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by jmyeet 7mo ago
This is an opinion and I believe it's wrong. And you just have to look at the statute to see why [1]: > (c) Protection for “Good Samaritan” blocking and screening of offensive material > (2) Civil liability > (A)any action vol
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Not at all. Intenet matters. Is Cloudfare trying to shape user behavior or push a particular position or content? No. Just look at the Cox decision from the Supreme Court today. As long as the (Internet) service isn't designed for or s
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Section 230(c)(i) [1]: > (c) (c)Protection for “Good Samaritan” blocking and screening of offensive material > (1) Treatment of publisher or speaker > No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the p
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
I believe social media is on a collision course with an iceberg called Section 230. Broadly speaking, Section 230 differentiates between publishers and platforms . A platform is like Geocities (back in the day) where the platform provide
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I want to talk about Ticketmaster. People hate Ticketmaster. For good reason. TM throws on all these fees, clearly engages in third-party selling, makings buying difficult and jacks up prices. All of this is known. But what's less know
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
Someone else suggested I was misremembering the Twitter Cassandra timeline so I went back and checked. No, Twitter droped MySQL for Cassandra in 2010 [1], after Facebook open-sourced it in 2008 [2]. Twitter claimed they were using Cassandra
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Unquestionably. As weird as this sounds, militarily and strategically, Iraq was a relative "success". I mean not to the thousands or millions harmed or killed by US actions and all the damage done along the way, but Iraq now does
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So I know you're making a joke/statement about how the post-9/11 volunteers got royally screwed over and are (understandably) disillusioned with war but I just wanted to add something here. This change increases maximum enli
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The military has spent decades working on a general aptitude test, called the ASVAB [1]. It's a score up to 99, which is usually what people focus on, but there are also line scores for things like electrical and mechanical. When you j
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This war of choice is going to redefine the US's policy and relationships with Middle East, China, Russia and Europe for the rest of the century. Even if it ends tomorrow. Mainly because the only way it ends tomorrow is if sanctions on
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The impact of the Strait of Hormuz being closed goes well beyond oil. Here are a few off the top of my head: - Qatar produces 20-33% of the world's helium; - The supply chain for ~30 of the world's fertilizer relies upon supply ch
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Look at Facebook/Meta. They use MySQL (plus some other stuff on top). Twitter was at the peak of being trendy and trying to make NoSQL work. It was quite literally an idoelogical vanity project.
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You see this trap in tech companies as well as game studios. I call it "acting like Google before you're Google". And in fact virtually nobody becomes Google. Google has been a money printing machine for 20+ years almost unpa
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It’s almost like turning the president into a monarch by baselessly granting total immunity was a bad idea, foreseeably so . This is the new normal. I want people to really think about what’s going on here. $1-2 billion of taxpayer money i
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If you haven't, I'm going to recommend you to listen to an episode of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History , specifically The Destroyer of Worlds [1]. Why? Because it goes into the change in strategic thinking brought on by the a
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In strategic circles, this was a common thought in the 12 day war: Iran was essentially mapping and testing defenses. As evidence of this, the US was forced to hastily move THAAD ground station radar from South Korea because Iran destroyed
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Pardon the pun but this is an arms race and the defenders are going to lose. There are broadly five classes of missiles (one isn't a missile per se): 1. Ballistic. These are traditional rockets, basically. While rockets are designed to
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I think is a worse disaster than Vietnam. Why? Because the Vietnam War was localized. It was devastating to the people who got drafted and obviously devastating to the Vietnamese as well as the Cambodians that Nixon and Kissinger decidedly
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
It's not really up to the US and Israel when this war of choice ends anymore. It's up to Iran. And Iran, justifiably, is going to demand their pound of flesh. That could require some combination of ending the (criminal) sanctions,
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There are lists of the worst decisions of the Supreme Court in history (eg [1]). Dred Scott [2] often tops such lists. I believe that Trump v. United States [3] will go on such lists in the near future. Why? Because it opened the floodg
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We don't know some important specifics about the deal but (IMHO) that's on purpose and is telling, meaning you only end up obscure deal details because you have something to hide. So I don't know what stage the project was at
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There is a certain class of person who will take something simple like, say, brake lights on a car, and extrapolate it out to industrial control systems of something incredibly complex with demanding safety requirements and "observe&qu
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You're only saying that because this is only 3 weeks old. Things are going to get a lot worse. If this ended tomorrow, the direct impact will be felt for years before we go back to "normal". And the geopolitical changes are
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Empires don't die overnight, generally. Empires die slowly, violently. We spent an estimated $8 trillion on so-called "War on Terror". The Taliban were in charge of Afghanistan before we started. They're in charge now.
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Just looking at the US, one can certainly point fingers at conservatism (rightly so) but I think that's missing the forest for the trees. Why? Because the so-called opposition party, the Democratic Party, is complicit is everything tha
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So the problem is that we have a bunch of people making pronouncements about things they don't understand. I would encourage anyone to look into what fossil fuels are actually used for because energy is only part of it. Some energy is
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This war will likely go down as the dumbest geopolitical move in US history (so far, at least). And I don't think it's even close. I cannot overstate the significance of it. I think historians will mark this as at least the symbol
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I'd add that it's also a free opportunity to test IRBM targeting at much longer ranges. The war of choice is really the US's Teutoburg Forest moment.
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Xi is a fascinating figure. I had real concerns when he pushed through repealing term limits. I thought this could be another Putin but that hasn't been the case. First, he's had a real anti-corruption push that seems to be meanin
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China is what happens when you put scientists and engineers in charge [1][2]. 20 years ago China had a single high speed rail link in Shanghai going to the airport. Now they have more than 30,000 miles of high speed rail where they've

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