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If you really insist on continuing to want to split this hair consider the possibility that the act of driving that car into a crowd of protestors was to send a message of what could happen to people that take part in counter protests to Neo Nazis. There, that fits your description of terrorism.

Now of course we can't know if that's true but at the same time your 'roadrage' argument is ridiculous. Roadrage had less to do with this than it has to do with terrorism.
> Also the cake incident also involved the owners posting the names and phone numbers of the gay couple on facebook and asked people to harass them.

Wait a minute... where did you see that? This is the first time I have heard this part of the story. I thought the owners simply said "no", and then got sued for several hundred thousand dollars.
Literally a fallacy. You just named a fallacy as an attempt at argument.
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As a developer and development manager, I haven't personally noticed major improvements in any of those metrics over the past 20 years.

But I'd definitely be interested in any studies that have tried to measure these over long time periods.
I'll call bullshit.

You do not have to tolerate all speech in an ideological sense (the only sense that matters) just a physical sense.

Be careful when letting youtube faux philosophers feed you ideas.

EDIT: I apologize if this comment was busque. See my follow up below if you want more supporting arguements.
I feel the same way. I was expecting some really deep movie that raised questions and made me think - that's how Inception seemed to be billed. Instead, I found it rather shallow and uninspiring. Glad to find I'm not literally the only one.
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What about the question of, WHY is Cloudflare responsible for 10% of internet requests? Who are there competitors, and at what point should these service providers be subjected to antitrust laws?
Given that my phone is broadly capable of doing the tasks of my laptop from 5 years ago and that it does it with half the RAM, a fraction of the processing power and a power budget of 3500mah for the entire day (something my laptop from 5 years ago would blow through in minutes if not seconds..) yes?
They will do same day shipping within a regional walmart / target. It'll probably end up an instacart like service.
I think we need to be mindful that anything used against a bad person might eventually be used against a good person. It is why due process exists. This time the outcome was positive, but what precedent does this set?
> The tipping point for us making this decision was that the team behind Daily Stormer made the claim that we were secretly supporters of their ideology.

So basically Cloudflare are removing their services because of libellous statements by the client, not content. This isn't corruption, but Business As Usual. You fuck over your business partners, and they kick back.
Weird. I thought Jeff Sessions and the justice department suggested it could be both.

Did I miss something?
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I don't think Nazis are anywhere near the slope.
You make it sound like the facts are known and the arrested has already been convicted. I have every suspicion that the events happened as you describe with murderous intent, but will wait on the criminal court's decision.

EDIT: I struggled to figure out how to include that the horrific events happened in less than a minute.
Yeah, most of the interaction takes place on forum software called Piazza. Some classes also do weekly Google Hangouts as office hours.

There are assignments, projects and exams - they've put a lot of effort into making it have the same quality and standards as the on campus programs, even going so far as to do blind grading in some courses (i.e. grade the on-campus and OMSCS courses as one).
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That's the type of example I've come across all too frequently. Software that's 5-10 years old, has all the same functionality, uses a fraction of the resources, and is often "better" in several ways.

Older versions of Android Facebook seem massively faster and use a fraction of the RAM while providing (nearly?) the same functions and features.
Great we can look forward another half dozen remakes of the life and times of Pablo Escobar
Typically as developers we let the software bloat until it hurts us directly. Since we are always using more and more powerful machines we are always going to let the bloat continue. If we get called on it we've got the slam-dunk in our back pocket: "Premature optimization is the root of all evil."
I am by no means an advocate of Mill's liberalism, but according to that philosophy espoused everywhere else but the case of a business refusing access to black customers seems to me inconsistent.
Drives that lack cryptographic scrambling are not rare. Search a few vendors' sites and you'll find some that don't support "self-encrypting" capabilities.
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"Also, for the people who keep saying they want to just pay for a single show, can't you do that on iTunes and Amazon? Buy a season pass for a show? I haven't really done this much, so maybe it's outlandishly expensive, or they have poor coverage of shows people want."

It's outlandishly expensive on iTunes and Google Play for shows - movies are okay. Also, the quality of the file is horrendous. We're talking full length movies at less than 2GB. You can get better from a torrent, easily. That's why I don't use it for movies.
The whole "Freedom of Speech" angle isn't really helpful here. I would phrase the question differently. From purely game-theoretical perspective, do you want companies that control large portions of our communication infrastructure make moral judgement calls regarding content passing through their servers and routers? Do you trust them to make the right moral judgements (however you define those) most of the time?
I bet most teens do not use email for anything except work stuff.
And VS2010 is itself _much_ slower than previous versions.
So cloudflare terminates the account of some pathetic racists, but happily continues to host Ripoff Report, a company whose basic business model is to defame people online and then extort them for money. You know, a site that actively ruins people lives, employment, etc. But a silly racist message board is what moves the CEO to take action.
Bi-Rite, Tartine, Mama's, Bob's, San Tung, Tpumps, Mensho Ramen. It is a weird manifestation of SF group; many of those places aren't even that good. Peninsula and South Bay aren't much better, mediocre ramen places in particular draw huge lines (Santa Ramen, Santa Ramen, and especially average: Orenchi).

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> My mistake, I was under the impression Segwit2x was approved by Core.

:(
This feels to me like just one of a million ways to write "I'm getting older and my preferences change." Author no longer wants things that are new just for newness' sake, instead preferring something that works the way it always worked and is, above all, convenient.
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Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot?

They killed _millions_ for arbitrary reasons. What about them?
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This worked for me. I wanted to watch 2 shows on HBO. I signed up for a free trial, watched 2 shows in 2 months, and paid $14.95. Now they don't have anything I want to watch, so I canceled.

Side note: Last night I was in a hotel with hundreds of channels including HBO, and there was nothing to watch, so I watched Netflix, which costs probably less than 10% of what I would pay for the hotel's selection at home.
Do you honestly believe this is a good argument?
> I get the whole "companies can choose not to host whatever they want" argument, but in order to do anything on the internet, you have to interact with companies.

If I switch what you said around a little bit:

"I get the whole 'people can choose to interact with whoever they want' argument, but in order to do anything, you have to interact with people."

So you're saying I have to interact with Nazis? I have no choice? Hardly.

People run these companies, and they're free to do business with whom they choose. Some ideologies are beyond the pale, and refusing to tolerate them is a perfectly reasonable choice.
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Older software was written in languages you had to manage the memory in C, C++, pascal etc, it requires more skilled developers (I'm told), simpler languages like javascript require less knowledge to write applications. The cost is though higher resource usage.
It is starting again on September 17, 2017 though you can access some of the material already.[1] In addition to the quality of the content, one of the most amazing things about previous offerings is just how involved he has been in the forums, directly helping students.

[1] https://www.edx.org/course/learning-data-introductory-machin...
I'm with you on the "my future freedom depends on getting this right". Im in that same boat.

Personally I can see someone obviously paying me in BTC. But I will only send out XMR. It's a one way street with me regarding BTC.

Time is going to tell wether we retain our freedom or not by betting on XMR.
> I think the sentiment GP is trying to communicate is that many seem to throw the label out there without any further investigation as to whether its justified.

That's great, but totally irrelevant here, in response to me, in this context. When I call a dog a dog, I don't care that sometimes, somewhere, other people call a vase a dog. And it's incredibly rich in the context of "free speech" and whatnot: what use is my right to free speech, when people then also have the "right" to just replace what I say with some other anecdote in their mind? What use is being allowed to ask a question when people then just talk to each other about anything but the question? The protection of free speech arose in contexts where people suppressed speech because they otherwise would have to face it. If people don't face it anyway, there's no need to suppress any of it. And congratulations, too.
Disney's golden goose is DVD sales? Then why aren't their movies on DVD? Remember the Disney Vault?
There's no need to be pedantic here. When a layperson talks about the ability of one person to sue another they mean the high likelihood of winning said suit.

We all know what the parent meant.
I feel like a lot of Supreme Court decisions are reverse engineered. I'm not sure that bell can be un-rung.
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> This upgrade has been agreed to by >90% of Bitcoin miners

90% of hash power, which is an important difference.

The key is that the current bitcoin developers have rejected this and are not supporting it. And yes, some of them founded Blockstream, but the majority are not involved with Blockstream, nor have we taken a company position on this.
It _looks_ really cool, but I feel that with all the extra bells and whistles taking up so much screen estate, I'd need a 50" monitor on my desk just to actually _use_ ~27".
We should enforce software to pause on the term of service page for a period of time that is sufficient enough for a average human to read through (say 1 min per 500 words). Then it would be at software companies' interests to simplify their shit. No companies want their customers to stay on the TOS page for an hour
And ISIS would want them to do it to the US government and a bunch of other sites.

Today you're in luck because the guys with this power are on your side.

What happens when they're not?
So far we've partially lost our freedom of movement (take a look at the borders, the airports, etc).

We've heavily lost our freedoms around privacy.

Speech is the big prize for the authoritarians. Do not give it to them.
Red Hat's OpenShift makes it a lot easier by providing all of the infrastructure around it (docker registry, docker build from Git, Ansible integration and so on).

Best docs of all open source projects I've seen.
As a member of neither continent, I find it beyond bizarre that in Europe, they're perfectly capable of determining from context whether someone called a 'nazi' is just having a slur thrown against them, or is actually a follower of the ideology, whereas in America they can't seem to tell the difference. Some yobbo calling a senator a nazi doesn't literally mean the senator is one, whereas people that wave nazi flags, openly promote nazi policies, and wander around giving the nazi salute are a different kettle of fish.

It's like that in America, what things are called is more important than what they are. Obviously there are plenty of Americans perfectly capable of understanding context, but they don't seem to be in control of the political narrative.
Apple Pay Is Cutting Off White Supremacists
His trick is to have characters who sound SUPER sure of what they're doing. Winking at the camera, looking determined, talking total bullshit but it doesn't matter. You want to believe it makes sense because it all feels so cool!
Just because there are options doesn't mean there's competition n the free market sense. In order to have competition, the market requires complete information (or as complete as possible).

VPN providers are not competing on security as there is (as others have stated on this thread) no ability to validate their relative security claims. Many people are advocating for VPNs as a pure knee-jerk reaction to monitoring by traditional ISPs.
Techmeme summary: Apple Pay and PayPal disable support for several sites that promote or sell items glorifying white supremacy
90% of miners agree, and that's really what matters. Not some easily inflated node count. Anyone can run 100s of nodes and signal anything they like.
I didn't think we're debating? I'm just expressing my views within the HN bubble.

Anyway, I agree with you that the current legal framework allows private companies to discriminate. Ideally, government regulation will fix this; otherwise, as soon as the pendulum swings, I'm sure you'd be displeased with progressive websites being dumped off of internet infrastructure by corporations run or owned by those with conservative leanings.
All, you have to do is offer half off on something and people will stand in line for an hour to buy it.

The item must be worth at least a dollar though.
A few business decide not to provide goods and services to black people -- not great but there are other options.

Every business decides to stop doing business with black people we have a real problem.
The main point this paper makes and demonstrates is that if you can cause corruption of a full block (i.e., completely garble contents of a chosen block), then you can elevate privileges (with some assumptions, like using ext3).

That's an entirely unsurprising fact, especially if you've ever played around with cracking/patching. A single-bit change in the right place is sufficient to turn an "are you root/registered/privileged/etc.?" check into its negation. This isn't anything novel or unexpected to anyone who knows how software works.
Nah, you wish there was hypocrisy where there's really just you not being up to speed.
I would hypothesize - non-falsifiably - that moves are suffering in part because TV production quality has increased so dramatically.
I didn't know about this important feature in Sia. I'd appreciate if you expanded on this somewhere; in your blog or documentation.
Has anyone audited that system and implementation? If not, can you really trust that there's no backdoor?
That doesn't seem to be the case. It could be hypothetically (Cloudflare certainly has no interest in admitting that there's an upper bound to the DDOS they can mitigate and hackers have found it), but I think the "I remembered I'm a CEO in a country where there is not much restrictive policy on who a company chooses to do business with, and I think even my customers will agree 'Nazis suck and don't deserve a platform'" explanation holds here.
Dongles still don't provide MagSafe. It's possible to find dongles with an SD card reader and USB, or HDMI and USB, or Ethernet, but rarely all of them together.
Due process is a concept of law. It's not applicable to the relationships between private individuals. If a person wants to break up with someone they are dating, do they owe the the other person due process?
Yea ok whatever you say nazi
Did you even finish reading his post?

>[Being] a race supremacist, hard right and pro-eugenics and nationalist just might.
What about them? How were they not fascists, for all practical purposes?
> There's no need to be pedantic here. When a layperson talks about the ability of one person to sue another they mean the high likelihood of winning said suit.

well, I'm a layperson and I would not interpret it that way. Suing someone is taking a gamble, and that gamble does not necessarily pay off. In this particular case the 'high likeihood of winning said suit' is not all that high.

> We all know what the parent meant.

You only speak for yourself and you definitely do not speak for me.
Parallel is not equals.

edit: To expand, observing and noting key similarities between two different sets is not equivalent to saying the two sets are equivalent.
If you think Nazism, a racist, hateful ideology opposed to the existence of many groups of people, is equivalent to being black in America, we have nothing to discuss.
On the TCP/IP analogy: it seems wrong to me. The people producing the bitcoin protocol and the ethereum protocol aren't making money from the value that they are creating. It's the miners (people running nodes) who get value from the value created, right? So in this case, no one developing the protocol is getting value directly from the value created still, just like with TCP/IP.
I remember XULrunner was fine like 15 years ago on a Pentium II. A lot less features and performance tho.
Oh boy, you're in for a surprise: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_common_U.S....

Lots of states use the same names over and over. For example, Portland, OR being named after Portland, Maine. It gets worse, because some states have multiple towns of the same name. There are five different towns in Wisconsin all called Springfield!
Software went off the rails approximately when JavaScript became mandatory to display text on a webpage.
The Daily Stormer self-identifies as neo-Nazi.

If they think they're following in Nazi footsteps, does that count for anything in your book?

If not, then what would?
Your opinion of the paradox put aside - Karl Popper was a well-regarded 20th century philosopher, not some flimsy rando-streamer with 20 subs on Youtube.
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That's stupid. Why should I have anymore right to discriminate against people with red hair than people with black skin? If it's wrong, it's wrong no matter the group you do it to.
How can privately created spaces become "de-facto public spaces'? Just because Facebook is popular doesn't mean it should be publicly owned or controlled. Everyone has the ability to speak freely on their own web sites, and on many sites (4chan) that freely allow them to post whatever they want.
+1 for buildroot. I've used it both professionally and on personal projects. All of my rpi projects run on tiny buildroot images (usually with a single go binary). I love that it produces an image I can write straight to an SD card that is ready to go without me having to plug the RPI into a monitor to configure it.

However LFS and BYOL aren't really about making it easy to build a "distro". They really are about learning how all the pieces fit together.
All property rights are "unnatural" (animals don't recognize property rights, only possession). In my view, copyrights are the least unnatural. We grant property rights in land with few restrictions, yet real property rights are a greater restriction on freedom than copyrights. A copyrightable work, unlike a piece of land, is the fruit of someone's labor. Land, in contrast, pre-exists the owner. And whereas land is a scarce natural resources, the universe of copyrightable works is unlimited. There is no good reason to attach more strings to copyright than to real property.
That's different, the SC isn't an executive body.

An executive changing policy and then throwing up their hands, "I have no choice, it's the policy!" is dishonest and doesn't fool anybody.
Or, get the best of both worlds. ToroDB puts a mongo wire protocol in front of Postgres, which outperforms mongo significantly on the same hardware. Plus, you can get read-only views on the Pg side to join with traditional relational data.
How about refusing to take down ISIS? They stuff they say is much worse and much more violent than anything that recently happened in US.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/anonymous-opisis-cloudflare-refuses...

"Individuals have decided that there is content they disagree with but the right way to deal with this is to follow the established law enforcement procedures. There is no society on Earth that tolerates mob rule because the mob is fickle," Prince said.
I suspect this is the inevitable price for the expanding scale of the software industry. Perhaps the problem isn't about depth, as in what a given piece of software can do, as much as breadth, as in how much software there is now and how many different things it can do collectively.

One cost of the increasing breadth in the industry is that if we want to have a lot more software then obviously it can't all be written by the same relatively small pool of expert programmers who wrote software in the early days. With more software being written by people with less skill and experience, many wasteful practices can creep in. That can include technical flaws, like using grossly inefficient data structures and algorithms. It can also include poor work practices, such as not habitually profiling before and after (possibly) optimising or lacking awareness of the cost of taking on technical debt.

Another cost of the increasing diversity in the software world is that to keep all that different software working together, we see ever more generalisations and layers of abstractions. We build whole networking stacks and hardware abstraction libraries, which in turn work with standardised protocols and architectures, when in days gone by we might have just invented a one-off communications protocol or coded directly to some specific hardware device's registers or memory-mapped data or ioctl interfaces.

There is surely an element of deliberately trading off run-time efficiency against ease of development, because we can afford to given more powerful hardware and because the consequences of easier development can be useful things like software being available earlier. However, just going by my own experience, I suspect this might be less of a contributory factor than the ones above, where the trade-off is more of an accident than a conscious decision.
I really dislike the perfunctory "slippery slope" type argument. It's never an argument not to do something; it's merely a warning to make sure that you don't use an action as a stepping stone to taking more extreme actions.

Saying that banning certain things is a slippery slope, and using that excuse to never ban things, means that it's ok to allow truly horrendous things to happen, just because of fear of overreach.

When we say we have freedom of speech, but then in the next sentence remind people that you can't yell "fire!" in a crowded space, we recognize that restricting some speech can be a slippery slope, but we do so anyway because not doing so would be much worse.
> So much for believing in "due process".

Due process is not a synonym for don't do anything nor no consequences.
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We'll probably need something other than anecdotal evidence to get started on that.