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by toomim 6y ago
The solution isn't to (a) ignore the technical proposal and ignore the context, or (b) to ignore the context, and only focus on the technical proposal. The problem is that nobody is bringing these two together. Don't just focus o
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by toomim 6y ago
That's what they've been working on: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/1/19/bb-parler-moves-... https://www.wired.com/story/parler-russia-privacy/
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by toomim 6y ago
Parler had moderation too. The difference is that Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter's moderation lean left, and Parler's leaned right.
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by toomim 6y ago
> Wikipedia has no definition of what makes a source “reliable”. Yes it does. Here's the definition of "reliable source": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources
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by toomim 6y ago
> It also disallows introducing bias in articles on purpose Wikipedia already requires a Neutral Point-of-View as one of its' five pillars [1]. So this policy doesn't affect the content of articles, but it does ban editors
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by toomim 6y ago
I was just thinking about this concept last night on my own, so yes, it is interesting. It's short, but short is good, and an example of the author saying "no" to a additional thoughts.
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by toomim 6y ago
> while also spreading widely the propaganda to cause developers to use the new parts --- even if not actually necessary There's a good argument to be made that WebHID is exactly that. There is already a HID API. This new one is jus
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by toomim 6y ago
If you are outcompeted by people with lower morals, then is it really up to you? You either have to succumb to taking shortcuts, or lose your funding.
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by toomim 6y ago
It's technically feasible. IPFS not so different from Bittorrent, and Bittorrent can run over WebRTC: https://webtorrent.io/ In fact, webtorrent happens to be my favorite bittorrent client. In general, I wish that mor
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by toomim 6y ago
That's not entirely accurate. His solution was to increase the block limit [1], and use faster computers [2]. Note that Bitcoin Cash is currently implementing this, and succeeding at scaling to 1,100 tx/sec on testnet. (Bitcoin
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by toomim 6y ago
You'll get a history from the Bitcoin Cash perspective here: https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/js6jft/frequently_aske...
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by toomim 6y ago
The lockdown gave leaders emergency authorization to make decisions without waiting for votes. In other words, leaders got authorization to bypass democracy.
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by toomim 6y ago
Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, also gives a number of examples of Wikipedia's bias in this article: https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/
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by toomim 6y ago
Ok, so to you, it seems obvious and accepted that Rebecca Mercer is far-right. However, traditionally, the terms "far-right" and "far-left" have been reserved for people who believe violent government coup is a legitimat
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by toomim 6y ago
I'm sorry if this comes across sounding harsh, as I don't know you at all, but your comment sounds like the opinion of someone in a lefty filter bubble. Where I'm from, "far-left" and "far-right" means &qu
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by toomim 6y ago
When you say "far-right" I think you mean "moderate conservative."
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by toomim 6y ago
Parler does ban hate speech within the rule banning "Any direct and very personal insult with the intention of stirring and upsetting the recipient". https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200625/163038447
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by toomim 6y ago
This might not be quite the examples you're looking for, but here's a study of Wikipedia's leftward bias from Harvard: https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/41946110/greenst...
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by toomim 6y ago
They used to have far fewer. But over time, CHI began to include more disciplines, especially the social sciences, evaluated papers with different value systems. The technical HCI people didn't use the same values as the social scien
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by toomim 6y ago
Oh wow, I think you're right.
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by toomim 6y ago
Thanks, that recollection is awesome! I'd love to hear the rest!
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by toomim 6y ago
Sigh... remember when the NYTimes was credible? Those were the days.
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by toomim 6y ago
And now there are 4x as many deaths due to drug overdoses (by fentanyl alone) than Covid! [1] If you really care about public safety, you should pay attention to homelessness, drug addiction, and the problems in the streets! It's kill
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by toomim 6y ago
I'm working on building this. Email me if interested! toomim@gmail.com
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by toomim 6y ago
What's a "commutative" diagram?
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by toomim 6y ago
You might check out this related comment before jumping ship: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25020778
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by toomim 6y ago
And thus the problem: There's no objective distinction between a "conspiracy theory" and a legitimate investigation. So we have one side saying "You're caught up in conspiracy theories!" and the other saying &
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by toomim 6y ago
Is this like IPFS? People have long described it as "Bittorrent inside a filesystem."
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by toomim 6y ago
That's what OP originally did as well.
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by toomim 6y ago
In Portland the District Attorney actually has a policy to not punish people breaking the law in protests. So the surveillance video isn't going to matter for protests anyway.

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