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I really hate censorship from institutions and providers where it would be better if they were naive and impartial. Essentially, if the behavior of one customer does not impact another customer (directly) then the service/business should stay out of the matter.

Twitter and Facebook have to sell ads to make a profit which means keeping their platforms 'ad-friendly' and they are also designing everything about the site from the colors to the user experience. So it makes sense for them to moderate or even restrict content to even an arbitrary degree.

However, dumb service providers like GoDaddy and AWS make a profit and are designed around providing (generic mostly) services. When they step in to moderate content beyond what is necessary for legal purposes, it really undermines the whole institution of free speech. I think that in the case of GoDaddy is especially worrisome since DNS ought to be a impartial service and not an adjudicator of morality. At least AWS is 99% commodity and not a top down institution like DNS.

Personally, although I don't need to use it, I prefer nearlyfreespeech.net [1] for my domain name and minor hosting needs. Nearlyfreespech.net (NFSN) offers hosting/DNS for anything that is legal in the US (maybe some exceptions [2]). And NFSN offers no-frills DNS & hosting management as well as the best account security I have seen from any site. The prices are reasonable and very simple.

[1] https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/help/abuse#offensive
[2] Looks like the ToS includes any ToS that NFSN has to adhere to as well so it's possible that an upstream domain registrar could exert pressure on NFSN... not sure how likely that is. https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/help/abuse#offensive
If the alternative was going to be buy and hold on the same underlying anyway it’s a perfectly ok strategy, certainly not a stupid one. Worst case is you get assigned a stock you wanted to own anyway, but at a discount to the original face value + you’re paid to do it.

Actual worst case is the underlying pops and you “only” get the premium you collected and not the full upside.

So definitely not a profit maximising strategy but still a reasonable one. Especially if the market/underlying are generally moving sideways.
> But the good ones know a lot more about those fields than the average reader/listener/viewer.

I agree, but they never appear to be engaging in advocacy but rather not letting their interviewee get away with lying or deflection. Notably, I would like to see a reporter challenge some of the BLM narrative—at least ask the obvious questions, like “how do we know the police shooting racial disparity is racism and not crime rates or some other factor?” Virtually no journalists touched this issue, and it makes them look like they’re not only partisan, but that the movement itself needs high-profile protection from even the faintest of scrutiny. Small wonder people feel at liberty to find their own “truth sources” when the established ones appear to be dishonest.
You don't have to defend speech that everyone likes. It's when it's unpopular and you could make an argument for banning it that it's most important to make arguments against banning that speech. If we let people we don't agree with be silenced, how long until those precedents silence us?
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This is likely true long term, but middle class Americans currently have more purchasing power than any other middle class group in the world.
Making up something you can't define and then describing the thing you invented as uniquely human is a bad argument.
The allegation is not that it's merely unpleasant, but that it threatens the future of free speech itself.

If "defending free speech" takes us to a world where free speech doesn't exist, then you didn't actually defend free speech at all.

(You might disagree that free speech is at risk from people enacting violence against the government in an attempt to overthrow a democratic election - if so, make that argument, instead of repeating platitudes about how it's important to defend free speech you don't like.)
> right wingers all the time

which is a completely legitimate position to be in.
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This could've just as easily been written about the Phoenix metro area. Phoenix is the 5th largest population center in the US, barely now beating Philly, and while we've had a handful of few dozen small or medium successes (and a very small handful of big ones), our startup scene is... mediocre at best. The good vs. bad angels thing is a factor: we have no REAL good angels to speak of. (Happy to be corrected here.) No one is in the game for the game's sake. And our bad angels are even few and far in between. There are a handful of VCs, family offices, and such, but they usually want lower risk, post-revenue opportunities. There are one or two "angel" groups, but they take forever to stroke a check and it's an ordeal that's discouraging and not a lot of options.

Instead, we have a lot of SF (and other prominent geo) companies moving their ops here because we have lower cost of living and lower tax rates (though our top bracket just took a big step up due to 208) and a decent talent pool.

And while there have been a few incubators and such and there's a feel good startup community in YesPHX, there isn't any real circulating _money_ here. The uber wealth in this state is concentrated in old money forms like real estate and healthcare and conservative family offices and Bruce Halle's tire money and whatever the hell Bob Parsons is up to, but we lack that interconnected network of IPO-30-and-40-something-millionaires-willing-to-throw-down. We don't have anything resembling that.

From what I've heard, SLC is doing better on this front and beating us at a game we should be winning, but no one stays here after they make success, no one rich enough to matter is willing to splash out any real money themselves, and it ends up being a self-fulfilling, far too conservative environment for startup investment.

That being said, there are definitely some great startups still trying to make a go of it here. And per Gregslist & Crunchbase, we have over 300 startups here, with over 100 of them VC funded. And you'll see successes come out of here: InfusionSoft, CampusLogic, and sure a bunch of others... but nothing quite like a mega IPO, and nothing that feeds enough capital back into a huge pool of newly minted moneyed people ready to pay it forward into the next cohort. That ecosystem is damn hard to build up, it turns out.
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That said, this article: https://betakit.com/narwhal-list-2020-tracks-a-year-of-massi...

seems to think Canada is on track to produce a lot of unicorns in the next few years. Seems like pretty good work for a country 1/10th the size of the US.
For context, his weekly column published today: http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2021/...
One thing this article seems to miss is that the tech scene in Canada isn't the same as the tech scene in America because Canadian capitalism and ideals are vastly different than Americas. I'm a 6th generation Canadian who left and went to NYC to build tech companies, much to the dismay of my parents who continually asked "why are you so interested in getting above everyone else?". While I agree with a lot of what the author said, I think that the Canadian tech scene doesn't jive yet because Canadians haven't really embraced ruthless capitalism fully.
Mate, we had Madonna giving a speech about wanting to shoot the president.

A play on broadway enacting a fantasy of Trump being stabbed, Julius Caesar style by masked men.

Another hollywood personality posting an image of her enacting a mock beheading, complete with blood.

Don't preach about "Threats" and "Violence". If you are in tech, you are intelligent enough to use logic and not emotion.
Well said; thanks for the explanation.
As someone who has worked in the Canadian tech scene for 25 years, and rode two startups all the way to exit (i.e. acquisition by US companies), in my opinion the problem has nothing to do with exit mindset, good angels, bad angels or SRED.

It is all about talent retention. Up until early 2000, Canadian tech salaries at least somewhat kept pace with US salaries, albeit 20-30% lower.

After the dot com crash, however, for some god-forsaken reason, the surviving tech companies decided that keeping salaries low was the new path to profitability. Every year the HR departments in Vancouver and Toronto do a hush-hush survey among each other and fix their salaries to the exact same level - maybe 2% but usually closer to 1% higher than the previous year.

The result of 20 years of this is that Canadian tech salaries have fallen ridiculously behind those of US companies, resulting in a massive brain drain to the south.

Now that Amazon, Microsoft and Google are setting up shop right here in Canada, the talent drain away from Canadian companies is only accelerating.

I have no idea what it will take to make companies realize that long term success requires retention of top talent and that that in turn requires paying competitive salaries.
I am happy to say that I do and would not give a single, solitary shit about a hive of racists and hatemongers losing their platform for spreading those things. Liberty is irrelevant to this, nobody is owed a platform owned by somebody else, not even 4chan, and until 4chan/8chan/8kun and the like are running their own datacenters, their platform is not fully theirs.
Is there a better source on this? This is an oddball site writing a linkbait article about one tweet. No statement from GoDaddy seems to have been solicited.

And the site... is up? What are we actually discussing here?

Edit: crawling around there's some evidence that they had to get it cleaned up fast, c.f. this thread: https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/POLICY-CHANGE-FOR-ARFCOM...

Note that there's reference to a politics forum which doesn't seem to be there currently. My guess is that they did indeed have a bunch of unsavory stuff, but managed to convince their registrar they had it under control. Their (presumably new) rules are quite clear that violent discussion isn't allowed. And while folks seem to be griping about that the site seems to be complying.

This is, IMHO, the way moderation is supposed to work.
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This is poorly written. I lost interest a minute into the article and skimmed the rest of it and didn't take much from it. The blob before the first subheading just repeats that the Toronto scene is not a good one – this could have taken just 3-5 sentences, and not 5 paragraphs. The part about good/bad angels, finite/infinite game typically would have been interesting to me but I was asleep by then. I recommend putting a summary in the first blob, and/or making the subheadings more informative e.g. instead of "Angels" "Deal Speed and Founder Leverage", should say "Angels are Shortsighted and Play Finite Games" and "Deal Speeds are Magnitudes Slower".
You talk more, not less when the guns start getting drawn. That they got drawn in the first place means you weren't talking when you should have been.

Communication, the lack of it, and the amplifying nature of that lack on social disorder is well supported relationship in modern history.
there used to forums and hosting providers used to be very off hands, and media didn't understand internet back then.
So you're saying, "Destroy free speech to defend free speech"? That sounds a lot like "Destroy the republic to save the republic." I've heard a lot of both recently, and I don't agree with either.
In corporate networks, you often need to install a root CA. Thus HTTPS essentially became HTTP for network admins.
Censorship is going to be the future. As long as Big Tech is dominated by leftist culture you'll have censorship. No two ways about it. Ideological censorship has been going on for years now. It just has reached its peak and has now become acceptable. I mean we readily accepted surveillance haven't we? Censorship is no big deal. We'll live with it too. We are happy being conditioned and looked after. There is no scope for individual thought anymore. Either you are with the group or you aren't. Internet was an escape for me during the 90s and early 2000s. Not anymore. Now it is the same bullshit that we find in the real world. That distinction between virtual and real life has melted away. Anything you say online has repercussions offline and anything you do offline has repercussions online. The Golden Era of Internet as we knew it is over.
It's definitely not equivalent. The plaintext isn't (as easily) recoverable, which means that if the user used the same plaintext password for another service it's (somewhat more) protected.

Pass The Hash is also protocol specific - if you try to replay a hash to your average HTTP service it won't go "oh, it's already hashed, thanks" it'll just hash it again and you'll fail to authenticate.
Most people I've met who lack empathy are generally angry. Or at least they seem to be.
Maybe that filter should be moved to the client side, where it can be bypassed or disabled if broken or abused.
The issue I have with i2p is that it enforces all clients to be exit nodes, too

This is not true. Seriously, you could at least read i2p faq before explaining other people how it works.
Perhaps some threads linked in this thread will lead to the thread you are talking about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22156371
Was it published before or after the ban?
IPv6 is pretty nice. Once it's working natively on both sides that is.
That is not what I am discussing. I am making a statement about how to design a stable society with humane values. From the perspective of the society. Instead you went to make judgements about my personal beliefs.
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> Every year the HR departments in Vancouver and Toronto do a hush-hush survey among each other and fix their salaries to the exact same level - maybe 2% but usually closer to 1% higher than the previous year.

Collusion like that would almost certainly be illegal - do you have a source for that?
Have you seen what the job markets are line in those areas and what they pay relative to coastal areas?
Even if you were an exit node (see sibling), is this really so? Have eg Tor exit nodes been held legally responsible for eg copyright infringement? Sounds highly counterintuitive.
I think he means that deep OTM is cheaper and you can buy more of it compared to what you would with ITM or near strike options.

So yes if you think Tesla is going to be $1000 in a few weeks and it moves towards that direction but not enough to make up for other greeks, IV, theta, etc, then yeah it could happen.
Scott Aaronson has, iirc, suggested the idea that the complexity of such an isomorphism could be the distinguishing thing between whether or not something should be said to be computing a particular think. Sounds plausible to me.
The problem here is that if you want to modify those aforementioned locks, you will be subject to legal persecution. Companies like Apple have been lobbying to enact laws that makes device circumvention illegal. That is the problem.
Conclusion:

> But, basically if one presses the switch it causes the flip-flops to change state and to then either add or remove power from the microphones.

> The 'mute' button appears to be very real and functional. When the button glows 'red' the power is removed from the microphones.
> In other words, real estate is a great way to preserve wealth.

I don’t disagree, and I concede the increase in home prices is not exponential but it is certainly a long way from tracking the 2% inflation rate.

The point I’m making is that the ever increasing cost of housing as a percentage of disposable income means that in real terms most people are getting poorer.
That radicalized mobs have been manifesting isn't the problem, mobs shrink following convictions and there is no shortage of expertise or tools for dealing with large active crowds. The problem is that until recently violent actors have been able to run amok largely unabated because adequately arming police and prosecuting violent criminals has become controversial and weirdly partisan depending on whose people were involved. There's nothing complicated about no place for no peace.
Reminds me of this classic:
https://archive.org/details/OnBeingTheRightSize-J.B.S.Haldan...
> Do you believe antagonising China even more will make things better? Should the EU stop all deals with the biggest exporting economy of the world, home of one in 5 human beings, because it disagrees with its policies?

Yes. Sanctions can be very effective in curbing China's outsize influence worldwide and cut their economy by half. Just embargo them as long as they persecute Uighurs and HKers.

Unfortunately that can't be done, since American and European companies were too stupid to give away their schematics and let the Chinese copy them outright, while also simultaneously reducing their indigenous production capabilities in important sectors such as rare earths mining and refining, solar manufacturing and extraction technologies.
Andy Ngo is free to simply publish the text of his book. It sounds like he wants money, though, and society is not compelled to pay him just because he put a lot of effort into arranging the text of his book.

(Surprise: Copyright, being a regulatory and artificial right, only exists when the government is big enough to interfere in the actions of publishers. Otherwise, we'd just pirate anything of value.)

Also, have you ever been to Portland? Powell's is not going to waste shelf space on books which won't sell.
Thanks for the reference to the 200W panel!
Before, it’s the “Texas Talk” mentioned in his second Tweet.
Hate speech is when you promote violence or persecution in some other way against any of the groups you mentioned. I am not sure what point A has to do with what hate speech is.
Where is 4chan hosted then?
No, I think for some reason he's really turned on by her very deep voice.
Companies frequently dropped some of the more extreme usenet groups back in the early days of the internet. AOL would block the use of certain keywords in their directory. Search engines have always dropped sites from their SERPs. This is not so new.
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Not everything you disagree with is a crackpot analysis.

>The BMJ is a weekly peer-reviewed medical trade journal, published by the trade union the British Medical Association (BMA). The BMJ has editorial freedom from the BMA. It is one of the world's oldest general medical journals. [1]

>Peter Doshi is an associate editor at said journal. He completed a fellowship in comparative effectiveness research at Johns Hopkins and received his Ph.D. in history, anthropology, and science, technology and society from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [2]

I could not quote the entire article, but as we all know, failing to quote any of it usually ends up with a majority not being aware of any content within the article.

The key finding is that further investigation is required into the substantial portion of people with COVID-like symptoms that occured in both the experimental and placebo groups, which has not been adequately analyzed.

The entire article addressed VE (measured by calculating the risk of disease among vaccinated and unvaccinated persons and determining the percentage reduction in risk of disease among vaccinated persons relative to unvaccinated persons) and showed the raw numbers which allows anyone else to reach the same calculation result.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_BMJ

[2] https://www.bmj.com/about-bmj/editorial-staff/peter-doshi
Why do you say that? What do you mean by that?

If you take an online community down, the people that made up that community will not all end up in the same place, they won’t bring the entire culture of that community with them, and some of them won’t make the jump.

Maybe you end up with three new chans, but you end up with three smaller, more fractured chans. Organization and relationships will evaporate because people won’t have alternate ways of recognizing or reaching their friends, may not use the same handles, may not end up on the same sites, etc.

Site administrators will get worn out and tired of dealing with it, and may run out of money to keep the site up.

I’m not saying that you should take down 4chan, just saying that if 4chan did disappear, it would leave a big hole that would take a long time to fill again. That, and any new chans would have a hard time claiming to be THE chan. There are already like twenty active “chan” sites or more. Besides 2channel and 4chan, the other sites don’t have much credibility or “pull”.
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Exactly, the main issue is social networks under corporate control.
>It’s so pervasive and creates all kinds of weird dietary and nervous system issues.

I am not an expert, but I think it would be amiss to omit the Lyme disease controversy with these statements. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4477530/

Lyme disease has a simple antibiotic treatment. The Lyme serology test has high false-positive rate. There might be many people who believe they have Lyme disease therefore sadly miss out on their actual diagnosis.

>Even if CLD lacks biological legitimacy, its importance as a phenomenon can be monumental to the individual patient. This is because many if not most patients who believe they have this condition are suffering, in many cases for years. Many have undergone frustrating, expensive, and ultimately fruitless medical evaluations, and many have become quite disaffected with a medical system that has failed to provide answers, let alone relief.

>Many patients referred for Lyme disease are ultimately found to have a rheumatologic or neurologic diagnosis. Rheumatologic diagnoses commonly misdiagnosed as Lyme disease include osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, degenerative diseases of the spine, and spondyloarthropathies. Some patients are found to have neurologic diseases, including multiple sclerosis, demyelinating diseases, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, neuropathies, and dementia. Some CLD advocates have argued that these various conditions are simply manifestations of Lyme disease, but these hypotheses are untenable.
It is but it happens all the time. Google, Facebook, Amazon, and the rest all have been caught doing it on a large scale. Most of them even agreed not to hire from each others employee pool.
FB-WA need to rollback the recent T&C update in WA, or face a lot of users shifting to Telegram / Signal.
Okay, that's fair actually. There are definitely enough bugs in the game that aren't necessarily game-breaking but are absolutely frequent enough to see at least once throughout say, 50 hours of gameplay. I was arguing in bad faith by assuming you were accusing people of lying. My bad.
Some nuggets here.

Totally agree with the second order effects of incentives and milestones.

The author seems a bit overly enamored by SV though. It's really not all its cracked up to be. Stop trying to be SV. SV has produced some truly toxic companies. The world can do much better, but they wont do it by copying what works in SV. I think Canada should just experiment more. Try different things. Have the courage to forge your own path.
Is she really psychopathic ? Many CEO's and entrepreneurs don't care about ethics. There's something about that career that does that to people.

But that's quite different than being a psychopath like a serial killer is.