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I think authoritarianism is dangerous because of force.

The first time I used IRC I thought the mod system was unjust. In one channel the mods decided to allow democratic selection of mods, new mods were elected and the vote was “rigged” by extra accounts. The channel devolved into chaos and the mods took back over.

At a project level, authoritarianism is based on subject matter expertise and who started the project. And with open source this is strengthened by the ability to fork the project. If I don’t like a project, use something else. If I, and others, really don’t like the project, we can fork it and start our own copy.

Trying to “vote” a project you don’t like seems like a bankrupt idea to me. Either participate in the community, gain authority and credibility through contributions, or walk away and start a fork.

I think software works well with “benevolent dictatorships” as long as there’s no lock-in or requirement to use it.
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> By denouncingly Movlxie Marlinspike (not Merlinspike) authoritarian because he run his free software project,

There is a funny "law" that whoever publicly corrects a spelling in someone elses writing is doomed to introduce a worse one themselves and it seems it held true this time :-D
Antibody production ramps up and down rapidly, it’s memory cells that get altered by vaccines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunological_memory

That said the immune system is extremely complex, but here is a simplified version, which gives a reasonable overview: https://microbenotes.com/cells-of-the-immune-system/
Colour me skeptical, given the veritable flood of new signups to Signal among my contacts that hit my phones this morning.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/

for the latest research in fields outside your own

https://newatlas.com

much the same news for a more general audience than science daily, as well as a lot of new camper vans for some reason.

https://www.eurekalert.org

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I might be a bit biased because I actually have a marlinspike laying on my desk (it needs to get back into my line locker at some point) but this article reads as if the author has something against either Moxie Marlinspike or his company. The leader of a successful project HAS TO impose limits to move the project towards success. The only concrete example in the article is the removal of the non-standard client which may have had a real rationale that wasn't mentioned in the article (protection of a trademark?)
Also their equipment sitting idle
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Yes. Denmark has studied it and the new variant is doubling its prevalence in denmark every week too.
I might say the writer is over-egging the pudding.
The author isn't a native english speaker.
Right. Compuserve and Prodigy. Compuserve didn't moderate and Prodigy did.

The concern is that absent Section 230, a provider needs to either be (almost) totally hands-off or they have to strictly moderate (which isn't really viable for the modern web and social media).
User (me) breaksdown the scientific method
I was asked to share my comment. I hope this finds audience. (Reply in body and link)

Answering user Rentiki:

Its called a case study - it usually the first step to multi-person large breadth studies.

Its a “we encountered X anomaly, which is very i interesting and hopeful, and we arent taking money to get lambos. Plz give funding”

Just the scientific method,

Case 0 (we are effed, ppl die. God will be done)

Case 1 (ooooh) - case study

Case E(mperical, study funding yay - larger chunk of department funding allotted)
Case E+1 Peer review, fellow/sister studies adding proof. Sometimes skipped for major which bring experience or reputation, often natural sciences due the existence of logical verification methods.

* For social sciences, we have tests such as ANOVA, Eta^2 and Omega^2 (McDonald’s reliability) - there is an absence of logical verifications here due to systemic constraints, ie: its impossible to do studies with (Inf) participants.

Case E+1 -> N+1 (proof or generialized applicability, or enough confidence to yolo a vaccine or medicine or new tech onto the population)

Edited: actually E comes before N and N+1 by expanding the case study to studies with control groups and more participants.
It is sad to see this push for yet another centralized client-locked comm-tool, being justified that this time it is OK because backing corporation is non-profit.

Ther real problem of centralized, closed systems is not profit, but concentration of power. Using such power to extract profit is just one of many perks of having such power.
You're more likely to survive an assault rifle round than hunting rifle.

Hunting rifles are often a larger caliber and are designed to kill with one shot from a much further distance. Assault rifles are designed to disperse many smaller rounds, rapidly, from a closer range.
This is tantamount to saying that he did not prove a negative. Of course he didn't.
From the Reddit thread[0] -

BMP files store scanlines from bottom to top, which is why it starts at the bottom. Colors are just 3 bytes (depending on pixel format). Set each byte corresponding to ASCII characters (for example 32, 32, 32 are three spaces).

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ktiv20/program...
One person's "tortured translation" is another machine's "idiom and poetic metaphor".
Section 230 doesn’t give social media any more power than they have under the first amendment. It is simply a shield from nuisance lawsuits.
This guy is an asshole. If he doesn't like signal is run he should do the work of running an alternative. Do the work of building something or shut the fuckup.

What's more, Moxie, created audio books of many well known anarchists texts, it's not something an authoritarian would do.

https://www.audioanarchy.org/

Moxie made signal work because he chose to ignore all the security 'experts' who keep insisting on unusable software. Use briar or the fully p2p version of matrix if you don't like signal. Or use the code Moxie has given to the public to adapt signal to your needs. He did 99% of the work for you.
I think we can find many analogies between the history of "Haskell/FP vs Mainstream Languages/OOP" with that of "RISC vs x86/MIPS". The article says Haskell is hard to learn/use and not appetible for business. A similar article could be written about RISC architecture in 2007 when x86 ruled. Then Steve Jobs built the iPhone and with it an empire based on RISC architecture. And now Apple Silicon it's threatening desktop and servers, last standing of X86.
The flight path shows a sharp right turn before the crash: https://twitter.com/omrockett/status/1347856795239292929?s=2... based on the curve before that it doesn't seem part of the scheduled path. Possibly manul course change or part of losing control?
High capacity vs low capacity magazines is a real difference if you are in a fire fight.
Looks like a nice idea. Maybe try targeting a niche or a specific industry?

I agree the UX needs a revamp.
The whole article felt it's coming from a traditional / industrial OO (everybody happy about UML usually doesn't see the world as I do).

broken slack links or not, the community is not as large as the author seems to convey.
I think you should question your surety. Most states ban modern day assault rifle calibers for hunting deer because they are too small in diameter to do enough damage and deliver a humane kill. Hunting calibers (.308, .243 win, 30.06) are much larger and more powerful than the 5.56/5.45 the modern M4-pattern and AK74 use.

In addition, per wartime regulations the worlds armies are only allowed to use FMJ which leaves a much smaller wound channel. Hunting rounds are typically soft point or hollow point and expand on impact to leave a much larger wound channel to increase the likelihood of a humane kill.
>I think you're off your rocker if you think the US election system generally has sufficient controls in place not to be easily abused.

It is easily abused, conservatives are only mad when they lose:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/us/some-republicans-ackno...

> A senior vice president of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, Steve Baas, had a thought. “Do we need to start messaging ‘widespread reports of election fraud’ so we are positively set up for the recount regardless of the final number?” he wrote in an email on April 6 to conservative strategists. “I obviously think we should.”

> Scott Jensen, a Republican political tactician and former speaker of the State Assembly, responded within minutes. “Yes. Anything fishy should be highlighted,” he wrote. “Stories should be solicited by talk radio hosts.”

From 2016. Weird how familiar it sounds.
Very good point. I hope what happened with AI doesn't repeat with Quantum (that is missing the train even though it started with a considerable advantage).
If your forum had money, you’d be a sitting duck for someone claiming their rights were violated and demanding compensation.
>But listing books on how to do something that's been discussed, and I don't think I'm exaggerating here, millions of times, doesn't seem like you're "helping developers find indie books."

Why shouldn't there be indie books about subjects that are discussed frequently?

If something has been discussed millions of times, it means that the good information is scattered across several different sources and a lay person has no way of distinguishing between good and bad advice.

I've happily paid for indie books in the past few years from authors I trust because I want to read their perspective and information that they've curated.

Two I'll mention in particular:

Hello Web App by Tracy Osborn - This is a book about web design, which is discussed in millions of places, but Tracy's book gathers together high-quality information in a concise book.

Starting & Sustaining by Garrett Dimon - This is about running a small SaaS app. Another topic discussed in tons of places online, but Garrett is telling it from the context of his personal experience running a successful SaaS app for several years.
We already have post script for that.
I don't know if it will be this particular event but ... my imagined scenario goes like this

Apple and Google ban Parler. Parler people spread the word how to sideload on Android. Parler people on iOS get angry and lobby their congress people to force Apple to allow sideloading and/or alternate stores.

I don't think you can really prevent people from communicating. Yes it sucks they're lying to each other and causing a ruckus. Can you imagine if they managed to do this via the phone and the phone companies cancelled their phone service. Yes, I know the phone company can't do that legally but that's precisely my point. These people are going to push for laws that allow them to communicate however they want.

Removing the apps from Google Play and Apple App store will not stop this.

Or at least that's my prediction. I have no solution unfortunately. This seems like the new norm. In fact maybe it's part of the great filter: Mass many to many communication and its repercussions.
We didn’t evolve from chimpanzees. Bonobos, humans and chimpanzees have a common ancestor. While chimpanzees are violent psychopaths, bonobos are peace-loving hippies who have sex all day. Humans seem to have a mix of both these traits.

It’s quite astonishing how much bonobos look and act like humans when they walk upright or when they play with their babies.
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But how is that fair or logical? How can a subject be convicted of a law that was not violated? The subject has a responsibility to know the law, but how can they if it's not articulated in statute/code? The judiciary would be guessing as to why the legislature left out a specific condition, which would be essentially legislating from the bench.

The spirit of the law is only invoked on the side of leniency (to my knowledge).
Writing off capital as unusable is also capital destroying.
You may want to research the caliber and associated energy and ballistic differences between the firearms and cartridges you are talking about.
Too many exclamation marks for one article. I'm not using Signal at the moment and might never do it, but their technical decisions are theirs and they will carry the consequences if they are wrong.
As the article says, 176 out of the 299 fatalities in 2020 were due to the "shooting down of a Ukraine International Airlines flight by Iranian armed forces last January". So that's the only reason
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TIL. This woman grew up in Soviet Hungaria, and moved to USA.
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We cannot be predict what will be needed for what:

> "S glycoprotein signal peptide (extended leader sequence), which guides translocation of the nascent polypeptide chain into the endoplasmic reticulum" - part of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine. I don't ever want to hear anyone question fundamental science again. 1/2

> The level of control and understanding we now have over our biology came from literally millions of person-years spent working on things that at the time were obscure and "useless". And now? We can leverage all this into a 95% efficient vaccine _at the first try_. 2/2

* https://twitter.com/PowerDNS_Bert/status/1342159339767934978
The argument against this is the same as with the parent post to yours: UX. Signal has made the decision to use the phone number as identifier, and that's part of the reason it works so well for novices.

I totally agree with you; I would not have bound identities to phone numbers either. However, Signal is reaching a wide audience like little else has while still being more open than the other encrypted messengers. This seems to indicate that Signal has taken the best balance in compromise.
> It's not as good and polished as rust's cargo but it's ahead several other languages.

Until cargo supports sharing of binary crates it isn't as polished as I care about.

All the languages I use, except for scripting languages, support distribution of binary artifacts, including Haskell.
I mean thats literally what he's doing now.

the point is, no one believes him, or really listens to him.

Its not Amazon where Bezos commands, and everyone jumps.
Yeah and the comment from Moxie that he first highlights is a complaint that LibreSignal used Signal's own servers for traffic. The ensuing discussion is hilarious.
Basically the same here. I use whiz labs.
In this instance (slang/idiom/etc.) the UrbanDictionary description provides me a basic idea of what you're trying to convey (assuming it's generally correct): https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mam%C3%B3n
An interesting question, no, we both have right dominant hands. Interesting article too, thanks for that one.
The entire global industrialized economy only exists because of petroleum fuels.
> "When you’re reading this article, or talking to someone, do you claim that you’re saying a string, a number, a Text, or something else. No! Data is simply data, and data is inherently dynamic"

I think I disagree with this one. Yes data are inherently dynamic but every data usually have types associated with it. For me type is like rule. Eg u8 is a 8 bit unsigned int which is 0-255 is just a rule.

In English we have grammar which is rule or another type so to speak. a-zA-z etc doesn't make meaning on its own but a combination of rules make it meaningful and beautiful.

Thank You.
Actually my statement (first sentence) was about the century before the 1960s, i.e., after the US Civil War when the slaves were already 'free'.
I've not yet heavily used macros in my project, but surely have used macros others wrote, sometimes perhaps even without knowing, aside from the Scheme implementations standard forms. However, I have yet to hit a case, where I thought something was a tail call, but in the end was not. It just does not seem to come up for me and has never been a problem.

Perhaps I have only used "good macros" or something, which do not make seemingly tail calls into non-tail calls?
I think the word you're looking for is hyperbole/hyperbolic?
Maybe it's not a misspelling, movlxie is just the vectorised instruction form of moxie for 64 bit (long) addresses?
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Nobody said it can't be dealt with at all. Where's the justice in your approach though?
It's not really enough.

Twitter has political power well above any 20th century legislature could imagine, all at the fingertips of it's owners.

It's 20th century equivalent would be "members of political party X may not hear each other in bars".

I can't see how anyone could consider this "fair", even if this is just a side effect of silencing accounts that aren't ad-friendly.
self-righteous and a bit immature is how it came off to me. I definitely agree that tone is distracting from the article. made me stop reading faster
> So Nancy Pelosi's office is generally open to the public, and it's fine for people to go on in whenever they want, even when she's not there?

Generally, yes. Their offices are suites with a reception that'll be staffed for constituent services most of the day. Staff are also typically there all day taking calls from the public.

Found a quick tour of one (small office; leadership will have much larger ones) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnIMUfF3U8I
Is money actually the issue here?

I presume it was incorrect technical decisions rather than a lack of money.
Please clarify for me the part about the set exec command. You create n workers but you pass the whole image size to each. Why isn’t the image size divided by the number of workers?
Power's impact is on how it is used. It can be used, for example, to help make better software for the end-user.
If the author was using the description to explain Functors to someone who only knew oop it's a reasonable start. I got the impression the author was implying that is basically all you need to understand Functors and is not the case.
>This is just the continuation of Waco and Ruby Ridge

You clearly don't know very much about the facts of either of those events. I suggest you do some reading.
> You either think the astronomical number of bugs in delivered software is a problem or you don't (and good luck with that).

We don't need luck. Competition has already given us the answer that most bugs are ok. The vast majority of the software that creates literally trillions of dollars of economic activity, and pays most of our bills, is not mission critical. Software fails all the time with the only significant consequence being a developer has to spend some time fixing it. Sure sometimes money is lost. So is money lost when factory equipment needs repair.

Some software does deserve to be bug free when it might put lives at risk, like flight software or medical software. Perhaps even operating systems. But the vast majority of the software I use on a day to day basis does not fit that category. What significant harm does a bug in VS Code or Slack or even my OS cause me? None.

If bug free software gave a significant economic competitive advantage, smart folks would start writing it and win big in the marketplace. Considering this has had decades to happen, and has not, it's very unlikely that bug free is the winning competitive advantage when it comes to software. I'd guess the winning advantage is that the software is useful. Much like a car with many small problems is still useful.

The truth is that much of the software that exists today simply would not be worth building bug free and would never be profitable.

You can extend this outside of software development to see that it's true in a more general sense. Most of the manufactured products we buy are not perfect and do not last forever. Some even have flaws from the day you buy them, but flaws that can be worked around. Once on vacation I bought screwdriver at a dollar store. Poorly manufactured and it does have "bugs" compared to something I would have paid 10x the price for. But years later I still have it and it's good enough for some jobs.

You could potentially build a car that doesn't fail for any reason for a few hundred years. Only Bezos and friends could afford it. With that said, I'd like to see the negative externalities of pollution and waste included in the true cost of things we buy, so that we don't produce so many disposable things that society pays for in the long run. But that's a different discussion.

Please don't take this to mean that I don't take great pride in writing quality software that is as bug free as possible. I do. I also take great pride in meeting budget goals and deadlines. All successful businesses understand that competing goals must be balanced against each other.
> The machines are not hacked, and the voter rolls are legitimate.

> The election was fine - Trump's claims of fraud are completely fabricated.

Their capacity to claim fraud is _because_ of these weaknesses that make such a claim possible. Regardless of what the truth is, there are millions of people who think the election was rigged. If we don't placate those people and fix the issues, it could continue to escalate.
Interesting timing for this to float up the front page.
It works like this on messages.google.com as well. It's not a deal breaker.
They wouldn’t have to stop moderating. Some assholes would sue them and the courts would have to decide how the 1A handles such things.
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Who seriously flagged this?
The reality is, in almost every place on Earth a person that is intent on getting a gun will get a gun.

If you want to do a crime with a gun, you definitely don't want a legal one. That's just stupid.

And people intent on doing crimes most of the time don't really need guns for it, it is just suspicious to carry a gun around and if you are doing something shady you want to bring as little suspicion as possible. And adds charges for illegal gun possession in case you are caught with one.

Gun regulation is mostly to stop stupid people act stupidly with a gun they already lawfully own, to stop people who for various reasons shouldn't own a gun from owning one legally and also to cool down the police so that it doesn't feel it has to shoot suspects on sight. (Notice stress on the word "feel")

I am all for gun regulation, I just feel it is a bad example for regulation.
Breaking Down the Scientific Method
I was asked to share my comment. I hope this finds audience.

User Rentiki questions the importance of a single case being published as a paper, which is fair skepticism. My reply:

Its called a case study - it usually the first step to multi-person large breadth studies.

Its a “we encountered X anomaly, which is very i interesting and hopeful, and we arent taking money to get lambos. Plz give funding”

Just the scientific method:

Case 0 (we are effed, ppl die. God will be done)

Case 1 (ooooh) - case study

Case E(mperical, study funding yay - larger chunk of department funding allotted)

Case E+1 Peer review, fellow/sister studies adding proof. Sometimes skipped for major publications which bring experience or reputation, often natural sciences due the existence of logical verification methods.

* For social sciences, we have tests such as ANOVA, Eta^2 and Omega^2 (McDonald’s reliability) - there is an absence of logical verifications here due to systemic constraints, ie: its impossible to do studies with (Inf) participants.

Case N(umerical hypothesis, doctoral work and mire funding for the PhD: hypothesis getting formulated in more rigorous ways, maybe finding roots and improving on older methods, comparing with older methods, or disproving older methods)

Case E+1 -> N+1 (proof or generialized applicability, or enough confidence to unload a vaccine or medicine or new tech onto the population)
Is anyone surprised though? Shocked, but not surprised