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> People who are cheering on the politicization of deeming half your own countrymen terrorists because disagreements

The ones who brought bombs to capitol and RNC could be called terrorists?

> payment processors, twitter, AWS, salesforce, facebook all decided that actions of the 10% of BLM protestors that turned into violent, destructive and deadly riots

Both twitter and facebook were closing accounts for calling for violence or sending threats overtime at that time. Payment processors and AWS had no equivalent of Parler to remove.

> we would be seeing even more violence, destruction and death but with the weight of a newly renewed sense of victimization and purpose

There was some sense of victimization, but never on HN. It was only in more radical sections of twitter. Nobody including mainstream leftist people really cared enough about them.
> “The DNS is like a phonebook for the internet. The addresses in the phonebook are the server IP addresses. DNS was created to give IP addresses human-readable names so with our platform, you’re finding the IP address through Handshake, not through a certificate authority,” Namebase CEO Tieshun Roquerre told CoinDesk.

(Emphasis mine.) Did this Namebase CEO just state on record that he doesn’t know how DNS works?
So, just wondering - how important is precedent normally in Finnish Law?
> Companies, meanwhile, will note the fate of Parler.

This is one of the most significant things that I've already seen. Many discussions in the past few days about how this represents a business risk. E-mails from providers about TOS updates, some even saying that if a client gets caught up in something or indicted, we get kicked. Many similar stories from others; companies starting to invest in at least making their tech multi-cloud or multi-cloud-ready. This may drive a shift from cloud computing as well: it's more difficult to shut off a company that runs its own data center.
I've been thinking that Amazon ought to be protecting distribution centers (likely a little less hardened than data centers), and their distribution and delivery network (much softer targets).

Unlike Twitter and Facebook, Amazon has a much larger attack surface.
And here's one on Jan 5th. Apparently this kind of verbiage will get you deplatformed now?

<FistName>,

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Is the LEFT going to STEAL this Senate Runoff Election? Did they STEAL the Presidential Election? I’m counting on you to step up to the front lines with me and FIGHT BACK!

1000% IMPACT: ACTIVATED!

I’ve requested to see a list of EVERY Patriot who donates to this email. Make sure I see your name. This is our last stance to defend our Nation and defend Democracy.

Please contribute ANY AMOUNT IMMEDIATELY to PROTECT our Republican Senate Majority and to DEFEND the Election. >>

We Need to Win BIG!

CONTRIBUTE $250 = $2750

CONTRIBUTE $100 = $1100

CONTRIBUTE $50 = $550

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CONTRIBUTE ANY AMOUNT

Thank you,

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As a disclaimer, I know that this is controversial, but I'm against censorship. I think that it's up to the law enforcement to deal with legitimate threats, and S230 exists for this precise reason.

That being said, I can't think of any good solution if you'd like to keep that kind of stuff of your platform. I think it's basically impossible. The only solution that could deal with that amount of posts would be AI. But the problem with AI is that:

1. It's imperfect and generates false positives. There were stories about people being locked out of their Google accounts for no reason, without any possibility to appeal, because their support is also ran by AI.

2. It can get too perfect and thus extremely dangerous in wrong hands. (I think it's already in the wrong hands, but you get the point)

What's also not fine in my opinion is pulling down other services for their inability to deal with such content, when Twitter and Facebook themselves can't keep this stuff out.
Automated investing. When I get my paycheck, I just auto-deposit some money into my investment accounts @ Wealthfront, Betterment. Let them handle the complexity of figuring out what to buy, what to sell. Decent returns so far.

Not sure if the realm of finances is included for this question, but this is one automation that I heavily rely on.
> Take the bottom 50% (or whatever) in generation A. Count what percentage of their children end up in the top 30% (or whatever). Thats' mobility. And it's highest in Northern Europe, by any reasonable standard.

Except that this isn't true. You are basing this assertion on mobility indexes which account for more than this raw mobility. It's the reverse. By raw mobility, the US does outperform Europe. But, importantly, and accounted for by the indexes are referenced in the follow-up comment to your other respondent, people in Europe do not backslide between generations the way they do in the US. Europe has higher economic stability, but lower mobility, due to broader social support systems and much more heavily progressive taxation.

Any study that goes back before WW2 shows a different story in the US, and that's partly because post-WW2 was a major economic shift between the US and Europe, and also because the US has to account for its (relatively short) history of discrimination affecting economic mobility, especially in the South.

A more honest take is that economic mobility is different in both places based on various demographic factors /other/ than economics. If you're college educated and white or college educated and an immigrant your economic mobility in the US is very high, if you are not college educated or not white (but a non-immigrant) your economic mobility in the US is very low. In the EU there is less disparity, but less overall mobility, which can be accounted for partly by the broader parts of society receiving higher education, and partly by the more progressive taxation which prevents massive jumps in wealth accumulation and is used to ensure a higher minimal standard of living for the poorest in society.
I use Turris Omnia, which is stock OpenWRT + their (open source) addons. You can configure VLANs like you mentioned, I do the same.

It is on the expensive side, but the hardware is beefy and you get vendor's support for OpenWRT out of the box.
Well, most flu vaccines today are made by infecting fertilized eggs, so an mRNA vaccine would have the advantage of being vegan. It may eventually become cheaper to manufacture.
The bit about accelerators is interesting to me. I was involved in QICSI, a Canadian startup accelerator as part of one of the startups there. I was then part of another startup from that same accelerator. Have encountered several others that have bounced from accelerator to accelerator. And it does almost seem like a very milestone and very checklist driven thing.

They all seemed to just be jumping from accelerator to accelerator. Does that happen in the USA? Do you go somewhere else after Y Combinator?
It is worth noting that this is exactly what Aaron Swartz was bullied to his tragic death 8 years and a day ago. May he rest in peace. And kudos to Alexandra.

P.S. Corrected the date, seems like I still live in 2020. Thank you, lazyant.
There is plenty of keyboards on android, including ones that are super-simple like "simple keyboard" from F-Droid, or the one provided by Keepass for Android.

Just switch keyboard. There is a lot of choice here, interface to do that and so on.
Fair as well, but then you have to decide: it's either the democratically elected government that sets the boundaries of the free speech, or it's private monopolies that do the same, without anyone's oversight. For some reason (but most probably just because there is a temporary alignment between them and the choices of those monopolies) most US users of HN seem to be fine with censors of free speech being private, undemocratic entities.
Git is a distributed VCS, so if another tool works better for their workflow, then they can use that instead of GitHub
I used to worship at the altar of plain text, and indeed text is ideal in some situations. However I have found that text falls apart when I need to programmatically manipulate data and write it to a file. It’s hard to formulate structured “plain text” formats that are human readable, human writeable, machine readable, and machine writable. Yes it’s easy enough with simple data (and Ledger is relatively simple.) with richer and more complex data this gets very hard.

After years of using Ledger and trying to adapt it and my own systems to store richer financial data and manipulate it programmatically, I have migrated to my own solution based in SQLite rather than plain text. I realized that what I have is a data storage and manipulation problem, which is exactly the problem SQL databases solve very well.

Text works well for some things but it doesn’t deserve all the worship it gets in geek circles. Part of this was my own fault because I tried to make text work in situations where it wasn’t suited, but hopefully others will read my comment and not make the same mistake solely because they read some blog posts and other things from old-school UNIX heads saying “text is great!” Don’t try to make text do everything.
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So getting banned from a website because of TOS violations is a step too far, but prosecution by the government is the reasonable alternative? Social media addiction has really distorted society's perspective on what's important.
I think it depends on who you are talking to... you know them better than me.

Sometimes leaving out the big concerns and bringing up the concept of the "digital trace" may be a good start, bringing up relevant cases.

Even if they think and say "the idiots deserved it, I have nothing to hide", the seed still gets planted.

A neighbor I have that supported surveillance and likes to share his hunting images was surprised when I showed him that his images could be traced back to his home address, which he absolutely did not want. He started asking for help with digital privacy issues after that and has even contacted his political representative about his concerns. He has shared this new-gained knowledge in his circuit, and so it spreads...
Parler does not ban hate speech.

Parler bans "tortious" speech, meaning speech that would open someone up to a civil tort, think defamation.

In fact, Parler later switched to just using the simplified wording of "we won't be used as a tool in a civil tort"

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My example is not tortious, it is not targeting a person in a direct and personal manner.

There is _a lot_ of hate speech that is not tortious, and does not fall under "direct and very personal"

Spamming nig**r in a public forum is upsetting to some readers, but not covered under the fighting words doctrine they tried to invoke nor their guidelines.

Saying "I hate these damn <insert race or religion> they should all go back home" is the same.

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And like I mentioned above, your article is out of date, their latest guidelines before going down no longer even bothered with breaking this out and all of what was quoted no longer existed.

Instead it was all replaced with

> Parler will not knowingly allow itself to be used as a tool for crime, civil torts, or other unlawful acts.

You can confirm this by googling this URL (which us obviously down if you try to visit it directly) "https://legal.parler.com/documents/guidelines.pdf"

The latest revision was on 12/04
Two is better than one, isn't it?

Also, individual freedoms aren't the be-all and end-all. We're lucky that they align with environmental concerns in this case.

Additionally, right to repair isn't really about individual freedoms. Most people aren't going to fix products that require complex repairs. The right to repair is, first and foremost, about allowing people to exercise that right through delegation to specialists. Unencumbered repairability allows for local markets of repair shops to form, that can offer repairs at reasonable price points.
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I think the events of the last week will give a boost to things like ActivityPub. It has over a million active users, and two of the big projects (Mastodon and PeerTube) came out of EU countries. They have their problems, but if I were an official looking to reduce dependence on the US, that's where I would start.
Collapse isn't actually an axiom. It doesn't appear in the Schroedinger Equation at all.

It comes in when you treat the measurement apparatus as separate from the thing being measured. When you do that, collapse flows naturally from that assumption. It's a valid approach, and very useful, but many people find it philosophically awkward.

An approach that's philosophically easier, but less pragmatic, is to treat the masurement apparatus as part of the system. Now you've got one single enormous quantum system. The math of that is far too complex to actually run, and more importantly, too enormous to hold itself in an unstable equilibrium. It must fall into a more stable equilibrium.

The tricky part is when there's more than one stable state. The measurement apparatus exists in both of those states, and returns opposite results. The states are in local equilibria, and don't exchange significant amounts of state with each other.

You can call that "splitting universes", if you want, though I think that's needlessly messianic. Like the first one, it's perfectly valid. And pragmatically it acts just like collapse. There's a philosophical question about whether the other states "actually exist but can't be reached" or "don't exist at all since we can't prove it except by inference from the fact that this one exists and follows the Schroedinger Equation so closely". That's "philosophical" in the sense that there is no physical difference between the two, but just one of your mental model.

That's a lot of words; sorry about that. But the point is that you don't need a collapse axiom, and if you choose to add one, it's not strange.
Love is necessary but not sufficient. Anecdotally, I think there's a ton of people who will say "I love my family but I hate everyone else". Maybe only love can drive out hate, but sometimes love also sits on its ass and does nothing.

If you want hard numbers, compare the number of vegans to the number of animal lovers.
Reminds me of Jabber and how GTalk was first able to talk to anyone out there before they locked it down with their custom modifications to the protocol.
You misunderstand, they didn’t call for killing the President, they called for killing the private citizen, potentially after he’s been stripped of all protections through impeachment.
Factor might be a more interesting option than Forth nowadays.

It's also a concatenative language, so it captures a lot of what's interesting about Forth, but with more of the niceties that we've come to expect in a programming language.

https://factorcode.org
Quote form their slide: "Optimizing 11th gen power and performance in the best enthusiast platform for gaming & content creation"

Why should I be an enthusiast? Indeed I wait for a much faster laptop to replace my venerable Dell XPS15 9550 for software development. But my mom also deserves a fast laptop for web browsing and emailing.

It's funny how they try to segment the market because they can't deliver the same power to everyone. Yet we all deserve it.

Why should I even bother selecting a CPU option? Give me the best of the moment.
Guess what people do in voice chats. They come and go, post links or sometimes write when not being able to talk right now. Privately and in the current channel (seperate things).

Having server messages combined with user messages and channel messages is not sane. This has nothing to do with "better suits your needs". Teamspeak (and others) solve this with tabs.
A lot of software do make it very difficult, if not impossible for a regular accountant to erase history. To the point, when I was an accountant, if I made a simple error in keying in something, you would have to reverse it out, and then fix it, all of which would show up on the general ledger.

For example, say we received cash 5,500 for our software services that we have yet to complete, we would need to debit cash and credit some Accounts Receivable.

lets say I make a mistake:

Cash.....5,050

Accounts Receivable..........5,050

I would either need to do another journal entry for 450 dollars to both accounts, or reverse out them and do it again, of which it would still be visible
No problem,I am not an expert in the space but there are just my feelings on haskell.

Let's see if FoxHound is around in 1-3 years :)
But it being plaintext you can host it as git project on gitlab with a protected main branch that requires merge request approval, meaning you have a two man rule (and four eyes) for every change.

You can't do that with quicken.
Because such posters are always the same and make similar requests all the time. Say, someone makes a group chat product for 10000 people. They always pop up: 'but does it have e2ee? no? meh'. Not understanding that real e2ee makes no sense if you just blindly trust everyone without fingerprint verification, which is clearly impossible if you plan to use a product with thousands of people whom you've never met before.

By 'really good' encryption I mean encryption where you do mutual fingerprint verification - a tiresome process that few users really do because they don't want all this hassle. Most people would be more happy with a big green button with a nice lock which says, 'You are really safe now' after pressing.
With the current proliferation of structured file formats (xml, json, yaml, toml, protobuf, messagepack) I got wondering if there is room for a format based on one of these stack/list based languages that could be easily implemented even on microcontrollers or on some locked-down corporate machine with only a decade-old IDE and no third-party libraries. My original thought was something that was a subset of Forth, though I get the impression that vanilla Forth is a headache dealing with data types other than ints and the result would be sufficiently custom that it wouldn't be worth it.

Something based on TCL or S-expressions sounds like it would give the needed flexibility, though maybe at the expense of being able to implement on microcontrollers. Has anyone played with parsing either of those? I know that the PCB designer tool in KiCAD uses S-expressions so it's been done before.
We can only guess their motivations and who pulls their (Twitter's) strings behind the scenes. I am not sure that most of us here will ever find out.
I love stories like this. Most folks aren't in open source for the returns, and any form of gratitude is uplifting and incredibly motivating. I've got my fingers in so many open source pies that it's silly, but I do it because I love it. Yeah, some really big corps use my stuff and a few packages have millions of weekly downloads, but I'm not doing it for the money. It helps keep my skills and thinking fresh, networks me with a ton of people worldwide, improves my soft skills with every interaction, and makes me a better cooperative collaborator. I receive exactly $5.80 a month in donations (via Patreon) and I'm just happy that two people thought enough of my work to send me a few duckets from their hard-earned income every month. I'll happily take that beer money and the personal development that comes with it as a reward.
I just don’t think this is a real problem. Restaurants and theaters can kick me out be being disruptive. Websites can ban ip’s used in DDOS attacks even if the user never actually visited the site and thus could not have seen a ToS.

Without ToS’s companies might have to spend some small amount of money on court proceedings they would prefer to avoid. A portion of those lawsuits may be worthwhile.
Disney's greatest asset is without a doubt their IP, not their tech.
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It depends on where you draw the line. Sure if only things like child porn, threatening to murder someone etc. are illegal, then, I assume, this would work. But for example what about hate speech or holocaust denial? Neither is illegal in the US. Would Twitter be legally required to host content inciting racial hatred on their site even if they don't want to? Would it be illegal for Twitter to show any posts made by users in the United States to users who are in the UK or Germany (if the content is ambiguous I don't see how they could determine whether it's illegal in the target court without requesting it's courts to review it)?

I'm not even sure how this could work in countries where "hate speech" is illegal either. If the content is not explicit and open to interpretation can Twitter just declare that it's illegal and remove it? If so, then how is this any different from what they are doing currently? Or would they have to wait until the user is convicted by a court before removing it?
This a false dichotomy. There is nothing about interoperable/federated systems that make it harder for people to fulfill their needs. Or have we already forgot how to make a phone call (interoperable) or send an email (federated) in less than a generation?
They wanted to occupy the Capitol building, using force if necessary, to nullify the results of the 2020 elections. What is that called, if you can't bring yourself to call it taking over the government?
> That's unpopular in part because it's extremely regressive. The amount you will have to change your life is going to be directly related to how wealthy you are. The rich are unlikely to change. They'll simply pay more and move on, or dodge it by refueling and shopping in other countries.

Wealth inequality is a different problem, and has a different solution (taxes on wealth and income and otherwise redistribution of wealth).

Want people to use fewer fossil fuels? Make fossil fuels more costly.

Want people to have more equal lives? Make wealth inequality more costly.

And this would have to be a global solution, with the quality of life for the people used to using tons of fossil fuels (America, Western Europe, etc) going down towards the quality of life of people in poorer countries who don’t use as many fossil fuels.

And that is not acceptable to pretty much all people in the developed world, rich or poor.
I use malwarebytes after trying several options. It's merely a good interface to leverage windows firewall with a block-until allow dialogue box. For whatever reason, it's hard to find a firewall for windows that doesn't use a scammy freemium model.
Bit of a workaround and I don't know how well it works in practice, but: https://matrix.org/bridges/#signal
From what I understand, it gives more control over the immune trigger. Perhaps it's possible to sequence a small part that's common to many flu viruses and administer that?
Opt-out telemetry, as opposed to opt-in telemetry, usually violates GDPR. This issue is being discussed at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/47284

VSCodium is recommended as an alternative https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium
Socio-economic class is not tied to moral values or compassion.
> The US does not have [libel laws] at the federal level

It's true--I think--that there is no federal libel statute (though perhaps someone can correct me on this), but that assertion is misleading without a little more context. Whether it is a state or federal law doesn't really mean much in the American legal system. In the U.S., most such laws are state, not federal laws. That doesn't make them less important or enforceable.

Every state that I know of recognizes libel as a tort (i.e., you can sue someone for it), and you can do so in federal court if the required ents for federal jurisdiction are met. (In this case, probably that the plaintiff and defendant are from different states.) And, in any case, what's wrong with state courts? A judgement in a state court is just as good as one in federal court.