Meekro

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by Meekro 6y ago
This is extremely sad. The lawsuit claims that Robinhood's shitty tech support was one of the major factors here. Between that, the numerous bugs, and the way they've been blocking people from trading in Gamestop, I can't und
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by Meekro 6y ago
Yeah, remember when people were saying "there is no slippery slope, they'll definitely stop at fascists!" Sounds like someone who's never read a history book.
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by Meekro 6y ago
Doesn't need to be decentralized, just a phpBB forum behind Cloudflare would still work. Cloudflare is one of the few companies that hasn't become censor-happy (except that one time..)
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by Meekro 6y ago
That's a really good question. Let me just build on it: I remember reading a lengthy piece about the first Epstein criminal investigation in 2006. There were accounts that the investigators and prosecutors involved were being threatene
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by Meekro 6y ago
Cloudflare has been quite neutral for now , but there are communities of people who daily devote themselves to harassing everyone from Cloudflare's support team to the mayor of Sammamish, WA (where Epik, one of Gab's webhosts, is
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by Meekro 6y ago
You're right that the single peer is a concern. Maybe they have others that are hidden for now, like you said? I don't think they need more than a few IP addresses since most of their hardware could sit on a private network with o
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by Meekro 6y ago
Seems reasonable to me! If your reason for existing is that "information wants to be free" but then you start making exceptions when it conflicts with your politics, people might think your real political philosophy is "pop m
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by Meekro 6y ago
In contrast, Gab actually owns their own ASN and announces their own routes[1]. Much harder to deplatform. I'd expect no less from a YC alum! [1] https://bgp.he.net/AS42651
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by Meekro 6y ago
The most popular podcaster right now is Joe Rogan, who does 2-3 hour interviews. Doesn't the popularity of his content suggest that Americans are very interested in higher level discourse, but have long been denied it?
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by Meekro 6y ago
As I understand it, hosts tend to have AUPs that restrict speech more than the first amendment does, but peering arrangements don't do the same-- correct me if I'm wrong, though! There are data centers that are popular with hax0rs
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by Meekro 6y ago
Here's an idea I've been playing with: you can buy your own AS and small IP block for a few thousand dollars. There are many data centers that will give you BGP access to then announce that IP range and route it to your servers. T
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by Meekro 6y ago
The proposal still lets platforms moderate on certain grounds, a repeal would mean that a platform can't moderate for any reason other than "illegal content" if it wants to keep the protection. The law currently says that a p
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by Meekro 6y ago
You're right, repealing section 230 would result in more censorship, not less. But I think "repeal section 230" has been shorthand slogan for a more detailed set of proposals (much like "defund the police" doesn&#x2
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by Meekro 6y ago
https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1263551872872386562 "The only remedy until the removal of the Zionist regime is firm, armed resistance." https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status
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by Meekro 6y ago
According to Twitter's public statement, Trump's rule violation was incitement of violence, not "advocating for the abolition of his own government." The Ayatollah has repeatedly tweeted in support of the violent destruc
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by Meekro 6y ago
Any company that can censor will eventually be pressured by governments (or its own employees) to do so. Therefore, I see Signal as a model for how everything should operate in the future: your "account" in the company's da
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by Meekro 6y ago
You make some good points, so let me try to better explain where I was coming from. There are certain games-- the ones that get all the PC gamers to buy new graphics cards when it's about to come out. When there's a game like that
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by Meekro 6y ago
It's like if you play Witcher 3 on the Nintendo Switch-- it technically works, but it's also a predictably blurry mess. Anyone who's read up on Cyberpunk knows that it's going to strain even the best gaming PCs, so it
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by Meekro 6y ago
Agreed, this is definitely no worse than any other AAA release in recent memory. I wonder if people remember that on its release day, Skyrim's main quest could not be completed due to a bug. Anyways, I'm 50 hours in and it's
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by Meekro 6y ago
The evidence for this is that federal tax revenue as a percentage of GDP has been 15-20% since World War 2. Massive swings in tax policy have not changed this number, proving that those policy changes were more restructurings than tax cuts.
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by Meekro 6y ago
Unfortunately it's not that simple. California (and every other state's) law already says that their taxman need not go through the courts to seize assets but can do so directly. If their tax collector contacts you and you ignore
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by Meekro 6y ago
Citizens United (the group) was a non-profit advocacy group that wanted to publish a video critical of a politician. The government wanted to stop that video from being published. That is not money-as-speech, it's speech-as-speech.
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by Meekro 6y ago
Could anyone who's running a SaaS company in the US discuss what they use for sales tax compliance, ideally something that'll work with Stripe? The Supreme Court's Wayfair ruling has recently forced US companies to start coll
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They have what you're advocating over in Mexico, where a judge that rules against the cartel can expect to be killed the same day. Judicial elections are an option for accountability, setting up judges to be gunned down is not.
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by Meekro 6y ago
Depends on what you mean by Wordpress+cdn. If your CDN is only caching your css and jpg files, then every page load still has to go back to your main server and talk to your database. This is how "standard" Cloudflare caching work
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For the last couple months, I've used Cloudflare Workers Sites to host one of my static sites, and I'm planning to migrate several more onto it. For those who don't know, Cloudflare Workers is their service that answers web q
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by Meekro 6y ago
Some of the most successful YC companies are: Stripe, Airbnb, Cruise, DoorDash, Coinbase, Instacart, Dropbox, Gusto, Reddit, and Gitlab. I guess DoorDash and Instacart are accused of participating in the exploitative gig economy. Airbnb is
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by Meekro 6y ago
California legislators made this kind of argument earlier this year as they tried to force Uber to reclassify their drivers as employees. California voters rejected that. Uber drivers themselves overwhelmingly wanted to keep their contracto
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by Meekro 6y ago
I'm pretty intrigued by the cryptocurrency-based DNS alternatives that get kicked around in discussions like this. But if you need a way to mitigate this threat for your business today, I'd recommend Cloudflare's Enterprise R
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by Meekro 6y ago
You have to turn it on. In the options, there are several "Annoyances" blocklists (AdGuard Annoyances, Fanboy's Annoyances, uBlock Annoyances) that do this. Turn them all on for best results.

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