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Just like there are standardized open-source licenses we can just look at and recognize (MIT, GPL, Apache etc.) there should be standardized terms of service.

Or perhaps modular terms. COOKIES = We use cookies blablabla. NON-GUARANTEE = You are by yourself etc., I don't know, I've never read these things carefully.
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Yep it's dreaming within a dream exactly. I've had it happen to three levels deep (assuming this world is real). Woke up then woke up again, then woke up a third time and now I'm in this world.
The CEO's explanation includes a section titled "freedom of speech < due process." But he defines "due process" as, roughly, predictable decision making. Legally speaking, due process involves a lot more than that.

The CEO doesn't describe any process that Cloudflare intends to follow that will provide predictable decisions. So the original comment is correct: the explanation doesn't describe anything similar to due process, even though the CEO explicitly says that is/will be Cloudflare's guiding light.

For what it's worth, I think Cloudflare has a strong argument for canceling based on the Daily Stormer's claim that Cloudflare supported them or endorsed them or whatever ( http://codes.findlaw.com/us/title-15-commerce-and-trade/15-u... ). But the explanation promises to go beyond that, and doesn't deliver.
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> and ISPs are free to cut off my internet service if they don't like what I'm hosting

The solution for this kind of thing would be using something like tor or i2p. However, if these companies start banning these services as well that would be a problem.
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Sorry you didn't get your war!

Not really. Why isn't it enough to have destroyed Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya? If you destroyed Syria tomorrow, for whose blood would you thirst next?
No need to wrestle with the ethics, terraforming is just plain inefficient. Imagine the megastructures that could be built with the resources required for terraforming, and how much quicker we could begin moving into them.

Or, let Isaac Arthur give you the grand tour! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86JAU3w9mB8
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Thanks, this is it. I've just posted the same thing before reading your comment.

Who should start that movement? Perhaps we could trigger it by having a public repository of (provisional) licenses and start linking to it from our side projects?
I really enjoyed her novel, "The Bug"[1], which is about developers and testers trying to track down an elusive bug. It's set in a 1980s startup, and gives a very accurate depiction of the technology of the time and of the psychology of software development.

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There are some amazing responses here.

My number one pick is always finding the next new thing in management from a New York Times bestseller. Then sending an email on the greatness of the process to the whole team and lo-behold expecting everyone to embrace it.

2nd for me is getting stuck on project names. It seems finding a cool sounding name is somehow more necessary than how it works.

To quote an example, we were using the waterfall model for our development. Then somewhere management read about "Rapid Application Development or RAD" and we embrace it ASAP. But not before dissing that RAD was not the word they wanted because rad the word had negative connotation to it so we needed a new name.
Uhh....yes?

In the US, Republicans have been talking about "welfare queens" and people buying lobsters with food stamps for literally decades. This strategy has apparently worked for them, even though benefit fraud is supposedly quite rare.

On the flip side, it's virtually impossible to cut Social Security and Medicare in the US, in part because the programs are not means-tested and everyone hopes to get something back from them.
That it is true, and a communication system?
Did the purveyors of those websites claim Cloudflare secretly supports ISIS, as the Daily Stormer's did of Nazism?
They have learned why following the same path is not the best approach. Trying to censor and hide the past is easier than facing it:
How do you feel about bakeries refusing to bake cakes for gay weddings?

Pretty sure this is the same concept.
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I am certainly never one to question Donald Knuth on things in computer science, but I've always thought his opinion of P vs. NP an odd one, though he is certainly not the only person with that opinion.
> He is also effectively saying that since he can and will remove sites he personally doesn't like, that he personally approves of every other site using Cloudflare.

Well... Yeah. I'm not sure why people think this is not how the internet works. It's a knit of private industry in most of the west and with the exception of a few (eroding) laws, private industries do all kinds of things.

The problem for DS is: there aren't many sites that WILL CDN them now that are as good as the alternatives that will surely not.

We can talk about strengthening guarantees of access to internet services and hosting, but that'd almost certainly be government mandated. Very few governments in a position to dictate this kind of policy to a global entity like the internet are terribly friendly to outright fascist, nazi policy.

So you can pick your poison: inconsistent rules from private entities or more consistent but more likely unfavorable and less mutable rules from government mandate (probably with the weight of government survey and law enforcement).

> Don't wanna sell cakes to gay people or host pro-Nazi sites? Don't start a business serving the public then.

The difference here is that neo-nazis make a decision to be bigots. They could stop. Most LGBT people consider their status to be a matter of birth.

Even for deeply held religious beliefs, we've long recognized a difference in fairness between discriminating on the circumstances and nature of birth vs. the circumstances and nature of choices made.

I think CDNs are a problem in general (their existence speaks to the self-inflicted wounds of an ultimately lawless internet, bad actors contained within gradually destroying it from abuse). It's a bad thing if they start consistently policing content.

But I think it's much worse to vigorously justify murder of people exercising their rights to free speech. Ultimately, people opting out of the tit-for-tat game of free speech and engaging in spontaneous acts of violence are opting out of society as a whole, and will start finding themselves exiled and imprisoned formally. And it's difficult to see any other way to proceed.
Maybe we should claim for them censor all those bad actors too, then. Again, intending to kill people sounds like a solid line.

To be honest, I feel they probably don't want to change their TOS regarding free speech because it creates a new headache for them (now they have to hire people to deal with the claims, make sure a lawyer checks each time they cancel a contract, etc.) In that sense, a "tactical" cancellation of the service like they did with Daily Stormer is probably the most reasonable way to go about it.

You might dislike it, but it's their right.
The folks in question seem to eagerly and happily apply the word "Nazi" to themselves and embrace the so-called ideals of the German Third Reich.

So if you'd like to nitpick over the semantics of "Nazi" versus "adherent of a Nazi-Party-of-Germany-inspired philosophy", be my guest. But I'll be busy opposing them with my every breath, because that's what we do to Nazis.
Allowance for doing nothing works pretty well. When you go to stores make sure they bring their money. They ask for less if they are holding their money. When you tell them they can buy anything they want with their money. Suddenly the crap items that said they wanted are long forgotten. The moral of the story is always go shopping with them but make sure they have their allowance on them. This helps them learn the value of a dollar. They become really cheap.
Personally I get grumpy when modern IDEs make me wait on them. I don't care that much about CPU/RAM usage until the computer starts wasting my time while I'm trying to work. That's sadly very common these days even on relatively beefy hardware.

So I agree with you that computer time is cheap and user time is not, but I think we could optimise better for user time.
How dare you imply that a real friend would lift a finger for me.
The point here is that if you have an account with Cloudflare, but Cloudflare's terms of use allow it to cancel your account for any reason--which is how I understand the CEO's explanation, regardless of whether I think the stated reason is good or bad--then you may be relying on something that you shouldn't rely on.
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> to sell a US stock to usd takes 7 business days

On Fidelity or Schwab it takes 3, unless I'm confused
I actually ran mailbox and fastmail side by side before settling on mailbox. I think the UI is next to flawless. AFAIK they don't work on the UI themselves, they use https://www.open-xchange.com/
Yeah, why isn't every tech worker as open on their opinions as James Danmore?
You'd probably enjoy this short essay, if you haven't seen it yet: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/06/news-45/
> Schools are churning out thousands of people with degrees who were taught to start with the trendy framework du jour, then keep piling on JavaScript libraries until the given problem is solved.

What schools award CS degrees with this kind of curriculum?

That sounds more like what I'd expect from a programming boot camp.
> I don't really know what the word "Nazi" means these days because people have used it to label everyone from far-right conservatives to Trump voters to people who self-identify as neo-Nazis.

This coyness about the dilution of meaning is utterly irrelevant here. We're not discussing figurative Nazis or the erosion of the term. We're discussing people literally waving modern variants of historical Nazi flags, historically used Nazi flags, inventing new similar flags, chanting english versions of Nazi slogans, publishing extensive content about racially motivated violence that cites pre-existing Nazi dogma, and cheering acts of spontaneous and fatal violence against those that oppose them.

This is not some case of the excluded middle. The word "Nazi" is used judiciously here and no one seems to be feigning confusion except the people who think it should be okay to endorse acts that even our conservatively run justice department things could be categorized as hate crimes.

And forgive me, but it's difficult to not hear a note of falseness in this kind of protest. Many of these people in these rallies self-identify as Neo-Nazis, and use slogans that have been associated with violent white-supremacist movements for decades. A powerful deductive intellect is not required to make the connection here.

If all that's required to make this right in your book is the prefix "neo-" then please, let me offer you a chrome or firefox plugin to tighten up everyone's language to match one you'll understand.

So I ask: are you actually confused here or is this simply a rhetorical tactic?
Lisp is the only high-level programming language that has no syntax. In Lisp, s-expressions are used to encode both form (data structures) and function (algorithms) of computer programs. Since code and data are seen for what they are (two sides of the same coin) the distraction of a real PL syntax is eliminated, and the programmer is able to think more coherently.
To dashundchen and others who feel nazism is the absolute threshold beyond which speech ceases to be free.

> How about literal neonazis waving swastikas, calling for violence to exterminate Jews and blacks? Ones literally identify with Nazi facists.

> Do you not accept a line where free speech threatening violence harms other free individuals? This isn't a thought excercise, the Daily Stormer is a group calling for the extermination of people based on race and religion.

So how about jihadists who mutilate genitals at music concerts and behead little children? And who are very clear about their intent to kill millions more?

There are few things I hate more than muslim extremists, yet I am strongly in favor of not obstructing these people's ability to put their stuff online. We can even learn a thing or two from it that helps us defeat them, same goes for nazis.

Isn't it obvious that everything besides radical freedom of speech is bound to descend into a quagmire of arbitrarily constructed and enforced rules?

It is really a little embarrassing to see that "the vaguely Marxist but comfortably bourgeoisie hacker community" as James Mickens beautifully put it is split on an issue around free speech.
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While I'm fairly conformist, and "won't make you friends" is sufficient for me to join the diversity bandwagon, I can imagine radicals not buying your counter-arguments. Groups like the altright truly believe that multiculturalism is the Worst Possible Thing Ever™, and fighting against it is noble even if that restricts their friend circle. Here's a Vox piece[1] where Renaud Camus explains much better than me on where altright are coming from. While I abhor violence and believe in Enlightenment ideals, I don't take diversity as an intrinsic good, and I think being against diversity is consistent with other Enlightenment ideals, and is not coming from a position of hatred or ignorance.

[1]: https://www.vox.com/world/2017/8/15/16141456/renaud-camus-th...
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>> I've never met a manager that wouldn't rather pay four average people $100/hr to solve a problem that one smart person could solve in half the time for $400/hr.

In many organizations, quadrupling the number of people that report to you is worth doubling the delivery time, hands down. Number of reports is an easy measure of influence.
The party didn't want him. No one at that party cared enough to make less of an effort to inform him that there was a party than it would take me to get a glass of water from the kitchen.
No, and no. I don't actually use them, I just looked up their implementation. It also looks like I was downvoted for clarifying how they say their system works. Obviously open source doesn't absolve you from having to trust the company running the software.
Not really--"falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater" was given as an example of inciteful (apolitical) speech clearly within the government's purview to restrain, with the Court going on to opine that (political) speech harmful to the national interest could also be restrained, even if true. A pretty bad decision and partially overturned since...
I'm not certain if it predates the radio compulsory licensing, but I think the compulsory licensing for recordings is at least as old, so it's not about limited radio spectrum, it was rather about preserving certain rights that people were worried copyright would unduly restrict.
The app gamifies the uber style serfconomy for kids

However teaching children to do chores out of respect/community, giving reasonable pocket money regardless of tasks achieved, and encourage entrepreneur ism to make more cash beyond that.
I think what the subtext is is that he values free speech, but if he gets enough political pressure and threats he'll do what he has to to protect the company's bottom line on a case by case basis.
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I don't think this thing is 1979 compatible.
Are you answering someone's question? Or are you just excited about Lisp? I'm a huge fan of Lisp, so it's cool if you're just that excited about Lisp.
That's harder to prove, what I definitely see is roles staying unfilled open because the extra $10k a year to snag somebody faster is an obvious cost but six months of lost productivity isn't.
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The people are out there.

I could add my own story as a data point, but I doubt people want to hear another one if they’re in such denial.
> I don't allow white nationalists into my house.

That reminds me a joke that someone made during a family meeting. It was something along the lines of "What? You are going to marry a COMMUNIST?" and "I don't want loyalists in my house!", both of which are outdated concepts nowadays.

While you are free to refuse entry to your house to anyone that you want, it doesn't change the fact that refusing access to someone who would otherwise be allowed in just for their political beliefs is a jerk thing to do.
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> You might dislike it, but it's their right.

I didn't say anything in support or opposition to what CloudFlare has done here, merely pointing out the hypocrisy of it all.
I'm pretty OK with saying the marketplace of ideas has evaluated the ideals of Nazism and found no need remaining to preserve or protect them. We have, after all, tried the experiment of negotiating with Nazis, appeasing Nazis, and seeking peaceful coëxistence with Nazis, and we've learned what the resulting body count is.

People like to say "never again", but it's important to actually mean it.
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This is nothing but PR and ensuring they have a moral high ground among their target audience. It does nothing to address the issue and makes people who use their services feel good about themselves. This is similar to how FB supports net neutrality in US but pushes their free basics in other countries. Additionally, this also provides fodder to extremists saying look how all these people are against us because they are only punishing our views, this gives the extremists more ammunition in their brain washing of vulnerable population. A corporation does not stand for anything except it's profits and will shift its moral position based on what is most helpful to the bottom line.
Actually, I remember hearing a lot about 'social credit ratings' in China a few years ago. I just took a look and it seems like the Chinese government is taking a step back on it. https://www.ft.com/content/f772a9ce-60c4-11e7-91a7-502f7ee26...
It's comments like yours that give you and your company a bad name. As you well know btc1, a Bitcoin client that implements segwit2x is developed by Jeff Garzik who is in fact a Bitcoin developer and has been for a very long time.

Your entire argument boils down to a no true Scotsman logical fallacy. ie: these people disagree with me therefore they are not Bitcoin developers.
What developers think is productive and what is productive may be 2 different things.

Your idea works in teams where everyone at all levels is switched on and tuned in.
It's not that bizarre. He isn't trying to have it both ways, he'd rather have it the other way, but until that's law, he's forced to have it this way.
FYI: I think you can still select blogger themes which don't require JS to render. Some people use them, including (perhaps just as ironically) the Google Developers Blog[0].

[0]: https://developers.googleblog.com/
Relying on extensions on every browser on every browser I use seems cumbersome? I've unfollowed everything and everyone, and it works on every device without extension. There was a way to batch this.
> It's an outrage that businesses that want to enjoy all the benefits of selling to the public can discriminate against members of that public for any spurious or bigoted reason they like.

I have a problem with this, because in effect it is saying that if you want to be in business, you have to check your principles at the entrance.

I do run a business, and I do reserve the right to withhold service from people whose principles I find offensive. Just as as an employee, I would reserve the right to withdraw my service (resign) from an employer whose principles I disagreed with.

All this is very healthy for our society - it provides excellent feedback about your views, in both directions. The business owner losing business if they are overly intolerant, and the customer loses a valuable service if they are overly offensive. The system works pretty well - much better than any legal solution could.
We are working hard on import and export--they are top priorities, and we are fully aware that they are core features we are currently missing.

Keep in mind that pretty much everything is more complex with encrypted email, and that includes import and export. It will be done as soon as we can manage.
Too much or too little empathy?
The whole Civil Rights Movement came about as a result of a faction of armed rebellion against the US in the 1960s! I suppose you think it was a mistake to let them have the right to be heard back then?
I'd say Rebol falls into that category too, although they took syntax a bit more seriously.
I don't think that you can mention that a site people spend 4 hours a week browsing isn't a significant time saver compared to calling people and leaving texts.
You should read more of the Wikipedia under limits.

That law does not change the fact that one could argue "well they did censor this so...". It is a risk. If you have a record that says "we censor nothing" then you are much safer. I would agree that under the law you site it should be clear cut, but that is not the way it has worked lately. It's a risk based on a moral belief and I applaud the CEO for doing it. That does not invalidated the risk.
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The incredible amount of time my family spent maintaining, cleaning, improving, and repairing our suburban house definitely motivated me to choose housing as an adult that wouldn't require so much work.
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Are there informative videos out there that are stimulating but not filled with attention span gimmicks or excessive editing? Not necessarily a documentary, and perhaps it depends on having a charismatic speaker, but I'd like to be able to listen to someone who can captivate me. I want a professional speaker. I want to drone off. I don't really want to learn. I want to sleep.
In our household, the kids have chores. The kids also have an allowance.

The important part for us is that the allowance isn't tied to the performance of the chores - chores are mandatory, part of living in a household.

The allowance is tied to doing said chores promptly and completely when asked, without complaint.

Complaint or lack of completion of chores results in deductions from the allowance. But importantly, the chore must still be done.

Works pretty well for us.
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I'm a big fan of SSC, but this thesis is not holding up very well
Perhaps, but there's no hard evidence that lack of syntax leads to better results. All else being equal, most programmers seem to prefer at least some syntax. Is a long s-expression containing multiple nested parentheses easy to think about?
Several hours for sure. Sometimes I wonder how I would go about building an installer that slow. I am not sure how to do that.
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