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Free speech is an interesting animal. On one hand, the definition and scope of free speech is an interesting philosophical topic with many nuances, viewpoints, arguments and counter-arguments. On the other hand, unlike many philosophical topics, free speech's implementation has very real impacts on our world. Get it wrong and the results could be disastrous.

I've heard everything from 'all speech should be protected' to the full 'only decent speech about allowed topics should be protected', and everywhere in between.

How do we apply free speech in a pragmatic way to approximate a good balance point between safety and freedom?

I don't have an answer. I do have an analogy I use, camp fires.

If I am in the forest I can have a campfire, but only if I follow certain rules. Unrestricted, my campfire could burn down the entire forest. Here are those rules, with their social network analogs.

* I can't use accelerant, only natural fuels. In the same vein, no sock puppets, no Twitter bots, and no one that uses them.

* I have to make a safe isolated space - I can have my campfire in a fire ring with brush cleared around it. Similarly, if I am going to have provocative speech I need to do it in set aside areas for it, and not share the speech outside of those areas - especially if sharing allows parts of the speech to be quoted out of context.

* I should not try to hide the fire I am building, because then it can't be policed. In the social web this means that hiding speech behind a barrier allows that speech to be more vitriolic, whether that barrier is anonymity or a private whitelisted chat.

* I shouldn't make the fire too big. In the same vein, a controversial thread that goes on forever has it's own context, and the negativity in it will be remembered by later posters more than the positivity (this is how our brains are wired). Also, I shouldn't try to make my conversation viral.

* My fire should be the size I need, and nothing more. This analog is a stretch, but I take this as social web conversations should not embellish the truth. I have a duty to tell the truth when making statements that fire people up, perhaps to the point of violence.

It is hard to enforce these net-wide without a digital reputation system, which I would like to see (not China's, that is something else). But shunning is a great tool, even without a reputation system.

Should Trump et al be socially 'shunned' by all social networks? If you are left of center you may say yes, right of center you may say no. So I leave that up to others. My personal yardstick is whether a person's comments engendered real physical harm to others through the actions they inspired, or real mental anguish through the insults they slung. If you use that yardstick too, then I think the answer is clear.
Yeah, but you can't use the Watch as a standalone device (something that, as a WatchOS developer, I have always found stupid beyond reason...it should just have limited functionality on its own, including media playback) - if you could, not only would they sell millions upon millions more of them, but it could be a reasonable replacement for an iPod.

Until then, if you want to use it as an 'iPod', it's just another expense on top of the iPhone you already have that's your 'iPod'.

Apple cancelling the iPod line completely is frankly dumb. I know at least a dozen parents who use these for their kids.

Also, what's with all the people suggesting parents just buy an iPhone with no sim? Y'all realize that the cheapest iPhone is twice as much as the $199 iPod Touch? :/
One wrinkle I liked was to build a monolith, distributing the same bits everywhere, and to configure the actual services to start on an instance-by-instance basis. This simplifies distribution (e.g., "unpack this single zip file, it's got everything") and you can rapidly change what is running and where with a command-and-control system of your choice.

I can't imagine having different build products and deployment stories for every service type, nor can I imagine institutionalized version skew of more than a couple of weeks.

This probably doesn't scale to large teams, but it let a small team work pretty effectively with thousands of microservices.
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This is a fun question. Not including family machines:

- (medical, in body) - cochlear implant ~1992

- (work laptop) ~ macbook pro ~2016

- (personal laptop, new) system76 lemur running ubuntu ~2021

- (personal laptop, drawing/old) macbook pro 2009

- (junk) 2020 asus laptop that i'll likely try to sell - failed ubuntu install. if it won't even sell, i'll turn it into a server.

- (gaming) nintendo gamecube, nintendo wii, nintendo switch, nintendo DS, nintendo 3DS, PS3
> raise the penalties

That never works. Raising the risks of being caught does work, but it costs money.

> people with this mental disease

Not all such people are ill; there are different reasons people get involved in child-porn. Some of them are just shitty people; some are traumatised; some are simply ignorant.
Direct source, with his full response: https://youtu.be/VfyrQVhfGZc?t=1520
Unfortunately, United States has a population of ~330 million and that would mean a House of Representatives with 33,000 members. There's no way it would be able to effectively deliberate topics with that many people. Just imagine how little time each representative could be allocated to speak, given there are only 8,760 hours in a year. Additionally the individual power of each representative would be so watered down as to be practically meaningless.

It's an unacceptable solution but it seems to me that the US is just too big and splitting it up would make more sense.
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I am starting to think that what we need is package distributions. That is, forked popular packages that are hand-vetted by a group of maintainers, just to make sure that some random malware doesn't find its way into the dependencies. If you want the latest and greatest, or want your custum dependencies checked, you pay. Otherwise it's free.

I'm quite sure that the market for this is really big. Does something like this already exist?
Sure. What about apps that need 300MB. Or a few GBs?

Where you can get away with barely any allocations is a much smaller niche even for microservices. And Java’s GC is in an entirely other generation of GCs compared to Go’s.
Sorry, I read that incorrectly.
The watch most definitely does not fill this niche as most parents bought the iPod touch partly (mostly?) for its gaming abilities.
No, the worst part is people running to the comments section on a real, legitimate issue and airing their general conspiracy theories and misunderstandings about the world as if they’re factual. It dilutes the point when you fill the room with noise like this, so you’re really having the opposite effect than you think and playing directly into the goals of the people who fed you that horseshit.
That only really works in professional sports because each team is part of a league which enforces operating rules, including rules about player contracts and trades. No such "league" exists in the tech industry, and any attempt to form one would likely be a criminal violation of antitrust laws.
What does that have to do with denying a FOIA request? Sorry, you used the wrong pronouns, you are denied FOIA? Intent of the FOIA request is irrelevant, otherwise the government could deny FOIA for people who want to make the government look bad, which honestly is probably the case here.
Rules for Conferences (2019)
> "the right to have sex without consequences"

Assuming everyone's consenting and taking care about diseases, why is this a bad thing? Outside the strictures of religious morality?
Have to get either Dell or Lenovo (don't ask). And while they do make mini PCs, they tend to be POS clients or similar, some times with even worse thermals and power than their best laptops.
A free society must tolerate a percentage of crime.

If not, they are not free.
Yeah personally I appreciate a good tee.
There are gun advocacy groups which are issues-focused and compromise far less than the NRA, which is kind of a joke among younger gun advocates. Gun Owners of America is one who frequently supports legal funds for gun advocacy issues. Occasionally, a state gun rights group escalates a case up through circuit courts to the supreme court and deserves financial support. This past year, the California Rifle & Pistol association fought a case around standard-capacity magazine bans, and the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association fought a case regarding restrictions on carrying and transporting firearms. I believe CRPA is a 501(c)3 organization so donations are tax-deductible. I am sure there are others but I would be fine if the ACLU focused on the 1st amendment and left gun advocacy to other more focused groups (although I would appreciate if those groups also got 501(c)3 certification)
I'm honestly sick of you calling my beliefs "uncritical."

Of course I'm critical.

Of course authorities and institutions are fallible.

Of course authorities and institutions should present their evidence.

Of course there should be peer review and examination of their methods and claims.

But are you also aware that "anecdote" is not the plural of data?

I'm sorry you were incorrectly geo-targeted.

That's very different from the question I asked, where the NOAA clearly indicates the areas under threat.

But all else being equal, when government needs to decide how to act, it should look first to the scientific authorities and institutions to gather and assess the data.

You're not going to launch your own weather satellites, and you are not equipped to evaluate the raw data, or to evaluate the comments of the peer reviewers.

People should trust in the alerts from the NOAA. And they should want the review processes inside the NOAA to be as strong as they can. And they should want government oversight of the NOAA, and they should want a free press to report about negligence, incompetence, corruption inside the NOAA.

But the government should rely on the NOAA to determine when to issue an evacuation order, and citizens should follow those orders. Among other things, it endangers rescue crews if they don't.
Wow comments are heated in here. Going to put my oven gloves on to type this one.

Check out these other articles:

ACLU is split by internal debate over First Amendment support for hate speech
https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/aclu-is-split-by-int...

Once a Bastion of Free Speech, the A.C.L.U. Faces an Identity Crisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-speech.html?...

The Left Needs the A.C.L.U. to Keep Defending Awful Speech
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/07/opinion/aclu-free-speech....

The ACLU made the decision to change. You can agree with that or not; if you dont like it... dont give them your money. That isn't the biggest concern.

The bigger concern is 'who the nazis are'.

Google has an employee who wrote:

“Today it is often 1 or 2 steps to nazis. If we understand that PragerU, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro et al are nazis using the dog whistles you mention in step 1. I can receive these recommendations regardless of the content of what I’m looking at, and I have recorded thousands of internet users sharing the same experience..”

Which spawned a hilarious article: https://babylonbee.com/news/notorious-nazi-leader-ben-shapir...

The problem with the political polarization is that you attribute your political opponents as being 'the worst'. There's plenty of examples of right-wing folks calling people nazis. Elon Musk called Trudeau Hitler. So did lefties, Bill Maher, russel brand, and several others: https://globalnews.ca/news/8627659/elon-musk-justin-trudeau-...

It's not that the ACLU lost their way or for that matter all those people calling everyone nazis. It's that virtually all of north america has lost their way. We need to get back to talking to each other again.
You do not need a phone number for iMessage. You can make an apple account with an email address, and use the email address as your Apple ID.
Not to mention places like Hawaii have outlawed certain chemicals in sunscreens specifically because of these types of issues. It’s not really a question of if anymore but how much and how bad.
Understand your motivations. There are plenty of detestable successful people that still have plenty one can learn from.

It is up to you to be able to filter good information from bad. Wealthy founders do share some opinions that will help you be wealthy. However you need to learn to discriminate between good advice and bad advice. Your blanket ban seems poorly thought out to me.

Bonus unwelcome advice: you appear to be using the word successful to mean wealthy. Perhaps deconstruct your worldview a bit.
You're assuming male prisoners have a "right" to be housed with female prisoners, and that female prisoners have no right to sex-segregated facilities. Whether the former "right" exists is far from a settled question.

Assuming the former right does exist, then there is a conflict of rights (between the wishes of males who want to be housed with females, and females who want to be housed without males). Rights conflicts like this are not solved by simply telling one group (in this case, women) to shut up and stop complaining.

Where the ACLU comes in here I have no idea.
As a router? How many gigabit ethernet ports can you put on such thing?

Also on electricity you may break even in a year or two.
The reason it is tolerated is because the philosophy of "thousands of small packages" has spread far and wide.

For every person calling it out like we're doing here, there are ten others praising maintainers able to whip ten semi-useless packages per week.

It's not just random maintainers making small packages. The core infrastructure of Javascript is in it. Babel is made of hundreds of packages, which all live on the same repository (because of course the maintainers don't want the hassle of maintaining multiple things). Some of those packages don't even have anything of importance in it, just metadata, a couple flags and some boilerplate [1]. The package is just a way of organizing code. Webpack, ESLint and others aren't exactly better.

EDIT: And of course I got downvoted :)

[1] https://github.com/babel/babel/blob/main/packages/babel-plug...
Ten years ago I worked on a monster that was half a gig on checkout. Assets, everything. It was an e-commerce site. And it was beautiful. Single set of dependencies, easily tested, one CI/CD pipeline.

It was an egregious Spring/Struts1 app, and it was a breeze to develop on. Fixed my first bug on day 2 of the job. With microservices, would have taken me 3 months.
> Seems like the problem is the voters then.

Yes. That means that your claim

> it's because the government (and by extension, the people it represents) want to incentivize that particular activity

particularly the

> (and by extension, the people it represents)

is false.

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> Per your earlier statement, that is not what most voters want. They want their team to win.

False. The vast majority of people want their team to win.

Simultaneously, most people want abortion to be legal.

These statements are both true. The logical fallacy is here is an inability to recognize that it's and, not or.
I'd never heard the phrase child groomers until a couple months ago and now it's everywhere. Same with CRT a few months before that. People talk about "liberal media" but nothing holds a candle to the power of right wing media to manufacture constant outrages over and over again. They've elevated Two Minutes Hate to an art form.
So I try to address many questions here:

1) Source? Well, as it has been also written here, I hear that from every IT-Department I worked with at work. Also learned it once the hard way and got a swollen battery. It was an old old laptop (around 2003 IIRC) and old laptop batteries are an own story, but since people want to repurpose old hardware, I think this is a reasonable hint. Also Linus Tech Tips brought this up in one video.

Also, the newer your laptop the better it might handle it, but I wouldn't bet on it.

2) Why? From my understanding the constant on/off charging and heat development (also due to faster dust buildup. If the fan runs 24/7 it sucks a lot more dust into the case) is the problem. Especially if you run heavy tasks over a longer period, the hardware will heat up to a level that it is not designed to do.

I will grant that the lighter the load you put on that hardware, the less all this precautions matter. But my principle is, that if something is not designed (and likely not tested) for something, proceed with caution if you understand what you're doing, or leave it be. So if you want to host your static website on it, you might never ever be near any problems. But I still wouldn't recommend it.
This particular example inherited his fathers business, which was valuable enough that a half-share was sufficient to move him onto the Forbes 400 list.

Although his father also trained him not to be decent or honest.
Complete and total invasion of privacy.
They always choose the most egregious crime to push through a cecession of rights. If you oppose this, you are supporting pedophiles. But fuck them. Don't let them gaslight you.

There are countless broken laws that could be caught if only they could see our data.

How long until they force Google or Apple to report someone to the authorities if their GPS says they are travelling 100mph on a road.

How long until there is AI that can use your biometrics to determine if you are too impaired to drive?
“The Music Lives On” is the part that makes me chuckle at them being Excessively Apple about it, really. I understand they may not have wanted “Finally Killing the iPod” as the headline, or even “The iPod is Gone, but the Music Lives On”, but I can’t help think of Phil Schiller standing on stage a few years back describing removing the headphone jack as “courage”.
> They are a nonpolicial (required by charitable status) group running ads like this

They're a 501(c)(4), not a 501(c)(3). They aren't nonpolitical and have no obligation not to engage in politics. In fact, engaging in politics is the entire point of the ACLU
I do something similar but with my main iPhone. There’s like 3 apps that have notifications and none of them make sound.
This is hilarious. The Google Cloud unit serves enterprises, and is basically playing catch-up with Amazon and Microsoft. Why wouldn't its culture be different from the money-printing monopoly that is Google search and advertising? People seem to have weird ideas about cultural uniformity and dynamics. Of course TK is going to hire SAP, Microsoft and other veterans, because they are the people who have experience serving enterprises, not folks who built out Google's internal infrastructure to serve the only "customer" with basically a very circumscribed set of use-cases.
The plot centers around the possibility of going bankrupt given the high amount of leverage being used on volatile mortgage securities that were starting to fail IIRC. The scheme they cook up to offload their as much of their position as possible the next morning.
He basically destroyed Bull's engineering culture, and still help them get contracts they don't deserve, by "subtle" political pressure. If you want to get on European PPPs as a tech company, better have good relation with Bull/Atos.

My former manager worked at Thompson during Breton's presence there, let's say he was unsurprised when he learned about the suicide waves at France Telecom.

I don't know much about corruption, but he is the prime example of what i would consider corruption in France.
Your experience with the UI/UX too my text has nothing to do with my message, nor how you consume your information.

I dont write online posts as if they are Hemmingway passages, and in 9pt font.

I write in such a way which hopefully allows for easy skimming in speed reading fashion (at least it does for my eyes... I can easily filter out fluff words.. but thats only because my ADHD dopamine-pump requires it...

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However, point taken - just that I wont type out my thoughts different to the way I also think.

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>>>Why does this poster's hypothetical example of a remote worker spend double what the median Californian could? Even if they were in California, it doesn't seem unreasonable to spend what the median Californian does.

>>>Why would someone motivated by financial concerns move to California to at all, if they can work remotely from anywhere <--- THIS

THIS is exactly the reason why this argument / tpoic is so deep.

I don't know where you live, but if you have ever lived in California, with even a modicum of success, yu would immediately understand why California is a great place (so long as yu can make a living)

Snow, Sun, Beach, City, Moutains, Wine, entertainment, blah blah blah -- litereally every single thing your may want is within a 4 hour drive.

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The sacrifice is that many would take your place. You are not PAYING to live here... you are paying to *LIVE* here.

Yet, at the same time, the ratchet of life clamps down.

While you have all these amenities, your upkeep of all aspects of your personal life go up. So you pay more for every single service and luxury -- plus you have whata-boutism culture all over the place...

The one absolute GREAT thing I can say about Silicon Valley (from a CULTURAL perspective*) is that Hollywood celebrity-ism-worship has not really been a thing TOO THE DEGREE of LA/SoCal...

There is a long quasi-competition between Science (norcal) and the Arts (socal) -- even though its "fake" -- it still has truth.

Norcal: Glamour through creation.

Socal: Glamour through looks (empowered by creation)

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They are essentially the same, just different muscle groups.
I mean, just based on evidence it seems like not many people are that crazy, and the ones who are are not in the state of mind for very well made plans. Already it would be easy to strap a pipe bomb with sharapnel to a drone and blow it up anywhere, but that hasnt happened. https://www.boredpanda.com/story-radioactive-boy-scout-david... most everything is really doable if you want to cause some damage. i think any ai surveillance overlord will be only on the premise of danger and it will be very overblown
Nope.

And I say that as a committed european and general approver of the EU.

This is daft and contrary to fundamental human rights but as is so often the case in such matters it points towards the obvious solution.

Do not rely on third party services for human rights. In other words self-host.

Yes self-hosting is tedious and error-prone. It also means I am the only individual running daft but compliant algorithms on my data, and that's enough. If I witness criminality I am already obliged to perform my civic duties.

I really, truly, utterly, neither require nor desire some twerp in a pink shirt pushing new marketing analysis methodologies on the enforcers of an data analysis regime legislated poorly by dementocrats.

So, yeah, nope.
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Precision and exactitude are almost always relevant, and even more so when directing criticism.
EU is economically a wasteland. Almost every traded company is 50 years old or more and derived from old national monopolies.

European Commission efforts at "strengthening the union" are desperate attempts to reap even larger monopoly rents on the government account, to offset the secular decline.
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unfortunate, the ipod touch was a super handy device for all kinds of applications. Great for giving to kids so they could have an 'iphone'. Bought a ton of these back in the day and paired them to bluetooth pairable RFID reader/writer guns for an RFID retail POC. Nice to be able to write software for a platform you know, or can easily hire for, and deploy it to this kind of device. They often have either weird built in SOCs with proprietary apis for UIs.. though sometimes you are now seeing built in android devices so shrug.

End of an era I guess. Couldn't just rebrand it the 'iPad Micro' and keep selling it :)