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Yes, but there is exactly one medication/molecule we call Ivermectin. You're talking about a quality control difference, depending on what is ingesting it. It's misleading to suggest only one form exists. It's a blatant display of spin.
Until System76 moves beyond the branded Clevo's they will not be able to compete with Thinkpads. They've talked about an internally developed laptop before, but still no sign of it.

The Framework laptops have the most potential right now IMO. I'm watching them to see how things go and will probably pick up a second gen of their laptops if they keep looking good.
Um, a (1985) might be useful here.
I identify strongly with this. I’m overall functional, even reasonably successful, in work. But in work and even more strongly in personal matters, I can shrink away from unpleasant items well past the point of it being reasonable.

I’ve literally wasted dozens of hours avoiding a task that ends up taking 15 minutes. Could be a phone call, dealing with some minor tax or DMV issue, writing a simple but important email, or whatever. Often paperwork or tedious phone call related, but it’s clearly not productive behavior.
The general argument is that open protocols tend to be stagnant while private ones are not, and that is true.

Private protocols can iterate faster, have a vested financial interest to not lose customers, are often not required to be as backwards compatible which further slows updates and they can tightly integrate from backend to user. Open protocols always tend to be disjointed, i.e Email + PGP whereas something like Signal is just integrated because it's all under control of a single entity.

In reality, and this is evidenced by user choice, that level of integration is important. It's why 99.9% of users are on Twitter, and not on Mastodon.
>not simply greenwashed corporate nonsense

Isn't Musk the guy who crashed bitcoin after making a pile of money claiming it was dirty? How much pollution does just one of his mega-sized moon-mission rockets eject? Just for his personal (yes) entertainment.

Rich sportsmen buy expensive cars. Super- rich businessmen play with rocket launches.
There's also a really active community of really smart people posting takes and interesting viewpoints on Twitter. Most of them seem to have Substacks these days, so this makes sense from my perspective. If Substack is monetized long-form think pieces, then "super follows" could be monetized "smart people thoughts."
It is disingenuous to conflate antivax cultural meme production with the scientific method.
> having a bunch of other people come in who fundamentally do not understand why those distinctions exist or why they matter

The "fields on endeavor" clause is a disputed clause. It wasn't a widely-accepted tenet when the term "free software" started out. It was added later when "open-source" started to gain popularity.

It's true that the main proponents of "fields of endeavor", namely the OSI, have a much stronger voice than the rest of us. Does it mean they get to define what is free software? They would like to think so, but I'm not sure that being the mainstream, or having a budget due to corporate backing, means they have a monopoly over a movement that started by individuals long before the OSI started.

There are also plenty of voices, right now, within the OSI, talking about removing the "fields of endeavor" clause. There was a big internal "controversy" over it only a few months ago.

Having a discussion about the term "free software" and about the "fields of endeavor" clause, without mentioning any of these facts, is more propaganda, than an attempt to argue in good faith.

If they want to push their own brand of "free software", that's fine. But they should at least be honest about what they're doing. Not argue that they don't care about the "fields of endeavor" clause, but just trying to correct some philosophical/technical inaccuracy.

FTA:

> Isn't prohibiting the usage of some artefacts for commercial purpose good for free artefacts? Maybe it is. May be it is not. That is irrelevant while deciding whether a license is considered free or not.

No, it's not irrelevant. The better philosophy should win, not the one with the most corporate backing.
Depends on whether they are victims or perpetrators.
> Does the world need it ? Does the world even ask for it ?

Yes

> Sure, I like internet... but only WHERE and WHEN I want to, not anytime and everywhere !

Turn of your phone.
But it seems kind of misleading to call that "because it can't compete" when the filing says something completely different.

Well, it's not like Amazon is going to say "we're 3 years behind SpaceX so we need you to slow them down"

It's also not a good look for Amazon when it has has significantly more contact with the FCC over SpaceX than in providing its own details in response to FCC questions

But this is just SpaceX's side of things, so I'll take it with a grain of salt. Also Amazon may fully expect the FCC to reject their request and simply wants that precedent set for when it needs/wants to submit a similarly flexible plan for their own deployment.
That’s the second choice. You’re just later on after catching COVID
2014, I still go back annually. You have a large portion of the lower middle class that’s more overweight now but it’s not like in the US where you can be somewhere where it’s impossible to find healthy food for 100 miles, and where you can go inside a Walmart and almost everyone is overweight. There’s obviously some bias given I live in the Bay Area, I’m sure there are areas where upper middle class folks are more overweight.
I'm into it. Just checked out the page and sent an invite request. Any info on your release plans?
I've thoguht about this for a couple of days, and I want you to understand I'm coming from a place of kindness - I want you to succeed.

Ok, so. The problem you're trying to solve is "build a community that is prepared to contribute financially to the running of the site" (correct me if I'm wrong).

Distributed is one possible solution to this problem. You're in love with that solution and its time to murder your darlings. Sit down, brainstorm five other possible solutions, and honestly assess which one solves your problem best.

I think you'll have a hard time beating a subscription model.
Didn't Twitter started experimenting with forcing login to see some Twitter accounts? Combined with this, it now makes more sense.
There is a lot of places to push for decriminalization and lighter prison sentences in America. We ruin lives and ravage communities over minor, sometimes victimless, crimes. There is a ton of value for us as a nation to focus on this problem and undo the damage done by "tough on crime" stances..... but I don't know if "shining laser pointers in pilot's eyes" is where I would start. It's dumb, reckless and has such a high potential for tragedy.
With Onlyfans removing nsfw content and twitter not having a problem with it for the most part, this seems like a pretty strong move to fill the imminent void of outlets for Onlyfans content creators.
London is better than Toronto, but I'm not sure I'd call it affordable anymore. Real estate prices for a basic detached home have more than doubled in the last 5 years.
In the space launch and satellite industries there is natural monopoly characteristics. Amazon loves this kind of businesses, be it AWS or delivery they like to use their size in that sector as competitive advantage.

They are not trying to be cool, for Bezos this is just another enormous money making play.
> Which Allegedly Caused Tens of Millions of Dollars in Losses

so how many uploaded movies is that? 3?
> poor mental health

This. And you can't change it simply by convincing yourself that your thoughts are irrational.
It's a classic survival technique to use a mirror to signal aircraft using the sun's reflection. In boy scouts I was taught to extend a "peace" sign outward and align the aircraft between my fingers, put the mirror near the eye, and bounce the reflection across the fingers.
Well, it’s definitely nice for phone reading.
How is this enforced, given that dollars are fungible?
Of course not. His role is CEO. The test pilots' role is test pilot. He's not a test pilot, so he shouldn't be expected to pretend to be one.
> you mean boycotts by a bunch of petulant power mods. I sincerely doubt that rank and file reddit users really cared that much.

I think you're right. It's important to realize that the normy web is cable news, not the agora. There is nothing organic about the apparent consensus expressed there. The top 500 communities being moderated by the same few people is a well-known statistic. The Elgin Air Force Base connection is another fun thing to look into.

Every couple of weeks there's another story about some fringe community getting burned by big platforms, Glen Greenwald fills in some template to write an article about it, somebody links to the XKCD comic about censorship, and the dance continues. However sympathetic I am to free expression, I'm a bit tired of the discourse at this point. Nobody expects major broadcasters or newspapers to present unorthodox viewpoints, given how thoroughly compromised they are by intelligence agencies and corporate interests. I don't see why major web publishers should be viewed differently. Engaging with these platforms is not a winning battle.

The only solution is to set up alternative institutions, but I haven't been impressed by what's popped up so far. Most decentralized Mastodon etc stuff is in practice even more ideologically rigid, and full of truly psychotic nerds.

I like to imagine that there's still some active PHPbb board out there full of dudes just chilling. I'd like to find it one day.
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That idea isn't true (for private platforms) and hasn't ever been true outside of your own imagination.

If you've ever run an actual platform, you know that the idea of "everyone should be free to speak whatever they want, no matter how wrong or ridiculous" is not nor has it ever been true, in the case of private platforms. Platforms everywhere ban people who call for active and immediate harm to others. Platforms everywhere ban people who spam those platforms with unpaid for ads or phishing. Platforms everywhere ban posters for putting up literal random garbage (as in literally random ascii text). This isn't controversial, but it also isn't "allowing everyone ... to speak whatever they want". Now having said all that, if we look at platforms banning Covid misinformation, I ask you:

What is the fundamental difference? This isn't the government excluding someone or suppressing speech; this is a group of individuals A deciding that they don't want some other individuals B to say the dumb shit their saying on A's platform, leading A to ban B.

A normal response based on reality to this situation is to say things like "wow, fuck group A" or "wow, fuck group B". Even saying "but I like group A, they're in the right!" or "but I like group B and I think we should listen to what they have to say!" All of those are pretty normal, and sure, say what you want. But saying "truly this is the fall of what once was beautiful and good" is being more than a little dramatic.

Like I said, say what you want. But I disagree that some "fundamental shift is happening" here.
And like sex, there are a lot more people talking about it than actually doing it ;-)

Haven't tested this app yet but the chord feature and microtonal capabilities look intriguing!
Locating is rather easy, you get a rough location just by having the altitude, position, heading and inclination of the aircraft you can also see which direction the beam is coming from so you can probably easily triangulate to a few blocks.

The lasers are super visible from the ground at night so a call to ATC would get the police on the case quickly and they’ll track it down.

Patrol cars can also spot those lasers without a reported strike and they’ll investigate.

What surprises me is that the penalty is so low considering the potential impact of a laser strike, one would think the fine would be 10 times as much and the offense would include prison time.
I thought Community College was great too.

It was my four year college, I thought it was a joke, and upper division class worse. I once had a accounting teacher sit at the front of the room, and read the text book word for word. He did tell us class participation was not expected.

That said, going to a community college can be depressing.

Something like 90% do not finish their General Education courses, and don't transfer to a four year. They just drop out.
The thing is, billionaires are in control of laws, so this is a weak argument. Of course there will be nothing to charge them with.
Lasers still expand as the beam travels. The dot when you aim at your hand is smaller than the dot on the wall 10 feet away.

By the time you aim at something a thousand or two feet in the air, it's pretty close to filling the cockpit window. Plus it goes through helicopter door or front window plexi, which has a diffraction effect and will scatter the beam even more within the cockpit.

You absolutely can see where it hits, there's enough particulates in the air to show the beam itself.
>The argument "We potentially screwed up so much that there would be so many people suing us that it would cause legal chaos. So as a result we should be granted full waivers of liability to avoid the lawsuits." Is so brazen as to be absurd.

But that's not what's happening? At least from my reading of the article, they settled with the state, that's it. The judge wasn't like "you're off the hook because the lawsuits were too complicated".

>The complex bankruptcy plan, confirmed by Drain at a hearing in White Plains, N.Y., was negotiated in a series of intense closed-door mediation sessions over the past two years.

>The deal grants "releases" from liability for harm caused by OxyContin and other opioids to the Sacklers, hundreds of their associates, as well as their remaining empire of companies and trusts.
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Are you motivated to "find love?" Or just mechanistically following your genetic drive for reproduction?
Amazon entered Day 2 as while back. Its customer service has been a shadow of its former self for years now. It also took them years to resolve the problems stemming from commingling their inventory with 3rd parties.
Its also ridiculously easy to blind someone with a laser. You can buy a cheap, absurdly powerful, chineese laser pointer and blind someone by accident in less than a second.
They where extradited from Cyprus not the UK. As Cyprus gained it’s independence from the United Kingdom in 1960, recent UK/US treaties are irrelevant to this case.
Nope. GP said that storing money was expensive. I was simply alluding to the fact that (a) supply of physical dollars << assets on the balance sheet - i.e. fractional reserve, and (b) a trusted authority can 'print' money on demand so long as people have faith in its viability - i.e. central banks & federal reserve.

Bank financing is counterintuitive: deposits are actually liabilities, and loans are assets... but banks also routinely borrow money (e.g. from the Fed) well in excess of their book value. For example, JP Morgan's current debt-to-equity ratio is 1.675 [1], meaning that they are also (in a sense) "mortgaged" well beyond their net assets. It's debt all the way down...

[1] https://ycharts.com/companies/JPM
When can we expect the same from ACS (American Chemical Society)?
Just even if its not hard to research it can be hard to book flights being sure to get the best price with all the bull airlines pull, secure hotels in a decent area, etc. It feels sorta like a homework assignment. There's a market for someone who will do that for you imo.
>There is no acceptable punishment for a crime of this scale that doesn't adequately deter future criminals.

Well this is just a self-justifying statement. "Acceptable," "adequately," so many ways to weasel out of assigning any consequences. Let's just discuss how adequate a hypothetical punishment will be in the future that we both definitely know facts about.

>Billions in rewards isn't just inadequate, it's disrespectful to every victim and their families.

Disrespectful to remedy the loss of one or more breadwinners? Disrespectful to prevent descendants from firing up the corporate grill again? I don't know what ethical standard you're using, but it seems to elevate suffering and misfortune.

Disgorgement and prison, the facts bear this out. That they were able to buy their way out of this is more evidence that the nation strives to protect criminals who have money and are white.
Your link says no such thing and doesn't even mention car repairs. In fact it says the exact opposite

>Otherwise, use your leftover student loan money for anything you absolutely need for school.

>Ultimately, any leftover loan money is yours to use how you’d like.

This article is merely a shitty low quality advice article, these are suggestions.
> I don't know if we're coming at it from the same angle if we're lumping Minecraft in with alcohol and cigarettes.

My belief is that's a reasonable debate with very valid points on both sides. At a personal level, kids 2-12 are Addicted to games (Minecraft, Roblox, etc). Taking the games away has the same impact as taking away narcotics from an addict.

The unregulated ability of these platforms to target children (and they do), seems very analogous to pre-regulated cigarettes, drug, and alcohol marketing.

I wager more psychological studies are done on driving MAU, rapid viral adoption, and upping Click Through Rates than were done for nicotine.
Is there possibly a reflective glass for cars and planes that could help mitigate this? I found this doing a quick google https://www.laserpointersafety.com/laserglasses/laserglasses...
That depends. If your standards weren’t too high you might be able to call it success instead of failure.
Marijuana is absolutely not a reasonable replacement for opioids for treating pain in many circumstances. Not going to respond to the rest of your rant because it has nothing to do with what I said in the first place.
What you demand is not clean drinking water, rather that nobody is allowed to use the river at all because you like to see the water flow.

You are basically saying 'nobody is allowed to put a boat on this river because I like nature'.

> caution is warranted when making sweeping changes to space that may do any number of negative things, including make future spaceflights more difficult, make ground-based space research impossible

And that why FCC exists and they have mostly agree that this is not actually a problem.

Nobody has a larger intensive not to make future spaceflight harder then SpaceX.

And the idea that all ground-based space research is impossible is equally nonsense that has often been disproven.

Even in your dystopian nightmare, the reality is that within a few years the orbits SpaceX used would be clean again or that based on government order SpaceX could de-orbit 99.9% of all sats in a week.

So how about we allow boats onto the river and figure out if its really the end of civilization to do so.
There's an alarming legal trend with big pharma that they are blameless, not unlike the way big tech hides behind Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act when it's convenient to them for profit but also exploit their censorship and free speech meddling power unchecked.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/16/covid-vaccine-side-effects-c...

This is not healthy on so many levels. We urgently need credible politicians who are by, of and for the people instead of the career lobbyist controlled bureaucrats currently in power in the western world
Disadvantage: injected tie-ins with Comcast shows.
Having been hit in a high-wing 182, I’d say it’s going to be quite apparent when you’ve hit the target. Half the wing lit up blindingly bright (when night adapted).

I’m sure that “hit” was readily visible to the laser operator.
I legitimately cannot tell if this is a line from a TV commercial.
>These days I pretty much just assume every single billionaire deserves to get stood up against a wall for the things they did to become one.

alright I'll bite. What did bill gates do? Sure, he engaged in some anti-competitive practices, but does that deserve to be "stood up against a wall"?
I don't see how rural availability is related to how truthful a headline is, in the New York Times.
Has anything changed? PGP is literally thirty years old now, and I'm not aware of any significant changes to either the protocol or to the support landscape.
A quick google for "reality TV script writing courses" might help reset your reality.
They don't want to just satisfy their interests, that want to be the ones who profit the most from satisfying their interest.
It's about getting a bigger share of the pie, and they're fine taking longer to get their slice if they can keep everyone else from having some and take their shares instead.
Given this is HN, I honestly can't tell if you are being genuine or snarky.
I know of plenty of writers/podcasters/video creators that make a steady income via substack/patreon, but that's all long form content that can't be hosted on twitter. I can't imagine there are many people with twitter feeds valuable enough to pay for.
It was less of a point and more of a sharpened edge.
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Twitter is having an identity crisis, sad.

This is born dead, very few people (even at the scale of twitter) pay for stuff which is already free.
Every family of every person who has an interest in the fortune should be followed by hecklers wherever they go for the rest of their lives.
Next you’re going to tell me that Smokey and the Bandit wasn’t a documentary? Such a deceitful world.
If there's no gravity, they don't orbit. If they orbit with gravity but with no atmosphere, they stay orbiting indefinitely.