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> Our lawyer said emails with the lawyer in the conversation will have client attorney privilege, is not court admissible.

That's too-sweeping a statement [0]:

1. Privilege attaches only to communications in the course of seeking legal advice.

2. Privilege is waived — and thus the emails are discoverable by adversaries and admissible in court — if people outside the decision-making group are in the conversation.

3. Privilege doesn't attach if the lawyer is functioning as a business executive or -advisor.

4. Privilege won't apply if the conversation is determined to be part of a crime or fraud.

All that said: If a lawyer is involved in the conversation, then the company's litigation counsel will almost-automatically withhold the emails from being produced to an adversary and will list them on a "privilege log." That will often set up an ancillary court fight over whether the emails should be produced to the adversary. In that ancillary fight, the judge might end up reviewing the emails "in camera," i.e., without the adversary seeing them, to decide whether the privilege applies — and depending on the content of the withheld emails, having the judge read the emails could do as much damage to the company's case as anything.

[0] https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/attorney-client-priv...
Not sure if what? Say it out loud.

Vaguely implying that you're considering a drastic remark about someone else is barely better than an accusation. It's like "no offense, but".

Or if you don't have something specific in mind then just leave it out of the comment.
> The bigger problem with email is that messages are not as easily addressable, unlike links on the Web.

You can format email messages for display on the web and generate permalinks for each message. E.g. look at what we do for https://www.prettyfwd.com. I haven't yet added a JS snippet to autoscroll to a specific message if you pass it in the UUID for that message as a URL parameter, but it's been on my TODO list for a while.

Example thread, where each message is formatted for the web and has a UUID: https://www.prettyfwd.com/t/5XVkc401RiCTO9hwsSRziQ

The other problem with most mailing list archives is that they look terrible and have poor readability, poor SEO, and generally terrible lighthouse scores. Whereas I think we score perfect 100s across the board, albeit only 99 on mobile perf because we don't prerender.
Of course they will. The issue is with the things the mRNA codes for, and not with the mRNA.
Knowing the topography of Spain helps.

My interpretation is that the very, very woke BBC staff picked what seems like extreme temps from a mountain region and then technically correctly wrote that "Central Spain" "records temperatures of -25C". That is all.

Do note: I'm not a climate change denier. I just hate crap like this, with a passion. I don't think we should have to abandon facts in this particular fight.

It seems like a bunch of people here think we should. That's very scary and destructive, IMO.
Spoken like someone that only sees right and left. In fact many people on the "right" were tired of seeing FB and Twitter control so much and they were constantly told it's a private platform so go make your own. They did so, and then those same companies worked in tandem to destroy Parler. Signal and WhatsApp are used to coordinate violent and destructive riots...we don't see anyone trying to take them down. The opinion is they do more good than bad...despite the ability to use them for either purpose.

There are people on the left and right that are power hungry and make decisions only to benefit themselves...however some people actually care about freedoms and fairness. Bad and illegal behavior will happen in any system with freedoms...banning those systems is not the answer.
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What's the link? twitter banning a single user for repeatedly breaking the rules is comparable to a countries government banning the social network ahead of an election? seems tenuous.
That describes a lot of what he gets up to these days. There's a reason why The Intercepts article on him leaving is as close as you can politely get to physically disowning him and his work.
>>I can't find that Ninth Circuit rulling you're referring to.

Batzel v. Smith [1][2]

>>Rather as I understand it section 230 is there to protect companies who want to publish a myriad of opinions by clarifying that it is the user who is liable for what they say, not the company that runs the website

The 2 congressmen that created the law are on record talking about how they did not want speech on the internet to be stifled because of legal liabilities if they moderated some content, the primary justification/rhetoric at the time like most laws designed to allow censorship/moderation was "think of the children, children might see some boobs or franks and be scared for life"

"The broad language of Section 230’s protection reflects the intent to protect the industry and its users’ ability to communicate freely." [1]

It was not conceived at the time of the Sections passage the internet companies would start to bann their "users" or "customers" from the service for political speech, such a thing was really unheard of during that time in American History, it just was not done.

Times have changed, the law needs to be updated to reflect the original intent of the law which was and is to expand not limit speech

[1]https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2019/08/correcting-the...

[2]https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=163765021797671...
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> No one acted violently after reading your comment, but people did act violently after reading Trump’s Twitter.

Consider this example.

John fired Andrew from the job. And told him, please do whatever you want to get your job back. Andrew took his shotgun and killed ten top managers.

Deaths of ten people is a direct consequence of John actions. John actions might be irresponsible, but was not inciting violence.

Same way Capitol hill events were a direct consequence of Trump actions, but Trump did not incite violence.
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You are correct. I admit, as a Democrat, that I want to hit all of those on the right with a medium-sized foam mallet thing. I am ashamed of the violence in my soul.
We've been using self-hosted Zulip for about 18 months now, and it's exactly what our company needs.

I have been recommending it right and left to people who don't need federation in their chat system. If there was a clear gateway to federation -- enabling a Matrix room as a Zulip Stream, for instance -- I would enthusiastically recommend it for everyone.
This is global warming. The globe as a whole gets warmer, and the weather gets more erratic.

See:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/01/clima...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/01/30/this...

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/12/if-global-warming...

or anything else you get when you search "global warming colder winters"
I do agree that there's a spread of FUD regarding X11 and its code but I believe we can win this fight if we're interested in fixing X's shortcomings and making the leap to "x12" or whatever you wanna call it. Don't know anyone else who delves into the codebase though.
Also (to extend this metaphor to all three modes of transport), they were sure that - should any cliff present itself - the greatest nation on Earth will not fall down it, but will boost off and fly towards the sunset.
It's almost as if the people who voted for it held some ideal up as more important than wealth.

Here's a Nuffield College survey on the subject:
http://csi.nuff.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Carl_Rea...

I didn't vote for it but maybe taking people at their word for why they voted for it is a good idea?

Would you rather other people assigned their own ratios as to why you made your voting decisions, or actually listened to you?

Most people can understand the arguments for both sides of most debates, it just involves a little work to grok what they haven't themselves, concluded.
This article describes the problem with "hot" channels, like Slack or Zoom. Their information throughout is so high that it's hard to hold onto anything. That high throughout also makes them valuable for quick syncs and personal conversation. We run into trouble when we try to make it do more than it was built for.

"Cold" channels (e.g. documents, tickets) are where important information should go. A single piece of information can be developed and solidified over time. Cold channels are easier to search, easier to catch up on, and easier to onboard.

The problem is not with any one channel, but that we expect one channel to handle all types of information.
Snapchat also has some sort of phenomena that makes it feel like a much lower barrier to entry than a text message.

Snapping a new person is much lower pressure than texting them.

Pictures also make it much easier for people to be involved, because you don't need to be so descriptive with your writing. That is part of the reason snap groups tend to be so much more active on snap than text groups.
Wonder what this will mean for fintech exits in general. Will VC fintech funding start to cool if exits by legacy finance companies look to be subject to higher regulatory scrutiny than previously expected?
> So screw it, lets give this deplatforming thing a shot. It's never really been tried at this level. If it doesn't work, we'll try something else later.

No, unfairly cancelling the opposition has been tried on an even bigger level. Many, many times. The results are truly catastrophic for all the poor people ho actually live in the country.

Seriously, I am old enough to know that you cannot take democracy, or free speech, or equality for granted. And any attempt to unfairly remove any of those rights is a truly slippery slope.

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Please understand the following. Ask almost anyone on Team Red and they will tell you:

All you need to know about team red vs team blue.

1. Team Red is working to stop future riots of that style.

2. Team Blue doesn't even have a plan, and is fully paralyzed by their decision making framework.

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There are a lot of Republicans in the country. Are they really ALL crazy? Are they really ALL evil?

I think that stepping back, and trying to understand that there is another point of view, even if it is in error, would do much more for you than you can imagine.

BTW, I am not identifying with Red or Blue here - I am upset about dishonest behavior, and I don't care if it is from CNN or Fox.
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> The only success stories with this strategy are Australia and New Zealand, which are island nations completely isolated from anywhere else.

Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam have all had good overall success.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/16/thailand-cambo...
That's an interesting perspective. To me, if it's urgent, better be a phone call. I definitely don't see a text as urgent.
Paywalled, cannot read, sorry.
Can you show me where on this page "whack" is defined as a reference to a childrens' game?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/whack

Because all I see is "murder".

Look how far you will stretch to defend literal calls for murder! What do you even tell yourself your motivation for doing this is?
I think the point is more that there seems to be a narrative that no arrested Capitol-terrorists used Parler.
I had the same question for a while, but I did get to a place where I'm happy with the amount of work I'm doing (I have a nearly six-month-old myself).

I did it by switching to contracting and starting to work with recruiters, and wrote about the whole thing here:

https://devcareer.elliotbonneville.com/

Hopefully that helps. It's one path for sure. Let me know if you have any questions.
> Now everything points to Russia

How do we know this is Russians? To my knowledge its very common practice to obfusticate origins before launching a campaign like this by washing through several different countries.

You could leave stuff like comments or references that would suggest it was the Russians, there's just no way of knowing, so I follow the fundamentals of political sabotage: whoever benefits most is the culprit. Who has the most to lose and gain here?
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What makes you think that these platforms are actually taking action for "the left?" Is silicon valley actually a leftist paradise full of leftist megacorperations?
>Parlor got one day's notice.

Not true. AWS has been working with Parler for "several weeks" [0] to help it comply with their TOS. Not only did they fail to remove the posts Amazon provided, the calls for violence on their platform got worse during that time.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/amazon-p...
The Spanish people definitely dont have Canada quality heating or insulation.

Compared to most of the world Canada is pretty much like living in the arctic. :) Even Americans dont want to live in the top half of the USA any more.
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I think map[T]bool is already a pretty good set; the only things you can do with sets are insertion, deletion, iteration and checking for existence and they're all well-supported.

Of course, if you need a concurrent set you're right back in type system hell.
> I started by inspecting the list of recurring tasks, but the output was so voluminous that finding anything useful was a dim prospect.

Sometimes I phantasize about a novel computer or phone, where you can "physically" inspect the running (non-OS) applications. On a phone, you'd have a glowing edge where each light or micro display corresponds to one application. You can only ever have 6 or so apps running at the same time. If an app launches a lot in the background, you'd notice it quickly from the new color blinking. On a desktop PC or a server, maybe you'd even have a little door in the case, and behind it a bunch of little OLED displays that replace the task manager. With a click of a physical switch, you could evict an application from memory automatically.

Of course this would be unpractical for a lot of reasons, and you'd have to trust the OS/firmware. But I like both ideas of understanding what the PC is doing, and adding back a tactile element to computing.
The UK is and island and they didn't do it either. It's learned helplessness: the world has given up on the idea that it's possible to contain the virus.
In a newsgroup, you don't get sent anything. You can go to the group and see what's new. If there's a particular thread you're not interested, tell your news client to ignore it; if there's one you're particularly interested in, tell your news client to watch it:

https://superuser.com/questions/458136/thunderbird-watch-or-...
I'm normally fairly reluctant to call people stupid, but these people are obviously not the sharpest tools in the shed.
I usually use map[T]bool because

if _, ok := wasTouched[thing]; !ok {
touch(thing)
wasTouched[thing] = struct{}{}
}

is way uglier than

if !wasTouched[thing] {
touch(thing)
wasTouched[thing] = true
}
Why do you say Go has trouble scaling to large code bases? Is that something you'd expect, or something borne out by the evidence? And if so, what is the evidence?
It wasn’t and isn’t unthinkable in most of the world. “Free Speech” is an US thing. It pretty much doesn’t exist anywhere else as a right, and never has.
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There are no single criteria that can be used to judge how democratic a country is.

Many European countries have more restrictions on free speech than USA, so yes, they are less democratic by this criterion.

By other criteria, e.g. by evaluating how many abusive laws they have that favor a few rich individuals that own some large companies against the majority of the citizens, most European countries are more democratic than USA.

The same conclusion comes from other criteria, like how easy is for most citizens to access education or health services.
> Trump won specifically because he was a vote AGAINST the status quo, which had stopped working for these people decades ago... Nothing more, nothing less.

But as it turned out, a vote for Trump was not a vote against the status quo after all. He got elected, had a cooperative congress, and then... what policies did he enact to help rural Americans like your father? Nothing! All he managed to achieve were (surprise,surprise) tax cuts for the wealthy.

Maybe he could have done much for rural America economically, but he didn’t. And then they still voted for him! I don’t buy the narrative either. Nobody is voting for trump in 2020 because they really think he is going to help rural America economically. His actions have never matched his rhetoric.
This was quite a while back when he didn’t seem that worried. It wasn’t that he wasn’t speaking. I just thought Musk came across A LOT better.

Just my opinion though.

Here’s the video if you want to form your own: https://youtu.be/WSKYWu-S2G0
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Infinitely many masks can only yield infinitely better results!
For email that conversation probably has taken place already. Also, lots of larger orgs have internal mail servers where this isn't even remotely true.
Rapid tests are known to be unreliable and particularly have a high false negative rate. That's why all the guidance has been that rapid tests can be used to indicate infection but not rule one out, and none of the screening processes based on exposure and symptoms accept “but I also had a negative rapid test” as neutralizing a flag on any screening factor.

> I would have if I hadn’t acted out of an abundance of caution.

The bare minimum of caution with a rapid test is treating a positive as a true positive and a negative as an indicator that you need a regular test. That you understood your actions to be an abundance of caution demonstrates a failure to effectively communicate on some level (I'm not saying that you are culpable; the information is out there's but delivery is...mixed, even before considering how it is muddled by misinformation from various sources.)
The Armed Forces [1], Capitol Police [2], and other law enforcement agencies around the country are investigating the participation of their members. It's going to take a while to sort everything out, but I'm betting it's more sinister than it appears give the gallows, flex cuffs, the former AF officers in tacticool gear, and the general rhetoric.

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/military-investigating-servi...

[2] https://www.wesh.com/article/2-capitol-police-officers-suspe...
My understanding is that writing was invented several times independently (Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, Americas, maybe Indus valley, maybe Easter island...).

It seems fully alphabetic writing was only invented once, and can be traced back the Mesopotamian one, which in turn might have been inspired by Egyptian hieroglyphs as described in the article?
> clear ties to inciting violent riots

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1347302588434284544

Twitter selectively enforces their rules, largely targeting conservatives.
That’s a bit rich. The same could be argued about Huawei. The rules in the US are don’t be agent for a foreign government, but Huawei wouldn’t agree to that. So it’s also their own choice.
Can we make assumptions based on their presence at a political rally, followed by their unauthorized presence in a government building?
I also signed up for Parler so I could view for my own eyes what was happening on their. It was as if Fox News and Twitter had a bad baby, and that baby was raised by the article comments on Breitbart.
I don't at all see how this is relevant to the United States in 2021, when COVID-19 is almost completely prevalent, and we require universal vaccination to exit out of the pandemic - International travel restrictions seem meaningless to me now - though they would have been invaluable in January 2020, and maybe even February 2020 - right now the major risk of COVID-19 infection is inside the United States. A handful (or heck, even hundreds) of people coming into the country won't make any difference when we have thousands of new cases a day regardless.

There's a reason Epidemologists don't put much stock in travel restrictions once a pandemic is well underway around the world - they don't do much good.

But - generally, having widespread (ideally very sensitive) COVID testing for any type of travel outside of the home is a good thing. We should have it universally available. Ideally <$10, something that everyone could do weekly, or even daily if they travel a lot.

Just unclear what the focus on international travel is all about here.
it's not as speculative as bitcoin so not much trading compared to it
Wrappers that don't wrap very much aren't worthwhile IMO. Its like getting an amazon box with a fedex box inside. Just give me the package itself.
Free speech is a human right because it's vital to freedom. Big tech is showing their true colors. Authoritarians that have trillions of dollars combined.
This. We don't have civil discourse anymore...people just yell and call people names. You don't like what the other person says they are a "libtard"...or a "racist". You don't like what they are doing online, get them kicked off or dox them to your friends. Justify online bullying like it's a sport. Now it's escalated to not just banning them from social media...but a coordinated effort to destroy the alternative platform they had.