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by mercurialshark 5y ago
A character in Neal Stephenson's "Fall or Dodge in Hell" - exploits a hypothetical issue at the Belgium/French border to fence off his home and form a sovereign city state (enforced by armed guards, political influence a
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Impervious.ai API and VPN Demo – Building Censorship Resistant Tech Stacks on LN(youtube.com)
1 points by mercurialshark 5y ago|0 comments
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by mercurialshark 6y ago
Yes and when Neal was asked about Enoch during a speaking appearance, he noted that Enoch was one of the first people in the bible whose death wasn't recorded/noted. Apparently, most people early in the bible that were mentioned h
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by mercurialshark 6y ago
I'm not addressing guilt, but to your point, it may be but one way to demonstrate their market dominance (even if the consequences are beneficial for consumers). If you spent illicit funds on a good cause, it can still be used as proof
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by mercurialshark 6y ago
It is entirely appropriate to consider Apple's conduct as anti-competitive and/or acting as part of a cartel, without asserting that the appropriate remedy is an injunction allowing Facebook to utilize user's unique device ID
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Fleeing WhatsApp for Better Privacy? Don't Turn to Telegram(wired.com.)
9 points by mercurialshark 6y ago|2 comments
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by mercurialshark 6y ago
I would encourage you to read this article from the EFF. They do an excellent job of explaining material concerns regarding private censorship and chokepoints for the freedom of expression: "Beyond Platforms: Private Censorship, Parler
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by mercurialshark 6y ago
If someone posts an inaccurate or untruthful comment that a reasonable person would not rely upon for their safety, I think the correct response is to mute, unfollow or retort (and if it's self-evident, hopefully it's easy to expl
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by mercurialshark 6y ago
Yes, and I fundamentally reject the premise that inaccurate expression should be censored or moderated without a proximate cause to a specific harm or credible imminent apprehension of harm. I do not think censorship is justifiable for pot
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by mercurialshark 6y ago
There has been no ruling by the court on the merits of the case. A TRO is simply a request for injunctive relief, asking the court to compel AWS to reinstate services pending litigation. Additional briefs following the TRO, replies, nor res
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by mercurialshark 6y ago
There are separate issues. i) Antitrust - AWS's behavior may be viewed as an antitrust issue, acting in conjunction with a cartel. A party does not need to have majority market share to function in coordination with other dominate play
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by mercurialshark 6y ago
I don't think responding in less than five minutes was unreasonable. It's also not legal advice, simply my personal opinion on some of the numerous issues that are likely to be litigated. I also think this entire thread will be wo
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by mercurialshark 6y ago
I do not possess power to read minds, nor anticipate the court's actions. I find it all, very interesting!
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by mercurialshark 6y ago
There has been no ruling by the court on the merits of the case. A TRO is simply a request for injunctive relief, asking the court to compel AWS to reinstate services pending litigation. -- > Packinghan v North Carolina (2017) - Access t
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by mercurialshark 6y ago
Without addressing the specifics of the TRO (which is simply an early stage request for injunctive relief, asking the court to compel AWS to reinstate services pending litigation): Packinghan v North Carolina (2017) - Access to social media
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by mercurialshark 6y ago
Sure, I'll circle back with a longer form response in a few minutes. In the meantime, I find it interesting that people think down voting my comment will intimidate me into changing the analysis. That's not how legal judgment work
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by mercurialshark 6y ago
Packinghan v North Carolina (2017) - Access to social media and digital infrastructure cannot be prohibited by the state. Marsh v Alabama (1946) - Constitutional protections of 1st and 14th amendments applicable within confines of “town” ow
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by mercurialshark 6y ago
I appreciate your comprehensive answer, it's very helpful. Question: > "you'll starve, or poison, the brain long before you manage to starve out a cancer. (Yes, Ketone bodies are a thing, but that happens alongside your bo
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by mercurialshark 6y ago
You could enable offsite donations that provide a receipt/hash that denotes (donation -> validated), without being tied to any individual. Then the user could copy/paste a generic, non-correlated code into Signal to authenticat
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Astronomers Get Their Wish, and a Cosmic Crisis Gets Worse(quantamagazine.org)
2 points by mercurialshark 6y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Is copyrighted material limiting the creative potential of AI?
1 points by mercurialshark 6y ago|1 comments
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by mercurialshark 6y ago
The title should more accurately reflect that the regulators were the data custodians that were compromised. 'The European Medicines Agency (EMA), which assesses medicines and vaccines for the European Union, said hours earlier it had
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by mercurialshark 6y ago
Wow, regulators and government entities are terrible custodians of personal data, I'm shocked...
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by mercurialshark 6y ago
I appreciate you addressing this, because it speaks to the point. Lies, falsehoods, misinformation and irrational statements are all protected by the first amendment. As is uttering insane and unintelligible thoughts in public. If speech is
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by mercurialshark 6y ago
It's not just the ruling that was problematic, but also Oliver Wendell Holmes' often referenced grotesque metaphor. Holmes' used the metaphor to equate criticism of the government during wartime to being so dangerous for soci
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by mercurialshark 6y ago
Disfavored and inaccurate dissenting views are to be censored? What could possible go wrong with suppressing diverse - even if entirely refutable - speech?
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by mercurialshark 6y ago
> Affective empathy, also called emotional empathy: the capacity to respond with an appropriate emotion to another's mental states. This is what I meant by "emotional intelligence" in the comment below.
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by mercurialshark 6y ago
All good points, thanks. Yes, being on the receiving end - especially when you rely on the other person's best intentions - can be traumatizing. And yes, that's a particularly terrible form of manipulation.
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by mercurialshark 6y ago
> a nightmare because they appear so charming outward to powerful people in decision making positions, while being cruel and sadistic to others I wouldn't conflate emotional intelligence - i.e. the ability to modulate behavior based
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The Ethics of Rebooting the Dead(wired.com.)
1 points by mercurialshark 6y ago|0 comments

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