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not_a_cop75··on After 'South Park' Censorship Episode, China Deleted the Show from the Web
That was the whole point of the episode. Has China never heard of Barbara Streisand?
not_a_cop75··on A multithreaded fork of Redis that is faster
No one is shaming ANYONE?

Look around. Who is not shaming the oil and coal industry right now?

not_a_cop75··on Passfindr 6.1.0 released – fast and secure password AND bookmark manager
There are frankly too many free solutions to take seriously commercial password management. Besides, what would they honestly do IF they mismanaged your password? Would they get your identity back? Or your life? Maybe when hell freezes over.
not_a_cop75··on Tesla Model 3 = 24% of Small and Midsize Luxury Car Sales in USA
I had two minor accidents in 12 months, so yes, it's a major concern. If I were in a Tesla, it would still be drivable today, but something about having a car that is too expensive or hard to fix is not something I like or need.

The discovery I have made is that timing commutes away from rush hour does more to prevent accidents than anything else.

not_a_cop75··on SpaceX is leaking sensitive information
Or maybe they are incredibly transparent?
not_a_cop75··on A multithreaded fork of Redis that is faster
Does anyone not read into the sarcasm? This is the same cliche format stating that x is better than y, in such a manner to supposedly shame people still using y.
not_a_cop75··on Tesla Model 3 = 24% of Small and Midsize Luxury Car Sales in USA
The only reason I'm not interested in the Tesla is the overall unavailability of replacement parts.
not_a_cop75··on The great nutrient collapse – key crops are getting less nutritious due to CO2
So maybe we have to simply cut down on our use of fertilizers if we want the same quality product as before?
not_a_cop75··on A multithreaded fork of Redis that is faster
I guess I can no longer use Redis. I mean what can the use case of normal Redis possibly be?
not_a_cop75··on Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager
If everyone took your advice and used 1pass, then I doubt 1pass would be able to defend itself against the coming hack attacks. I do say this in a bit of ignorance, but they don't imho possess the resources to defend against the complete list of cybercriminals out there.
not_a_cop75··on Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption
This could probably be reworded better.

"While the letter acknowledges that Facebook, which owns Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram, captures 99% of child exploitation and terrorism-related content through its own systems, it also notes that "mere numbers cannot capture the significance of the harm to children." "

not_a_cop75··on Ask HN: What did you get on your 5 year work anniversary?
What an amazing company!
not_a_cop75··on I used to fear being a nobody, then I left social media
Remember Twitter?

Facebook? I don't regard a company that sells people's information without their consent as "social media". There's nothing social about going behind someone's back and deceiving them.

not_a_cop75··on Google Is Uncovering Hundreds of Race Conditions Within the Linux Kernel
Most absolutes spoken about anything are natural fallacies. The truth is that they can. Hell, I see Apple devices that don't update anything including time until you take them out of screen lock, and you see the previous date and charge amount sometimes even after unlock. That is an efficiency based form of race condition.
not_a_cop75··on Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store
Apple needs to bow out of politics. Let anyone post an app as long as it's secure and not threatening to the OS or device itself. It's the politics (like with other companies) that will destroy it. If some terrorist wants to make an app, let it happen. It would be much easier to flag and track people that download said app, than to ban such apps completely from the walled garden, and force them underground.
not_a_cop75··on Google Is Uncovering Hundreds of Race Conditions Within the Linux Kernel
Is the trade off efficiency? Because I'm sure a language that is willing to wait 5 seconds between operations can do pretty well at eliminating race conditions.
not_a_cop75··on I used to fear being a nobody, then I left social media
When user's information was leaked to third parties without proper management or oversight, while Facebook stock continued to go through the roof, that was another watershed moment. That was the moment people realized that Facebook is full of crooks and enables other crooks to boot.
not_a_cop75··on I used to fear being a nobody, then I left social media
Being the person who shouts loudest "I am somebody" on social media does not make you somebody worth listening to. This narcissism is the key problem of social media. Oddly enough, social media made it's big entrance via movie stars - I could not possibly be any less surprised at this.

It would befit social media to rate someone with importance not according to a check or star but according to actual real world accomplishment. I realize that creates a natural bias against the underachieved, but without such weights, anyone can say anything about anything no matter what the education or perspective, and have it essentially equivalent to a subject matter in the field, at least until further examination.

not_a_cop75··on China’s Youth Are Caught in the Cult of Nationalism
I'm guessing Foreign Policy loves China too much to call them totalitarian.

"To be a modern-day Chinese nationalist is to unknowingly agree to all of that and to become a de facto Han supremacist."

not_a_cop75··on The new Uber: Weak coffee, vanishing perks and fast-deflating morale
Too recently.
not_a_cop75··on Saving Money by Switching from PHP to D
I'm wrong? Then what optimizations did you do? Please, enlighten me. I have a list of methods in the links above, if you don't recall offhand.
not_a_cop75··on Facebook to Exempt Opinion and Satire from Fact-Checking
The best way to know about how good Facebook fact checking is will be to see what terrible facts about Facebook they are willing to admit are actually true. Since I doubt Facebook has the stomach to be honest, judging from their congressional hearings, we can treat their official fact checking as officially worthless.
not_a_cop75··on Saving Money by Switching from PHP to D
"Obviously, performance was a big win. The website felt like it was running on local machines, bringing a dramatic increase to speed and lower latency across the board. After the switch, at first the load on our cloud servers was so low that we thought the website was down! Switching from PHP to D meant we could cut in half the instance size of each Amazon AWS machine in our cloud. And these machines are still underloaded. Our database cloud was highly affected by this too. We now use one quarter of its original computational power. All of this brought an instantaneous and dramatic cost savings, down to more than half of what our costs used to be."

I'm willing to bet they didn't even try a single one of the many possibly optimizations they could have used and actually stay either in PHP or a subset of PHP. It's so much easier to win your argument with a strawman, not to say there aren't cases where D is, in fact, better.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1408417/can-you-compile-...

https://www.keycdn.com/blog/php-performance

not_a_cop75··on Have Online Reviews Lost All Value?
While this is true, being so specific about something negative that someone calls them out is much more risky than the useless 1 star rating with comment "product did not work as expected". Low quality comments are almost never considered valid by those that pour over the comments.
not_a_cop75··on Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to Stop Climate Crisis
You're saying meat production is bad, but then blaming those that are actually eating less of the meat. I don't think the viewpoints you have presented are consistent with each other.
not_a_cop75··on Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to Stop Climate Crisis
We could always try to convince the US middle class to convert over to consuming roaches. It's a much more eco-friendly approach. Also, roaches are a super food. So besides being able to survive nuclear holocoast they are actually good for you.

https://www.menshealth.com/nutrition/a20950388/cockroach-mil...

Oddly though, ground beef and chicken are the two substances that are the easiest to replace. There's almost nothing that doesn't taste a little like chicken once properly prepared. Similarly, there are plenty of ground up things that can substitute for ground beef. Then you can go into cost and life cycle. The cost of chicken is lower because of cycle cycle. The cost of ground beef is lower because it's low quality.

I'm fairly certain it's not the ground beef and chicken industry that are holding up the meat industry on the whole.

not_a_cop75··on Which companies are using Erlang, and why?
You might be right, but what you say sounds like it's coming from a true outsider. What would someone within the community say?
not_a_cop75··on Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to Stop Climate Crisis
I think you're asking the rich to stop being so excessive. Anyone who is both intelligent and poor is not spending 500 dollars for meat in any given month. Myself, I think maybe I eat 2 cheeseburgers a year.
not_a_cop75··on Plane Tests Must Use Average Pilots, NTSB Says After 737 Max Crashes
True, but that doesn't mean there aren't "true idiots in the industry". Thankfully, most commuter planes drive like buses and don't have the excitement to draw idiocy like extreme sports does.
not_a_cop75··on Strengthening Congressional Independence from Corporate Lobbyists
It's an interesting idea, but one person's independent council is unfortunately another person's lobbyists. There is no, as far as I've ever seen, any scientifically proven middle ground. If there was an established and rigorously proven way to do politics and political accountability, we certainly wouldn't be in this mess.

The challenge is that at every level of accountability, anyone with enough power can find a way to corrupt. There used to be a universal belief in truth, but that belief has been, in many subject matters, largely eroded away. Today, mostly there is only right for you or me. Not so much right as a whole.

I find people on talk shows talking about doing "the right thing". What the hell does that begin to amount to today? Does anyone have a clue?

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