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The bakery incident really made people wonder whether you can deny anyone and stay in business.


Suppose I was a freelance website developer and one day a Christian came to my work and asked me to write out Leviticus 18 with a big fat logo for their website, I'd say my hand hurt and ask they go somewhere else to do it. Even if it was later discovered that I am a card-carrying Atheist, will I be shut down? Could anyone prove my intentions? Doubtful.


In that situation I would take the job and do the best I could to satisfy the customer. But I would insist on my company name not being associated with it, or maybe one step further: a statement appearing on the website disclaiming my company’s endorsement of the content. They might not accept that condition, and I’d be happy not to take the job.

This applies in many cases across many fields. Like in Australia we recently had a kerfuffle in which the National women’s netball team protested a particular sponsorship (on pretty stupid grounds, but anyway…). Why not accept the sponsorship but say your piece? Constructive debate is much better than virtue signalling.


My big question is whether any US based companies hosted are beholden to the German government because it's a German based company.

This in turn makes everyone beholden to the EU regulations and German censorship regulations. Yeah no thanks!


I can hardly trust any of the journalism with a title like this. How about you just sue them in court for calling your story a lie?


Exactly - if Meta knows that the story is fake why hasn't Meta sued them yet?


Don't worry you'll be vilified for disliking features by the tech community because they can't not have social features everywhere.


If you share the hmac key or do private/public key signing you're able to distribute the public signing keys to your infra.

In doing so you just validate the token against the public key. You can then rotate these keys and have a list of them to validate against and age off keys which would be the last tokens expiration +1 day.


There shouldn't be any reason an open source hardware company should support something like vscode themselves.

It takes one update from vscode to break everything and your SOL.


vs code is open source and it works perfectly fine and there are tons of plugins for micro controller programming and support.

still, happy to see this update.


VSCode is open source, that's why they're basing their IDE on it. Writing a plugin would limit them to the wishes of Microsoft.


They're not basing their IDE on VSCode, but Eclipse Theia, which is somewhat based on VSCode, but it's not VSCode.


VScode...is open source? :/


The "average" American is obese, so I'm not sure we should be encouraging this inefficient source of protein.


On the other hand, 95% of Americans don’t eat enough fiber, which means they aren’t getting any of the other benefits of plants like vitamins and antioxidants.

I’d wager that’s much more important than the average muscleless flaboid getting 150g protein.


How has your experience been with arango? I haven't had any major issues with it. It runs exceptionally well in kubernetes too.


Almost like they wrote a blog article about it so others could learn from it.

If it were available to all android apps I don't know why Uber would go out of their way to reimplement it. So it must not be available to all apps and exclusive to Google maps and Waze


Uber's post is actually two years older than the Google one.


> April 19, 2018 / Global

Yes, original post needs a (2018) in the title.


Are you sure? VPNs probably carry that torrent traffic with encryption.

Onion sites which carry the most illegal content on Earth also use encryption.

Your reasoning is aligned with banning encryption because in all cases where something is illegal they tend to use some level of encryption.


The phrase used was "The vast majority"

Consider the fact that every major website uses encryption in transit (HTTPS).

Consider how much data Netflix streams to users. Those video streams are encrypted.

I think it's fair to say that the vast majority of encryption is for protecting non-pirated and legal content.


And everything on Netflix is also available, unencrypted, on torrent.


We are very very sure. HTTPS adoption across the web is at 95%. Onion and VPN traffic are rounding errors compared to the amount of traffic on the web.


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