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by initplus 4y ago
The market is still involved lab leak hypothesis or not. The market may still be the place where the earliest animal-human crossover occurred, even if the lab leak hypothesis is correct. Say a group of animals intended to be euthanized were
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by initplus 4y ago
Privacy protections should apply regardless of whether it's a megacorporation or a disorganized group of independent actors. Most of the individuals targeted by Kiwifarms are not running for office, or own prominent businesses. They ar
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by initplus 4y ago
Kiwifarms legal opponents aren't celebrities, or politicians, or even ordinary people. They are some of the most vulnerable individuals in society. If I had to be sued by somebody I would pick someone living with severe mental health i
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by initplus 4y ago
I'm not sure that "this person only faked their suicide to escape harassment" really absolves Kiwifarms of much...
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by initplus 4y ago
The site exists to document the lives of and poke fun at some of the most vulnerable people in society. Even if explicit calls for illegal actions are banned, being featured on Kiwifarms is like having a target painted on your back. Their e
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by initplus 4y ago
This is the same argument made by anti-free speech people defending companies that censor/deplatform. Something can be legal and wrong. Sometimes the law is out of date with reality.
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by initplus 4y ago
Yes, that is the problem that I was describing. Facilitating/organizing mass harassment of mentally ill people should be against the law.
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by initplus 4y ago
The fact that Kiwifarms have won every suit against them is an example of the legal systems failings. Organizing mass harassment should be illegal. It shouldn't be up to harassed individuals to seek justice, prosecutors should be able
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by initplus 4y ago
Kiwifarms should have been dealt with by the traditional legal system years ago. It is honestly shocking to me that the operator has never been charged. The site has been engaging in mass harassment for years and is responsible for multiple
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by initplus 4y ago
The anti-war protestors were not inciting panic in public places. They were simply distributing flyers representing their anti-war and anti-draft views. The analogy was used to equate this reasonable and legitimate political speech with inc
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by initplus 4y ago
Are you aware that this analogy originated in a supreme court case where it was used to support restricting the speech of anti-war protestors during WW1? “Fire in a theatre” is a great example of using a reasonable sounding analogy to suppo
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by initplus 4y ago
The fire in a crowded theater analogy originated in a US supreme court decision that upheld restricting the speech of anti-war and anti-draft protestors during WW1. This is a case where exactly the kind of speech that people worry about bei
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by initplus 4y ago
Brian is a journalist more than he is a security researcher, anything he publishes as a journalist should be held to held to a higher standard than an random person just speaking their mind. He had ample opportunity to get out ahead and is
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by initplus 4y ago
I don't think it's fad driven, it's the inherent design of the app that makes it so addictive. Video only, video content is lowest effort to consume. ALL content is super short form and shallow, anything longer than 20s is co
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by initplus 4y ago
I mean obviously TikTok keeps their data close so we only have anecdotes. But anecdotally for myself and anyone I know who has used TikTok, the app is just so much more addicting than any other social media has been before. I'm not a s
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by initplus 4y ago
All social media apps have the same goal: soak up as much of your attention as possible to get you to look at ads. But it's a difference of degrees, TikTok is simply so much more successful at soaking up peoples attention than competin
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by initplus 4y ago
Air ticket pricing is already extremely opaque, the most surprising part of this is that it is listed as a seperate surcharge rather than being silently factored into the ticket price.
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by initplus 4y ago
Insider trading laws apply to everyone, professional or amateur alike. Probably worse for a professional because you jeopardise your career prospects at the same time. And insider trading is just so much easier to discover and investigate c
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by initplus 4y ago
This chart is complete garbage though, it's graphing inflation adjusted income against inflation... If you want a comparison it's possible to draw a valid conclusion from you need to compare non-inflation adjusted income. If I&#x2
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by initplus 4y ago
This is the core issue that prevents reliable consumer products from becoming more widespread. Even if demand exists for more reliable consumer goods, consumers don't have the ability to actually evaluate reliability at the time of pur
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by initplus 4y ago
This study found that energy expenditure when playing chess was ~2.3x higher than when resting. And these are just amateur players. Maybe it's not 6000 calories but it is a significant increase over the base rate.
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by initplus 4y ago
Pinterest hides the actual image from the search results in a sea of unrelated images, and blocks you from accessing the images without a login. It’s impossible to find the actual image from the search results if the source is pinterest now
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by initplus 4y ago
At the same time though, building a game that is easy to port is good engineering in the first place. Even if you only release on mainstream platforms, writing platform-agnostic code can save you so many headaches down the line when you wan
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by initplus 4y ago
K8s provides a cloud-agnostic solution for (mostly stateless) configuration management. You have to record which ports your applications listen on, which subdomains are used for what, how to access that storage bucket with the data files in
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by initplus 4y ago
In a traditional REST api I can version each resource independently. I can make a breaking change to just one type and it affects that type alone. Graphql is inherently less flexible in this respect as I have to version the entire API toget
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by initplus 4y ago
Our monitoring says all the requests are 200 OK, why is the client down?
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by initplus 4y ago
Right, but on the backend someone had to think ahead of time that somebody would want to JOIN between those two types, and remember to put the field in place, and implement the JOIN.
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by initplus 4y ago
Why use graphql at all if you are going to use it just like a traditional REST api? You don't get much of a benefit from the client selecting which fields it wants, the backend probably fetches the entire DB row anyway so why not just
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by initplus 4y ago
Even on the latest model Pixel phones Google still refuses to commit to more than 3 years of Android updates... They have at least lengthened the security update timeline to a whole 5 years. I bought an iphone around the launch of the Pixel
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by initplus 4y ago
Getting drivers upstreamed is a political/legal issue, not a technological one. If google wants android drivers to get upstreamed, they can do so by throwing their weight around. Google can add a clause to the bottom of the license of

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