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> In their defense, I agree with you that this is a first time when global internet connectivity + social media + hatespeech cocktail has become poisonous to our societal health.

The exact same thing happened when radio was first invented, Nazism rose to power in tandem with mass media that allowed for direct manipulation of people's emotions on a scale that was impossible prior to that.
The 30 minutes I spent ~15 years ago preparing my carbon steel pan for use doesn't seem like very much in the overall scheme of things, certainly less time than I would have spent getting annoyed at flaking teflon coatings and buying countless new pans.

The big secret is that I simply use it regularly, clean it when it's dirty and otherwise don't worry about it.

Cast iron and carbon steel are great, I'll never buy a teflon pan ever again.

It's the fanatics and over-complicators who ruin it.
Tell that to djb.

Software is a continuing expense because software developers want to justify continuing to get paid. Tell me what I get from YouTube today, that I should care about, that I didn't get five years ago.
Would it be a really cost prohibitive thing to begin to mass produce PPE of the highest grade, like the stuff healthcare workers use who are treating covid cases in the ICU with? It'll look totally zany but going into class wearing a bunny/hazmat suit with positive pressure filtered air and the whole shebang could be worth it for those willing to go out on a limb? What about just forming local communes where everyone stays on the compound and mutually agrees to have some up front testing and quarantine and then when you pass the bar can move freely in the commune. Are either of those feasible?
I don't agree that that's the obvious conclusion, and I have give you three very plausible arguments against that.

That's fine, obviously we don't have to agree.

I do ask that you be a bit more civil though in our discussion.
Yeah, free trade offers a larger pie to those of us who earn a slice of it.
This is a good article but there is a causality problem. I know a lot of pure software companies in the EU that work like that. If software is your core business, developers are in the loop at every decision, if your core business is building power plants...they are not. Now the Marc Andressen argument might be that software eats the world and everybody should run their business like this, and that might actually be true or not. Beside this product/core relationship problem, I see one other issue and that are margins, many SV companies are comparatively young and are in new markets with high margins (or ridiculously high funding) these high margins change their way of doing business.
No one said the left's agenda is the popular agenda. The fact a single news station can be the most popular by being a slight political outlier is just indication of how controlling the left needs to be to enforce their view of reality.
Some humans on the market swerve when their car unexpectedly puts on the emergency brakes downhill.
A year ago I would have agreed, but a laissez faire approach has been the dominant one for quite a while now and is what has led us to this point. It clearly hasn't reduced these extremists and something else must be tried.
"Google Play Protect was also completely unhelpful, which was a big disappointment. First because Google certainly knows which applications they removed from their store for malware reasons, but even so, I would expect Google Play Protect to at least flag any app it finds on my phone that is not on their store. Such an app is not necessarily malware, but it should certainly be flagged.

Google Play Protect could also do some behavior profiling to analyze what apps are doing in the background. A service launching recurring VIEW intents on web sites in the background should have raised a flag to the system."

Sounds good.

I sense that there so many teams involved such a feature is not on their radar. So "they already know they blocked it" and "the existing installed app should be blocked" imply that two teams know what the others are doing.

I'm guessing that the team that does the removal from the store has no communications path to those who would add a flagging mechanism for already installed apps.
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I don't do that in my web browser. Instead I type a command in a shell that adds the file to a git repository, commits it, and syncs the repository with my web server.
Sure, because the year of Desktop Linux is around the corner.

Plenty of enterprise shops have deployment scenarios were the Web is a no go, and WebGL 2.0/WebGPU are no match for native 3D APIs.

Then there is the little detail forgotten around HN, that around the world Android tablets have been mostly a failure, basically Android phones with bigger screen.

Anyone that wants such a device and isn't into iPads (or cannot afford them), ends up buying Windows laptops or hybrid devices with detachable keyboards.
> yes, we can still be friends when our first principles are opposed. It's just harder.

If someone tells me they think I’m fundamentally a lesser person than them because of skin color, just because that’s how god made us, that’s not a fruitful base for a good relationship.
Do you mean the website preview that is built from Signals social link tags? It works fine for me. Signals OG-tags also looks fine.
What information do you have that allows you to make that determination? It was a very close election.
> normies, for lack of a better word

You may be looking for the word “neurotypicals”.
>A typical 1992 IBM-compatible PC using the 486-generation processors, the Commodore Amiga4000. [OldComputers.com]

wait, what? :o :-)
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God is in a unique position as, by his very nature, is unfalsifiable. The “Democrats are behind the siege” claim, OTOH, is falsifiable. Sure, you could probably pull up some shred of evidence to put a Democrat behind the curtain, but there’s mountains more that put the alt-right behind this.
It is incredible that people on HN can be against Visa/Mastercard banning payments to Wikileaks or Pornhub, against PayPal making arbitrary decisions about their customers, but somehow in support of Stripe banning Trump. All of these companies are providing utility services, and they should all be regulated as if they were public agencies. They should have to uphold the freedom of speech and other principles enshrined in our system of laws, because these organizations are so powerful and influential that they might as well be government agencies. The services they provide are completely fundamental and necessary today, and the fact that they are operated by private entities does not mean that we cannot require them to do what is right by implementing our nation's founding principles. If we can regulate power utilities or force all businesses to shutdown during a pandemic, we can absolutely update our laws to regulate these companies, require them to uphold the first amendment, and provide due process. We should also definitely revamp our anti-trust laws and break them up where possible, so that there is real competition and choice.
But arguably CloudFlare is such a service and it is still hosting quite a bit of content that actively incites to violence on inauguration day. I won't link to it here though.
Again, I think you're still not hearing me. Politicians are, for the most part, liberals and conservatives. I don't give a mosquito's dick about any of them as people. As Constitutionally elected representatives of the people of the US, however, they mean everything. Especially while they are implementing the transfer of power mandated by the Constitutional order.

If you have trouble understanding this distinction, that's OK. No one really needs you to understand it. Just stay away from them, and we shouldn't have any problems.
It’s weird that you say no one said the the election has been stolen, yet you also say it pretty much was. Did you just wake up one morning and think maybe there was something askew with the election and go and do tons of investigative work on your own? Or did someone tell you that?

There’s lots to criticize Trump about, but what you wrote is wrong and not in a minor way.
>Just a few weeks ago, they sent us an email reaffirming their plan to bring us back, yet COVID cases in California have remained relatively flat since then.

Where "flat" is 30-40k per day, which it has been since the beginning of December.

Compare that to the trough of 3k/day through the summer and the late spring "peak" of 8-10k/day.

Shit is the worst it has been and it isn't going to get better for a while.

They made the right decision, I'm sorry that it was done so late.
It hasn't been used in normal conversation before recently because we haven't had a significant political movement and officers of the US government who were engaged in acts worthy of the term.
At this point, I’d count any one that voted for Trump “far right”. Presumably, they’re all racists and bigots, or misinformed.

The point of the article (in a 2020 lens) is that a majority of the US (blue camp) apparently feels this way about the other >40% (red camp) of the population. That should be concerning, and hopefully lead to some introspection.
True, and C++/WinRT is still a clunky experience compared with C++/CX, full of github issues of people complaining lack of vision from Windows dev team, including my own.

Rust/WinRT still cannot create components, just consume them, and there is no tooling support for Visual Studio.
Thanks for feedback! I am in fact working on features to improve that. Spam filtering is one of them.
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People are downvoting against their beliefs instead of for the guidelines of discussion. It’s a hot (headed) topic.
Having work at both styles of companies, in my opinion you really want a mix of both. Top-down decision-making is great! It allows your engineers to be engineers, cranking out good code and not "thinking up the stack" and worrying about the business logic. On the other hand, when engineers see a problem area, or see a feature that could be implemented in another way, you absolutely must stop everything and listen to them. This is a rare occurrence and they usually know what they're talking about.
might be useful for some broader analysis.
Trump doesn't generate that much revenue for Stripe to really care that way.

I don't think anyone does.
I have to admit, its pretty arrogant to think someone can make it through high-level physics, chemistry, mathematics, logic, etc., but can't figure out your business classes. Almost makes me laugh out loud.
> Some people think that the companies have ulterior motives.

It isn't just ulterior motives, there is an argument to be made that they do not have the competence to police their own policies. Twitter's argument for what constituted incitement had nothing to do with the words Trump used and everything to do with the context in which they were typed.

It is impossible to use that standard of evidence for action and get fair results. If it were possible, "oh yeah everyone knows that" would be a normal standard in the court system. It isn't, because we have established through countless moral panics and knee-jerk reactions over history that higher standards are needed to get fair results.

Media companies as powerful as YouTube using substandard evidence to moderate political debate is huge news. With this standard they aren't half as suitable a platform for political news as they used to be.
I came up with a solution at 4:20
Plasma (on X) generally works very good with other WM. Here's how to use i3: https://github.com/avivace/dotfiles
Strong dhamma - thank you. I frequent budhist monasteries myself - i see how all prophets are indeed one, and how budha, christ and allah and all other gods stem from that one thing which we encounter after long meditations and prayer finally takes away our anger and hurt to open that door which cannot be closed.

I have a grievance always with “it” for making it so hard for the most of us to access. But i practice.

I wish you all find the power to forgive your enemies, and discover the hidden ones within us all.
Because the literal definition of fascism is far-right and authoritarian.
I'm sure a complicit government could be found for the right sum of money
Is the theory that partner freedom was more restricted even in Western society? Or is it that math & science wasn’t as valuable/of well-regarded utility and it wasn’t until the 50s with the space race that people with abilities in math and science started to seek out each other as partners (& thus the traits that might make you successful in those fields suddenly started appearing in newer ways).
In that case do you also believe that those responsible for propagating news which sparked riots and looting across the country earlier in the year should also be prosecuted? It seems like both sides have incited violence this year yet from your response it seems like you would only like one side to be punished.
Fair enough, it might not come back to you. What people collectively put out into the world is what is collectively experienced in the world.

In my opinion, it is about taking personal ownership for your individual contribution to the collective experience, which you in turn will stochastically experience a subset of.
Wow, I didn't know how easy to do these things in arch.
You made my day!
Admittedly accurate is the wrong term, but it is a reasonable inductor of health, as the heavier someone is for a given weight, the shorter their expected lifespan will be.

The normal weight may change, but the ideal healthy weight doesn't. The idea of a healthy weight is misleading, as there is more of a healthy body fat percentage. Even that's is an oversimplification, as visceral fat has far more health implications that subcutaneous fat.
I imagine that was the thought running through the head of every Republican in the Capitol that day. Their own monster, which they had spent the last couple of decades nurturing, was out of control and in their house ready to devour them.
not OP, but I would think that a core aspect of it is having a social graph, i.e. being able to follow specific people, and having other people follow you.

This is true for twitter/facebook/friendster, but not for hn/reddit/slashdot.

Some of the negative effects of online communities are shared by both kind of things, but not all.
> Facebook, Twitter, et al are not public squares.
You can speak all you want in public spaces, on your own property (whether that be your home, your blog or your mastodon instance) mostly without limit.

I can't find it at the moment but there was recently a court case where a judge ruled that the constitutional right to Assembly was not infringed by pandemic restrictions (It is illegal in several US jurisdictions to assemble with more than N people in a private space) because people could freely assemble on online platforms like Facebook and Twitter. If the digital public square does not allow for free assembly, and the government forbids you from assembling in a physical public space, then it seems plausible to me that we have constructively eliminated certain constitutional rights.
yes! I'm more junior than you are, but once I got a rep as a gung ho problem solver, I started getting approached by random sales associates asking me to implement features. I would usually do it out of love for the business, even if it meant I was staying up until 2am hacking shit together. But then I burned out. My quality of life improved significantly when I started being strict about people communicating with me only through my manager or product manager.
Exactly!!! :-)
> As Constitutionally elected representatives of the people of the US, however, they mean everything.

Ah, I see what you are saying now.

I don't think I agree.

> Just stay away from them, and we shouldn't have any problems.

Again, why are you talking like I have anything to do with that?
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> This is a strange characterization of the increase in CO2 and resultant heat retention. It's not itself "unstable".

I'm not sure how you got this from what I wrote. I specifically said "changing the chemistry of the atmosphere", which is not a strange characterization of an "increase of CO2" in the atmosphere, it is word for word a correct description of that action. I have no idea what you mean by "It's not itself "unstable", especially in the context. If you mean that changing the chemical makeup of the atmosphere doesn't make climate patterns unstable, then you're just wrong.

> Selecting only a specific set of events in specific areas is, by definition, cherry picking data.

This also literally has nothing to do with what I said. Are you some kind of weird GPT bot or something? I'd assume you accidentally wrote back to the wrong comment, but you quoted me... If you'd go ahead and reread my post, and not skip the big words, you'll see that I was trying to convey that because we have such limited data, and it's data from a system that's ridiculously large and dynamic compared to the data, any purely statistical analysis is going to be absolute garbage. Hence, you also need to use logical reasoning about cause and effect, what types of chemical shifts in the atmosphere will cause what types of outcomes.

But really, you need to stay a little more on task if you'd like to discuss and debate. Just confusing at this point, and I'm still not sure if you're trolling or a bot or just flailing.
I like the idea of a warning that particular models of cars are not permitted past this point for safety reasons. That by itself is enough for some frustrated driver to see the sign, take a photo and upload it to social media where those car manufacturers can be suitably laughed at and ridiculed.

The good ones would then sort out why their braking system is faulty. Perhaps it gets confused about other things in other serious ways.
They are beating a police officer who is on the ground. Another officer was literally beaten to death. How many videos can you find of that happening during the BLM protests?
Well, two wrongs don’t make a right. :/

I’m an outsider, have no clue about the fine details, just watching the quarrel degenerate from across the Atlantic.

Usually this is when adults come in to break the fight, drag the screaming parties apart and ground all parties for a week...
If you notice the dependcies: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gimp/

GIMP still runs GTK 2. The version from ~10 years ago.
Its turtles all the way up.
Could someone articulate the threat model under which S2S TLS is best solution?
I realize it's not very hip to be proud of the things we have accomplished in the United States, but that doesn't make them untrue or any less significant.
Yet education does not help. Being told about the events does not really capture the emotions that lead to them. Education is the reason the details are different but fundamentally nothing gets prevented.
Threema offers reproducible builds as well, for the Android app: https://threema.ch/en/open-source/reproducible-builds

Signal too: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/master/repr...

Regarding the iOS app store, Telegram writes:

> As things stand now, you'll need a jailbroken device, at least 1,5 hours and approximately 90GB of free space to properly set up a virtual machine for the verification process.

https://core.telegram.org/reproducible-builds#reproducible-b...

It's a manual process within a new VM. I wouldn't be surprised if it frequently breaks without anyone noticing. But at least they're trying, I'm not aware of any better approach. Apple's GUI-focussed approach doesn't make these things easy.
BLM rhetoric has resulted in the assassination of numerous police officers, yet no one is deplatforming BLM.
Or maybe just let kids have an education anyway?
Appeasement has never, ever worked throughout history.
Yes, it say so and it explains why in the article.
Lovely to see this here, from another atheist who reads it often for the great wisdom within.

Some favorites:

"When two monks meet they should each try to be the first to show respect to the other,"and, the abbot must “arrange everything that the strong have something to yearn for and the weak have nothing to run from.”
Mobs have torn people apart with their bare hands. Once a mob gets going there is no way to know what will happen, it is like an avalanche. This one fizzled out for lack of targets, which is a very good thing because I don't want to imagine where it could have ended otherwise.
> CMD - tab forced me to think ahead of time if I want to change to the last application or the last window of the same application. I.e. switching between two Safari instances takes a different key combination than switching between Safari and IntelliJ.

That’s a feature, not a bug. I personally hate having to tab through a million browser windows to find the application I need, or having to tab through unrelated applications when looking for a browser window, which is what I have to put up with when using Windows.
The OP is talking about desktop environments, not the desktop with your wallpaper.