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This whole rant looks like a personal thing for Greenwald. Ever since leaving the Intercept because of the Biden story he became very narrow minded. He's definitely in the wrong about Parler. The platforms have a rightful expectation that you can moderate the content on your site and it was proven that they have the right tools for the job. It was also shown that a huge part of the moderators were indeed MAGAs. It also seems to have incentivized users to spread disinformation [1]

Additionally: wasn't there a post recently about the investors being unknown? I read speculations about a Mercer involvement but other than that little is known. How can Greenwald make naive assumptions like this only looking at the public figures? Aren't there connections to Russia that had to be investigated? (Can't find source right now, it's on HN though)

[1] https://twitter.com/donk_enby?lang=en

The cynic in me says this is a project to mine some data. I think Cambridge Analytica used IQ tests?

> Do I still need to file a U.S. tax return? Yes, if you are a U.S. citizen or a resident alien living outside the United States, your worldwide income is subject to U.S. income tax, regardless of where you live.

This is taken from www.irs.gov

This kind of thing just looks american to me.

The author mainly belittles the misinformation problem and doesn't get at all that we're in real trouble here. The internet is being flooded with wrong information and it gets increasingly harder for people to tell truth from fiction. Something _has to_ be done, YT can't sit and just watch it's Plattform be used to destroy democracy.

What a naive point to make. As if what people want is in some way inherently good and righteous. I might believe something like this when talking about millionaires but people accruing thousands of millions do so by exploitation at the very least more often than not.

Maybe "beautifully designed" is a bit much then

In my experience Python is not very nice to work with. I do like the ecosystem for data science though, it's just amazing how much there is. Hopefully the language will grow into something better now that the dictator stepped down.

What's the deal with the end-to-end encryption here, I don't understand. If you get control over the server, you can circumvent it with WhatsApp? How did the attackers get hold of the private keys?

Remapping keyboard is ridiculously hard for example.. I had a somewhat working solution (never 100%) and one update destroyed everything (i think it was sierra)

> in my pocket I have a pen, together with a piece of paper folded three times (so it’s about the size of a credit card)

I'm really loving this idea

I prefer React. I do like a lot of the ideas in Vue.js, but when it comes down to it I prefer the lower abstraction level of React.

Where React wins for me:

- Higher order components - Stateless functional components - React 16, especially the scheduler

Also I really like building the virtual DOM directly (JSX) but that doesn't seem to be very popular reading the other comments.