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I actually love these two sentences. They perfectly drag you into a relationship with the narrator.

As the sentence drags on longer and longer, you feel the narrator trying to glean just a bit more of your focus and attention. Her unwillingness to end the sentence and give you a moment to retract and catch your breath shows how desperate she is for connection and makes you literally experience the same feelings of those around her.

All of the little qualifiers and clauses show how acutely self-conscious she is, always amending and curtailing her expression of herself. It also shows how self-aware of her own negativity she is. Many of the extra clauses go out of their way to show that she is aware of the positive aspects of things.

But that in turn just reinforces our perception of her as depressed because we see that while she is aware of all of these positive things—having a support system, the expertise of her therapist, etc.—we also know she is depressed and her depression must be profound to persist in spite of all those good things she laboriously lists.

Prose like this is exactly why writing in the first person can be so powerful. You get to read the story, and the way the narrator experiences the story, and the way the narrator chooses to tell you how they experienced the story, and the unintended (from the narrators' not author's perspective) things that sneak out around what the narrator is aware of choosing to say.
PUA or "Red Pill" more specifically is about changing yourself to be a better, stronger, more independent man in ways that also happen to coincide with what women find attractive.

MGTOW is about being a better, stronger, more independent man in your own terms and explicitly ignoring feedback from woman as input as to what "better" means. For some guys, if you encounter women that happen to want to have sex with you, then go for. Others choose to remove the distraction entirely and ignore engaging in sex so they can focus on themselves.

Red Pill/PUA participants will sometimes look down at MGTOW because MGTOW has a lot of guys that aren't really dedicated to improving themselves. MGTOW guys can sometimes be bitter about their lack of sex life and try to use MGTOW to rationalize it and feel better about themselves in a sour-grapes sort of way.

If there's any "hate" on either side, they're taking it too seriously and not representative of the rational participants.
>Driving around in a luxury cars sounds more like a regular criminal than some one working for the FSB etc.

you probably doesn't know much about FSB and Russia in general.

just for fun, FSB academy "graduation ceremony" this year :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOzZROaFk6Y&list=PLot6UgSr1s...
Don't let the length and structure of the sentence fool you into thinking it wasn't meticulously crafted, worked, edited, reworked, etc.

DFW is extremely "tight" in that he uses his powerful (and precocious) intellect to think about everything way, way too much. This overthinking translates into his choice of words, grammar, punctuation, what the sentence conveys, how it adds to the overall tone, and even the topics he decides to write on. It's what makes him so fun (and, sometimes, painful) to read.

He's certainly not concise, but he's one of the tightest writers I've ever read.
This is kind of an awkward question, but what was the actual harm to customers here? The throttling only affected a small percentage of users downloading much more data than the norm; and I doubt they would've gone to another provider if T-Mobile had clearly spelled out what was happening: they would've been charged hundreds of dollars do this on VZN/ATT/Sprint instead. It was deceptive advertising and it should be punished,but we're not talking about banks incorrectly foreclosing on homes here. I don't know if crushingly huge punitive fines are appropriate.
I've noticed it big time in the northeast. I live on the road and work via a Verizon connection. Over the last 6 months over 7 or 8 locations I get a full Verizon signal (with a booster) and very low speeds compared to a year ago. And speeds increasing at off peak times (it's fast in the middle of the night) point to overloaded towers.

I know people love to hate on cell companies but it must be hell to try and keep up with demand that changes so rapidly.
> people with similar views can't congregate together, and people with irreconcilable views can't just decide to stay away from each other, in your world.

Oh, surely they can. I just won't be a part of a groupthink community and would oppose the effort of turning whole technology community into such. If you want to organize "Trump haters of Silicon Valley" meetup, feel free to. As long as you are not going to demand that "Trump lovers of Silicon Valley" meetup is shut down and meetup.com deletes their account. See the difference?

> Or is it a percentage thing?

It's not a percentage thing, it's a mindset thing. The fact that you turn to police and coercion all the time is another sign. The point is that we need to be open to coexisting with people that disagree with us, and that's a good thing. The urge to run for a safe space and surround oneself with a warm fuzzy cloak of groupthink is a natural one, but it's not a good thing if you want a healthy and intellectually honest and vibrant community around you.

> but a whole lot of "wow, these people all seem to be reading the same script" in the pro-Thiel/pro-Trump,

Of course, people that agree with you are all independent intellectual powerhouses, and people that disagree with you are all mindless drones zombified by Evil Powers. Funny how it happens like that all the time, eh?
Isn't the opposite then a negative selection bias? If we have N children killed per year doing an activity A, and N anecdotes of children being perfectly okay, neither matter without knowing the denominator of the number of child-activities per year.
Infinite Jest is a very compelling argument for the use of e-readers.
I'd guess a lot of people get lost around this point when he starts to spend a lot of time with the street addict, writing in POV-style broken english.
Stalin killed far more people than Hitler, and Mao killed far more people than Stalin. I'm not sure where this instinct to give brutal dictators a pass so long as they were leftists comes from, but it makes no sense.
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This is literally the reason why I use ad block. I don't mind ads, but I can't stand webpages where the ad drops in an changes the whole layout. Congrats, you win 0 revenue from me!
It seems that baity titles become less so when the content is as highly predictable as nybooks.com. If a reader is comfortable sitting down to what they can reasonably expect is a book review, they might not feel so cheated when it's about prejudice instead of, say, economics.

The principle behind letting a title like this one stand where not everything is spelled out is that it encourages a quiet, reflective approach. This is a highly desirable quality for Hacker News in that it supports the gratification of intellectual curiosity, which is why we're here.
Exactly. As an unlimited customer who has used, at times, upwards of 60GB / month this was never made clear and their representatives have absolutely lied about. When I signed up I was skeptical as any so I spent a good bit of time grilling them, and this was never mentioned anywhere. I've never heard of it in any advertisement nor seen any disclaimer. I've received no warning about their activity. I switched over about four years ago and have been wholeheartedly recommending it as a good carrier, but things like this severely diminish T-Mobile's luster in my mind.
Yes, but it's silly to say that the smallest participant is manipulating the largest. Poor Fox News and CNN, being rick-rolled by that evil Assange... /s

Empty information? What does that even mean?
I switched to tmobile $30 plan a year ago and regularly got 25mbps around Manhattan, now days I get around 10, often 5.
Did they take out the site? Points to a 404 page.
The power of less code
*fined for misleading customers about network management
Your thoughts jump to police and coercion all the time. Why is that? Nobody is trying to coerce you to anything, unless you see other individuals voluntarily associating as some kind of coercion on you.
People pay as much, or more, to go to a room a few times a week and have someone lecture them, then assign work which will be evaluated and eventually produce a piece of paper. Some don't even have physical rooms much anymore, and just charge to watch videos!

We call it "college", and it can also be risky (especially some of the shadier ones).
My experience with kids is they live in an infinite sea of data, much like past generations felt like they live in an infinite sea of raw material or petroleum to use as they see fit eternally or infinite sea of environment to pollute. Also kids know modern technology is cheap and disposable and replace often whereas old people are stuck in the Waltons TV show era "had to save up for two years in the great depression to buy that radio that cost a whole paycheck back when it was new and I see no reason to buy another" so nothing is ever tossed out.

So we're watching a TV episode my mythtv recorded and heavy rain always knocks out the OTA PBS signal so there's some digital breakup and the kids are like "skip it, its broken" because they are from an era of infinite youtube entertainment where something as good or better is always a "next" button away. They have no pity or empathy bad content is to be euthanized with aggressive application of the "next" button. Meanwhile I'm an old timer and I have invested in this episode of The Woodwrights Shop and I want to watch this damn episode even if I only get to see half of it between the signal breaking up. When I grew up an episode of Star Trek cost like $40 and was purchased on a VHS (or Beta) video tape and content was incredible valuable as the minimum wage was like $3/hr; for my kids content is infinite always available and totally worthless. You can always hit next and find something free that's probably better.

They are about the same with apps and games. Unless a game operates in what old timers would call newbie mode where its impossible to fail and you get little skinner box rewards every 10 seconds, they just delete it and find something "better". The game crashed? Don't restart, delete and reload. Oh well, for better or worse every game has 500 clones on ITMS to load on the ipad. Maybe clone #283 will be better than this one!

I also see a behavior with old people where TVs used to cost like a months salary so you replace them like windows, either roughly never, or when they break. How do I explain this to grannie that I can argue all day but when the CRT emission and therefore brightness drops in the amount of time I've spent arguing with grannie I could have earned enough money to buy a TV better than what she'd be throwing out, but great depression this and that and surely a smart electrician like me can replace a vacuum tube in her TV like uncle so and so did in 1962 and it would be all better and ugh ugh ugh so once again old people have a touch of early adopter syndrome and even junk is not to be thrown away, not realizing that modern stuff is both disposable and cheap. The only thing worse than arguing with an elderly relative about their 1980s magnavox TV is arguing with another old relative about their $100 2012 model thats already burned out the backlight because old people watch 18 hours per day of TV.
My go-to reference on the situation is https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/entry/essay_3g_and_me.

Like Keith says, more important than whether you have 3G, 4G, or LTE is:

""How much spectrum has the carrier licensed in my city, and how much is allocated to this kind of modulation?

How many other people am I sharing the local tower with? In other words, how big is my cell, and how many towers has the carrier built or contracted with?

How much throughput are my cellmates trying to consume?

How much throughput has the carrier built in its back-end network connecting to the tower?

You might notice that all of these meat-and-potatoes factors involve the carrier spending money, and they all involve gradual improvement in behind-the-scenes infrastructure that's hard to get customers excited. Persuading you to buy a new cell phone with a sophisticated modem and sign up for a two-year contract is a different story. So they don't sell you something measurable where they could be held accountable; they sell how sweet it feels to be using a sophisticated radio modem protocol to talk to them.

…

If the carrier sold you "384 kbps Internet access anywhere in the coverage area, outdoors," that would be something you could hold them accountable for. The carrier might even have to put a brake on signing up new customers until it could build new towers or license more spectrum for everybody to share, if it made that guarantee.""
I think that's fine, you just can't sell people something different from what you said you were selling them.

That is, the infraction is about honesty. I think rulings like this are important. If you can't know if your plan throttles more aggressively than another, you can't make the choice and competitive pressure is taken off the market.
I've been involved in a handful of projects that fell into a situation were UI development was much slower than backend development.

Specifically, one was primarily a visualization tool. It was trivial to add various data transformations. However, the UI to render and interact with any one of those transformations would take substantially longer.
There's a bit of a trend to embed a tiny ROM in the processor itself that's got just enough intelligence to bootstrap an image off various peripherals.

The Broadcom parts work like this for the VC4; the boot ROM can talk to an SD card, parse a FAT filesystem, and load and run the second-stage loader (bootcode.bin). But Allwinner chips do this too, and they're even smart enough to try several different media types (including SATA, IIRC!). Ditto Tegra parts.

I imagine that if you're a major customer you get to choose the contents of the boot ROM.

From a hacker perspective, it's brilliant, because the devices are completely unbrickable. It doesn't matter how broken they get, you can't change the ROM, which means that you always have ability to get something working. But, of course, they all have entirely different APIs. The VC4 just dumps an image into memory, sets a couple of registers, and jumps to it, and I imagine the others all do the same thing.
Interesting explanation thanks. (Not sure why my original comment was so harshly downvoted, I genuinely had troubles understanding the differences).
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Accusing someone of hypocrisy doesn't immunize yourself from claims of hypocrisy. You said "I agree that Clinton's repeated conspiratorial assertions that Russia is trying to rig the election is dangerous to democracy."

Answer the question. Do you think claims that the election is rigged is dangerous or not? You can simultaneously believe both candidates are acting dangerously.

There is however, a very big difference between the 2 claims. Clinton claims that Russia is trying to influence the election. Trump claims that the election is rigged at the polling booths.

>Her claims the Russians are trying to rig the election for Trump are absolutely not backed up by the United State's intelligence agencies.

The United State's intelligence agencies issued public statements that they believe DNC emails were hacked by Russia. The emails were then leaked during an election. That's pretty good evidence that they are trying to influence that election.

Russia also has a history of propping up right wing parties throughout Europe. Add that in, and she has very strong evidence to suggest the Russians are trying to influence the election.

Notice she hasn't said that they've successfully rigged the election. She said they are attempting to influence it.

I don't have a problem with Donald Trump saying the media is trying to influence the election in Hillary's favor. I have a problem with him saying the vote is rigged and that the election was stolen. Especially before the ballots have been cast.
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Authors have a way about telling a story. I guess it's "style". With longer books, you sort of build up a predictive parser for that particular author, so they get easier and easier to read.

For example Douglas Adams likes punchlines. He'll give a long and detailed description of a kitchen, and oh by the way there's a dead body bleeding in the middle of the floor. You kind of learn detailed descriptions are garden paths, the details don't matter. If you're just kind of trying to get through the book you can skim to the punchline, smile, and move on.

Casual reading isn't like technical reading. Missing a detail won't cost you a week of effort. Song of Ice and Fire(game of thrones) is a better example. If you don't particularly care for a character, just skimming their part of the story isn't going to kill the book. You get that so and so is sad, and went for a long walk. Ok, whatever.

If you like reading for entertainment, there's nothing special about page count. It's just the fun of being on an adventure. I'm not exactly saying you just skip the boring parts, it's more that you internalize the author's style, and implicitly read the boring parts less closely.
Wasn't this the plot line the movie "Antitrust" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitrust_(film) ? ;)
"#FlightDynamics reported to the #FlightDirector that "We are captured in Mars orbit...all within expected tolerances" #ExoMars" .....TGO is in Mars Orbit!!!!
>It won't yield long-term happiness for most of them

For "Red Pill" stuff specifically, maybe not MGTOW, this seems to be entirely false in the experiences I've read about. Men are overwhelmingly happier and in better places in life after learning to take responsibility for their life and recognizing/fixing their shortcomings.
I clicked on the link given in the article and read the opinion piece and the following comments. From my reading, this article totally misrepresented the views of the community on this issue.

Yes, the person who wrote the opinion piece linked to made that exact argument, but many of the commenters disagreed and said the crimes were as bad as each other.

So saying this is one of the views of the group as a whole seems disingenious at best. At worst, a blatant lie.

As a disclaimer - I have never heard of this group before so have no skin in the game.
no one pays it :)
"From early 2015 to early 2016 there was a 56% increase in data usage according to Cisco."

And there you see the problem with data caps (common among mobile carriers but swiftly coming to cable). We have plenty of bandwidth today and are squeezed for more money in a few years.
The value proposition of Final is pretty low. Fraud on CCs is pretty much inconsequential. If one of your cards if compromised, report it and use another card. "Virtual" cards aren't really a benefit. Vendor-specific cards are already around (Amazon, Bloomingdale's, Costco, etc) and provide benefits in addition to being a targeted card. Vendor-specific cards also help your credit score.

- 18% APR? (interest rates are near 0%; my worst card is 17%)
- 1% cash back (my worst card is 1.5% back, best is 5%)
- $49 annual fee? (None of my cards have annual fees)

Great work on the features and UI for the service, but you need a better banking partner. The product is unremarkable.
This comes as a surprise to me. Prague is rife with anti-communist monuments. Plaques implore the viewer to never forget about the scourge of totalitarian rule. Free anti-communist movies were on display in the park.

I was a tourist; I'm not disputing what you said.
Still. Imagine having someone like Fico as a PM. President is still a fairly insignificant figure in politics.
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OK, that makes a lot more sense now. The confusion was on my end.
Fuck the Speeching Censorship
Always gotta hand it to Stripe to build a killer looking landing page
Comparing drowning deaths between adults and children is pointless. It is obvious that more adults die of any cause (except maybe SIDS).
What would be more relevant is of all the dead children, how many die because of the lack of supervision.
Living in SF, I haven't really noticed this, which the article bears out. I was actually just commenting in one of our Slack channels at $work that it's still kinda weird to me that the internets are, on average, at least 4x faster (throughput, not latency) on my phone vs my home internet service (bonded DSL).

EDIT: Out of curiosity, I just checked again, first on LTE and then on WiFi:

LTE: 30ms ping 64mbit/s down 23mbit/s up
WiFi: 24ms ping 6mbit/s down 2mbit/s up
So gnome devs treat their users like morons. Their users leave to use KDE, XFCE, Cinnamon, etc, and find the desktop environment satisfactory.

I think this says more about the devs than it does the desktop environment, unless the fact that GNOME used to ship with Ubuntu skewed things.
I seriously doubt Twitch and YouTube personalities have had a significant impact on movie watching. What I could believe but don't have numbers to prove is that subscription streaming TV--much of which is in serial form--is pulling audiences away from film especially given that subscription streaming movie catalogs are pretty thin.
I'm from Finland. First, if someone came to jump on my trampoline and got hurt, the last thing they would do is to sue me. Secondly, if I did not intentionally and actively try to harm them it's quite hard to imagine a situation where I would have to pay damages - and in the unlikely case I had to the payment would be probably be a couple of thousands of euros (based on my cursory and anecdotal experience).

The only way to clock in millions of euros as penalty here would be some mini-enron like financial crime.

It would also be pretty insane to predatorily sue me for millions of euros. There is nowhere that money could come from.

Generally public healthcare would pick up the tab on most medical costs (sans some mostly insignificant fees).
I've never known a carrier (or isp) to offer any speed without a "*experience may vary" type disclaimer. Is this different in the US?
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Not sure if that's how it works. I guess users would start to use "!g" syntax on more and more of their searches (as a habit).
On mobile I had to scroll up to scroll down when that object in the middle intercepted my touch events.
Because PUA has a lot of negative connotations and it's not clear from your comment whether you were implying those connotations to MGTOW. I upvoted you, for the record.
I think this is just another example of standardized testing (specifically AP course exams in this story) almost creating a niche-like education for students.

Maybe that's an odd way to put it, but some students wind up spending hours and hours studying AP/SAT/ACT/etc.-specific materials (literally 500+ page textbooks for each type of standardized test). Sure this method of studying helps them achieve great scores on the standardized tests, but my impression as a recent student in academia (finishing college now) is that this creates an issue where students are almost "overly" dependent on more specialized areas.

I don't know if it's an issue of not having time to learn "street smarts" (so to speak) because standardized studying takes up all their time, or if it's something else. But there's definitely some improvement that can be made.
Oh that's interesting. I bought the hard copy specifically because I assumed it would be easier to flip around the footnotes. Maybe I'll give it a shot then.