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> People should have to take a Civics based test to vote

The problem is what grade level?

1st grade: What country do you live in?

3rd grade: Name all 3 branches of government

6th grade: How is a bill made into a law?

9th grade: Who are your elected representatives and what are their positions on issues A, B & C?

...

PhD: Compare and contrast Hamilton and Jefferson's viewpoints on the Constitutional convention, banking and personal liberties and how they shaped and influenced US policy in the last 40 years (20 pages or less)

Countries have tried an aristocratic, ruling class and it doesn't work because it disenfranchises the masses and leads to a populist revolt.

These tests were also used in the US to disenfranchise minorities who couldn't read or afford to go to school.

Plus, I had a friend in college who was one of the 537 deciding votes in Broward county in 2000 who voted for Bush because "Gore was boring". He was smart and would have easily passed any civics test you gave him, but he voted based on personality rather than any specific issue.
I think to some degree Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter being as successful they are in their verticals and also being fairly progressive is not a coincidence. They have to attract the best talent in the world, which will not only be people that come from different races, but also sexual orientations, religions, genders, and more. You take the beliefs generally being espoused on Parler and some of that is fundamentally antithetical to the progressive ideologies that even allow these companies to be leading players in their fields. Describing these companies as monopolies is unfair because most of them are simply doing work miles ahead of competitors (Apple for example). Choosing to be tolerant isn't an arbitrary choice. It's probably at the core of their success. So even if a conservative ecosystem pops up to support Parler I believe the reason it doesn't exist already is because of the lack of talent. Same reason why so many smart Jewish scientists left Nazi Germany—intolerance leaves a lot of value and talent on the table, which is what you will need to outcompete others.
Looks great except that it needs access to your browsing history.
Anger about what though?
Cultures do not materialize randomly. Attributing it all to culture and then not identifying what fosters and preserves the culture just passes the buck.
The nycHealthy site for signing up for vaccination is complex and buggy
So as a startup you are beyond moral considerations because you’re a startup?

At what point do you have to do the right thing as a startup? Slavery? Child labor? Genocide?

Clearly there must be a line where morality becomes more important than money, where exactly should that line be and how should it be different for small companies and big ones? New ones and old ones?

Or are morals just important when they no longer compete with dollars?
Which VOIP provider does that please? Recommended?
I don’t think that’s actually the case. HW is just harder to implement in a cost effective way as the ways you make it fast for a given problem may not lend itself to solving other problems and HW is insanely expensive to build stemming from how long and labor intensive it is (design, validation and tape out + cost of fixing bugs)
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Can you give me an example of something that has happened recently in regards to QAnon where their first amendment rights may have been violated?
From a naive game theorethic perspective, a cartel should not be stable. But if we look deeper we see that big tech has methods of punishing defectors, methods of punishing companies that "differentiate".
In the same way, in 2016 a lot of people voted for "not-Clinton".
> Took 4-6 full years (if including the primaries) and 30,000 lies to grow a conscience.

Arguably, it took election results. Easier to do what is right when the wind blows the right way.
Ironic that you have to point this out to someone who is arguing that people lack civics knowledge..
While I generally support unions, I think this is a pretty bearish signal for Google. I think it totally makes sense for the contractors but less so for the rank and file Googlers as they consistently are at the upper end in the industry benefits and pay.
Sketchy Exact Reals from Interval Arithmetic (2021)
Republican's are going to have to abandon the Trump faction to save the viability of their own party.

Its going to be hard to wage effective elections if they can't get funding, and grass roots are shallow roots... they dont have the deep cool resources of big business.
> For example, the RTC periph is the same on most STM32 devices.

There's actually two major versions of the RTC peripheral. :) The v1 RTC counts in seconds, v2 has explicit date/time fields.

A lot of other STM32 peripherals can be seen as "versioned" in similar ways. There's a lot of different combinations of those peripherals on different parts, but there's usually only two or three major revisions present of each peripheral across the entire product line, and they tend to follow a pretty consistent timeline. (That is, a newer part will usually use the newest version of each peripheral at the time it was designed, rather than using a mixture of old and new peripherals.)
So the government should instead step in and decide what companies can and can't do with their own services & infrastructure? That sounds a lot more fascist to me than a company saying, up front, "Here's the rules for using our service. Violate them and you can take your business elsewhere."

And considering the ToS citations were I service of a potentially criminal act, fascism doesn't enter the picture: This is as much about these companies' own legal liability if they allow their platform to facilitate potential criminal activity even though it's against their own rules.
How many half-baked takes on "revoke S230" can there possibly be. This must be the hundredth one this week. It's not new, interesting, or even a useful proposition.

Seriously, if at this point you are proposing removing the most common-sense rule of the Internet ("the one legally liable for making a post is the person who posted it, duh") upon which _every website with a comments section relies_, then I cannot assume you are debating in good faith.
Yes, the discussion around articles like this frequently gratify my intellectual curiosity.
Show HN: An open-source translation memory for mobile developers
I’ve always wanted to localize my personal apps, but I found it to be too expensive. Since many apps share the same vocabulary (News Feed, Dashboard, Forgot Password, Take Photo), it seemed silly to pay to translate words that some other development team must have previously paid to translate.

So, I’ve created an open-source translation memory for all iOS developers to benefit from. I processed over 500K GitHub iOS projects, AppleGlot, and other open-source resources and created a database of almost 15 million translations.

Check it out here: http://localizer.digitalbunker.dev/

Now, a developer can now upload their Localizable.strings, run it against our database of translations, and get at least a subset of their translations for free.

This isn’t meant to be an end-all solution for app localization, but it is meant to help drive down costs for smaller development teams by translating common words for free. Now, your localization budgets can be spent on copy specific to your app
I was pretty shocked to start poking around and see that most frontline COVID workers have not contracted the virus yet. I even saw a study that indicated that nurses were more likely to have contracted the virus through social contact outside of work than through contact at work. Apparently PPE is really working well.

It also probably helps that by the time patients are hospitalized they're likely past their most contagious point.
Note that this is the case in most industries, not just software. And that's why the "patrons" "bosses" "chiefs" whatever they are named over time always fought to keep their employees silenced, non-organized... Maybe now is the time to consider cooperatives and getting rid of all or part of the hierarchies (some cooperatives work well with simpler hierarchies). They want disruption, we cut the ties.
If development is in product, how long has development been in product? Is this a recent change where development was transitioned from IT to product during a recent transformation?

Not directed at you, just some general comments.

As someone hinted at in another comment, it seems a better (less dichotomous) framing is:

- tech first (developer lead, selling software or hardware),

- tech enabled (developers are a key collaborator with the business, e.g., logistics, manufacturing, ecomm, marketing, really every company should be), or

- tech as a cost center (the “traditional” company in the article).

What about the trifecta of product, engineering, and design advocated for by Marty Cagan?

I think the same argument that’s being made for giving developers more weight in the development process could be argued equally as well from the side of design.

Edit for formatting.
You don't need a cloud provider to host a website, and there are cloud providers outside of AWS, Azure and GCP. Oracle, IBM, and probably still hundreds of shared hosting providers. At the end of the day you can also setup bare metal servers with your own fiber connection. It might be a little extra work/cost but to describe AWS, Azure, and GCP as the only ways to host a website is disingenuous.
As one who has brewed beer for 27 years now, wort is definitely brought to a boil at the beginning of a brew to cause the ‘hot break’ proteins to coagulate. The wort is then held at a low boil or near boiling for 45-60 min after the bittering hops are added as those temperatures most efficiently allow the alpha acids from the lupulin glands of the hops to enter solution.

Grape juice for wine, as it can’t be heated without ruining it, is usually lightly sulphited for a day or three before adding yeast, which kills the bacteria present in the juice.
Clinton was a terrible candidate. I have no idea if she would have been a good President, but she was the exact wrong person to go up against Trump.
The video said that votes from dead people were counted in violation of state law. Call it fraud, call it a mistake. Invalid votes were counted. I am not sure how that contradicts me. The point of this conversation is, quite simply, that the rules were changed in a way dramatically increased the possibility of fraudulent/invalid votes being counted. That makes voting pointless unless and until the rules are changed.

Further, at least in this election, voting and registering to vote were one in the same in many jurisdictions. Many states automatically sent out mail-in ballots to everyone that was registered. All that had to be done from there was to fill it out and send it in. Families of dead people sent in those ballots in many cases.

Registering to vote as someone else, or 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, you are now a registered 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/
Israel recognizes the rights of everybody, including of course Arabs (Arab citizens have fully equal rights and have political representation in Knesset). Israel does not recognize some of the demands of the PA (which has full autonomy and Israel does not owe them anything), but this has nothing to do with "rights". Get some information before throwing around accusations. That's always the case with you censorious types - you are stunningly ignorant and unwilling to learn about things you dismiss.
"we need a one-time expenditure to get PeerTube ... equal to YouTube"

software is never a one-time expenditure. Even more so than usual for something as large and complex as YouTube.
If we rewind back to 9/11 there were plenty of Truthers on the left spreading nonsense.

I remember the internet at the time used to feel like there were tons of Truthers that would argue and argue on all sorts of forums. Where did all those people go anyway?
Not being supportive of blatant censorship is a pretty good reason for normal people
Yes, hence my weasel-y expression of 'usually preferred'.
That's not 'a lot'. Selling 0.01% of his FB stocks in a day is nothing. If he kept that pace whole year he would have sold 3.5% of his FB stocks.

Some people are just bad with numbers and understanding them in context.
I have found a (cumbersome) solution to this using Xfce. Its Thunar file manager does implement type-ahead, so whenever I need to open a file that is saved in some deeply-nested folder, I open Thunar (using a custom shortcut, Ctrl+Alt+E) and quickly navigate to the file using type-ahead and press Ctr+L to copy its full path to the clipboard, then I switch to my app and paste the address.

For complex paths, I found that this is the quickest way to open the file I want.
If they stopped doing business with groups advocating for the violent overthrow of the government that would he compatible.
> Capitol cops felt so unthreatened by the situation that they posed with rioters for selfies

Some cops, *white* cops, felt unthreatened. Black cops describe being called the N word fifteen times, and breaking down crying from the stress after the building had been secured [1]. One officer KILLED HIMSELF after surviving this riot [2].

[1] https://nypost.com/2021/01/10/black-capitol-police-officers-...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/liebengoo...
We really do because our discourse is being dominated by crazy voices.

What do you think about this?

Minority, Women-Owned Businesses Get First Bid on New PPP Loans - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-07/minority-...

What about voices like James Lindsay and Christopher Rufo?

We are doubling down on this new era where we are experimenting with the thesis that Discrimination can and will create (long-lasting) Equity. With policies in place for decades like Affirmative Action in the US and BEE in South Africa I'm not convinced in the thesis. Corporations in the US have now went further with more Corporate Affirmative Action programs like Microsofts commitment to hire more Black employees which is being looked into by the Department of Labor as Discrimination (https://abcnews.go.com/Business/department-labor-investigati...). Microsoft is 4.5% Black employees so they are underrepresented as it is.

How do we have discussions on Race? Can Discrimination create Equity?

“The defining question is whether the discrimination is creating equity or inequity. If discrimination is creating equity, then it is antiracist. If discrimination is creating inequity, then it is racist.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
Facebook, Twitter, et al are not public squares.

You can speak all you want in public spaces, on your own property (whether that be your home, your blog or your mastodon instance) mostly without limit.

But Facebook, Twitter, Google, HN or any other private organization is under no obligation to host or amplify your speech.

The government can't censor you and you may speak your mind in public spaces. You may also do so in private spaces, with the permission of the owners of those spaces.

You seem to be under the misapprehension that certain private actors are required to allow your speech. That's not true. They are responsible only to their shareholders and to a lesser extent, their customers -- and in this case their customers are advertisers and not you. You are the product being sold.

If you don't think that's right or fair, then don't interact with those private actors. If enough people chose not to deal with them, they would lose their power and influence.

I voted with my feet years ago. If you haven't, then you're part of the problem and not the solution.
The problem with preventive policies is that they seem unnecessary when they work.
Injustice implies good faith, riots unfortunate side effect.

Lies and fraud implies bad faith, riots and coup being end goal.

The intent is different, so it is false equivalence.
> Occupying a building is a form of civil disobedience, which in the US is a respected form of protest.

Assuming the owners of said building do not want you there, occupying a building is at best trespassing and at worst breaking and entering.

Civil disobedience is explicitly breaking a law because you believe it to be unjust, with the full expectation that you will be arrested and possibly punished for your actions.

When most people talk about "protesting", I don't think that's what they're talking about.
This. And also AWS showed they can delete your business infrastructure unilaterally, without notice, on a whim so it’s very risky to use them.
If you owe the bank $100,000 the bank owns you; if you owe the bank (er, china) $1,000,000,000,000, you own the bank.
Politicians control censors on Twitter (you don't think it's random that all prominent politicians from the right are censored and all prominent politicians from the left are not?) and Facebook. Censors control who gets access to the public discussions. Ergo, politicians control access to public discussions.
You're right that such short notice puts students in a tough spot. They can apparently still request pro-rated refunds, [1] but at this point they have signed up for classes and are (or were) excited to start.

1: https://registrar.stanford.edu/tuition-refund-schedule
You would think so, but I believe the owner of Parler has already stated that he can’t find anybody willing to host him.
The question is not “what legal power does Twitter have”. I’m not saying they legally can’t kick him off their platform.

The discussion is whether they should be able to kick someone off their platform who has been convicted of no crime, because of how integral they have become to the political process.
I genuinely can't tell which side you're taking about, one, or the other, or both. I feel like there are crazy people everywhere, ranging from the hyper woke to honest to god nazis. But one group decided to storm congress (which I still haven't wrapped my head around, I'm mentally living in the beforefor times) and by supporting the rule of law I must now be on the side that's not that, even if I have to share the bus with the nutters who believe in "censoring" and thought policing.
The problem is it give approved extremists a voice while bragging about not giving unapproved extremists a voice.

That should be controversial.
He had accounts banned after calling for the beheading of Fauci and FBI director Wray just a couple of months ago.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/twitter-bans-former-trump-advi...

We should stop pretending like this is about conservative ideology, it’s about creating an environment for violence with lies and repeated calls for violence coming from Trump associates. Nobody is calling for the deplatforming of John Kasich or Mitt Romney.
I disagree and feel that's a very simplistic explanation. If anything the past four years of democrat reaction to Trump has directly contributed to the situation we're in. The failure to acknowledge this simple fact is startling.

If you were a Trump supporter who was just called a fascist, racist, bigot, white supremacist, uncle tom, unintelligent rube during the past four years, and you watched as the media, hollywood, elites, and democrat party tried everything possible to undermine your legally elected President, including unmasking of family/friends/campaign, bogus 2+ year Russia investigation peddled as fact by the pundits 24/7 7 days a week, impeachment #1, daily conspiracies of all variety, and I could go on; would you trust the outcome of the election?

There were hundreds of sworn affidavits including by democrats and independents, factual things worth investigating if not to simply bring closure to the numerous issues, and the democrats instead not only slammed the door shut, they opened have and continue to deride conservatives & Trump supporters.

How on Earth is it not clear why people don't trust the election results or even more so how we ended up with 50,000+ people in DC and a small subset ending up inside the Capitol building?

To top all of that off, for over 3 months this past summer in multiple cities across the nation, blm/antifa threw very often violent protests that were watered down by the media as "mostly peaceful", despite millions of humans seeing with their own eyes what was happening. People were shot and killed in multiple places, multiple police officers were injured and killed. They tried to storm the White House & Portland Federal building.

How can you still claim it's all due to just one person? I find it to be total nonsense.

I'm sure I'll be downvoted for saying the above, but failure to at least recognize what I'm saying is a colossal mistake. This is what the other side is feeling.
My argument is pretty basic, why would I report a conservative tweeting at another conservative "Let's just execute all right wing conservatives and get it over with!"? They're obviously not conspiring to commit violence against conservatives.
Fox news, one of the biggest news organisations in the US, is left?

I'll go with Noam's take on this. There is no liberal media in the US.
This brings me back to olden days of reddit! RES + Imagus was perfect for killing an afternoon. Looking back it was super unhealthy. Just a constant stream of content messed up my patience something fierce. But it was fun while it lasted.
But it has demonstrated the capacity to un-deploy things and let them fade from the active global consciousness. Both technical and social.

I’d be happy if they didn’t immediately bring to mind “One Ring to rule them all...”
It has been a long time since I tried MATE. Do you mean that the file dialog does not implement recursive search?

If it is so, then I must consider switching! (At the moment I am using Xfce.)
> Can’t we all try to find consensus and compromise? I know that I personally don’t have enough knowledge and experience to know what’s right for all people at all times. Life can be complicated. Let’s have some compassion folks.

As an EU citizen, I feel this is pretty much a no-brainer. Politics based on compromises between parties, rather than single-party majorities, slows the political process down and it definitely opens the door for a whole lot of different issues, but it kinda works. Switching from extreme to extreme every 4/8 years feels like it's just going to increase political polarization until societal cohesion breaks and something bad happens.

Yes, we Europeans whine a lot about the EU and there's a shitload of things that need to be improved about it, but the last few years' circus on the other side of the Pond has convinced me that the alternative isn't that much better.
This is the start of antitrust against big tech. They’ve made enemies on both sides
I won't click the Parler link to try to decipher what "AWS Given {name of law} Notice" means, but I presume someone is suggesting that Amazon be charged with disorderly conduct for terminating their business relationship with Parler. Which is just laughable.

A PDF of the Iowa code in question: https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/723.4.pdf