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Not sure why you are being down voted for posing a question which I think is relevant. I think it's because you worded it so generally instead of more specifically to the article at hand. I don't think some of the responses you got were very convincing either (in my opinion). I'll respond to a few:

> Hm we live in structured societies in which laws are used to restrict individual liberties to protect collective ones. It's not that hard to grasp

Sure, there may be restrictions on certain things you can put on a website generally (illegal content), but I think the GP's question is about this specific case. No laws were broken, and the website is not a government venue. It is a business, which also has rights/liberties regarding what they choose to allow. For instance, if I goto a a subreddit and start talking about something completely off topic and it gets removed and I'm banned, who cares? That should be allowed.

> Because you live in a society

This might be a relevant response if you take the GP's question in the most general way possible, but applying it to this specific case it is not really adequate.

> Why do courts have the power to tell me who I must serve in my restaurant?

I don't think this really applies to the situation here. It's more like if you went into a restaurant and started acting rude (but not doing anything technically illegal) and the restaurant decided to throw you out, which is totally fine and normal to do. Also, at a restaurant you are a paying customer doing 'business' (trading money for food), whereas at Facebook it's more like you are the product. You aren't really trying to make a business transaction with Facebook.
Thinking that Compaq killed Alpha to bet everything on Itanium makes the history even more frustrating.
If "tech giant" equals "web advertising platform", then sure. But there are quite a few big physical tech companies within the EU. Bosch and Facebook have about the same revenue, for example. ZF Friedrichshafen, a company noone has heard of, has double the revenue of Youtube.
You can rent out rooms in the house you live in, but that is less of a thing now than in the past. In the 1800s/1900s widows, spinsters, old women, that had property would often get by by renting out rooms/beds, essentially being a "mother" to young men or women. Men/women came to the city to work, or school, or whatever and they would rent a room and the landlady would serve meals, do laundry, etc.
I made in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28003977 a back of the envelope calculation using the laser that NASA use to measure the distance to the Moon. It's a pulsed laser that fires in a very short time, and it use a very narrow band. If you use it to communicate with other star, the light of the Sun in this band is like 10^8 times stronger. For a wide spectrum signal, you have an even higher noise level.
The numeric conversion instructions you're thinking of are branded "JavaScript", but actually exist to emulate Intel x86 floating-point behavior. It just so happens that the ECMA specs call for said behavior because existing code relied upon it.
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Glass typically will crack because of three reasons: applied force, sudden impact, or quick changes in temperature.

How the crack appears also matters. This includes if there is glass damage, or only the LCD panel inside the display; if there’s a visible impact point; and if it’s a single hairline crack, or multiple cracks.
Don't forget that Java is an Oracle product too and it's still in the top 3 seat for languages used whether HN likes it or not. Oracle isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
It probably helps that writing copy on the Internet has mostly devolved into Twitter style single-sentence paragraphs.
Could also be tangential. I think you need to be a certain amount of obsessive in order to be a programmer. Seems a lot of people just get frustrated and give up quickly. Lots of people seem to also not really have the ability to decompose a problem into parts recursively. There's this old story about into to programming classes, with 50% of the class doing great and the other 50% failing. It's not a myth IMO, I've taught a class with 70 people and I've seen it myself. If there's a biological explanation for that, it's going to be unpopular for sure, because it would go against the notion that anyone can be trained to do anything if they just put in the work.
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You mention the censorship and info control of the “ruling class” and the “anarcho-tyrannical regime”, but this exact scenario is already happening today and being driven by roving bands of online Leftists. I agree with your premise that banning free speech we don’t like will inevitably lead to the restriction of free speech we feel is vitally important, i.e. you’ve got to let the nazis and anti-vaxers spout their bs if you want to be able to criticize your local politician, you can’t have it both ways.
I have a friend that (I’m 99% certain) has undiagnosed ADD. He’s basically a textbook case, he’s been in college since 2006 and still doesn’t have his bachelor’s despite being fairly intelligent.

If your experience is like mine you’ll explain it to him, he’ll think it’s a good theory, and then due to his ADD he’ll never actually get around to going to a doctor about it. It’s frustrating because his life could be so much better. He had to feel like a failure, and to lose years of your life to something “fixable” is rough.
I remember i860 accelerator cards being used with Fortran compilers, not really sure if this went anywhere, it's all a bit hazy exactly what happened, but the i860 was VLIW, so the compiler tech required for Itanium was already being explored for the i860.

I also believe that MMX was basically lifted from the i860, although again, i'm not sure.

It's funny, I tend to think of Intel as the boring chip company, due to the success and legacy that we like to moan about from ia-32, but they have actually made a fair few plays to try and move things on from there, fighting against the market which just wanted ia-32 compatible but faster processors.
I predict that if/when lab grown meat becomes commercially viable and normalized, our descendants are going to look back at us as immoral savages for factory farming and turning a blind eye to animal suffering. I'm not even a vegetarian and I recognize the hypocrisy in "caring about animals" but still wanting to eat meat.
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Do you know what the phrase "throw the book at them" means.

It means you have a rich set of laws, which punish various offenses which look fine on paper, but in practice everyone violates just to do their regular job, so they're widely not enforced.

But if you want to fuck someone in particular, you can easily find them in violation of a dozen or two of them, and put them in jail for a long time or fine them substantial amounts.

You threw the book at them.

This is basically what most of EU's data privacy, cookie and so on laws are about, in practice.

It's interesting how you can take a collection of seemingly or genuinely good-intentioned rules and use them to basically rule as a king, but there you go.

And it's not a good thing.
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I feel like your answer not only ignores the entire premise of the article but also throws fuel on the power differential fire discussed within.
The compelling thing with GP's proposal would be that it is easier to enforce. If the license is revoked there is no gray area for interpretation left.
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> We’ve built systems that create content faster and better than a normal human BS filter can block.

Maybe so, but I just don't trust that the "BS filter" big tech has constructed will block only "BS" and not true things inconvenient to a certain strident brand of west coast morality. The NY Post story from last year certainly wasn't "BS".

I don't think algorithmic BS is anywhere near as big a risk as you think it is, and I think the risk of outright censorship is far larger than you imagine. Big tech should be a common carrier and viewpoint discrimination in moderation should be illegal.
This is definitely not true. People generally wear masks when they are sick, not all the time. There is a big difference.
"She discouraged organizations — like pro baseball teams — from doing surveillance testing among vaccinated people without symptoms, saying “it probably does more harm than good” in eroding public confidence."

I'd say testing asymptomatics in 2020 (pre-vaccines) should retrospectively be applied too, to maintain public confidence.
The EU's focus on data protection, particularly the German view, which is to a large extent that which now prevails at the EU level (though the others were very similar), predates the existence of these tech companies. By a huge amount.

In Germany, it is considered a "Grundrecht", a "basic right" of constitutional rank.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datenschutz#Deutschland
I think with the dual-use tools, it's more about the user instead of the inanimate tool itself
Same here but with Samsung S4. I just woke up, grab my phone and feel it by fingertip
The solution to this is gather.town
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This reminds me of identity in Secure-Scuttlebutt. It’s my favorite naming system.

Basically you’re just an unpronounceable identity. Other people give you names. Different people call you different things.

After all, when you’re born, you’re just given a name.
I think there's something to be said for the general lack of movement that comes with WFH. It could be pure coincidence but the years I was in best shape running were the years when I had a 30 minute walk to/from work.

I now work from home and try to get out some mornings for a walk around the neighborhood but more often than not, I go straight from bed to a chair. My body gradually loosens up during the day but mostly in a seated position.
I think those projections weren't really all that crazy. AMD surprised everyone with AMD64, and they were the only ones that could have done 64-bit x86 other than Intel. Intel should have had better spies at AMD :)
There are a lot of neurotypical programmers too. It's not so much that autism makes you better at cognitively loaded tasks as it doesn't make you worse at them.
ZFSBootMenu isn't just for Arch. It's developed on Void Linux, and support for Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo and Arch has also been added. Void is the first-class citizen here.
I use a pedometer app on my phone and put my phone in my pocket.
For sure, the same rapid-promotion algorithms would not be workable at scale if they were to run at current speeds.

But would it be so bad to have a system that is primarily unmolested by algos (i.e., mostly Opt-1) but with a slower algo that promotes more judiciously might make for a much less toxic SocMed environment?
HTML templating (specifically FreeMarker macros) is what i’m doing now.

There are still some cases where classes are useful, like JS or when I have very different components with some shared style. But these are mostly edge cases. FreeMarker has some other problems though.
You don’t have to use map() if you don’t like it; and you’re free to pick a functional implementation from Ramda or somewhere else and use that instead, React really couldn’t care less.
I2O was definitely a pivot. The original i960Kx, i960Cx and i960Jx had nothing to do with I2O. I2O was introduced later with the i960Rx series.

I developed an i960RP design back in the late '90s for an MPEG-2 encoder PCI card. The encoder chips were also PCI, so the PCI bridge on the i960RP made for a nice design where all the PCI stuff was handled in one fell swoop.
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You say that including Datomic? If not, check it. It is a great piece of software.
I'm very curious about the "major attack" against Django you mention. I'm unaware of in-the-wild attacks targeting Django itself, so I'd really like to know what I missed. Can you share more details with me? Public or private is fine, send me an email if you prefer.
No, I find them to be a lot more ambitious than that. Worth browsing around the site, and you'll see it's not spammy at all.

If you run a serious web project, ownership of domain names is critical asset management, especially if you care for privacy. If the current domain was to get hijacked by someone's commercial ambitions, the site would probably be reworked towards the kind of BS VPN blabbering you described.

I don't agree with all of PrivacyTools' angles and priorities, making a lot of their advice pretty impractical for most people. But the purist approach is also interesting to follow, even if one doesn't jump on the bandwagon.
Living in Kitchener-Waterloo (an hour from Toronto), our housing rates have gone through the roof with rich Torontonians buying our stuff for 100-300k over, but who the fuck is buying their extremely overpriced stuff?? That's what we always wonder. Who can afford to live in Toronto or buy anything there? Their jobs don't pay that much more.

There is no "more expensive market" or "secret Ultra-Toronto" that can move downstream into Toronto. Is it just "there are a lot of rich Canadian investors" (seems unlikely) or is it mostly just people overseas buying and leaving places empty and/or hoping to maybe rent it out?

Something doesn't seem to make much sense. What Canadian investor is going to think, hmmm, I'll bid $400k over on a 2.5MM home that no one in my country can afford in the most expensive city and it's not even that nice. Who is going to buy it from them as it goes up? Anyone in Canada who could possibly afford it now, or in the future will already have a nice home, unless are just swapping around for a different location. There has to be some 3rd party upstream they know will buy it out from them, or else they will be the sucker who hit the ceiling with a property they can't sell.
Of course they did: http://public.dhe.ibm.com/systems/support/system_x_pdf/x455o...
I believe these are AU. Only it's AU not as in astronomical units, but arbitrary units. And they are likely arbitrary in a different way than whatever values you have in mind.

These are used in cases where you can measure something, such as the how dark some liquid gets after some reaction, but cannot, or don't bother, to turn that into some "real" number such as the number/concentration of particles in the liquid causing the effect.

So these units are comparable across several experiments or measurements using the same protocol. Sometimes they are tied to the equipment used and can be compared to other data from the same equipment. But other than that, only the relative values or, as in this case, the finding of proportionality is meaningful.
Fauna is temporal, so yes. Normal forms not required.
Yes, in the EU a company whose business model is violating its users' privacy rights (and those existed pre GDPR) would never have gotten off the ground.
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Health detriments of sitting all day are also pretty well established and commonly accepted by doctors. Don't know where pnut was going with that lame comment.
I think I’m being very transparent and open minded. I’ll admit your hypothesis about the mundaneness of flu shots is very possible. My only point is that that hypothesis or some other hypothesis needs to be confirmed by experts. Instead the only people we have commenting on this are right wing pundits that have their own axe to grind.
You can pretty easily and effectively do parts of the work of a doctor by looking up symptoms online and buy off the shelf medicine, it doesn't solve all cases but it solves a lot of cases. Does that mean medicine is easy? No.

And the bar for delivering value via programming is way higher than medicine. Just knowing how to do a few loops and print statements doesn't take much, but also doesn't help basically anyone do their job. In a few jobs it helps, but most people doesn't need that kind of simple text processing in their jobs, and those who do are usually already automated by dedicated programmers.

Edit: With that I'd say, people will learn to program simple scripts once we build enough interfaces for such programs to be useful to the average person. But as is we are making programming harder and harder via tons of build scripts etc making just setting up a project properly often take hours to days. We are moving in the wrong direction here if we want average people to code.
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> I'm not aware of any expert or health official who believes that eradicating the pandemic is possible.

There are plenty of experts and health officials who believe that eradicating the pandemic is possible. Including some with experience eradicating other pandemics like Ebola and Zika [1], along with the editor-in-chief of the Lancet [2], among others.

Eradicating a pandemic is not unprecedented, it can and has been done.

> If you've gotten the impression that our public health response is about reaching some future point where Covid-19 is gone and nobody ever has to worry about it, you're being misled.

Clearly our COVID19 response is not currently about that, or no one would have to advocate for it.

[1]:https://necsi.edu/corona-virus-pandemic. (Ebola: https://necsi.edu/ending-pandemics)

[2]:https://www.endcoronavirus.org/
Kind of a tangent, but doesn’t the Chinese censorship program use (or at least used to) use mostly actual people taking down “illegal” posts?

So it seems they have proven it’s possible to do with people in the loop.
If you've ever done hardware tech support you'll find most of the time the user who says they didn't do anything actually did do something. And I encountered this when doing internal support, where the end user didn't even bear cost or blame for breaking equipment.
The person seemed to be implying as if they were making the money back in 1 day otherwise this comparison would be meaningless, as they can have infinite revenue, but 0 profit.
Well, he did, explicitly, for one.
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> In what region are you referring to?

The Netherlands.

> rendering your license invalid because you lost a physical license

If you lost it, you can't drive anyway. Why would you not invalidate a lost license ? To clarify: the physical license is invalidated, and since you need to have a physical license on you to be allowed to drive, you can not drive until you get a new physical license.

If you fraudulently report your license as stolen, it is invalidated and you can no longer drive using that physical license. If you get a new one with someone else's photo on it, that basically means you can no longer drive a car.
By that logic trademarks should not exist
> As someone with mild autism I don't want people celebrating it. We should support autistic people but I don't want people celebrating a condition that causes myself and others significant difficulties in life.

As someone with autism, I'm proud of it and I suffer from it. There are many aspects to it and some of them are great and some of them are terrible. For this reason, I don't think there should be any problem in both having pride in the good and wanting medicine for that bad. I don't see them as necessarily mutually exclusive. We may find out they are, but there's no reason to assume that at this point. For now, I hope for a future where I can keep the good and get rid of the bad.
I disagree with this advice for young, healthy, not-having-kid-right-now people.

To save means keeping money in a low interest rate account, which lowers your short term risk and increases your long-term risk (you are not enjoying the higher returns of high-risk, high-return, investments such as stocks over the long term).

As young people, you should think long term.

If you want to minimize short-term risk in your life, then please, by all mean, save!

But be aware that there is no free lunch, and reducing risk right now will most probably reduce your opportunities in the long term.

Please take into account that I am reasoning with averages and averages are just a massive simplification of real life.

Adjust according to your own assessment of your context and situation. Don't follow random advice from strangers on the internet.
It's my last day at my current job. Thank you for inspiring me to set up a 1 minute BSOD screensaver for the next person who uses my current workstation.
The Secretlab chairs are nice (especially for the price), but they can be a little stiff and their adjustability is more limited then a Steelcase. I have been using a Secretlab for the last 8 months or so, and it's better then what I had before, but if I had the choice of going back to the office and taking my Steelcase there I would.
Agree govt controlled and owned housing is not a good idea in general, private home ownership is the way to go. Exceptions are people on benefits.

> and by taxes and loans make it more likely that a lot of people will own some land then small percentage of the people own a lot of land

This is what my original comment is all about. Except no 20yr limit, any investor who is banking on capital gains from house price increases will have no problem waiting 20 years to sell.

Edit: re height limits, they are important to preserve views and ambience of the local area (London has some rules for instance where St Paul’s cathedral must be visible from certain other major landmarks), avoid too dense housing if it will cause undue issues with infrastructure (insufficient sewage capacity in the area for example), transport on an already congested road etc, and preserve the general vibe of the area (to a degree, people accept gradual change a lot better than a Big Bang approach), also sunlight issues for neighbouring properties. Building a 30 story apartment block in a suburb of 2-3 story houses is just out of place. Building slightly up to 6 stories is not so bad.
> "Technical debt is the burden that implementation choices may place on future development."

> With regard to its coherence, I say that it is empirically verified: it actually happens!

Something happens, on this we can agree, but if you are making checkers and find out you need chess, it isn't that making chess is any harder than it was before you did anything -- so no, I would not agree that it placed any burden on future development.

No, I think the real issue is that you have already paid for checkers and so you feel unhappy that your time (and maybe money) was wasted on checkers when you simply can't sell checkers because all along you needed chess.

> The mere fact that most of the technical things we choose to do are done for non-technical reasons is enough to establish that. The root cause of a problem and its broad consequences are separable concerns.

The root cause is that you do not know what you want. Writing the crappiest version of checkers as quickly as possible is a great way to find out it is the wrong thing. Trying to write an "abstract board game" instead of just writing checkers so that the decision to choose checkers or chess could be delayed as long as possible is not: It assumes that it is mere time that informs us of what we want, rather than the feedback of seeing what we don't want.

> it is completely reasonable to consider the situation where, say, I give a farmer cash in return for some produce at harvest time to be a debt

We can fantasize about a great many things, including this, but software is not produce that is harvested and sold; you do not plant great software seeds to grow into great software trees. No, the debt is the cash that the farmer received, just like the debt is the cash you receive to write the software. The software itself is not debt and never was.