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apmcduckon Ask HN: Is Moore's Law over, or not?

I can build a GPUless microATX tower for $600 and the 3sqft of extra space costs $400. Somebody is overcharging you for 1U blades.

apmcduckon Journalism, particularly at the highest level, is about raw power

The ACLU went off the deep end sometime in the last 20 years.

apmcduckon Journalism, particularly at the highest level, is about raw power

Powerful people will still be held in check by public opinion, market forces, and other powerful people. We don't need a centralized MiniTrue gatekeeping with its own agenda.

apmcduckon Journalism, particularly at the highest level, is about raw power

Journalist tears are delicious.

"When the full flowering of the social media age turns even the most prestigious paper into just another midsize Facebook page struggling to catch up to the reach of Dan Bongino?"

Good. That's a source of our strength. And It's not going to stop.

Any media company is just another corporation with self-interest that doesn't align with the public good.

apmcduckon Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support

It happens all the time. Possibly a majority of all twitter bans over the last 5 years fit that description. Say racist thing like "Muslims should stay out of the USA" get banned by twitter for "inciting violence against a protected group".

In a way, all political advocacy consists of incitement of violence. Any law not ultimately backed up by the credible threat of violence is just a suggestion. If you don't pay your taxes for long enough, eventually federal agents with guns will come to take you to jail, and if you resist, they'll kill you.