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> Regardless of what you believe to be 'The Truth', has suppression or censorship ever worked to quench dissonance or convince skeptical people, again, whether right or wrong, that there really is 'nothing to see here'.

I suppose that depends on if that dissonance was based in factual accounts of reality. If so, then yeah censorship probably wouldn't work. That's because opinions based in fact are consistent with the rest of the world and that tends to keep them in circulation. On the other hand, completely false and baseless lies don't last long without someone pouring energy into them. That's because they're in conflict with details that are readily observed. They might catch people's attention as a kind of entertainment. But, beyond that, they don't provide much practical value. When they're squelched, they'll just fall out of fashion like a cancelled Netflix series.
It's kind of amazing to me that a bunch of people who work in tech, and are ostensibly very smart, seem to think that elections in the United States are somehow uniquely immune to fraud. We believe this despite the fact that on any given day there's an article (several, sometimes) about some event driven by fraud in basically any other human endeavor that goes on in this country or the world that gets upvoted to the front page. Elections in this country are basically based on the honor system. We don't enforce any nation-wide robust protocols to verify anything. We just trust that everything that happens is on the up-and-up at the local level. That's fine, in my book, but it's also fine to be suspicious that there should be more scrutiny.

Is claiming the election was "stolen" part of that scrutiny? Well, I don't know. And neither does YouTube. Tech has made it super easy to amplify claims of scrutiny, but it's really uncomfortable to me that Google gets to decide what kind of scrutiny is okay. This is the company that has a business model that is literally based constant and universal surveillance of its users. Whey the hell should I trust them?

Feels like we should all take a break from the internet for a while after reading this thread.
There is no evidence it is from lab, while it likely originated from bats, pangolins have very similar virus extant in the wild. The burden of proof is heavily on showing that it was released from the lab, Pinker wins by default.
> Now we’re onto the argument of consent, regardless of pain (sampling cultures versus not). The next step will be, even having these animals on pastures is unethical, as they cannot be free to go where they want (despite these essentially domesticated livestock being unable to live in the wild without heavy evolutionary pressures I.e. massive death or extinction)

The only way for this massive death/extinction (within the current system) is if everyone adopts this vision overnight.
What's more likely to happen is by people eating less and less meat, animals will be less and less bred by farmers. Probably something similar to when cars supplanted horses in cities.
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I'm not seeing the connection between your comment and the Gerbu's firing.

As I understand it Gerbu was hired as an academic to do research into AI ethics (her field of study). She was fired, in part, due to a disagreement around the contents of a paper she was publishing.

Where is the sidewalking into engineering matters?
Yes, companies are free to censor content as they should. It's not only a shrewd business decision but it is also good for anyone watching the platform. Censorship is even done to comply with the law, as is the case with child pornography. Censorship is not the inherently bad thing you make it out to be. By saying the word "censorship" as if it's synonymous with "bad" you are piggybacking off the idea that our legal rights are being violated, as if someone is experiencing a tremendous loss because they can't post their specific brand of hate speech on a popular website. The reality is that our rights are not violated and such content has proven to be directly harmful to other people and harmful to YouTube as a brand.
I doubt most lawmakers dealing with this know what Internet is, let alone API.
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You ALWAYS must provide a constructive suggestion. Only criticizing shuts people down. However, rotten leadership can't handle anything less than full loyalty, and this is rampant in companies, and now also politics.
That's so vague you can apply it to anything. I believe the academic term is 'pseudo-profound bullshit' (really, not snark).
If I had to guess, I would say because they would rather spend more cash on creating new content than acquiring niche content distribution that’s already out there.

On top of that, the target audience has a big overlap.

People who use crunchyroll most likely have Netflix accounts already. So it probably wouldn’t benefit them significantly.
As I understand it the landing legs didn't deploy because velocity was too high and angle was wrong. All this stuff gets reported by telemetry because they know exactly how likely it is that a first attempt flight will fail catastrophically (very). So these test rockets are heavily instrumented and networked. Watching it the first time I also thought one of the engines had failed but then that engine had a successful relight and another did not, and the fuel mix ratio appeared to be wrong on one of the engines. This is all consistent with loss of propellant (there was a quite significant leak after the first fire in engine bay) and not consistent with "engines ate themselves alive".

Your greater point about it being better to land than not land stands, but these are experimental rockets. They're expected to fail catastrophically and you plan accordingly.
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If you don't know her qualifications outside of ethical AI, you can't possibly know if "Gebru is doing exactly that in Google"
People's motivations and ambitions vary. She may be very skilled in all things AI and yet choose the role she had and choose that hill to die on.
I'll add that Critique of Pure Reason is saving metaphysics rather than destroying it.

The transcendental aesthetic, Kant's discovery, uses what we immediately experience as a subject (the subjective), to discover that which remains invariant by the properties of that immediate experience, necessarily existing in each human experience, and thus across all human experiences--this is known as the relativistic-objective, a good definition for a universal truth at least in the human experience (this movement from a subjective experience to the objective by universalization is the transcendental!). This is possible because our experience, by the nature of experience, is limited by our perception--thus being at the limit of what can be known; however this also means each subject has the same pure intuitions in order to have experience at all: causality, space, and time. The result is, one, communication is possible, but two, we can have universal knowledge of the 'world' because all experiences are derived from those four intuitions and thus will always be confined by them.

I shouldn't give you the answer, but rationality ends up being justified by the pure intuition of causality not because it's a special game but instead it happens to be universal in the inter-subjective as a pure intuition because it's a requirement for the 'subject' to exist at all.

I've taken some liberties to make this concise, but I really recommend to read at least The Prolegomena. You can also go through some of my previous comments to see others I've left on similar topics.
And "arbitrary" is one limitation to emergency powers.
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> ...based on her emails and tweets she does indeed seem like an incredibly toxic personality and I sure wouldn't want to work anywhere near her...

I agree I wouldn't want her reporting to me, but is it really that hard to fire someone in California? From the outside Google management seems to endorse solidly left-leaning politics, so while anything is possible it seems unlikely that they objected to her views or activism. If they think she is toxic, it follows that they likely had actual reasons - and if there are actual reasons someone is a bad employee then they can be fired in my experience.

That lends some credence to the retaliation theory. If they can't expel her for good reasons, grab the first half-baked opportunity.
Ehhhhhhhh. I certainly appreciate the officer that wasn't doing their job when I was doing 52 in a 50 zone yesterday. It's a tough job and there could be any number of factors that prevent them from issuing more citations.

But in the end aren't parking citations just another form of that tax? Shipping companies will just pass the cost on to the consumer, and there may be deeper ramifications (like loss of job) for the delivery person who isn't given any real choice.
> Our economic system seems to have a natural tendency towards monopoly

We had this in post-War America. What broke it up? Activist investors. Corporate raiders. The stereotypical bad guys of 1990s media. (Also, antitrust action. The situation is a product of public and private sector failures combined.)
“As an aesthetic that romanticises the return to traditional bucolic attributes”

It doesn’t romanticize the return, the aesthetic is a return to those attributes. An aesthetic can’t romanticize, only a person can romanticize.

“The concept saw a resurgence in the 1960s and 70s but subsequently went below the radar”

“Went below the radar”? The phrase I remember is “fly under the radar”.

“cottagecore holds a lot of meaning as a fantastical paradise”.

A movement doesn’t hold a meaning. It might promise a fantastical paradise. And that fantastical paradise is “a warm, cosy community full of nature, growing your own foods, spending time with pets, picnicking in the garden”. Fantastical? Sounds like a regular Tuesday...

“At its heart, cottagecore hinges heavily on modern escapist fantasies, and posts are full of foraged mushrooms, long billowy dresses, gingham tablecloths, baskets of wildflowers, sourdough bread and mossy terrariums. There are babbling brooks surrounded by woodland, snails, beeswax candle-making, delicate doilies, farm animals, forest bathing and rustic simplicity.”

The author considers these things as fantasies. For a large chunk of the world, modulo differences in regional cultural vocabulary, this is the reality. Even in heavily urban areas in the US and certainly the UK, this can be found an hour’s drive away and the objects purchased or made with little expense. The author is oddly unaware of this.

The author needs to get outside more, preferably away from the City.
That story only reports a death-with-COVID that was a few weeks (February 6) before the first-at-the-time discovered community case (February ~26: https://www.ucdavis.edu/coronavirus/news/patient-and-precaut...).

I've seen two people on Twitter claim UCSF personnel have told them COVID was discovered retrospectively in UCSF December 2019 autopsies: https://twitter.com/gojomo/status/1333932912329146368

Neither of the people claiming that seemed to me be prevaricators/hoaxers/people-with-an-axe-to-grind. And, that sort of discovery would be a plausible outcome of a review of all autopsies back to December that California ordered in April – https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/newsom-orders-all-ca-coun... – on which I've seen little followup reporting. But, I've seen no other confirmation of these UCSF rumors in official statements.

So: still wondering what hard evidence, if any dates COVID-in-the-US to December 2019 or earlier. (There's a survey of December blood donors which found 2% immune reactivity - but the imprecision of that test, especially given known cross-reactivities with other 'common cold' coronaviruses has caused some experts to discount it as definitive proof that COVID was circulating then.)
You can't possibly be for real. You don't know her qualifications, so you assume she doesn't have any. Then you come up with a straw-man of "non-engineers lacking skills" and assign that to her! You're more willing to assign traits you made up to her than look up what she's actually capable of!
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> What I like about not integrating the build-step as Deno does: You allow competition and the market comes up with great ideas like Vercel did with pkg.

Maybe some people need to get things done and don't have the resources for endless tooling masturbation?
Yeah this is the right solution. Just add a link to the page numbers at the top of the thread. It's unintrusive, and still follows the minimalist design tenants of this website.
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Also, SARS was classified BSL3 to allow more labs to study it. The Wuhan lab is a BSL4-certified one, which have much lower leakage risk by design.
I googled "court ruling against voting fraud" and read through articles Nevada, Pensylvannia and Michigan. None of those fit your "should have filed before the election" narrative. The closest thing I found was:

> Pennsylvania’s top court on Nov. 28 dismissed the challenge, saying that the lawsuit was not filed in a timely manner when the mail-in voting law was first enacted. It threw out a lower court ruling that had ordered the state not to certify the election pending a hearing.

But this is not about widespread fraud, this is about mail-in voting laws.

I don't know what's a reputable website for USA political news, feel free to tell me if I'm reading overly biased junk:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/12/09/nevada-...

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-court-pennsylva...

https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/12/...

> I'm not at all sure why you think my comment is so ironic either, so please feel free to explain.

Trump calling it a win the night of the election is, no matter how you spin it, very close to your "unaccountable central authority" deciding what’s true and what’s not. So your final point seems correct, just pointed in the wrong direction.
The authority cannot be exercised arbitrarily. The authority is for a specific emergency health purpose, therefore these (otherwise illegal) restrictions which are being imposed under that specific authority must be justified.
In his own words on why and how he did it: https://youtu.be/EY6q5dv_B-o
LinkedIn as a social network feed is definitely pathetic.

I can sit on reddit and hacker news all day. But linkedin? I couldn't care less about promotional posts. I've even tried to post some things and I have 20k people in my network and I get like 7 views.

The only sort of good thing is the job search with the "Easy Apply" filter.
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They aren’t restricting all outdoor activity. They are restricting one form of outdoor activity while allowing others. There is one group (restaurants) that is inordinately harmed by this restriction.

For instance, I walked by the Presidio parade grounds in SF this past Sunday. Plenty of people were picnicking on the grass there. They were eating and drinking without masks while social distancing. It’s basically a restaurant level risk without the restaurant.

That activity is allowed but outdoor dining isn’t.

Another example. I went to downtown Burlingame the week before to get my phone fixed. There was a lot of outdoor dining but more interestingly there were many people walking or standing around with masks down while sipping drinks. Those sidewalks don’t permit 6 ft social distancing.

That is still not restricted but outdoor dining a few feet away would be.

These restrictions don’t make much sense. The problem is that the behavior that is causing most of the spread is something that they cannot effectively ban without massive policing.
> Some have argued that these substances open your eyes to the "true reality", and it's this reality that's illusory or false on some level.

Where they on said substances when they made that argument?
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Because according to GP, Chinese government wants to 'control' everything, that's why they 'own' everything. If they don't control it, would it make any difference if a company is state owned or private owned. If I own 1000 companies, and one of them is going to do the biggest IPO, I probably will still watch this one closely.

I think I have become too political recently reading hacker news. Such a waste of time. I will not participate in any philosophy/political/ideology any more. Thanks for the reply.

EDIT: We all have a habit to use logic to understand events, but many times, we can bend events to fit our logic. It is so natural, and we don't even notice it. I don't believe the world is black and white, or labelling makes it easier to understand the world. Everywhere you go is just a bunch of humans. When we are happy we take time and try to understand differences, when we are not, we attack differences. It is how we develop and survive in the wild.
You can think of it in terms of rates. For example, if you think some event has a constant chance of happening of 5%, you should bet for durations >13 years (for p>0.5). If your counter-party thinks the rate is instead 3%, then the duration is >22 years (for p>0.5). This means that two people with these two beliefs have a zone of possible agreement for making a bet in the time period of 13 to 22 years, where exactly it lands depends on the negotiation.
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No-one respects CNN and the likes also. They are just like Newsmax, but serving the opposite side.
No, you're not proving anything substantial.
"Mouse head-twitch response assays". Administration of 5-MeO-DMT causes mice to twitch their heads. Administration of this compound does not. Therefore, the paper concludes, this compound is not hallucinogenic.
Interesting. I came across some other interesting audio projects with RPi. For my daugther I set up a "Phoniebox" (RFID based audio player with buttons, https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID).
Then there is volumio (https://volumio.org/), which i found to be pretty slow on older RPis.
And "SSRPAR" (Bluetooth-Receiver, https://github.com/BaReinhard/Super-Simple-Raspberry-Pi-Audi...) which can be used to build a pretty good car audio host, but no longer actively maintained.
A collection of recipes is copyrightable though. I think recipe vs collection of recipes is one of the canonical examples.
Except he didn't restart the race itself: there are no opponents.
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There already is a consensus on the true origin of SARS-CoV-2.
That’s kind of the woah factor here. Talk about glass houses.
Whot? How is that even comparable? It's third party code after all, the same happens when you use a library in any other language
libc's other than glibc don't have issues with being statically linked.
There's some confused reporting going on here. Sometimes this act is talked about as if there was some email address like public_messaging@florida.gov or whatever, and someone sent an email to that address (which forwards it to thousands of other people). IANAL but I'd imagine that would not be illegal.

The other possibility is that there is some marginally secured website, where you log in with user:admin, password:password, and from there you can send a message to thousands of people. I'd imagine doing that without authorization, even if the security is dead simple and easy to bypass, would be illegal.

My guess is that the latter is what happened, and they have a comcast IP address logged which is associated with her address.

Maybe she didn't do it, but it seems likely she did. Perhaps her husband did, because he found the common username/password on a sticky note in their office?

In any case, some law was probably broken by someone in that household.

Regarding the guns drawn while serving the search warrant, the only thing I can say is that yes, it appears silly to think that someone who just really cares about COVID procedures is going to kill some cops, but dumber things have happened that resulted in the death of a cop - things which they probably watched training videos on - and police have been trained to protect themselves first rather than risk being overpowered.

If she really did wait 20 minutes to come down after the police served the search warrant, I can't blame them for having their hackles up.
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You might bump into equal protection issues with that.
By fixing the existing infrastructure. We're getting lost in the technicalities here but private companies providing services doesn't displace public infrastructure or eliminate the need for state ownership and oversight.

What I'm saying is that a single state-run provider isn't a great model for most things, even critical things like utilities. The state can own the rights and build the things that only the state can, while the rest can be leased, shared, operated and maintained by multiple private organizations that compete to offer the best service without the regulatory incumbency.

Allowing use in return for upkeep and updates is a well-known model in many industries, especially real estate. It can be applied to the public sector easily. We're slowly seeing things change as private enterprise finds new ways like hyperlocal co-ops and distributed infrastructure like solar power, but there's still much more progress that can be made.
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/12/video-doesnt-show-suitcase...

>state officials told us that the full video shows the supposed “suitcases” were actually standard containers used to secure ballots, and that the ballots in question were opened and prepared for counting earlier in the night in full view of observers.

>On Dec. 5, Frances Watson, the chief investigator for the secretary of state’s office, said in an affidavit that after reviewing the video and conducting interviews, her investigators found “that observers and media were not asked to leave” but “simply left” after they saw workers, whose job was to open the ballots, leave. She said the investigation remains open.
No court has let them submit evidence. Maybe SCOTUS will maybe not. Don't act like they have had a chance to submit evidence yet.
There are significant incentives for anyone critical of Gebru to remain (publicly) silent.

1. If someone is to sign a petition for Gebru, what could they lose?

2. If someone were to speak out, under their name, against Gebru, what could they lose?

3. If someone is neutral on the issue and a pro Gebru petition gets passed around asking for support, what is the path of least resistance?

See also https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k77sxz/d_t...
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Well said, and I appreciate the irony.

For many years to come we will look back — in bewilderment — at the political decision to pursue herd immunity.

This certainly wasn’t the kind of focused, individual “bioerror” to which the bet referred, but an error (and one of many) it surely was.
To answer your question, I don't work at GitHub. And I really don't take offense to your simple request, but I do find it interesting how vehemently you are making your "simple request." I also don't think it's unreasonable to turn off JS. What I do think is unreasonable is turning off JS and then getting angry over the fact that few other people care about this scenario.

> Try to improve yourself.

Trying all the time, thanks for the reminder.
I've been seeing people packed in quite densely in many outdoor dining setups; other than the fact that they're outside there seems no risk awareness at all. It's very unfair to restaurants that do make an effort to limit table sizes and space people out as much as possible.