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This should absolutely be the default response.
“for partisan political reasons”

Is avoiding liability for organizing violence a ‘partisan political reason’?
Glad I clicked through /s
We are discussing Mastodon, so that complaint is not valid. If you don’t like that your instance has stopped federating with another, you are free to join a different one or start your own.
Just left a message in their chat, thanks. Also looking forward to see how quickly they respond.
My 2015 MBP is better than my 2018 MBP by a country mile.
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But then that's up to you, right? Ecosia does not encourage you to buy anything, but if you search for products, it suggests places where you could buy it. I don't get your point.
Indeed. Notoriously, a SEGV in gcc during compilation used to usually mean "your hardware is flaky": https://tldp.org/FAQ/sig11/html/index.html
Imo, it’s strictly bad faith to be blamed: on the right, there is a refusal to separate the violent, unprotected speech from the protected opinions.

Meanwhile, the left seems to be refusing to accept that coercing people to act a certain way does not actually change what people believe. A list of banned words and opinions will never make the world progressive. Deplatforming people over truly just opinions or mannerisms is a temporary win.

Social media isn’t really a moderated community. It has “rules” and you can get “banned,” but Twitter is less “moderated” than a typical comments section. So when people act in bad faith, there’s no recourse unless they explicitly break rules. On say, a typical old Internet forum, it’d probably mostly be considered dramatic to do call-outs, not to mention pointless due to the disconnected nature of identity on the old internet. On Twitter not only is it common but you can make as many bad faith arguments and take as many things as far out of context as you like in attempts at character assassination. You can concern troll, you can use known misleading sources, etc. and even if someone calls you on it, you can just do it again later.

As usual though, most people are pretty “selfish.” A lot of people “get away” with being not “progressive“ enough because people like them. What happens is eventually someone has a trivial dispute with them and decides to seize the moment to pull out as much ammo as possible, which is how you end up with 50 page google docs arguing as hard as they can that every mistake someone has ever made is evidence that they are irredeemable.

So in self-preservation people become dishonest. And I mean I’ve seen it first-hand. Their beliefs haven’t changed, but they have to say certain things publicly in order to keep their status. And other people who also don’t believe in the things they're saying will express their disappointment if they ever deviate. It’s an amazing circus show. Things have gotten very perverted.

With the right, they are of course taking advantage of this in the worst faith way possible by using it as an argument against being progressive in and of itself. It’s not the methods, it’s the ideology. But in the same way a civil rights riot and a doomsday cult riot are not the same thing, there’s always going to be too much nuance for a conclusion that oversimplified.

Meanwhile, sites like Twitter simply do not give a fuck. All they care about is brand accounts, ads, and public image. But mostly the first two. So fat chance if they’re going to risk lowering engagement to help fix broken incentives.
It’s a Trump program. Immediate pass.
I only use Apple for my work laptop and phone since I'm already being spied on and they will upgrade me when I need it. It's perfect for that case. At home I've got an xps15 with linux and a phone with LineageOS. Would never apple for personal stuff.
> they ended up shipping the m1 macs running essentially SafariOS

What on earth are you talking about
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on Parler ban by Big techs?
Media is saying the capitol siege was conspired on parler. Maybe they are right. But is it okay for corporations take step and ban the Parler app ( AWS is planning to terminate their hosting)?
I mean such as decision should be taken by Court not corporates (like google, facebook and twitter ).
In my experience, notability probably isn't likely to be a big issue for an obscure topic that is well-referenced. (Although it's always a possibility given some of the Wikipedians out there.)

It's generally more of a problem with people. In part this is because notability is so context-dependent. Every professor at a college or professional football player or senior executive at a large company is notable at some level. Most restaurants have been reviewed once or twice somewhere. But the amount of publicly available information about many of these things is probably fairly limited, especially from third parties.
Bought one for my kid, been testing it out and it’s so good that I’m tempted to buy one myself - much better than any of the recent mbpro’s I’ve had. Super responsive while staying cool on the lap, completely silent and all day battery life.

Can’t wait for mbpros with miniled display and more arm cores later this year.
> Might

Ignoring that it's completely up to apple whether this exists in a years time, reverse engineering an entire SOC is really fucking hard. ARM isn't like x86, you basically can't assume anything. The GPU may be completely off limits for years, for example, unless they somehow (this isn't impossible) make a blob out of Apple's actual drivers.
Besides the Ada example, GDC shares the D frontend, written in D, with other D implementations.
My 2010 MBP 15" is still my favorite.
I have to see more data on this but my understanding is that Tether is already exiting to BTC and has been the single largest buyer for several weeks/months. Citation needed, this is a hypothesis that needs more evidentiary support for me to act on.

Illiquid markets tend to be more price sensitive to the decisions of the marginal buyer. This is most visible, IMO, in real estate where wealthy marginal bidders move comparable prices en masse on low volume.

Now let’s combine those ideas: if bitcoin is relatively illiquid and small group of wealthy buyers (banks, companies, other crypto assets) could issue treasury securities and roll the capital into BTC, what would we expect to see?

I think we’d see a big price run in an otherwise low-growth broader market.

This would tend to act as an M2 hedge for the early entrants and would be a very attractive move if their firm value was more or less “elastically attached” to the USD.

Reminder: citation needed.
"You're just using it wrong" /s

https://www.wired.com/2010/06/iphone-4-holding-it-wrong/
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No.

The simple fact that you can create value for others without stealing that value from someone else means the economy is positive sum.

If all economic transactions were zero sum, then growth would be impossible.

Things like GDP, the stock market, etc grow every single year on average because they are positive sum.

That’s why it’s most smart to just buy-and-hold boring index funds. You’re taking advantage of the positive sum nature of all business in aggregate, instead of playing the zero-sum game of short term trading against other market participants.
Not possible to outline the details but these are the areas that need attention by serious thinkers. Many of them intersect with each other and this isn't in any particular order:

* the role of the federal government (federalism, states rights, etc)
* immigration: byzantine system with no clear rationale driving policy
* foreign policy: China, Russia, Middle East, North Korea, defense budget
* global trade: human rights, free-trade, regulatory frameworks
* sustainable energy policy: fracking, pipelines, renewables, environment
* education: federal vs state, vouchers, charter schools, fixing urban education
* police/judicial: militarization of police, public safety, efficient court systems
* welfare system: another byzantine system with no clear rationale to drive implementation
* healthcare: yet another byzantine system
I might be tempted to agree with you if I didn't witness firsthand how business unifies with the one ruling party here in Russia.

Perhaps we can talk again about this in 5 years. I sincerely hope you are right, actually, but the realist in me begs to differ.
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> I would argue that a plan for handing out condoms only with proof of citizenship could be suspect of an attempt at ethnic cleansing. Similarly, if the central government of the Netherlands passed a law to hand out free condoms only in some particular province that may be suspect as well, especially one that has been considered of a different ethnicity.

>However, if the local authorities in Frisia were to implement such a plan, that would be closer to the first case of universal measures, since the authorities in Frisia shouldn't be expected to hand out condoms in other provinces. Of course, if it turned out that the measure was in fact planned by the central government and passed off as a local idea, that would again move the needle towards being suspicious.

This is a distinction you make, but not a distinction the U.N. definition makes, which shows that you, much as I do, do not find the definition credible.

The U.N. definition does not factor in supranationality as a condition.

> In general, intent matters

Perhaps, but that difference is not given in the U.N. definition.

> that is why the law can't be formalized mathematically.

Then the definition should have never been offered as a rebuttal.

> If a country is targeting some group that it has historically considered "different" (regardless of how questionable the difference is) with some kind of measure which may have negative consequences, that measure should receive scrutiny, and the context should be identified. For example, giving poor people condoms may be an attempt at population control in one country, while in another country it may be a democratically enacted benefit.

All of this goes far beyond the original definition and is quite ad hoc.

I suspect that if further challenges and exceptions be raised against all these further rules, that more ad hoc rules are further and further added.

> We are far away from providing mathematically clear definitions of legal concepts such as genocide, murder, theft, fraud and anything you like. There are always surprising subtleties, and intent and context are always going to be a part of the definition.

Indeed we are, so perhaps the definition should not have been offered as if it actually be meaningful and the U.N. should drop the prætence of it's having “definitions” and “rules” for what is clearly simply “we rule on a case by case basis, mostly on our gut feeling.”

And that is too how laws work. I find that in practice the written text of the law is largely irrelevant vis à vis the gut feeling of whatever man vested with the power to interpret the law and I believe that not much would change in practice if entire law books were simply replaced with “The judge may do as he will and punish what he finds immoral on a case by case basis.”

Rule of law is almost always a veil for rule of men.
It’s impractical in that it doesn’t make much sense to use them from a “productivity” standpoint. I’m not going to code up my website on an original Macintosh. They only really make sense from a historical standpoint (but productivity in the form of making videos about them does exist).

The Voyager 1 is still practical because it would take too long to get something that’s better that it to where it is.
No full forward secrecy.

>All traffic is encrypted using a symmetric key, meaning that anybody who has the cabal://abcdef key can read cabal network traffic.

If you're even considering this, look at https://tox.chat/ instead. That one's been around for a while (thus mature) and actually has full forward secrecy.
I think a thing you have to be careful of here is that “taste” does not imply a single optimal solution. It’s entirely possible to have very definite tastes and views while acknowledging there are other equally valid viewpoints that doesn’t mesh well with yours.

For example I may love and have a highly developed taste for “western” style classical music and have little appreciation for microtonal Indian classical music without believing it is somehow inferior, yet at the same time believe that not all music is equally good. This isn’t exactly the same as moral relativism that you call out but related.
> they used to be priced at roughly 3x markup compared to the market

Were they though? With comparable displays and build quality, I think their laptops have been competitive with the upper end of the market for a while now, with maybe a 10-20% markup on that.
You can look at phone companies then, for a similar example.

It is illegal, due to common carrier laws, for a phone companies to engage in certain actions. They are actually forced to accept certain customers.

These existing laws that apply to phone companies could be expanded to apply to other forms of communication networks.
It might be better to not make the bug to begin with, but my take is this.

The open source world has a hard time making visual debuggers that work. gdb has always been workable as a command line debugger and if you like gdb then great. (there was that time I had to debug a Java/C++ program with Eclipse and GDB simultaneously and it was easy after I turned off the segfault trap because Java segfaults all the time.)

A few weeks ago somebody posted a review on HN by someone who tried looking at open source visual debuggers (DDD for instance) and came to the conclusion that they were all broken and the people involved weren't interested in fixing them.

Visual debugging with Eclipse/Java works fine, but I wouldn't count on Eclipse working 100% right for something other than Java. I prefer the Jetbrains tools and find visual debugging to work just fine in in IntelliJ (Java), PyCharm (Python) and Javascript (WebStorm). I'd expect the Jetbrains tools to work as advertised for other languages, and I know Visual Studio works well for languages that Microsoft cares about.

Thus it is a matter of the the quality of the tools you are using.

For a long time I've meditated on the bad state of GUI applications, expecially open source GUI application. A technical cause that's become increasingly clear to me is that conventional UI toolkits of all kinds are not really encapsulated for this reason: drawing is done signal threaded and the framework can't abort a render method so any GUI component can prevent the other components from rendering by blocking in the render method. Then you get that spinning beach ball or equivalent. Put enough plugins in Eclipse and give it a large enough project to work on and it's almost inevitable that somebody used an O(N^2) algorithm in a render method somewhere and it will die from Pluginitis.

There's also the social reason that many open source advocates think that any open source product is better than any closed source product (like that old bit about "any white man") so they can't admit that Visual Studio's debugger works and DDD doesn't.

(Open source nerds stormed the barricades in Germany to get local governments to use off-brand Office suites and the employee's unions had to fight back for the right to use an Office product which is buggy but orders of magnitude less buggy than competitors)
apparently only apple does good when they modify the ISA for x64 memory instructions to not have to be emulated so they can pretend rosetta is miles ahead of other virtualization when its hw based...

Those sneaky bastards – making their products perform better by introducing new features*! Whatever next?
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Definitely. It can be said for large parts of Europe. But I have a feeling it’s a bit more culturally pronounced in the Nordics... E.g. whenever parliament passes a new budget all the papers write articles with headlines like “Here Are The Winners And Losers” full of analysis of which groups will receive more/less money from the gov. Another example is that salaries of different professions are almost entirely determined by union deals, which in turn are decided by political clout. So it’s a feeling that the whole economy is “rigged”, but in a way that’s good for most people. It’s great in many ways, but I think the serfdom feeling can get more pronounced here and in most other regions.
some older intel chips are good and faithful (apple wasnt the ones passing the savings on to you like HP) they prefered to both give you outdated intel chips but also ask you $3500 for the honor
I've used migadu.com for years and been happy.
I do. I have a Yoga 530. While the motherboard is highly integrated I can at least replace my own RAM, my own NVME drive and my own OS. You can't do all these with a MacBook.

You can argue that the NVME drive is somewhat able to upgrade, but even that there will be some cautions ahead.
Web devs do test against other hardware. They have to, google ranks webpages (partially) based on their performance.
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Amazon's transition from Sun to HP/Linux 2000s, risked bankrupting the company
> Can I play ten year old games?

Based on peak performance at least I would assume yes.

Honestly I'd be a little bit worried if you couldn't considering just how expensive they are.
Only about a third of the way through, but I've picked up some great insights in general. Nothing about JavaScript (yet).
Given the amount of existing frontends for GCC, even if not included in the main branch, not sure what they imply as modern.

Ada, D, Go, Modula-3, Modula-2, C++20
No, usually the managed services are a premium over the bare hardware.
When you use RDS for example, you’re paying for the compute resources but also paying for the extra functionality they provide and their management and maintenance they’re doing for you.
You can run your own Postgres database, or you can pay the premium for Aurora on RDS and get a multi-region setup with point in time restore and one-click scaling and automatically managed storage size and automatic patching and monitoring integrated into AWS monitoring tools and...

They’re leaving money in the table because instead of using “Amazon Managed $X” potentially at a premium or paying a similar amount but in a way where AWS can provide the service with fewer compute resources than you or I would need because of their scale and thus more profitably, people look and see they’ll be paying $0.10/1000 requests and $0.05/1gb of data processed in a query and $0.10/gb for bandwidth for any transfer that leaves the region and... people just give up and go “I have no idea what that will cost or whether I can afford it, but this EC2 instance is $150/mo, I can afford that.”
Do not use homemade soap. Homemade soap is made with lye, which is the entire reason why people said not to use soap, once upon a time. An unreacted lye will start to strip seasoning.

Use dish detergent (commercial dish soap). It's made in a different way, so you can't get un-reacted lye.
It cripples some VPN apps. And some VPN softwares that used their own kernel extensions. More here - https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/
>Learn to sequence things well

Is this similar to delayed gratification? I find it much easier in general to do the 'boring' meeting prep and get stuff out of the way so I can relax later.
The laptops only support 1 external monitor unless you do some hacky stuff, they only have two ports, and still have mediocre webcams, and you’re forced to use Big Sur which still needs a bit of work. Also while the vast majority of software runs great on the M1, there are a few very niche things that still don’t.

But I wouldn’t call these “issues”, as anyone who reads the spec sheet can know them before purchase.

That’s it, really. These computers are astonishingly good.
This. I am interested in the court filings coming Jan 15.
I’m pretty sure normally when people express “____ is the best _____ I’ve ever owned”, they’re implicitly saying it’s the best “for my needs and preferences”. Absent brain trauma or serious delusion, I would assume the person speaking is better able to quantify that than any outside observer.
> No need to bake in the oven or anything like that?

Correct.

I will sometimes do the oil and bake thing for our Dutch oven if it has been neglected a while and has bits of rust or other questionable-ness to it.
I've used a Linux laptop before and it was always so painful to get basic things working, like it being able to suspend when you close the lid. Packaging is usually better, if you don't want any nice GUI programs (like iaWriter) or games
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No, they use official government channels like White House press conferences and the like. Please don’t make bad faith arguments as if I really were suggesting Morse code instead of Twitter.
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Does "Free speech applies to Qanaon supporters as much as it does to me and thee." make me a Qanon supporter?
raspberry pi's werent even 64bit until the latest revision and are meant to be dirt cheap <$25 computers

the arm chromebooks like the lenovo duet absolutely murder the iPad pro or even the new iPad Air in terms of actually being a useful OS for devs
News content has fair use cases, citing titles as this service does probably is Ok.
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Nice post, makes me wanna dump my 16” as well and if it weren’t for my work’s heavy dependency on Windows. — O and I really dig your domain name! ;-)
That isn’t really a problems with the analogy, if people are choosing to ignore it.
Yep, let me know if you've got any questions.

The only bad things I can think of is their API documentation wasn't that clear sometimes (their email support always helped though, and maybe the docs have improved now), their API was missing a few things I expected (like being able to query subscriptions by email address, but maybe that's changed), and they don't have a ton of features compared to say Fastspring (e.g. there's no self-service area where users can view and manage their subscription, but you can get the API to generate a link you can send to a user that lets them cancel their subscription and another link that lets them update their payment details).
Not just rational and learned experts; I also include people with significant political power or influence (significant meaning beyond well above the local level; senators, governors, presidents, etc.). The fact is that the people who were calling to abolish the police never amounted to anything more than the extreme fringe of the protests or activists. Plenty of attention was paid to the "crazed maniacs," but more important is the fact that nobody of any consequence actually told those crazed maniacs to riot, nor did anyone of consequence actively praise or encourage those who did riot (the worst were a few prominent politicians apologizing for riots by saying it is what happens when people's concerns are ignored -- not even close to praising the rioters or telling them to go riot).

This is not a "true Scotsman" argument. There is a meaningful difference between fringe elements acting on their own and powerful politicians or people with actual influence actively encouraging, directing, or praising that fringe. That is what separates the riots that happened last year from what happened at the Capitol on Wednesday.