Hi there Dang, I've been using the name 'RealityWinner' since before the person Reality Winner came to light. I can verify that with my long standing github account with the same username.
The problem is that some people are going to react as if the name is trolling, whether it is or not (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). Since the account is only a couple weeks old, I feel like we should just rename it to avoid woe. It's not the worst case, of course.
Yes I understand I only made this recently. I've read for a while and wanted the ability to vote and comment so I made it. I updated my github[1] to prove ownership as well and put it in my about. If there are any issues brought up to me by other users about my name I would be open to renaming but at this time I would much prefer to use the username i've been using.
Ok, we can leave it like this for now, but if people end up reacting in the way I described, we're going to end up enforcing the policy. I've learned that it's much better to deal with these things earlier than later, but this is a borderline case so we can kick the can down the road.
There are zillions of moderation practices like that one. They all appear repeatedly in my moderation comments, often with search links that point to past examples. But we don't make a formal list, for a bunch of reasons. One is that it would make the guidelines so long that no one would read them. Another is that we're not bureaucrats. A third is that if you make a list of everything, people will conclude that if something is not on the list, it must be ok, and that's not at all how HN works. It has always been a spirit-of-the-law, not a letter-of-the-law place.
Actions like what? Receiving a temporary ban for spreading harmful misinformation and then receiving a permanent ban after evading that ban.
> YouTube suspended one of Bongino's YouTube channels on Jan. 20 after he posted a video where he questioned the effectiveness of using masks against the coronavirus, a violation of the company's pandemic-related misinformation policy. His later attempt to circumvent that one-week suspension by posting from another channel triggered a permanent ban, YouTube said.
The problem is that the mouthpiece is assuming a monopoly over truth. It is utterly arrogant for any entity to do so. Let the talking heads debate, and the minds of men and women in the world decide. If we abandon faith in each other to discern for each his or her own self what truth is to be, we run the risk of traveling down the path whereon Free Thought and discourse is no longer celebrated but discouraged by ever-present and ever-domineering structures of power, damning future generations to totalitarianism.
You are free to question the initial suspension but the permanent is the topic of discussion here as the result of the ban evasion. Violating Terms of Service is not a partisan issue. Might I direct you to the Paradox of Tolerance[1] in the meantime.
I struggle to believe that Bluetooth 5, which supposedly allows for a total of 2mbit/s transfer can't allow for a better codec to be used when a stereo stream of SBC is about 300kb/s. However, I'll be the first to admit that bluetooth is not my area of expertise, and my statement here is mostly driven by disbelief about the fact that we can't get better audio quality out of a bluetooth headset these days.
EDIT: Oh wait, the reason HSP uses low bandwidth codecs is because the standard makes a trade-off in favor of latency and non-blocking comms. Clearly, there are good reasons.
The difference is that Google Fi runs at the top network priority. You can find loads of dirt-cheap MVNOs, but your data is at the back of the line if there's any congestion.
Get my vaccination card at the entrance to a stadium. Messaging, email, access my NAS at home through my VPN. Download a podcast or audiobook. I mean, the answer to that question is literally "anything except watch videos".
My car has an "unlimited" plan with AT&T, and holy crap, it's worthless. If I actually need to do something, like, now, usually I have to turn off my phone's wifi if the car's on.
And this isn't me modifying my behavior. If I had a habit of watching YouTube or Netflix from all over the place, I'd get a different phone plan. I'm not like penny pinching here. It's just that my current phone plan works, I like how easy it is to administer, and switching providers in a huge PITA for a family of 4, so something else better be damn good.
I don't trust any research Facebook releases about the impact of their own platform and would take such with a grain of salt. There is no incentive for them to ever release negative results.
You might not trust them, but the quote is taken out of context by the media and whenever it gets regurgitated on the internet. It's used as some kind of a "See, I knew I was correct in disliking them!" idea.
