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I believe this bill messes up in two ways: First, it engages in content-based discrimination. If passed, it'd face immediate First Amendment challenges. It's exceedingly hard to pa…

Sisvel isn't directly named in this statement but it's clearly targeted at them: http://aomedia.org/press%20releases/the-alliance-for-open-me... I trust the AOM will handle this th…

Luckily, it seems like the industry is coming along with AV1. I'm not aware of any major companies opposed to AV1. There's going to be a lag time before enough HW is being used tha…

A follow up article from the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-prote... It appears the DC leadership and the Pentagon wanted to avoid a show o…

I'm not sure if it could be largely characterized as security theater. The videos from the Capitol demonstrate just how outmatched the police were: https://twitter.com/KySportsRadi…

Facebook is a private company. It is their right to do what they want on their site. It seems fair that they should do what they believe is right. You're free to say whatever unpop…

If I was part of a developing nation then, yes, I would absolutely want those jobs. They tend to be the best jobs in the region and one of the key ways to advance your social class…

To a certain extent, there is substantial amount of "smoke shaming." A lot of the smoking mass media ads involved second hand smoke which was largely a shame campaign. By demonstra…

Interestingly, I've tried to find this exact website through Google before. It was very hard because the search terms "good", "cheap", and "fast" are common and used together frequ…

Most work-from-bed setups are ergonomic disasters. The typical person who works from bed is not getting a $5,995 Zero Gravity setup or anything like that. Ergonomic issues aside, m…

Someone re-appearing doesn't mean that they were not kidnapped.

I confirm that Mixer delivered on the sub-second latency claims. As far as I know, FTL's performance is in line with WebRTC's performance. As long as the servers in-between are fas…

+1 to the idea of locally stored Markdown files as a database. Obsidian is a very neat tool but I'd generally preferred using VS Code. I've used roughly the same flow here: https:/…

Even among unions, the tone and political messaging from the AWU is particularly left. It's obvious if you contrast the AWU's stated principles and values with a more traditional u…