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sasasassy··on CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]
The grounds to arrest me are me not obeying a direct order, not asking "why".

Police officers have the authority to make quick judgement calls in many situations. Obviously we are all human and I could ask why and try to plead my case, but I should also expect that after some time of non-compliancy I may be detained. The felony is called something like "failure to obey a police officer".

And it's in the laws of the nation.

sasasassy··on CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]
Of course I agree, but it reminds me of a situation many years back where I live.

There was a big protest and people started throwing rocks at the police, and the media were in the middle of the police at that moment. It actually made the police's response much slower and dangerous because they first protected the media and escorted them out from the protesters range, before charging and arresting people.

I'm sure they have trained some protocol to how to control mobs, and throwing innocent civilians in the mix wrecks the whole thing.

sasasassy··on Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
American citizens should be shot in the same circumstances any other citizens should be shot, like when all other reasonable countermeasures fail and they are posing a credible treat to other people's lives.
sasasassy··on CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]
I don't have an issue with this.

Both the police and the reporters were calm and polite. The police told them they had to clear the street and instead of obeying the order they asked to let them know when they were going to actually walk down the street. Since they refused to obey the order they were detained and escorted out of the way.

Being a reporter does not give you a free pass to disobey orders, specially during situations like that. Being a police offer also does not give you the right to mistreat people of course, but in this video everyone actually behaved very well.

sasasassy··on The startup economy is fundamentally broken and the virus will make it worse
Let me offer a bit of anecdotal evidence in response. Where I live, there are about 4 major competitors "Uber" services, and everyone that I know that regularly uses them, just uses whatever is cheapest at any given point. Usually it is to do with what campaign or promo code has been given most recently.

My observation is that, yes for the general public there may be only "Uber" or traditional taxis, but those are the people that never use it in the first place.

> Platforms win out because of user familiarity, not because they're necessarily the cheapest option.

Uber is not a platform for the user. It is a service for basic transportation that costs money, and all car hailing apps offer similar enough experiences with different price tags depending on how fast the company is throwing money away.

sasasassy··on Grandmother ordered to delete Facebook photos under GDPR
It requires the grandmothers remove the pictures when requested by the child's guardian.
sasasassy··on Reddit's top user leaves platform after harassment
I have never used reddit, and just know that "karma" is a type of points system like here on HN. Could you explain why you personally are interested in accumulating karma by "karmawhoring"?

I ignore the points system in HN too, but I think it's main function is to ban bad actors. So I don't understand on the other hand why someone would accumulate points unless they mean to later spend them on "bad actions".

sasasassy··on The startup economy is fundamentally broken and the virus will make it worse
Uber and it's competitors are "dumping" their services, trying to kill their opponents before they run out of money. When only one survives, they'll raise prices to try to break even.
sasasassy··on Google rolls out DNS-over-HTTPS support in Chrome 83
I think that this change would mean that, by default, the DNS server used will be specified by Google/Chrome team. If the DNS server were still my router then there's no point to this really.
sasasassy··on Google rolls out DNS-over-HTTPS support in Chrome 83
I wonder in what new ways will ISPs start blocking illegal websites.
sasasassy··on Ask HN: Now we're staying inside with Wi-Fi, have you changed your cell plan?
Yes, I've changed to a plan with a lower internet cap, at €3/month.
sasasassy··on Pentagon official: FCC decision on 5G threatens GPS, national security
Let me just point out that satellites don't necessarily orbit around the world. They can be geostationary, and in fact they usually are I think. That is why you will find most US GPS satellites over the US, most Russian satellites over Russia, etc.

Also, signal disruption is already very common as a necessary precaution at sensitive times and places. I think many military bases and other sensitive places, like the Kremlin, have signal interference so they are very imprecise to target with GPS-guided weapons.

sasasassy··on New 13-inch MacBook Pro
No one will acknowledge the use of "faster performance"? Alright.
sasasassy··on CEO of Banjo admitted to being a Neo-Nazi skinhead in his youth
Why can't you accept that? People change and people can still be afraid that if everyone knew what they did as a teenager they'd be attacked relentlessly. Lying is exactly the correct thing to do when living in an unreasonable world.
sasasassy··on CEO of Banjo admitted to being a Neo-Nazi skinhead in his youth
Why not hide it? If you did something very stupid at 17, something of which there is public record for everyone to find with a background check, do you still have to go around telling it to everyone for the rest of your life?

You have paid for your stupidity and life goes on. In this case life has certainly moved on and it doesn't seem like he is secretly creating a 4th reich in his free time.

Of course if you can do something easy to hide it like spelling your name better great. It has been a long time, but some people don't seem to understand this and seem to want criminals to be punished forever.

Why bother about this?

sasasassy··on How Apple And Google Are Going To Enable Contact Tracing
Private until someone flags someone or everyone as infected.
sasasassy··on [dead]
Who are "they" and where does it say that on the paper?
sasasassy··on Time to Stop the ‘Doomsday Clock’. – Lawrence M. Krauss
Well, of course.

According to them we have never been closer to doomsday. Not when the Soviet Union got the atomic bomb, not when North Korea attacked, not during the Cuban missile crisis, not during the wars in the middle East with Israel, not during the Berlin crisis on the Tiananmen square protests, and most recently when the US used conventional warfare against a country that supposedly possessed weapons of mass destruction.

No, right now is much closer. (sarcasm)

sasasassy··on [dead]
Maybe, but the call does not mention holding up funds, so we don't really know. It's suspicious, but we don't know.
sasasassy··on [dead]
But he's referring to "us" and the country, not even a favor to him personally. And Biden's son is only mentioned in a later paragraph.

I think it really depends on how it was said in the call, it's difficult to say for sure if he was just going off a bullet point list of concerns with Ukraine, or had his mind set all that time on attacking Biden.

I guess we'll never know for sure, wouldn't be at all surprised if that was the intention though.

Edit: Also about the aid approval. I think the approval happened shortly after the call became public, not after some action was made against Biden's son, so it may be a case of "dammed if you do, damned if you don't".

sasasassy··on Cloudflare is turning off the internet for me
I find it very annoying that the authors thought it would be cute to use another full name for MITM.
sasasassy··on Cyberpunk 2077 Dev Team Will Work Extra Long Hours After Latest Delay
Sad, they should just delay it. One year crunch to finish Witcher 3? They should have better worker protection laws.
sasasassy··on Twitter Suspends Dozens of Accounts of Venezuelan Officials
That is a very biased article. All the individuals mentioned are already under sanctions by most of the world, and anyone outside of Venezuela would say the Maduro government is criminal.
sasasassy··on [dead]
Is there any reason whatsoever to think Russia interfered? I mean outside the bull of "Russian person or company bought ads on Facebook", because if that counts I think half the world interfered in the election.
sasasassy··on The NYPD kept an illegal database of juvenile fingerprints for years
Sure, it sucks, and the bureaucracy that is the NYPD probably means records are kept from longer than they should, and that is bad. But still, the kids data will not be used against them later on, i.e. crimes they commit at that time won't be prosecuted. Their data only helps arrest them if they actually commit a crime, so they would be the ones breaking the rule of law.
sasasassy··on The NYPD kept an illegal database of juvenile fingerprints for years
Jesus Christ people. Let's be honest here, the NYPD kept some data, we don't even know how large, about probable criminals. Further it used some detective work to guess who belongs to gangs. These don't look like big crimes to humanity.

I'd be much more worried about, you know, children under 14 committing crimes already.

The lunacy of some of these commenters...

sasasassy··on Do we need a new session paradigm? Could quantum crack it?
Quantum algorithms have the potential to crack public key algorithms, affecting things like SSL. Session data would not be encrypted with a public key algorithm.
sasasassy··on Cloudflare’s service’s questionable practices
That's a bit ironic given that we are browsing a website that degrades gracefully without JavaScript, frames or images.
sasasassy··on U.S. senators want social media users to be able to take their data with them
They are different kinds of websites.
sasasassy··on Google clamps down on free storage
One of the complaints, in the article, is not like the others. The people that have been buying Pixel phones, expecting to have unlimited storage, to find out with the latest device Google forces your content to be compressed, do seem to have been tricked. If there's an expectation there, they have the duty to disclose it.
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