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by laughinghan 6y ago
The President and VP are specifically exempt from the Hatch Act: https://osc.gov/Services/Pages/HatchAct-Federal.aspx
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by laughinghan 6y ago
To the extremely limited and minimal extent that whistleblowers have been pardoned, good on that president/governor, but I think it is atrocious that whistleblower protection relies on pardon power—we need much, much stronger protectio
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by laughinghan 6y ago
Not having a pardon power allows bad judges to throw anyone they don't like into jail with no recourse by anyone. Technically, all judges can be impeached, and all judges other than SCOTUS can be appealed (there's actually a spe
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by laughinghan 6y ago
I'm confused by your Bush and Obama references—both incidents occurred under Bush, the one that you attribute to Bush was revealed under Obama, whereas the one you attribute to Obama was revealed under Bush. Are you attributing based o
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by laughinghan 6y ago
I think your parent was just trying to say "laws are important". "Legacy" code that only "occasionally works" doesn't sound like something worth keeping around. It sounds like something to dump in the tras
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by laughinghan 6y ago
Right. "Expression" isn't restricted to specific wording, it can potentially mean specific choices of what is included and what is included in a compilation; I could hold a copyright to such a compilation even if I don't
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by laughinghan 6y ago
Since this is so useful, and has operational costs because they have to run a server, could they solve two problems in one go by just charging money for it? Like $10/year or something tiny. Bet the malware issue would go way down.
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by laughinghan 6y ago
You seem focused on whether this case was the legally correct decision, which it sure seems to be. This article, like many readers, is more focused on whether this was a fair result. Nothing bizarre about that. The judge may have done the c
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by laughinghan 6y ago
No, in the US you cannot copyright facts, only expression. So you have control over word-for-word copies of your article about a bird; but you have no control over dissemination of the facts you discovered about the bird. SCOTUS decided thi
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by laughinghan 6y ago
I'm sorry that people dismiss the work it takes to make good art, that must be frustrating. It's silly to compare the ease of making "working software" with a "hit record". Just like probably most of the music
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by laughinghan 6y ago
What is the relevance of offering insight into the process of creating music? With or without insight, it's obviously apples-to-oranges to compare "working software" to a "hit record". Most "working software&qu
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by laughinghan 6y ago
All of those sound like fairly harmless Twitter accounts to lose control of for a few minutes once in a decade?
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by laughinghan 6y ago
What do you think of Yonatan Zunger's proposed fix, to verify facts and not people? So @sistersofmercy might get a Verified Badge saying "Religious Institute, Ireland", and @tsomofficial might get a Verified Badge saying &quo
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by laughinghan 6y ago
I think the Yonatan Zunger had the right solution to this: Verify Facts Not People. Replace the checkmark with a Verified Badge that says their position if they're an elected official or major organization leader, or just Real Name if
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by laughinghan 6y ago
pending verification that the blue check mark still applies to the person now in control of that account Why would you want to ever allow an admin to transfer control of a verified account to an unverified person? If you're saying th
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by laughinghan 6y ago
Yeah, response time might be slower in the middle of the night, but a falsified tweet on a celebrity account in the middle of the night is also likely proportionally less damaging. Response time during lunch hour might be slower initially,
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by laughinghan 6y ago
I actually had a similar idea for fighting SIM swaps—we should be able to ask telecoms "hey, when's the last time this phone number was moved to another device/changed IMEI numbers?" and distrust the number if it's
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by laughinghan 6y ago
No, according to The Block, @elonmusk repeatedly tweeted the scam at 4:17pm, 5:19pm, and 5:32pm, a span of 90 minutes, and the final scam tweet was at 6:05pm from @KimKardashian. An hour after @elonmusk's first scam tweet, 7 celebrity
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by laughinghan 6y ago
accounts with more than 10,000 followers should at least need two people to change key settings For accounts that could start a war this might be necessary, but for celebrities with >10K followers this sounds expensive and unnecessary
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by laughinghan 6y ago
I'm biased because I already expected to disagree with much of his worldview, but I think a lot of Key Quotes Summary are bad takes: The single most important economic development in recent times has been the broad stagnation of real
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by laughinghan 6y ago
Because I fucked up. Here's a more current tweet: https://twitter.com/GhostfromTexas/status/128423896421647564... Here's the main HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23875692
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by laughinghan 6y ago
See also discussion at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23875692 Also, many things seem to be back, for me and others: https://twitter.com/OhNoItsFusl/status/1284240273569128449
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by laughinghan 6y ago
Because of Cloudflare: https://twitter.com/GhostfromTexas/status/128423896421647564... See discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23875692
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by laughinghan 6y ago
Because of Cloudflare: https://twitter.com/GhostfromTexas/status/128423896421647564... See discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23875692
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Cloudflare outage causing Discord, Medium, Patreon, ProductHunt, Gitlab all down(twitter.com)
7 points by laughinghan 6y ago|2 comments
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by laughinghan 6y ago
Discord confirmed Cloudflare is also the reason they're down: https://twitter.com/discord/status/1284237737638461453
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by laughinghan 6y ago
Damn it, you're right
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by laughinghan 6y ago
Likely connected to the Cloudflare outage: https://twitter.com/JacobCanfield/status/1146057756400504837 See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23875842
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[2019] Cloudflare, Medium, Discord, Gitlab, DigitalOcean, ProductHunt All Down(twitter.com)
3 points by laughinghan 6y ago|2 comments
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by laughinghan 6y ago
Even in the US there are exceptions, like the state secrets privilege: https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/state-secrets-privilege

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