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by ytpete 4y ago
No one "burned down cities" and the vast majority of protests in the BLM movement were peaceful. In some cases, property damage and at least one actual murder were traced back to right-wing provocateurs, as well. You have to take
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by ytpete 4y ago
But so does this mean on Twitter, leaks and whistleblowing about Twitter will be censored but leaks and whistleblowing about any other company will not? Because that sure doesn't sound like the neutral "free speech" moderatio
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Ironically, "free speech" as a broader principle can also be interpreted to mean a private company should not be compelled to carry or broadcast anyone else's speech if they don't want to. Any private company can choose
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Because not doing so would fly completely in the face of everything Elon claimed he wanted Twitter to stand for. They would be putting their finger on the scale to censor speech critical of Twitter, and Twitter only. (Or maybe other favored
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I don't believe that's true. For copyrighted work, you can issue a takedown notice to the website - but copyright is federal law. NDAs are just private contracts. If you could sue someone for hosting/posting NDA content, th
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by ytpete 4y ago
He seems almost certain to accelerate it - Twitter is estimated to now owe over $1 billion per year in debt service payments due to the leveraged buyout: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-12/musk
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And if you eject the gas tanks from a plane, it will fly a lot faster... for a time.
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It might be more a play to spook his co-investors into backing out of financing the deal, which then gives him an excuse not to go through with it (while also covering part of whatever penalty fee he can negotiate using whatever penalties h
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by ytpete 4y ago
The First Amendment only constrains the government - not any private company. So it's meaningless with regard to Twitter's moderation policies. Nor is it useful as a voluntary limit on content moderation. Any social media site tha
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Right - it should never really be suspicious for a research paper to include text rationalizing why it's a good idea to invest in researching that topic. That's just basic self advocacy.
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If you modify this to interpret "everything will be paused" as applying just locally to a single team owning a specific area or product, it sounds a lot more sensible. I've been on multiple teams that organically chose to try
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Earlier post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32903064
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The distinction might be: are they at least trying and putting a reasonable investment into moderation, or do they not care / have no plausible plan. Disclaimer: I have to idea what degree of content moderation Truth Social currently h
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You're writing as if this is just analytics tracking a user's actions in their own UI. It's not! This is tracking actions users take, and data users enter, on 3rd-party websites . That is not "what happens in Tiktok&#
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by ytpete 4y ago
This exact theory has been put forward by scientists a few times - that variation in sleep-wake times helps guard a tribe or camp at night. A 2017 study of an indigenous hunter-gatherer group found that there was virtually always at least o
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by ytpete 4y ago
It looks like the policy isn't as rigid as this tweet suggests – the next couple bullets in the bill appear to say you can have known vulnerabilities so long as they're explicitly disclosed and have a mitigation plan. The full t
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I hacked my car(programmingwithstyle.com)
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Flash Player releases toward their later years were codenamed after San Francisco street names, in alphabetical order (a bit like Android's alphabetical dessert names). Another fun thematic one from that era was Adobe's Flex platf
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> mixing friendship with work rarely ends well That generalization definitely doesn't hold for everyone. I've made so many great and lasting friendships from work over the years - even picked up some new hobbies and gone on tri
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This is of course true, but hiring strong engineers is a very competitive market these days. Especially in hot fields like ML for self-driving cars. That's really the root of this discussion - can you offer worse terms than other emplo
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Doctors Transplant 3D Printed Ear Made of Human Cells(nytimes.com)
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Google Maps has been showing traffic lights (and stop signs) on the route ahead for the last couple months – so I wonder if they will be shifting soon to a similar way of indicating upcoming turns. This seems like the kind of thing that&#x2
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by ytpete 5y ago
That doesn't seem like quite the same model though - a new customer has to purchase the base app plus all IAPs in order to gain the full feature set. Whereas in the traditional paid upgrades model, when you pay the full app price you
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I'm not sure WASM buys you anything you couldn't already get by just running your whole entire app in a VM. And if walling an app off in a VM makes it not useful (i.e. it's not useful if all it has access to is network &
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Don't cells in humans (and other animals) basically have a similar safeguard, and when it breaks due to mutations the result is cancer? And cancer arises with uncomfortably high probability...
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Isn't Iran a great example of sanctions actually having some useful effect, though? In 2015 Iran agreed to give up much of its nuclear program in exchange for lifting many of the US/UN/EU sanctions.
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I'd still argue it's a bad sign if the candidate is stuck with nothing even compiling after 45 minutes. That's not a sign of the problem being complicated, that's a sign of the developer either (a) struggling to figure o
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by ytpete 5y ago
I think they're using "onsite" here to indicate the second interviewing stage, after the initial "phone screen." Both terms are somewhat misnomers these days since both stages are often done over video.
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Fed up with long hours, employees quietly take it easy rather than quit jobs(twitter.com)
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by ytpete 5y ago
Longer discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30550804

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