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Michel Houellebecq alludes to an interesting idea in his novel Soumission - in the hierarchy that the West is using for identity politics, race and religion are less touchable than women’s rights and gender equality. The West will not criticize muslim culture with its implicit patriarchy and unequal treatment because they are the underdogs. Everything I see indicates that this is true especially in the UK. The question is how far accepts and lack of criticism will go before rights that we consider sacrosanct in the West are eroded by demographics in Europe.
Why are France interested in ousting Assad?
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Thats true, however in yokes case, each cluster needs a third member called a monitor who only serves to resolve network partitions. a secondary cannot self promote to primary without the monitor agreeing.

two node systems can never work as a primary/secondary failover solution in the presence of a network partition.

disclosure: I helped write yoke.
So, Germany sells arms for about 1100 million euros. Among this amount are western countries, China, India.

Germany will spend at least 8000 million euros for refugees this year (2014 it were about 2400 million euros).

If there is any relation between exporting arms and the number of refugees, this is not only a humanitarian, but clearly a financial disaster.
I was wondering why he would pick Redwood and Palo Alto as an example. To me that doesn't seem like a typical commute in the US. The distance is only 12.5km, you could almost travel by bike. Anyway I think VLM's first comment is a much more intuitive explanation why ride-sharing is not attractive.
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Will give my take at it.
There is no thing as "a good act" or "a bad act" because these are absolutes. What I _believe_ true is "to act good/bad to". Because they are relative to the recipient(s)[anything sentient/alive/other term] of the act to say so. So as a baseline rule, considering myself a "good" person, I try to follow the known (and even religious) saying of: treat others the same way you want them to treat you.
This is the poll they refer to, if you scroll down to the isis question, it's 27% among french 18-24.

http://www.icmunlimited.com/data/media/pdf/New-EU-Comb.pdf
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Thank you for mentioning this. I'm very disappointed that many in the HN crowd seem ignorant of these very relevant events (from the comments).
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just curious if any of your hackathon projects have continued after the event?
Well, literal Islam is unfortunately a political ideology masquerading as a religion. You can't separate the politics from the "spirituals" in literal Islam. The more you're drawn to the literal flavor of religion, the more you are corrupted by the ideological views of the founder of Islam and his early followers and disciples i.e. the expansionism, imperialism, triumphalism ...etc

Does this mean that there's no good Muslims out there?

Of course not, there's plenty of them but the underlying problem is that the contemporary mainstream Sunni Islam has shifted from left to right by the early 70s thanks to the increasing influence of the Saudi petrodollar and the relentless exporting of the wahabist cultural product to predominantly Sunni Muslim countries and thus hard-line teachings of Sunni Islam became the norm and dominated the public sphere and one of its poisonous fruits sadly infected Paris over the weekend.
>Indeed. And there seems, to me, to be something nihilistic in the idea that Europeans should simply let immigrants replace them. Maybe instead, European nations should look into instituting domestic policies that encourage the population to maintain a healthy replacement rate.

That would require blaspheming against the Austerity Gods.
In the UK you can be arrested for posting on Facebook that your beauty salon is 'no longer taking bookings from anyone from the Islamic faith'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3320166/Police-arres...
True it is, however to use manatee you have to build on ZFS, which unfortunately is not as widely adopted as it should be.
Have you read George Orwell's review of Mein Kampf? I think it gets to the heart of why ISIS is so popular.

"Also [Hitler] has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain... Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense, they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades... Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a more grudging way, have said to people "I offer you a good time," Hitler has said to them "I offer you struggle, danger and death," and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet."

Replace Hitler with ISIS, and the point still stands. In fact, it is made even emotionally stronger now that it is religious. Is there an alternative? Can capitalist democracy provide any greater meaning in life?
It seems that the conclusion is drawn from specific premises:

+ The measure of a ride sharing app's value is cash on cash returns to Silcon Valley style investors.

+ A ride sharing app's primary market will be in the US.

+ The suburbs served will be affluent, and hence the ride sharing app's user base will tend to have economic flexibility in regards to transportation.

+ The served markets will have poor public transportation infrastructure.

On the one hand these are all reasonable assumptions for the conclusion regarding a ride sharing app's commercial prospects. This is important because ride sharing apps (particularly in a political context like Silicon Valley) are a free lunch: $200,000 spent on software development won't even buy the land for a ten parking space lot in a place where it would be useful.

On the other hand, the numbers in the article suggest that a ride sharing app could readily produce a ten parking space reduction in demand for a city like Palo Alto. And because the marginal costs of adding additional cities to such an application are negligible, reduction in demand for parking spaces across a region like Silicon Valley could be several times that.

In other words even if a ride sharing app is not going to pencil out into a possible unicorn, it still may be good public policy. And perhaps a better alternative to a public policy decision to raise the cash price of parking since it could induce willing social change via better communication infrastructure rather than forcing changes in behavior by pricing out those least able to afford changes in parking policy.

Parking policy is a great area for consultants to consult municipalities. Back in 2002 I was a junior urban planner in St. Pete, the city was "debating" removal of exiting parking meters installed for baseball in 1998. In the department library one day, I saw a study from 1962 that concluded that the parking meters installed in 1957 should be removed. The arguments are always the same: 1. Not enough spaces so install meters, 2. Meters are a hassle for local businesses' customers so take them out.
So, those numbers together indicate an increase in productivity -- but there are non-working age people in the economy that still need a slice of the pie. Productivity growth is good, but I'd focus on the larger population changes.
> Are you willing to have taller buildings and more market-rate housing in your neighborhood in order to get more affordable units?

My guess is nope, since they are leveraged heavily to be able to get in to that home.
> best long term prospects for its citizens

Seems like you are conveniently ignoring the 300+ % of Japan's GDP of Public debt. Yeah, a bright future.
What? Rolling in it? That's not wrong. This is hacker news not slashdot.

Grudging telephone support constantly interspersed with suggestions you might like to buy a training course is pretty common in the financial industry.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/27/us-mideast-crisis-...

World | Sun Sep 27, 2015 4:36pm EDT Related: WORLD, UNITED NATIONS, FRANCE, SYRIA
France launches air strikes against Islamic State in Syria
UNITED NATIONS/PARIS | BY JOHN IRISH AND DOMINIQUE VIDALON

France said on Sunday it launched its first air strikes in Syria, destroying an Islamic State training camp in the east of the country to prevent the group from carrying out attacks against French interests and to protect Syrian civilians.

France had until now only struck Islamic State targets in neighboring Iraq, carrying out just 3 percent of air strikes in an offensive on the group by a U.S.-led coalition. France has also provided limited logistical support to Syrian rebels it considers moderate, including Kurds.
I despise the experience of buying a car so much that I've just given up haggling and pay the price of the car. In my last 2 purchases, I've found not haggling causes them to take about a grand off the top (without me asking for it) which is good enough for me. This was both on a pretty reasonable Hyundai Elantra for the wife and my more expensive Acura RDX - point being - doesn't matter if it's a cheaper car or more luxury - if they have wiggle room, they'll do it anyways
> The government of Mali asked for foreign military help to re-take the north. [1]

Intervening and waging proxy wars in the middle-east sent the message that sovereignty is relative and only applies to countries with "appropriate" views, hence the hate against west.

Still I wouldn't call Mali a stable country as they are constantly plagued by terrorist attacks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Mali_conflict
Feel free, the council of Nicosia was a similar attempt at making Christianity more internally consistent and in a way the Bible itself already was a re-write, think of it as Judaism 2.0 and it starts to make a lot more sense.

But typically such a movement originates from within the religion and I highly doubt it can be imposed from outside. Note that most religious text are 'tamper proof' in that they contain little bits about how alteration of the text is forbidden, after all, who is qualified to modify the word of God except for God himself/herself.

Also note that the Qur'an in its current form will be alive and well in the heads of all those who remember it because they've been memorizing part or even all of it. A bit further down that road and we'll be burning books.
This is true, but Im not talking about the abstract ethics of nation state war, iIm talking about the practical reality for people on the ground, on all sides. Not to mention there seems to be quite a one sided approach to such issues given Western influence on international law and related bodies. Iraq is a good example where we did just about none of those things you mention.
I had the chance to talk with a ISIS supported a few months ago. He was a young Muslim but not specially religious and he was not involved with the movement directly but agree with them.

In his view, even if the citizens of western countries can enjoy freedom and a good life, the actions of their governments in other countries are not so wonderful. The word "hypocrite" was mentioned. I had some problems to refute this reasoning.

I think that we can condemn terrorism and be against the instauration of caliphates without give up critical thinking. After all, that should be one of the most important Western values.
> However, note that no beheadings have been staged in Vatican City in recent years.

True, but I think it's more complex than that.

First, I do not think the Vatican automatically represents the most conservative brand of Christianity; not at all times, anyway. Not now, for example. Second, beheadings seem rightfully barbaric and horrendous to us, but as terrible as they are, I think their impact is superficial in a way (though obviously not to their victims, and please make no mistake: I do not wish to live in a country that beheads people!). ISIS beheadings are a matter of form, a propaganda tool; a way to shock the West into action, and the local population into compliance.

But as for actual damage, compare their beheadings with the damage caused by some Christian leaders of First World countries who have been bombing cities in the Middle East and causing a lot of deaths. These conservative Christians sometimes describe themselves as "born again", surround themselves with religious phraseology, describe their wars as Crusades and name them with Biblical sounding names (Righteous Fury, Infinite Justice, etc, etc), feel their countries have a God-given right to shape the world as they see fit. Wouldn't people living in a city bombed by a Western country consider themselves the victims of Western religious zealots?

And if, say, we know Obama and Bush are NOT the same, are we not making the mistake of thinking every bellicose Muslim is exactly the same terrorist fundamentalist that cannot be reasoned with and must be exterminated? Maybe there are shades of gray with them, just like it happens in the West?
> kill them and rebuild Syria. Including new government (under UN stewardship).

Because that has worked so well in the (recent) past?
> This is business as usual, not bad economy

Japan needs actually steady growth if it is to tackle its public debt sooner or later. Or then drastic measures will have to be taken at some point.
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> He essentially defines an act as "good" if it's a net increase in human happiness and well-being

That seems a very poor and weak definition.

1. It focuses on human as only a human can be happy.

2. net increase is relative, so this is relative to the author's life/view of the world.

3. Well-being doesn't mean anything. Does he defines it too?
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Point to point transport may be necessary for living in general, but a personal car certainly isn't. A more realistic comparison would be selling your car, cancelling your insurance, repurposing your garage, and comparing it with pooled ridesharing.

I'm not sure why you think car pooling has to take a lot of time. Services like uberPOOL guarantee you will only be matched with someone going a very similar route -- otherwise, you get a solo ride (for the pool price). It typically doesn't add more than 2-3 minutes.

Your time cost calculation is also invalid. When you're riding instead of driving, you can use your time for other things. It may be checking up on your email, working on your latest project, or reading hacker news. You can't do that if you drive. Ridesharing actually gives you more hours while saving you money.

There is no question that it's more economical to have one driver for 3 riders, than having everyone driving. Traditional carpooling suck because of the low level of technology, network effect and optimization - but ridesharing achieves all of these and can be superior to driving.

I do not have a car. I never intend on getting a car. I don't even have a driver's license, and I know many people in a similar boat. How do I get around? I Uber + public transport everywhere. My standard of living is far better. I get to do things I want to do (or chat to strangers if I'm bored). I save money. I reduce road congestion and emissions. And I'm not the only one.
If only the government(s) could be trusted to not pass along confidential business information from foreign companies (or even perhaps local) to help the companies in their own country.
Intersting, thanks for the link, but it doesnt really answer the question of exactly how many strikes did it participate in on Syria, and what were the death tolls? (Numbers, not percentages)
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I think you wanted to comment on the NYT article on encryption [1]. This is a link to a Google AI library.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10580412
That paragraph has no relevancy to the GPLv2, it is pointing out how they fixed the problem in version 3.

The Linux kernel is still licensed under GPLv2.

The differences between v2 and v3 is the entire context of this thread, so I believe you're deliberately being obtuse.
In Europe, the number of people willing to use public transit is much greater than 10%, for one thing. Another thing is that you don't really need to get matched with someone going the same direction as you: people generally value living close to public transit (which is completely opposite to people living in California, who try to avoid it), and public transit generally gets you where you want to be, possibly with one or rarely two transfers.
Probably you are right, but your country is part of something bigger now. And while we are busy building an united Europe, isolationism is actually a good strategy while we sort our internal problems. Which includes integrating some troubled spots and minorities. Adding more people to the mix right now will hardly help that process.

There are no good answers right now. We are very deep and there will be a lot of pain in the coming years. Everything else is wishful thinking.
The missing context of Orwell's review is what Hitler had on offer isn't what he sold. Hitler sold the promise of a better life for a then-struggling, repressed Germany. There is irony in that.
> Should names be globally unique?

I didn't say that.

I just think it's unlikely they would have chosen the name if they were aware of Manchester's project, which means they didn't know about it, which means they don't read much about CS research.
Your post seems to miss the fact that the mail, phone calls and popular chat services are already logged, and asking for encryption back-doors is just wanting that process to continue.
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>barbary will always win against democracy.

Perhaps, but probably not the kind of barbarism that you're thinking about. The barbarians that win over democracy will use economic forces to enslave its own citizens, and will use the productivity of the citizens to produce resources and weapons, and use those to take what they want. Some would argue that this has already happened.

>just look at BLM in usa

What about them? They're not barbarians, just noisy protesters.

>This is a war of civilisations and way of life.

No one from the US will keep you from living even what they consider a barbaric way of life as long as you sell your oil cheap.

>and trust me. the peaceful one, the one that always say sorry for everything is not going to win.

Maybe you're not referring to the US. I haven't noticed us to be very peaceful over the last thirty years.
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No. Recognize that the terrorists were from Europe. Recognize that integration, investing in suburbs, and improvement of basic living conditions has failed for decades. Then start solving these problems.
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It's not like they were particularly good at stopping terrorism before encryption became widespread. The problem is that they think they can stop all terrorist attacks, which is impossible.
> Contemporary radical Islam is a response to Western modernity and perceived decadence and has been brewing for decades if not centuries.

Contemporary radical Islam is brewing just for one (young) generation and is result of applying western individual freedom and reason to principles of Islam.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/18b/reason_as_memetic_immune_disorde...
The right answer is intelligence gathering in the field, the old fashioned way. It's the only method that's compatible with freedom of expression and the 4th amendment.
"There's a sort of Gresham's Law of conversations. If a conversation reaches a certain level of incivility, the more thoughtful people start to leave."

If there are equations that describe the net, since the mid-1980s, this is one of them.

A lot of the commentary here is about "shyness" or "introversion," which, I don't know J.L.

But I think the point of PG's Gresham comment is it's not only personality. Analogy: What professor of physics is going to wade into the hyper-bullshit environment of a typical online physics "discussion?" As soon as they see the word "photon" or "rest mass" I'm sure they run for the hills. Introvert or extrovert, it's a waste of time. Just get out in one piece before it gets any worse.

It's a trap!
> they would like to change society to suit their ends.

What would be those means employed by non-Muslim radicals to effect social change?

I'm inclined to say that urban warfare and terrorizing an entire population with open aggression tactics are not among them.
That we are fully in agreement on, unfortunately. But one thing we can do is to stop digging the hole any further (at least, on this side of the divide).
Bush jr (may he burn in hell eternally for all the fallback of his reign) being super eager to find any excuse to attack Iraq was super-obvious to anybody outside US during those times. That's why France & Germany didn't join Iraq effort, it was just too ridiculous without any good reason, when another dictatorship just across the border was more than OK (saudis), and let's not forget most attackers including Osama were from there. UK joining them no matter what on the other hand showed how morally low the politicians at that time were (Blair if I recall correctly).

About that time, US on international scale went from "good guys" to... well nothing that could be written here, let's say "necessary evil". It's still there and will remain for quite some time.

I wonder, if all direct and indirect deaths and misery caused by US politics from 50s would be accounted, if Hitler & Stalin regimes would still be such badasses. But real numbers are probably unreachable. (uncomparable datasets, i know, just out of curiosity... deaths in millions become statistics as we know).
I think the west needs to think long and hard about nation-building, not just fighting wars. They also need to have frank discussions with their nominal 'allies' in the ME who are driving a lot of the instability.

I have no doubts France has the capability to "seriously damage" Daesh, but what about Daesh's successor - which is likely to be just as bad (or worse)? Unfortunately, it seems like democracy (with it's 4-/5-year election cycles) is incompatible with long term planning. It's a mirror-image of the modern-day corporate world, with CxOs who damage the organisations they lead in the pursuit of short-term gains (and the resulting bonuses), except that election stakes are higher (keep/lose the job).
More and more of the West are wanting to just pull out and "let them all kill each other", but that seems a little cruel doesn't it? Damned if you do damned if you don't.
How could it be that there are people in the world who, on the one hand, post videos on YouTube, and on the other, believe things about the universe that are manifestly and self-evidently false? (Yes, I'm referring to all religions here.)

Religion -- all religion -- is so obviously nonsense, and yet the human race goes on and on and on, having endless tortured discussions about the earthly consequences of religious tenets, with a straight face.

How can we even begin to address these problems when all religious viewpoints are considered with an air of seriousness and profundity? On what ground do we (non-"holy warriors") stand when we say their viewpoint is wrong? None, so long as any religious viewpoint is taken seriously.

There is only one proper response to this and that is to make damn sure that I laugh religious people out of the room whenever possible.

Let us stop playing games and acknowledge that so long as grownups are considering religious viewpoints alongside secular ones when making important decisions, we will get absolutely nowhere.