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This reminds me of the classical episode of the Onion "Is The Government Spying On Schizophrenics Enough?".


Came for me with an ad for supposedly an in-ear hearing aid. Of course it's such a whispering device. You can't fool me!

Or, if their goal was to get people to click on their link, they should be proud because it's going to be very effective.


If people were using my backyard to sell drugs or CSAM, I knew it, and did nothing about it, I would absolutely be guilty of facilitating these crimes. I fail to see how the situation is different for Pasha.


if i put up a random E2E encrypted messaging side project i made on github and then people started using it for CSAM?

People use government built sidewalks to sell drugs, does that mean I can sue the govt for the drug trade?


The original comment had two prerequisites:

1. If drug dealers used my backyard. 2. If I knew about it and did absolutely nothing about it.

And yes, if the government knows about someone selling drugs and does nothing about it, you can sue the government.

At least in theory, in countries not ridden with corruption (which probably aren't that many).


> if the government knows about someone selling drugs and does nothing about it, you can sue the government.

at least in the US, there are only a few limited times the government is open to civil litigation - and nonenforcement of the law is not usually one of them


I didn't know, nonenforcement is a term. I thought it might be just negligence.

Should've left the "I am not a lawyer" disclaimer.

Thanks for the clarification.


If you were the one hosting it on your own server and storing CSAM that people were sending, yeah, you should be arrested. Nobody cares if you upload a messenger to github, there's scores of them.


Telegram is not E2E encrypted.


so i should be liable if it is a plain text messaging github side project?


do you really feel this is a good faith analogy? how is a side project in any way similar to a company with billions of users?


i think it is an analogy that is useful in elucidating what people view as the morally relevant aspect.

i don’t think it makes a ton of sense to me that the encryption or lack thereof is the relevant factor - if we think that proprietors of unencrypted messaging should be required to turn over chat logs, then encrypted messaging should probably be illegal or we have left a massive loophole in.

the scale being the relevant issue is another thing as well. i worry that if you somehow create a protocol for dencentralized messaging, you somehow then become liable for misuse of what could have been an academic project, etc.


You mean if you’re also running servers for it that store all the data in a format you can read and refuse law enforcement requests in your jurisdiction.


This is a horrible analogy, is your side project giving free cloud hosting of up to 1.5GB files for 900 million users with no moderation? Yeah, if it is you should go to jail too if you didn't address the issue of CSAM there for a decade.


I believe what the author has in mind is the fact that you need to create your LSI at the same time as you create the table, you cannot add them later (until GSI). So there's some truth to what they are saying regarding access patterns.


"Devin" is a substantive which is used as a first name in the Celtic world. Pretty sure it's used here because of its meaning.


For real. How long does it realistically take to stay informed of the language's evolution? Literally a few hours every couple months, not much more.


That's a good point, and I'd add that, in the opposite direction, running a simulation can be a good way to convince yourself that your analytical solution is correct.


There is a whole industry centered around this practice of grabbing expired domains, putting back the content based on internet archive snapshots, and using the SEO juice to help rank money sites. Nobody will read these blogs, it's just for google crawler's eyes.


Real bottom-feeder stuff.


Agreed, but it's a pretty clever idea nonetheless.


I think there may be issue with data collection. I tried listening to some of pg's articles but they were cut off right in the beginning, see e.g. 005 Lisp for Web Applications.


In this particular case, it's just that the blog post is basically just a link: https://paulgraham.com/lwba.html


Sounds like a different offer. interviewing.io prepares you for interviews, while the triplebyte reboot is a way for companies to outsource their interview process. I think it makes a lot of sense. Interviewing, or, more generally, filtering the 1% of good candidates, is a difficult task and could be indeed a job in itself. The company has a strong incentive to take this job seriously since they will acquire a reputation after some time and will lose clients if it turns out they are being too lenient.


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