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> This is going to piss people off and some of those people are going to be real, nothing-to-lose extremists

Sometimes certain things need to be dealt with by force, there's no way around it.

It seems that that freedom of speech is not the cause of stability, but stability gives rise to (certain degrees) of freedom of speech. It's a slippery slope, but each country has to have a moral basis on which to decide where to draw the line.
> I agree lies are bad. But lying is enough to get you banned?

It wasn't on Tuesday. It is now. Things are clearer.

The lies were frankly only the proximate cause. Bannon and his guests have often veered into the kind of violent rhetoric that begat Wednesday's assault on congress. Bringing Giuliani on to continue to inflame people makes it clear Bannon has no intention of stopping. So he's out.
I believe that was what I was trying to highlight by giving that example. Their strategy is not perfect.

This is one of the cons of letting one team decide about the future of the project without letting people challenge their decisions.
I'd be perfectly happy being lumped in with the Sys Admins. They are, in most companies, the most misunderstood role. There's an expression that basically says "When things are going great, everyone wonders what sysadmin does. When things are going poorly, everyone wonders what sysdamin does". A good sysadmin team is amazing and, in many cases, vital to a successful business.

I think the only other role that gets ignored as much is the Executive Assistant(s). Much like sysadmin, good ones make sure everything runs smoothly, and should be prized like gold.

Being viewed as a value multiplier (like good instances of the above should be) is a fine goal in life.
Zeitgeist is not coordinated.
Were about to find out, apparently conservatives need to "build their own"
I've been the client engineer before, trying to get through the opaque 'solution support' folks to the actual engineers of the product. No dice. We could never get the problem solved and we ended up ditching the product.
To be honest, I would probably fit RDS more into the infrastructure layer than the application layer. I think there is value in having things at that level be managed.
There is a difference between eight months of protests in which 15-26 million people participated across the entire country resulting in significant property damage and some loss of life (~25 people), and what happened last week.

Let’s call what happened last week what it was: a terrorist attack against the seat of government perpetrated by the ruling party in an attempt to overturn a democratic election.

You need to take a serious look in the mirror and ask if you’re the bad guy. As arch-conservative a figure as Mitch McConnell describes this as a failed insurrection and you make excuses for it.
Could it be because they saw cases of other nurses or doctors using PPE still getting it because of the amount of exposure?
Calling what happened mere "lying" is reductive and completely fails to capture the seriousness of the offense, here.
Funny you'd post that in here because MacOS sucks at this and Windows does a great job. In fact arguably the engineering mind worked great there. The file open dialog in Windows is just a repurposed Windows Explorer view which means you can access all the things you can from explorer when opening and saving including things like unzipping a zip file, renaming some existing file that's in the way (like file.txt -> file-old.txt and then saving the current file as file.txt), moving files (create a folder "old", drag file.txt info old, save the new file as file.txt where the old file.txt was.

Basically you can actually do the things you often need to do. Conversely on MacOS if you need to do any of those things your only option is to use Finder which really sucks because you then have navigate to wherever you were in the app

And of course you can set the icon size in Windows file dialogs, something you can't do in MacOS file open/save dialog

So in this case, thank god the engineering mindset won out in Windows, at least for this particular feature. Whatever UX designer on MacOS decided to neuter the file dialogs failed UX class apparently and chose based on some random airfairy idea then users actually getting work done.
> The irony is that this is actually a good reason to drag the car manufacturers to the table and compel them to fix it from their end.

The solution is having the balls to lay down good policy/regulation. There is no point forcing car companies to use a certain algorithm, for example, but it's not unreasonable to build a standard basket of problematic road signs which the car must pass - e.g. a cattle grid isn't too bad, but if a driverless car doesn't stop for a speed limit outside a school the company should have some liability.
China's Baidu to create an intelligent EV company with automaker Geely
You can direct message @tmobilehelp on Twitter and you get access to the same representatives that respond to public complaints, without actually having to publicly complain.

I'm not sure if this is intended behavior (or if it works with other companies), but it solves my problems quickly.
I just want a client that auto connects me a set number of minutes before the meeting. And other “smart client” basic features.

I have zoom meetings that prompt me for my name every time. I don’t want to create a zoom profile, I don’t want to login in. I just want it to remember my name, on the client.

I think stuff like this will get ironed out now that folks are using it day in and day out. Although, it’s still funny how it hasn’t hit 100% yet. My org has been 100% teleworking since April and last week someone said “this is the first time I’ve done a Teams meeting.” I was so curious and wanted to figure out how she’s avoided any video calls (my org is 100% Teams) for so long.
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Appreciate that response. I was referring to conspiracy to commit tortious interference civilly. And you're right, RICO or similar in a criminal case would require a much higher standard of proof.
Thank you for that hint! I always thought it wasn't possible, so I didn't even try typing.
> This is why Free desktop operating systems are a joke and haven’t been popularly adopted

Free OSs have been doing very well. The ultimate reason I 100% switched to Free OSs was because I couldn't stand software crashing at random points in time anymore. With Windows (especially 98 like in the article) anything can crash, during boot, Explorer, Word, the Desktop, and in the past it did. Maybe part of the reason Free OSs did better at this is that they did solve things differently and didn't implement every single feature. That said, Free OSs offer other features: focus follows mouse, configurable window behavior, virtual screens etc. I think this is why I will never be able to use Windows again because it feels just too constrained.

Nowadays I use macOS for Desktop though but only because they make such nice hardware. It's only a question of time until I either install Linux or get a new Laptop with Linux.
It is indeed true and so is what Atkinson has described. The whole series of events is a full scale witch hunt operation rinse and repeated.

Other were hunted down like this but no-one noticed until the President became the next target.
I'm a cynic. I doubt they will follow up since the initial report will be used to arrive at the conclusion most people seem to want anyways. If the researchers do follow up and find a non-racist cause it will be ignored.
> It simply does not demonstrate that. It is not evidence of incitement. It just isn't.

Can you explain why exactly it isn't? This claim is repeatedly made, but it has no backing rationale which I would like to understand.
They wouldn't be rushing out these executive orders now if there was any faith the Biden administration would implement them given the chance.
Lying was allowed because it made Google money, and it would have been unqualifiedly allowed until the end of time if it hadn't started getting people killed.

Rest assured, though, lying will continue to be allowed except for this one lie for this one moment in time until this blows over. Google will be happy to let any content through as long as it makes money and they can get away with it without facing consequences.
It loaded for me eventually, just froze the tab for a few seconds before it was did. A massive amount of time is spent parsing a 14MB CSV file.
That seems reasonable. Of course, it wouldn't be useful as a defense in a civil case. (And, indictments for what? Section 230 protects Parler anyway.)
What else do you call it when those people arguing in support of someone who incited a mob on the Capitol?
How does it cost 70 grand to level a cattle grid?
Energy Vault – Gravitational Batteries
Idle Finance
That’s probably covered under DARPA – though other academic and government networks were also involved.
Hrm, I can’t seem to edit this for some reason.

I’m not being conspiratorial, although upon rereading I could see someone make that assumption. What I mean is that Trump is so hated that reversing his policies score political wins, regardless of the actual policy—much like how Obama was treated by the radical right. Trump has taken a harder line than previous presidents on China, although to be sure he has done a shit job of it if he actually wanted to stress the CCP. Any liberal politician can expect sweet lobbying on behalf of China-friendly interests, and score political points by reversing Trump’s China policies. Win-win for anyone that doesn’t actually care about the freedoms of the Chinese people.

Similar things can be said about other Trump policies that are actually good, like the NASA Artemis project and Space Force. Expect them to get severely defunded under a Biden administration, even though they are actually good bipartisan policies prior to Trump.

I’m NOT a trump supporter. But I evaluate his and any other politician’s policies on a case by case basis. I hope that Biden does the same, but I’m not naïve enough to expect it.
How do you quantify quality without manually choosing only a few mainstream content producers?
I personally don't know the full history; you might consider looking for some old blog posts or politely contacting a GNOME developer for an explanation of the history. From what I understand, the run up to mobile was a major source of funding for GNOME 2 from several mobile companies, and that's where all the developers came from, but most of those companies were not able to keep up and failed to iOS/Android. So the funding dried up and Red Hat was one of the few companies that happened to survive because of their other business. That's what I've heard but you should talk to more people who were actually involved in the project back then if you want a more complete answer. (Please assume good faith and don't be hostile, we're all friends here, these are just developers trying to pay the bills like the rest of us)
Sounds like they don't want advertisement
Gravitricity – Gravitational Batteries
Given that we've seen multiple examples in both TFA and other comments in the discussion here pointing to simple bugs that have A) been open for 10+ years and/or B) locked and closed as WONTFIX, I don't know if that "plus side" is valid here.
Very well said. The critical point is that society is constantly balancing different factors. Sometimes, the balance has been good enough for long enough that we don't even see it. We were in that situation until Trump arrived. During that time, we grew accustomed to talking about our liberties in a way that lacks any depth or nuance.
Trump to this day has an approval rate of around 40%. That is a pretty large “periphery”. You can not just seperate him from the Republican party. They tried and failed.
Yes, there are. By density you'll probably find most of them in Munich or Berlin. Some fields are of course more amenable to one or the other style (e.g. automotive middleware is not going to be done SV-like), and I wouldn't have high hopes with large, old, traditionally non-software companies. I would look at startups/small/medium companies where the founder(s) come from an engineering background.
You're almost asking the parent to prove a negative, by positing the imminent or foreseeable death of the established economy and asking someone to argue against it.
> Antifa's not an organized thing

While there may be no central leadership, there are definitely organized chapters. That's exactly what they would like people to believe. And yet, they seem to act in an incredibly organized fashion...
Violent riots have happened many times based on media lies. That part is not novel.
Except Twitter is for Republicans too. And many of them like Bill Kristol turned against Trump because of his behavior. Many that still support Trump have managed to stay on Twitter because they act responsibly.

The problem with Parker and Gab is that they are only for the problem users. In fact, in an interview with Kara Swisher the CEO said that they have panels of volunteers that judge whether a post should be removed. The blind leading the blind.
Trump never advocated for violent overthrow of the government.
I guess he had to do it that way in order to be able to learn it at all.

Quite a remarkable level of determination.
Are they being rushed out?

What is the play with Biden and China? It makes no sense to any part of his base, and it just reeks of koolaid-drinking.
This is not happening on a Pixel 4a 5G in the U.S.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16n39frZkH3ue3Ptwq2-xwu2LE80...
You want webex. Its not auto, but it pops up with a countdown letting you know when it's possible to join a call, typically 5 minutes prior to the meeting. This fixes the problem of everyone joining in 2 minutes after their last outlook alert.
Oh my god I had excised this from my memory.

So many times I would go to a folder, start typing the name of a file/sub folder that I knew was there and it was like “nope! Let’s instead search whatever default directory instead. Apparently this behaviour is by design and alternatives won’t be considered. (This was when I was using Ubuntu 18/19?) at some point they changed a bunch of default things in the UI interface (including getting rid of what I considered was the far superior previous lock screen manager).
I don't think they could take the market loss and stay in business. There'd be a lot of idle land and a lot of unemployed farmers. I guess they could eat their own mono-crops for awhile. Mmmm, corn.
Archive.is link for paywall bypass: https://archive.is/jNxAB
I had no idea Hogarth had done this. The collection in Sir John Soane's house focusses on 'the rakes progress' and aside from that I only knew of religious works.
“Communist Chinese military company”

Straight from the office of Ministry of Truth.

Among them, Huawei - we all know - but This time Hikvision made the list as well. Frankly, I actually do support not buying Hikvision cameras or any other device that is cloud based that phones home your location and activity.
They responded to a post about humans not being suited for carnivorous diets by saying they ate a very low carb diet, therefore that report about humans not being suited for carnivorous diets is wrong or they're a super hero.

So my question to them was what they meant by that. They seemed to be implying that their low carb diet was very high in protein and low in anything not protein, or their statement was a non sequitur.
I’ve noticed that too. Seems that no matter what I post I get downvotes. Typically without any explanation or response.
I hate how Telegram runs around telling everyone they are "encrypted". They pray on people who don't know the intricate details of encryption. Which is, understandably, most people. This post I'm making right now is exactly as encrypted as a Telegram chat.
Why is excluding the far-right a thing associated specifically with the far-left? Would politically moderate people not also want to exclude eg. Nazis?
Unfortunately, none of Trump's political views are in any way outside of the mainstream for the Republican Party. Even most of the conspiracy theories he believes in are boilerplate Fox News/right-wing talk radio fare. If Trump had handled COVID better and not gone insane seeing leftist boogeymen everywhere, he might have won.

The Republicans will distance themselves from Trump because it's the most politically expedient thing to do, but if they've learned anything, its how potent Trumpism can be, and that they just need a more competent demagogue to harness it next time.
The web design on this page is hilarious. They certainly get the point across regarding the potential energy.
Just show people what I watch! Joking aside, I think they have some sharp minds that can tackle this.
Any idea who is hosting them now?
I've actually asked this question in an interview before to a candidate. "Is there anything about the process you work in now that you would change, and how would you do it differently?"
I had socialist/communist/anarchist friends throughout college talk about the need to use guillotines.
Gab is a free speech-oriented social media platform similar to Parler. They position themselves as a home for users censored by mainstream social media platforms. In practice, Gab tends to attract racist, far-right, and extreme anti-government users.

Many people who stormed the capitol on January 6 discussed their plans ahead of time on Gab. US Senator Mark Warner wrote an open letter [0] to Gab in which he asked them to preserve all posts related to that attack.

Unlike Parler, Gab has a robust technology stack and operates independently of major cloud providers and payment processors. They were kicked off all those platforms years ago [1], just as Parler is getting evicted from them now. I suspect Gab will replace Parler as the platform of choice for QAnon proponents and the more fervent Trump supporters. For this reason, as well as for the extreme test case Gab represents for the 1st Amendment, I think Gab is worth watching.

[0] https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/0/f/0f7317...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)#2019%E2%8...
Yes, incredibly frustrating. Lots of the media played along with it as well.
Says a paper owned by Rupert Murdoch's New Corp.... He has been manipulating media longer than any Big Tech.
I guess a can’t refute your hypothetical here, but the process it describes is ridiculously brittle. It seems utterly unbelievable to think all it takes to overthrow the US government is disrupting a single ceremonious formality. That surely cannot be expected to withstand the test of time on merely goodwill and tradition.
Apologies trying to add citations.

You can actually find an archive dump of the laptop on the internet yourself (there’s emails, photos, etc).

I linked to the actual full senate report. See below:

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Rep...

Most of the videos about this have been scrubbed / are not searchable on Google or YouTube. DuckDuckGo will let you search some stuff.

The laptop doesn’t directly link Joe Biden. However, Joe Biden did use airforce two to fly himself and son to China. Shortly after Hunter closed a deal with China.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/29/secret-service...

Joe Biden’s brother James is also under investigation.

Brother: https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/22/while-the-spotlight-shi...
I think that Apple and Google should definitely be broken up or somehow regulated because they act as gatekeepers and there are no viable alternatives. Especially Apple where there is no way to even sideload an application. And I say this as an Apple user. But there's no guarantee what would happen even if there were five mobile platforms. In such parallel universe all five would maybe take the same action. However I don't think that other platforms which took some drastic actions last week are gatekeepers and I don't see a point in regulating them (Stripe, Twitter, AWS)

Regarding collecting money there should definitely be some government sponsored alternative solution for quick inter-bank transfers. In my country political parties collect donations by bank transfers. They provide an IBAN account number and anyone can send money to that account from any other bank in the EU. Same with private initiatives. Recently there was an earthquake in my home country which did some damage to a smaller city and most donation initiatives were collecting through bank accounts. The central bank runs the infrastructure for inter-bank communication (basically a clearing house). Right now they are working on a system where you will be able to associate your phone number and/or an email address to an IBAN (basically a DNS-like service) so you won't even need to know someone's IBAN to send them money.
From the article:

To create a "virtually smooth ride across the grid", highways teams spent a month raising about 90ft (27.4m) of road and redesigning the "carriageway approaches".
Just categorizing everyone protesting as "fascists" is ignorant. These people think the election was rigged, and they don't trust institutions. They think that our democracy is at risk, and your solution is to push them, deplatform them, and remove all hope of legal political influence?

Reacting to this anxiety with force is going to cause a war if it continues.
Ask HN: What do you do to make you feel alive in a stressful job?
I find myself under so much pressure that I cannot control. Yet, historically I've always performed much worse when I was actually expected to be more productive. I think the reason for that is I feel like I'm losing control of many things in life and I just don't feel alive if I were to do my job 24/7 (and don't get me wrong: I like my job, just not this much work load). I've thought about starting a side project, but given my result-oriented personality, I guess that'll not fulfill me as I'll always try to monetize the side project anyway. Plus, setting time aside for another project when I already am under stress of finishing my current job does not make sense at the moment.

I was wondering, can anyone give me suggestions or personal stories about how to feel alive and in control, when everything around you pushes you to the edge and constant anxiety is about to break you from inside?
The AWS banning is what really concerns me. It's a clear escalation. First it's the app level (breached by Apple and Google), then the infrastructure level (breached by AWS - although there are alternatives here. Next up is DNS, I guess? And after that, routing. The ultimate Internet Death Penalty.
What's the alternative? No other country produces more megacap public companies.
This advice definitely applies to open source developers whose work is out completely in the open.

You can literally take millions of lines of code that they may have written wholesale, and change a single word in it that you don’t like.

In open source, they have nowhere to hide. If you disagree with a certain decision they have made, you are welcome to take the effort they have put in to implement the hundreds and thousands of other decisions they have made that you do agree with, with a simple “git clone”.
> But the point is where was most of the planning for violence done?

There are two questions here - impact and optics. You are asking the former, but it’s likely the latter that caused trouble.

A smaller platform with larger percentage of offensive messages will look worse than a larger platform with a small percentage even if the total impact of the large platform is 100 time more.