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Satire is still satire even when people fall for it, but not when it is intentionally misleading people. The sharethesafety.org website looks very legitimate. It doesn't have a parody or satire disclaimer anywhere I can find, it includes copyright information for the NRA, links to the real NRA and Smith & Wesson websites, and the style mimics the real NRA website exactly.

I haven't seen the video yet (at work), I'd assume it's very tongue-in-cheek, but the video was never taken down. But my first impression of the website, without knowing it is parody, is that this is a real project.

It even links to a "press release" on nrapress.org, which does not seem to be a real NRA website. Though all the links on nrapress.org point to nra.org or nraila.org, which are official.

Your links agree with the parent comment.

From the first:

> (2) the test for whether something is satire protected by the First Amendment, rather than a false assertion of fact that may be defamatory, is whether a reasonable person would take it as an assertion of fact given the entire context.

From the second

> In deciding whether something could reasonably be taken as an assertion of fact rather than satire, courts look to what an audience familiar with the publication and players would understand. Said the Court:

> The article’s primary intended audience — that is, readers of “The Politics Blog” — would have been familiar with Esquire’s history of publishing
satirical stories, with recent topics ranging from Osama Bin Laden’s television-watching habits to “Sex Tips from Donald Rumsfeld.”

and

> Could there be satire that is unethical because it is genuinely deceptive? I suppose so. (Hopefully not here.) But I think it would have to be a genuine attempt to deceive by a publication not known for satire
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Are you a lawyer? I've seen several conflicting arguments and I'm not sure whose authority to appeal to.
I'll point out that if you're arguing that the surviving society gets to make the definition, then the definitions I presented are backed by society (Wikipedia, Google, Dictionary.com), whereas the definition you have proposed is your own.
> [...] the internet was used exclusively for the
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Just my own experience submitting judgments to litigation funding firms while cases were pending on appeal.
"NoSQL" + "local store" combines to pretty much just be "the data structure I want" + "a serialization library", especially for testing purposes. You've got things like BerkeleyDB that go back decades. I suspect this is why you don't see a lot of uptake on this idea.

Something that was 100% API compatible with a common store but ran locally for testing might be useful, but that 100% compatibility requirement is a heck of an ask for anything much more complicated than memcached. Even that would still be a project.
This is a ridiculous trope which keeps getting trotted out.

You can easily live in SV for under $100k/year. You can earn >$200k as an engineer in SV (and in few other places). SV is almost certainly going to leave you with more money in your pocket than working at the average tech job.
Not giving a fuck what you charge customers from country X with provider Y that you can't sell to anyway? So you charge whatever, and provider Y does the same vice versa? I mean come on, "government intervention in Europe" was the hint here. Europe is all about turning all the countries into one market.

In any case, the fact that we have the internet as the perfect roaming network that all mobile carriers actively exploit yet absurd roaming charges persist is proof of market failure. There need be no more explanation.
The media is obligated to use full names as it differentiates people with common names.

You can see this at work when, for whatever reason, killer Joel Rifkin was only referred to by his first and last name for a long time in the tabloid press. Lots of people share that name and it was unfair to them to be associated with a killer. There was actually a Seinfeld episode making fun of this as it became a problem in NY which has a lots of Rifkins. Now he's typically referred to as Joel David Rifkin.
For correctness, it's The Netherlands, not Holland. Though Amsterdam is located in one of the Hollands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE_IUPInEuc
I wonder if AWS uses a startup/company's reliance/traffic on their service to investigate what services to offer people. Using metrics for client services/infrastructure running equates to demand and possible revenue insights, (eg Twilio) could be used to dictate what to build next.

Sneaky, and would make me reconsider building on the platform if that were the case.

[edit] Makes sense, since we've seen them use this same method for their products and Amazon Basics™ line of products.
This is entirely Surge's fault. Surge buys and resells computing resources. If you're part of a Matryoshka doll of platform providers, your plan has to be to take down content at the first request of your provider and to put it back afterwards. The other option is to have your entire site get banned.

Both Google and Amazon have had situations where their entire worldwide properties have been shut down in various countries because of a single piece of content hosted on their platforms that they refused to take down.

Surge is expecting special treatment that not even Google and Amazon get by not taking the content down immediately and complaining about a larger shutdown. "Due Process" doesn't come into play at all.
Why wouldn't you simply forward the notice to the customer and tell them to respond within 48 hours? If the response doesn't satisfy DO, tell them sorry, upstream doesn't allow it, bye bye. It sucks, but that's how DCs operate sometimes.

It's pretty understandable for DO to not want to get involved in a legal dispute like that, buy your own IP range if you need to avoid this and take it to court yourself. You took on a huge risk yourself by allowing the content to stay on your network after you got the notice and may have implicated yourself should a trial be underway.

Seems insane that you let your entire service get nuked over one customer. And to publicly call this "radio silence"? They literally gave you a warning with an exact timeframe.
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There's a ton of media interest. I'm only going to appear on Dateline if I have some assurance that the new piece will be fairer than the original one that got my attention.
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Which fiber only helps considering the speed of light. WiFi in my house is acting up right now, but even considering that I "only" have 1ms latency to my pfSense VM after traversing my layer 3 switch in my office, but from there it takes 2.5ms (up to 4ms) minimum to travel over copper to the head node with my cable company - from there it takes 1.5ms to reach zayo's fiber backbone, and then 5ms to reach all the way to Seattle from Boise, ID. Let that sink it, it takes as much time to hop from Boise, ID to Seattle, WA as it does for me to even get a packet to that link.

5ms shaved down to 1ms (one-way) with decent fiber could take my ping to Google DNS from 23ms to 15ms, that's going from Boise, ID through Seattle, WA all the way down to CA where the Google DNS server I am hitting is located - a rather considerable savings.
Would be interesting to hear how much equity he got as employee #1? What was the vesting schedule and terms?
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Ahhh, thank you, I was misinterpreting that they meant moonlighting anywhere as being absurd.
My operating system uses less than a quarter of the memory that a single tab in Chrome uses. And that's with X11 running. (OpenBSD 5.9, btw).
I've only just read about the case but from the current vantage point, it looks like a severe fuckup on the part of the district attorney. I know that suspects revealing non-public details of a homicide can lead to an investigation that uncovers more conclusive evidence...but to base an entire case around that, without any other evidence linking them to the crime? I'm looking forward to reading the post-mortem on how such a case gained enough momentum to drive the DA to prosecute on such flimsy evidence.

edit: by "severe" fuckup, I also mean, just plain incomprehensible. At least in other egregious cases, there's a mountain of quasi-science [1] or a coerced false confession [2]...if the drama that managed to propel this bumbling case this far forward doesn't result in at least a HBO miniseries a few years from now, I will be very surprised.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/07/trial-by-fire

[2] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/507/c...
Here's an alternate hypothesis. Maybe, just maybe, men and women are different? Maybe men and women have different strengths and aptitudes?
That's very kind of you, Eddie! I'll be in touch.

Ray actually just got a laptop, and I'm teaching him the basics of computing. It's amazing how much things have changed in 11 years!
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I personally do not have any experience with Craft.
I've worked both in and out of Silicon Valley and you can't beat SV in terms of "opportunity risk". Most places outside of the area are one-horse towns when it comes to tech: If you lose your job there's nothing else there, you're picking up your family and moving to another city at least, maybe another state.

I lived on the east coast for years, and I'd happily move back in a heartbeat, but I'd be a nervous wreck every time it looked like another downturn was coming and I might have to scramble to find another job.
The argument that these large corporation's lawyers are putting forward is that the taxes aren't imposed on them by the tax code because the US government only taxes money when it is brought in to the US, and therefore, they aren't evading taxes.

Whether that's true or not is a task for the courts to decide, but considering that there is a long history of the US government not taxing overseas profit until it comes to the USA, I'd say that this is an indicator that the government has, to date, agreed with the corporations on this.
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Well, of course. I would argue, however, that most spend far more on food than they need to, and likewise for shelter - maybe not so much poor Americans, but in my experience middle class, upper-middle class and above Americans spend absolutely ridiculous amounts of money on their houses (together with lots of fallacies like thinking that renting is "throwing away money" and such). Healthcare is unavoidable, that's going to be a major expense for basically anyone.

At least looking around at other adults, I've noticed many spend really, really appalling amounts of money on things that don't really improve their lives in any way - and furthermore, that they seem to do so solely because it's what their parents did, or what they think is appropriate in society. Moreover, most consider it essentially an ironclad mandate that they work a 40 hour week until they're too old to work any longer.
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The idea is to have one site that can brings you everything you check for into one place but also helps you discover great sites you've never seen before.

Just finished this today so Im super keen for any feedback anyone might have.
Chances are they are just terrible companies or you're falling victim the infinite leeway public companies have in presenting their financials, certainly in regards to their various "divisions". You're basically trying to argue "cheap information exchange is impossible" on the basis that USPS isn't turning a profit.
And they don't use real names. The Parody would be just good if it said "Paid for by the National Gun Association ...."
Did you use any of this crap? if not your code probably wasn't hip enough.

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Bakeries are actually one of the business types that hires a large number of felons. You're separated from the cash, kept in a kitchen away from customers, and it doesn't pay the best.

But when finding other employment is hard, it's a pretty good option if you can work on the necessary skills.
Since the DMCA was not involved here, as far as I'm aware (IANAL) there's no obligation on DigitalOcean's part to take any action. DigitalOcean isn't an appropriate party to arbitrate a fair use dispute involving trademarks. Consequently, from my perspective, DigitalOcean shut a site down extra-judicially [1] purely because they received a request to do so from the NRA. DigitalOcean had no obligation to do so, and could have waited to receive a court order which the NRA could have sought.

It's frustrating and borderline absurd to me that hosting platforms get involved in dispute processes like this that properly should be handled by a court. What exactly is Surge's recourse here? Sue DigitalOcean to have their content put back up? That's ridiculous.

The DMCA provides a clear process: one party provides a claim asserting that some content infringes copyright. The owner can then provide a counter-claim asserting that it's not infringing. If they do, the content stays up, and if they don't, the content goes down. Providing a counter-claim, which requires asserting under penalty of perjury one's belief that the content is non-infringing, is the site owner's recourse to an unreasonable takedown request. Simple and clear. In this case, with no DMCA process, DigitalOcean is taking Surge down without any recourse for Surge to keep the content up in the event that the takedown request is unreasonable.

I don't know what the standards are for satire to be fair use. It wasn't very clear that the video was satire, but the nature of satire is that it's not always obvious to everyone. DigitalOcean should not have intervened in a trademark dispute between two different companies outside the DMCA. Or if they're going to make up a process, they should have at least followed the protocol DMCA established for Surge to assert non-infringement.

Surge should have been more transparent here. It seems like they were trying to obscure the actual timeline. I'd like to see Surge publish a full log of their communication with DigitalOcean and CloudFlare and related parties in the interest of full transparency, as validation that this is what has transpired. But on the other hand, Surge never should have been shut down in the first place, regardless of timeline. There was no counter-claim for Surge to file - what exactly were they supposed to do?

[1] OK fine, technically it's not extra-judicially because I'm sure DO's terms of service say they can do whatever they want. Nevertheless, it feels extra-judicial from a customer's point of view. Companies shouldn't get involved in arbitrating disputes between other companies - they are not a court and not competent to handle such disputes; they should simply participate in court processes as obligated by law.
I included it as a challenge when I filled out the survey. So there's one. ;)
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Ah, it looks like my mistake was considering this a news site.
The ">$200K/yr engineer" is also a ridiculous trope. I'm sure there are a handful of outlier engineers at top companies making that, but the median base Software Engineer salary in the Bay Area is anywhere from $100k to $105k depending on your source (+ maybe a few K in equity depending on the company).
I think the point the GP is trying to make is that when you watch SNL you know that there are going to be satirical commercials.

If you took a commercial parody from SNL and played it unaltered during prime time with no introduction, you would probably get in trouble even though the content hasn't changed.
Maybe they did, maybe they didn't. It's irrelevant to deflect.

The point is that banks use a relatively simple / flat fee structure now because user expectations are important for payment transactions.

This whole "Banks had this problem centuries ago" doesn't make a strong argument for bitcoin's competitive use as a currency.
I write this knowing how bad of an idea it is but it still is a gut reaction so I will say it. Find a way to move him to Oakland and get him to be on the YC Basic Income experiment. I bet the learning to YCR from this would be extremely high, given I feel like fixing the prison system will probably be on their agenda for future research.
What about the Jerry Falwell thing?
1) you left the domain in 2005 and are "waiting for the right opportunity to get back in" because it became "relevant"

2) meanwhile some other company has been working on a similar product and wants to buy your domain

3) you didn't think they offered you enough for your domain

4) now you want to sue them

5) this looks like a classic domain troll / hording. sell the domain.
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The UK has a population of about 63m. 46m of those could vote. 30m of those did vote. 17.5m of those voted to leave.

That's 52% of the turnout; 38% of the electorate; 25% of the population.

They won the ballot, but I wish they'd stop saying "a majority of the country voted for Leave" when only a quarter of the country voted leave.
That's a really interesting idea. 3d printing glass is a thing (and it looks awesome), but I'm not sure how to get the solar heat to the moving printhead without overheating the rest of the printer.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/08/3d-printed-glass/
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They're no longer optional at that point.
I think that's just because the Cubs are by some fluke doing so well comparatively. Don't worry, Cubs will still choke :)
Everyday I read these type of messages I get more worried about buying stuff that needs to 'phone-home' or connect to some remote service to function.

And the sad thing is that this is becoming more and more common.
Dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12001730
Well, to give an example, I didn't see people worried that Madison Ashley leaks would lead to people murdering their spouses and children, even though that happens in these cases.

How come no one took some time to point that out?
You're not looking at this as part of a comprehensive policy. If you bypass normal remittances, you out of the frying pan and into the fire of processes that make your illegal status visible to the federal government through KYC and all the "soft" rules that are in place that track people that use gift cards, etc. If someone had the political will, it would be trivially easy to identify practically all illegal immigrants who operate in the country and use any mechanism to store or transfer money. You don't even have to be more "evil." The processes and information are all already in place. Just a man willing to use them would have to be placed into a position of power.

Even if you're legal, as soon as you bypassed the remittances law you probably committing half a dozen other crimes, that are easily tracked.

Regardless if this is a "good idea" or not, it is very, very feasible.
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This is because the bitcoin network can currently only process 1MB of transactions every 10 minutes. 1MB is an arbitrary limitation that could be changed easily, but there is strong resistance against increasing this limit. Its a fairly safe assumption that increasing the limit will decrease the fee amount roughly proportionally. The worry is that there will be unintended consequences for increasing the 1MB block size.
From the article 'Excellent learning condition = Novel Activity—>triggers dopamine—>creates a higher motivational state—>which fuels engagement and primes neurons—>neurogenesis can take place + increase in synaptic plasticity (increase in new neural connections, or learning).'

Not sure if it's scientifically correct, though.
You seem to care a lot about the "feelz" of a company that rejected you without providing any feedback to help you improve. Just post the thing on github (or public bitbucket) and paste a link here. Unless you signed a NDA regarding their hiring process, you don't owe them anything at this point.
We don't think in terms of language.

How do you know?
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Throwaway account. I have been working in a very steady, but unrewarding position over the past 4 years. Initially, I loved the position, but after the first year, I didn't learn anything new, and work became extremely boring and monotonous - most of the co-workers I would consider friends also left for other positions. Recently it became so soul crushing that I decided to start applying to other jobs. I did 3 interviews and got 2 offers. I declined one offer because the job was similar to the one I hate now, but I accepted the other offer because it's exactly what I think I want to do, and the pay and company are amazing. My only fear is that I feel under qualified for the position. My thinking is that I should just go for it, and that I will learn it. I don't really know what they expect me to know, but I just feel that it's more than I do know. I interviewed with half the office over 2 days and they wanted me to start ASAP. Part of me says, you might as well try this because if you're still at your current job in a year you're going to be depressed - and part of me says, you're a fraud for accepting this job, and they will figure you out and fire you - and part of me says, you will fuck up in the beginning but if they work with you, maybe you will stay and do well. I'm really stressed and don't know what to do - I already gave my resignation from my current job today. I just don't feel like I have many fallback options if this doesn't work out.
This one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusopoly
Is this really satire or a parody though? Could almost view this as defamation. Is it really being satirical, or is it designed to make a company look stupid and like a joke? I am seeing this as being different than satire or parody like a site like the onion would do. If the onion went and created a site that looked very legitimate, linked to the real companies sites, and no where mentioned it was fake then I would also have a problem with that. But they don't. All of their jokes are within the onion, not spread across fake sites pretending to be from other companies.
> 5 days seems to be ample amount of time.

Ample amount of time for what? The underlying problem is that DigitalOcean should not be arbitrating trademark disputes between companies. They're not competent to decide who is right and who is wrong. They should not suspend someone's content purely because someone claims to be the owner of a trademark, and claims some content is infringing. (Unless we're talking about obvious abuse, intentional malice, etc.)

What exactly is the recourse for the site owner if the claims are unreasonable or outright wrong? With the DMCA, there is a clear process: the site owner can submit a counter-claim, and the content stays up. What should properly happen at that point is the rights-owner can take the site-owner to court to pursue their claim. Instead, DigitalOcean acted as judge, jury, and executioner on behalf of the NRA, taking down content outside any established DMCA-like process, and without leaving Surge any recourse to keep it up.