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by skynet-9000 6y ago
http://powertochoose.org/ is the state of Texas' website for choosing your local electric provider that shows different providers and their prices. Not all of Texas is deregulated, so you'll need to choose a zip c
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
> The debt did ensure I stopped pursuing grad school for physics as the math became impossible to justify. I appreciate that this comment can be read two different ways.
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
> it is hardly socially unacceptable to vote for a republican and you have a secret vote anyway. Those two things are not in conflict with each other: a sizable percentage of Trump voters may have been counting on the fact that they coul
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
This is a strikingly illiberal stance. Attacking free speech is precisely the opposite of what civil liberties has traditionally all been about.
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
> Unlike smallpox, the only virus that humankind has successfully eradicated, there are animal reservoirs for COVID-19. there are , or there might be ? Is there any evidence that COVID-19 exists in an animal population in any signific
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
That's tough. Seems like if they're going to a tiny and consistent group of friends' homes in the evening to have a drink, then they're effectively an extension of your family and any spread would be limited to that rela
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
A 6pm curfew? In heavily urban parts of the U.S. and perhaps other parts of the world, people don't even get home from work by then, and the virus doesn't pay too much attention to what time it is either.
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
Or just magnet links.
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
> America's 1% Has Taken $50T From the Bottom 90% Wealth is not a zero-sum game. If I take two lines of code and put them together, I've created something of value that I might be able to sell. Wealth is created all the time
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
This may be true. It wouldn't surprise me if Parler said "no" when asked to take them down, but I didn't see that even in Amazon's court filing. However, I don't think Amazon should interfere in customers&#x2
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
Yeah, that's a disgusting comment and it's far worse that it received upvotes if that screenshot is accurate. Nevertheless, it is legal free speech, even if it makes me very angry.
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
I agree, which makes Parler's dispute over Amazon's claimed timeline far more plausible to me.
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
How many years did Twitter exist before hiring big teams of moderators?
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
According to Amazon . Parler has vociferously disputed this.
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
I think HN strives to achieve this (as you point out, very high bar) and does a pretty good job with it overall. I do believe that dang's and the moderator teams' light touch has really aided a free-ranging discussion among people
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
> And it was just one site, and its users just moved on to Gab and such. Is this intentionally ironic? Or did you not actually know that Gab was completely deplatformed in exactly the same way, and it almost killed them by knocking the
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
> I'm interested in knowing how you think a real "free speech" platform can actually work, however. We have message boards that do this and they are just toxic cesspools. The idea of an online "public square" th
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
"Two is one and one is none."
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
This is true. Apple can't get rid of Facebook or Google Maps, no matter how much they hate them, but they can easily get rid of pesky startups while claiming to be standing on principles. Not much of a moral victory there, though! (eve
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
So, the path to success for Parler would have been: Step 1: Hire huge moderation team. Step 2: Write draconian terms of service that incorporated every possible offensive thing that any vendor might object to. Step 3: Build an app that expl
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
Amazon claims this, and Parler disputes that this was brought to their attention. (it's not easy to ramp up moderation overnight -- and FB/Twitter have consistently had far worse, even with far larger moderation teams.)
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by that. I read the AWS response. Nothing there seemed to be much worse than I've seen on Twitter (actually, Twitter stuff was far worse). Regardless, this is besides the point: all a competitor has to d
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
> You obviously did not see the material that the company allowed to be posted on their services in contravention to their hosting provider's terms of services. Always abide by your host's AUP. AWS AUP: "You may not use..
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
It looks to me like people who were not professional investors or immature executive leadership caught the tail of the tiger when they launched a passion project or activist platform and it took off. (To be clear, I wish it'd worked ou
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
As someone who does deeply believe in and care about free speech (from all parties), I could not be in deeper agreement with you. (for non-native English speakers: I fully agree). Parler should not have been de-platformed. That was a clearl
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Ask HN: Are there any good non-Google swipe keyboards and maps for Android?
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
I really love swipe keyboards. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any for LineageOS/F-droid unless you use the Play Store and Google .. which is the trade-off I'm willing to make. (The other one is the loss of a good map
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
I don't know, I was going to start an auction site with the memorable name "eBay", but then someone beat me to it. (Counterpoint: it is pretty short and pronounceable..)
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
Right, that was the point. You can never get rid of "bad actors", and even if possible, that would have a myriad of unintended consequences (such as living under authoritarianism). The irony in this case is that the speech that is
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
While we're at it, should we ban email apps as well? And probably the Internet itself and go back to "safe" walled gardens like AOL, since there are almost certainly bad people on the net?

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