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> Nazism

Nazism has only been suppressed in Germany as far as I know(how effective has it been?). Was it ever suppressed in the US? One of the crowning moments of the ACLU's support for civil rights was to stand up for a Nazi march - it's hard to call that suppressed. Can you compare Germany to the US and see whether suppressing and not suppressing Nazism has had a significant effect? Or perhaps there is a roiling Nazi sentiment in each country, which isn't affected in a significant way by suppression? I am honestly not sure.

> dozens of Christian heretic faiths you've never heard about

These were usually expelled from the country or genocided

> the genocide of the Native Americans (where's their culture now?)

genocide

> the pre-colombian civilizations of South and Central America

genocide?

> the Roman Empire

Not really suppressed

I think I'm seeing a pattern, and it's one of the things that frustrates me in this discussion. People talk about suppressing Nazis, but they claim they are interested in just suppressing speech(which has plenty of negative effects already!). The rationalization to ignore those negative effects is what you proposed - Nazis are so dangerous that eradicating them will be a net good. However, all the examples of successful suppression you're giving me are genocide, or at least go way way beyond mere speech restriction - in all of them the people who had the suppressed ideas were hunted down and killed.

Is just suppression of speech actually effective? If I agree to it, swallowing all my concerns about the negative effects, and it fails to work, will we be looking towards more suppression, with a possible end-game of hunting down and killing the Nazis?
> Total conversion for ~18,000 LOC Python to ~7,000 LOC Scheme took about nine weeks. The speed-up was about 2.5x.

You should really do a blog post on this and submit it to HN! So people could appreciate the real-world benefits of using a Lisp.
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> If you set the standard at "ban everything that the populace deems to be as bad as Hitler" then today we get rid of Nazi sites and tell KKK members they can't use our gyms, but tomorrow who will be condemned?

You should count the number of bombings of abortion clinics over the last decade or two, count the number of laws restricting access to abortion in the last 5, and then decide whether inaction today will prevent action tomorrow.

What is the causal relationship of this argument? If I condemn nazis today, and say the nazis come into power, does my past action magically make it easier for nazis in power to be, well nazis? If I don't stand against nazis today and they come into power, will that magically shield me? Rhetorical consistency has no physical power.

> Google could reply "we didn't even ban Nazis, why the hell would you expect us to ban anyone for you?"

Or they could just do it anyway. Being rhetorically consistent has never been a requirement for taking actual action. Just remember that the United States government has already colluded with business leaders to suppress political beliefs [1]. After the Fowley Square Trial, the United States government actually disbarred and jailed any attorney who defended the communists they charged. They then passed a law forbidding picketing of courthouses. The ACLU supported that law.

Pandora's box has already been opened. It's always really funny how it's the far right who have their rights vociferously defended by centrists but those very same centrists always stood by while communists were rounded up and exterminated. By the way, this happened too in Germany. All of the people who publicly opposed the Nazis before they came into power were condemned with the same exact centrist "both sides are wrong" rhetoric we hear today.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. These very exact arguments were being made in the 1930's. They were being made back in the days of Usenet, BBS and vBulletin forums. They will be made so long as there exist people who want to maintain some abstract virtue at the cost of other peoples' material safety. So long as someone is not directly materially threatened by the white nationalist political program, they will indefinitely stave off any concrete opposition to that program.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Act_trials_of_Communist_...
It's probably old DB software, the interactions between, and not the language itself.
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Quote: An ACLU spokeswoman confirmed the policy shift and said the concern over weapons was not something the group has had to contend with in the past.

So I'm assuming the ACLU knows what their policy was, and this was a change.

I guess sometime between the 1934 document posted and yesterday the ACLU's policy changed to defend protests where guns were carried, and now they are looking at that again.

Notably they went to court to defend the Charlotteville protest, and they knew open-carry milita were planning to come.
Thank you EFF; You've earned a recurring donor. I will also be removing all of my domains from GoDaddy and Google Domains.

If you support net neutrality, you fundamentally cannot support the actions of these companies. These two ideals are in direct conflict.
Another mechanism created to do something similar to versioning was strict mode.
This. Over the past few days I've been called a Nazi-supporter or KKK-defender simply for disagreeing with people. The 'logic' seems to be that Nazis are their enemy, and me not 100% supporting them means I too am the enemy, thus I'm actually trying to undermine them to help the Nazis.

My last post on Reddit was simply saying that dehumanising people and denouncing pacifists as sympathisers only creates further radicalisation. Currently at -350 points as it's clearly a controversial statement.
The vast majority of people on the planet aren't enough to stop a person (regardless of their ideological beliefs) from threatening, beating, and murdering people in a free society.

In order to actually stop people from doing those things, society would have to give up a lot of freedom to prevention through force ("stopping"). In a free society, the focus is usually on prevention through dissuasion (influence) or through reactive means (punishment, rehabilitation).

What are your thoughts on how society could physically prevent these actions while maintaining freedom for all its citizens ?
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Are you actually saying you can find the answers to questions in your single bedroom library/apartment than just about any human using a search engine?
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To be fair, C has a bunch of weird things with its syntax like the comma separator commonly used with for loops.
You should get a fine for speeding, and jailtime might be appropriate for driving without a license. The problem here is that it seems the offender had not been told about the suspension, thats very unfortunate but not a feature of the justice system. And the clerical error could have affected Bill Gates too.
Javascript lets you do anything wrong if you use == and not === though, I'm pretty sure the machine apocalypse is going to happen because someone types == instead of === at this point.
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I realized that even here I wasn't very clear. What I was saying was that you shouldn't have to say that you don't support racists before every single statement. But because of how our language has shifted, you now have to, and it's unfortunate.
More attacks or more fatalities? This is a silly metric. 9-11 was a single attack.
Just tested (in the node CLI console) and that doesn't seem to be the case.

Edit: It's true in PHP though. :-/
I hope you're as worried about Islamic extremists as you are about Nazi ones?

Of course. I think all violent extremism is despicable.
On our sample, x0.95 for minified code (so that's a 5% improvement) and ~x0.3 for non-minified code.

As usual, read these numbers with a pinch of salt, they are bound to change many times before we are done.
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Isn't punishing beliefs (right or wrong) a characteristic of despotism?
> Also largely (heh) an American thing. In Europe I've rarely if ever seen 'must be at least 180cm tall'

As someone who has actually run the numbers for an online dating service, I can assure you it's not "largely an American thing".
Funny, I've gone down the same path. I enjoy woodworking quite a bit. One of the strangest things in a craft like woodworking (compared to software) is that once it's finished, it's finished. I built a table for our startup office, and it's the one thing I've built at work that I never have to update or fix.

I've also mixed that in with some 3D printing and CNC builds that sort of blend the two worlds together.
> Or is that just designed to confuse and mask the last item?

Bingo. The main reason most ToS's are like ten pages long, really. They're counting on you not reading it.
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What makes you think California would do better on its own? California is an infrastructure backwater, due to anti-development policies. If you live in the shadow of Comcast Center in Philly, you've probably got two fiber providers to chose from. If you live in San Francisco you probably don't have fiber at all. (Philadelphians also have pretty decent public transit, while San Franciscans have ... BART. I posit that those things are not unrelated.)
I hear the arguments for and against. I've noticed its always easier for people to argue these type of things when they feel they aren't the target of the harrassment. People who can take a "not me" position can reason that the site deserves a voice. That said, if the site was spouting ideologies that did target you, would you continue to argue for its existence? Were this an Isis site, would you argue it deserves a voice as well? Just wondering.
NOTE that the Registered Trademark of "1-Click" will still be valid and owned by Amazon

http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4808:d4r...
Didn't go to jail but I did have a warrant out for my arrest because the community service officer didn't turn in my paperwork. $200 down the drain plus having to lose a half a day of work, drive to another city (30 min) as well deal with a crying parent on the phone that I hadn't told about what had happened (because it was so dumb - setting off fireworks).

Going through it all, since it ended ok, was good. I was 20 and learned even more to 1) not trust cops, 2) the courts are fallible and 3) it's more f-cked up for other people than a white kid in college (which I was but sat through a lot of other cases that day and the previous time there).
It's a very convenient (but extreme) strawman.
There's never been anything conservative about the far-right. Comparing Chesterton and Pinochet is an insult to Chesterton, let alone comparing him to Hitler!
> Since decades on windows with foreign locales. The installer just breaks, and self-building fails also.

Are you sure? I use SBCL with Windows with no problem. My machine is localized for spanish language. Also CLISP works just fine.
I understand how open source work gets "sourced" but this approach to hiring sounds very much like they see developers as entirely replaceable. How would you evaluate people in a tournament style as a good fit for a job? This sounds very much like they think devs are like cattle.
Vala is much better with refcounting objects.
Still can't believe Amazon's been around for 20 years now.
Setting aside the madness that is the patent itself ever being granted, what I found most interesting on that post was that this could now (possibly) become an actual web standard in the future:

> the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has started writing a draft proposal for one click buying methods.

The W3C site itself has a number of web payment related proposals in progress[1]. The Payment Request API, in particular, looks pretty interesting (updated 2017-08-17). I wonder what a difference something like that would've made back in the day when I was bathed in Paypal SOAP.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/#tr_Web_Payments
Please do not disparage an entire committee because you disagree philosophically with one proposal in it.
I ran an ecommerce company for about a year, and one click checkout was the least of our concerns when it came to Amazon.

The speed of delivery, prime benefits, brand recognition, and willingness to lose money on many if not most items are absolutely brutal to compete against.

I'm glad one click checkout will be more broadly available, but it's probably not going to make much of a difference...
I don't know of anyone working on it, exactly because it is so difficult. So, while it might happen eventually, I don't think that anyone can provide an ETA at this stage.
As someone who has a software patent, you don't want to know what it's like, as an engineer, to see your work get abstracted into generalities for a patent.

By the end of it, everything was so generically described that I couldn't even recognize it anymore. This entire system needs to be reworked or thrown away entirely.
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"E-commerce will change forever" ... strong words. Amazon has features that are a much bigger value proposition than one-click purchases. I don't see this changing the landscape in any significant way.
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> If you're on a different platform it's not exact, but most of the important material applies to POSIX make implementations.

Which parts are "most of the material" though? ;)

> Replace your own toolchain for the CC and related commands... really anything that takes multiple files as input and emits one file as output should fit the paradigm.

I tried to. It's messy and undebuggable if you run into problems. Especially with tools that already look at the whole project (such as Typescript).

We ended up using Makefiles as just "command launchers" with targets that basically look like

target:
invoke-tool
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Agreed, it seems quite obvious even if there was no prior art (which I doubt, even in 1997, and security issues aside, sites using PHP or ASP or Perl could have been storing credit card data for express checkout functionality).

I also don't see the huge advantage of this. I never use one-click checkout on Amazon. I like to review everything before I buy.

I guess for totally impulse purchases it helps eliminate a step at which the buyer might reconsider a purchase. But I don't like to shop that way.
The problem is what happens in the meantime, when Google is effectively a public utility but not regulated as one.
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You shouldn't be directing your ire at your other passengers. The responsibility for this lies squarely with the airline, which knows full well about mean femur lengths and mean hip widths, and consciously chooses seat configurations guaranteed to be uncomfortable for a large fraction of their passengers, in order to squeeze more profit out of each flight.

If people make a fuss, and demand laws or government regulation for minimum dimensions of passenger spaces, that will establish a minimum floor on flight prices, but it will also ensure that everyone can be accommodated equally. If it's a race to the bottom anyway, it might be a good idea to build a floor at a reasonable height above rock bottom. Short and narrow people can then resent taller, fatter people for raising their fares instead of tall people getting angry about reclining seats.
You can't really write a compiler if you don't know all the "weird things" of the language.
If there was ever an argumentum ad absurdum regarding the wisdom of where airline seating has gone over recent decades, it is the existence of that device.
Poland, I'd guess most other Warsaw-pact countries as well.
OK, that's a good one.

Is this ActionScript that's doing the weird xml tag interpolation?

I stand corrected, this is definitely possible. Still, I bet this person's real problems stem from explicit coding.
I have always hated the thought that retailers stored my credit card information. Seems to be very common with US based shops.

If this gets any traction I will need to fight even harder to opt out.

I yearn for the day I can have one off transaction codes.
No, it's not absurd at all.

Cancer treatment is not benign and (believe it or not) not all cancers will always causes harm.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-uncertainty-surrounding...

For instance, in 2012 a study in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) by Archie Bleyer and H. Gilbert Welch found that, while there had been a doubling in the number of cases of early stage breast cancer in the 30 years since mass mammographic screening programs had been instituted, this increase wasn’t associated with a comparable decrease in diagnoses of late stage cancers, as one would expect if early detection was taking early stage cancers out of the “cancer pool” by preventing their progression. That’s not to say that Bleyer and Welch didn’t find that late stage cancer diagnoses decreased, only that they didn’t decrease nearly as much as the diagnosis of early stage cancers increased, and they estimated the rate of overdiagnosis to be 31%. These results are in marked contrast to the promotion of mammography sometimes used by advocacy groups. Last year, the 25 year followup for the Canadian National Breast Screening Study (CNBSS) was published. The CNBSS is a large, randomized clinical trial started in the 1980s to examine the effect of mammographic screening on mortality. The conclusion thus far? That screening with mammography is not associated with a decrease in mortality from breast cancer. Naturally, there was pushback by radiology groups, but their arguments were, in general, not convincing. In any case, mammographic screening resulted in decreases in breast cancer mortality in randomized studies, but those studies were done decades ago, and treatments have improved markedly since, leaving open the question of whether it was the mammographic screening or better adjuvant treatments that caused the decrease in mortality from breast cancer that we have observed over the last 20 years.
Seems like survivor bias to me. To this day I still find out some stuff about how I grew up that I didn't know at the time; maybe your mum had other concerns she didn't bother to share with you...?
My take on Vala is Lazarus. (Won't really miss refcounting once you get used to create/try/finally pattern)
That would be truly nefarious (which fits in perfectly with Google's M.O.). Do you know of any precedent for companies operating in this way? I guess the NSA probably operates on similar principles?
Quick, register "1-Tap" as a trademark! We're gonna be rich, boys!
In java + operator on strings works like this:

Object a = null;
String s = "foo bar " + a; // s == "foo bar null"

So, it's possible to get "null" as a string downstream, when some variable that should be non-nulleable - was null. If you find such a bug and incompetently fix it by checking for "null" downstream instead of checking before turning variables into strings - you have the error from the article. Especially if you check ignoring the case.

BTW guess how I know it's working like that :)
For those curious about how this would deal with Function.prototype.toSource, via https://github.com/syg/ecmascript-binary-ast#functionprototy...:

> This method would return something like "[sourceless code]".
I read somewhere that when Bezos told his team to build one click, they came back to him with a 4-click flow. So he told them no, I want one click, and they came back with two clicks (gotta have a confirmation in case that first click was accidental, right?)

So maybe it really was a nontrivial invention for its time.
It's not always a computer problem.
I have an O' name. There have been many college educated adults I've had to explain the difference between a quote ("), an apostrophe ('), and whatever the hell you call the character under the tilde (`). I kid, it's the grave.
What happens if you leave Google--do you have to interview again?
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Any Essential Phone Engineer here?
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Would it last more than one year or just die one day post warranty like Nexus devices?
By any chance we ask for a warranty of 5 years for any future phones which are above 500$?
Have we not even become capable of producing a device which would last 5 years when TV, Laptop and many other electronic devices do?
>I'm a big proponent of the notion that privilege lies on a spectrum, it isn't binary.

Agreed, and my genetic combination of healthy, cis, hetero, white, and male put me on the "more privileged" end of that spectrum.

Recognizing privilege in oneself leads to recognizing it—and the desire to have it at least acknowledged—in others. It also empowers me to leverage that privilege to benefit others who don't share it. As an example, I think Tim Cook does a great job of this at Apple.
I could leave the entirety of https://github.com/ninenines/erlang.mk

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https://github.com/ninenines/erlang.mk/blob/master/core/inde...

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Not necessarily evil, but attempting to abridge their rights.
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The intent of the posting the statistics is irrelevant. If the person is against immigration into their town, they should be able to post the crime statistics with the intent to influence other locals to reject the immigrants. It is up to the reader of the information to determine whether it was biased, or whether bias is warranted. Even if all immigrants are not criminals, you can determine that crime went up in your town, zero in on them as the cause, and rightfully decide to oppose all immigration to your town because you'd rather have crime levels where they were before.

There is no real world rise of facism in the United States. The nationwide gathering of white nationalists last weekend barely managed to scrape together a few hundred people.

The danger of fascism is primarily from the left, who believe it is alright for masked ANTIFA protesters to intimidate and commit acts of violence. They are the equivalent of a modern Klu Klux Klan and largely get a pass by the press. Trump's executive orders are no more autocratic than his predecessors and he is not aided and abided by a willing press.

Certainly in the Philippines and Venezuela you could make an argument about a descent into fascism.
T-Mobile uses the last4 of the account holder's SSN as a phone support authentication string.

This is a trove.
Was it really that revolutionary? I used to build e-commerce sites years ago and not a single client asked for one-click buying. And it wasn't because they knew it was patented.

I myself have probably used Amazon's one click maybe 3 times ever.

Useless filler article.
OP just told that Win7 got updated to do the same spying as Win10.

> Win7 is still far more stable

Would like a source of this. I didn't see a BSOD in like 5 years now.

> the UI is still far superior

This is subjective.
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I already explained exactly why. They already have responsibility for the content on their platform simply due to the nature and design of the platform.
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Hyphens too.

Source: have a hyphenated last name. "No special characters in this field".