be some combination of population growth and people moving out. Of all my friends in SF, there are only five of us from here. When many of them move back out, it sounds like an exodus, but it's really just circulation.

Unless you are referring to specifically the covid moves, which are high cost of living minus geography mattering. It's anyone's guess whether it'll continue or reverse or what after covid.
How, even in principle, would google prevent a person from seeing legal documents? Most (all?) jurisdictions publish them on the web themselves? https://www.courtlistener.com/ is great.
I'm with you bro. We are numbered 100-to-1 in forums like this where it's very kitschy to unknowingly assent to facist censorship.

I love that you mention Joe Rogan. He's one of the leading Progressives that is bringing up how hypocrticial censorship has in Big Tech.

Everybody knows how absurd censorship has gotten in the last decade –– most noticably since Trump was elected.
Lets hope they push through with it and follow up with Google. Its about time - its ridiculous how incredibly powerful these institutions have become.

Question: is there an argument not to split up these gigantic corporations?
AFAIK, KiCAD got its recent boost from CERN. It would be a common good if europeans go further to push up development of open source tools for IC manufacturing. This will loosen world's dependance on US backed proprietary and extremely expensive technologies.
Regarding Manifest v3 in Firefox, watch this recent video from the Ad Blocker Dev Summit 2020

"Rob Wu & Philipp Kewisch - The Future of Content Blockers in Firefox - Adblocker Dev Summit 2020"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpDFS-GUytg
> Source: work for FAANG, I see many one way relocations US>EU, not so much other way around.

I think there's inherent selection bias in the way we perceive this: we see someone "leaving" only if we're involved with them at the moment they depart; we see someone "arriving" if we encounter them any time after they came our way.

EU to US immigration is about 60,000 per year. It's about 20,000 in the other direction. Of course, EU has about 1.5x the population of the US, so it's more like double the rate of immigration, not triple.

> triple the money, quadruple the life costs

My short experiences living in Germany and the UK each seemed more expensive, denominated in dollars, than here, one of the highest cost of living regions in the US.
Absurd comparison. HK was returned to China in accordance with a previously signed contract.

After it became part of China again, it is not possible to interviene militarily in Beijing - HK relationship - that would be an invasion of China and violation of international law. You could not phisically station an army in HK.

Even if China has violated an agreement with UK regarding HK autonomy, thay does not give you legal grounds to start a war.

In cotrast, you could deploy the entire US military in Taiwan tomorrow, it would be legal and peacefull (provided Taiwanese Gov. Invited it). Additionally, invading Taiwan is actually extremely difficult because of terrain, just because you have a massive land army does not mean they can just teleport to Taiwan.
It would be basically a D-day style effort against a well entrenched opponent.

So it is unlikely we will see phisical takeover of Taiwan in the near future, as so far we have no indication that China is looming for a causualty heavy war with little gain.
It was and they did, so lacking any other qualifiers, the answer is "yes".
If the only reason to do anything is money, sure. I think most people here in HN know how valuable scientific research is, and the kind of advancements that come from it. The World Wide Web came from CERN.
"(a) making it easy to fund projects"
I don't know how it is in the US, but in EU you need a regular invoice for a business expense. So if a company wants to support an open-source project today, they need an invoice from the authors. Now try to get this from the author of your favorite GitHub open-source library... And for large corporations you need to get a quote / an offer so that a business decision may be made and budget may get allocated... Now try to get an offer from the author...
> No you get additional benefits for being in-state manufacturers. (I think its 10% vs 30% in state off capital costs).

Can you link me to a source that explains the additional benefits that in-state EV manufacturers accrue? Thanks!
Either make french or german the language of diplomacy wouldn't be the first time in history that was done.
Sounds like Texas, except you got a basement (and snow)!

I really wish more homes in Texas had basements, but they add a lot of unnecessary costs to the building that aren't required for code reasons. Plus, then you can spend that money above ground increasing your living area. Unfortunately, most people don't factor in the extra expense of cooling more above ground space, whereas a basement would hold the temperature better. I'd reckon after a decade or so, the energy savings of putting some extra square footage in a basement would event out.
My interpretation is the opposite. MongoDB is clearly successful - they are a public company worth 16 billion dollars. And they proving the success of the open core business model.

For 99% of use cases, MongoDB is open source. You can see the code, you can make modifications, you can use it for free in your business, you can share your changes with others, you can integrate it into your products and services. Yeah, you can't use it if you're working at AWS, but for most people it's just fine.

For founders creating new open source companies, it's a great strategy to go the route of MongoDB. Start off open source and sell services. If you run into big enough problems with direct competitors using your own software, you can modify the license to exclude them.

This is far better than the status quo in, say, 2010, when the conventional wisdom was that if you're providing a service it shouldn't involve any open source at all.
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The GOP has raised over $200m since the election, with very little of it earmarked (<25%) for actual legal expenses. Most of it will go towards paying off campaign debts, the Georgia runoff election, and the rest of it who knows where else.

I can only see this behavior being completely normalized due to its effectiveness. Short of massive bipartisan regulation limiting election fundraising this is the future of America.
And that’s why he’s going to the courts instead of using all the other means and powers at his disposal. To ensure that the Democratic process is followed.
I like the idea but why 5 years? Just to damper current events and lead to thoughtful discourse I'd think 5 days
Huge. I'm glad Zuckerberg is probably panicking.
The left wants to dismember corporate power and redistribute wealth, and there are those who want to defund law enforcement and scale back the military, all of which are actual power structures that elites depend upon. The culturally leftist policies that elites adopt are not where they derive their power from.
No prominent Democrats actually argued that Donald Trump wasn't actually the president, or that the transition shouldn't happen, or that election officials should be shot.

"#NotMyPresident" was a statement of dissatisfaction, and a belief that Trump won the election unfairly, not a statement claiming that Trump was not legally the president. It was also never espoused by members of the government.

There's a difference between saying someone won by underhanded tactics and saying that someone didn't actually win and isn't legally the president. The two are not comparable.
"Stable belief system" is orthogonal to "belief system aligned with verifiable facts".