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This comments shows a surprising lack of knowledge of the arguments for net neutrality.

The threat of Non-Net-Neutrality isn't some arbitrary increase in costs for starting a business that gets paid, and filed with other nuisance.

It's that by virtue of their position in the market, the providers can extract all the added value any company makes with their customers. That's because the startup isn't the one choosing their customers' internet access. What the provider charges for access to the customers that signed up with them doesn't factor into the decisions of the market, because the customer doesn't pay it, and likely will never know about it.

And "the market" will not solve this. There are maybe three or four companies large enough to cause significant backlash when they can't be reached. But besides Facebook, YT and Amazon, everyone will have to pay up.

And when faced with the decision to pay or not to pay, the rational decision will be to accept any price that leaves you with a single cent of profit. The power imbalance is staggering, and the potential for success with content startups on the internet will suffer dramatically.

On the practical side, your startups' second to tenth employee better be contract lawyers. Because you don't just have to pay Comcast and Verizon. You will have to make arrangement with every single one of tens of thousands of providers around the world if you want to reach customers connected via their network.

Of course, you probably won't bother with some of them. Or decide against, say, reaching potential customers in Montana. That will kill off several of the best features of the web. Namely the long-tail of default-accessible content that ordinarily nobody would think were interesting to someone of your age in your location.
I changed the title to make it clearer that this is a personal story. Not trying to start a political argument. It's just a fascinating story.
Can't help but quote: "I see poorly implemented monads everywhere. They don't even know they're monads."

Indeed, being acquainted with Haskell makes you write and see code in other languages differently, see different and more important patterns than "visitor" or "factory", and use their properties.
Oh absolutely, it uses an attachment that is kind of like a very tiny 9-volt battery terminal, with a nub on one side and a circular spring clip on the other. The one of the four spring clips on the antenna broke off and remained attached to the logic board as I recall, so just had to pop the now-orphaned clip off the logic board after removing the antenna and snap the new one into place.
I'm a bit confused. I can't tell the difference between normal windows and incognito windows. I mean visually, they have nothing that distinguishes them, at least as far as I can tell.

EDIT: And is it possible to block third party cookies?
Not really. Notice the stuff about you not being better than us or having anything to teach us. Janteloven has the flip side that everyone thinks that they have nothing to learn.
Though "4" doesn't scale well for small transactions. I'm not going to sue the 200 individuals that purchased $25 of water and aren't returning my calls.
I have those ads blocked in the HOSTS file; that explains why I didn't see them. Nonetheless, when looking for where to download it, my eyes first went to the "Download" link at the top of the page.

From many years of browsing, I've learned that huge flashy "download" and "install" buttons are almost always to be ignored...
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I think it is the other way around: asocial being commonly misinterpreted as antisocial.
TL;DR - GPL-ish with a Facebook-style patent clause.
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I’m sure their process needs a receipt. I usually don’t need documentation of such transactions. I often wish they had a way to decline the receipt so the paper isn’t wasted on something going straight into a waste bin.
As the other person mentioned, that's probably not a good idea. The people writing the laws should know about the legal framework. They should understand a wide body of legal concepts, procedure, precedent, and the appropriate verbiage.

It also ties in with the fact that, like it or not, we need lobbyists. Sure, the system is broken, but legislatures can't be experts on everything. So, they need people to explain and even be able to get into the details. They need someone who is a domain expert.

That is, theoretically at least, why we have to have lobbyists. Legislatures should also have a good baseline knowledge of the legal system, with all the details that includes. They need to be very familiar with the legal system which makes lawyers potentially good legislatures.

Potentially... Like lobbyists, there's good and bad with the system. There is potential for good, as much as there is potential for bad. We seem to like to think we are in dire straits and that doom faces us constantly, but we are actually doing quite well. We're not perfect, but we aren't as bad off as the nightly news would have us believe.

Also, people really hate lawyers, until they need one. I'm not a lawyer but I have great respect for some of them.
This is a straw man. We're talking about video streaming. Comcast/Verizon want a cut of your video streaming business. That's it.

Ethical or not, this is not a practical issue for new companies.
On that note, a while back while browsing f-droid i noticed someone working on a email based IM app.

Never mind that "text messaging" in say Japan has been email based since virtually forever, since the SMS standard had issues with Japanese script.
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I don’t think there is anything wrong with analyzing the victim’s contribution to the situation, per se. But in reality it is almost always used to diminish the role of the perpetrator, and that is wrong (both morally and rationally).

The comment I replied to is a perfect example. It’s not a rational analysis of PR’s responsibility here, it’s a knee-jerk non sequitur deflecting blame from the US federal government.
Well, Symbolics did not manufacture the new CPU. That would have been too costly.

LMI manufactured prototypes of their CPU, but these were older technology - not microprocessors, but VME-board sized CPUs.

Xerox mantioned that they were developing a Lisp RISC, but it never surfaced. The SPUR project designed a Lisp RISC Chip: ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/markhill/Papers/jsscc89_vlsi_spur.pdf
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Or maybe: you are not to give reasons (display of wealth or whatever) for other people to think of you as someone who would feel superior to others.
Does anybody make money with the Windows Store?

I just went there and search for "paint.net" and the app wasn't in the results. The closest thing was the book Getting Started with Paint.NET.

It also returned Wild Gorilla Slots, and a bunch of fantasy games like Grim Legends 3: The Dark City.

Why do app stores have such a hard time with search?
We have terms for that, already: "senior" and "junior", respectively.
so, jante's 'be humble' is actually coded rationalization for violence. what a world.

for some reason this reminds me of a time when a few internet eccentrics were trying to suggest that hegel's dialetic was some kind of freemason/illuminati conspiracy theory.

in some ways jante isn't all that different from japanese wa, or really even the attitudes of many rural americans.
Notmuch has potential, but also a bunch of limitations and issues compared to Gnus.

Notmuch doesn't have scoring, it doesn't have BBDB integration, it has no way to get arbitrary message headers from elisp, it only indexes a handful of headers.

I've heard it is possible to use notmuch as a backend for Gnus, to get the best of both worlds.

As for two-way sync, some people have come up ways of doing that, using something like Sieve.

For me two-way sync is not super critical, as I've come to view the webmail interface of my mail provider as just a backup to use in case my laptop dies or something. In all other cases, I'll just use notmuch, for which local tags are enough.
Yes.

It's a little complicated as I did it for a personal project, but I'm also pulling it into Google for my 20% project. It is by FAR easier/faster for me to release under Google's copyright, but there's a bit of "paperwork" I need to go through to get it staged and approved for the Google GitHub.

Since it seems there's interest I'll take a stab at that on Monday. It usually takes a week or two, but no promises. I don't anticipate any blocking issues, though, as the bazel bits don't expose anything about Google.

One caveat -- as released it won't quite be bitwise hermetic, as it depends on an external Xilinx toolchain, and Xilinx does non-hermetic things to their bits that are awkward to work around (you can, but my code to do that is a much less mature shell script full of dd and cat commands to rip apart bitstreams and glue them back together -- I've since found open source tooling for accomplishing the same task, but haven't adopted it yet).

Drop me an email (addr in profile) and I'll tell you when it's up.
Without commenting on content, I will point out that the author of the article is a psychiatrist as well.
I don't know if you live/have lived in Scandinavia but this is depressingly accurate.
I agree with much of what you say here. Some refinements and small disagreements follow:

A monoid isn't just a data type. Mathematically, it's a set ("data type" is plenty close enough, in this context) and an operation. Integers with addition are a monoid. But so are integers with multiplication. And these are two different monoids. Haskell confuses this issue a bit - they way the Haskell libraries are set up you can only name one Monoid instance per type, and so types that form monoids in several interesting ways get wrapped in "new types" so you can name each of the several. This mostly works fine, but is a bit hacky from a math POV, and I think doesn't lead as well as it might to a more general understanding.

It's worth noting, too, that some of the Haskell libraries - particularly those from the early days - make some unfortunate decisions about what instances to bless. I often complain about the Monoid instance for Map. Map forms a monoid under union so long as we combine values (on collision) associatively. Unfortunately, the library doesn't let us pick how they are combined, it just takes the left one. That's usually not what I want, and it's particularly painful when I've been combining Sets with monoid operations and now realize they need to carry some extra info.

... and then of course there's floating point, which probably shouldn't even be Num.

> But if your programming language community did this (for consistency) you'd probably want to come up with a name for it -- "Addable", "Concatable", etc -- and the Haskell community chose "Monoid" (because of relationships to theory etc etc).

There are two things I really like about using the name Monoid, compared to the others.

First, it's much clearer what the rules are. We aren't stuck wondering whether strings or products are "really" "Addable", whether functions of the form (a -> a) are "really" "Concatable" (... and what about nonempty strings? you can concatenate them, but they have no identity object...).

Clarity in an interface means I know what properties I can rely on. You can define those properties precisely with "more intuitive" names, but then the actual interface doesn't match the intuition and people won't realize it, which is worse. You could get precise and intuitive by adding verbosity - "AssociativeOperationWithIdentity". My principle objection there is readability and aesthetics, but if that's what a community wants to go with okay... "Monoid" is short and unambiguous and well established in related fields.

That last point touches on the other thing I like. There are mathematical results that can be useful to programmers. Reducing the translation needed helps make those more accessible. And everyone could do with knowing just a bit more algebra :-P
In most contemporary societies, including the United States, there are really no provisions, practices, and doctrines to handle a large city's worth of people's disruption of daily routine. We've seen this with Katrina and Sandy, but more recently with Harvey, Irma, and Maria.

Puerto Rico's situation is worse because of several compounding factors that work against them: the scale of the disaster, communication and coordination issues, logistical challenges, and a belligerent rhetoric coming from the topmost levels of the US federal government despite lower-level federal employees being part of of a burgeoning, although so far inadequate recovery effort.

But in each of these disasters, the hard questions to which society offers zero answers begin long before the disaster actually strikes. Universities and research organizations have long studied reasons why people don't evacuate, and while discretionary answers exist, many people simply report being unable to afford the expenses of a temporary relocation away from one's regular job for a disaster that's forecasted to perhaps occur 3-5 days out.

You can invoke the argument that it's literally a matter of life and death and that ought to be worth any expense, but that's not helpful when people may not have cash on hand, or quick access to easy emergency credit that would be guaranteed by some higher party. It's truly unfortunate that situation is that disaster aid for forecastable disasters only kicks in once it has already struck, and not days before when its inevitability becomes clear.

In Puerto Rico's current case, the breakdown of societal structures due to lack of electricity, lack of electronic communication, lack of fuel, lack of distribution capability is unfortunate enough, but the degenerate functioning of life is just bizarre; people are now trying to get by in a worst-of-both-worlds hybrid of subsistence tribalism and wage-earning capitalism, where they both have to forage for food and water and barter for supplies, while at the same time giving the rest of their cash-on-hand to large corporations like CVS for stuff that's still on the shelves; and any changes to this status quo are reliant on random individuals' goodwill -- like a shopowner who decides to give away supplies -- instead of any organized directives from top-down.
For further context, the reason for this slightly convoluted setup is that normal coaxial cables are really lossy at the high frequencies used to communicate with satellites, so most systems use lower frequency bands on the cable runs and convert the signals by a fixed frequency offset at the actual antenna. It just so happens that the block of frequencies used on the cable runs is similar to common mobile phone frequencies.
the details of news coverage has an impact, but i think it's limited on people who are paying attention. i guess a fair amount of people in the us never read the news paper, or get news on the internet from places other than facebook
> molly

TIL molly is slang for MDMA.
The "a" prefix means "not". The "anti" prefix means "against".

Take apathy and antipathy. Asexual vs antisexual. Areligious vs antireligious. The definitions of these prefixes are exact and consistent.
In my opinion, the three currencies of the apocalypse are: ammunition, water, and diesel fuel.

Ammunition is the universal apocalyptic currency. You can hunt with it and you can protect your family, food, and possessions with it. It is shelf-stable and easily subdivided. It can be put in a box and buried or carried in your pocket. Lots of people own guns but few have significant stashes of ammunition. A staple of chaotic times.

Water, that’s obvious, but you need a way to collect it and clean it. Those are their own currencies.

Diesel powers computer-less trucks like my old Land Rover Defender 110. Probably the last running vehicles in an apocalypse. It also runs generators and water pumps. It can potentially be manufactured by civilians.
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Are you saying the switch from paper ledgers to computerized ledgers was the result of economists?

If so, I'd argue that the switch is the result of convenience and accuracy.
What's crazy is any folding knife that can be opened with the flick of the wrist is considered a gravity knife. I don't understand how all manner of firearms are legal, but even the most simple knifes are illegal.
more mundane things

Even the most reasonable of "Haskell people," the OP included, seem to have this built in condescension for programs that actually do things. Still waiting for the Haskell community to produce something non-mundane to justify all that. If there was just one example of something that clearly demonstrated the unique value of Haskell to non-category-theory-enthusiasts.
Why? Just setup a recurring donation via Paypal or something else. Giving Patreon 30% (or whatever they take) is completely unnecessary.

Patreon also requires creators to regularly post updates and provide goodies to their subscribers. What could the VLC developers even give to their subscribers except publicly available changelogs? The devs should - and I believe also want to - rather develop the player instead of thinking about what to give to maybe 50 people on Patreon every other week.
The podcast that she links too is really interesting [1]. Talking about what its like to learn Haskell as a first language. Really interesting for me because I'm getting into Elm, and their approach is to use really concrete ideas and names instead of Monads and such. She even mentions that Elm is a good way to start approaching Haskell concepts (around 13 minutes).

[1] https://twitter.com/thefrontside/status/912327851386470400
> I don't understand how all manner of firearms are legal, but even the most simple knifes are illegal.

All manner of firearms are explicitly illegal in New York City, unless you have a difficult-to-get exemption.
There are also the monoid "laws" (not checked in Haskell):

empty `smash` x = x -- left identity
x `smash` empty = x -- right identity
(x `smash` y) `smash` z = x `smash` (y `smash` z) -- associativity

Your definition doesn't fit any of these. (Edit: you've rewritten to meet the first two; but it is not associative.)
no, a high altitude emp burst of a nuke over a big city like nyc would be devestating to electronics but kill no one other than people dieing from the loss of power.
I wish I could reject messages where the subject and body did not correspond.

Or maybe give up and have some sort of manual threading overlay where I could rearrange and add my subject tags for messages..
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Just because it evolved to a point that balances the tradeoffs doesn’t make it somehow not a failure. Humans can be fooled into seeing things completely different from what’s there, just like ANNs.
Yes, so when somebody says "stop making noise, you're asocial" then they mean "antisocial".
AFAIK it doesn't really have proper tools for reviewing patches.
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Suburban violence rates are almost as high as urban rates. Rural violence rates reported to the police are significant, but may be lower than urban and suburban due to lower reporting rates. When you look at victimization rates of violent crimes not reported to the police, there are nearly as many rural victims of violent crimes as there are urban victims. And note especially that the rate of aggravated assault victimization is higher in rural areas than urban. This doesn't prove you're wrong, but it is fairly suggestive evidence that the idea that violence happens in mostly urban areas is off the mark.

https://ovc.ncjrs.gov/ncvrw2016/content/section-6/PDF/2016NC...

As far as wealth redistribution, which kind are you talking about, the kind where the rich take from the poor, or the kind where the poor take from the rich? This seems like a political troll unrelated to the Law of Jante, but it's safe to say that all voters vote for wealth redistribution, it just depends on which direction you believe it should go.
Once, at Cape Town airport, this really cool dude picked me up and showed me my rental car. iPad, Beats, old-school Hip Hop, the works...

When I gave him my credit card for the deposit, I expected him to use some fancy wireless reader, or maybe the iPad's camera to be used to scan it.

Instead, he took out a pencil and a notebook, and, within 15 seconds, made a perfect imprint of the card by placing it behind the paper and carefully painting the area with the pencil at a low angle.
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Keeping an automobile or propane tank in poor maintenance is likely going to end in an innocent third party being harmed. Not keeping your knifes sharp and properly "detented" is only going to wind up hurting the person who owns that knife.
Clover has had an offline feature for payments on all our devices (except our dongle/peripheral solution). It's very heavily used -- thanks to flakey ISPs, routers, WiFi, cellular, etc. We often see people go for a day or two offline.

We let you set limits on count/amount/time of offline transactions. After you come back online we send email a report telling you how many offline transactions you did and how many authorized and didn't authorize. This serves as a feedback loop to encourage fixing connectivity issues.
It is true that the education is mainly in Catalan, but I fail too see what's so bad about this? It's ironic that the people that complain that the education is in Catalan are those that do not live in Catalonia; the Catalans that complain about it are an extreme minority. Furthermore, Catalans are around in the middle in terms of Spanish level if you look at all the communities. You know what the problem is? You guys have a sense of superiority. We have been teaching in Catalan for a long time and we have never had a single issue, but you want to impose your language when we have been doing fine in a bilingual culture. Most TV channels are in Spanish, and people speak in Spanish in the streets all the time. And then you wonder why we want to leave Spain?
Hey, at least you no longer need a wheelbarrow :)
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Reporters Without Borders is a 35 year old non-profit institution that promotes and defends freedom of information and freedom of the press around. It's incredibly respected and has local watch-dog offices all over the world.

Every time you are confronted with facts and you shift the focus to something else. Now you are discussing Julian Assange? But since you brought him up, he is another one who has taken up refuge in a country where censorship is rampant and press freedom is abysmal:

https://knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/00-17891-attacks-freedo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Ecuador

>"Bottomline is, such a list is secondary to Snowden's personal freedom,"

How very selective for both Snowden and Assange that being a pawn of corrupt regimes that have no respect for press freedoms is acceptable as long as you have another bogeyman to point at.

So it's OK for them to condone the behavior of those governments provided that both of them are recipients of their favors? They are both principled where and when it's convenient for them. I didn't think principles were something that could be selectively applied. I'm sure they both appreciate that your doing their bidding though.
Yes. This is one reason I bothered to comment. Psychiatrists who step into the public space bear a particular obligation both to advocate for our patients and to push back against misinformation.
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No. What i am saying that anthropological findings suggests that some kind of debt tracking was the default mode of transactions within a village in ancient times, not the barter fantasy that economics cling to.
If anyone ever said that then yes.

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