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If the POTUS wouldn't have kept breaking Twitters TOS service daily, he wouldn't have been banned. The same policy which applies to everyone else. Twitter also isn't "America", it's a private company that can ban whatever unprotected category of people it wants to do. Also I'm pretty sure Germany still has bands on much Nazi propaganda and paraphernalia as a whole.

Trump is free to have a press conference and take questions at any time.
I think it's some of the following factors:

- President Trump’s statement that he will not be attending the Inauguration is being received by a number of his supporters as further confirmation that the election was not legitimate and is seen as him disavowing his previous claim made via two Tweets (1, 2) by his Deputy Chief of Staff, Dan Scavino, that there would be an “orderly transition” on January 20th.

- The second Tweet may also serve as encouragement to those potentially considering violent acts that the Inauguration would be a “safe” target, as he will not be attending.

- The use of the words “American Patriots” to describe some of his supporters is also being interpreted as support for those committing violent acts at the US Capitol.

- The mention of his supporters having a “GIANT VOICE long into the future” and that “They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!” is being interpreted as further indication that President Trump does not plan to facilitate an “orderly transition” and instead that he plans to continue to support, empower, and shield those who believe he won the election.

- Plans for future armed protests have already begun proliferating on and off-Twitter, including a proposed secondary attack on the US Capitol and state capitol buildings on January 17, 2021.

> He is not planning to attend an inauguration because he will not be inaugurated President? Is that such a huge problem?

It's pretty significant as it hasn't happened since 1869.
Thank you for demonstrating the entire problem is such a concise and recognisable way.
FWIW my guess is there probably wouldn't be any downvotes if you just wrote "is a girl/woman".

Personally I don't care about the difference but just mentioning "pronouns" seems to be enough to trigger the downvote reflex - "pronouns" has been abused to create so much drama the last few years that I can kind of see why people react even if I don't do.
> In the midst of all these problems, America’s vassal states — India and Australia — saber rattled in ominous ways. [...] Australia was spanked very hard as a warning to other vassals. If Australia slips into a recession, the next Prime Minister will be a lot less racist and uncouth. And perhaps Australia will be more careful about committing war crimes in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

"Objective Nonpartisan Insightful", really now! I think your source needs to learn how to write non-editorial English.
His impeachment seems valid enough to me. 9 days left doesn't matter - if the President acts unlawfully in his last week, it would be Congress' duty to impeach, convict, and ban from a future term.
Democracy has backed them into a corner, now they are rejecting democracy.
freedom of speech was hardly enjoyed in nazi Germany, soviet Russia, WW2's ultranationalist Japan.

Sometimes I wonder if certain people are using "free speech" as a stepping stone to authoritarianism to then destroy freedom of speech.
Yes, except for the sort of “FAA Certification” that let Boeing sign off on their own work and the FAA just rubber stamp it...

I’d kinda like to see Tesla’s reaction if they were told that any “autopilot” crashes could result in the entire fleet of that model car being taken off the road, with Tesla responsible to all the owners for the disruption while a thorough investigation takes place, possibly a year or more.
Also available on Medium if that's your jam (https://medium.com/the-scinder/playing-pokemon-grow-with-dif...).
> Now consider the scenario where all the large agriculture firms and distributors cut off the Bay Area.

Now consider that this exact scenario is currently affecting 23.5 million people in the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
Why would they want to "be the bigger man"? Trump literally ran on "lock her up"
> With respect I think you're speaking outside the bounds of your knowledge of these systems.

I'm not going to argue with you on this; you're entitled to your opinion :)

> That is just table stakes. Have you ever found any vulns in bank API gateways?

Infosec consultancies find vulnerabilities in the API gateways of retail bank clients, yes. That's one of the things they are paid to do. And yes, I found issues myself in part of the open banking consent flow I was asked to test for a retail bank when I worked for such a consultancy. Such features don't get built without flaws.

The folks who are smart enough to reverse the mobile apps, any crypto used and write their own client get to play with these features in prod after they've been tested (either internally or via a contracted pen-test firm).

> Everything this thread refers to countermeasures banks employ to keep third parties from leveraging their private mobile API gateways. When I talk about breaking things I'm talking about breaking these countermeasures.

Then we seemingly agree these countermeasures are not effective - which is the point I attempted to express :)

> whereas even bank employees would only about their employer's systems

I have never been a bank employee so don't personally know, but presumably some of them move between orgs.
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I think it depends how you look at it.

> A confused deputy is a legitimate, more privileged computer program that is tricked by another program into misusing its authority on the system.[0]

In this case, we know we don't have access to open the safe, but we were able to convince the deputy, who does have access to the safe, to give us what's inside one small piece at a time. The deputy didn't intend to empty the safe- he was only showing little bits of what's inside! That's all he's allowed to do with his access!

I see where the OP is coming from in calling it that.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confused_deputy_problem
A company bans a malicious user who happens to be President of the United States and that's the lowest we've ever stooped?

I'm sorry, have you met us? In the ways in which we've gone against everything we meant in the world, I'd think at least all the torture prisons we ran would be a lot higher on the list than this.
>What this means is that some entities are experimenting with the use of the HF bands for the most direct, point-to-point means of conveying this information possible.

Interesting that this is now being done with HF bands. For several years, however, this has already been done through the use of lasers (although at a far greater cost).

>Last year (2013), Anova completed a laser network link between the London and Frankfurt stock exchanges, and now, it seems the company is nearing completion on a similar laser network between the NYSE and NASDAQ data centers in Mahwah and Carteret, New Jersey.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/176551-new-laser-network...
I don’t think parent comment should be downvoted. I pushed back too in another comment above about the validation of evidence. IMO the evidence is mostly untested, and the_drunkard is correct about the media’s premature response.

Also, given current events, here’s a fun quote from the linked article:

> The Special Prosecutor literally became a religious figure during the last few years, with votive candles sold in his image and Saturday Night Live cast members singing “All I Want for Christmas is You” to him featuring the rhymey line: “Mueller please come through, because the only option is a coup.”
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> stealing from corporations > buying from small businesses

Why is this report worthy?

> reminder that there are no good cops and no bad protesters

Why is this report worthy?

> Every liberal and lefty needs to arm themselves like yesterday

Why is this report worthy?
a better idea - tell Trump he can have his Facebook back if he agrees to go on talk radio and cable news and tell his supporters that he was lying to them all along, there is no evidence of meaningful voter fraud, and it's time to move on. only when enough of the supporters are finally convinced of this can he have his account back (or 6 months, whichever is greater)
This is a great analysis. The shocking thing is how Trump stole the Democrats' pre-Bush era positions on trade, immigration and foreign policy and won.

Bill Clinton opposed NAFTA, Barbara Jordan wanted to slash legal immigration, and Democrats opposed the Iraq war after Bush's reelection.

https://www.numbersusa.com/content/learn/illegal-immigration...
There's always enough of the former to go around.
The first headline on The Factual right now is “How conservative media stoked baseless election-fraud claims that motivated D.C. rioters”. That is certainly not what the “fairness doctrine” type centrist media sounded like. The whole feed doesn’t seem like it is considering both sides of the issues, it seems like it is providing the same generic left viewpoint that the New York Times would provide.
It should be in theory, but in practice it's pretty stable on relevant time horizons. There are many factors fixing such equilibria. For instance, most consumers aren't rational actors carefully evaluating purchasing decisions. Or, when they pick, they may optimize for multiple targets simultaneously. There are economies of scale that create barriers to entry for new competitors. Trust takes time to develop. Etc.

To use two relevant examples:

Audio jack on phones: a lot of people want one, but companies seem to - one by one - eschew including it, and gain on the BOM savings and getting customers to purchase additional dongles/adapters. Phones are something you don't pick based on one particular feature. A new competitor that'd like to offer a good smartphone with an audio jack will have to first match many other features of competing smartphones. They won't be able to do all that and achieve similar price point, as incumbents benefit both from established supply chains and scale. Therefore, a new offering is going to be significantly worse in terms of features or price (or both), way beyond what established companies have saved on removing the jack.

Reliability of fridges: the three most important parameters that matter for customers are internal volume, price point, and overall aesthetics. The consumers would prefer a fridge that lasts a decade over one that last three years, but such decision is somewhat beyond the calculation horizon of most people (the reasoning is instead, "if and when it breaks, we'll deal with it") - and even if it was, it's very hard to verify. A company selling reliable fridges would have to first be able to reliably signal their reliability, which is hard to do. You could try offering very long (or lifetime) warranties, but unless you're an established brand, people ain't gonna believe it.

Then there's the general aspect of customer irrationality[0] wrt. price. People without much spending money prefer cheap products. There's a phenomenon in markets that probably has a name, where a market for a product bifurcates into race-to-the-bottom low-quality but cheap products, and high-end products (often for professional users) with low sales volume and high markup. The middle - quality products at moderate prices - disappears entirely. A new competitor, wanting to target the middle in such a market, will find themselves losing to both cheap and expensive ends.

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[0] - Though I'm becoming less certain that this is truly irrational. The other day I saw some article highlighting that humans like to optimize for maximizing available options, in a way that comes close to mathematical optimum. Since in money-based economies money is, quite literally, unit of options available, this would suggest that this behavioral heuristic applies.
That's a great idea. We could call it the Ministry of Truth.
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Presumably "newsworthiness" but in terms of bias, we have a platonic ideal of what "unbiased" means that it is possible to aim for. I was specifically refuting the GP comment that there is no way to agree what "neutral" means, while also implying that reporting all information would be neutral.
I think all products should come with a disposal fee incorporated, based on the reuse/recycling/compostability ability of the product - with items that are fully biodegradable at home and landfill having no fee at all. This would drive producers to use the most degradable packaging possible so they can drive down the cost of their products. It would also help reduce the problem of producers combining two recyclable plastics in to a single non-recyclable whole.

I'd also like to see a rebate program at recyclers for big-box goods. People are more likely to do the right thing if there's an incentive. Probably paid for by a fee on sale, but again scaled based on recyclability (and possibly repairability / waste from repairs)
Political opinions should be a protected class (certainly more than religious opinions).
If you want right-leaning journalism, there is always CNN and the New York Times.
There is an ounce of truth and a pound of trash in this. I'll explain.

Truth: In theory, peoples' grievances need to be heard. Trump did not get elected simply because he is a loudmouth contrarian criminal xenophobe. He also got elected over concerns for American manufacturing, a counterbalance to extreme-leftist social changes, the hope for real infrastructure investment, etc.

However, in 2020, the idea of not being heard is pretty crap. "Being heard" doesn't mean "do everything you ask all the time". Trump has spread constant, factual lies, and as the President, incited violence at the Capitol. The people marching currently, the pretext of which is to argue that the free and fair election of Biden is illegitimate because it isn't who they want, is garbage. That grievance does not warrant any more attention than it has been given; that there is no evidence of systemic fraud at any level, and that this is a well-vetted assertion.

Finally, while "primary sources" are nice to have, it is suspicious to me that you don't trust the FBI on this. I'm no blind supporter of LEO (Ha!) but how are you suspicious of the claim, given the behavior and events of the past week/two months? It makes no sense.
Even if the hypotheses hold, a sequence x, f(x), f(f(x)), ... doesn't have to diverge even with f(x)>x for all x. A chain of super intelligences could feasibly have a small upper bound not much greater than that for a single person.

That idea even lines up with some crude experimental data -- vast additional resources barely make a dent in the frontier for chess, image recognition, a breadth of graph problems, etc....
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is this possibly a case of "leaky abstraction"? e.g a "data oriented" ui where data flows in 1 direction, so updates to said data blows away any intermediate state?
That completely misses the point here... it's not about having a facility, it's about a change in direction that people don't like.
> Congress is about to impeach Trump (successfully this time, since the Democrats now control the Senate).

That’s not how that works. Conviction in the Senate requires a 2/3 majority vote, which is vanishingly unlikely even with Democratic control.
does a private memory state (stack and heap) with instruction registers etc count as subjective experience?
Your first link is incorrect; Brave doesn't whitelist trackers. The Facebook/Twitter option enables embedded posts from those platforms on other domains. These frames, however, do not transfer cookies and do not permit the third-party access to storage. You can alter this behavior in brave://settings/socialBlocking.

Your second link suggests Brave replaces ads on websites; this is also wrong. Brave removes harmful third-party ads and trackers (as these harvest user data, and violate privacy). Brave offers an alternative model (Brave's privacy-respecting opt-in model) instead, which reward users with 70% of the associated revenue, while leaving their data untouched.

Your third link is, I believe, asking about our in-situ tipping buttons. These are triggers for the Tipping panel within Brave, enabling you to tip BAT to users on Twitter, GitHub, and elsewhere. I'm not sure what concerns you about this; these can be turned off in brave://rewards, if you like.

The last link you provided is also quite misleading. Brave distributed BAT grants to users, enabling those users to earmark tokens for content creators. Our interface at the time identified "verified" creators as such, but didn't make an equally explicit identification of unverified creators. This lead to some confusion. But as a result of Tom Scott's feedback in 2018, we saw massive improvements made to our UI/UX and tipping model over 48 hours or so. Today unverified creators are clearly identified as such, and tips are held for them on the user's device, rather than in a settlement wallet. See also https://brave.com/rewards-update/
Ham radio transmissions are not allowed to be encrypted per FAR 97.113(4). [1]

I suspect this is also a violation of FAR 97.113(3) "Communications in which the station licensee or control operator has a pecuniary interest, including communications on behalf of an employer"

[1] https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=d4b3c60d2d60000a14...
> But I'm seeing a bunch of articles about how the number of players one steam has fallen by X%

I am part of this group. I think the real reason for the drop off is just that their is not really that much to do in the game. You can 100% the game in 60-80 hours. If you are just trying to finish the main quest lines you can probably do that in about half the time or less if you are really beelining through it. The combination of the pandemic plus holiday shutdowns has resulted in a lot of people finishing the game and moving on.

Additionally, the sentiment that I have been seeing and agree with is that the game currently does not have any good endgame content. Once you play through the story and do most of the side quests, there is not a whole lot left to discover. The artwork is beautiful but aimlessly exploring has not been very enjoyable since NPC AI ranges from shallow to non-existent (e.g. completely broken police system, pot-shot or rush enemies, random cowering citizens, etc.). I am sure that CDPR has some DLC in the pipeline to change that but I don't plan to pick up the game again until a DLC release.
At this point it's very difficult to assure them they have a voice. Hell, I didn't even vote for Trump but I don't think I have a voice.

As an average citizen, it's our lot in life to be ruled over by the rich an powerful. It's always been that way, and the more I see of our "democracy" the more I believe it will stay that way.
Democracy requires freedom of speech, and to abridge that freedom is to destroy Democracy.

A building does not a government make. Whatever people harmed, windows broken, our government is not any worse off functionally than it was the day before. Yet this will be used to pass harmful laws, and like 9/11 it will do infinitely more damage to Democracy than whatever the original attackers did.
They also have a majority in the Supreme Court.

It’s such an idiotic argument because it’s obvious they have a voice and significant representation at the state and federal level. 75 million of them voted their congresspeople in and now because they lost the presidency we have to tiptoe around their feelings while they foment an insurrection? What?
Supergiant’s Hades is a delight in this respect.

I may be biased as I picked it up after some time mindlessly grinding through Persona 5, which has an English translation that is perfectly functional but never amazing.
Wow, the contrived reasoning in that Twitter statement is beyond belief:

Trump: "I totally disagree with the outcome of the election [...] there will be an orderly transition [...] I will not be going to the Inauguration"

Twitter's interpretation: I don't think the election is legitimate, therefore I disavow my statement that the transition will be orderly, therefore you should commit violence. Also, since I won't be at the inauguration, you're free to do terrorism there without risk of harming me personally.
Presumably social media companies want to sell ads there and then it's rather easy to pressure them to cooperate or fine them.
You don't get to sue claiming fraud, then say "Well I don't know, check on it". What are you going on about?
This has serious implications for any business thinking about hosting their applications on Amazon or other providers.

I used to be a big proponent of doing this on AWS or Azure but with these actions there are suddenly real risks to consider.

The precedent has been set, and it will now be used to force down other businesses, when the time is right and there is a clear viable target for outrage.
What do you mean by scrollbar? Xterm has a scrollbar, and you can customize it with plenty of options.

Tabs I agree that it may be a showstopper for some, however in X you can use suckless tabbed to add support:

https://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/

For some of us, we just want the fastest terminal out there (in latency and startup), because everything else will be taken care by the window manager or Tmux.
nostromo's comment doesn't seem to be a scorekeeping effort, more a statement of fact (though I will confess to having an initial reaction similar to yours before finishing reading). It's a good idea to keep the facts straight in general, but especially in such a controversial case.
This ^. Trump can post anything he likes on the White House website. He is one of a very small number of people in the country that if he said "I want to address the nation", it would be on every single network and multiple streaming websites. None of the president's normal communication outlets have been curtailed. All that's happened is that some companies have decided to stop blindly quoting him.
> successfully this time, since the Democrats now control the Senate

Conviction requires 2/3 Senate vote, so 17 Republicans will need to vote to convict.
> It was never rigorously examined, because Republicans blocked it.

in my opinion, the objective person would likely agree that Trump and his campaign have been rigorously examined both formally (by Mueller and his team) and informally (by the media).

i don't intend to change topics here, but in context of your usage of "never rigorously examined" one could point to Hunter Biden's international dealings as lacking rigorous examination, as stories on this topic have even been actively suppressed.
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Depends if it's a SaaS or a product.

With a product you can usually put it for sale on marketplaces so they do the marketing for you and you can easily reach millions of customers, but you have to share the revenue.

This is how I started with https://usertrack.net, by selling it first on CodeCanyon and once I decided to focus full-time on it I switched to selling it directly.

I was able to work on it while still being employed as I have discussed this with the employer before getting hired, I clearly stated that I still want to be able to work on side-projects in my free time.