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I was on board until it got to their misunderstandings of the first amendment.

>our refusal to change our First Amendment-based moderation policy

This seems like a typical misunderstanding of the First Amendment, which only restricts government action.

>Gab has been the subject of a years-long smear campaign by activist groups and boycotted by virtually every technology company of consequence – Amazon, Apple, Coinbase, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, PayPal, Stripe, and Visa included – because of our refusal to change our First Amendment-based moderation policy.

This article is the most reasonably phrased 'Big Tech is violating my 1st Amendment rights' but it is still not valid. It's open to interpretation whether this is attributable to the cause they state.

>The reality of social media content moderation practices today is that large swathes of commonly-held viewpoints and belief systems are systematically discriminated against on the Internet’s largest websites

This is a non-sequitur following discussion of the first amendment.

>American citizens may have freedom of speech, but they find themselves with vanishingly few public forums in which to exercise it fully.

I wonder whether Gab agrees that businesses have a right to refuse service to anyone arbitrarily, such as not making a cake for a gay couple.

>Our web properties are among only a handful on the Internet where Madison’s “general intercourse of sentiments” can presently flow unimpeded by corporate interests, opaquely funded NGOs, and activist groups

I am very skeptical of that claim.

Oh, and I am very open to anyone who would like to explain to me how this is incorrect.
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I also got a slower than rub by cpython a nuitka produced binary. Granted, it is a complicated beast with several external python libraries, numpy, others sprinkled with cython, etc.
Here is the original repo I have tried to speed up using:

python -m nuitka --clang --follow-imports main.py

repo: https://github.com/MRCIEU/gwas2vcf

If someone can make the program run faster by whatever means, it will make a bunch of people quite happy.
Is it just me or are Ruby and Python cousins.

I really really didn't like Ruby when I tried to learn it at work , but Python just clicked. I imagine many Ruby programers migrated to Python.

Then again, Nodejs started to take off when Ruby declined. I strongly suspect this is due to all the "full stack" positions. Hey Billy, you write all that nice js on the front end, now you can write it on the back end too.
That sounds like a very bad idea. It only takes a single data breach and all of that information is public.

This system imposes an enormous long term responsibility on the organisation(s) storing the data to keep it secure.

I don’t trust any organisation to do that when something as large as facebook or the US military can’t even prevent data breaches.

I’ll change my mind when we have mathematically proven unhackable databases behind quantum resistant cryptography.
This was always my perception of Australia. Not to the same extent as the US but a decent amount of frontiersman-ship - independence, questioning authority, etc.

Not doubt those folks still exist they are just a small minority now.
> and my gaming VLAN used about 20kb/s when playing Overwatch

I gather GP was referring more to the /size/ of the games, not the amount of traffic consumed while playing them.

Most of the major AAA games are more than about a hundred gigabytes these days. My installation of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is 153 GB for example.
It isn't whataboutism to ask that statistics include the necessary context. The person you are replying to doesn't give a full and proper context, but that doesn't make attempting to provide that context "whataboutism".
All of human history has been much more dangerous in general than the current time, and dangerous food has always been one of the risks, at levels we would currently find shocking and unacceptable. The tradeoff is that starvation and malnutrition have also been serious concerns for all of human history, too. Your grocery store, full of safe and abundant food, is the historical exception, not the norm.

For example, as recently as a century or two ago, milk routinely killed people. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_sickness

The problems the UK dealt with in the 1800s sound horrifying.
https://edu.rsc.org/feature/the-fight-against-food-adulterat...

And adulturated food in general was a serious problem in the US, in times still within living memory. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_history_of_food_regula...

In some ways, it still is. A lot of people advocate avoiding processed food entirely, as a way to dodge these sorts of bullets.
I think you forgot the sarcasm tag at the end there.
They should, but people here are afraid that this looks like a government overreaction that won't actually find an accurate result.

IMO, they are wrong and this will likely lead to guidance for all automakers, including Tesla. I doubt anything that comes out of this will be a problem for Tesla, if anything it might end up being harder for the others.

NHTSA is pretty reasonable most of the time.
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The larrikins died and the wowsers won. I don't know how it happened.
Not that I agree with this but we have a massive problem with trolls, shills, agitators, and foreign intelligence running hog wild because they are anonymous online.

Freedom of speech and anonymity is being weaponized and used against the west.
It should warn and turn off in a LOT of situations imo; there was another accident in a construction zone where the car hit a barrier, for example. And there's the shared videos of people literally sleeping or sitting in the back seat of a Tesla on autopilot; the car should detect that and disable autopilot for an X amount of time.

Of course, at the same time the car should not play police; if someone is caught doing that, their license should be taken away from them.
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It does (WSL2). Have worked with them on making sure this works and is described.

Tested on a fedora image and ubuntu
FYI - there was another "major" study published which claims to show the opposite for ivermectin: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28388433.
> IMO, it is good that there is federal investigation into this

> seems our government agencies at large are not very good when it comes to properly understanding anything technology related, or making relevant decisions/rulings/etc. on these kinds of things.

Not sure how you think it's good then.
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>I saw a number of Tesla vehicles on the road as well, each passing these same emergency vehicles, but not always in the same lane.

How do you know all of them were on autopilot?

>12 crashes is 12 crashes too many, statistically speaking, but it's also a tiny tiny percentage of the total number of cases.

It's also 12 more than any normal attentive human has gotten into, and an average attentive human driver is the absolute floor for self-driving on public roads unless Tesla is going to go to the lengths GM has to ensure the person behind the wheel is remaining attentive.

>IMO, it is good that there is federal investigation into this. My main concern is that is seems our government agencies at large are not very good when it comes to properly understanding anything technology related, or making relevant decisions/rulings/etc. on these kinds of things.

I think they're good at understanding if Tesla loses complete public confidence in self driving that is a net-loss for humanity and technology, as well as a prime source of political shitstorm when people ask why something wasn't done sooner.
As mad as they might seem, this is precisely why those protesters have been on the streets - because the slippery slope is all too real. Allow your government a little taste of authoritarianism and they’ll want more.
> Sunlight is the best disinfectant when it comes to freedom of speech, but that does not imply the government should have full access to the communication of individuals and trounce the fourth amendment

Congress isn't claiming full access. It's asking Gab to preserve certain information while it goes through due process. You have a right to free speech, and the government has the right to investigate persons who threaten violent insurrection.
I think because most people don’t need it more than 18 hours per day? If you’re taking it off at night, you might as well drop it on the charger.
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Regulations can often work well initially.

But inevitably, there exists a timeline where the regulation becomes antiquated and outdated. It no longer serves its purpose, and it actually becomes the very barrier to progress. And in my time being alive, I've rarely seen politicians act quickly to improve regulations to serve a current need. More often than not, they grandstand over the value of the regulation, and pass laws that increase the bureaucratic reach of the regulatory arm. They effectively become rubber stamping desks.
I wonder if the legislation they passed within 24 hours allowing police to read/delete/edit social media posts of anybody without warrants is related to the australian truckers blocking off major highways in the past couple of days.

Australia is more and more like China every day. The rest of the world is next. We're being pushed into an authoritarian globalist society and we're okay with it.
Thanks for the smh link. Parliamentary committees propose all kinds of things, they don't become law. The title here is wrong, it isn't the govt proposing it as a law. Not that they mightn't try, but it's silly to conflate the two.
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It doesnt sound like people in australia are particularly oppressed though. Do you feel like it's affecting you? People often trade some freedoms for some others.

WRT the coronavirus restrictions, australians arguably had a free-er life than most of western europe this past year. Personally i d prefer to sacrifice international travel if it meant that we can still freely go to work/entertainment/gym etc
If you know the original source I'd be curious to hear it.
He literally addresses your first point a few paragraphs into the meat of the statement. Do you have any kind of rebuttal or historical backing besides "nuh uh"?

[1] https://i.imgur.com/WuvtYIy.png
Maybe they are just not interested what their users are writing about unless they don't break the law. Sounds like the shocker these days, but as I understand this is Gab business model.

"Spreading misinformation" about the election, whatever it means, is not a crime, I can claim that a given election was a subject to, say, Russian collusion, which is a good point to discuss, as Mueller report is full of statements like this:

"[a] statement that the investigation did not establish particular facts does not mean there was no evidence of those facts."

which can be interpreted one way or another, so it is good to have a discussions about that but mainstream social platforms want to silent any discussion that they consider to be "misinformation".

Same with opinions about the most recent election. I don't really care if Biden was chosen properly or not, but I do care if we have right to discuss about this this freely without being persecuted by the Police, chased by Congress commissions, fired from my university, banned from the Internet or payment systems, etc. just because I have an opinion that others don't like.
You can do this on Android, it's called "app pinning"

https://support.google.com/android/answer/9455138?hl=en-GB
> if you have a documented recovery from infection, you are also granted an immunity card ... I don't know how many other countries are using this approach.

I think most European countries do. I know for certain that the UK does[1] as well as Germany[2] and Austria[3].

[1] https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/covid-pas...
[2] https://www.baden-wuerttemberg.de/en/service/aktuelle-infos-...
[3] https://gruenerpass.gv.at/genesen/
Yeah, but then you have a family that orders 4
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Think about it from the aristocrat's point of view.This is a very desirable thing.
Exactly this. It's a reserve for a future event likely to happen, with a material impact on the financials. Required by financial regulations. It might even be a footnote or called out as a business risk in a FB public financial statement.

Similar to a reserve for doubtful accounts receivable. X% of receivables aged 90 days past due are unlikely to ever be collected. That gets booked onto the financials.
You tagged it with a sarcasm tag, but I think your summary is basically what people are feeling in the large, both in Australia and America.

Perhaps people are seeing that, on the one hand, large-scale problems (global warming, global pandemics, global economic boom-and-bust cycles, etc.) are having real consequences for individuals, and on the other hand, they cannot be resolved by simple independent action (because if they could, we'd be seeing trends of improvement, not worsening).

There's a crisis of faith in the reasoning capacity of the common individual. People have traditionally turned to institutional power when individuals seem less trustworthy.
There is absolutely a good reason for adaptove cruise control systems to ignore stationary objects: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/06/why-emergency-braking-s...
Highly worrying, but I'm also convinced it will happen in EU soon, too. Let's hope USA remains the USA.. we need a champion for personal freedoms in the world. (Yes some platforms censored Trump and others and they are American and it's bad, but it was not mandated by the government. Let's hope that never happens.)
As much as it would be a solution to Tesla's problem, it would impact Tesla's overall plan and strategy. Automatically disengaging when emergency vehicles are detected is a huge barrier in their selling strategy ("It can drive itself, it's just not allowed yet to for legal reasons, but soon").
I wish I could merge the parts of Ruby and Python I like while discarding the parts I don't. Mutable strings by default was a huge mistake in Ruby and so was allowing non-self calls to methods from another method of the same class. Within the class scope, it's great, but it just leads to bugs in the method scope. The things I love most about Ruby over Python is I don't have to memorize as many things. With Python I'm never sure if it is isinstance or is_instance or DefautlDict or default_dict. It's annoying having to constantly lookup things. Oh and how I miss one line if statements and conditional assignment when I'm in Python.

One thing I like about both languages is how nice it is to write tests. The patching and the assertions are great.
If you are using one of the newer Sky Q boxes, my anecdotal understanding is that they phone home a fairly terrifying amount of telemetry data.

Would certainly be a fascinating project to MITM and figure out exactly what is being sent.
> while I consider myself a rather rudimentary programmer

You missed an opportunity for a amazing pun :-)
This quote in the context of a Marine is a dark reminder, regardless of which side is more legitimate in each instance: Either a Marine can't trust his government, or the government can't trust its Marine.
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Thanks for reminding me about those efforts. Glad they've mostly petered out by now.
I lived in Australia 10 years ago. It wasn't like that then. What it meant to be Australian did seem to be troubling the national psyche moreso than in most places, but the authoritarian streak absolutely was not there.

Young and old, irreverence was strong and frequently demonstrated, even towards people's own groups and circles.

On a good day, you could earn an approving glance from an old ANZAC in uniform with a fart joke, if the ceremony wass going overtime.
"I can guarantee freedom of speech. I cannot guarantee freedom after speech" -- Idi Amin (the murderous dictator)
I mean, it's definitely not reasonable to say that Fox etc are solely responsible, but I do think Fox has an under-investigated causal role in national/global politics.

I also really like Matt Taibbi's "Hate Inc" hypothesis, which is basically that consensual reality is no longer the business model employed by news organizations to get viewers, its more like contempt and fear of the other. It does strike me that Fox pioneered that, although it seems like the rest of the media apparatus has hopped on board.
This, too, seems more free than every before. Not all that long ago you could be fined and imprisoned for things like blasphemy and obscenity, never mind the whole anti-communist "red scare" that lasted for a few decades. There are loads of examples from just a few decades ago that would be unthinkable today.

I'm not saying things are perfect or that there aren't any problems, but I feel sometimes the historical perspective is a bit lost.
The "common good" is one of the most fundamental elements of the Canadian perspective and there has never been such a focus on "freedom of speech".

Gun rights, speech rights, etc, all are weighed against the common good at every juncture. Hate speech has never been considered a personal right in Canada.