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by bxk1 6y ago
It's not that harsh. He wrote some good things in the past, but his recent essays are very simple minded and anti-scientific. You can't categorize people like you are in a middle school and be taken seriously, human behavior is ve
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by bxk1 6y ago
Chomsky did a lot of work to show that it's not optimizing for profits or some subconscious biases of people influencing press, but very deliberate power structure pushing specific censorship, propaganda, it's all very conscious e
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by bxk1 6y ago
> The elephant in the room not addressed in this essay is the widespread use of bad faith arguments, and the absence or dismissal of evidence in preference of beliefs and feelings. On some issues it can be extremely difficult to find go
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by bxk1 6y ago
> Right now there are people running around saying that COVID is as deadly as the flu COVID is as deadly as flu. Some people just underestimate flu, as if it's something not dangerous. > that the pandemic was faked Technicall
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by bxk1 6y ago
For anyone else wondering why they use ZeroSSL as a fallback: "Caddy has been acquired by the company behind ZeroSSL"
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by bxk1 6y ago
> does Parallels fall into the category of software that runs poorly on the new M1 chipset? It does for most use cases where you want to run images meant for different CPU architectures, like amd64. It shouldn't if you want to run
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by bxk1 6y ago
For plenty of applications the whole purpose is not to run "a normal browser" and possibly not even have it installed.
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by bxk1 6y ago
This is pretty much the current step already, not the next step, with broad ban on anything that isn't a lot like Chrome and anything that they simply don't want to allow. In the last thread the narrative was hijacked with bullshi
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by bxk1 6y ago
Insisting on getting paid for work is very different from insisting on owning a scarce resource in order to force others to pay you for it as much as you can squeeze from them. They are moral opposites, one is about not being exploited too
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by bxk1 6y ago
This is pretty backwards in spirit. If you own the code, there is no reason to let any corporation use you like that. Just change the license to something anti-corporate if you started with too permissive one, it'll make it apply to al
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by bxk1 6y ago
The problem with your arguments is that they are full of assumptions of things that you say are good for society and humanity, while we don't actually have a scientific understanding of what the humanity is for to even be able to decid
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by bxk1 6y ago
It's not that simple. Xenophobic content, for example, is "unchecked" on any U.S. owned platform, so is some racism, but not racism against black people specifically. At the same time in most other countries in the world raci
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by bxk1 6y ago
These things could easily end up in ECHR, because a "fascist", just like an "idiot", could be considered an opinion, judgement, not a fact and so it cannot be false, unless it means something very specific in Austria.
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by bxk1 6y ago
> if we agree that denial is worse for society but currently better for the guilty, what can we do to change that Why is it worse for society? Guilt is already an emotion that exists for society, not for self-interest, it relies on mor
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by bxk1 6y ago
They basically do account downweighting for people they don't like. Just make a new account with clean cookies and if you are using the same IP check your comment visibility from other IPs from time to time, as they record which accoun
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by bxk1 6y ago
With $1k MRR you can move to many cheap countries in the world and live there comfortably while working on your product, service, whatever it is you are offering. You can't do that with a regular job.
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by bxk1 6y ago
> for more than a year I have been watching perfectly fine comments getting buried almost instantly. Apart from an obvious problem of too many people having downvoting privileges, mods here also silently downweight some accounts even t
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by bxk1 6y ago
This reads like a dystopian fantasy, a "vision" to inject government control into every aspect of people's digital life.
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by bxk1 6y ago
> I will have to agree with this. Until I started working with Erlang/Elixir, I would probably have agreed with the OP article instead. Or at least its title, for reading about concurrency problems has become rather obsolete (for m
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by bxk1 6y ago
At the beginning of the pandemic my sibling, who lives in the US, left Silicon Valley expecting to work remotely permanently, bought a big house in a much much cheaper location and is pretty happy about that. Not sure if any of the travelli
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by bxk1 6y ago
I thought it was Frankfurt in Germany, but can't confirm, there is only public data on per country connectivity, where Germany is at the top. But Brazil is definitely in top 5, for top 5 connectivity from last year the countries were:
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by bxk1 6y ago
There is no way DIY diode bridge and filtering caps on a separate board could make a slightest difference here, in fact high frequency noise from the power supply could only be filtered right near the chip. But leveling up an amplifier, to
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by bxk1 6y ago
No, it has all the commits from the latest version, the one released after the github takedown.
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by bxk1 6y ago
Currently you can get it from the author's gitlab: https://gitlab.com/dstftw/youtube-dl , i.e. git clone ' https://gitlab.com/dstftw/youtube-dl.git '
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by bxk1 6y ago
Actually, a hosting company challenging the police in jurisdiction where ECHR is ratified would go exactly there once it exhausts options in local courts. But not a customer of a hosting company challenging the decision of a hosting company
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by bxk1 6y ago
European Court of Human Rights is also not exclusive to European Union, other countries signed the convention as well and ratified at least parts of it. There appeals can reach ECHR and its rulings have to be enforced locally.
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by bxk1 6y ago
> I will admit that after the RIAA/youtube-dl story I felt that it confirmed my belief that it was a mistake for anyone to host anything on US based servers. This takedown with complete lack of transparency from a French provider (
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by bxk1 6y ago
This comment is also legendary misunderstood. He pointed out how trivial the idea was, which of course became a problem for dropbox when every tech company implemented it once they saw the demand for it and took its marketshare. Nowadays it
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by bxk1 6y ago
Microsoft pays for RIAA lawyers, why would it pay for more lawyers to defend themselves from other lawyers they pay for already?
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by bxk1 6y ago
People outside of the US can't be bound to be sued in a US court or anywhere outside of the jurisdiction they currently reside in and even then a country he is a citizen of could try to use high level channels to get him out of there.

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