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>1. Power - what happened at the Capitol was conducted by people who have enjoyed broad political power, whereas the BLM protests were about the people who have been unjustly under the thumb (or knee) of those in power.

I don't think this is true at all. There is a lot of resentment out there from poor whites who have been getting the short end of many sticks lately. They may be better off than poor blacks on average, but they do not enjoy political power. Don't make the mistake of thinking that just because the people who enjoy political power are white, that all, or even most, whites enjoy political power.

I believe both protests were by groups lacking in power, and that this sort of thing is only going to get worse as economic inequality increases.

Most people don't have power, and it's getting worse as power is concentrated into the hands of the few. As bad as black people have it on average, pitting poor blacks against poor whites is a distraction from the real power disparity, which is that a lot of people in the US are really, really poor. Whilst the elites pay lip service to the issues faced by blacks, whist doing almost nothing to help (a rich black kid getting into a better school does nothing for the impoverished masses), the poorer whites don't feel like the elites are even pretending to try to address their problems. And they're right.

The US needs to fix its inequality issues if it expects either side to stop protesting, and violence is only going to get worse as people see their issues not being addressed.

Storming the capital was not a bright idea, but angry people are stupid, and they're going to just cause as much destruction as possible until life for them gets better. History is littered with examples of inequality leading to violent uprising.
What are you guys going on about?

They were obviously criminals and things like this need to be crushed or they happen again & get worse.

Freedoms are for non-criminals.
Surprising, finally Twitter bans a truly genocidal tweet instead of just banning politics they disagree with.
Another libelous post by US government affiliated "cryptographer". Perhaps next we will see other familiar faces chipping in like tptacek from matasano )

Impossible to succeed at this level without making a few enemies.
It will probably be not good enough, many banking apps are using Google Safety Net to detect rooted or not Google certified devices with Google Play installed indirectly. AFAIK it's now quite difficult to break. I sort of understand the bank decision on this. There is a lot of malware on Android and users are easily tricked into installing some side-loaded APKs, and there is also a lot of hidden malware on Google Play which is hard to find (e.g. it downloads a payload after the store review is done). This would be a disaster since on Android you can for example use accessibility services to read any input from the user and also control the device. So you can circumvent 2FA and make transactions on behalf of the user on the device. There has been a lot banking malware on Google Play. I think they are getting it a bit under control now, but it's still very dangerous.
Yes the Russians tricked people into thinking CNN was biased, while all reasonable people know that it's completely neutral.

Just like Komsomolskaya Pravda. People who thought they were biased were clearly indoctrinated by capitalist lies.
Hm, that's a good idea, and it fits so well with the goal of the app, cheers!
No, it’s one reason but it’s far from the only reason.

Medical events and incidents that cause incapacitation of a flying pilot are rare, but less rare than suicide by pilot incidents.

Consider what would have happened on BA 5390, for example, if only one pilot had been in the cockpit with the cockpit door locked.
"For all intents and purposes, freedom of speech has flatlined in America."

No - 'Freedom of Speech' is at an all time high.

The internet gives every single person a giant soap box to stand on.

You can communicate, in public, with anyone in the world.

25 years ago, you had no voice.

Now, everyone can be a 'journalist' or 'agitator' or whatever.

The level of open communication possible today was unthinkable 25 years ago.

25 years ago most people didn't have access to 'most news'. The NYT maybe was accessible by the elite in most towns, but the LA times was not. Now it's all available to everyone.
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To be fair, I've seen engineers with a similar role.
> The country has 10,000 publicly available charging points, according to the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association.

Not much for five million people. More relevant is that over 80% are homeowners, and I assume they have garages where they can plug in.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25645838
Product folks (generally) can't implement their ideas on their own. Devs can.
That old saying doesn't flip around to mean that any service you have to pay for is worth the cost.

I personally don't want to use niche social networks, which is what any pay-to-play platform is, due to the barrier to entry.
On the other hand, I can certainly imagine situations where the requirements aren't "hardcoded" but rather they are flexible and heavily driven by what's feasible and what's hard from the engineering perspective (so they can't be "pulled out" from the product leader), and determining that vision properly requires involvement of engineers and can't [technically can, but the outcomes suck] be prepared by someone else and just handed off to engineering.
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I think this also applies to children as well.
I despise the character but these bans are more about virtue signalling rather than actually caring about Trump's misdeeds or breaking of their rules.

Somehow these platforms all tolerated his presence for years but once it's clear that he lost the election and his antics are coming to an end they're very quick to ban him?

Could it be that in reality Trump's antics provided a ton of "engagement" to the platform which they couldn't just pass up on, but now that his presidency is over and he will be fading into irrelevance, the future "engagement" potential is less than the PR win from banning him under the excuse that they do not allow/support violence, etc?
macOS has more consistent keyboard shortcuts than Windows.[1] Some cross platform apps do their own thing.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236
I work in this area.

The main route in for people who would've gone to a teacher training college would now be via a SCITT (School-centred initial teacher training) provider. Often SCITT courses will include a PGCE but some don't; either way once you've completed a course you'll be ready to teach. The benefit of these courses over a college-based approach is that the teachers spend a lot of time in classrooms by comparison with other methods. It gives ample opportunity to work out whether or not they're on the right path.

https://www.ucas.com/teaching-option/school-centred-initial-...
The beat a policeman to death, man. They BEAT him to DEATH.

They set up a GALLOWS outside.

They had PIPE BOMBS. They had HANDCUFFS.

What the FUCK are you on about?
As an aside, what you wrote there also sounds an awful like why so many people in the UK supported Brexit and the Remain campaign was so badly handled.
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I really don’t get it but if it makes people happy then I’m all for it
You forgot the most important part: because it's pay to play, there will only ever be a half-dozen moles to whack if the project is successful, or one if it isn't.

Source: I used to run steemit.com.
Maybe another explanation is that they quickly hacked around the lack of these services just to get things working again? I can imagine them quickly making a bunch of ill-advised code changes just to get their platform working.
If you really think about it, then it feels like "the right" has been losing over the last 20 years. Topics such as religion, abortion, gay marriage, healthcare, marijuana legalization, and police reform have all been going in the favor of "the left". I can't really think of any big issue that "the right" has championed, that they've actually won. They've won political appointments, but not ideological positions.

Even having a balanced budget hasn't worked out for "the right". When they've been in power, the budget deficit hasn't really decreased.

Perhaps this has made "the right" more desperate? Maybe they need to rethink their principles instead?

(I use quotation marks for the sides, because these really aren't issues that fit on a one dimensional scale. A libertarian could fall on the right, but still support "the left" on most of the above issues. Also, this is mostly US specific.)
Yea. Now seems like a weird time to declare that fascism hasn’t taken hold, given all the censorship.
The reviews on that app don't look encouraging:

> No issues initially but now it will give full screen ads often that either force open your browser to a shady site...

> ...thought I should update it. That's when I started getting full page ads and browser redirects. I don't know who hijacked this app...

> Avoid!! Used to be great. Now opens adware, and pops it over the lockscreen. Goes to great lengths to cover its tracks, calling the process "partners" and removing itself from recent applications. I had to use "popup ad detector" to find it. Appalling behaviour. Very underhanded.

The zxing library is open source and different from the app. So looks like something fishy happened to the app recently. From the description of problems, this might even be the app referred to in the article.
I'll add that even though most phones have some sort of built-in reader, there are many reasons a developer would want to use a standalone reader. The Samsung reader launches URLs (99% of QR codes I encounter), and it understands Text and VCARD as well, but I don't know that it understands all kinds of arbitrary or custom QR codes you might want to define.
No one is talking of the highlighted color used by Ubuntu in their file pickers? I keep believing I can type the file name when saving but instead I am just filtering. Nothing was highlighted.

That is bad.
We have product and tech roles in our company. Product always goes to tech for design and implementation advice. This is taken care of during sprint planning. I see product getting a lot of hate from engineering types recently. It just smacks of myopia. Engineers are being well paid because the company makes good money from the whole solution not just the technical implementation. What an engineer thinks is important may not be that important from the business perspective which is where product comes in. If product wants to do something that will cause technical problems that's where engineering comes in. It's a team effort. As an analogy no soccer team fields only goalkeepers or only strikers etc.
I signed up to explore the site yesterday. Was curious from hearing in the news and it required an account to view. There was no verification process whatsoever. I popped in a fake email and then got immediate access. So not sure what this "Verified Parler citizen" thing refers to ...
Any ideas? All I've got are either gates or geofenced shock collars.
I don't know if this is just an american thing, because this sounds like any company I've worked at in the UK
Business is super complicated. It's more complicated than science, because it's not science.

Science is "easy" because we can model it, to a degree.

Non-science is so hard that we can't even model it, it's that complicated. So instead we try to voodoo our way around it, rely on simple heuristics, history, etc.
Will it be editorial (retain censoring rights) or, instead, a platform (true freedom of expression)?
I'll vouch for DAVx⁵. Terrific app, I've been using it for years through the name change. I use it to sync contacts and calendar with NextCloud.
There seems to be an idea, which I find deeply odd, that kids don’t need to be taught something once an alternative appears:

arithmetic —> calculators
coins -> contactless
cursive -> typing

I just find it bizarre how quickly people are willing to throw things out, leaving children utterly reliant on the new tech.
You can access it without voice, by opening Assistant (long-press Home, double-press Power, etc.) and then typing "Lens" into the search box.

Ridiculously, there's no way that I can see to get an app shortcut icon to it.
Beware, the play store version shows full screen ads, auto redirects and needs contacts permissions.
And Fortran before them, it makes sense for technical programming
Thanks very much! Just installed and does a great job!
I would go against the introduction (USB is simple and reliable): it took about 10 years to stabilize in Windows. During that time serial (RS232) devices were more reliable than USB ones.
The web page probably hasn't changed much since it was put online in 1994, except perhaps some maintenance until around 1998-9.

It says the original layout is kept "for archeological reasons": http://www.unask.com/website/biblio.htm

Even the replacement website is so old that it has a page on how to use the World Wide Web: http://www.unask.com/website/intro/beginners.html
> i see how all prophets are indeed one, and how budha, christ and allah and all other gods stem from that one thing which we encounter after long meditations and prayer finally takes away our anger and hurt to open that door which cannot be closed.

There certainly are teachings that one might find in different religions, but to say that "all prophets are indeed one" and "how budha, christ and allah and all other gods stem from that one thing which we encounter after long meditations and prayer . . . .", does not match up with what is taught in buddhism, christianity and islam.

In buddhism the goal is Nirvana, which is reached after extinction of greed, aversion and ignorance, leading to release from the cycle of rebirth.[1]

In christianity, the saviour is Jesus: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me", [John 14:6], and "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin". [1 John 1:7]

And the result of faith in Jesus is heaven, which is described in this way (a couple of glimpses):
"Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. [Revelation 21:1-2]
"They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever."[Revelation 22:5]

In islam, one of the five pilars is: "I bear witness that there is no deity but God, and I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of God."[2]

Salvation in the afterlife: "According to the Quran, the basic criterion for salvation in the afterlife is the belief in the oneness of God (tawḥīd), angels of God, revealed books of God, all messengers of God, as well as repentance to God, and doing good deeds. Though one must do good deeds and believe in God, salvation can only be attained through God's judgment.[3]
"Jannah is described as an eternal dwelling (Q3:136), with its supreme felicity and greatest bliss being God's good pleasure (Q9:72)".[4]

The teachings in buddhism, christianity and islam are therefore very different, and points to completely different ways of salvation and afterlife. They all can't be true at the same time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_(Buddhism)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahada

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jannah#Muslims

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jannah#Quran
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If you are fine with sending the camera stream to Google for analysis...
That's a pretty extreme and expensive option. I think I would have just gone for a factory reset.
Well the US and UK coins are just the worse for recognition. Why is a 10 cents coin smaller than a 5 cent one? Canada at least has $1/$2 making coins more useful.

Compare this with Euro coins with sizes and weights/features proportional to their value.
> because an attacker capable of intercepting the messages could simply establish two separate sessions with the two parties, carrying out a PitM attack

Really. That's our new problem now? That it's a person in the middle and not a man in the middle?
Plus it goes against the narrative that men are the source of all evil in this world ;)
Possibly, not sure how long you've been the business but people have been saying this at least since COBOL and 4GLs were being introduced in the 80s. Some kind of programming may become less popular but data manipulation and wiring will still be required as well as tooling to facilitate these new models.
Slightly off topic, but someone should sell Fediverse in a box. I should be able to go buy a physical credit card sized thing which I plug into my wifi and everything is setup for me. Is someone working on something like that or is the Fediverse not ready for this yet?
This gives an interesting new meaning to the word 'flamewar'.
You need to enable HIDPI then install something like “resolution menu”
> It is a sound business plan, but not in the best interest of consumers.

The fate of a universal lingua franca connector is too important to be left to just one company. Why is it still being defined by Intel rather than a panel?
Based on how the German press was claiming that Trump was clearly guilty for the Capitol building incident, I was expecting at least some kind of controversial statement, but there's no explicit call for violence or anything in there. Nothing.

If this is all that the people blaming Trump have, they can't even convince an impartial observer or a judge, never mind his supporters.
The UK already has some of the safest roads in the world. We achieved that by spending money on good road design and education. Now we are having to spend even more money to "fix" the roads for car safety features designed for other countries who didn't spend the money to make their roads safe? How frustrating.
I came to this link after following you from your comment on my post. This is a very interesting product. I wish they make enough money and remain profitable.
I checked out their Digest tool and taht's really good.
> That means for a third party to access the chats, they need Google to hand over the data, and Facebook to hand over the key.

National intelligence agencies (plural) would already have both.
Do you mean that you will use this, or just have the alt implementation as a checkbox item? Because - I'm just guessing of course - for this to be a mature alternative compiler we might be looking at 5, 10 years in the future, or never. Just being realistic, things take time to grow (and it's also uncertain how they can ever be able to keep pace with the rapidly developing Rust project).

With all this said, I would love for them to succeed, for multiple reasons. Including <3 GPL.
I would hold off judging Twilio based on a random anonymous reddit post's account
>Is sedition illegal? Should it be?

How are we defining sedition though? Rebelling against society is one thing. I'm an old punk rocker. Did I break laws I didn't agree with? Yes, repeatedly. But I also accepted that, right or wrong, it was my personal choice, I made those decisions myself and if I faced consequences for it they were my consequences to face, not someone else's. There's a difference between sending a message and killing the messenger. I get the over all point you're making but damn what do we call it? This is way past protesting or rebelling against the government and society. We poked the bear but we didn't burn down the entire forest just to spite the bear.
At least I'd still have Netflix.
One of the things I worry a lot about is that the main issue is that there simply are too many people and too little jobs. Like we can only legitimately support a small amount of workers in any field; if we have more it drops earning potential to near nothing, like in most creative or labor fields.

We also simply are too efficient to have multiple of a field any more too. We end up having one department store chain instead of four or five in an area; every market seems to solidify into 2 or 3 companies. Many jobs are virtualized to where those companies hire a fraction of humanity and have weak supply chains.

I think what will happen is just over time we will have less people. People will stop reproducing in sort of an equilibrium until we reach a point where we balance out to the economy's needs. I don't think it will be top down, but people simply cannot afford to have kids in a part time gig economy.
When I was young, model railroading was a thing. When those hobbyists were young, I think the railroads may have been the high-paying high-tech jobs. (and there's even overlap: SPRINT started out life as the Southern Pacific Railroad INTernal network)

(if an old-timer is a 50 year old car, I just realised that WalterBright's will probably qualify soon, if it doesn't already)
That works a little in reverse as well. If you can curb teenage pregnancy you significantly change the demographics of a region and lead to women being the power drivers in a community. It literally reverses cycles of poverty
There's a big difference between internal work and external work, where that discussion can matter a lot in antagonistic disputes (in court or outside of it) over whether a particular change (and its consequences) was requested or not, and if so, by whom and when.
Meh that goes 2 ways. Try getting good WebDAV or third party backup solutions in the Mac ecosystem. You win some, you loose some.
I have family. At the end of the day (and start of the day) everything I do online doesn't matter if I can't spend time with my family. Also I don't plan to overthrow a government so both options are pretty remote in my life.
> Ruby on Rails - Using rails to prototype a system is fine — scaling up to a million hits a day with it is just a bad idea. As the service grew, I'm sure it cost them a lot more time than it saved.

I believe that Twitter runs on the JVM since almost a decade.
It's basically the scenario Tom Scott laid out about what would happen if Google stopped checking passwords... except it happened to Parler.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4GB_NDU43Q
In the Orthodox Church, priests are allowed (and in fact encouraged) to be married, but cannot marry after they are ordained.

On the other hand, bishops must be monks as well as priests, and therefore cannot be married.
As a brit, Fox news fascinates me. Because every clip of it I watch is so clearly opinion piece propaganda, they don't even pretend like they're reporting the news

Even our "equivalent", the Murdoch owned Sky News channel is nowhere near as bad as Fox news
I have no interest in pursing this further.
> encrypt the data with the users logon password or something derived from it

This leads to inability to restore a backup if you forget your password and need to reset it.

That's going to lead to screams/tears from a lot of folks who don't realise those implications.
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That would be reasonable if the phone owner was likely the victim of some targeted attack (beeing politician or something similar). But if it's just regular malware that was installed with a drive by download, I would trust the android security model that much.
Some blame lies with technologists, many a time I have been downvoted right here for suggesting autonomous driving is not round the corner.

As someone who only sells products using ML, I find the discussion here inorganic.