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What about a decapitation strike resulting in the deaths of competing constitutional officers by allies of the president with the intent of subverting the peaceful transfer of presidential power? Would that not qualify as a threat to the republic?

In other words, what if the mob had gotten its hands on Pence, Pelosi, Grassley, or others? Don't you think that would have been a bigger deal than what transpired with Snowden?

Incidentally, there are reports that a number of Republican members of Congress voted in favor of the president on Wednesday because they feared for the safety of their families. It seems plausible that they might have been influenced by the rioters chanting "hang Mike Pence" as they entered the Capitol. Legislators voting against their judgement because of extortion seems a significant threat to the democratic order.
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“vzkvět” is a word in Czech that is pronounced in one syllable, exactly how it's spelled, of course.

The Dutch word “striktst” is of course also pronounced exactly how it's spelled, and in one syllable.
Haha good point. Violence, guns, big trucks and beards are their expressions of masculinity. Conservatism is big on clear division of gender roles, patriarchy and the role of a strong man as the head of the family. IANAP, but there's probably a link there.
Yeah imagine there was a plan except "show up to a rally at this time in this place."
Since the /etc pronunciation was first in the list, I initially thought this might be some joke list of crazy pronunciations until I saw the rest. Do people really say "etsy" when referring to /etc?

I've never ever heard anyone say this. Usually I hear the spelled out E-T-C and occasionally "et cetera" but never "etsy"
I disagree with your last paragraph. Crypto is basically it's own banking system and while you can't build your own internet you'll always be able to run your own (often encrypted) protocol on top of it (IPSF etc) the existing one.

It's more about the web than the internet really. The web can be unfree quite easily. Unless we go full China and implement a Great Firewall other protocols can always exist on the net.
It's not that the mathematics wiki articles are wrong, it's that they aren't particularly well organized to accommodate all skill levels. If you don't already know what concepts you're looking for it can be a jumble. That said, wiki plus textbook is better than either alone.
The "[falsely] shouting fire in a theater" argument places emphasis on the wrong part of the problem with free speech maximalism.

Most people don't realize "falsely shouting fire in a theatre" was first used to justify locking up peaceful anti-war demonstrators under the flimsy justification that it slowed down the war effort. That's the first clue that it's a bad argument.

Also, Oliver Wendell Holmes was later convinced this was a bad argument[0].

You, and most others, also commonly leave out "falsely" part of Holmes's argument, though it's still implied if not present. (Nobody is arguing that alerting people to the presence of a real fire would be the wrong thing to do. Delaying an evacuation until the fire is violently apparent is more likely to cause a panicked evacuation vs. shouting, no matter how forcefully one can shout. Also, analogies are like cars... they only go so far.)

The (stated or implied) falsely part is the crux of the problem. There are countless cases in history where the majority consensus was very wrong, and stopping someone from speaking because it's considered both wrong and dangerous is bad policy. It's just too easy to find something dangerous in any situation to justify silencing. It's much better to condemn all calls for (non-state[1]) violence, regardless of the truth or falsity of their arguments.

It's much better to set crystal clear criteria for what constitutes too dangerous speech, regardless of its truth. Incitements to (non-state[2]) violence is at least a lowest-common denominator. Maybe it's not great, but other lines get murky very quickly, and people quickly disagree over the level of danger.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...

[1] Or, if you're a strict pacifist, simply all calls to violence

[2] Sorry strict pacifists, it's just not practical for the government to ban calls for war or calls for the police to use the state's monopoly on violence to protect people in physical harm.
I came here to post that simple wikipedia exists :) . Just to prove your point, have a look at the simple page for "Prime number" [0] and the regular page for the same [1]

If I were just starting out with mathematics, I'd be rather intimidated by the regular page. I find the simple version to be the right start for any topic and then move on to the regular one.

[0] https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number
Most of the people at the Capitol were there for peaceful protest.

Trump did not tell them to kill politicians. His rhetoric was extreme, but arguably so is Bernie's.
Or,
6) Hire a mob and storm the Federal Courthouse building in Portland?

I don't blame Twitter, the company for what happened in Portland this summer, which is sort of the entire point of Section 230 protections. I don't like Twitter or Parler or Gab or Facebook for what they've done to civil discourse, but that doesn't mean I think any of them should get their hosting yanked for it.

In fact, it will almost certainly make things worse. All of the attacks on 4chan and 8chan over the years only served to make them more popular - it's like people have amnesia about the Streisand effect.
What governments are you referring to? Really interested in the comparison in terms of the 'violence' that you're referring to.

Particularly around lethal violence (going to probably be easier for head-to-head comparison), and the use of guns to kill from the group protesting against the government.
You can't do this here. I've banned this account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.

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IIRC (and I may not be; check for yourself) the EU were planning much stricter AML laws which were quite firmly opposed by the UK wealth management industry. That's a group with motive and the power to do something about it.
If you really want to get barebones you don't even need a static site generator, a template management library like handlebars.js or Jinja2 will suffice: load html template, fill the placeholders, save the results to file and you have your static pages.
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Fascinating.

The most interesting thing of these differences is that they're saying the same thing,but the agenda is clear in that saying the same thing is more positive or negative depending on the language.

Russian > Gab is an English-speaking social network . Gab is described as being tolerant of different patriotic groups [5] and a safe haven for communities that would be restricted or blocked on other social networks [6] . The Gab groups can be characterized as patriotic, white supremacist and alternative right [5] . The site allows each user to forward a message to 3000 other users, which are called "gebs" [7] . It has been revealed that Gab is generally a favorite platform for people with conservative, libertarian , patriotic views. [8]

English > Gab is an American alt-tech social networking service known for its far-right and extremist userbase.[3][4][5][6] Widely described as a haven for extremists including neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and the alt-right, it has attracted users and groups who have been banned from other social networks.[7][8][18] Gab claims to promote free speech and individual liberty, though these statements have been criticized as being a shield for its alt-right and extremist ecosystem.[16][19][20] Antisemitism is prominent among the site's content, and the company itself has engaged in antisemitic commentary on Twitter.[22][23][24] Researchers have written that Gab has been "repeatedly linked to radicalization leading to real-world violent events".[25]

Really interesting how language and national propaganda propagates through stuff like this.
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Making it free for non-commercial (personal) use but charging for commercial (brands, businesses, etc) accounts and using that to subsidize the free users. Businesses also get more features such as analytics, their phone contact details prominently displayed on their profile, etc.

Sensible limits on what users can do. New accounts can't immediately upload media or post links and have to gain trust over time to try and limit spam.

Better moderation, not just for obviously illegal content but anything that's predatory such as multi-level marketing schemes, quack "alternative medicine", anti-vax and similar crap. Anyone posting or promoting this kind of content gets the boot after a few warnings.
Free speech is about communication, not creating soundwaves no one can hear.
Really sad. Cuties sexualising children did not force AWS to ban them, however parler allowing free speech did.

You win, commies. Congratulations
There are many cloud providers and if they can’t find one to accept their breed of traffic, they’ll have to go old school and create their own infrastructure, create their own cloud, possibly collocation where they pay an ISP to host their computers and pay for bandwidth and power consumption as was done in the aughts. Time to start learning about rack mounted servers, U form factor and power/bandwidth packages that ISP’s still offer to clients.
So then, your argument is that you would support literally any form of deplatforming or censorship, no matter how extreme?

Thats what my question was. To rephrase, my question was effectively "how extreme will these measures get?".

And it seems like your answer to that question is "You don't care at all how extreme they get, as long as they fulfil your objective. There is literally no possible extreme to which you would not support, on this topic of censorship/deplatforming".
This is a short overview of the state of NLG by Robert Dale, co-author of "Building Natural Language Generation Systems", which is basically the book for NLG.

He give a list of commercial providers and concludes that most of them just offer smart templates. This is the important part:

> To the extent that you can tell from the clues to functionality that are surfaced by these various products, all the tools are ultimately very similar in terms of how they work, which might be referred to as ‘smart template’ mechanisms. There is a recognition that, at least for the kinds of use cases we see today, much of the text in any given output can be predetermined and provided as boilerplate, with gaps to be filled dynamically based on per-record variations in the underlying data source. Add conditional inclusion of text components and maybe some kind of looping control construct, and the resulting NLG toolkit, as in the case of humans and chimpanzees, shares 99% of its DNA with the legal document automation and assembly tools of the 1990s, like HotDocs (https://www.hotdocs.com). As far as I can tell, linguistic knowledge, and other refined ingredients of the NLG systems built in research laboratories, is sparse and generally limited to morphology for number agreement (one stock dropped in value vs. three stocks dropped in value).

That sounds pretty negative, but he emphasizes that putting an easy-to-use UI on well understood technology is meeting real business needs.

At the end he briefly touches on GPT2 and related technology.
Yeah, probably should have said that this is not "UI design", but "UX design". In my original comment I was talking about strictly graphical design.
Just the more reason for the government to crack down on anonymized speech and transactions.
>So I ask again: why should there be one set of rules for both?

because in a well functioning Republic communication channels for the government are public, and private companies serve private customers.

The only reason we're having this discussion is because Donald Trump has intentionally conflated the private and public sphere by using his personal twitter account to conduct governmental affairs.

This is terrible because it is 1. insecure and intransparent, 2. there's no established procedures for anything, 3. it conflates his private interest with his public interest (i.e. his decisions in office can be influenced by his commercial interests on the platform).

There should be different rules for Trump when he acts as the president, and indeed he has established communication channels for that very purpose, but when he speaks as a private citizen on a private platform he ought to be treated like everyone else. That's the basis of any non-corrupt system. When Angela Merkel goes to the supermarket (which she in fact does herself) she stands in the queue like everyone else because the fact that she inhabits the office of the Chancellor does not give her superpowers when she enters an ALDI.
And they would have all been replaced by the various states. The constitution outlines succession for this reason.
I'm not familiar with the way Nintendo treats their customers. Can anyone fill me in?
It's better for people aggrieved by the system to loot and burn down community businesses than government buildings?

That is a very hot take.
Really do you want the government to do something similar to the "night of the long knives" like what happened in Germany? Think about what type of message that is sending and what type of society you want to live in.

I find it very hard to believe that people get the impression that Trump was the fascist when you are over here advocating for a fascist method of silencing opposition groups.

Violence and persecution is never the answer.
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Sia is an amazing project with a team who is extremely talented and passionate, but Skynet is the future. They've built a fully decentralized CDN and it's incredible. Ten years from now, I can see it being the norm for startups and maybe even larger companies to use decentralized CDN's like this. I hope Coinbase adds Siacoin for trading soon, since they participated in integrating Rosetta.
Honest question: do you feel the same about the riots over the past summer?
They could build those things if they built their own society, which is what I fear the right will try to do one way or another. And I think our options are to split the country and manifest the divide early or wait for some sort of civil conflict.
> For reference, AWS hosts The National Enquirer, which threatened to leak, er, extremely sensitive photos of Jeff Bezos.

Described by someone as a "below the belt selfie".
I'm not convinced that Bing & DDG could bring any meaningful traffic. Like you said, it would be possible to build in the technical sense, but I'm not sure if the discoverability and marketing can be feasible without those big businesses.
This doesn’t make sense to me. Is Twitter or Facebook basically a fundamental human right in the US? Is losing Twitter like losing your ability to own a firearm?

The whole “censorship” label seems quite entitled at best. These are private companies. They are under no obligation to let someone’s crazy uncle talk about hanging the VP of the US or overthrowing Congress.

Donald J Trump has every opportunity to call into Lou Dobbs, Judge Jeanine, Sean Hannity, or Fox News. He can publish directly on Brietbart. He also has the podium in the WH press room, which he doesn’t like to use, and for a decent chunk of the Presidency, had no daily press briefing.

The American liberals cry over the smallest thing, and the conservatives are equally, or perhaps worse entitled cry babies. Twitter owes American individuals absolutely nothing. They’re a business. Presumably they don’t want to get sued because we already knew people were using Twitter to plan another attack on American elected officials and Twitter did nothing.
The Parler user base is pro-Trump and anti-China, they wouldn't support those hosts. Reddit already gets a lot of flak from their users because Tencent is a major investor.
Not even that subtle. For instance, declaring that Taiwan is a country despite the fact that it isn’t recognized as such by most of the world. That was such a big deal that it was met with triumph by Taiwanese media: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3948149

Don’t get me wrong, I support the cause of Taiwanese independence, but facts are facts. I also think that the Basque Country should be independent, and yet it would be factually incorrect to claim that it’s a country.
The deaths in chaz, where police were explicitly banned.
I don't get what you're trying to say. You think that platforms don't attempt to stop calls to assassination?

Because it seems like you're whatabouting presidential assassination attempts to do what exactly?
Crypto exists only because the central banks allow them to.
25. And $1B in damage.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/31/americans-kill...
There's a strong long-tail effect.

Here's a 2015 essay that sets out to debunk the above 2017 source.

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia
Perhaps telegram should crack down on these channels during this crisis, yes. Parler made no attempt to turn down the temperature by removing calls for murder, assasination, or civil war.

These platforms are at this moment currently being used to mass hype up an increasingly armed and paranoid segment of the population hyped up on years of cult-like propoganda, conspiracy, and dehumanizing of their imagined enemies. It was a stroke of luck they did not take out Congress the other day, I'm sure some will try again.

If you want a clue where this ends up unabated and exploited, I encourage you to look into the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
>Pretty much anyone with any intelligence can determine this

This seems to be another way of saying 'if you don't agree with this view, you are likely stupid'. That's not a great opening, and in general if one finds themselves thinking their view is the only intelligent one, they should consider it a sign they are only considering a strawman of alternatives and not the real views held.
I'm genuinely curious, where do you get your news?

What are your information filters that can allow you to believe something like Russian collusion not only was "proved false" but didn't even happen?

Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, Michael Cohen, George Papadopoulos, Richard Pinedo, Alex van der Zwaan, and Konstantin Kilimnik were all indicted, most convicted and imprisoned due to their role in the Trump campaign colluding with Russian agents. What do you think happened to these people?

I have to assume you arguing entirely in bad faith. "Couldn't keep the doors closed"? There were hundreds of people shoving to get in, screaming racial slurs at black police officers and calling them traitors saying they deserved to be executed for not arresting the liberal politicians.

Also, that officer who died who you kind of just dance around? The mob ripped a fire extinguisher off the wall and beat his head in.
So, should it have all the foundational build-ups to get to an understanding of the topic? I think that'd be amazing but quite difficult given it took you however many years to get that degree, and I can barely get a computer to do basic arithmetic for me.
Your hand waving is not very convincing. I mean Antifa setup it’s own autonomous zone in Seattle, effectively overthrowing the gov’ts authority (albeit on a small and temporary scale). People were killed there. Is this that not sedition or at least a direct attempt to usurp the gov’ts authority?

“Protestors” took over a Seattle City Hall and demanded the mayor resign. Is that not disrupting the legitimate legislative process? Isn’t that attempting to force a legitimately elected official out of office?

The mayor of Portland was being accosted at his home (so much so he moved) and while out in public having dinner (just this past week). Is that not intimidating and threatening our elected leaders?

The point is the left said nothing about about all this violence and rioting and in some cases encouraged it. Said “it was legitimate anger” and therefore authorities shouldn’t try and stop it.

Why the double standard? Why is arson and looting by Antifa given the benefit of the doubt and called “protesting”, while, when the right riots and causes disruption we go right to using words like “coup” and “sedition” and suddenly need to start creating new laws to stop it?
Mostly they're bad ones, you can read about them in the linked articles, specifically what's noted in Fowler's 1926 is probably the best place to start.
What if the machine says on the box: system for manipulating human emotions using really cool algorithms.
My browser doesn't allow the switch to read mode, for example.
What should they do differently?
The EU allowing China to come in and out without proof of covid testing while it requires literally every other country and flat out banned USA from travel, should tell you everything you need to know about EUs cowardice.
The EFF giving a nothing statement that sides with corporate monopoly censorship.

This is how you become irrelevant as an activist organisation, what sane person would donate to them now?
How do you know a mosquito isn't doing that?
Also consider that all video have a H264 encoding to play on low end devices.

Any additional encoding, in VP9 or AV1, is an additional cost as the H264 encoding cannot be avoided.

Even VP9 is not used for all video. Only if the video is 4K or 2K7, or has a high number of view.
And he'd have had zero supporters at that point. He'd already lost the VP, who refused his request to reject the votes. Absolutely nobody would have stood with him on extending his term as a result of a violent interruption of this ceremony in the Congress.
I’m equally concerned about the rise in left wing propaganda. Including extreme double speak and obvious gas lighting. Censorship and manipulation. Very clear online manipulation by bots and paid trolls. Extreme bias in news.

America has become a country of absolutely insane extremists in a relatively short time.

There doesn’t seem to be anyone willing to try to get things back on track. As an outsider looking in it feels like everyone’s IQ has dropped below room temperature.
Setting fire to an empty church (arson) is a lot different than attacking an active session of congress (terrorism) with the stated goal of forcibly blocking the certification of the next democratically elected President (coup). Yes, they're both crimes and both bad, but only in the same way that assault and murder are both crimes and both bad.

Parler is still free to operate. Just don't expect the tacit cooperation of those who understand just how bad situation could have been if the mob actually found Pence and did what they were chanting they wanted to do to him.