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I'm of the believe that anonymity is a requirement for having truthful discussions. I sometimes hear people say "if you believe in what you're saying, you shouldn't do it anonymously". But there are plenty of topics that we can't discuss without risking our jobs, families and personal reputations.

I've long ago stopped commenting under my real name. I no longer sign up to services that require google / twitter / other account linking. And I have now stopped discussing any sensitive topics even when I'm writing under a pseudonym. The risk of blow back is simply too big.
There's about 1/10th of the region that was in a war zone in the last 70 years (Yugoslavia, Eastern Ukraine), and those wars didn't really concern neighboring countries.

That 70 years (which is debatable!) maybe the longest period of peace in the area in recorded history. Possibly the peace of 1871 to 1914 is the only other alternative.

Here's a list of conflicts in Europe since 1945[1]. Even before the fall of the Soviet Union there were some conflicts. For example, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia was in 1968 and was a reasonable major conflict.

(Note that I'm not claiming that Eastern/Central Europe is unique in this! Mostly densely populated areas are similar, and Western Europe scores only slightly better if you don't count revolutionary movements within the counties).

Regarding political stability, I'd argue that a huge part of the region was very stable for 40 years, under the Communist yoke

Yes, indeed this is true. As I note above the 1945-1990 period was very stable except for Czechoslovakia invasion of course. They were pretty lucky in Poland in the 1980s too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Europaea
> Poorer countries with less developed markets are forced to open their domestic markets to foreign countries and competitors who then completely outcompete and dominate the local offerings

Poorer countries which can't sell their agricultural goods on the global market don't fare too well. It goes both ways. Check the level of life in Cuba for example.
how are these for advanced users and hackers?
A REAL advanced/hacker entry setup would be:
Internet:
-Lynx
-w3m
Office, text editors, TODO list, note keeping:
-Vim
-Emacs
Dev tools:
-vagrant (headless)
-git
-language setup of choice (gcc, python javac ....)
Security:
-GPG
-pass
-openssl clu
Multimedia:
-mplayer
Graphics:
-imagemagic
Games:
-nethack
Productivity:
-i3
-xclip
-xterm
I think I might be confusing 'material implication' with 'logical implication' (also known as entailment, or logical consequence).

Because from your last sentence, I thought, if A => B is True and A => not B is True, then A doesn't imply B, or B doesn't (necessarily) follow from A. I think this notion of "B follows from A" is something represented by entailment, not by material implication. (?)

Would it be correct to say that material implication is just a formula (in which case it shouldn't even be called an implication or a conditional, but something like simply a 'material formula'), while entailment is the one that has a real world interpretation? (Also entailment cannot be encoded as a formula but has to be proven on a case-by-case basis?)

edit: But this is again a problem. Because in order to prove entailment we'd invoke a logical proof, which would be a sequence (or a tree or a graph) of logical statements with the chain of reasoning connected by, surprise surprise, material implication, which we have already discarded as just a formula with no convincing logical interpretation! (hence our proof is not convincingly logical!)

edit 2: And that is my main issue with how logicians try to justify material implication. On one hand, they try to convince you that MI is nothing but a formula. On the other hand, they use MI as a connecting glue in mathematical proofs which to me sounds like they're using it as 'entailment'. This feels like a double standard at best.
A ban might not stop people from jumping, but it would certainly underscore that this is dangerous. I don't think there's any commercial BASE jumping, but if there is/was, a ban would definitely stop that.
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I'm still surprised all these tools are free, he could easily sell them for real money. I've started supporting him on patreon because it felt weird to not pay anything for it...
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Black Mirror, season 3, episode 1... anyone? -- Everyone can rank each other, which yields to a publicly visible score. Interactions then become about creating "meaningful" and kind experiences. Counter-opinion, argumentative/confrontation, and (sometimes) truthiness are mostly shunned.

"exaggerated morality play about the dangers of conformity and the small pleasures of individuality". - The Verge
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Last time I tried Prefix it didn't work or at least wasn't as convenient as I was expecting. I wish I could give more details than that but I can't remember now. I was and still am really excited by software like Prefix, however.
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There are currently no socialist countries in Europe, if we take the definition of socialism as social ownership and democratic control of the means of production. Some socialist policies are implemented in some sectors of the economy and society in some countries, but there is no country in Europe where this is true for large enough parts of the economy.
Usually it should. In India, it will definitely last a day, if not more.

In western countrues, heating or cooling loads should itself be a substantial amount.
BetterTouchTool has always had the "mimicking standard gestures" predefined actions which really send gesture events and don't just send shortcuts. However it currently only supports three finger swipe left and right (which are the most useful to go back and forward). I probably should look into how to synthesize other gestures as well (there is no official API for synthesizing gestures but afaik people have reverse engineered how to do it, e.g. https://github.com/calftrail/Touch/tree/master/TouchSynthesi...)

For three finger swipes I'm using a trick to synthesize them without private API, but for other swipe types I'd need to synthesize them using the private API... However there haven't been too many requests for other event types thus it's not very high up on my TODO list.

(I'm the author of BTT)

Also BTT allows you to bind them to many many predefined actions in addition to keyboard shortcuts, e.g. "Trigger Menubar Menu Item" which can be very powerful.
True about the EU ruling, but legal language is often different than more informal everyday language. Obviously the Court of Justice did not rule that you are forbidden from using the word "milk" when speaking to your friends about soy milk :-)
> first-class democracy lapsing into armed conflict

I can come up with none

> Throughout much of the recorded history, the monetary systems of the western world employed so-called commodity money, generally settling on coins minted out of silver or gold.

This is false. Silver and gold coinage was largely restricted to international trade, transactions were mostly done by keeping tabs. Gold and Silver coins developed most likely as you can easily produce them to share the spoils of war with soldiers. The important property of Gold and Silver is that you can easily steal it. See Debt the first 5000 years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years)

> Biking on public roads? Wear a helmet

Head injuries are way more common in cars than on bicycles. Wearing a helmet while driving a car has a bigger benefit.
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It's a Mac. Installing an application doesn't necessarily mean "configuring and tinkering" like on Linux. You drag it and it's installed. Apps have predictable GUIs, so they are often easy to use right from the start.

I don't spend time "configuring and tinkering", and yet after several years on a Mac I use a good number of apps.
Does anyone know of any implementation (in some form, maybe unfinished) of this for the web? I'm having a hard time searching for it. NaSC looks awesome but is pretty hard to get running for a one-off lesson in schools (and for use by students at home).
And the Earth keeps spinning.
Yes there is such a requirement, at least for the majority of people. The quote at the bottom by Kropotkin places it into perspective; under the name of free contract, huge numbers of people, I must say the vast majority of people, must either provide labour-time in exchange for wage, or die. I do not mean 'force' in the sense that somebody is putting a gun to your head, I meant it in the sense that there is a system set up and perpetauted by those who profit from it (the capitalist class) such that in order to live and indeed buy back the products which their labour gives value to these people are forced to work.

Do you think many people, especially the poorest or those in the least favourable jobs, would engage in such wage labour if they had the opportunity not to? No, they engage in it beacuse they are forced by the circumstance of the capitalist system. It is an impersonal force, but a human constructed social and structural force nonetheless.

I realise that there is a distinction between 'killing' and 'letting die', and it is philosophically significant, but most people would agree that a system in which 'letting die' is a fine course of action save for the intervention of the twisted charity of the State which defends the system is not an ethical one, nor a moral one, in a world in which it is certainly possible to do better.
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There s quite a few throwaway comments on HN too, providing interesting information.
Not able to remember names right now but I remember seeing a lawsuit by Cisco against one of thwir ex-directors or so, just a few weks back.

Basically Cisco is facing competition from startups implementing hardware in COTS components and innovating in features through software.
The new generation is more censorious and intellectually sheltered than before. Blame schools and colleges who decided to focus on providing a safe space, and the tech companies those students moved into.
I like the idea, but a swarm as app inside k8s? It's like the same technology, right?
It's 'Internet companies and service providers' service providers = ISP, Internet companies = Facebook

"the country’s top Internet censor announced a new set of regulations (link via Google Translate) meant to eliminate posts by anonymous users on Internet forums and other platforms." Just click on the link for a reasonable translation of the rule.
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I wonder why nobody made a fuss about that when they did it many years ago.

SK and a bunch of other countries have censored Internet, but China has the largest population of them all. Anything the world's largest country does, is likely to raise far more scrutiny.
I'm curious about one thing. I recently discovered the wonderful world of a physical notebook for keeping track of everything with my life. One of the things that I love the most about it is that I can leave the computer, zoom out from the technical nature of my problems and solve them in a more conceptual manner (while taking a break from screens).

What kind of improvements do mindmaps give?
The ending of these videos scare the shit out of me. The nuclear missile launch warning robotic voice and the klaxons are too much for me.
They don't block anything with ssl, an apparent oversight, and the new administration seems uninterested. Apparently, viewing is not illegal. South Korea also used to have ID verification laws in place for commenting online, but they've been relaxed.
Do these people really understand the risks? This is scary as hell.
Houston: what are the long-term consequences?
Your example makes sense but at the same time it's something I like to call "a positive example". If you explain it to new students, they would agree with you and would think they understand material implication. But later if you test their knowledge using one of the counter-intuitive examples, more often than not, they would have a hard time reconciling it with their understanding. (e.g, the one that I posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15115319).
Yeah, thanks for the advice - I'm considering a lower-tech solution though, using just a plain ol' ESP32 board, wired up to the ol' Oric. Actually thats not the hard part - once this is working, we'll still have to write a TERM app for the Oric, which is all the fun I suppose ..
If you read it careful enough you will notice the criticism cited there includes things like blog posts and UN speeches, nothing comparable to TC articles in terms of range of influence. Now what's so special about this incident so it's worth a whole precious TC headline to make everyone aware of it?
Optimising compiler part means:

// Unoptimised
let x = 10;
console.log(x);

// Optimised
console.log(10);

I completely agree with all the other points you made tho.
Today we will say "Oh what an authoritarian, horrible regime China is, this will never happen here."

Tomorrow we will say "Well, our government just passed a law that all websites with accounts must identify the user with an ID or a passport. I guess we have to live with it. It has some upsides, you know, there are less trolls."
Probably a much smaller numbers. Cars are engineered to protect all but the most reckless and negligent from death.
I doubt VR will ever replace dangerous sports. You get adrenaline rush precisely for the fact that you realize it's dangerous with a real potential of getting killed or wounded and the fact that you get away with it. Sitting in an armchair with no such potential consequences might get you some thrills but it's nowhere close to the real adrenaline rush. I don't actively pursuit this feeling, but driving motorcycle regularly had put me in several close calls over the years giving an adrenaline rush I realize can not be replicated in the safer environments.
Me too, I started with Void with MATE, which brought Pulseaudio among other things. I later removed Pulseaudio, and using only ALSA.
Author of the post here,

For me personally one big advantage that mind maps have is that they are digital. So I can access any single mind map in few keystrokes by searching for the file in Alfred. I am also pretty fast with my keyboard so prototyping ideas and new concepts is really fast for me.

I still use notebooks for sketching things but digital mind maps have too many advantages to dismiss. I also recently made an Alfred workflow that allows me to essentially query any of the digital mind maps I made and present all of the contents of these maps in Alfred. Here is the workflow :

https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/alfred-my-mind

The cool thing with that is that it lets anyone use my 'setup' of bookmarks, links and notes in the most transparent way possible.
A regime change is not really in the interest of anyone. There are no democratic elites to replace them. Just look what happened of the Arab Spring.

The goal needs to be a slow but steady democratisation process.
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Well yeah. That's kind like saying more people are dying from Russian roulette...while Russian roulette is experiencing a surge in popularity.

Do something stupidly dangerous enough & in large numbers and you get rows of bodybags.

Sounds callous but that is the reality of it.
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Telegram, really? From the guy who stored your passwords in cleartext: https://thehackernews.com/2016/06/vk-com-data-breach.html . Better have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software) . It is Edward Snowden approved.
People don't learn things by being told them. For anything that is hard, they learn by gradual approximation.
I don't know how many people are doing it for the "internet fame" (my gut instinct is that it's a small percentage), but I'm sure there are many people who got into the sport in the first place because they watched it on the internet.
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As far as I'm aware, bypassing the firewall is not illegal, just highly discouraged.

We openly bypassed the firewall to access Google Analytics data through VPN and nobody batted an eye. China can't afford to crack down on that without scaring off pretty much every foreign company looking to do business on the mainland.
The CEO of Telegram has a track record of bad security decisions: https://thehackernews.com/2016/06/vk-com-data-breach.html
Better use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software) . It is recommended by Edward Snowden.
Have you actually watched any of the Netflix shows? Because complex characters etc are largely missing.

As to mass audience Shakesphere was writing for a mass audience, it adds complexity even if you include pandering. The original twilight zone needed to work for a huge range of people and a large part of how it did that is not spoon feeding people. There is enough ambiguity that people write their own narrative.
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> Imagine how much better the discussion would be on sites like Reddit if the default was Real Identity and some sections were anonymous.

You mean how uninteresting, fake and boring reddit would have been and is starting to become because of censorship? Do you think lgbt or atheist or porn subs or joke subs any other subreddits would exist without anonymity?

> The return of commment sections on major news articles (the shit show or sexist racist trolls would stop almost immediately if you faced real life consequences).

Perhaps sexist or racist comments may decline - I highly doubt it. But so would every other type of comments - including lgbt, atheism, anti-drugs, anti-corruption, etc.

Sexism and racism existed long before reddit and the internet and will exist long after reddit.

> I wonder if there is a market for a verified Online Real Identity service that could be used to solve some of these cancerous corners of the internet that comes with anonymity.

If you don't like, then don't visit it?

Who decides what's cancerous? You? The chinese government?

You think only things you dislike will be censored. More than likely, it won't but the things you agree with will be censored.

Honestly, what's next? Lets start burning books and get rid of libraries because they have bad words?

If you don't like anonymous forums, why don't you just make one of your own with verified identities? See how interesting that is?
My computer science teacher in high school who was pretty well off(and did this mostly as a favor to the school headmaster) used to say: "The best and easiest money is made by using something somebody else threw away."

I can't say he wasn't right about this one.
> You pay for it with your eyeballs on advertising. Data is not payment, it's sewage that people are finding a use for.

Advertising that is targeted using said data. One might be able to argue that it once was true (10 years ago?) that data was just a byproduct that people found a use for. But now it's more explicitly a goal for companies to collect. I don't think anyone can argue that the data google and facebook collect is incidental and they're just trying to find some use for it. Collecting users' data is a core part of their business model.
Lots of differences with heroin.

I have been volunteer in a Spanish org called "proyecto hombre" that help people with drugs.

People on drugs are almost non human in order to take a dose, they will kill you,or steal and they really don't care because the only thing they care about is their next dose.

Once you have recovered the person it looks like another one, like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

I also did BASE in the past. I don't do it anymore because my girlfriend, I do sky diving which is way safer.

Most of what we have today, like airplanes, is possible because someone quasi suicided(Christopher Columbus, Magellan, Pasteur, the Curies, von Braum with rockets...).

Almost any single aircraft pioneer died as a result of accidents on their prototypes.
A pretty popular avalanche safety book [1] has, in the introduction, an actuarial table of your survival probability if you keep going out in avalanche terrain x days a year, year after year...

[1] http://www.mountaineersbooks.org/Staying-Alive-in-Avalanche-...
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> I'd gladly pay $5 even per month for Facebook or Google if only they treated me as a customer instead of the product.

Such as providing support and a contract instead of ToS.

Your $5 a month won't far for that
You sir, seem to be hell-bent against REPLs :P

I agree with your point that IDEs are getting better but REPLs are getting better too, why should they be relegated to be mere artifacts of the past. Your java REPL will mostly have autocomplete, give it a chance, it really might turnout to be fun :P

And typing python in a REPL is fun for me, but fun is subjective, no point arguing about it :)
> BTW. They'll just be doing it with even less information about what ads might actually interest you.

Good, Ads should be Contextual to the context of the site/subject being viewed NOT contextual to me.

i.e if I am on a site reading about the latest hard drive to come out, Show me ads for a NAS or a Computer, etc. Do not reach into a collection of data about me and show me diaper ads because you think I just had a new child
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> The higher you fly, the safer it is. Flying higher gives the pilot more time to fix problems.

I have heard pilots refer to "mistakes" as a unit of measure for altitude. You want to spend as much time as possible 2+ mistakes high.
Wait, are you saying that taking away the freedom to express opinions anonymously for fear of persecution is a good thing for the society?

Can you possibly be saying that China should be used as the model nation for human rights? Anyone who hasn't been living under a rock would find that hard to do.
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Things have changed a lot since then. There's been a big official backlash, largely because it was getting so blatant and hard to ignore.

Recently the government banned online social media video posts in which young women sensually and provocatively ate bananas. I'll leave the details to your imagination. It was getting to be quite a trend, so the authorities stamped on it. Soon after that the government started requiring he big upload services to manually vet video posts, and put heavy restrictions on broadcast live streams.

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We are more and more nostalgic about everything. But I don't see how people can think TV shows were better in the 70s, 80s or even 90s. Since 2000 we live in the golden age of TV shows. We got The Wire, the Sopranos, Mad Men, the Shield, (Game of thrones?, Westworld?) and a ton of original concepts. I tend to think that nowadays there is more originality and risk taking in TV shows than in the movie industry.

This summer, I watch Twin Peaks The Return, some episodes are the weirdest things I have seen on a mainstream TV channel. I am amazed it was allowed to air at prime time.
Confirmed. Owned a real Rolex, saw a strangers copy, liked it better and bought one. Ended up selling both at a profit, so a win I suppose. But other than the other guys with expensive watches, no one cared. And after a while, I realized I didn't either. I now own a few 1800s era mechanicals, that were cheap, I can repair them (or at least try), and really seem to have more character and soul than the modern swiss movements.
That is simply not true.

It may have been true a few years ago, but now the actual data is very valuable.

It can be used in all kinds of ways not just for advertising. It is actually very dystopian and scary to think about sometimes.
I was pretty glad when I heard they made a third season, but I remember not even finishing S2 due to the mystery of S1 being sold.

Do I need to watch S2 to enjoy S3? Or maybe I should even give S2 another chance now that it's been a few years.