manfredo

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by manfredo 6y ago
There's a distinction between collective action and government-sanctioned monopolies on labor. It's one thing for workers to bargain collectively. It's another thing when the government prohibits the company from finding anot
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by manfredo 6y ago
The main arguments are proportionality and enforcement. Facebook probably had more violating content in total but out of a much much larger pool of content. In other words, the percentage of violating content on Facebook is still much small
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by manfredo 6y ago
So if you block your Netflix payments you really think there going to send debt collectors? No, they'd lose more money on hiring a collector than they'd gain back from recovering one month's subscription.
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by manfredo 6y ago
Sure, debt doesn't just go away. But there's no loan, so why are you talking about debt? The grandparent comment is talking about online subscriptions. If you stop paying your your subscription, then they'll terminate service
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by manfredo 6y ago
Why don't people just stop payment? I remember when an insurance company tried to not let me cancel. I copied some boilerplate termination letter from the internet, and blocked payments from my card. They cancelled very quickly. Then a
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by manfredo 6y ago
A server is just a useless chunk of plastic, metal, and silicon if you don't have an ISP willing to give you an IP and route traffic to you. And without a domain name, you're only accessible to technical users. Also DDoS protectio
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by manfredo 6y ago
> The NYTimes is a centrist liberal publication that is widely reviled by anyone on the left. This is a very different characterization than what most people would offer. The New York Times is a staunchly left publication, and the past f
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by manfredo 6y ago
A substantial number of people commit suicide following loss of one's job. Would you feel it's fair to say that their bosses drove them to suicide? I'd say no. Most of such cases, like Swartz, had existing mental conditions t
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by manfredo 6y ago
Swartz wasn't torrenting pirated movies. He was essentially trying to mirror JSTOR. He was programmatically downloading massive numbers of articles, and using mac address spoofing to avoid triggering rate limiting. He also authored a m
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by manfredo 6y ago
Dropping Parler is part of a broader trend of eliminating content claiming electoral fraud: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/07/youtube-says-it-will-suspend...
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by manfredo 6y ago
I agree that the goal is to curb the spread of such views, not so much to change the minds of those who already harbor them. But I still think it's having the opposite effect. The streisand effect is real and likely playing out here. T
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by manfredo 6y ago
I don't really blame the companies doing the bans. In fact, if I were in their position I'd probably do the same thing. The pressure to do something would probably outweigh my suspicions that the bans are ultimately counterproduct
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by manfredo 6y ago
The way this forum was purged from the internet is making me uncomfortable. I never used Parler, and I really don't care about the fact that it's gone. But the way that a handful of private companies effectively decides who gets t
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by manfredo 6y ago
I think it's simplistic to point to Facebook as instrumental in these instances of unrest. Sure, they were used as an instrument of communication but had Facebook not been there people would just use SMS or IRC. The 2002 Gujarat unrest
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by manfredo 6y ago
It's easy to say "we tolerate everything except for intolerance" without defining specifics of what is or isn't intolerant. To use the two examples in your comment, if someone claims that opposition to gay marriage is ha
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by manfredo 6y ago
I'd consider getting fired a much more serious form of ostracism than deplatforming. Getting banned from Twitter doesn't affect your ability to pay rent. I personally put the blame for his firing more on the blatantly distorted
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by manfredo 6y ago
Trump repeatedly encouraged protestors to stay peaceful leading up to the riot: > Jan 6th, 2:38 PM: Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful! > 3:13PM I am asking
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by manfredo 6y ago
The above poster does have an important point: Freedom from speech also includes freedom from compelled speech. The things you listed entail selling materially defective good, and discrimination on the basis of race and gender. These are no
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by manfredo 6y ago
I'm not sure if a fractured internet is more likely to lead to a fractured Union as compared to an internet were a substantial segment of the population feels suppressed. I highly doubt that these bans are going to be effective in term
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by manfredo 6y ago
I think one potentially positive outcome is increased knowledge of side-loading apps. Granted, this really only exists as an option on Android but Fortnite demonstrated the feasibility of this approach. If side-loaded apps gain traction it
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by manfredo 6y ago
I agree with Twitter's decision to ban Trump now. He has no effective authority at this point, and is essentially just trolling - and to deadly, if indirect, effect. I also agree with Twitter's decision to keep his while he still
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by manfredo 6y ago
Yes. If you were running a news stand, should you be sued if one of the magazines you're selling ends up inspiring a riot? If you refused to sell a certain magazine should people be able to sue you or otherwise force you to stock their
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by manfredo 6y ago
It's actually a serious and legitimate question. Freedom from speech also means freedom from compelled speech. A government can't pass a law to make a Mom and Pop shop sell a certain magazine. And corporations enjoy the same freed
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by manfredo 6y ago
> Moreover, they've gotten threats from their ISP that they have to delete certain posts or be shut down. (which seems scary to me) Agreed - though I find it's more of a headache than scary. On end, I don't like the fact t
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by manfredo 6y ago
I heard that the main issue with decompressed assets was audio, not video (granted, video is image and audio so one is a strict superset of the other). One game - Titanfall or a CoD game, IIRC - had something like 20 GB of uncompressed audi
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by manfredo 6y ago
Nuclear powered warships. As far as I know there was only one nuclear freighter, and it was more of a PR stunt. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah
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by manfredo 6y ago
Pretty much. Though they've periodically updated them to use new techniques like animation blending. I think there's also a lot of work in optimizing for different platforms. And perhaps more importantly, there's a lot of wor
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by manfredo 6y ago
Interesting, so validation of the parity bits occurs in the CPU? Presumably when data is read off the bus.
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by manfredo 6y ago
500+ comment thread 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25622322 . One thing I didn't glean from either article, though, is why ECC ram needs to be implemented in both the CPU and the RAM. Is the concern
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by manfredo 6y ago
6 minutes ago (as of the time of this comment) the New York Times reports that 5 guns were seized by police: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/06/us/washington-dc-pro...

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