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> Turned out a lot of people were running unstable, overclocked hardware sold to them by vendors who had fraudulently misrepresented the hardware. The original devblog from 2005 is…

I thought enough (5 or so?) downvotes resulted in an automatic [flagged][dead]? Did I misunderstand?

> My car is governed at 110 mph. Why? Most likely due to some physical (not legal) issue that would make it mechanically unsafe to operate the vehicle above that speed even in an o…

I thought the way you wrote it was clear but these comments got me curious what the various conventions might be so I took a quick look at :help in Vim (since it lists an awful lot…

> Who spends that much time just in the command line these days? Just stop using GUI utilities. It really is that simple. If you just don't use them you'll end up in a shell out of…

No. Those are the very definition of publishers, not communications providers masquerading as publishers when it's politically convenient for them (recall the dance around Section …

> Nobody is claiming this. The person I responded to did, in fact, directly imply this. Recall that I had compared the impact of modern mainstream social media to that of the print…

> Freedom of speech is not the same thing as a (nonexistent) right to post whatever you want on a private platform Again with a non sequitur - I never claimed that it was. I said: …

YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc (and to a lesser extent search engines) are the modern equivalent of the printing press in terms of the effect they've had on how we communi…

I suspect you're being rhetorical, but the algorithm and specific metrics to use are selected by the developer. The data is entirely user generated - it's the result of collecting …

Not if it's built into the communication platform you happen to be using. Just one or a few basic indicators to give you even the slightest bit of information about who wrote what …

These aren't singular global quantities. Such censorship reduces spammers' freedom to speak in order to preserve that of the other participants. Spamming closely resembles a traged…

> We limit speech already, you can't advocate for the killing of other people, races, etc... Actually, not that I support such behavior but (at least in the US) you can generally a…

Those aren't mutually exclusive. The government can simultaneously regulate specific behaviors of large entities where there is reason for concern while otherwise largely leaving t…

You have an incredibly well put message here, but then you went and tacked on those last two paragraphs that border on uncivil, are polarizing, and (IMO) fail to add anything meani…

This mirrors my experience perfectly. Conduct on HN is uncommonly civil (for the internet) across the board - props to Dang and whoever else moderates things. Insightful discussion…

Actually, in the age of ML it more or less does. You wire up the model, specify the metrics to optimize for, and then feed it lots of data. The algorithm figures out the details of…

It's generally a good attitude to have, but network effects are real. Disregarding them is a mistake.

Don't worry, you're free to speak your mind so long as you don't actually try to communicate with anyone. Please take care not to express your opinions outside of the officially de…

> They're private platforms. You can send those links via many other routes ... That is a complete non sequitur. You say it's not about freedom of speech. Someone responds that, in…

> It's about freedom of Reach, not freedom of speech. What a snappy cliche. If you prohibit certain people from using the printing press but allow others to do so, then in practice…

> foreign governments and other actors actively seeking to polarize society > What are some better alternatives? I have no idea if it's mathematically possible but I'd be optimisti…

> Your actions on the ledger are mostly permanent, and one opsec mistake and you're screwed. Which is precisely what's motivating the ongoing rapid development of various privacy p…

> You will just write a mobile app and that will be backwards compatible with desktop automatically. A PWA? Sure. But a native app with seamless integration? No way. Instead of Win…

Just do your linking in a final build step that 1: Only reads in object files and resources (ie rejects source code); 2: Bundles up all the object files into an archive; 3: Outputs…