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Banned for pointing out that you are lying about your moderation policy, nice!

Predictably, this story, despite almost a thousand upvotes, is nowhere to be found on HN front page. Daily reminder that HN is a commercial entity and works hard to avoid annoying their potential business partners.

And none of them is on the front side, despite the upvotes.

HN is owned by YCombinator. They must not annoy their (potential) business partners.

Unfortunately, mine has no builtin CD-ROM, floppy drive, ethernet, serial, or parallel port

So it's like modern laptops? ;-)

Same, but it also reminds me of another thing: I think it was the Solaris format(1M) utility; instead of the usual “y/n” question before performing a destructive action it said something like “will proceed with overwriting XXX in 15 seconds; press ^C to abort”.

Well, no, most people don’t realize US is using slave labor. Most people believe China does, though, despite no proofs. Sadly, people are still quite disconnected from verifiable reality.

And here we have another cornerstone of the racist hate speech - substituting “Chinese” with “CCP”, same way they used to replace “Jews” with “Zionism”.

The problem with American shills like the above is they don’t understand the difference between what they consciously (want to) believe - like them not being racist - and what they actually do believe subconsciously, eg that anyone who points out their shilling is some “Chinese comment farm”.

At the same time many Americans don’t quite believe non-Americans are proper humans. See how they justify invading other countries. Or how any comment critical of US gets flagged as “Chinese comment farm”.

Lol, no. Every technology product has to be modified to comply with FCC, not with whatever Chinese equivalent is. Completely reworking TV shows for American viewers is commonplace (Top Gear, The Office). And there is a long history of absolutely wild censorship, eg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/15/us-prison-wo...

How do we know they start from nothing?

It's a bit more than that - the Russian part of civilisation came _from_ Ukraine. Kiev is much older than Moscow, and that's not something Rashists can forgive.

Google likes to (semi-legally) kill other people software they don't like, like they killed Gaia, the Open Source Google Earth client (which was, in many ways, technically superior to Google's, btw.)

Except this time we know what happens when you try to cooperate with Russia - eventually you get invaded and genocided, as evidenced in Ukraine. USA is a lesser evil.

I'd say HN should prefer the URL that fits its readers best. Which in this case means paywalled URLs should be replaced with the available workarounds for that problem, ie URLs through that archive.ph.

The only reason SMS spam exists is that it's legal. Why is it so, if not for lobbying?

Why ban GPT when we, as a society, are perfectly fine with humans who generate exactly the same kind kind of worthless content?

For example, chatbots can be programmed to send out large numbers of messages that support a particular political candidate or cause, which can distort public discourse and undermine the integrity of elections.

As opposed to an entire industry doing this, except usually by hiring humans?

The main reason for having function keys is that you can have their labels on the screen, and that's intuitive. You can see it with IBM's CICS. Otherwise they are not that useful, and you can see it in eg laptops making Fn a secondary function, with the primary being adjustment of brightness or volume.

Technically a Rolex, however expensive, will always be much worse as a watch than a 20$ Casio. But recently there's another aspect to this: there are now watches that are technically (mechanically) identical to rolexes. Same design, same mechanics, virtually impossible to tell the difference when you tear it apart. Rolex has always been more about marketing (artificial scarcity, waiting list etc) than mechanics, but now it's pretty much exclusively about marketing, since you can get the same engineering orders of magnitude cheaper. It's like DeBeers' diamonds.

Citizens United doesn't matter. What matters is that companies are vastly privileged compared to humans, eg they don't bear criminal responsibility for anything.

For a while you could just execute another binary, it would run without restrictions imposed on the (pledged) parent. This is a stark contrast to Capsicum, where the monotonicity (ie the fact that once you loose the permission to something you'll never ever get it back, unless being explicitly passed it again) is one of the fundamental assumption behind the design.

Also most Linux machines, like phones, also contain instances of things like SEL4, often a couple of them.

And Linux... well, it managed to accumulate a lot of historical baggage for something that young. Device numbers are another example.

In other words you don't know what you're talking about, otherwise you would be able to answer a simple question.

And? How’s that relevant?

Solaris is a history at this point.

It doesn’t exist without other resources either. What I’m trying to say is, “companies are people” is not true - decisions made by companies are not the decisions it’s employees would normally make if they were not selected - or forced by circumstances - to be aligned with company goals instead of human goals.

Individuals are just company’s resource, like hardware, or IP. They are not the company itself.