skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alex got financially destroyed because he blatantly and repeatedly failed to comply with court orders. Simple orders like "show us your financials".

He was defaulted because he and his lawyers chose not to participate in the civil legal process.

As for "wrong words" if you watched, it was not just a few "wrong words" it was YEARS of vilifying the sandyhook parents. It was hiring "reporters" to go harass them. It was sending someone on a mission to disrupt a fun run.

And further, because it brought in customers, he ignored anything that countered the narrative of "sandyhook was fake" Even as recently as last week he was calling sandyhook staged.

He then went on to lie, repeatedly, in court and deposition (which was shown multiple times).

But finally, free speech does not mean "I can say whatever I want whenever I want". Libel and slander have been a part of the civil code since literally the foundation of the country. Lie, knowingly, in a way that harms people, and you'll pay a price. It was WELL demonstrated that Jones and his crew knew they were lying but continued anyways.
Sure, ignore the position, just focus on the rate of change of momentum with respect to time.
From the same line:

"Weekly usage of VR devices moved to 14% from 17% last Spring;"
Let’s not forget that on the original iPhone, all the bubbles were green because it only had sms. When iMessage came to the iPhone, Apple didn’t intend to rule the world with blue bubbles, blue was just an indication that you were talking to one of the few other iPhone users.
Fungible goes beyond replaceable, and the intent here is closer to fungible. An amorphous blob of labor-hours.
I guess this could come in handy for many repos! Nice work, I'm eager to give it a try.
> Alex Jones is directly inciting people to go harass the plaintiffs

Where is this accusation made by the plaintiffs in the lawsuit? The only accusation I see is that Jones and his associates made defamatory false statements about the plaintiffs. As far as I can tell, that was the basis for the ruling, not any claims of incitement.
If Google Cardboard counts, then I do too. :)
> the plaintiffs were required to show that the false statements caused them harm

IIRC, only for public figures.

The bar is far lower for private figures btw. A lot of libel/slander that would pass for public figures (ie: Politicians) are absolutely illegal and would be charged if levied against private figures instead (such as me, or the Sandy Hook victims)

> Notably, I can put up a billboard in my town that says “All of dragontamer’s code is buggy and it makes your computer smell bad”, and we’d be a long way off from you successfully suing me for defamation.

Hmm... I think the bigger issue here is whether the suit would be enough reputational damage to even get to damages. IIRC, there's minimum amounts of damage done before any suit is even considered (me lawyering up would cost more than the reputational damage in that case, so it just wouldn't be worth it).

The bar is set at a certain level of damages that I expect to get awarded (and courts also reject any case where the damages are too low). This is more due to pragmatism / the innate inefficiencies of court cases that make it less likely for all cases to be considered... rather than what is strictly legal or illegal.

IE: Even if we were to make it easier to sue for smaller amounts of reputational damage, no one would do it because of the high costs of lawyers in general (and high costs of a full court case).
One of Brian Enos mentees is now an upcoming Producer/DJ. Check out Fred again https://youtu.be/c0-hvjV2A5Y one of the best boiler room sets ever in my opinion.
You're right that there are many messengers available and Signal will, at best, be one of many that people juggle based on who they are contacting.

That's why it was a huge advantage that, on Android, Signal could replace a SMS client. You weren't adding _yet another_ messenger to the list, you were replacing the SMS client with one that could send secure messages. That made "switching" to Signal (which, ofc, was not a switch at all for my friends who use SMS) much easier for me. I could continue texting my friends and seamlessly switch to secure messaging if they ever got signal.

Contrast this with my friends who kept their old SMS client who reliably forget to check / use signal and generally tend to go back to texting me in a few weeks. Even if you send 0 signal messages for a long time, by switching you SMS client you are already setup to receive them and will habitually open an app that supports E2E encryption.

For example - Facebook Messenger also supports sending and receiving SMS messages - likely because they've done the research and found it drives adoption.
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Because owning an Android means you‘re poor.
What a weird generalization.
I'd argue that tech bros know that social media screen time fries your brain and may try to keep their kids away from phones as much as possible.
The psychology of trolling: what sort of person becomes a troll, and why?
I knew it was Rio Verde before I even clicked on it, lol...

This goes to show how important it is having a sustainable, intentional water management program. From 1980 -> 2020 census [1] in PHX metro the population went from 1,600,093 -> 4,845,832. This is all while certain water tables have grown in size.

Rio Verde supports a bunch of farmland which isn't under a sustainable water district on that water table.
It's frankly insane that you think that is the solution to this problem.
No reason Samsung can’t do the same.
Ofcourse WhatsApp is not open source, as opposed to Signal (the app). You can never be truly sure if the protocol is implemented without backdoors because you can't verify the code. But I agree, WhatsApp is a pretty solid app.
I just got a backup iPhone SE for $430. It's fantastic. Same chip as recent iPhones. Very decent camera. Better battery life than my 13 pro. Actually fits in pocket. More fun to play games with one-handed. Easily will last 5 years with a case. Not a luxury device, but pretty competitive with what a lot of young people in even middle-income countries would pay for phones.
Do people on androids in the US actually use SMS?

My experience in the UK and France is WhatsApp/telegram have basically 100% penetration and SMS is only used by businesses and 2fa
And kids still get shit for not wearing "cool" shoes!

When I was younger I got teased for not having a Starter brand fitted hat, and I wasn't even into team sports.
No it wouldn’t. That’s what I’m saying.
Heat from fingertips can be used to crack passwords, researchers find
Anecdata; a friend at Dresden has been interviewing people from Xilinx all week.
My two high scoolers are produ members of Android generation and apparently dong give a damn as long as they get to play games and chat on discord and text with girls. I am going to count that as a win against the industrial marketing complex.
Concerning 1.

The above mentioned [1] species P. gingivalis is suspected to be a link there. [2]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33158019

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia#Dental_health
> RCS is not end-to-end encrypted.

While this may be some technicality in a spec, the reality is that all the people I know using Android are enjoying end-to-end 1:1 encrypted conversations using Google Messages. Group messages were announced to get e2e encryption soon.
No one is forcing anyone to give up their firearms, why does this keep being argued?

It's even more comical when firearm manufactures record their most profitable years when Dem's control the white house.
I use a default SMS application for SMS anyway, it changes nothing for me.

Now, if signal could get rid of the phone number requirement...
This stuff scares me a bit, both because green bubble culture is creepy, and because I really do not want iOS to become the dominant mobile OS just as Android is becoming one of the most amazing platforms out there.
That's true. The Android marketplace is full of a _lot_ of bad products. The good ones get most of the attention, thankfully, but its easy to walk into a phone store and walk out with a shiny piece of pain.

Even the worst iphone will be better than that.
You're right, he may not have done it deliberately for the harassment, but he clearly had no qualms about it and made no move to stop it when he knew it was happening. He deliberately lied, and deliberately spread false, vicious claims about the parents.

He makes a living of spreading fabulous and wild lies designed to spread fear and anger. In this case, and in the context of all those other anger fueling claims, he lied and said that the shooting was a false flag, that no one died, and that the parents were crises actors who faked the death of their loved ones because the state was going to use it as an excuse for gun control, and he continued to claim it, even after the parents were harassed, even after they initially sued him, and even went so far as to make accusations about the parents and judge on TV during the trial.

What do you believe his goal was? And do you believe those claims don't meet the requirement for defamation? Again I ask how you'd feel in my proposed scenario, if I accused you of being a child rapist on TV, even if I didn't say you needed to be stopped, but that you were raping children for satan. Would you think that's just fine because no one rational would believe it?
it's not color it's functionality. a single non-iOS user being added to the group breaks the group texting behavior for the entire group
> PS: Apple preserves a backdoor in the end to end crypto of iMessage for government surveillance that allows Apple to read all iMessages.

That’s configurable. By default a user can access them from other devices, but that feature can be disabled.
The topic of unions on here is one of the funniest I’ve seen.

So many posters will breathlessly run into the comments to loudly declare that “Unions are bad!!” instantly upon seeing the word. It’s as if too many pro or neutral opinions about unions get posted in row, a pesky Union will be summoned and materialize like Beetlejuice.
On a related note, in the US all state government employee salaries are public. As a state university professor, my salary has been pubic for years. I like it this way because our salary negotiations with the college dean can be more informed.
I have a friend attending Stanford for undergrad whose parents monitor his location 24/7, and another dealing with the same nonsense at BU. If she wanders too far from the places she's supposed to be, she gets an angry call from parents/her long distance bf (who is also in on it somehow).

I guess even that isn't that bad compared to the parents that literally move across the country to wherever their kid is going to college so they can keep controlling them.
> The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and man. And it does not so much as even purport to be a contract between persons now existing. It purports, at most, to be only a contract between persons living eighty years ago. And it can be supposed to have been a contract then only between persons who had already come to years of discretion, so as to be competent to make reasonable and obligatory contracts. Furthermore, we know, historically, that only a small portion even of the people then existing were consulted on the subject, or asked, or permitted to express either their consent or dissent in any formal manner. Those persons, if any, who did give their consent formally, are all dead now. Most of them have been dead forty, fifty, sixty, or seventy years. And the Constitution, so far as it was their contract, died with them. They had no natural power or right to make it obligatory upon their children. It is not only plainly impossible, in the nature of things, that they could bind their posterity, but they did not even attempt to bind them. That is to say, the instrument does not purport to be an agreement between any body but “the people” then existing; nor does it, either expressly or impliedly, assert any right, power, or disposition, on their part, to bind any body but themselves.

Lysander Spooner goes on to expand this theme greatly.

Foundational essay, well worth a read: https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/spooner-no-treason-no-vi-t...
When it comes to bubbles, I believe the subjective dimensions of personal taste and disposable income are by far the largest determinants of what any one person "should ever" do.
The main annoying thing when added to a mixed group of SMS and iMessage group chats is that you cannot leave them, or add anyone after the fact without creating an entirely new chat with all the contacts from scratch.
I will repeat the word "fauxtography" whenever I have an opportunity.
This seriously concerns me. I'm almost of the opinion that teenagers should not have phones for anything other than strictly communicating: voice and video calls and messaging. But that cat is out of the bag and now we have people growing up literally addicted to devices that are very detrimental to brain development and intelligence, emotions, socialization, etc.
Leg is nothing. Spare a penny for the men with small penises who have no options available. People can get all kinds of cosmetic surgery. Why should leg lengthening be taboo
I find my employer quite generous when times are good, even when they don't need to be, less so when things are tight.

Maybe you should work for better companies?
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> exists

The issue is not with exceptions (every village is entitled to having a fool), but with the trend of large amounts of people giving them credit.

Especially in a wave of mounting relativism trying to "soften the distance between lunacy and truth".
I don't want RCS. Keep iMessage for people and very very limited businesses please.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/04/google-disables-rcs-ads-in...
So therefore we let tactics like this slide? It is an intentional mechanism to create FOMO and groupthink by a corporation.

Just because kids are prone to being led in this way, doesn't mean those leading that behaviour get a pass.
I wonder why their sample was heavily weighted in the south
RCS is awful. It’s an out-of-date, encumbered “standard” with poor global commonality in adoption. It exists for one reason only - because US carriers wanted some way to keep charging per message like their old sms cash cow, instead of being reduced to just proving dumb internet piping. Despite that, the carriers couldnt even agree amongst themselves on the "standard" RCS features to deploy for 10 years or so, until google co-opted the effort for their own goals semi-recently.
Let it die.
> the establishment wants to shut Alex down for speaking the truth.

What truth did Jones speak?
> There is such a thing as consequences for your actions.

A system which produces effects extrinsically equivalent to direct proscriptions on free speech is not better than a system which explicitly proscribes some speech, and is arguably worse, because it tricks credulous people into thinking it's not as bad.
This is the problem with the adversarial union system.

You can call it a failure of the vicious demands of capitalism, but after decades of watching independent adversary unions destroy whole industries that my family was involved in (aerospace, airlines and steel) - with zero-sum negotiations where one side must loose for the other to win - I've come to the conclusion that the only way to deal with it is to give in and deal with unions and only unions and only in the context of the law.

The unions know that - of course - which is why the Union in Australia is threatening to extend their strike if Apple asks it's local workers there to vote on a proposal, when only 1/4th of the workers are represented by the union.
No, it seems like he has personal assets in the high tens of millions of dollars, and that Free Speech Systems was probably worth into the 9 figures. If the verdict stands, all of that will get wiped out, and the question remaining will be whether the damages, which stem from an intentional tort, will be dischargeable when Jones is forced into bankruptcy non-ironically, rather than using it as a ploy.

Still a lot of "if's" here!
I think the poster has misidentified most people defending Jones in this thread as fans when they are more likely free speech absolutists who believe any government sanctioned consequence for speech is immoral.

They’d likely defend anyone who received a punishment for this type of behavior, Alex Jones just happens to be the man of the hour
> This just reinforces my feeling that a major driver behind VSCode's popularity is that people just don't know better

I am very happy that VSCode is mostly just editor.
> Where we can have discussions, and probably for a long and fun if not necessarily fruitful time, is whether it's "good" or "bad" from market's, or consumer's perspective for companies to go bad. I personally think not.

Generally where my head was at. The other two points were better scoped. I personally think it's good that companies go bad, as it moves control over productive assets from one group to another. This is good for society for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is enabling new ideas to be tried. Can a long lived company try new ideas? sure, but the degree to which they avoid risks (if they live a long time they necessarily avoid undo risk) puts on upper bound on how ambitious they are with new things.
Since we're trading anecdotes, none of the iOS engineers on my team have Android phones, but about half of the Android engineers have iPhones.
People also need to stop flocking to the Oligarchy of cities. New and upcoming cities need to become the norm because those are the ones with a maxima of opportunity plus lower costs.

As in all industries, so long as we refuse to consider alternatives, they'll hold all the power to raise the price. It happens with brands like Apple, it happens/happened to big brand name cities like Miami, Austin, San Francisco ...
> there is a lot of evil in this world

Maybe, but evil vs good is very subjective and leads to paradoxes like the “anti-capitalist software license” not being usable by one of the most popular examples of anti-capitalism in history, namely the CNT militias in revolutionary Catalonia.

> a bunch of armed hooligans like the police or military

Your hooligan is someone else’s freedom fighter though. /me looks dramatically in the general direction of Kiev
I guess fMRI isn’t really a good analog. What is needed is an MRI quality video sequence showing movement. Dynamic planning would allow occlusal schemes to be designed more accurately, therefore avoiding many common issues with full arch rehab, for example.
Show me an RSC server run by a carrier and I'd believe it.
$430 is a lot to some people.
Sitting in front of a phone all day at this age leads to severe mental health problems and is probably the biggest portal for unfiltered harmful content

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7012622/
But the kids with the iPhones will be the financier controlling the purse strings. See the Commodore vs. IBM clones vs. Mac in the early 1980s. Apple wins because wealthy people use them, it's Apple's advantage.
You think giving them phones from an Ad company is a win /against/ the marketing industry?
> That is an unreasonable sum

I disagree. Many of these families need security and barriers to prevent Alex Jones' fans from attacking them. A lot of folks were impacted by his outrageous claims.

> To put it into perspective, the top 100 biggest company fines in the world start at around 1 billion (give or take 200mil).

Fines for companies doing wrong are far too small.

> Alex Jones is NOT the same as some of the biggest companies in the world.

InfoWars store alone generated 165 million in 3 years time. They pull in a lot of cash. And this penalty should prevent him from ever running a media business again, or it has failed.

> the establishment wants to shut Alex down for speaking the truth.

ah :(
> then the problem is that culture is being built off of copyrighted works in the first place. Solve that.

How about you solve your business model that relies on the generosity and goodwill of people not to take an infinitely distributable good.

Maybe it isn't morally coherent but I am all for resisting the US government's pro monopoly positions by pirating from said monopolies. True resistance will never be legal in a framework where the rules are dictated by authoritarian governments or in this case corporations.
As a contrapuntal anecdata, I was profoundly uncool from primary[1] through teenage years[2][3] and was miserable for almost all of it.

[1] Parental unit is a teacher at the same school? Yeah, your life will be miserable.

[2] Come from a different part of the area? You must be [insert various insults here] for 5 years.

[3] Scholarship kid at a private school? Good luck with that.
Ideally, courts are concerned with legality, not morality.
> Unions are democratic organisations. If they’re insisting on gaining something, then a majority of the members are insisting on it.

This is not how unions operate in reality. But regardless, you either get something because your employer thinks it will make your happier, or you get something because your union insists on it.

Why would you get special treatment just because you're in a union? Your union has to negotiate and accept things on your behalf... not you. You lost that right when you joined the union.
>>Do you have empirical evidence for this claim ?

Do you have empirical evidence that this is not true?
Android users’ text message bubbles show up green, and you can’t send the “tapback” reactions (or rather, they show up as a “so and so has liked your post” rather than a thumbs up icon). This is annoying for Android users and it’s kind of tedious for iPhone users to have to vet group chats to see if there is a single Android user who might be annoyed. Apparently this is factoring into people’s phone purchasing calculus.
Perhaps it's cynical rather than disingenuous. ~30% of people derive more satisfaction from seeing someone worse off than they do from mutual benefit - not even a zero-sum mindset, but a negative-sum one because such people are willing to incur a loss as long as it correlates with someone else experiencing a greater loss.

Put this depressing fact together with a highly networked communications infrastructure, and you can see there's a big economic incentive to talk shit about others. The US has an entire media sector built around the opinion columnists and radio/TV hosts whose whole brand is aggressive belittlement of others, or bullying as entertainment.
Yes, the comment here is noting the irony of how those words apply differently here.
It's pretty luxury nowadays. Decent smartphones go for less than half that cost, and good ones can be even cheaper. The accessibility and affordability of high quality mobile computing devices has risen across the board.

But Apple is very much on the upper mid range to high end side of things.
Samsung has started to ship Google Messages as the default:

https://9to5google.com/2022/02/14/google-messages-samsung-ga...
I've been assured that we still can't call it a monopoly until it's at least 120% (accounting for yearly turnover.)
The only organ of society that really could hold him to account (and historically has held those such as him to account) would be broadcasters. Jones airs on the Genesis Communications Network, which could choose to cease to carry his content if it wanted. He'd drop into the obscurity of online self-publishing almost immediately.

(This thought feels familiar).
Probably not a financial decision.

Tobias (Founder/CEO) was an early Rails core contributor. So Ruby on Rails is in Shopify DNA.