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> I'm sorry if the conservatives can't understand the difference between BLM people yelling in the streets, and Trump people searching the capitol for senators and representatives to stop a Constitutionally mandated vote count.

That is manifestly not the comparison being made. Antifa and BLM rioters burned down apartment buildings with people still inside in Kenosha. Over the summer, dozens of people were killed and there was billions of property damage (that's peoples homes and livelihoods, not just "stuff"). And Democratic politicians - including the VP-elect - provided bail for these criminals. Many democratic DAs in cities like Portland simply refused to press charges.

That being said, I abhor that Capitol police were attacked and that there were people who breached the Capitol with violent intent. But the deplatformings have gone well beyond the fringe few who actually engaged or promoted violence.
There's the correct answer.

You're seeing the fruits of 70+ years of conservatives telling their audience "Everything sucks now, and everything will suck more in the future, and those people over there are to blame for all of it".

This is the reason you're seeing so many educated, affluent people among those who stormed the Capitol - they're just really, REALLY pissed off.
How many "lone wolves" do you see in this clip[1]?

No one is saying that every member of that mob had intentions to kill. There is no doubt that some people in the mob did and they got shockingly close to having the opportunity to do it.

[1] - https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1348334770103660553
Their opposition loses any credibility to attack these few 100s when they accepted the BLM riots and looting as peaceful. Either stop picking sides and come up with a meaningful solution or you’re contributing to the problem.
Is the reason for this that smart TVs need to be able to add real-time video codecs (actually, just the decoders) on a shorter lead time than is possible with ASICs? TVs generally strike me as things where economies of scale make FPGAs look less attractive. Though, I clearly don't know much about the industry.
Thing is you can dress it up with ideas of vulnerable moments and apparatus and operations and a uniquely challenging time and all this. But this isn't about Trump, this isn't about now, this is about precedents. If something new and extreme is being done, almost always some extenuating factor will be found to try to justify it.

Trump is an unfortunate edge case and has set bad precedents that can hopefully be wisely washed away in time.

We need clearer and consistent norms in the digital space that are seen to embody the fundamental civic aspects of the nation from which this digital space arose. Such as equal access to certain things, the "dumb-pipes" model for the certain baseline trappings of modern society. Whether or not that means stripe here, I'm talking about the broader moment.

We don't want an escalating tit for tat of one bad thing leading to another. If the violence this summer had been dealt with more soundly, voices of leadership tamping it down instead of egging it on, it seems a good bet the recent activity at the capitol would have been more tame.

Similarly, we don't want to respond to a grasping, ineffectual, quasi-autocrat in the executive branch, with more effective autocratic tendencies in the techno-social sphere.
Yeah, they’re cowards - a bit - but let’s be honest they’re in the business of making money, not political activism (besides boilerplate corporate facade.)

Had they acted earlier they would have been punished heavily by the Trump clique, and most likely ousted by their own shareholders, to be replaced by executives that would have done precisely what they have done
Can you cite or link to What Trump said to incite the siege on the capital (as opposed to just getting people to its steps peacefully as he’s been talking about for 2 weeks)?

Honest question...I literally can’t find it anywhere.

I want to know what he said to incite violence. I assume he broke the law in-doing so as it’s illegal to call for violence I think.
While I do have an interpretation and thoughts on the specifics of said argument, I haven't actually stated any here so I'm not sure what you deemed to be the "vulgar interpretation".

I only claimed that it has been played out, which I used to mean it has entered a decent deal of public debate and progress on its application to current times seems to have stalled.

Personally I think the nuances here still very much need to be ironed out, as your presumptive comment on my potential stance illustrates it hasn't been on the cultural level yet. I just don't think public debate is likely to get there before some bigger event happens that makes the application no longer relevant, though I could very much be wrong there.
I find android way much simpler. On android every app has its own data and app directories, and you can uninstall, clear data or clear cache of apps safely. I know this method doesn't work out of the box with traditional desktop software that assumes a Unix like filesystem hierarchy. But Nix doesn't work out-of-the-box as well. I would be interested to know what other advantages Nix / GUIX bring in practical terms.
Stripe is a payment processor, you have a direct relationship with the customer, on the invoice is written your company details. With Paddle, on the invoice you'll see Paddle company details, all your customers pay Paddle, not your company. You won't have any legal or fiscal relationship with the customer.
> People should have to take a Civics based test to vote.

This has been tried in the US before, many times; some were Federal, but most were state and county level. You should probably read up on it before pitching this idea anymore, because it has never been a good thing.

Also, it's Unconstitutional.
> the "paradox of tolerance" has been more or less already hashed out today

Could you elaborate on this? This is a second time in very short period where I see arguments dismissing the paradox without explaining too well why, and as someone who happens to currently pretty much agree with Popper here, I would be curious to see if I would learn something here?
Personally I use Windows because I like the OS model, and the GUI, and the workflows.
Following the instructions from the manufacturer (fry a batch of potato peels very oily, salty and dark) years ago and then just using the pan ever since, doesn't really seem like a "major PITA" to me.

Incidentally, it's really good for flatbread :-)
So, you're telling me the response had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that almost all the 1/6 "protestors" were white, that that was just a coincidence? You're gonna have to provide more than "could it be," and "perhaps," if you want me to swallow that line.
> the likelihood of me actually diving into this is low

I was all the time thinking of this since "I've had a thought in the back of my mind to write a replacement".
A lot of people like it. Just because there are old timers that cannot move past gnome 2 it do not mean that Gnome 3 is bad. It faster and more polished that KDE. Workspace management and screen real estate is supierior to anything I used.
> My (hypothetical!) lack of objection to generic violence is not the same as active planning and encouragement of specific violence.

Yes there are varying levels of support. But frankly if you are going to take a position that is kinda moderately in favor of violence, then you really should not be pushing back so hard at the possibility that there are other people who were a bit more supportive of the violence than you are.

That is what I am pointing out. I'd put you at a 5/10, on the "is this person trying to justify the violence that happen". So if an average/random person such as yourself are going to moderately support the violence, then you really should not be so flabergasted at the suggestion that there were other people that were closer to an 8/10 on the "do they support violence" scale.
So true. It will accelerate the tech. Just wait until Musk enters the game.
I'm not one of the economists that knee jerk reject protectionism, but I don't think it would help that much either. Trading partners won't accept tariffs without reciprocating. The US might be big enough now to get away with this to some degree, but that won't last forever, and tariffs would probably accelerate that reduction in influence.

I'm all for tariffs when there is some other goal that makes sense (for example I think tariffs should bake in the cost of environmental or other regulatory compliance we have that the foreign trading partner does not).
This might be an interesting argument for municipal broadband which occurred to me last night: in that situation the ISP is in fact bound by the First Amendment, which limits its ability to do that sort of thing quite a bit...
What I love about the way I wrote this comment is that you read it as dismissing, and another reply read it as agreement, even though I did neither! But you're 100% right that "hashed out" needs more elaboration, which I think I covered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25725727

All that said, I don't intend to personally get into the nuances there today/here as I just don't find it to be good energy spent, but I'm sure you'll find many others in the comments going into that :)

Edit: I may return to this tomorrow if I have time, I actually really appreciate the wording of this reply. I'm just about to go to bed!
It's a pretty normal at our company but our employees are mostly Finnish.

For those not familiar with the "Finnish bus stop": https://twitter.com/eeroramo/status/1238524451509145603
Of course nobody can prove it. The rules are setup to be so loose that there is no way to prove any fraud. As I said below, registering to vote as an entirely fictional person is absurdly easy in many jurisdictions. In California, for instance, one can skip any identity checks by simply marking two checkboxes: one indicating they have no ID, and one indicating they have no social security number [1]. Voila - in under 2 minutes, you have invented a brand new, registered California voter. Combine this absurdity with automatically sent out mail-in ballots in many states, and you have a disaster waiting to happen.

[1] https://covr.sos.ca.gov/
This article seems to treat virtue points as inherently meaningful. The in-group is trying to change society in ways I agree with. The outgroup is trying to change society in ways that I disagree with, and may actually endanger people I care about. It's a fundamental conflict of values and ideas, with fairly high stakes. So pardon me (or don't) if I put practical matters higher than intangible virtue.
These recent Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone - wars are not flamewars perse. They are just endless anonymous pingpong with same wornout pieces of dried shit.

In Usenet flamewars were more personal and ended up in death threats often. Actual deaths occurred too, I remember one mass murder resulted from discussion in misc.invest. In Helsinki a women got facial lacerations from puukko-knife after a flamewar in Sfnet.
>Sedition is not a right

I've been seeing lots of people write things like this very recently. But honestly, when did you start using the word "sedition" and when did the word acquire emotional weight to you, as a dastardly crime? When and how do you think other people got familiar with the word?

If I'm being honest, my association with the word sedition before pretty recently was almost entirely a very dim memory of the Alien and Sedition Acts being mentioned in grade school. And an even dimmer memory that they were unpopular and probably unconstitutional.

It's not that I think it's necessarily wrong to use it, I just feel suddenly surrounded by people who are pretending that we all are used to using it and viscerally being outraged by people who commit it. Which feels weird since I can't remember seeing it in normal conversation in like 30+ years.

Maybe it sounds better than treason, perhaps because treason is a word right wing types like to use?
Java, https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/index.html

Ada, Fortran, Cobol as well.

This is specially relevant in the industrial sector with certified compilers.
Great quote!

I think that's right. If people use cannabis or alcohol when depressed, consistently, I think it digs a deeper hole. On the other hand, combining drugs with happy moments can create a state dependent memory that allows a "storing up" of positivity. Smoking cannabis at the top of mountains, before going to museums or at concerts -- it builds a state that -- i believe-- can come out during a neutral use. It's a key approach to "virtuous drug use", which I think is important to communicate as a possibility. For a moral society, better to associate drugs with moral behavior than immoral.
HN is technically a news aggregator with a comment section, but I’d say that qualifies as social media. I’m sure some would disagree with me.
> “The (BAPCO) traits are not what people expect. They expect the traits to be about challenges or difficulties, but instead there are six main traits — increased attention, increased memory, a preference for the object world vs. the social world and their environment, increased nonconformity, increased differences in sensory and perception, as well as systemizing.”

I’m very curious whether this theory is an opportunity to explore the high rate of overlap between ASD and ADHD.

Most or all of these are common in my experience and my understanding of ADHD, including increased attention (despite the unfortunate name collision).

This also reinforces my desire to look into an ASD diagnosis and hopefully better understand how my ticker brains.
“Eventually?” Everything already is bad.
> Also note their estimate is "per person." Cruise lines price rooms for at least double occupancy so they're actually saying you'll need $200/day, unless you're splitting with someone who has their own money.

I think you misread the article - it assumes you have a one person cabin and then says you could do it cheaper if two of you are together.

And yes, you will have to look for a good deal. This is the reality of cruising too, there are always heavy discounts which long term cruisers will take advantage of.
My parents are avid cruisers and have enough money to not need to be frugal, and even they do this - because what buys them a stateroom without a discount can sometimes buy them a suite with one.
Your position is that what I said is hyperbole. That's not projecting, that's a direct quote.

Hyperbole means exaggeration for effect, which is not what I did at all, in my view. So what would be necessary to happen for your position to change - which you really did make abundantly clear that my reality and description of reality is hyperbole. What I said is completely intended to be taken literally. What [else] would need to happen for you to take what I said as the literal and most accurate way of describing reality?
If such a thing would be so unsurprising, you should have no problem finding and citing those examples. Your only justification so far seems to be a combination of "both sides are the same" and "well some people don't object to all violence".

My argument is that, well no, both sides aren't the same, as shown by the fact that only one set of protestors was openly advocating for and planning to attack people. The burden of proof is on you to show that they both sides are in fact the same. I obviously can't prove a negative, and so far you haven't provided anything concrete.
It Looks Like Apple and Hyundai May Be Teaming Up on Cars After All
What's wrong with allowing fundamentally different worldviews? Today's secular status quo would not exist without such privilege. Seems hypocritical to turn around and deny it to others.
You are right. They wouldn't care less about Uyghur Muslims being put in concentration camps and indulging in forced labour if they can meet their production targets and be profitable.

And before we forget, ISIS literally used Twitter to propagate Islamist ideology until it was finally banned after 2 years of damage being already done! These social media platforms were directly responsible for enabling ISIS to spread its propaganda across the globe and helping in recruiting foreign fighters. These social media companies did nothing until it required Government intervention.
A bunch of people just invaded your seat of government, killed an officer, quite possibly had much worse plans than what they actually did which only barely got avoided because the elected representatives got to safety and a suicide bomber just blew up half an office block and you are going on about bonfires in this thread as though there is some kind of equivalency. And all that before we're getting into why they did all that: a pack of lies versus many many decades of actual oppression. Stop already and re-calibrate your sense of what is normal and what isn't, because if you don't you are at risk of becoming part of the problem.

This thread is about the youtube channel of one of the instigators of this insane action against your elected officials being banned. The BLM riots - which certainly had bad aspects - are off-topic and any attempt to drag them in here is simply whataboutism.
https://deadline.com/2021/01/parler-ceo-says-service-dropped...

> “We’re going to try our best to get back online as quickly as possible. But we’re having a lot of trouble because every vendor we talk to says they won’t work with us. Because if Apple doesn’t approve and Google doesn’t approve, they won’t.”
0. That looks like a mob fighting police. If there were a few more yellow vests it could be France. A few more chants of "All cops are bad" and it could be footage from 2020.

There are no pipe bombs. No guns. They do not deploy zip ties.
Except that’s still twisting it. A more accurate representation is “what goes around goes around”.
(Pretty sure 100% in that sentence means “certainly.”)
If you think that CNN is as far left as OAN and The Daily Caller are to the right, I've got some oceanfront property in Arizona to sell you.
I don't think you're hearing me. I said I don't give a mosquito's dick about either of you. If you want to burn down your neighborhoods, go right ahead. You go to the Capitol to commit violence, it's an entirely different story. A coup is orders of magnitude more serious than street violence. You act as though thugs beating each other up in the streets is the same as thugs coming to the capitol to beat up our senators in an attempt to thwart the Constitution. It's not. I don't care whether or not you understand that it's not. It's gone way too far, and it's time to bring things back in hand. Be mad if it brings you comfort, but keep your thugs in the streets and away from our capitol and political leaders.

You seem pretty bothered by the street violence, I would advise you to stay away from the Capitol and instead report the street violence to your local constabulary. That's the best I can do for you.
Day of poll. 45% of Republicans approve of the storming of the Capitol building
https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...

More data needed, but it could be an example of folks not realizing how hot the potato was in the first poll. And dropped it by the second poll.
Not Trump, Parler was full of seditious calls for violence against politicians. And Parler was either unwilling or unable to delete all of it.
I was just giving you plausible explanations. But sure it's always easy to say "X" got away with this because of white privilege.

I don't think that Mayor Bowser refused to get additional law enforcment because of white privilege.
Science and Technology of the Casimir Effect
> Ada even had $billions in backing, and faded.

Yet, NVidia picked it up over Rust, go figure.
It has more to do with the fact that logistics is crazy expensive at the moment because we don’t have the capacity to do most shopping online, ship COVID vaccines, and process returns.
Can someone explain why this is downvoted?
I think one valuable insight is that blind hate can twist the mind and soul of an individual, even if the hated group is clearly in the wrong. When you dehumanize others, you give up some of your own humanity.

It is one thing to make a stand and say something is wrong, it is another to give in to tribalism and lose perspective.

>I’m sure there’s more nuance in the article but I honestly couldn’t get past this passage. And I’m comfortable with the fact that my tolerance has limits, including not treating nazis and German Jews as somehow morally equivalent in conflict, even rhetorically.

The article did not touch on moral evaluations. It explored tribalism as a human tendency, how it manifests, and it who it targets. The example of Jews and Nazis illustrates this point.
I can also say by having lived there that it is the same for Germany, Switzerland, Spain and Italy. There will always be an exception to the norm, but it is clear that Whatsapp is the number one tool for instant messaging/calling.
There are other productive activities besides those that increase your wealth. For example, if I'm trying to learn an instrument, then I would consider practicing to be a productive activity. In this sense productivity is not a scam at all; it's a necessity to live a good life.

Speaking purely in terms of money: yes, doubling the productivity of those working for you is better than doubling your own productivity. But many of us don't have that option. If you are a normal employee, increasing your productivity is one of the few ways to increase your earnings.
Blërg, a microblogging platform
Imagine what would happen if Trump comes back and says:

"Our store is only accepting Bitcoin, Ethereum and Monero as payment methods"

Could spearhead the shift to decentralized cryptocurrencies.
This man has written some brilliant articles, and this is not one of them.

Far as I can make sense of his somewhat roundabout reasoning, he's trying to say that if you tolerate everyone "except" some group, you're not really tolerant, because being tolerant is about accepting what you find distasteful.

Except this rather stupidly implies an equivalency between "accepting gay people" and "accepting people who hate gay people."

How fucking hard is this? Accept everyone except the racists and bigots. This isn't quantum mechanics. Nobody's missing out by kicking the nazis off the platform. I don't even remotely buy this argument that I have to accept the far right into my heart or else I'm not truly tolerant.
The same algorithm in SW is drastically cheaper to implement even before you get to anything else you need for Hw. Everything else is gravy on top.
A car sales, or a house rental contract.

Both can be around 20 - 50 pages long, all of it written in such language.
It is such a shame that we have, in 2021, no way to perform secure computations in untrusted environment. Signal at least had the decency to try for Secure Value Recovery even if Intel SGX as a technology is not really mature.

So, what is the Telegram excuse for not being able to put the same amount of effort? That sounds dubious to say it is reasonable when in fact it is only the very bare minimum that everyone does.

As a matter of fact, trusted computing is a very active and practical field as far as I know.
For those curious: https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1346536580295626754

It looks like they're reverse engineering an iOS app
My question is - what is the end they’re working towards?
The Clojure functional equivalent, approximately, of iterators is the ISeq interface, and lazy sequences etc that work with it. It's fast. You just don't have to deal with iterators manually.