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by jude- 5y ago
> Is that a distinction between political and religious beliefs? I am sure you are more than capable of thinking of some, since they are pretty obvious. The biggest one that comes to mind is that political beliefs are not required to ad
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by jude- 5y ago
This proposed law (and this thread) is specifically about discrimination on private online platforms, not housing. Being kicked off of Twitter is nowhere near as life-threatening or disruptive to a person as getting kicked out of housing.
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by jude- 5y ago
So being a Nazi -- or any kind of violent extremist -- isn't a choice? If it wasn't a choice for you then you have my sympathy, but I can assure you that is not a typical experience in the US.
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by jude- 5y ago
So platforms can kick off LGBTQ+ folks, but not Nazis?
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by jude- 5y ago
What they're trying to do is make it so that private online platforms can't kick you off for your political ideology. This is an idiotic policy because it can and will be abused by extremists to violent ends at exorbitant cost to
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by jude- 5y ago
So is there anything actually wrong with what I said? Also, here's Godwin himself on Godwin's Law, when talking about the alt-right folks who are now the backbone of the GOP: "By all means, compare these shitheads to Nazis. A
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by jude- 5y ago
Maybe for you it is. But for many, adherence to religion isn't a free choice (or if it is, it requires overcoming a lifetime of indoctrination).
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by jude- 5y ago
I will gladly discriminate against Nazis, just as you would likely discriminate against folks whose personal creed included "user Dig1t belongs in a death camp." It's okay to apply standards to public spaces. Not every ideolo
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by jude- 5y ago
Yup. Everything else is window dressing. This is about forcing every private company to carry their propaganda whether they like it or not.
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by jude- 5y ago
But, you can nevertheless install bash on Android. That was my ask -- show me a widely-used OS that cannot run bash but can run other similar shells.
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by jude- 5y ago
"Political ideology" really is the trojan horse here. Political ideology is not a protected class, whereas the others are. This bill is really about banning content moderation. Everything else is window dressing.
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by jude- 5y ago
Study classic networking and distributed computing. There's nothing really novel about most cryptocurrencies from a CS perspective. The ones that aren't scams are all built on classical consensus algorithms and p2p application pro
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by jude- 5y ago
Bash is readily available everywhere, though. Is there a widely used OS that cannot run bash, but can run BusyBox ash or dash?
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by jude- 5y ago
The article says this will tax unrealized gains on assets held by "exceptionally wealthy individuals," but what does that mean? Do folks who have equity options at a startup get hit by this?
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by jude- 5y ago
You are not entitled to use F-Droid's or Google's distribution network, anymore than they are entitled to be installed on your phone.
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by jude- 5y ago
You are not entitled to use F-Droid's distribution network, anymore than they are entitled to be installed on your phone.
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by jude- 5y ago
The block size debate wasn't about retroactively changing the outcome of a valid network transaction, was it? That's a pretty substantial difference between this and the DAO disaster. Retroactively changing things without the ma
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by jude- 5y ago
> Doesn't seem like a sound argument for perfect immutability. Sounds reasonable as an argument for better immutability. It is a fact that Ethereum's developers altered the consensus rules to revert the DAO (after touting &quot
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by jude- 5y ago
The reason this keeps coming up is because Ethereum has not taken any concrete steps in its governance process to make it so that either DAO-like rollback will not happen again, or if it does, it happens with the measured consent of all s
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by jude- 5y ago
> And Bitcoin core devs can _never_ do the same? Wake me up when it happens. The Bitcoin project's developers still get the benefit of the doubt because unlike Ethereum, they haven't betrayed the trust its users placed in them
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by jude- 5y ago
The difference is that the Bitcoin chain was not retroactively and incompatibly modified -- that fork still (ostensibly) exists and can be both mined and validated by the same software rules today. The system soft-forked; it didn't har
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by jude- 5y ago
Why censor them, when you can just reorder and front-run them instead to maximize your MEV?
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by jude- 5y ago
What assurance do we have that they won't do it again when it suits them? That "credibility" metric is meaningless when the core devs can rug-pull at any time. "Jude-, go run Ethereum Classic if you're that bent out
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by jude- 5y ago
It may come to pass that Facebook is a generational phenomenon, like rock-'n'-roll. It'll be the thing for "old people" soon enough.
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by jude- 5y ago
Maybe a pithy way to render this article's point is, if you are a young, competent 20-something fresh on the job market and imminently hireable at Facebook (but nowhere else, let's say for the sake of argument), do you: * Take a j
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by jude- 5y ago
As someone who cut his programming teeth on TI calculators, I think the fascination from the student side is because it hits a "sweet spot" for casual and budding professional programmers alike: * It's very easy to get starte
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by jude- 5y ago
Good. It's long past time we stop humoring the destructive delusional narcissism of anti-vaxxers. Let them build their own fucking YouTube to host their bullshit.
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by jude- 5y ago
It's a way for a decentralized service to provide a publicly-resolvable self-sovereign identifier for a user. "Publicly-resolvable" means that anyone can query your public identity state, given your DID. "Self-sovereig
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by jude- 5y ago
This response is full of mostly terrible, uninformed takes. > No practical interoperability. As Microsoft & Google expressed, the DID “Core” spec has not demonstrated any degree of practical interoperability, instead delegating that
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by jude- 5y ago
The F150 is arguably a lifestyle truck these days. But that's okay -- it probably makes it easier to build an electronic version that can do what its owners expect of it.

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