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>They don't let "just anyone" publish in a newspaper but almost all major newspapers allow voices across the political spectrum in the form of letters and op-eds.

Yes... that are heavily curated by the Editors. They don't publish every OpEd, nor every Letter to the Editor they get. Yes, they post dissenting viewpoints constantly - that is the function. But that isn't free speech at all in the context of social media and what you're describing.

>That's what free speech culture is about. It's the idea that "everyone gets their say"

Again, not everyone - not even most people get their say. Certainly none of the rantings and ravings get published. Solid, cogent, fair or interesting letters get published in credible platforms (i.e. newspapers and TV) - as determined by the Editors or the OpEd review boards depending on the governance of the particular platform.

> and by disagreeing and arguing, we get closer to the truth.

Agreed - but that has nothing to do with allowing all view points and anyone with an idea, no matter how dangerous or how bad. Hell, even in full page advertisements, Newspapers can and will choose not to take your money if it's something that they think is harmful or antithetical to their platform. And they always have.

This isn't new or unique.

>It's sad that more and more people are taking your view, which is that people can publish contrary opinions but there's no reason in particular to do so.

What I'm trying to share with you is that you are the outlier here. What everyone is describing is more or less status quo prior to social media taking an "anything goes" stance. That has never been the reality prior to that.

Do you think they just let anyone publish in a newspaper? Outside of cable access, you couldn't just hop on TV previously either.

This is entirely a social media age problem. This isn't "OMG, we're censoring" it's "we're applying the same limitations that have always existed on a new medium" - which is people deciding on what is in good taste (to them) and appropriate for their platform (to them).

The "Big Platforms" used to be newspapers, and then TV.... there has always been editing and curation.

Social Media actually was a huge "democratization" of the ability to give a very large voice to some very minority views.

Previously we had subjective - but real - barriers to having a voice.

Common language is always needed - this is CDG, a large airport with many flights. It is important that all planes have situational awareness. If half are speaking French, how does the pilot coming from Seoul have situational awareness? What if he's sitting on the runway and doesn't know that the ATC just gave clearance to land in French to a pilot on the runway he's currently on?

ATC and pilots for commercial airlines should only be speaking English, regardless of their native tongue and where they are.

It's pretty important - and it is actually EU law: https://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/29531/air-traffic-cont...

Unfortunately it only applies to airports with 50k international flights per year - the bar should be much lower than that. But of course, CDG qualifies.

Not just deference. They crashed without ever declaring an emergency. Ultimately, ATC could have been better - but that was a pilot CRM issue.

I mean... if you're doing some video editing at work using remote storage on a 10G NIC or have an external SSD plugged in, you're easily going to find yourself in a contention scenario that would just be solved by using Thunderbolt.

A modern SSD will easily pump out 5GB/s reads/writes (40Gbps).

Yes, in the newer spec, but it does only leave you with 10Gbps for everything else on your dock.

No, it doesn't. Intel stopped charging licensing fees a while back:

https://bit-tech.net/news/tech/peripherals/intel-thunderbolt...

If you needed 4K/60Hz you need thunderbolt not USBC until recently. It is hardly flexing, they aren't that much more expensive - and provide significantly more bandwidth.

I managed to get 1Gbps (minus overhead) with the Dell version of the display. But it is highly variable based on what else my CPU is doing, which is my experience broadly with USB ethernet.

Did Microsoft pay you to say Microsoft Github instead of just Github?

Nope, I am very much not - but I believe the twitter algo biases opposing viewpoints on popular tweets. Go look a tweet from AOC, and then from Ted - the replies I see are almost all opposing views, not the most popular replies or anything similar. You have to scroll a bit to find the sycophants.

but they'll never be cheaper for not ultra-rich people, nor will they have the utility to warrant the expenditure.

Panic rooms will never get cheap - except in new construction - though.

Unlike cars, houses aren't replaced every 3-10 years. Retrofitting panic rooms will always be expensive - just like retrofitting airbags to a car without them (no one does it).

Similarly, the cost/benefit isn't there to everyone. Every passenger probably has a roughly equal chance of being in an accident, the likelihood that an average person needs a panic room is much lower than the top 0.001% (and probably bottom percentage in the hood would benefit to, but can't afford it, or even giving up the real estate to one, unless it was the primary bedroom).

Airbags were also expensive predominantly because they weren't being installed - and automakers DIDN'T want to install them: https://www.csmonitor.com/1988/0519/abelt.html. I'm not sure cost of production or installation was ever really the significant hurdle to their uptake.

Those are not antonyms.

I don't think most people would argue that Musk isn't a visionary. I also don't think most people would argue that Musk isn't divisive.

Calling that R&D is disingenuous. You can learn valuable things on your way to making stupidity, of course, but that's not R&D.

Twitter does a fair amount of OSS, though I can't see a lot of contributions that probabilistically out of Spaces.

Not hard to believe - younger people make up the bulk of their audience, and probably the bulk of HN that trend more liberal. That's a reflection of the userbase though, not necessarily of Twitter or HN's views. I would bet most LPs are more conservative - if only in private.

OK, so the recommendation engine is liberal?

I don't know how the recommendation engine works, but Barack Obama is the most followed account on twitter I think, so can see how they'd suggest that...

But if the recommendation engine is anything like their recommended tweets, I think they intentionally show you the other side always. I see tons of garbage view points that I don't agree with almost exclusively when I view a tweet. Without knowing anything about your tracking cookies and however else they 'enrich' what they know about you, it's tough to say why you got the recommendations you did. If you signed up based on a tweet from a democrat so you could engage by telling them they're wrong, maybe they assumed you like other democrats.

If your complaint is that Twitter is an outrage inducing platform by design, I would absolutely agree. But that isn't an ideological bent. It just wants you to engage, and the fastest and easiest method is to make you mad.

I don't live in France and don't follow their politics.....

Do you believe that Twitter's Terms of Service have an ideological bent?

Do you believe that Twitter's Terms of Service are being applied when they shouldn't against conservative politicians in France?

Do you believe that Twitter's Terms of Service are only used against Conservative politicians - and do you have examples of Tweets that were actioned for conservatives and counterexamples that were not actioned for liberal politicians?

This post tells me more about your political/ideological views than it does illustrating Twitter's alleged ideology, or what problems that has caused.

Hah - this sounds not dissimilar from the first fission bombs that were "gun" type.

There were far more than two involved. That article just covered the two.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

And that’s just the ones they had enough evidence against.

If you clicked the Parent's link, you would have seen it was discussing the anti-poaching collusion / wage fixing that was going on.

You couldn't walk across the street, because the company across the street agreed not to hire employees from the other company across the street.

The free market isn't always free.

Do you have evidence to support that the strong union in Seattle negatively influenced the SC voters?

SC has the lowest union membership in all 50 states - there's a lot of ingrained bias against unions there, and I'm not sure I see the connection to the Seattle, WA plant or workforce.

Hard disagree - it's actually pretty awful from a mobile user's perspective.

You dial a number that is +1 and looks like a normal 10 digit phone number.... and bam, you're paying $3/minute to call Canada (back when everyone charged more for Canada) or Bermuda that is still expensive I think on every carrier.

Everyone could use 10 digit dialing and have their own country codes still... it's silly that 19 countries are sitting behind +1 and that they might have a significant surcharge to call.

If you think their strategy is to lull someone else into attacking them, I guess?

Occam’s razor is more likely - the west vastly overestimated their capability practically the entirety of the Cold War, and you’re doing it again now.

I mean... assuming the Russians have anything that works is probably not a great assumption based on their performance in Ukraine.

But I think they provide overlapping, but different, roles. But missiles and torpedoes is why aircraft carriers travel in carrier groups that have defensive capabilities against torpedoes and missiles.

only a matter of time before this is photo enforced with recognition for humans being done by ML.

sure, but if those people are updating the status pages to say something isn't right and we're looking into it, we're doomed.

My recent survey of Uber/Lyft cars is they're absolutely every bit as shitty as some of the Yellows out there.

No cabby objects to going to Brooklyn and hasn't for almost 10 years.

Uber/Lyfts at JFK constantly call and try to ask where I'm going before they pick me up.

The Curb app is fine.

The problem is not the medallions but the centralization of medallions. Owner/operators are usually much better than the dude renting the cab and medallion from some shady ass company.

The TLC should do more to fix the cabs - and we should support them fixing cabs and owner/operators at the expense of Uber/Lyft. The competition is good, but Uber/Lyft are no better than the medallion squatters.

They don't need to be profitable to be worth a lot of money. His asking price is 3B GBP.