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> keeping in mind the First Amendment?

The first amendment doesn't apply to companies. Shutting down TikTok doesn't prevent you from exercising free speech. That's not how it works. Like, I'm not going to bother with this conversation if this is the direction you're going to take it.

And the fact that "Instagram, Youtube, etc." will just do it shows that regulations and laws are required. Systems that prevent companies from doing whatever they want in controlling the opinions of citizens in other countries. How is that compatible with the first amendment? Do you even understand the issue? Do you even understand the first amendment?

The ship has sailed on us being able to deal with influences like modern social media on an individual level. Modern social media like TikTok, Twitter and even YouTube Shorts are fundamentally designed to take advantage of what our brains evolved into over millions and millions of years.

The nuclear family can't do shit about it. That's just a dream, an ideological fantasy. We don't need a dream. We need real solutions. "People should take a little more responsibility" isn't a solution. It's just empty wishful thinking and part of the reason why things are so screwed up today.

The ship has sailed on hoping for individual solutions. Probably sailed long before we as a species could be considered homo sapiens. I'm not sure why there's this weird reluctance to make systemic changes and improvements, and instead solely pushing the responsibility on every single person that interacts with kids.

Who do you think voted for Trump? You point out that it's perfectly possible to live a "simple" rural life.

I see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beggars_in_Spain and the reason why they vote the way they do. Modern society has left them behind, abandoned them, and not given them any way to keep up with the rest of the US. Now they're getting taken advantage of by the wealthy like Trump, Murdoch, Musk, etc. who use their unhappiness to rage against the machine.

> My money is that rural towns USA will look almost identical in 30 years from now.

You mean poor, uneducated and without any real prospects of anything like a career? Pretty much. Except there will be far more people who are impoverished and with no hope for the future. I don't see any of this as a good thing.

How about Reuters and some others?

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...

https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/tesla-to-re...

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-recall-over-46-000-0...

https://www.cnbctv18.com/auto/tesla-recalls-46096-cybertruck...

I think it's weird to dismiss an article without engaging with it at all and not making any arguments as to why it should be dismissed beyond "it's CNN".

What news sites would you believe?

If you're allowing a single data point to have that much power over what or how you think, you've already lost. Especially if you decide to ignore context like "I just lost water by running and I haven't had anything to drink yet", or even important variables like time of day. The number by itself is meaningless. Data (as in a ton of data points) with context can be incredibly useful. Don't blame the tool if you don't learn how to use it properly.

It's not unsubstantive or flamebait. It's fact. Chinese companies have been throwing a lot of money at Western companies for years, which gives the CCP a crazy amount of influence over wide swaths of the economy. But yeah, let's squabble over what's flamebait while the CCP slowly takes over the world.

Serious question. If I want to build a game that looks like this today, what are my options? Anybody know?

This is like...two decades too late. China has their fingers in everything now.

I mean, until somebody does something about it, there's value in repeating it over and over. Maybe at some point it'll sink in how criminal these companies are.

Can you explain the Microsoft bit? There's an ocean of difference between Microsoft and Apple. You can pretty much pick any MS API from the past 20 years and it'll still work on Windows 10.

I mean, the problem isn't the university or the students or the people on the board. It's how the CCP uses its relationships to push its agenda and (incompatible-with-ours) values in an oppressive way on non-Chinese entities. This is just another example of how deep the rot is. (Yes, yes, the US does the "same thing", and I'll care when the US turns into a dictatorship that arbitrarily takes your job, livelihood and family for speaking out against it with zero recourse, transparency or accountability)

I find Schmachtenburger hard to listen to. He rejects all media outright because it's all not true or propaganda. Might as well go live in a cave. If you listen to news, whether it's a podcast, a news channel, an article, or whatever, there's always a bias. But the solution isn't to reject all bias, it's to accept that bias is fundamental to human existence and to learn how to deal with bias while consuming that media. It's why I can listen to certain kinds of conservative media and not have my head explode - even if I disagree with many of their premises, I'm able to recognize what is fact, what is supposed fact, what is informed analysis and what is pure opinion, such that I can still extract value from it. More importantly, I can generally can recognize whether somebody is making a good faith argument or simply pushing a point to achieve certain goals or push an agenda.

RSS is really common terminology for the topic (memory allocation). You couldn't Google for 'RSS memory'? I don't agree that every article should cater to a layperson who has zero domain knowledge.

We have to be prepared to sacrifice if we're to effect change in the world.

Well, we figured if we're so powerless, we might as well punish the US for their misdeeds in other ways. You're welcome.

I don't see how it's discouraging. I find it far more discouraging and depressing when people say the 10000 hours is a myth and deliberate practice is a waste of time. What exactly am I supposed to do then if practice doesn't make me better?

I think it's concerning that everybody seems to think it's okay for companies to clamp down on political discourse. Where do people think we're supposed to talk about this shit? Who's supposed to champion these causes if not companies? Who has actual power in this world other than companies? Companies dominate the media, the way we consume media and everything that we see.

All this means is nothing changes, nothing improves and companies are free to profit off of suppressing rights in authoritarian countries without blowback from people using their platform (like Blizzard/Riot) or people that work for them. Companies are not and never have been neutral entities. If your goal is profit maximization to the detriment of the social fabric and moral principles, then sure, go ahead and pretend to be neutral. But I'm not sure that should be the goal and we shouldn't be helping companies pursuing this goal.

It actually doesn't provide a prompt. It silently denies access (I think maybe it shows a notification in the bottom right?) and that's that. You have to navigate to the protection settings window in order to whitelist a program. Which I guess makes sense, since if you don't add friction, people will just blindly allow everything as you say. I had problems like stuff not working despite whitelisting, which is what really annoyed me. I would've left it on otherwise.

It's their ransomware protection. The last time I tried it months ago, it was really aggressive to the point that it made it uncomfortable to work with my computer. Maybe that's necessary to keep people safe, but I had to disable it because basic things like downloading files and opening them with another program simply didn't work. Maybe it's improved since then?

Awesome, thanks.

Unfortunate that the contact us page doesn't work. I'm interested, but I wanted to ask if a FF extension is planned, since that's my primary browser.

Why even bother with an authenticator if they're not going to recognize it for something like this? Why should I have to send them an ID? I tried deleting my account multiple times and it still hasn't worked.

The only feasible way to avoid sharing data with Google is using a custom ROM like LineageOS, a Google framework replacement like microG, and XPrivacyLua (module for XPosed). Ideally you'd avoid using any Google services at all, but at least these steps largely prevent Google from freely taking whatever data they want if you do use the Play Store or whatever.

I'm not so sure. If it's something that impairs you, I think it's negative.

I don't think there is a substantial difference. I had an account (which I've since deleted) with thousands of karma points. I was becoming obsessed with the validation of getting upvotes. And I'm somebody who never cared about likes on Facebook. But validation from the smart people here? It was addictive and really tainted how I interacted with HN. I went into an emotional tailspin if I started getting downvotes.

Is this publicly available? I've been looking for something like this.

I did something else to structure how I could interact with Facebook. I unfollowed all my friends. Joined only Facebook groups that had some value to me on a weekly basis (primarily organizing meeting new people in my local area). I'd say it's transformed my relationship with FB in a positive way.

Future devices can be fixed at the factory. That still leaves tens of millions of vulnerable devices which are, as repeated before, unpatchable.

Might as well throw it into the sun if you have that much trash. Maybe they got around to building space elevators.