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Far left and far right identity politics both started ramping up around 2010. There are quantitative measurements based on word counts of some of this. See elsewhere in this thread.
Disney is a great example. It's a huge copyright owners which owns the rights to numerous important cultural works. They can, very effectively, decide what ideas the American public will have access to.

Yes, this is all legal. However, legally, the commissars of the Soviet Union also had the right and the power to ban ideas, books, works of art, and every form of expression.

The problem is the result: a small elite group of cultural commissars controlling the flow of ideas, and shutting undesirable ideas out of the public discourse and the public mind.

That is how totalitarian regimes are created and maintained.

Incidentally, the "government force" in copyright protection is the protection of copyright. That was done for the explicit purpose of fostering the publication of works, since the American lawmakers could never imagine that there will come a time in which huge corporations will ban books on political grounds.

All the government has to do is to stop enforcing copyright protection for copyright-owners who no longer publish the copyrighted works. Guaranteed other publishers will pick up these Dr. Seuss books, since he is by far the most popular children's books author of our time.

As things stand, bid these books adieu. Your children will not be able to read them.
Some people (even women) are impatient to go back to work because being with a toddler all day everyday isn't fun to everyone. Some people simply enjoy their job a lot. Or because reality takes a toll and you prefer to have a nice house and everything money permits even if that means a few less hours per day with your kid. Or the balance of all of this.
Just look up the Phoenix Program, then tell me how much the west really cares about human rights etc. Its a nice story to keep the folks at home nice and quiet.

Then think about the last couple of decades with the Patriot Act and CLOUD act, social media censorship of dissenting voices its the Phoenix Program brought home. Probably helped with removing the socialist movement in the west and its now being replaced with woke imperialism.

Too be honest there is no pure good party on this world, just enjoy life and like you said you have already used your most powerful vote, voting with your feet. Take your labor power to the places you think will make you happy and can offer a future to next generation.
I think cultural appropriation contains two elements. One is the concern about Western colonailism, which I can't address because it gets into critical race theory and that's a huge subject I don't completely follow.

You can peel off a far simpler concern that culutural heritage can be lost or devolve. France, for instance, goes to some lengths to preserve the French language. I went to some Scottish heritage group, and we all dressed up in kilts and ate haggis and such.

And it's a tough problem. Getting people on board with preserving cultural heritage is hard, especially because young people are precisely the ones you need to attract, and they tend to want to do things that are new and exciting.
That reads like such a weird take on that statement, that I think I had to have misunderstood what you're saying. Please clarify.

Is your claim that industry isn't at fault for addiction, because people are able to be addicted to things?
>There's two kinds of freedom: freedom from and freedom to.

Wonderful. And where do tech monopolies figure in the world view you've expounded ?
Proton is really awesome. It was usually possible to get Wine working somehow, but Proton really nailed the usability side and fixed a few stubs in the process. Truly a leap for Linux gaming.
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Nothing better than A/B testing within the same population, right?

> In the 4th quarter, we registered one accident for every 3.45 million miles driven in which drivers had Autopilot engaged. For those driving without Autopilot but with our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 2.05 million miles driven. For those driving without Autopilot and without our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 1.27 million miles driven.

Even if you assume most accidents happen in that last group, city driving with AP off, that ratio (3.45:1.27) is better than the overall estimated proportion of city vs highway accidents for all vehicles, at 2.3:1. At a minimum, AP is making highway driving 10-20% safer, and obviously not causing any new city accidents when it’s off.
I am surprised Jeff Bezos hasn't been canceled. He was attempting to cut deals with Muhammed bin Salman. There is photographic evidence of Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, and Jeff Bezos cozying up to a regime that is anti-LGBT.

Bezos was chatting with MBS on WhatsApp before MBS allegedly hacked him. It seems more likely he wasn't hacked by MBS and the culprit was his girlfriend's brother. Maybe Jeff and MBS are due to mend their friendship?
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“Office hours” is something you hear in college. It’s a stated time of the week where the professor will be in their office and students can stop by to discuss course material, assignments, and ask questions in a one-on-one situation.
It's still not open source. That would be worth reading.
I want to add Music services to the list
Where have they positioned themselves as such? They have always had control over what can be listed, they have never said you can sell "whatever you want". No marketplace has ever been what you are describing. Do you have any references that explain this ideology in more depth because I do not understand it.
As far as ROCm support on consumer products, it is strictly a management problem which will takes years for them to figure out since they do not listen to their engineers and do not view users of consumer graphics cards as compute customers.

I would love an alternative to Nvidia cards. After waiting for so long for ROCm support for RDNA cards and reading an engineer's comments about why there is no support yet, I've given up on AMD for compute support on their graphics cards. I'm hoping Intel's graphic cards aren't garbage and get quick support. I probably will buy an Nvidia card before then if I have the opportunity since I'm tired of waiting for an alternative.
It's a poor decision on the company's part, and we are criticizing the decision. No one (reasonable) is asking the government to regulate this. We're merely criticizing the decisions of two private companies, and the social movements which pressured them to do so.

It was public criticism, or the fear of public criticism that led them to make this decision in the first place, so this seems like a perfectly fine line of argument to make. (ie, that this was a poor decision on their part.)
> Are you honestly suggesting in the above scenario you'd take the 1Mbit connection over any of the higher speeds?

No, my point was that we now drive 50MPH sedans that stop working after 1000 miles. Instead of a sedan that drives 100MPH I'd rather have it keep working after 1000 miles, or at least not price gouge me when I do.

Or, in your analogy, if this was an actual open competitive market (it's not in the US) I could decide whether I want to buy or lease a Ferrari or Honda.
What? Now only a kind of person can draw in that style? This is beyond ridiculous.

What if the character is laughing and their eyes are virtually shut? Sorry, Ray, you need to draw the eyes, I can’t. Ok, now I can draw the hair.
There are still (a few) computers in the world (Sperry Univac legacy support) using one's complement arithmetic, hence having a positive and negative zero in the architecture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ones%27_complement
I reach for lockless not when I fear contention, but when I have unbounded lock time. There could be no contention 98% of the time, and 500ms max wait another 1% of the time - I would happily use locks. But if the last 1% is unbounded (depends on hard disk, network, user input, etc.) - that's when I try to redesign it to have essentially bounded wait time, or reach for a lockless implementation.
As I understand you can kick people out for anything that is not a protected class and that's just wrong.

Because then people will kick Blacks out and claim it's not because of their skin colour but because of their shoe style being wrong.

If you're operating a publicly open business it should be that you can't discriminate unless there is provision for it, not the other way around. So you can throw out a disruptive customer or make a senior-only or man-only club. Those provisions have to be carefully considered though, otherwise the "right to refuse service" is just a thinly veiled right to be racist and bigoted.
Ebay isn’t a monopoly.
I'd find it interesting to read an analysis how this bug could have happened from a technical point.

Like... is swap file support going shortcuts in the kernel so that it can corrupt the file system the swap file is residing on? Because (at least in my hope) no matter of write() or whatever calls on a file handle should cause a filesystem corruption...
Just don't give them any water I guess
Framing 101
Separation of application and storage is a great idea!

How about web search and social news feeds? Can there be a similar frontend / back-end separation for Google, FB and Twitter? I am thinking - different search front ends with different UIs, rankings and filters. We could have an EFF-Google and a Conservative-Google. Users could pick their preferred flavor, as I don't think it's fair for Google to decide for us all.
> I think that standing up is actually really important!

Alas, it seems many people don't - I think I've only been at one place in the last 10 years who actually cared about keeping standups short and focused. I've been at places where standup was 20 people and took an hour every day.

Mind you, I've been at places where standup was only 5 people and still took 30+ minutes every day...
Yes, but self-made NAS is always an option, and in this case I'd almost say an ideal for when the balance of trust leans away from unnamed organizations holding your information.
As a side note - I think humans should require retaking their test on a regular basis. Maybe every 5 years, and just a short 'refresher' test on the way home from work. It would help find those who simply can't drive safely anymore, and may dissuade others who don't think it's worth going through that process. It would also take a lot of stress and anxiety from the problem of families who know mildly-demented grandad really shouldn't be on the road because he can hardly see at night, but find it hard/impossible to actually do something about it.
> situation like parents

patents?
That’s a timely article and it has some good points.

I myself would say instead of “you should quit social media”, you should quit particular platforms that have too many toxic users (trolls and just rude people) and you should quit platforms that are run by companies with whose vision you do not agree. I am not saying we should quit Deviant Art or even Twitter, for example.

But yeah, quitting Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp seems like a good idea at the moment. And I did so myself some time ago.
I wasn't making a point about centralised or decentralised currency/money/finance?

It was regarding the 'regulation' thing. Cryptocurrency is only ever going to work for John Everyman if the industry starts to mature a bit. Blaming the user when another exchange gets ripped off doesn't exactly scream 'legit', does it?
Off topic, but BBC blocks me because I use iPhone’s Adblock.

BBC is government funded with a mission to inform the British people. Why would they require ad viewing and default to not showing news without ads? Seems against their mission.

For profit news I understand as the whole “maximize shareholder equity” thing, but when government news sources use these anti-consumer tactics it’s depressing to me.
Preventing modification of the firmware is like making your car unrepairable and unopenable, so you couldn't mess with it.
If we don't use energy that is produced, then it is wasted. We don't have a reliable method of mass energy storage.
Hopefully people will still be able to read books about factory farming, though.
Here's some anecdata on East Asian websites:

Chinese: https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=S...

Korean: https://www.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2007/05/25/2007052...

Japanese: https://www.irasutoya.com/2018/06/blog-post_724.html
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Erasing the past is not the main concern here. We all know history is written by the victors.

What worries me is the voluntary whitewashing and consequent suppression of alternative media by companies whose judgement is solely based on PR.

A publisher choosing not to reprint works that contain questionable content is completely understandable and well within their right. Nobody is arguing they have to print these books. But when the biggest open marketplaces begin to decide what is allowed for resale, that is something else entirely.

It's a slippery slope to let public outcry determine what is easily available and what is not.
Yeah they also dehumanized nazis (and Germans in general too, or did you forget?)

It’s not like they were known for being chivalrous (Bataan).
I agree, and sadly they're unlikely to change. However, Ethereum has about as much usage (though lower market cap), has proof-of-stake running with 100K nodes and $5 billion staked, and plans to migrate the rest of the network and eliminate mining within a year or so.
Really, a good API is all that is necessary.

Also, maybe an SDK, but I am not particularly enthused by some of the SDKs I encounter, these days.

If a service can be exposed by a good, basic API that doesn't require (but also affords) an SDK, then this allows development of connectors. Many client packages, these days, are written to allow connectors to be developed.
Proton is the reason I moved from a Windows + MacOS machine to GNU/Linux full time. I understand the concern that some hardcore enthusiasts might have about it making devs lazy when it comes to developing native ports but to be honest I don't care. I am just glad to have a simple method of gaming on GNU/Linux. Proton plus Lutris and the slew other tools that have come out in recent years has made the transition to GNU/Linux very easy and has opened the door for many who were curious but scared of the learning curb.
I don't think the issue was breaking existing features, it was a classic 'perfect being the enemy of good' situation. PA maintainers wanted to support dynamically loading the involved codecs due to potential (but not particularly well demonstrated) concerns about licensing and inclusion in certain distros. But they didn't really have the manpower to actually do this (and especially they disagreed with the person actually doing the work on how to go about doing this), so they just sat on an MR for ages while the situation improved for no-one (worst case it gets merged and then disabled at compile time by some distros). Meanwhile frustrations arose because the contributer wanted to help users and the maintainers just seemed like a roadblock to doing this, and the maintainers utterly failed to de-escalate the situation.
Sure if you want to kill open source. I'm working in the office during office hours.
Based on how telcos have been acting, I think they just wish everyone would pay $100 for 512k down and 64k up forever, while they get and keep government subsidies for broadband initiatives that never get rolled out.
You mean after the President said the election was stolen from him and hundreds of his supporters stormed the US Capitol? The USA might think this is okay and forgot about it. But historically it was USA who criticized other countries where similar events occurred. If you think I am overreacting how about the comments from dozens of countries [0].

[0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_reactions_to_the...
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You're struggling against the unbalanced power dynamic that proprietary software creates between developers and users.
If anyone wants to learn more about paranormal activity in Cornwall, they can check out a relevant episode of Fortean TV, a fantastic documentary series from the 90s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aEX3Z3mjCk.
I don't quite think that's the lesson intended here.

The lesson taught in a lot of cultures hit hardest by Germany is understanding:

* Personality cults

* Hate

* Polarization

... and the path by which Hitler came to power. Understanding what Hitler said and why it persuaded people is central to not being persuaded yourself.

If you're young, think of it as a 1945 version of social media misinformation literacy. Part of the way you learn to recognize misinformation is by looking and decomposing misinformation.

It's done pretty well for limiting the rise of charismatic hate-mongers for a pretty long while. We're now starting to see the rise again as the majority of voters are starting to view WWII as irrelevant history long gone, as opposed to something that happened to Mom and Dad.
Proton definitely is. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
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There's another tool for rM that fetches articles by URI and sends them to reMarkable as PDFs: https://sendreadable.utrack.dev/
As near as I can tell from the wikipedia link in the comments below, it's because the ship is perpendicular to the water and the light just happens to be being refracted to that particular observer right at the water line.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_Morgana_(mirage)#/media/F...
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Understanding common place name elements helps a lot with reconstructing the history of places in the UK. As per [0], -ham, -ing, -ton, are old English, -by, -thorpe and others are Norse/Vikings. We've also had hundreds of years for the original names to change in spelling and pronunciation. Especially the French-derived ones.

I have to say that one of the small joys of doing geography A-level in England was finding the silly names on the detailed Ordnance Survey maps. There was always one or two that enlivened the dullest lessons on geomorphology, road networks, etc. I still find a lot of humour in these placenames. Exhibit A: Piddletrenthide [1] is one close to me, quite close to Tolpuddle. It's my belief from local knowledge that Piddletrenthide is pronounced with two hard 't's, i.e. Piddle - Trent - Hide. Perhaps if there are HN'ers from Piddletrenthide here, they can correct me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toponymy_of_England#English

[1] https://www.visit-dorset.com/explore/piddletrenthide-and-pid...
That is an interesting idea. What would happen in a civil war? Would the engineers stay at their post safely shutting down the reactors?

Nuclear energy demands a level of civilization that we simply cannot guarantee.
> the American media pushed the idea that the US would've had this kind of massive widespread testing and complete control over Covid if only its leader wasn't a monster who was sabotaging its efforts

In other words, they quoted him?
That's a figment of the media. The "far right" and the huge collection of "white supremacists" that have been drummed up as some huge evil plot in America has, as far as I can tell, zero basis in reality.

Note that basically everything done by white people is a "far right" "white supremacist" plot. E.g., AOC refers to the (hilarious) "insurrection" (the unarmed, leaderless one that waltzed into some of the most protected space on earth with nary a problem) as a "white supremacist" plot.

If you buy that, you're an instrument, played like a fiddle.
Yes, because it's full of eels.
The wording used was "You’re asking the wrong question” not "You don't know what you're talking about".

I find that perfectly fine. It was slightly disingenuous to reword it.
I don't understand the argument. If they're harmful enough, you ban them. If they are not, presumably you accept their existence? If you ban targeting instead, you just increase the cost of all ads, the ads from your list still reach those vulnerable individuals. This feels like an inefficient, weird and indirect tax?
I wouldn’t be surprised to discover the photographer had to adjust their position to capture just the ship
How good does this work with things like Oculus Quest, SteamVR, etc.?

Are there any performance implications?
Probably because as described in the linked article IMAP & SMTP is disabled by default - though if you're willing to ignore the scary warnings they're still possible to use.
“ If you're any way a systems thinker, you would know that protocols are more resilient than services.”
This is not just a terrible saying, it’s also completely wrong.
All things are not equal, so a crappy protocol may or may not be more resilient than a service.
“Systems thinking” is not code for “Lazy thinking.”
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I want to point out that legutierr and stef25 had a respectful back and forth here. legutierr pointed out the connotations of lynching and stef25 recognized they could've used better language. I don't see the harm here, just a little reminder of American history.
Not sure I agree with the 'boring', but Rust has already improved on installing a development environment and bootstrapping projects.
Can you elaborate. What kind of API? Just a HTTP/JSON api?
Do you educate people about the complexity of the physics and bureaucracy involved with defining the current time every time someone asks you "what time is it?" Or do avoid going onto irrelevant tangents that get you labeled as crazy and just tell them the current time?
Think it through:

> enforced separation in law between commercial application providers and storage providers. So, if someone writes an app like Google Docs, they can't just store the data opaquely on their own cloud servers. They legally have to integrate with a separate storage provider.

Now, is the law going to mandate the exact API as well?

The likely implementation of this is that, just as every app developer copies every other app developer, when choosing which User Storage Backend to integrate with, they will pick the most popular one, or a near competitor. AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. (Apple-focused developers may choose Apple Cloud; I'd expect Facebook to spin up one if this became law too).

Just as you don't get general-purpose OAuth integration so much as "log in with Facebook / Google" buttons. Those are your two choices.

Yes, the original intent would be targeted at Google and Microsoft, which currently own both big web apps and big cloud platforms to run them on. I'm not convinced that splitting them vertically would stick; the convergence effects are very strong. So you end up with (choice of two office suites) x (choice of two backend providers), big deal.

Is it sufficient that Google Cloud Storage would have a separate stock ticker from Google Cloud Apps?

It reminds me of rail privatization and the nonsense of having thin shell companies run the trains while leasing all the rolling stock from a couple of companies and running on tracks owned by exactly one company. It didn't really expand choice and it provided plenty of opportunity for blame deflection.
But you can work and have kids. The problem is the expectation of being on track for (or offered back after years of hiatus) a top career while taking years off to raise childen is unrealistic.

Especially when there are other women (or people actually) looking for the same professionnal success while minimizing the impact of bearing (the only exclusively female element in this matter, note) and raising children on their careers as much as possible.

All I meant is of course you will be penalized for taking years off when some people (even of the same sex and with the same supposed disadvantages) don't.