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> Many consider "effective moderation" a purge of everyone who doesn't adhere completely to their cultural orthodoxy.

This is clearly a strawman argument and frankly such an already polarized statement that I'm not sure there's any point replying.

But, I will say this: I'll bet if Parler simply took threats of violence and incitement on their site seriously and agreed to move to proactively remove that kind of content, they wouldn't be in this position.

Unfortunately, their entire pitch as a platform is to not moderate at all. To that end, their CEO has outright stated they will not moderate their site in any way, and as a result there's some truly scary content on that site from individuals who are literally advocating for the murder of those they view as political enemies.

And if not calling for murder and violence is "cultural orthodoxy", well, I guess I'm pretty orthodox and I'd hope you are, too.

As for Parler, their position on moderation always put them in direct violation of the Amazon/Google/Apple ToS for their various services.

The real mystery is why nothing was done to this point.
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I think the article misses the point, a bit. I am not familiar with Mises directly, but I read Hayek, who also analysed this price information problem.

This article frames the monetary price issue as an issue about profits - without prices manufacturers do not know if doing something will be profitable or not. That might be true but that is secondary. The main point to me seemed that the prices, as they are formed on the market, tell individuals what to do and what not to do in the social interest.

Example: imagine in some city one district has a water shortage. Quickly the people there will start offering higher prices for water. Then someone who is willing to work for social good can look at those prices to determine the needs of the people. Or put it another way - if you want to help society you should do things with highest monetary rewards. It is not tied to profit, as you can choose to do those things even at a loss for yourself. The prices just give you the information you need evaluate the needs.

Few nice consequence of this: 1) even the greedy people will end up doing good for society, since they will be chasing those same price signals; 2) people are rewarded in accordance to how much they are able or willing to contribute.
All modern democracies have tools in place to protect minorities. It's never as simple as a bare majority imposing its will.

Ironically, it leads to the exact opposite, where certain minorities express disproportionate power. For example, the rules always favor the status quo, so a minority in power can retain power, and subvert even largish majorities from passing rules they favor.

Democracy may well be the least worst form of government, but it's even worse than I think most people give it credit for. The assumption is that at least half the people are happy with at least half of the results, and it doesn't even guarantee that much.
Or, depending on how you implement it l, imposing the will of the minority (red state populations) on a majority
Putting those people committing the act you mentioned on trial and proceeds from that.

Wait until Parler is sued or prosecuted, and if a court order to shut it down. Go ahead.

There are already tools to deal with bad actors, it's the knee-jerk reactions that I don't like.
I'll return the favor and consider your reply as a strawman. But even then, let's compare Ben Franklin's capital outlay vs the Federal government's in DARPA.

Issue is not IP. Did I mention IP? There are extant congressional records of discussions in Congress regarding gifting this technology to "business" in service of the American public (one presumes). There is an implicit social contract at work here.
Yeah, they did it few years ago https://sociable.co/social-media/twitter-puts-rss-on-death-r...
It isn’t like a coin flip though. You can sell the option before expiration. And the seller of the option is harvesting premiums for their own reasons. The whole game is much more complex. I haven’t thought about whether it’s zero sum in super great detail but my gut says it isn’t.
Sadly most programmers are introverted and not well-articulated (which is much worse than being introverted). So when it comes to them you are quite right.

However, as a counterpoint to yours, even those of us who can communicate quite clearly get met with very ugly accusations of ripping customers off. People simply come to you with a preconceived notion about how much something must cost (in terms of money, effort and time) and they are absolutely not willing to change that notion -- even if they are on the side of the pure imagination and you are on the side of the facts.

It's basic psychology that many of us had to learn even if we never wanted to.
Hancock is a lack-talent idiot. It takes real skill to be a worse secretary of health than both Hunt and Lansley, but he's somehow managed it.

He'll say whatever he thinks is popular at the time.

Here he is calling for tighter regulation of social media: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/internet-laws...

> New laws will be introduced aimed at tackling the internet “wild west” and making Britain the “safest place in the world” to be online, the culture secretary has said.

> The largest social media companies could be fined billions of pounds if they do not take steps to protect users, Matt Hancock warned.

> A new code of practice to tackle online bullying, stricter age verification requirements, and a regular internet safety transparency report to keep tabs on online abuse could also be included in new legislation.

> Measures to tackle online harm could be funded through an industry-wide levy on firms such Facebook and Twitter.
Your post inspired me to track down an old essay I saw on arguing by definition:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cFzC996D7Jjds3vS9/arguing-by...
Now do the WHO!
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I don't own any TSLA, but the bull case would be that they have a 1000-mile head start on their competition, and a unique culture that allows them to be far nimbler than the GMs of the world. In 20 years, when we drive only electric cars, TSLA will be the near-monopolist of that market, similar to Google, Amazon, or Facebook.

I don't think I really believe that case, but that's the way the valuation is justified. It's not something that can be captured easily in a discounted cash flow model, because after a couple years you're basically just inventing numbers there. But if you knew for sure that TSLA would succeed in dominating the electric car market, you'd probably buy it at much higher prices than we see today.
Part of that seems to be the use of dramatic vocabulary:
"collapsing"
"hounds"

Or my favorite: "bomb cyclone"
Which could have been Windows as well, had Microsoft been serious with the POSIX subsystem.
On the basis of (mental) health concerns, one could conceivably and justifiably ban Twitter altogether.
This is what I said a year ago. You can’t moderate speech and come out the other side looking like a hero. You will only come be hated by everyone.
I’m amazed how a large portion of the Internet can hold two diametrically opposed ideas in their heads like this as the same time. Really bodes well for the next decade.

“You still have freedom of speech, but can only talk about subjects I approve of”.
>In the alternative they can be a platform, and may not take editorial control and only be required and allowed to remove content they are legally required to remove.

Any platform that tries to do this will quickly fill up with spam.
UK government minister belatedly finds out that adopting US based companies as pseudo official channels may be a mistake. Worrisome to see how far elected officials can be out of touch with reality.

I never understood why my own government seems to feel the need to jump on every social medium out there. It gives those legacy, leverage and goes against many years of tradition.
Companies are now shielded from the government when it comes to user generated content with Section 230. They are not, however, shielded from social justice. And there lies the problem.

Social spaces and infrastructure should be regulated so that they can be shielded from social justice and the government regarding user generated content.

No one will boycott twitter if they know twitter can't just press a button to ban. No one will ask for demonetization of a YouTube channel if they know that has to come from the legal system. Or pressure companies buying ads that show on channels you don't like
Lol Govts around the world are stupidly starting to think that they have a say in how private companies can regulate users on it. Lol users don't even pay for the bulk of social media & its mostly Govts/politicians/celebs who pay PR firms to manage their 'free'/ToS attached accounts. Talk about SelfAwareWolves
It's a marketing gimmick. And I guess it works since we're talking about it.
I don't see what questions are raised by twitters Liberal and Permissive minimal actions that haven't been raised already by Foxx's pure propaganda model...
Guess they should start then ?

Entering into a contract ('creating an account') is probably something you shouldn't do without reading the terms.
> † These tags

Could you explain the use of that "cross" symbol, versus what I use normally, [0] [1] etc. ?
It may not be exactly indispensable now, but they want to become such. In that light I think in ten years when they are your bank and whatever else, I think they will be indispensable.

In any case, I’m willing to listen.
One aspect of the UK is when we have snow, it's been a long time since the last snowfall and drivers will have time to adjust and in that time, things happen. This is true of first snow in all countries, though in many, they have had more experience.

The other factor is the UK road system is kinda densely used with many bottlenecks already and any factor will quickly increase that, so a few flakes will see drivers over or under compensate causing a ripple that can turn into waves very quickly.

But it's always fun. The dynamics of the UK weather sure do make for interesting repercussions and whilst those same dynamics play out in other countries, they are more stable and more adjusted to such things.

Just look at how lock-downs impact area's, peoples habits changing suddenly has ripple effects and in the UK - toilet roll is serious business.

Another way to view it is - a covering of snow, even less than 1CM in London is headline news in the UK. You probably have to look at Miami to get a comparable response to snow.
I think a lot of the dweb people first got interested in this area because they were on BBSes and so on sharing stuff like the anarchist's cookbook at risk of getting a visit by the FBI and used to think information wanted to be free.

Now they're adults, and have kept their interest in dweb technologies, but have come to see "dangerous speech" as a huge problem, and are waking up to the realization that their technical interests and goals would enable these kinds of things. And they're not happy about it, or at the very least are experiencing cognitive dissonance. But that was always the case, and for many, they were the unsavory people in their youth that the older folks were saying were participating in dangerous rhetoric and ought to be silenced or investigated, just like they are saying now about people who are saying things adjacent to things which are illegal.

At the very least we should seek consistency. If you support decentralized technology for speech, you should be happy with the net benefits and net harms. The alternative is the status quo. Arguably the spirit of the internet was not to have what we have now.
That has me concerned that nutjob right wing conspiracy theorists are going to flock to PeerTube just as they did voat and parler. So long as they maintain their own stuff which is what I understand as to how this all works, thats fine. I just wouldn't want their stuff to pop up in other instances so that they're filtered out by default.
React accepts less than 50% of contributions from outsiders
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In 2005 Nokia was still using HP-UX as our main UNIX deployment platform, and doing a Solaris port of NetAct cluster software, GNU/Linux was indeed seen as a toy still.
To be clear, I don't think rioting is ever morally justified. Peaceful protesting is a different matter.

The issue people had with the protests this summer wasn't that they were out protesting. It was the fact that literally everything else about daily life had been upended and we were all supposed to be locked down away from friends and family, unless of course you wanted to go protest, in which case you had full government, medical, and corporate blessing to go do whatever you wanted. Then when you were at the protest, you could burn down buildings and cause untold damage to property and the media would look straight-faced into the camera and call it "mostly peaceful".

Great. To that same standard the protests last week were "mostly peaceful". Hardly any of the people who actually showed up in DC were part of the storming of the capital.

My point about morality is that it is a poor justification for why an action is justified in one case and not in another. It basically ends up with "it's right when I do it, and wrong when you do it."

I don't necessarily agree with the conclusions the protesters this summer came to, but I can follow their line of reasoning and see why it is something they felt strongly about. In the same manner, you might not agree that there is a evidence that vote counts were manipulated in the November election, but if you start from that assumption, I think you would agree that someone might want to protest that.

I've heard it phrased that the social contract is basically, "Your rights are my responsibility." I think that's something worth striving for no matter your political position. I hope we can find the will to de-escalate things on both sides to the point that we can actually work towards that goal.
Ask HN: How can I track and improve my sleep quality?
I do not have a sleeping disorder and already sleep about 7.5 hours a day. That said I want to improve the quality of my sleep in a systematic way. Any key variables that I should track or experiment with?
As a non-American I see at least one positive in this hysteria: this time their war on terrorism will hopefully stay within their borders.

I really wish Americans well and hope this will not lead to new tortures, surveillance, attacks on free speech etc etc, although something is telling me that it will.
I'm talking about the value to society of free speech. I can't parse what you're talking about.
>My sense - and the sense of many working in climate science and media monitoring - is that there's a climate change denial industry

There is, which is why it's a disservice -- and unscientific -- to say things like: it's colder than usual today == climate change.

If you attribute every daily variance in the weather to the climate crisis, is it any wonder people stop believing or caring?
Given their past, I found it just a little rich, that IBM so publicly decried the recent "insurrection." [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/ArvindKrishna/status/1346932293991079936
In 1967 the black panthers invaded the California capitol building armed with rifles.

Over the summer of 2020 protestors laid siege to the Federal building in Portland for 100 days straight.

I can list tons of riots and violent direct actions that have happened over the years. Read about the NOW bombing in Philadelphia. Oklahoma City. Waco. The Weather Report. On and on and on.

Elevating the Jan 6th direct action, however scary, tragic, and misguided it might be, to some higher level of ‘coup’ or ‘insurrection’ isn’t rational.

It is another chapter in a long line of crazy events happening around political conflict in the US.

As such, it doesn’t, in my opinion, warrant rethink everything.
Perhaps they set up something that hooks into Trump's account to make a record of his tweets?
> Code, on the other hand, is a social constrution but entirely confined in an abstract and mathematical world.

Brian Cantrill had a good observation in a 2007 Google TechTalk introducing Dtrace:

> In software the blueprints are the machine. In software once you design the thing you've built it: the design is the machine. That's why the waterfall model is so fundamentally flawed. This idea that you could design the design before you design it, which is what the waterfall model is essentially saying, is flawed. Software is both, it's both information and machine. (@3m40s)

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6chLw2aodYQ

I originally ran across it on Google Video:

* http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8002801113289007228
The comment I was responding to seems to have been deleted, so I'm gonna leave this here:

TBH, I don't know and I don't care...

Twitter, FB, and even HN are not government agencies, and it's really getting tiresome to hear people complain they should act like one. I don't even use social media outside of imgur and HN. Its really getting annoying listening to whining about how so and so can't use their favorite echo chamber any more.

What happened to the conservative stronghold position that companies can refuse service as they see fit? Hell, isn't jack a buddhist? Maybe he's just started banning stuff that offends his religious beliefs? (As far as I know, he's still the majority owner of twitter, so he can basically call the shots.)

In short, there is no 'right to be on XXX' (FB, twitter, whatever) and private companies can and will de-platform you for a variety of reasons.

ps - thanks for the link. Sounds more like trying to justify the Uygur persecution then anything else.
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I think this is actually a great point because it shows how much grey there is in something you're trying to make black and white.

China is not declared a foreign enemy by law and yet the US government is actively using banning and sanctioning their otherwise legally operating companies. If they're not a foreign enemy, do they not have rights in the US?

This whole thing is only shades of grey. Pretending it is black and white makes an honest conversation about it impossible.
Forced sterilization is violence, and the glorification of it by any actor is glorification of violence. Certainly this highlights the power that a platform like Twitter has to silence people, but this specific deletion is not inconsistent with Twitter's policies, and it is not itself indicative of further movement down a slippery slope. But it does make it even more important for journalists to have systematic ways of holding Twitter to account should it overstep in the future.
That's going to be a pretty short release then.
So basically the reverse of Kazaa flooding vs BitTorrent DHT:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~srini/15-441/F11/lectures/21-p2p.pdf

I have had to deal with routing when building the Intercoin project. And spoke to several of the teams including at MaidSAFE. One way of selecting nodes from the global network is to have everyone’s IP addresses. But them you make the entire network susceptible to DDOS attacks. One of the advantages of an additional search layer (DNS, DHT etc.) on top of IP is that it can mitigate DDOS. The other is if the IP actually changes.

Just one of many discussions about the economics of fetching files: https://safenetforum.org/t/how-does-maidsafe-prevent-ddos-at...
Ask HN: Are you preparing for a market crash? How?
I see a lot of posts and comments here HN "predicting the inevitable" and I'm wondering what market strategies you are employing to prepare?
You’re telling a group of people who lost their livelihoods and who watched their cities smolder for six months as far left militias committed crime after crime to “sit down and shut up”.

Has that strategy ever worked, in history?

Calling it an “insurrection” that a single demonstration at the capitol happened after six months of weekly to daily gang activity from far left militias promoted by politicians is just gaslighting.

The pearl clutching about “appeasement” when Kamala Harris advocated for rioting and multiple prominent Democrats created bail funds supporting far left violence is laughable.

The reason the DC event happened was because you already tried a media blackout of their concerns and telling them to shut up. They forcibly told you “no”.

Now what?
The article actually talks about their record:

> in late 1997, as the S&P 500 passed its previous 1929 peak of 21x earnings, we rapidly sold down our discretionary U.S. equity positions then watched in horror as the market went to 35x on rising earnings. We lost half our Asset Allocation book of business but in the ensuing decline we much more than made up our losses.

For the average investor it might be overly bold to step out of the stock market entirely in times like these. However, there's nothing wrong with moving to a more conservative allocation that will do better in crashes, but still perform reasonably well if you hold it that way forever. A great place to start is the sample portfolios at portfoliocharts.com.

If you're 25 and saving to retire at 65 then maybe don't worry about it, but if you're 50 that's another matter.
Social media platforms are already happy with acting as publishers without taking responsibility for its content.
>crying wolf

The thing that struck me with the headline was the use of "arctic hounds" as an unnecessary metaphor (to help sensationalize). Now, with your comment, it maybe just seems all too fitting. Metametaphor.
Ask HN: Should I switch from Chargebee to Paddle for my SaaS?
Hi all.

At the moment I am using Chargebee for my SaaS, the product is excellent but it requires me to have accounts with Stripe and PayPal and, more importantly, handle everything myself including VAT, which I hate (I'm in the EU).

I know that Paddle, as a merchant of record, handles tax and several other things, and I like the idea of receiving just one reverse invoice per month which would make accounting easier too.

The problem is that since I launched a few months ago I already collected some 10s of subscriptions, mostly on the free plan but some are paid so the customers have provided payment details now stored either in Stripe or PayPal depending on what they chose.

So the main question is, is there a way to migrate from Chargebee to Paddle without asking my users to resubscribe with the new system? That would be pretty bad and I would very much prefer avoiding it. Has anyone here done this kind of migration?

Thanks!
Not at all. There is much more to capital markets than just betting on a number without any meaning. There is something under that number.

Maybe you're confusing options and "binary options"?
I suggest you have no idea what you are talking about.

Nietzsche never used a word of jargon. He made a large number of extremely direct claims. "God is dead" is hardly content-free, is it? As for pandering to his audience for instant success, he mocked every piety that existed in Wilhelmine Germany, alienated most of his friends, and went mad.
No, these only happen once or twice in a career. The sample size is too small. They are hard for anyone to get exactly right. Someone who nails the top this time around is much more likely to have been lucky than skillful.
Don't let the laid-back nature of this video fool you, this guy has been spot on with TSLA going back at least 2 years. Helped me ride out a 20x return on the stock. He provides a rational way to value TSLA at these levels.

Nobody is saying Tesla won't have a pullback, and it could be a serious pullback, but over the next 5 to 10 years, a lot of investors can see the company being a multi-trillion market cap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKCZu1-o7iY