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The Christchurch gunman name dropped PewDiePie at the start of his feed of the shooting.

Does Section 230 apply at all when we're talking about a physically distributed product like this? I get that, even if it doesn't apply, Amazon's defense is probably that they're an intermediary and not the seller, but I thought the DMCA applied pretty strictly to digital copyright violations, and that any lawsuit in this instance would hinge on older laws for physical-good copyright violations.

I'm really amazed they still let the old mobile interface work for the most part. Just add ".compact" to any URL and browse almost annoyance free (newer features like video don't work, but that's not too surprising).

Or fix the CSS

So who is a hard border unacceptable to?

So what happens to the border in a hard Brexit? A hard border between NI and Ireland? Does DUP prefer that?

Why not just accept the deal, and then negotiate better terms down the road? Is there something binding in it that would make it hard to renegotiate once the pressure of the clock has been removed, and you possibly have better leverage?

I didn't look into Alias deeply, but does it even have network access at all? I don't see a reason it would have to.

Mostly what supermatt said -- this is a lot simpler. Particularly, it's been a long time since I looked, but when I last looked neither Google nor Amazon were offering the voice assistants in nice package where you could bring your own hardware but use their APIs. So beyond the hardware, the project would've also involved building my own voice assistant software as well. Both of those ecosystems have evolved alot so that might not be a hurdle anymore.

I love this idea. I've wanted to do something similar for a long time, but I was thinking about building a home assistant where the always-on mic was a complete separate board that only listened for wake words and had no internet access. The main mic would only be powered on when the smaller board woke it up. Alias achieves the same thing in a much simpler way to where I might actually consider buying a home assistant now.

With the weather man, I could keep track of when it rains and doesn't. If it rains significantly more or less than 80% of the time they say there's an 80% chance of rain, I can say that their model is bad.

I can't think of a similar way to evaluate Silver's election forecasting model. They very clearly aren't independent probabilities, and his model changes significantly from cycle to cycle. Was his model good in 2012 when every state went to where he predicted the likely probability was? Was it bad when his model said Hillary had a 71.4% chance of winning?

> along with fake ringing that companies including T-Mobile do to make it seem like the call is being connected to these high cost areas, meanwhile the person your calling doesn't ever receive the call

Interestingly enough T-Mobile has started giving me a notice before calls to some of these providers saying that I'll be charged 1 cent a minute for the call.

No, but they do vote, and they may just vote for an angry populist.

I'd be fine with that, but I'm acutely aware living in the deep south that MANY people would not be happy with that. If we're talking about what's politically feasible within the US, "universal" healthcare is only really an option at the state level, or maybe with some federal maneuvering, as a multi-state regional coordination. It's simply not going to be accepted anywhere in the near-future on a national level.

For the parts of the country that are rabidly anti-universal healthcare, a more free market solution would be a nice consolation prize.

True, and the pricing issue goes even deeper. In my experience in shopping around between doctors while being in an exclusionary waiting period the doctors themselves often have no idea what anything costs.

That's why I think banning non-catastrophic insurance would be helpful. I'm confident if insurance companies were kicked out of routine healthcare you'd see a very quick shift to price transparency.

There's one doctor here in town that mostly caters to undocumented immigrants and he has a price board in his waiting room for cash price of most of the common services. BCBS (which is 90+% of the insurance market in my state) actively prevents other doctors from doing this. He can only do it because most of his patients don't have insurance.

This is the core problem of health insurance as currently structured in the US -- everyone will make a claim eventually so it's effectively a whole life insurance policy except the payout is sporadic and involves tons of bureaucratic crap. I personally would be fine with either universal healthcare or regulating the marketing to outlaw non-catastrophic health "insurance" thereby forcing routine care to be a direct payment relationship with your doctor.

If you don't mind losing the like counter, you can just switch to a static link for the like button. Here's a WP plugin that does essentially that:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/optimized-sharing/

(I haven't used that plugin, but it's similar to what I normally do in WP themes manually)

Google supports the robots meta tag:

https://developers.google.com/search/reference/robots_meta_t...

They could easily add a noindex meta tag to unlisted YT videos and then have Google Search treat it like any other site.

> Python mostly replaced Ruby(Rails) as the first choice for beginners learning backend for the web.

Is that really the case? I mean I adopted Python and Flask for web work quite awhile ago, but I still see a lot more Ruby web devs around here than anything else.

"It definitely appears to be the case that..."

Three of the issues would allow an attacker to take over your router from inside your LAN (not externally). Only one of the issues is an RCE that would usually be exploitable from outside your LAN, and there's some debate as to how hard that one would be to exploit. It might be as simple as getting you to visit a web page, but the published proof of concept would require something like tricking you into manually running a query via the command line or some other administrative tool.

Right, so speeding up blocks is roughly equivalent to increasing the block size, which is what the whole BCH vs. BTC split was over, correct? So I guess the arguments against it would be the same? And if I understand correctly the core argument is that it would make it harder for anyone to verify the entire block chain. Is there any real argument against it beyond that?

Could Bitcoin just halve the difficulty and half the reward for mining a block at the same time? Wouldn't that effectively double the throughput of the system? I'm guessing there's some negative consequences to this I don't understand.

The only legitimate criticism I've heard of the FB patent grant is that FB could intentionally infringe your patents and the you couldn't sue them for infringement without losing your React patent grant. It's such a narrow case though that I seriously doubt it's a legitimate concern for most of the people complaining about it.

I wonder if it's even really about the editing process. It seems possible to me that they intentionally start with a more provocative headline to get more early traction for an article, and then switch to the more neutral title as an article gains views. I could even imagine it being A/B tested early to see which headline will get them the most shares.

With GKE you don't necessarily update your load balancer rules with a deploy correct? The linked thread points the blame for app engine deploys on waiting for GCLB to update.

They still do this with the old mobile interface (which I greatly prefer to the current one). If you just append .compact to a URL you get the old interface.

That seemed like magic to me at first too. I think though that is happens during the installation of the package, which is why he had to reinstall after refactoring.

I initially just skimmed over his log dump from the install, but I think the details are actually important there:

> writing entry points to cute_snek.egg-info\entry_points.txt

The weird part about these is that they're listed as prime and shipped and sold by Amazon. Is there some way to list on demand products that way?

IBM owns Compose.io now, so I'd be a little surprised to see them launch anything on DO.