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If you use Alternate Player for Twitch DDG privacy extension was preventing it from connecting with twitch servers and lose quite a bit functionality as you would always stay logged out. Not sure why it was doing that, but just a PSA regarding same extension

Twitter is not new though. It had sway in 2016 and 2012 elections with prominent personalities doing public relation on the platform. Saying its new to political space is pretty disingenuous

> You're getting flagged for naked partisanship

So you're allowed to support democrat agenda "nakedly", but not any other. Got it.

Have you ever seen White House getting fact-checked with democrats in power before the acquisition? If there is any bias going on its from people that have a bone to pick with Elon and his choices

The fact that my comment got flagged for some odd reason highlights the fact that people (including on HN) dont want to hear that Elon is making twitter better and less biased

I think the issue with these massive scale apps is that people want better and fresher features which are not always well defined and get lost in the maze of product development of a huge company. They have to make decisions, do we go with web3 stuff or do we improve current NLP system etc etc. Making decisions is much easier for a small startup than a behemoth of twitters size. And yes, it takes many people. 1000 engineers? Maybe not, bloat has set in at that point, but a few hundred for sure.

"optimization gremlin" = dark-pattern to take as much money away from you as possile

> multigenerational prosperity

With a lot of young people opting out of having kids and trying to find their own way in life, it would make sense that the anti-work and anti-hustler culture is much more prevalent in younger people (millenials being first). Its a generational shift first of all driven by oncoming climate disaster due to over population and will be felt through wars and hungers. Why should young people contribute to such a society and create more suffering in the process.

I am not an anti-natalist, but if we start talking multi-generational that's what it comes down to

Not a fan since proposal would do an implicit join on foreign keys rather than explicit join on the columns. If you know the schemas its great, but would add an extra step to check FKs on the tables otherwise

In general explicit > implicit, IMO

> rewriting a repository to use a ORM, jOOQ in this particular case with Java8

> spend two weeks on this, write extremely meticulous tests, I am a junior/mid level engineer at this point in my career and this is a game changing ticket

> day of the switch approaches, sweating bullets

> switch happens, so far so good

> This was for a food delivery company so the volume of orders changes throughout the day (lunch, dinner, evening etc)

> at lunch time orders suddenly start disappearing, but eventually over time things go back to normal

> goes on like this for hours, at least a few

> tech team is confused ... why are these orders disappearing into nowhere

> senior engineer is suspicious and reviews my PR from the night before

> I forgot to remove `LIMIT 100` on the GET /order query when I was testing

Still makes me chuckle to this day

And then accuse China of stealing their patents and business secrets

Hopefully they completely ignored this and other issues in GTA5 online because they have been working on GTA6 all these years /end sarcasm

But honestly, on a large enough team with a large enough backlog much worse things slip through the cracks. Doesn't excuse this at all though.

Also kudos on the write up! Enjoyed reading it

You would be surprised how much bacteria can grow on fabric after an 8 hour workday assuming you have a customer facing job and need to wear a mask all day

Humidity also encourages bacterial growth and I doubt inhaling that constantly is healthy

> Anything over that can just be taxed.

Except the politicians will take that extra tax money and use it to bail out banks and wall street and spend it on shit that no one needs and impose policies that no one cares about and continue the corruption cycle, only now with a lot more money than they had before. We should trust the government a lot less, not more, with our hard earned dollars.

Greed is part of the human nature, and people in the government are no exception.

Interesting how the whole thing devolves into 4chan-esque cesspool the moment anonymity is introduced. Humans are interesting creatures.

A sack in this case would be different because in the end it was still controlled by Christiandom, as opposed to the Fall when it switched to being controlled by the Ottomans. I think these small details do matter in this case, but maybe its just me.

Interesting, thank you. I had no idea. Especially since it was done by the Christian crusaders themselves.

I guess the article makes no distinction between a Sacking and a Fall.

> After the fall of Constantinople in 1204 CE

Fall of Constantinople was in the mid 15th century [1] (1453 to be exact), not 1204. Its unfortunate when overall informative articles make basic mistakes which could be easily verified/researched

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople

> Maybe you could open source your bank account data, and all your movements to show that you couldn't have opened any secret accounts? That's a ridiculous ask.

Actually, maybe not open source, but otherwise that is exactly what would happen should I be suspect of being a thief. No reason why dominion cannot show their source code to professional investigators to get their name cleared right? If they are so vocal about being innocent, why not do it?

My point is that unvetted IP/code shouldn't be used in democratically critical processes such as elections in the fist place, doing so increases the surface area of bad actors to act maliciously.

Instead of filing massive law suits, why doesn't Dominion attempt to prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that the machines were _not_ biased with technical evidence.

I feel that open sourcing their code would definitely do the trick. It is kinda baffling that something as important as an election is ran on closed-source proprietary codebase.

>4chan trolling nearly resulted in a coup

A few things:

1. It wasn't a coup, it was a protest to protest the unfair election and overall left wing bias. Same way BLM was to protest the unfairness of how black people are treated.

2. It was mostly organized on Facebook and the general "normie" web

> Otherwise homogeneous is whatever demographic you prescribe to and is entirely a self serving concept

Whats wrong with this? I like working closely with people that understand me just by body language and completely frictionless communication. You'd be surprised how valuable that is when you're solving a P0 breakage at 3am.

Asking rhetorical questions of this nature is not achieving anything except airing your hurt sensibilities. People can have opinions other than the ones you hold and I already outlined fairly clearly in my original post what I think.

Heterogeneity is bad for startups because of the need to have no friction communication and shared goals/ideals/experiences. It does _not_ mean that diversity is bad in a big company or overall.

Politically incorrect opinion incoming: the most efficient teams are homogeneous for the same reasons that military battalions are best off being homogeneous.

1. it improves communication

2. shared experiences and culture

3. overall better team cohesion and culture building

I would go almost as far as saying that diversity is a red flag for a startup and that diversity starts to have benefits only in bigger companies

I don't understand how more aid will help rather than exacerbate the problem.

If the previous stimulus checks artificially propped up the economy, gave stock market a boost and led to this Well-off people getting More-well-off effect, how will another stimulus package be any different? The only way I see of doing that is sabotaging the economy (ie, mini-recession) or full on socialist/communist control to distribute the wealth, neither of which sounds pleasant or great in any way shape or form.

Not an economist, just my two cents.

Missing the point here. My issue is silencing free speech/expression/liberty to do those things, not about any corporation in particular

I think you underestimate the effect of politics in big tech. Lobbying happens for a reason and big tech does a very big portion of it.

Slippery Slope means just that, persistent and constant escalation of censorship which is exactly what is happening right now. Amazon jumped on the bandwagon behind Google Play and Apple store and Twitch and Facebook for internet SJW points and to not be left behind in the "I don't like what they say" Olympics.

I don't particularly agree with the messages of Parler or lean right at all, I am a staunch libertarian and believe that any and all opinions should be heard.

"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." - not sure who to attribute it to since I don't know, but it is almost certain this censorship wave was started by a political party for political goals. The end result is the same.

Slippery slope is accelerating. Soon any wrongthink will get you banned by the tech cabal.

You are entitled to your opinion and your echo chamber of choice, but you are doing a disservice to your fellow citizens if you think in black and white