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by blhack 6y ago
Glenn had a 3 hour long conversation on a podcast a few days ago where he laid out the problem really well: Journalists have essentially become socialites. They don't want to publish articles that will rock the boat, because the peopl
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by blhack 6y ago
What's your freelance price?
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by blhack 6y ago
"Full stack" ;-). Lately the idea of a "specialist" (at least in webdev) has come to mean (in my head): "I really know how to use this particular framework, but do not understand any of the surrounding technology.
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by blhack 6y ago
>There are no competitors. What an absurd statement to make on hacker news of all places, where every minor movement of tesla/solar city is reported as breaking news. Or in a world where more and more people are going "off g
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by blhack 6y ago
Twitter is an infrastructure on top of which thousands of services are run. It's a notification service, it's a messaging server, it's an authentication/identify verification service, it's a news dissemination and
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by blhack 6y ago
Maybe not, but it is.
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Will this apply this to the discussion about the claim that Trump paid $750 in taxes? Would this apply to the Trump access hollywood tape (grab them by the...)?
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by blhack 6y ago
To the people constantly saying that twitter is a private company and should be allowed to do whatever they want: Would you support the same idea around electrical power? If the power company providing the power to the office at the NyPost
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by blhack 6y ago
No. The “whole point of crypto” was that you didn’t have to use a service like Coinbase if you didn’t want to. And you don’t.
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by blhack 6y ago
Section 230 is outlining a way in which an internet service can be exempted from liability. What part of this is causing you to read it another way?
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by blhack 6y ago
That is exactly what section 230 already does. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230 Whats being talked about here is stripping the assumption that twitter is acting in good faith, and therefore remo
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by blhack 6y ago
Yes for me.
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by blhack 6y ago
I just want to tell you that you're not alone in this. It's seriously unsettling to me to see the way in which this culture has changed.
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by blhack 6y ago
There was a period of time when mask wearing was considered misinformation: https://youtu.be/RxbDhECanU8 There was a time when vitamin D correlation was also considered misinformation. Maybe we shouldnt be looking to a grou
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by blhack 6y ago
How did the NyTimes get those tax documents?
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by blhack 6y ago
That's fair, I guess I don't mean twitter specifically, and the shortness of communication is one of the things I don't like. I mean that there was a time when you might dream about a place on the internet where the communica
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by blhack 6y ago
It seems as though several of the tweets on Trump's press secretary's [personal] account have been deleted by twitter. There's something so sad about all of this to me. I "grew up" on the internet where most of my
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by blhack 6y ago
Then why does it matter if they censor things or not?
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by blhack 6y ago
I’ve said before and I will continue saying: twitter CANNOT be the arbiter if truth. It will NEVER work, and trying to do so will be their undoing, but not before they make the problem they think they’re solving infinitely worse.
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by blhack 6y ago
Did twitter censor all stories regarding the claim that Trump paid $750 in taxes? In case the point I’m making isn’t obvious: the NYT never published their source for that, and still haven’t. If twitter is removing stories for having dubio
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by blhack 6y ago
Yes you do. You pay with your attention and with your ability to understand the world around you. Twitter is an extremely powerful bit of technology that can basically make you believe anything. As a trade for entertainment/dopamine:
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by blhack 6y ago
I don't agree with your characterization. Ideally twitter shouldn't really be able to spread "misinformation" because people shouldn't be using it as a source of information to begin with. These moves they have bee
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by blhack 6y ago
Twitter keeps running themselves into a trap, and it is unbelievable to me that they don't see it: they cannot be the arbiters of truth. It will not work, because inevitably they'll miss something, and then people will assume
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>but he couldn't so the engineers went to greener pastures. She.
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by blhack 6y ago
The ideal age is 13+ for that class. There have been some really bright kids that are younger who have done it, but that is the right age for the kids to get the most out of it.
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by blhack 6y ago
Flux core is really useful if you either don't have the ability to use gas, or are working outdoors in the wind. Our shop is indoors, and we have nice machines.
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by blhack 6y ago
Just buy a welder. Seriously. The machine I learned to weld on was a lincoln 140, and the machines we have at our space are miller 210s (which are LUXURY imo). There are probably thousands of videos on youtube that will show you how to us
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by blhack 6y ago
YES! This is why it's SO important to keep this sort of stuff in schools. Sliding compound miter saw is a magic tool. Now just wait until you get a MIG welder and a bandsaw, you'll be UNSTOPPABLE and the world will suddenly look
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by blhack 6y ago
I think that is fundamentally at odds with how the satellites have been deployed, isn't it? These aren't at high geosync orbits. The satellites aren't in a stationary location relative to a point on the earth, so I don&#x27
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by blhack 6y ago
Holding our society back from what?

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