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It's not that harsh. He wrote some good things in the past, but his recent essays are very simple minded and anti-scientific. You can't categorize people like you are in a middle s…

Chomsky did a lot of work to show that it's not optimizing for profits or some subconscious biases of people influencing press, but very deliberate power structure pushing specific…

> The elephant in the room not addressed in this essay is the widespread use of bad faith arguments, and the absence or dismissal of evidence in preference of beliefs and feelings.…

> Right now there are people running around saying that COVID is as deadly as the flu COVID is as deadly as flu. Some people just underestimate flu, as if it's something not danger…

For anyone else wondering why they use ZeroSSL as a fallback: "Caddy has been acquired by the company behind ZeroSSL"

> does Parallels fall into the category of software that runs poorly on the new M1 chipset? It does for most use cases where you want to run images meant for different CPU architec…

For plenty of applications the whole purpose is not to run "a normal browser" and possibly not even have it installed.

This is pretty much the current step already, not the next step, with broad ban on anything that isn't a lot like Chrome and anything that they simply don't want to allow. In the l…

Insisting on getting paid for work is very different from insisting on owning a scarce resource in order to force others to pay you for it as much as you can squeeze from them. The…

This is pretty backwards in spirit. If you own the code, there is no reason to let any corporation use you like that. Just change the license to something anti-corporate if you sta…

The problem with your arguments is that they are full of assumptions of things that you say are good for society and humanity, while we don't actually have a scientific understandi…

It's not that simple. Xenophobic content, for example, is "unchecked" on any U.S. owned platform, so is some racism, but not racism against black people specifically. At the same t…

These things could easily end up in ECHR, because a "fascist", just like an "idiot", could be considered an opinion, judgement, not a fact and so it cannot be false, unless it mean…

> if we agree that denial is worse for society but currently better for the guilty, what can we do to change that Why is it worse for society? Guilt is already an emotion that exis…

They basically do account downweighting for people they don't like. Just make a new account with clean cookies and if you are using the same IP check your comment visibility from o…

With $1k MRR you can move to many cheap countries in the world and live there comfortably while working on your product, service, whatever it is you are offering. You can't do that…

> for more than a year I have been watching perfectly fine comments getting buried almost instantly. Apart from an obvious problem of too many people having downvoting privileges, …

This reads like a dystopian fantasy, a "vision" to inject government control into every aspect of people's digital life.

> I will have to agree with this. Until I started working with Erlang/Elixir, I would probably have agreed with the OP article instead. Or at least its title, for reading about con…

At the beginning of the pandemic my sibling, who lives in the US, left Silicon Valley expecting to work remotely permanently, bought a big house in a much much cheaper location and…

I thought it was Frankfurt in Germany, but can't confirm, there is only public data on per country connectivity, where Germany is at the top. But Brazil is definitely in top 5, for…

There is no way DIY diode bridge and filtering caps on a separate board could make a slightest difference here, in fact high frequency noise from the power supply could only be fil…

No, it has all the commits from the latest version, the one released after the github takedown.

Currently you can get it from the author's gitlab: https://gitlab.com/dstftw/youtube-dl , i.e. git clone ' https://gitlab.com/dstftw/youtube-dl.git '

Actually, a hosting company challenging the police in jurisdiction where ECHR is ratified would go exactly there once it exhausts options in local courts. But not a customer of a h…