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Social media company censoring and so-called "fact checking" really stepped up around 2018. That's when Congress hauled heads of social media companies into Congressional hearings and both Democrats and Republicans demanded t
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True, most of these are pretty readable by a lay person, but there may be clauses and phrases in there with distinct legal meaning (e.g. "work for hire") that you might miss if you just review it yourself. Though I'm not sayi
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When testing out my new 5G phone, I was able to download a sample large data file at speeds rivaling or exceeding my wired ISP! But other times, 5G my connection nearly stops, despite my phone showing decent signal strength. I've learn
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To be clear this is totally baseless speculation that the government might have had a good reason for censoring a website.
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> It's impossible to use Twitter without JavaScript enabled It's important to note that this is not a technical requirement but an intentional choice by Twitter. I used to surf Twitter with Javascript disabled. They'd show
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> private copyright regime, one which has been tremendously expanded ... The classic way to pay for public goods is through a tax The current copyright regime that extends information monopolies to creators was created by government and
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Why start a corporation in the first place versus an LLC or even a sole proprietorship? The latter costs close to nothing to start, and it doesn't ever need to be dissolved - just stop filing Schedule C once you stop having income and
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The title invites the reader to draw a cause and effect conclusion, but reading the article: > Some of the declines come from software contracts to manage COVID vaccine databases that are no longer needed > Palantir has been doing wor
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> legislation which would ban TikTok ... from operating in the United States What exactly does that mean? The federal government blocking a particular website or app would be unprecedented and would face tons of legal challenges, so base
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Oof, this sounds sadly familiar to me. One of the most damaging developers at my company had a huge line of code count. I feel bad because he loved coding, and worked long hours, and always added lots of unit tests... But the unit tests wer
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> I don't think I've ever met an engineer who is, by themselves, 1000x more productive than even the least productive person I've ever worked with I guess that all comes down to how you measure it. I've worked with pe
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Interesting. I don't have studies but anecdotally many people seem to tie their hyphenated-Americanism to their last name. Of course that just follows one lineage. You could be 60% British, but have an Italian last name, and describe y
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> The whole concept of "premature optimization is the root of all evil" is contrary to the software engineering maxim design first, code second. I'm not familiar with that maxim but it sounds very waterfally. That's a
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Correct me if I'm wrong but this seems to have just started a few years ago? Suddenly news publications all started capitalizing "Black". Maybe it was to provide parity with ethnic groups named after locations with proper nou
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Can confirm, official guidance from the U.S. government says "equal employment opportunity is the goal, affirmative action is the tool to get there." "Affirmative action" originally meant just that it wasn't enough
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Indeed, Harvard in particular institutes their anti-Asian racism by systematically rating Asians lower on "personality" in order to get their numbers down. And that's according to the New York Times: https://www.ny
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Some things are limited by unchanging physics, like what shapes work aerodynamically, limitations imposed by the speed of sound, the maximum amount of thrust that can be generated by a kilogram of fuel, and so forth. Once humans figure out
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Paraphrasing Winston Churchill: democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. For those decisions that need to be made collectively, democracy is just the worst bad method we've come up with. But one huge benefi
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From most articles I've read on this topic, I haven't been sympathetic to the claims that GitHub Copilot violates copyright. After all, human intelligence learns by reading books and reviewing code and then producing novel code. T
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Certainly! But my understanding is that RMS created the free software ideal, formalized as the GPL, that an author freely sharing code with others can in turn require them to freely share any changes and improvements they make to it. If he
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> And I don't think that RMS is the only reason the free software movement has failed For one thing it hasn't failed, the free software movement has been an amazing success. For another, RMS created the free software movement
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Nice but keep in mind that 5x5 font just punted on lower case letters entirely. So there are no descenders and they use the full 5x5 for upper case. The 4x4 font has lower case, so it reserves the bottom row for descenders gjpqy. Its upper
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Like most here, I've learned and forgotton lots of trig and calculus. However, I still remember that "eureka!" moment of realizing that radians were special, that the small angle approximation of sin(x) = x, and many related
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Good points but I don't interpret Bob in the story as being representative of all users who file issues, or of being an egotistic prick. Bob is one example of a seemingly-entitled user, who may be common or uncommon but certainly exist
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In a discussion about Uber drivers you jump to slavery and nearly starving to death. Then follow it up with attacks on my "inexperience" and "inability to adequately reason." You are the one whose confrontational and dis
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> Its comments like this that have caused me to really lose faith in the quality of conversation on Hacker News. Interestingly, it's comments like yours that cause me to lose faith in the quality of conversation at Hacker News. Basi
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Yet GDPR is also what ruins the web browsing experience with all those idiotic cookies notices. Legislating technical details like that is never a good idea.
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Thanks for pointing that out, but I see that as more evidence of deception. If I'm asked to donate to keep wikipedia free, I don't expect my donations to go to political lobbying on issues that I may or may not care about, and may
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I like to call it "The War On Americans (who use drugs.)"
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In his famous talk "A Universe from Nothing", Lawrence Krauss makes the same point, if slightly less definitively. ("We may never know", and that's okay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo

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