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The ambient assumption is based on what happens in an unchecked mass epidemic: massive excess deaths

The pandemic until very recently has been entirely unchecked yet there was not 'massive excess deaths' in many places that did relatively little, like Sweden. So you're asserting this with vague emotional terms like 'massive', but this is the exact assumption that I'm talking about.
Now a days with open wrt and dd-wrt firmwares for many routers, there is not much point in using RPis and switches unless they are just laying around in your junk drawer.

It might be a usefull part of a RPi LAMP server setup I suppose.
I've seen this quote before, but I haven't been able to find it myself. Which text is it from?

Here's one from a letter to Lucilius. Seneca is easy to misquote.

"Indeed, no man can be good without the help of God. Can one rise superior to fortune unless God helps him to rise? He it is that gives noble and upright counsel." - Seneca
Right, and the current situation is much better, and less political, than having to find a patron before you can even really get started.
And this is a dogshit simplistic way to view the world that leads to our. Social media and all of this tribalism makes all American dumber. It's removing our ability to understand and appreciate nuance and learning how to get along with those who think differently.
What I'm struggling with is how this is criminal.

Like, there are rapid COVID tests out there. They're marketed as accurate. Yet everyone knows they're not foolproof. If I got a positive rapid test, the first thing I'd do is go get a PCR test.

With these Theranos lab tests, it's honestly (to me) a similar thing. If I'm a startup trying to make a cheap HIV test, and I know it's not perfect, it's wrong sometimes, does that make me a criminal for wanting to get real-world users to use my product? Isn't it more of a regulatory oversight if people are making medical decisions based on new and imperfect tech?
> On the one hand you say that you support "discussion of these topics in a meaningful way."

> On the other hand, you criticize me for desiring to read medical papers in an attempt to make informed decisions.

The two aren't mutually exclusive. I'm trying to say we ought to have a meaningful discussion about these topics and bad actors are making it worse to do so. People who simply take those talking points ("makes you think huh?") and regurgitate them and THEN say "why can't we discuss this" don't faithfully want discussions, they want EYEBALLS (read -> $$). I can't tell if this you're viewpoint, but you sure are sharing a lot of the same characteristics of these people ("I can research everything myself damnit!")

You absolutely should have the right to read white papers AND also trust that the government entity that interprets such articles has your best interest in mind. But you're insinuating that we should simply just have research/white papers and leave it to the general populace to interpret whatever they want. That is, IMHO, more dangerous than the alternative, especially when it comes to vaccinations where there is a near binary effect in place (you either get herd immunity or you don't, everything in between is potentially worse).
> which the investors also didn’t care about until it became too big of a scandal

More like investors didn't care until they needed liquidity.
I despise Holmes, but using a video of her dancing as an argument against her seems like an ad homeniem.
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when it comes to terminals st (suckless terminal) is superior to anything in speed and features ... it really pays off to invest the time to set it up
You are already required to disclose it, just not publicly, so I do not get your point.
These things do help. Most members of these communities get radicalized by virtue of other content they’re already browsing. If you remove the communities and force individuals to leap from Facebook to some no-name forum, they’re far less likely to engage.

This phenomenon is mirrored elsewhere as well where small interventions can lead to big impacts: see suicide rates in Britain after removing carbon monoxide in their house gas. Initial friction (or means reduction in that research) can drive change.
It's free speech to the point it stops being just speech and turns into real damage, then the government can and should take action.
Worst case scenario, I guarantee you if you open an issue on a repo (especially a small / one-person repo) saying you want to donate $1k/yr, or some non-trivial amount, you'll get a meaningful response.

True though that for larger projects there can be a lack of ownership problem. The conversation could become "hey we'd like to lend you our legal resources to help you set up a foundation for this project, and then we'd like to donate $X/month to the foundation going forward." When it comes down to it, if a project is able to cut releases, there is some sort of structure in there that is working, just have to figure it out.
ZHA is still the preferred way for Zigbee with Home Assistant, isn't it?
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I mean, we can go the other way by looking at SpaceX. I spent years reading detailed reports from experts that everything SpaceX was doing was impossible.

-A rocket made of steel

-Landing a rocket anywhere

-Landing a bigger rocket anywhere

-Landing a rocket on solid ground

-Landing a big rocket on the ground

and a lot of smaller things in between.

I read many plausible looking reports on the non-feasability of these things often came with the backing of professors at respected universities and they were all wrong.

Sometimes it goes the other way.
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What IPD range are you looking at?
The consequences of a toxic media landscape at scale are felt by those considerably removed from the platform(s) themselves. Twitter cheered the Arab Spring protests. Facebook are attempting to distance themselves from their very active role in the Myanmar genocide. History shows that changes to media landscapes are often very disruptive socially and politically, often at a horrific cost of innocent lives.
Or they were kids and too young to comment or understand the situation. I would have protested then if I were an adult with my life understanding now.
> the checker.ts file of the TypeScript project, which has more than 42k lines of code

What the actual f** ?

42k lines of code and they mention it casually without even thinking about explaining the reason behind this monstrosity?

And yes, I fully expect the comments below to contain stuff like "This is nothing, back in the day we had a 1M loc Java class."
I'm just amazed how much technical genius is needed just to work around their architecture - to archive almost the same responsiveness that this feature had in emacs 20 years ago.
Right, basically the GIL is a ceiling on what-you-can-do with python.

Python has now passed Java in TIOBE, which means it has a HUGE number of people using it. That represents a tremendous amount of collective investment and work in that ecosystem.

C/C++ obviously provides nigh-unbounded access to the hardware for doing "serious stuff" like databases, high performance IO/big data/etc.

Java has pretty-darn-good abilities to do "serious stuff" with its threading models and optimizing JVM.

But Python is basically capped by the GIL. So while the amount of code written in Python (and Javascript I'd argue) is massive... does any of it substantively push forward the state of the art? Will layers of the OS improve? Will new databases or cache layers or large scale data processing be improved/advanced?

We're basically at the end of Ghz scaling, it's all increasing wafer sizes and transistor counts ... lots of processors. LOTS of processors.

If the #2 software language in TIOBE can't fundamentally properly use the hardware that the next decade will be running on outside of a core or two... that's a problem.

All our devices have been sidestepping this at the consumer level with two or four cores for the last decade, while server counts have been expanding.

Four cores can ignored at the application level because other cores can do OS maintenance tasks, UI rendering tasks, etc etc etc.

But if your 2025 consumer device has 12-32 cores, and your software can only run on one of them... and it's the #2 programming language, and the reason is the GIL and it's baked so deeply and perniciously into your entire software ecosystem...

Then to your point, why the hell will people use python? And then it will tumble to irrelevance.
Because they clog up the hospitals. In Singapore if you opt out of donating your organs after death then you also opt out of receiving organs. It’s just a sensible way of allowing people who really have a principled stance on an issue to do what they want while not being a burden on the rest of us.
The protocol is simple (I've written my own implementation in php), what do you mean with lossless?
I have no clue what half of these words mean. But why would any type of block chain coin be better than regular subscriptions or licensing?

Note: Im purposely ignoring the pyramid scheme like effects from rising currency values.
But these forgeries are not copies - that would be trivial to detect ("Hey! Here's the real one over here!")

They're imagined art in the style of a master. Perhaps a recreation of a lost work, or a portrait of a historical figure not previously pictured. Lots of creation in that.
Hiring a full time dev just for FOSS submissions probably isn't justifiable to most employers, but diverting just a little employee time seems reasonable, especially if it's directed at bugs/feature improvements impacting the devs' use of the thing.
Cbd is generally derived from hemp (which is legal federally in the us) not marijuana
Cool, that’s easy. So each company should donate 200 hours of work to open source projects.

Encouraging more volunteer time is better than trying to collect and allocate cash. And better improved OSS. I think.
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The sample at the end of the article seems to me at the same time Beethoven-like and meaningless. Made me think of the "screams of the damned" AI recreation of Frank Sinatra

<https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/09/deepfake-pop-m...>
I haven’t used React in a while, what does it offer that WebComponents do not?
There is no issue that is too expensive for humanity. If the COVID hysteria has shown us anything, it is that we could have made ANYTHING a global priority.

Hunger in Africa, no problem. Homelessness or global poverty, could have easily brainwashed the public into rallying behind that cause.

It was just a matter of choice. All our problems are allowed to become that by our useless rulers. And I'm not talking about the ones we "elect", but the ones that have their own different priorities. They only care about their eugenicist fervor.
I disagree with every point you make - but I will never endorse a system that censors your ability to write this.

Logically many of your points that use ‘always’ are highly unlikely to be true, because we’d only need find one case to prove the statement false.
Same deal here. Some journals are not available, and the ones I have access to are difficult to search because they're spread among multiple aggregation services.

This in a top 50 university in the US with ~50,000 students.
I remember reading the first edition and it wasn't based on HLA, I think? And then re-reading with HLA and thinking "why not learn C instead?"
So reducing the deaths is the equivalent of supporting war?

Actual moderates are fine. "Maybe you shouldn't get it" requires ignoring the 90% reduction in hospitalization rates for those vaccinated and the existence of only 1 in 100 million deaths from the vaccine from a side effect that doctors are actively on the look out for.
"Commonly used" is not referring to the number, or usage, of Bitcoin ATMs out there. It is referring to the fact that a large fraction of the existing Bitcoin ATMs are
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Are you making the argument that only people deemed credible should be able to discuss matters of science and the arbiters of credibility should be content moderators of a private company or worse the programmer of an algorithm? Respectfully, that sounds terrifying.
It's not enough to be right, you also have to be effective.
I can't tell what "Person" in the headline maps to. Like, for a non-tech company, is that every employee, every employee in the IT org, or every developer in the IT org?
Campaigns to inform, yes! And that allowed those engaged in risky sexual behavior to make decisions for themselves. But shutting down the bathhouses and swingers parties and park bathrooms was considered a violation of rights.

Now contrast that approach with mandates and arresting store owners and closing businesses.
It's hard to make a forgery. I'd guess it doesn't change the scarcity equation much?
I think you know that's argument is fallacious - getting AIDS from an infected person requires very specific interaction to take place.
Anyone have experience comparing MQTT with NATS, they seem to cover similar scenarios.
what i see is comparable to a combination concrete pumper and gantry crane

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/09/28/business/28printe...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_pump

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantry_crane
There are quite many. https://coinatmradar.com
Your first argument is essentially that if the general public believe an organization to be bad, they can remove their support for that organization.

Why is YouTube any different? People can and do go to other platforms. You’re differentiating between giving value in the form of dollars versus giving value in the form of time & attention.
We aren't talking about a government. We are talking about private businesses.

These aren't debates, they are shouted opinions to the ether.

Honestly the bit about censorship not being bad was a bit. The "moderates" only reduce vaccination rate if you define moderate to include "it isn't that effective" or "you could die" which isn't a good definition of moderate.
Sorry I wasn’t clear.

I was replying to your assertion that ‘Flame wars, abuse etc. only happen if there are other people watching’. DMs are an example of a major abuse vector where other people are not watching.
It’s not “wrongthink”, it’s actually just factually wrong and people are dying because they believe it anyway.
DEA raiding dispensaries has been a thing since CA first legalized marijuana. I'm not local but it looks like it was ruled in federal court that the DEA isn't authorized to raid a business operating within state law. Not sure how this effects things regarding amendments, but thought it was worth sharing

https://time.com/4080110/dea-medical-marijuana-california-ru...
What? Many countries wrote laws specifically forcing people with HIV to register themselves and to disclose it to sexual partners. In fact the relevant laws used for covid in my country where those written to combat HIV.
>Mask recommendations weren't withheld...

Withheld? That's not how I remember it.

>"There's no reason to be walking around with a mask," infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci told 60 Minutes.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/preventing-coronavirus-facemask...
My infant daughter had a fever the other day and the doctor's office said that normally if your baby has a fever for this long they would want you to bring the baby in to be seen by a doctor but they're not seeing any patients with fevers right now so just monitor the baby and see if it gets better.
There's a bunch of them where I live (I'm in LA area though), including the 7-Eleven right down the street from my house. I used it when I was first trying to learn about Bitcoin but haven't used it for a practical reason yet; financially, it makes more sense to use Local Coin Swap if you don't need physical cash.
The one thing you can do to ensure vaccine hesitancy and distrust is to ban that very topic.

This standard they are setting up, already started with warnings and bans for in any way contradicting the WHO, is impossible to maintain in a consistent fashion.

I can still find thousands of videos on homeopathy, ranging from debunkings to lecture-style videos. There are people who would advocate using this rather than modern health services.

In fact, there are people who would advocate the use of witchcraft to treat cancer.

Will YouTube ban them all? Or will they just ban certain topics based on a whim?
I mean... This is the scientific framework. There was a mistake and the mechanism to fix it is to write more papers. I know it's not fixed yet, but that's the procedure. Do you believe this should never have happened? Then I guess we disagree on how powerful human intellect can be.
Zero moderation beyond criminal content is/was basically Usenet alt groups. Somehow the world survived all those years.

Listen, I understand the need to cordon off the wrongthink people so that they can't communicate with each other, I just don't agree with it.
Talk to your doctor and then get your prescription rejected because Kroger corporate policy overrides your doctor's medical opinion.
> The original implication was you don't want to piss miners off otherwise they can unilaterally decide to take your money away. That is false.

If you are retreating your argument to that goal post, then we are in agreement: pissing off miners will not result in miners stealing your money. Your original argument was stronger, however. You were asserting that a minority-supported fork would not be able to steal money, which is not true.
When I think of Cloudflare workers and such, I think of the public internet. If you have a public web app and you want low latency all around the globe, a worker is a great option.

This is the opposite of that. Are they targeting "inhouse apps" that until now would be self hosted by the organization? Basically cloud apps where the cloud is in your own building? Do they have good firewalls and access control for that, for different businesses in the same building? Can a business in the future install their own one of these?

Or is this just about businesses having access to the full Cloudflare network, just a little bit faster?
Here's the thing: What about the vaccine is saving the lives of others? It doesn't prevent spread. It simply provides you with protection from the virus for a limited period (~270 days). So what, exactly, are unvaxxed people doing to harm others?
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Not sure I'd call it "incompetent". Maybe something more like diabolical? Overt government disinformation, giving federal "authorities" the right to raid and plunder any person or organization involved in harboring plant material.
While what you're saying is true and what I said is not what is actually happening, I don't think you understood what I was trying to describe. And even though that's the case, I may still be wrong.

I understand that client-side validation is only a cosmetic, first-round attempt at sanitation.

My understanding (which is wrong) was that the malicious script was being injected into the html input where it was finally rendered and at the same time invoked. I was suggesting that the contents of an input (the value) should never be rendered (and as a result, activated) as any other contents outside of an input is rendered.

Even if content within an input is never rendered, it makes little difference since the attack is able to inject the script in other places outside of an input anyways.

So as others pointed out, nothing to do with inputs.
Did I miss your point? Are you saying that Black American issues are not of concern to the editors of this magazine?
US law defines the line as speech that incites imminent lawless action. The speech must not only be encouraging such action, it must be imminent and likely. This is in practice a pretty good line.

If you think that private companies should censor much more heavily, then you obviously don't really believe in free speech. There's no obvious reason why it's more acceptable because all the dominant communication platforms censor speech vs the government doing it.
>>Also science is a discussion of possible remediations and their costs. Which remediation to choose, if any, is a question of values and outside the scope of science.>>

This is where I've noticed mainstream political discussion often go off the rails. The best example is when "because science" is used to end conversation on the idea that 100% of the population should wear masks. Science, at least in this case, is clearly not prescriptive, so it can't be applied as a single justification like that. Perhaps science confirms that masks reduce transmission, therefore 100% of the population wearing masks is certainly one valid design. But one could come up with multiple other designs that would be equally confirmed by science to be effective at reducing transmission. So reducing transmission is not the hard part. The hard part is all the other variables that cause consequences in economics, mental health, other areas of healthcare, etc. Each model needs to be tested for it's utility across a variety of factors, but that idea is lost with the "science" cancel cudgel.
>The fact that it remains in the modern era speaks to how incompetent the US has become

More racist than incompetent. The Nixon era war on weed was driven by hatred of blacks.
The US Supreme Court found in 2005 that the federal government is within its rights to criminalize the growing of marijuana for personal use via the commerce clause:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich

As for why an amendment was needed in 1920 but not 1971, apparently the commerce clause didn't become the anything clause until after 1937.

If this all sounds hopelessly inconsistent and/or hypocritical, well, I would agree with you.
> but rather than private entities should have the freedom to moderate their platforms.

Do you think the Nazis were able to publish their positions in _Die Rote Fahne_?

> One of the points asserted was that this requires us to agree to the point that "some ideas are harmful".

Ideas are ideas. Ideas by themselves cannot be harmful. Actions have the ability to cause harm.

Well, OK, the idea that large corporations merging their power with the political authority to insulate the population from harmful ideas, well, that idea is definitely harmful because it cannot exist separately from the action of chilling free exchange of ideas.
I’m in the USA and my comment was in that context - I forget sometimes that HN has a global audience.
Never ever forget that anyone who said Holmes was a fraud was screamed down by accusations of sexism and toxic masculinity.
You’re talking about selling your company, rather than raising money for a startup.

At the stage where you’re selling a company, you’re expected to have sales, metrics, and various track records that can be verified, hence the intensive due diligence. And usually the acquiring company has in-house expertise on the domain, and is capable of doing the due diligence.

Early stage startups have none of that, just an idea, things the team have done before as proof they can execute, and sometimes some social proof like TED talks or high-profile board members.

The challenge of doing due diligence then is that most general VCs that invest across a broad range of domains lack the in-house expertise to fully vet all of them. They can hire SME advisors, or ask around in their network, and should. But it’s possible for things to slip through the cracks sometimes.
The problem with this is that a single enterprise customer may not pay enough to support: 1. an individual dedicated to provide that priority support, and 2. the overhead of managing two independent releases with different feature sets.