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If there we screams for violence then prosecute those people. This is blanket censorship and anti competitive monopoly capitalism. Gear up for the gulags, because that's where this leads.
Although this is a very fair question, I cannot help but notice that the first thing people associate with the word freedom today is with a negative angle. This is really troubling me, as it used to be a more cherished value.
The problem is not free speech, the problem is anyone can have millions of people notified about what they say. If you limit followers to 50k or don't allow a message to have a reach of more than 50k, then you will solve part of the problem without touching free speech!
>ISPs and telecoms can ban you. Banks can ban you from having a bank account. Visa can ban you from transacting on their network. These things are already happening.

It’s important to look at the context around those bans.

The most recent ban from the companies you’ve listed was Visa banning PornHub. They did so because of the amount of underage and non-consentual content on the website.

Yes, companies can ban you in theory, but everything indicates that they do so only in extreme circumstances, like hosting child porn or terrorist content (which is essentially what Parler is being banned for).
I'm not particularly fond of this. It's censorship. Parler wasn't doing anything illegal and Amazon had no legal reason to kick them off. I worry for the future. While I don't think the loss of parler is massive this is getting the censorship ball rolling.
That is incorrect. Only files on the basic Sia client are all stored encrypted. Skynet stores all files by default in cleartext. It is up to Skynet users or app developers to ensure files that are uploaded are encrypted client side.

On a side note, child pornography is not the intended or primary use case for Skynet and is condemned by the dev team and the community at large. There is no evidence to suggest anyone is using Sia or Skynet for this type of content, and portal operators aggressively censor such content and report it to authorities.

Skynet is intended for privacy and data ownership while also offering users unprecedented features in terms of portability and composability.
I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, but most jurisdictions have strong protections for providers hosting third party content so long as the providers are not aware that the content is problematic. If a provider is notified that there is problematic content on their machine, they have an obligation to take it down in a reasonable timeframe.

Sia hosts already have tooling for complying with DCMAs and abuse notices. To the best of my knowledge, no Sia host has yet received one, but we are prepared for when that moment happens.

Most of the rest of the issues in that letter are overstated and ungenerous. Sia/Skynet is an early project, with a small team and a limited budget. Of course it is not as polished as its centralized alternatives, but if you compare to better funded projects like Storj and Filecoin, I believe it's very difficult to say in good faith that our team is not up for the task.
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I'm leaning towards thinking that what happened on the 6th was, to some extent, blowback. There has been an extraordinary amount of violence over the last few years which has been ignored, rationalized, justified, and even labeled, in an Orwellian way, "peaceful". This did not gone unnoticed. There were other relevant circumstances, but I think blowback is certainly a large portion of it.
Is it a credible call to violence, or is it more of a figure of speech?

I’d say that Trump’s calls to violence are pretty credible.
I dont think they did any of those things because of SEO, but because it was the obvious way to do it.

Deep interlinking - originally it used software called UseModWiki, which would automatically make a link if a page name existed for the word you just used.

subdomains - if you want to make a separate site for each language, that is the onvious way to do it

good content- why would anyone intentionally want to make a site with shitty content unless you are making $$$ off it (and wikipedia wasnt)
I remember going first in 2002, a lot of pages were just lists like all the popes or cereals by general mills.

I thought "yeah right, who's going to write an article on like pope pius x and cheerios. nice project but not happening"

It was the second time I had seen a wiki, the first was on vim.org where I changed something in 2001 or so because I just didn't believe the concept was real.

I think I get in on the ground of a bunch of things but I'm just incredulous and not enthusiastic about them. Like all those bitcoins I didn't care about...

It's a problem I should probably work on. I should be more excited about things. Just have to figure out how to get there.
Maybe wall street recognizes that there wasn't a legitimate insurrection; that there was no immediate change or danger to our government; that msm isn't accurate enough & can't be trusted for the sake of market pricing news; and/or that there's no way to price/predict the eventual effects of the resulting political fallout, backlash, and legislation.

On the other hand, maybe they predicted exactly what would happen, and the whole day was already priced-in. (Seriously, who thought an overblown Trump event that eventually collapsed upon itself and resulted in no practical changes would be an unreasonable prediction for the day.)

Better yet, maybe they realized it doesn't actually change the Democrats desired agenda at all.
> Humility is good, but it's important to acknowledge that CMake very often feels awful.

Those times coincide with projects that fail to follow the "modern Cmake" style, based on build targets instead of pretending Cmake is a scripting language.

Keep in mind that modern Cmake style is a thing since the release of Cmake 3.0, which was what? A decade ago?

If developers who don't know better end up writing messy unmaintainable code, their code is an unmaintainable mess. That's not a result of their tech stack, but their own work.
Hehe, the point is the "g" or "k" should not be silent if you actually want to pronounce "GNU" or "knee".. but in English they generally are. In other languages the sound produced is a more guttural but fully enunciated word (if I knew more linguistics I'd find the international phonetics for it).
As another illuminative poster above noted, it increases the “victimhood” and “specialness” that Parler participants feel. They want to interpret this in fully combative terms.

It’s quite scary how they see the world through such a lens. I feel Apple and Google performed the lesser of two evils here. Only time will tell though.
This is a terrible idea. It says that "you don't need to break the law to be punished". This give the big tech companies quasi judicial powers where the grounds for punishments are arbitrary and subjective. Only the courts should be able to decide this type of thing, and I hope Parler sues Apple, Google, and especially Amazon for billions of dollars.

What if tomorrow they decide to ban and de-platform an app with 5 million users because they didn't like the color scheme the app was using (or their rising stock price...)? It opens the dangerous door to anti-competitive behavior. Today it's Parler, and tomorrow it will be you. This is a double edged sword that will cut everyone besides the big tech companies. We must not allow this action to go unchallenged.
Except all those polls. Let's see yours.
Correct, COD makes the courier liable and forces them to return/try to get payment.

That's the biggest stressors in the PH.

I also will never order w/o COD again. Too many times got scammed/never delivered to me.

Wouldn't call it theft per se, but incompetence, yes, but fool me too many times, my fault for being trusting.

Now as a seller, you are pretty much immune from chargebacks and having to delivery a quality product, it's super interesting, low trust dynamic.
Echo chambers breed extremism, and ones with a low barrier to entry and a smokescreen of "saner" content are much easier to bring in new users.

If it's difficult to use the thing and the content skews more and more extreme, existing users may continue to get more radicalized, but new users don't offset attrition rates and eventually it dies off.
I was not talking about exercise. I was talking about your normal life being altered from more than 5k steps taken to less.

For instance, I need about 1k steps to the subway and I bring kids to the kindergarten or pick them up for, say, 2k steps. So on a normal workday, I get 4k steps just by getting to and from work. That's missing now. Consequently I have to start exercising just to keep the status quo ante.
This echoes a meme traveling around TheDonald right now, that Twitter booted Trump but allowed leftists to circulate "hang Mike Pence". The tops of those threads are people who don't realize that "hang Mike Pence" is a reference to something the rioters chanted; the bottoms include appeals for Pence's execution.
Than goodness for this potential future. I think is why the blockchain is so demonized by the tech community, because it free the people from tge slavery to the large corporations that's making them money hand over fist.
The way I understood it, elite overproduction is about successful wealthy people, not enjoying the political influence that they believed they would enjoy after attaining their wealth.
So what's stopping an abuser from generating tons of accounts and spamming their network with junk causing everyone to have to host lots of junk data?
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Can we now also expect oil companies (supposedly republican controlled) to stop supplying oil to companies stifling free speech?
HEIF is a container with support for different codecs. HEIC is what it's called when it contains HEVC media. AVIF is in fact a HEIF containing AV1.

It all boils down to codec support. Past year Apple finally started supporting Google codecs, so Safari gained VP9 and WebP.
It really depends on your definition of expert. The 2nd best in the world can sometimes be a dunce compared to the 1st.

For all intents and purposes, he's still an expert to everyone else.

I think the line between expert and imposter syndrome is closer and more context based than people realise.
100% correct on block/lot BS. This is why it becomes easier to just deliver to a Mall, or having to include your number all over the package, on the info slip and trying to wrap it up in plastic tenfold to check if it was "inspected" or contents removed.
Next time doubt is risen about the GDPR, we can point at thuis as a positieve data point.
hey don’t call yourself Skynet.

names tainted.
I agree with you. But I think people just want action taken after what happened in the capitol. Empathy for these rioters has gone out the window.
Yes, the common perception of this lawsuit is a prime example of an excellent PR spin. Almost everyone seems to know of this lawsuit, but almost all of them seem to have very important details wrong. There are good reasons McDonald's lost this lawsuit.

Skin grafts on your genitals are not just hot coffee. They were serving coffee 40 deg F (22 deg C) hotter than the temperature needed to fry an egg, and at least 20 deg F (11 deg C) hotter than any other tested vendor. Also, at the time, McDonald's had reports of over 700 people who had been injured to various degrees by their coffee.
Deplatforming like this will always lead to more radicalization. I'm not sure why people think that removing Parlar will somehow magically make all that group dissappear and find another hobby. Hold on to your butts!
I agree. The H-1B lottery favors exploiting foreign workers for relatively low paying tech jobs with poor working conditions. I hope this article is wrong about Biden reversing this.
I pronounce chroot as "change root". I pronounce "chown" as just "own" with a "ch" sound in front though.
> Poor living conditions for the bottom half of society has given this legs.

Debatable. There are many conflicting explanations about the current phenomenon and some of them talk about the role of the solid and relatively secure middle class that has lost something intangible, a sense of hope for the future, identity in other words. The more I try to read and understand the less clear it seems. But it’s safe to say any single minded narrative is probably too simplistic and doesn’t fully explain the whole reality.
No kidding. I remember trying to find high quality educational content on the web before wikipedia. For certain subjects it existed, but it was few and far between, and of very mixed quality (how do you know how much trust to put on some geocitirs page)?
Media wants to tell you how to think. Now it wants to take on the power to silence voices that run counter to its messaging. This is the case irrespective of whether there were incitement to violence.
Of out this set of countries, I agree; but she/he specifically quoted a sentence from your original comment, therefore I think his/her observation is fine.

> What makes you say that countries in eg. Asia are more right leaning than the USA

By living there most of my life.
I think this maps reasonably well to a rise of both technological abuse and accountability when producing things for the internet now, compared to what it used to be.
Nobody has an obligation to facilitate your free speech.
You are not wrong in thinking that it is a Gish Gallop in that yes there are too many links to refute.

Which is why I didn't want anyone to refute them all. And chose only 4.
That’s how I hear it in my head, probably from years of reading it as a stand-in for profanity on Slashdot and the like.
What does this mean for people on H1-B visas right now?
What is tomorrow I decide to build a new social app that becomes a blockbuster - and then a minority group that hates the caste I come from, wants to promote their anti-my-caste views there?

Am I going to be obligated to allow them to do so?

Or is it my private property right to say that I am not compelled to publish your hateful perspectives or views, thank you very much?
Really disappointed to read this. Absolute free speech has been an American staple for many many years. I can only hope you’re in the minority with your beliefs.
If you think being able to trace your ancestry back to certain well connected families makes your opinions more valid and important than other people’s then you believe in aristocracies, and maybe you’re the un-American one. If you think that companies should have their first amendment freedom of association rights violated by forcing them to do business with people they don’t want to do business with them maybe you’re the un-American one who doesn’t understand what the first amendment entails.
How is "companies stop doing business with other companies they don't think it's in their interest doing business with" a new thing that now the door is being opened for? It's happening all the time, and the right to do so is reserved in pretty much any terms of service document ever. It's truly weird how some seem to now see this as some new development one suddenly has to worry about.
Our world is just fundamentally different from the one where absolute freedom of speech could be guaranteed.

Look at Ted Kaczynski, a terrorist with some very strange ideas. Although he had freedom of speech, he had no means to get his ideas out in front of more people. He had to resort to extreme measures, like a bombing campaign to blackmail newspapers into printing his manifesto.

If he was active today, he’d just post it on YouTube and gather millions of views. If YouTube gets squeamish about the violence, move to Parler.

It was easy to guarantee freedom of speech to everyone when people like Ted no means of actually broadcasting their ideas without being gatekeeped by newspaper editors.

Our world is different now. It saddens me to say this but maybe our principles have to adapt too.
> Something is seriously out of whack when a President of the United States (any President!) is less powerful than some random company.

The President is not less powerful than “some random company”. The company (and likewise every individual) has freedom to act without the President dictating to them on certain matters, but that's the whole point of Constitutionally limited, non-dictatorial government.
We can refuse to tolerate many ideas spread on parlor without banning parlor.
My cofounder has been working on an upgrade for Sia that switches the core consensus engine to 'utreexo', which uses an accumulator rather than an entire blockchain history to verify new blocks and transactions. This brings down the effective size of the chain for users to just a couple of megabytes for the same history that currently takes 23 GB.
First, law enforcement never talks publicly about this capability because it only works if the bad guys don't think about it. Secondly, all the major carriers deployed temporary cell sites to the area in advance of the inauguration which likely has complicated and delayed the requests.
"The war on the female reproductive system". I realize you are referring to pro-choice. I'm curious why you chose to phrase it in this way.

What is the war on education?
oh god /etc as ‘etsy’? no way. never heard it called that, don’t want to (british)
You cannot judge a community after just half a day of participation, much less in times of turmoil.

From all the networks I participated in, HN is by far most quality-oriented and while the balance of political opinion is different from US average, there is neither mob rule nor cancel culture rampant.
Taking b) and running with it, education is, in my opinion, the silver bullet for a number of societies ills. It's very interesting to note how higher education in the US has such a high barrier to entry that it actively discourages outsiders.

It feels as if the Australian Government wants to move in the same direction, and / or have already been doing so for a few years.

Education has its own benefits to society as a whole, therefore we all suffer when a majority are locked out of pursuits that require and encourage depth of thought and logical thinking.
Which is what free enterprise and privatization means.
This is the exact situation in which facial recognition is very bad. Imagine the stasi had it? You can consider your government good and the technology good until it isn't and used against you.
There's maybe some passive marketing going on. For example, I wouldn't have gotten my first contract if I didn't do that mock API for the contractor working at my office. And I wouldn't have gotten the next 4 contracts if I didn't camp at the client's office for a week to finish a job.

Most of the other jobs that fell into my lap were from my Facebook rants on tech, my involvement in uni alumni activities, and impressing two people who were well connected in the industry.
It's worth remembering that this principle was upheld by the Supreme Court a little over two years ago, in the case of a baker who refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/us/politics/supreme-court...

In this case, it was decided that the baker has a right to refuse service if they have a moral objection to the service they're being asked to provide. The same principle applies to Amazon, though one can certainly see how the scale and scope of Amazon's services and their centrality to the online economy makes things a bit more complicated.
> Is this really different than old media

Yes. People never handled daily small talk with their friends and family via the Letters page of e.g. The Times, so it was never antisocial to change newspaper, to boycott a newspaper entirely, or to go without any daily paper at all.
If the protests did not result in billions of dollars in damage and the deaths we have discussed in this thread, maybe their admirable intentions would have mattered.
But the fact is the riots were absolutely unnecessary and destructive. You can sympathize with the rioters all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that the rhetoric pushed before and during the BLM riots was not one of tolerance and understanding. BLM riots created destructive mobs. If the movement prioritized nonviolent rhetoric this wouldn't have happened.
x264 does indeed punch above its weight. Which has been, counterintuitively, a boon for codec freedom.
> It's good for surface level stuff

Almost like its trying to be an encyclopedia or something ;)

If you go to wikipedia looking for a university level course in something, im not sure why you would expect that.

As far as quality... its not perfect, but that's still a relative measure. Its generally significantly better than its competition in my experience.
Who control the controllers?
What they need to do is accept that Donald Trump lossed, shut the fuck up, and get in line.

They're currently advocating for a revolution (civil war really). And if you're like: but were they really? Look at content on Parler, the answer is yes they were.

You can't expect any sort of appeasement when you're calling for violence.
Their argument is that, at first, the best thing you can do to improve your health is train for strength, because getting stronger will improve your general fitness and health more than anything else. The idea is to build a base of strength before you start training for a particular sport or activity.
There's no evidence that this is true. H-1B workers are generally paid above market wages compared to workers of similar skill level[1].

This argument is often brought up when people compare median wages, but they seem to forget that half of the American workforce isn't paid the median wage.

[1]https://www.cato.org/blog/100-h-1b-employers-offer-average-m...
Because your rights do not override my rights, and if I run an Internet forum, chat service, etc you can’t force me to publish or distribute material I don’t want to. We are all autonomous citizens, including people who own or run communications services.
Reference implementation is irrelevant to the patents which cover the use of underlying codec. The codec might get AOM protection, but then there's always some companies with patents outside of AOM.

H.265 debacle with 2 patent holder groups is a good example of that.
Are you really sure about the global annihilation part? I'm not. The larger cities and anything near targets of strategic value will probably be gone. But otherwise? Think of all the atmospheric tests with large devices. And the "enrichment" all the coal fired power plants produce. There are people saying coal power amounts to about 50 Chernobyl EVERY FUCKING YEAR in released radioactivity into the environment! Not to speak of mercury, carbon dioxide and what not else.

On average I feel rather unimpressed by that threat. It seems like a conditioning.
In an actual authoritarian country Jack Dorsey would have been thrown into a gulag or re-education camp for banning Trump. The fact that private citizens can openly defy their leaders is the exact opposite of authoritarianism.
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I think it's internally. The article also states that the users of the code would still have to pay the royalties.
The same experience as well. Last month I forgot the road on the address of a order, just the building, in Bangkok, one of the biggest cities in the world.
Package still arrived, as I had assumed. In my opinion it works as well or better than in Germany. Same for the public transport, but that's another issue.
That's why people try to agree upon terms and their pronunciation first. Most languages are unintuitive and it's worse with tech jargon. So, when you work in tech business, or even in some tech club you cannot just walk in and talk like a child and expect everyone to treat you like an adult.