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The whole free speech debate boils down to this, Do you think we have enough freedoms, do you think that every civil liberty is now afforded to everyone. The Civil Rights Movement in the 60s was considered hateful and violent at one point, without free speech they would have been driven into the sea. Gay and Trans rights were once considered not valid speech as well. Without Unregulated and uncontrolled speech. All of these things could have been labeled as hateful speech, hateful to white people or hateful to the traditional family unit. Any talk about limiting speech by the government or social media only dictates that we have enough freedoms and liberties and anything new that comes up is fair game to be labeled as "hate speech"
Looking at this from an opionated Open Banking side here in the UK, this is a good thing.
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It doesn't matter. Eventually you will need to use some library that's from the old days. You can't escape the abstraction. Not everything has been or can be updated to modern standards so just like C++ eventually every bit of the language ecosystem will come back to haunt you.

Go doesn't suffer from this yet because it's too new and the philosophy is different which keeps some of it at bay, but it's only a matter of time. Entropy always wins.
From what it looks like there's no architecture.
Do you mean per capita? If mexico did 97% less as an absolute number that would mean they test more than the US per capita.
-16C, as has been recorded in Madrid, is definitely lethal for olive trees.

I don't know about the temperatures in the all of Spain or where the main olive orchards are but that has the potential for being devastating for growers.
Whenever I read a post as strongly worded as yours I wonder that its author must really be the best security minded engineer out there, and has never compromised on anything for a deadline or missed something because they simply didn't know it should be configured in a particular safe way.

This definitely doesn't look good and there's probably many failures along the way, but jeez.
> The only question is why this wasn't done as soon as travel was restarted

I'm not sure there was a point where travel was ever _stopped_? At least not for US citizens or residents. This is not to say the test requirement should not have been imposed (much) earlier, however!
Would be Stripe's largest acquisition to date, but their private market valuation would make it affordable if paid for mostly with stock.
This is the paradox of tolerance, which says for a tolerant society to remain tolerant, it cannot tolerate intolerance.

Many people need to learn the difference between de-platforming and censorship - in this case Parler is essentially being de-platformed by private businesses who no longer wish to do business with them, which is their right. As a free speech advocate, surely you must accept that that extends to a company of people, be that 1, 1000 or 10000 people, otherwise you're advocating for double-standards (see above). Forcibly compelling businesses (which include sole-traders or individuals) to conduct business with anyone that wants to avail themselves of their product, which is what the EC is advocating, if far more worrisome for free speech.

Moreover, there is nothing stopping the "silenced" organisations and people from creating their own platform. Blocking organisations and individuals from accessing the internet is problematic, but in this situation somewhat ironic. The side cheering the bans (no, not leftist, America doesn't really have left-wing politics) were pushing net neutrality and the internet as a public service while those being de-platforming were adamant that this would be a bad thing.
Dang. I never thought of email like that, but I wonder if email+git+UI would help for complex conversations.
Nazism?
- Corporations have the right to censor whatever they want. But that's not moral (what they are doing currently). We should abandon these instances and find better ways to communicate - less centralized.

- Store owners (and property owners in general) should be able to defend their property with firepower (or pay for such services) freely, without fear of repercussions. This stands both against BLM and MAGA. Of course, this luxury is not allowed in the current world.

So we have to find find better ways - don't stand in the way of a moving train, but find ways to survive and prosper no matter. We move to greener pastures, find jobs that are better paying with less risks, learn to be adaptive and prepared.

For me personally, this means that I did not move to the USA when I had the chance. I prefer not to work for US companies (especially the SV commie bunch), I don't travel to the USA any more. And I try to be vigilant with regards to the dangers that come from there (and will inevitably become worse, at least in the near future).
You can pick up new variants abroad though. That’s better discouraged.
Yes that's exactly what I'm saying.
Yeah I would say so. It's a very nice device for sure.
Finicity is already a great alternative to Plaid.

I imagine bottles of champagne are popping at Mastercard HQ right now.
I remember back in 1984 or so, we once had snow in Madrid in May. Younger people laugh at me as if I'm just making that up, but what has just happened is way more unusual.
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Runit is amazing, and a great replacement for standard init on embedded systems
The root cause of the things you describe aren’t free speech or filter bubbles.

It’s a lack of confidence and trust in our governments and corporations. The fact that those same governments and corporations own our media makes it even worse.

I think criminalising unpopular speech will make the symptoms of this problem worse rather than better.
You heard wrong. Nobody actually knows if you can transmit after getting vaccinated or not. Thus far anyone who claims otherwise is a liar.

There is some evidence that some of the vaccines prevent transmissions, but we need more study before we can make a statistical determination.

We know why other vaccines have failed to stop transmission. The reasons those vaccines didn't stop transmission do not apply to the covid ones. However there is a lot we don't know about biology so until we have better evidence no expert will state that the vaccine stops transmission even though many believe it will.
Maybe, but it's still not clear if a previous infection stops you from being an asymptomatic carrier, and we don't want more asymptomatic carriers.
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No we just left a minimum, there’s been sunspots of opposite polarity appearing since early 2019 if memory serves - round about that timeframe anyway but the end of the minimum wasn’t confirmed until earlier in 2020.

It wasn’t a Maunder Minimum.

For the next 4 years or so we’ll proceed to maximum then back down to the next minimum thereafter.
The problems always begins with grey and ends in black. Who defines when, where and how someone is curtailing their right to free speech? There is always asymmetry in power.
The right says "all of us are together, and we have to keep those guys out."

The left says "we're all together, but we should convince everyone to come to our side."

FUD and tribalism are easier to win with.
Demand for semiconductors right now is off the charts.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobiles/Global-chip-sho...

Intel has to get while the gettin's good.
I think I can be upset at both.

Only 2% of cases are coming from outside of the country, so this seems mostly like a political thing than actually being useful. There's a lot of lower hanging fruit to get a 2% reduction. This seems too heavy handed in places where it's not currently possible to do a 72 hour test.

At the very least give some options to those can't meet the requirement. These people have to quarantine two weeks after returning anyway - I just don't see the logic behind this move.
Oh. Brian Krebs regurgitates a corporate press release by a company that has recently hired Chris Krebs (no relation), all the while skirting around the solarwinds123 gross negligence. A well-funded PR campaign has already resulted in a NY Times smear hit piece accusing another software company of colluding with the Russians.

Back to the substance, it appears the investigation keeps a close lid on the real extent of the breach. It's nasty.
I've run a niche "social media" site for 12 years. There is no tightrope. The problem is that these large platforms want the benefits of scale, without being responsible for dealing with the problems of scale. It is imminently possible to build a thriving social media site that enforces standards of behavior. HN is a good example. However, it is work to actually enforce those standards. It takes leadership. Facebook, Twitter, etc, are not interested in providing that type of leadership, and would likely require both a huge economic investment, and a significant change in business strategy.
Would you agree with the court when it determined that the rights of black people were different between northern and southern states, or that internment of the Japanese was legal during WWII? The supreme court has been wrong on many issues for decades on end throughout US history. They haven't all of a sudden become infallible in the last 20 years.
Yeah, it became obvious around 2010 that Ventrilo was dead and that no further development was going to happen. That's when my group moved to Mumble, which was significantly better (and cheaper for hosting costs) but in the end Discord ended up being a significantly better product in pretty much every way.
Most countries which require a test for entry stipulate it must be a PCR test rather than a rapid (antigen) test. I’m currently in Lisbon waiting for the results of a 24h PCR test in order to board a flight to Azores, for example.
I guess, I would like to do what I can do with the actual AWS console. Provision and update my resources. Otherwise it's, like I said, only another monitoring dashboard.

I mean, that isn't bad, it's probably doing a good job at that. But I guess, I simply expected more interactivity from an AWS console replacement, haha
Where I live, US Democratic Party policy positions would be held by unelectable right wingers. I agree that confusing some kind of left alignment with the US Democratic Party is not advisable, even in parts of the USA.
Thanks for the references, I'll look at what the other side has to say

I am aware that fasterthanli.me can be a bit, shall we say... opinionated. Though as you say, his points do stand on their own. I can see the things he points out about the design philosophy of Go's language features and standard library and draw parallels to languages and libraries that I've used firsthand, and had firsthand frustrating experiences with when it came to navigating their magical behavior and lack of enforcement of contracts. But I'll keep an open-mind
Oh dear. That’s truly disappointing. Might as well roll a dice with this vaccine.

Well done to the effort that went into this research regardless of this result.
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That is a stretch of the reading of those provisions, the court has generally (and wrongly IMO) allowed Federal Law enforcement to stop people with in the border zones to establish if they crossed the border illegally, once Citizenship is established then normal protections snap back into place

Even at border crossing the government has been allowed to seize Devices and other things but they generally can not prevent a US Citizen from entering, they can stop you from bringing your stuff, but they cant stop you (outside the limited questioning detainment certainly not 14 days) unless they have an arrest warrant or some other cause of action to arrest you
I can't speak for the group, but my guess is in practice they would dislike the Wayland ecosystem. A cursory google seems to show this too.

A lot of their tooling and favored software works by being as minimal as possible while doing its one primary purpose well. They dislike monoliths like systemd, pulseaudio, networkmanager etc. which do many tasks. The wayland protocol itself is fairly minimalist, which they seem to like, but to practically use it you end up requiring a monolith compositor/window server.

Further, Wayland fundamentally doesn't support running e.g. in a non-compositing mode, and requires more cruft to draw to the screen vs just using xlib.

At the end of the day, all the functionality that Xorg provided has to be served by something. And when you're not using one of the big boy software stacks like Gnome or KDE, that means re-implementing the wheel, or copying from another project like wlroots. I suspect they prefer the status quo in that Xorg is at least proven and fairly battle hardened software.

Just idly guessing, though.
The vast majority of tech workers that receive equity stakes in pre-IPO/acquisition companies don't ever see any financial windfall from their stakes. These guys will be just fine.
Learning it ~15 yrs ago and then never using it again.

Anecdata.
This is a REPL only issue. It works "in reality".
It will be looked at: https://github.com/isaacHagoel/svelte-dnd-action/issues/216
It sounds like you're paying the accountant only to do your taxes? If so, your finances are probably not complicated, and you could probably do your own taxes in 1-4 hours. Of course, how much that is worth to you is up to you.

If you're paying an accountant only for taxes, and not general finances, chances are your financial life and investments are very simple. Either that or you're not managing them well :-)

Some people have multiple investments - some liquid (stocks), some illiquid (properties). They have side businesses (e.g. rental income). They have to allocate money for repairs on their rental properties. They have to set money aside for vacancies and property taxes, etc. You're likely not going to find an accountant who'll do this for a mere $400/yr.

If you have rental income and are not managing this, sooner or later you'll lose a lot of money. I guarantee it. Also, most people who have properties do not make that much net profit (typical is $100-200/month per unit), so paying, say, $2000 to an accountant could wipe away the net profit from one unit for a whole year.

No one is trying to tell you that you should use these tools. Many high income folks do fine without them. But if you have side businesses, you either need to spend a lot more on an accountant or get more disciplined. Most people will choose the former if they can afford it (which is probably a good idea).
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SolarWinds was absolutely not the real target. The malware wouldn't even execute if the machine it was installed on was joined to a domain containing the string "solarwinds".
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Here's a comment with a racial slur on Parler with 25k upvotes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ParlerWatch/comments/ktwmje/this_is...

IMO it's reasonable to consider it a hate site or a site which embraces racist behavior.
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Yes, I'm saying neither chat nor email solve this issue.

Email is far worse, in fact, because:

* Everyone has a unique view

* Unless there are lots of cc-everyone style emails, you might not even have anything to find. (And cc-everyone sucks for 100 other reasons.)

* You can't find anything predating the start of your employment

The biggest issue with searching both chat and email is the absence of a result doesn't help: it's possible it was a private chat, or an email chain that you weren't a part of, but there's no way to tell.

(Side note: A very locked-down wiki isn't any better, but that's a conscious decision rather than default.)
I think we need to acknowledge that a lot of what these agreements outline is, to a large degree, subjective. If human language, or expression in general, weren't contextual and up for interpretation, then I think this would be a viable way of looking at things, but that simply isn't the case.

So long as there is room for interpretation, and the consequences (politically, economically, etc.) of those interpretations are potentially far reaching, leaving it up to private companies with no oversight isn't a good option.
My brokerage always gets the cost basis wrong for SPP. Always. The company sends out annual notices to the employees informing them that the brokerage's statement is wrong.
I would like to see a rise in decentralized services, but it's not possible while Apple and Google's curated stores are the only way to install apps on a smart phone.

As soon as you can install an app from a file like you can on desktop, then we can have some real progress.

I'm thinking of Apple saying "we won't let you download that app" for my macbook. How did we let them have that power on mobile computing?
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It's troubling, but if someone supports a person like him, with all we know now, with parents that were deported without their kids (after doing everything according to international treaties and norms - first enter, then ask for asylum), kids they lost track of and can no longer reconnect with parents, people who died in their custody, the callous inaction in front of a pandemic... With all that, if someone still supports the president, I'll question their character, fiscal policies and tax breaks be damned.

I face a similar issue in my own home country of origin: 58 million people voted for a corrupt ex-military drop out, racist, homophobic, and incompetent beyond belief who's trying to bypass all democratic processes and take over local police forces which overwhelmingly support him. I can't have those 58 million fellow Brazilians in high regard. Even if you say the previous government was corrupt, corruption is much less serious than letting 200 thousand people die while sabotaging emergency healthcare measures so that your possible political opponents in the next presidential election don't get credit.
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Agreed, except for one point.

Please don't call it a windfall. Anyone in that company that would have seen life changing amounts of money has likely put incredible effort and hard work into making this happen.
This actually gives me an idea for just the thread page itself. Default collapsed threads that you can expand to show comments.

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*The comments and thread are unrelated. I just picked random ones from a thread I was on.
The lesson isn’t that any particular victim sucks at security, it’s that well-resourced targeted attacks are generally unstoppable.
Puts/gets negates the need for includes and >> isn’t in C.

Also Python has a horrific main method syntax and duck typing is ultra confusing early on.
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There is no "right to be broadcast" or "right to be published" in the right to free speech. You have the right to say it, but you don't have the right to force others to listen, read or see it - nor are publishers or conduits required to broadcast or transmit it.

Your online "self" does not exist. There is no such thing as a right to free speech in an online sense as there is no shared utility that must accept all speech. Every step of the way is owned by a business - be it your ISP (which is not a utility - at least at the moment), a platform provider, or content publisher, or web infrastructure provider. All of them can and do have Terms of Use that any user must comply with in order to use their service. Unless/until that changes, any discussion of "right" to free speech online is patently ridiculous.
Wrapping to hide is valuable, but wrapping has a cost which is generally underrated. Every wrapper is a thing itself which must also be understood when trying to understand how things work. And every wrapper is a division between blocks of code, meaning if you have changes which impact multiple layers of wrap, its harder to determine what to change, and to maintain the understandability of each layer.

For this reason im an advocate of lazy wrapping. Create an abstraction at the last moment, when its painfully obvious what benefit it will provide, when you can see how it ties together disparate pre-existing code blocks, and when you have the highest confidence that it will stick and not need to be unwrapped next week by the senior dev.
When did speaking truth to power become "bullying"? And anyway, removing those who spew violent rhetoric is how civility is restored. The fact that the response to Twitter bans is so violent proves somebody needed to be silenced.
Google is more worried about point out flaws in other org's software
I agree it would be wrong to draw assumptions about individual Parker users simply due to being on the system. Plenty of journalists, pundits and just interested observers were on there just to see what it was like. But when we talk about “Parler users” generally, were really talking about members of the community compelled by and possibly contributing to the discussions.

For comparison I go on Fox News web site from time to time largely out of morbid fascination, but I don’t consider myself part of their audience because I don’t find any of it actually valuable or useful. And I say that as a self identified conservative, albeit a British one.
I don't think you need an 8 ball to predict that you shouldn't travel during this global pandemic -- especially in the past 6 months when it's all hit the fan.

Tough luck to those who get stranded, I say.
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The land border with Canada has been closed (at the Canadian government's request) since March. Only trade is allowed, no personal travel at all. So, no, I don't think it's impractical at all. Trump did complain a lot about us closing it, though.

Air travel, however, has been permitted all along, and mostly from what I can tell because of the fact that the airline industry would go bankrupt otherwise. So there's still people coming into Canada from the US constantly by air, and likely breaking their 14 day quarantine period, too. I know of some
personally.

International travel is still being promoted heavily by airlines, despite governments giving official guidance to not go. Big scandals here in the last couple weeks about politicians taking off for tropical vacations, after instating tough lockdown rules and telling the public not to travel.

Canada also instituted the negative test on arrival rule in the last week or so. The caterwauling from our airlines was just ridiculous.

The federal governments in both Canada and the United States failed to make moves against travel early on, and they just let it coast for months, as if this virus was just going to go away on its own, because they were afraid of bankrupting the airlines.
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Lot's of Canada doesn't have "Canada quality" insulation, including my apartment but also a variety of houses I have lived in.

I grew up in the Okanagan, where temps range from -20°C to 40°C. Many houses there couldn't deal with either extreme well.

Even in Vancouver, -16 would freeze some pipes and kill some people. Not as bad as Madrid, but we are more accustomed to it here.
Future of the Left btw. is one of the best bands ever and are very helpful if you need a distraction from all this BS.

I fully agree on the notion that the right wields every power it can get, while the left doesn't.

We now have two years ahead of us where the Democrats are in full power of the US government. Let's see what they do with it. I'm especially interested if they are going to make sure to help themselves for the next election, by combating the voter suppression tactics that the Republicans use.