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by grej 6y ago
I don’t want to be the product with my medical data, thanks.
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Texas Power Failures Shut Chip Factories, Squeezing Tight Supply(bloomberg.com)
2 points by grej 6y ago|0 comments
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by grej 6y ago
Decentralization now
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by grej 6y ago
There will absolutely be, but at least then restriction of speech in the public square will be driven by some sort of legal process. Not everything is subject to first amendment protections, and inciting riots clearly falls into the categor
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by grej 6y ago
An unrestricted democracy can be exactly that. But hopefully, a country has sufficient guardrails in its constitution to prevent it from becoming a mob rule.
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by grej 6y ago
I think (hope) everyone would agree that antisemitism and racism have no place in the world. And it's easy not to care when you earnestly believe the ends justify the means. But in practice, the risk is that these labels will be applie
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by grej 6y ago
Except I doubt that's how it will work. They just have to get Apple and Google to bow to the pressure again and remove it from the app store. Restricting the first amendment is a lot easier if you can effectively do it without actually
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by grej 6y ago
But when the limited collection of players in the system all act in concert to prevent access to opponents of their preferred political party, isn’t the effect nearly the same? Arguably worse, because there’s no legal recourse. I think that
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by grej 6y ago
I don’t think the comparison is valid. There were always far more available perspectives from a variety of media sources than there are large tech media companies. Rupert Murdoch in his wildest dreams has never had anything approaching the
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by grej 6y ago
Unlike Twitter, I am used to HN users having dialogue about the substance of an article, not simply dismissing articles out of hand based on the ownership of the publication.
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by grej 6y ago
Archive.is link for paywall bypass: https://archive.is/jNxAB
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by grej 6y ago
I have heard it said that the test of a good governmental system is whether you would be ok with letting those you politically oppose run it. I feel somewhat similar here. Are we really comfortable with the tremendous power and editorial di
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The deplatforming of a president: An unprecedented week for the tech industry(techcrunch.com)
64 points by grej 6y ago|122 comments
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by grej 6y ago
The irony of allowing casinos while also saying Robinhood allows risky trades. They don’t like customers being exposed to risks unless via a state approved middleman / revenue source.
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Austin's SolarWinds at center of national security breach(statesman.com)
2 points by grej 6y ago|0 comments
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China’s ‘Tainted’ Cotton(bbc.co.uk)
45 points by grej 6y ago|8 comments
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The Chinese Communist Party just showed Jack Ma, and the rest of us, who’s boss(washingtonpost.com)
9 points by grej 6y ago|0 comments
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Virtual Influencers Make Real Money While Covid Locks Down Human Stars(bloomberg.com)
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by grej 6y ago
killedbygoogle++
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Justice Department to File Antitrust Suit Against Google(wsj.com)
91 points by grej 6y ago|38 comments
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by grej 6y ago
I hadn’t heard of that before, but I like it! So many current situations where this applies...
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Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay(wsj.com)
1256 points by grej 6y ago|1363 comments
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House Panel Calls for Congress to Break Up Tech Giants(wsj.com)
9 points by grej 6y ago|1 comments
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by grej 6y ago
Does anyone know how this compares to the RapidsAI project called BlazingSql?
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by grej 6y ago
This. I always buy electronic goods from BestBuy or Newegg for this reason, as soon as it became clear Amazon really doesn’t care that much about guarding against the counterfeiters
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by grej 6y ago
Exactly. I always buy electronic goods from BestBuy or Newegg for this reason, as soon as it became clear Amazon really doesn’t care that much about guarding against the counterfeiters
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by grej 6y ago
I’ve wondered if we’d get less ire about taxes if govts allow people to directly choose how a portion of their taxes (5%?) gets allocated when they file. They could send it nonprofits for causes they care about. Given the choice of sending
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by grej 6y ago
If you believe the means weren't good, and that ends shouldn't justify means, then you accept it as part of functioning due process, similar to Miranda rights.
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Race, Covid Mortality, and Simpson’s Paradox(causality.cs.ucla.edu)
1 points by grej 6y ago|0 comments
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by grej 6y ago
This combined with Microsoft's roadmap with a WSL that works on CUDA GPUs is going to cost Apple a lot of ML/AI/HPC developer mindshare. Yes, we do a lot of our work on remote machines, but it's not always the most conve

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