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> What institutions are you claiming have shifted from "truth-seeking to progressive political advocacy"? It seems to me that the reason these institutions appear more progressive is that American conservatism is becoming less and less in touch with the truth.

I think it's a feedback loop at this point, but as for "which institutions", the media and the academy are pretty prominent institutions that have largely come to describe themselves as activist institutions, including making arguments like "objectivity props up the status quo". Obviously these aren't monolithic institutions, and you still have a lot of variety within (especially the academy) with respect to the degree to which they've become progressive orthodoxies.

> The problem is that when these questions are answered "the right" just dismisses the answers as biased.

Again, I posit that's because the media and the social sciences have a track record of progressive bias. If they made a concerted effort over time to demonstrate good faith and a commitment to the truth wherever it leads (as opposed to outright identifying themselves as activists, although their honesty is worth something), I think far fewer on the right would reject a given claim as 'biased'. Even if I'm wrong, it must be something. There are a lot of people arguing that it's hopeless to interact with the right because they're fundamentally worse people or something, but clearly we haven't always had such a large contingent of "the right" who have completely divorced themselves from mainstream epistemology, so something is driving this change, and there's no reason to believe we can't stall or even reverse the phenomenon.
Yeah, and I think that's a step in the right direction, but not far enough. We need to #AbolishPatents, no qualifiers.

Software patents are stupid too but the truly grotesque patents are in medicine. Nothing is more responsible for the opioid epidemic than the billions in incentives Purdue had to patent and then falsely market Oxycontin. Check out the docs from 1996, patents were the key to their business model. If they had no patents there would have been no incentive for them to get millions addicted to a harmful drug. Patents created monopoly profits and brought out the worst in human behavior.
CopperSpice does not have LTS either, does it?
5.15 is also LTS but it's treated the same as 5.14 for open-source.

Likewise, 6.2 will be LTS but it's the support that is gated, not the release.

Or is this not the case?
> Curious if you feel torn supporting the US highway infrastructure? It can clearly be used for to traffic drugs, humans, blackmarket weapons, etc. It can be used to flee justice, evade police, abets vehicular manslaughter, etc. The list goes on and on. Is it even controversial to support the highway system as is? Do we loose sleep over it?

The people responsible for those highways spend a lot of money preventing them being used for drug trafficking, blackmarket weapons etc. Parler actively refused to moderate right wing hate speech.

> Obviously all of the insidious planning and hatred that presumably occurred on Parler is abhorrent. I think I can hate all of those things without believing that the site should be censored.

I have to ask, where then do you want the line to be drawn? How detailed does the plan have to be before it's nipped in the bud?
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We already did. Multiple independent analyses of partisan bias in reporting agree.

Feel free to do your own research.
Mostly concerned about having to read other people's code that uses it.
It's more profiteering-oriented.
The German car situation in Europe is a bit different, several popular explanations:

- Lower spec versions are available and common; the brands themselves are not inherently special or upmarket

- This means mechanics who work on the brands do not automatically command a premium

- Parts are not subject to import duties and supply chain cannot get away with as much markup (after Brexit who knows?)

- Culture of better compliance with scheduled maintenance

- Depending on location, better maintained roads and milder weather

Also they have invested a lot in reliability in the 2010s and some of the reputation is a holdover from previous generation models. Problems will still be outrageously expensive to fix compared to Japanese cars but are not so disproportionately likely to occur.

My dad briefly owned a BMW as his midlife crisis car. The bi-xenon headlights looked better than any I had ever seen. But when one burned out it was $1500 between the part and the labor to remove practically the whole front end. This is considered a characteristic, “classic BMW” kind of problem.
What is the mechanism by which Vitamin D production is blocked in Florida, Texas, and California?
I haven't listened to it yet, so I can't speak on the quality of it, but Spotify is currently running a podcast series titled "The Messenger" about Bobi's efforts here. The two most recent episodes were uploaded yesterday, so the information should be relatively current.
The central problem is this:

Social media in its current form is essentially an enormous, unregulated casino that now encompasses the entirety of the U.S.

This unregulated casino essentially monopolizes people's time and expression through addictive patterns, tested and re-deployed with realtime feedback, pushing people more and more toward destructive ends.

If we're not talking about regulation-- and again, casinos are heavily regulated and most people I've met do not object to the idea of casinos being regulated-- then we're not talking about the core problem.

As for speech:

If there were suddenly an enormous uptick in larger and larger groups of people doing 3-day coke benders, I think it goes without saying that I would defend their right to free speech. But why would I be talking about their free speech in the first place? More to the point-- if the dealers fueling those benders only ever wanted to talk about free speech-- while at the same time doing piecemeal censorship of the most shocking things their addicts say-- shouldn't I surmise it was a cynical, last ditch effort of drug dealers only looking to cash in and avoid responsibility?

Edit: clarification
Maybe not motivated by, but this is certainly an escalating culture war. Part of it has its roots in academia, yes. These professors, and former academics, some of which now hold high profile jobs at big tech companies like Google, definitely play a role in inflaming tensions between these people.

You're assuming that people fit molds a lot more than they actually do. The reality is that there's a fair number of people who buy into race statistics, want to do something about racism, but also don't buy into the narrative books like White Fragility have proposed. That book is especially steeped in academia and it's proponents have large Twitter accounts where they feel emboldened to say detestfully broad things about large groups of people. Some of those posts end up on here, so how you've missed them is beyond me.
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if was just Vitamin D, Brazil wouldn't be among the top 3 countries. Specially the Northeast from Brazil - where you have 365 days/year of Sun - has one of the highest numbers of COVID-19 infections. Unfortunately isn't so easy like that.
Sounds like TypeScript could be a solution for you :)
I was just searching for a tool exactly like this a few days ago. Looks really great!
That’s quite a pedantic interpretation of gathering in a public square at a particular moment in time where doing so is detrimental to the health and economy of a community. In the event that you’re not disingenuously asking that question, as with all things, “it depends”, on specific local ordinance, how many people, the ability to maintain six feet distance, etc.
... untill they take down those "root servers".

There's alaways a way to kill an online system!
Oh, I know. I was saying they should lose their status as platforms if they are going to be un-equatable in moderation - which they clearly are.
Im not sure this is a good metaphor. None of Apple, Amazon, or Google (no matter how hard they try) are social media companies. None of them are in direct competition with Parler, and shutting it down wont increase their market share one iota. None of the social media companies are banning people because of things they said on Parler, and I doubt that the pressure applied to Apple/Amazon/Google came from outside the companies, this is most likely the result of engineers working on the AWS team pressuring their bosses, and it snowballing.
I expect that the interesting intersection for you will be the generalised position on abolition of monopolies. As copyrights and patents are monopolies on intellectual property, landownership is a monopoly on land. That the vocabulary, arguments, and culture around Georgism even without adopting policy on property monopolies, could be useful. Even though, I tend to like the land Monopoly policies in georgeism, I don't know if there is much value in being a purist in any ideology.

That being said, the hacker in me is always trying to take an ideology and figure out how to break it. I imagine that that is a dominant philosophy in communities like this.
People also don't seem to realize that the action does not need to be real to cause a reaction by the other side. I'd provide an example, but to do so would just inject my own biases.

I'm sure anyone reading this can think of at least 5-6 "reactions" by the other side which had no precipitating action -- regardless of which side they're on. It starts to seem a little silly to worry about the reaction on the other side, when that reaction is likely to happen anyway.

There are good, principled reasons to avoid censorship. Concern about what irrational actors will do in response is not one of them.
How is this a show of monopolistic force?

Its like a a half dozen interdependently owned companies each choosing on their own to not associate with Parler.

If you piss off everyone at the same time and everyone decides to not do business with you, thats not a monopoly issue.
What if I remember it as “Always Mid-day”. What you you start to remember it as that from now on now that you’ve read this? There are no winners here.
scruple is exactly right. We “educated professionals” and coders, etc. have to understand that economic changes have stripped the very dignity from millions of people.
Great! Please share your feedback once you've tried it!
Why aren't Google, Apple, AWS free to dissociate themselves from trouble brewing?
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>There is no centralized party that owns Handshake.

Historically, blockchains haven't been terribly firm on the "irreversibility" point. Ethereum reversed the DAO transactions. The BTC rollbacks in 2010 and 2013. Etc etc.

In practice, whoever owns the client update server and whoever has 51% of the hashing power can make arbitrary changes to the chain. For most cryptocurrencies, a meeting of these stakeholders could fit into a phone booth.
Uhh, yeah. Twitter, Reddit, etc, etc.

Edit to reply the post below:

Actual terrorism? Al-Queda and ISIS are active on Twitter. There is content still up calling for genocide against certain ethnicities. Real genocide and terrorism. Not the hyperbole in U.S. politics.

U.S. politicians were actively egging on protestors and calling for violence around the country this summer. Where do you draw the line? It's cool if one side does it but not the other?

There's clearly an uneven application of their moderation policies. And, they are afforded legal protections as platforms under the assumption / intent that users create the content and they stay out of curation. IMO, they aren't being equitable with enforcing their own rules and should lose status as platforms. Because clearly they are opinionated in their enforcement of the ToS.
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Yeah, what a shocker. The guy who labels their enemies as drooling monkeys has severe disagreements with me.
Exactly! We were told that we are going to experience fascism for 4 years. In all of these 4 years the press was given so much freedom to say whatever it wants and publish whatever it wants on a sitting US President. I don't think Putin or Xi would have been kind to the press if they were ever treated the way Trump was treated. The journalists along with the media organisations would have disappeared overnight!

Yet here we are. In a purely fascist Censorship overdrive. And everyone is cheering it! The attack on US Capitol pales in comparison to what has happened now. This is far more damaging to USA than some bunch of idiotic insurrectionists who thought they'll be able to take over the US Capitol.
What does the United States do when facing the challenge of dealing with a rising China ? Alienate the EU by placing tariffs on them driving them right into the arms of China. Looking at recent events it really does seem like the US is losing its way.
Heh, I do the same for sites that have overrly aggresive GDPR-wall. Headline and comments are usually enough.
I find the proposal interesting. Type constraints might help to reason about a given abstraction. If I understand correctly they behave quasi like sum types over interfaces.

From skimming here: https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draf...

They don't feel like generics in for example Java (my Java is rudimentary), but rather like an abstraction over interfaces.

Can anyone elaborate on this?
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I've seen this argument so many times, and it always strikes me that those who cite it often have either not read, or completely miss the point Karl Popper was trying to make. He goes so far as to even say: "I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise." I am quite sick of the usage of the paradox of tolerance being used as an attack against a free, pluralistic society.
You say this as if there aren't millions of people who are willing and eager to assume the truth is being covered up already.

Come now, that withstands zero investigation. Even with zero censorship, millions upon millions would fall into terrible rabbit holes already. The sad fact is some people love conspiracies and love thinking they're the real informed ones amidst the sheeple.

The real effect of censorship on FB and other insanely wealthy and powerful social media would be forcing the platforms to reckon with the garbage collection they've never solved. If Zuckerberg can donate 99% of his wealth to charity, maybe he can apply that to his own company and use those resources to stop problems at their inception.
I really had to go and dig to figure out what you were even talking about here. The "original person" was a separate sibling to this thread. Do you know how threads work? Because that was not part of this conversation.

I am not going to read everything you ever type in order to have the context to understand you.
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I would liken it to a contract print house deciding they don't want to run the Unabomber Manifesto in their presses anymore.
A better analogy would be landlord-tenant. AWS was the landlord here. Although they should have the right to evict Tenants under certain circumstances, we might all be better off if these evictions were legal proceedings, and could be documented and challenged in court.
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Exactly -- the context under which a resource should be fetched from a remote should be strictly scoped to the origin. Remote fetches should never use any information from the remote site as a top-level context.

That is, if I navigate to foo.com which serves an image from bar.com, bar.com can set cookies, etc., and on future visits to foo.com the foo.com->bar.com context should be used. But if I go to hat.com and it serves an image from bar.com, none of the foo.com->bar.com context should be used, only the hat.com->bar.com context.

Disabling third party cookies gets you maybe 60% of this, but we need to keep going, disabling all caches, etc., except as tied to the context of interest. It's probably also time to get rid of the idea of "visited" for a link and similar features that use global information rather than information scoped to the currently visited site. And, of course, eternal vigilance against browser fingerprinting attacks.

Since this would cripple a fair share of targeted advertising, we might not see this appearing in Chrome (although they do offer third-party-cookie-blocking, so there's that), but we should definitely see it in Firefox.
For anybody else wanting to do this, you'd be better off picking up a Grandstream 80X ATA. It supports pulse dialing, pulse to tone conversion, 'high power' ringing, and decently modern TLS. If you're good with a soldering iron and have a 3.3v TTL serial cable, you can also pick up really cheap used Vonage HT802s and 'unlock' them.
Another place might be interesting is looking into "pirate party" organizations. Pirate party movements try to enforce natural economic restrictions on property. If it can be digitalized and distributed, then old market rules of supply and demand no longer apply. Pirate party groups aim to move towards market cost that reflects real-world restrictions of the market
Is it surprising to anyone that Q hasn’t been unmasked at this point?

Presumably there’s an FBI investigation into it and it seems unfathomable to me that intelligence agencies can’t figure out who is behind it.
Just to get this straight... the punishment for facebook and Twitter censoring speech is to censor facebook and Twitter?
Your correct - I should care more about people that need to put food on the table.

However they too can wear an N95 resperator for less than $3. A supply of ten lasts about two months of rotated use.

A good use of our tax dollars would be to supply them public with them.
> There is no similar human rights mandate for a Parler account

Canada considers internet access a basic human right, and it's pretty clear the rest of the world will move in that direction shortly.

I think it's very clear you can harm a person by cutting them off from the world / loved ones, news, etc. Especially in communities that have no outside access other than internet based.

Maybe not Parler specifically, but certainly internet access. And if the vast majority of the world and people around you are getting news and info and social life from <website>, it could be argued that denying access to <website> will harm a person.
Is it? I don't think so.

On the contrary, people have generally been smart enough to not do business with companies that won't want to do business with them (for example, nobody is really sure where the various [\d]chans are hosted, and Pornhub self-hosts). There are any number of actually competent people on the left, the right and orthogonal to politics that aren't visibly getting denied "critical infrastructure" because they simply knew better than to use it in the first place; what we are really witnessing is rather entitled people realising they're not guaranteed a ready-made popular platform (whether for an individual's speech or for an app's deployment). The lack of guarantee of a platform itself is far from news.
Is that true of the ubiquity? I didn't think they required branded SFPs, they don't on some of their other hardware.

Similarly for mikrotik.

I usually find that companies with "licensable" features on their hardware are the ones locking their SFPs to their switches/etc in an effort to enforce what is basically a port license (aka buy our $80 SFPs instead of the generic ones we are rebranding so we can make $ on your port usage vs just adding a $$$/port license fee).
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Yes, OER is just asking owners "If someone were to rent your home today, how much do you think it would rent for monthly, unfurnished and without utilities?"
I'd argue a community is even more important in cities and suburbs than in smaller towns and rural areas (where you can have more space to both prepare and sustain yourself as an individual). Within a city, especially for apartment dwellers, you have little space for storage of essentials and could find yourself "stuck" on the 10th or higher floor of an apartment building, with limited access to any essentials without knowing your neighbors and relying on each other to make it through a short-term disaster.
I can assure you Peter Norvig had nothing to do with anyone's radicalization.
> When we call software “free,” we mean that it respects the users' essential freedoms: the freedom to run it, to study and change it, and to redistribute copies with or without changes. This is a matter of freedom, not price, so think of “free speech,” not “free beer.”[1]

All of these things are allowed by Signal. Look at what is happening to WhatsApp right now because of damage to its brand. Moxie thinks that allowing 3rd party clients or federated servers would damage the Signal brand. If you disagree with him, go ahead and fork it. There are probably 100s of forks of signal that let you connect to unofficial servers. If it weren't open source that option would not be available to you. How many forks of the (closed source) official AIM client are there? Of the server? In terms of freedom offered by the software Signal is positioned pretty well.

1: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
Vitamin D is healthful (even outside of COVID), and many many people do not have adequate Vitamin D, and a person with COVID will most likely fare better with adequate Vitamin D than not.

That doesn't make Vitamin D a cure or and end to the pandemic.
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Provider for hobbyists who need flexibility: voip.ms

Provider for cheapest termination rates and flexibility: Anveo Direct (not the consumer product)

Bria and Groundwire have good SIP softphones for mobile, but aren't free. Since multitasking on iOS is so limited, these apps can register on their own servers, then send push notifications on calls.

3CX or Asterisk are good choices for connecting to trunks. 3CX is much less flexible, can cost money, but is "easy".
Can you give a real world example that couldn't be solved with interfaces?

The only real cases I can see is creating new data structures, (for instance if you wanted to create your own map type).
Also, wouldn't those in audiences for sci-hub be motivated enough to trade in direct IP addresses?
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