It just cements the idea among consumers that there is only one service, where they can't even name one alternative.
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Also, why can't we just have new.docs.google instead?
There should be a web API that lets you register typing-based shortcuts.
> Also, uninsured balances are enforceable onchain, which is very different from a trusted balance.
Does this mean XLN is implemented with a smart contract that withdraws the money from an address if you fail to pay? Or automatically cancels the channel if you withdraw more than what you have in the channel?
16 negative
8 positive
In the examples of popular threads you cited, a two-thirds supermajority were anit-Stallman.
I did a cursory search for "RMS" and "Stallman" in the past month, since your link was posted. I found 3 pro-Stallman articles (and no anti-Stallman ones):
https://meribold.org/2021/04/07/critique-of-rms-open-letter/ https://www.fsf.org/news/statement-of-fsf-board-on-election-... https://stallman.org/articles/dr-stallman.html
That brings our total to 16 negative and 11 positive, or 1.5 anti-Stallman articles per pro-Stallman articles. (60% anti-Stallman.)
Weighted by the number of comments, there are 378 more comments on the links you provided.
Consider releasing code under AGPLv3 and styling/pictures GFDLv1.3? (GFDL has very strong attribution requirements: you must keep it as part of the title and include other parts.)
That makes me concerned. Does anyone here know if FastAPI is better? How many concurrent connections could your Express app handle at once?
Someone was falsely accused of being misogynist ("Stallman never made me feel uncomfortable." - Molly De Blanc, leader of the anti-RMS letter.), transphobic ("My pronouns were always respected by Stallman and the rest of the GNU Project the day my transition was announced, and the same for other trans developers."), and more. I am outraged that HN failed to prevent– or even show balance– in the spread of this misinformation.
> I assure you that people on the opposite side of this story say exactly the same things, just with one bit flipped.
They are practicing ritual defamation, which mandates any speech presenting evidence is taboo: https://stallmansupport.org/the-practice-of-ritual-defamatio...
> If, after reading those comments, you still think there's something I haven't addressed, please double-check to make double-sure that I didn't address it. If it passes that test, ask me then and I'll try to answer.
Fine.
I set the target and keep the team focused on the current main goal. The idea person hates me for it, because he sees good ideas being ignored. Those good ideas won't deliver substantial value to users until the next milestone is completed, because it is blocking something more important.
Almost all the threads you linked to were misinformation or anti-RMS posts with no substance.
Stallmansupport.org is a website made by a group of women, with articles only from women, debunking the sexism claims. It is rich in primary sources.
Yet it gets flagged.
Non-substantiative news like "Red Hat supports the removal of RMS" doesn't get flagged, but an in-depth website by a group of women does.
"Red Hat Pulls Free Software Foundation Funding over Richard Stallman's Return" is a dupe. Also, less than 3% of FSF funding is corporate, so it's not really relevant.
There were far more "calls for RMS to be removed" that weren't flagged than substantiative in-depth articles that looked at the issue.
I suggest a simple remedy: Don't count flags from people who didn't click to open the article. To implement this, require a min delay between the time the link list is loaded, and the time they flagged.
The most well-known VPS provider (DO) is not profitable and a competitor (Linode) with the same price and a very similar product is profitable.
That in itself is interesting to me, particularly how DO managed to pull off that marketing.
> The second was flamebait on the biggest flamewar topic in months.
Sorry, I didn't see that it was already duplicated. If it was, I would have avoided submitting.
Thanks for putting it in the second-chance pool.
The issue is anything that seems to disagree with Hacker News' mainstream[0] beliefs[1] gets flagged. Or even things the flagger doesn't understand: see this post being killed in the first place.
Why would they need positive PR? Exactly how does that help them?
They are attacking large profitable corporations and sharing some money with charities. They're helping solve inequality.
I bet charities take money from disreputable sources all the time.
Small price to pay for an elegant language.
Yeah, it doesn't support C headers yet. But an excellent prototype nonetheless.
Oh my good gosh. D and C could be seamless together. This is great.
> I decided to flirt with heresy and leave this in
I'd love to see more C language extensions in ImportC.
He implemented the ANSI C compiler here in just 5 days.
Semi-related project, using libclang to import C++ directly (with C++ templates and all the other features, regular D has C++ linking and exception support built-in): https://github.com/Syniurge/Calypso
Some quotes from the forum https://forum.dlang.org/post/s7a37h$2bbv$1@digitalmars.com :
- Writing a C preprocessor is a nightmare. Fortunately, I already did that https://github.com/facebookarchive/warp and we can use it if we choose.
- The D code will be able to inline C code, and even CTFE it.
- There are a lot of wacky C extensions out there. We only need to implement currently used ones (not the 16 bit stuff), and only the stuff that appears in C headers.
- Without a C compiler, we're stuck with, wedded to, and beholden to libclang. I wouldn't be surprised that the eventual cost of adapting ourselves to libclang will exceed the cost of doing our own C compiler.
If you are a hacker, you:
- Mistrust authority
- Promote decentralization
- Share knowledge
- Write open-source software
- Maintain the infrastructure
- Serve humanity
- Are curious
I was able to play the alpha of my game in the embedded Safari! https://i.imgur.com/PWCYEZP.png
Really interesting how iframes are an underused tool.