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> Their ties to Spain are a result of a fascist dictator who managed to largely avoid WWII and continue his reign until he died of natural causes, with his formed empire still intact.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the last Catalonian independence attempt was crushed by the left Republican government before Franco showed up.

It's so tiring to go back all the time to the historical arguments... there are no borders who have stayed the same through history. You can use the exact same argument to justify why Catalonia should be part of Spain and why it should not.
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Don't be sorry. At least my grandpa survived his death penalty and was finally released from jail, broken but alive, thus allowing my mother, (and therefore me and my brothers) a chance to born. It was close. Other people weren't so fortunate.

All this excited children in the streets acting like if they were playing Grand Thief Auto in their room, waiting hopeful for the arrival of their shiny independence war, are totally clueless about the real meaning of the term
> You really don't get it, do you?

If you've reached a point where you truly believe this is true, it's probably best to just politely end the conversation, both for you and for HN.

On the other hand, if you believe you're discussing the topic with someone who is reasonable, this is probably not a way that will help them understand the point you're trying to make. Once you put someone on the defensive (and I certainly would be if someone were to say this to me), it's that much harder for them to listen to what you have to say, if they even still want to.

Regardless of how frustrated you are or how wrongheaded you believe the other person to be, or how they're behaving, it's never okay to be uncivil. Indeed when discussions get heated, it's even more important that we take even more care to do so.
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> IIRC tradional lobbying/special interest groups didn't have groups of like minded and opposition minded users with phone numbers and email addresses.

Like minded they frequently had, opposition minded was harder to come by though there were lots of methods of targeting by demographic correlates in many case (views often correlate with some combination of age, race, income, etc. which then correlates with the audience of various media outlets.)

Lobbying groups have always been on the cutting edge of media targetting.
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I do not see greed anywhere in this exchange. Also there's a difference between what people normally describe as investment vs speculation. The first being assuming a growth of value of something useful. The second is making money on the difference in a value, completely ignoring what the value represents. (yeah, the line is a bit fuzzy in practice)
I’ll expand on “do it every day”.

Do it anytime you remember to. You can take one conscious breath right now. Two or twenty when you’re driving. A few more when walking.

My takeaway from meditation is that it changes my perception of me and the mind — from a thinking machine limited to and suffering of the limitations of that — to a much more expansive being for which thinking is one of many modalities, a modality occupying a tiny part of a vast, vast space.

Dwelling as this entity is infinitely more productive and joyous than dwelling in the tiny (by comparison) confines of the thinking one.

Spending more and more of the time as that is where it’s at for me.

The way? Remember that I am identified with the thinking one and use my attention to resensitize myself into the rest.

I recommend “Turning your mind into an ally.” Excellent little book.
Agreed. I wouldn't be surprised to see Hickenlooper develop a more significant national profile.
I can see this being a pretty terrible tool for doxxing.
Sorry, I only provided subway speed as a comparison of speed. Getting people out of their cars and onto mass transit isn’t as much of problem in Manhattan.
Are you going to provide those specific examples of Rachel Maddow's Emmy-award-winning reporting on the Flynt water crisis being biased and inaccurate, and those specific examples of RT's coverage of the Flynt water crisis being unbiased and accurate?

You're the one who demanded specific examples, but then failed to provide any yourself, after being asked repeatedly.

What is your evidence that Rachel Maddow is an actress and not a journalist? What is your evidence that Rachel Maddow has zero journalistic acumen?

Specific examples!

By the way, have you looked up the definition of whataboutism yet, to which you have openly confessed of being guilty? It's not a "buzzword". It's not "juvenile". And it definitely doesn't mean "Counter-factual scenarios that reveal your opinion to be illogical and cherry-picked for some emotional reason" as you falsely claim. It's a logical fallacy particularly associated with Soviet and Russian propaganda, comrade.
Yes. And that leads straight to the question of morals and ethics, which the courts of every country are built around.

Guns can cause harm. Does information?

If someone photographs your private life and makes it public, that could be called information. But it's not quite the same: That's an action that goes against your will, and it seems quite ethical to let you enforce it.

Yet even still, how do you propose to do that? What happens when a service literally cannot delete the information? And when that service becomes crucial infrastructure, what then?

These are questions that technology is going to force us to address. Pretending that it's naive won't change that. Decentralization is coming.
That's the joke to me, people complain about how we are subsidizing buses and train service- "The buses STILL don't make a profit!"- but when have roads for cars ever turned a profit?
Democracy is what made the author of this article able to work on stuff like this full time and actually have some impact.
But no one is suggesting you do so. So, I am still baffled by this entire exchange.

Probably best to drop it though.
This is very useful context, thanks. I hope things standardize quickly, because having to worry about whether your terminal emulator is compatible with your desktop environment is compatible with your graphics card and kernel seems like it'd be a huge step backward for the Linux desktop. Xorg has been something I haven't had to even think about for the better part of a decade now, and that's the way it should be.
> That's because the best way to drive in the snow is to not do it

Good luck with that if you live in a northern climate. Modern life would essentially stop functioning here in Minnesota during the middle of winter if no one drove because of snow or ice.

Between the efforts of the DOT (plowing, deicing) and following some common sense (slow down, increase your following distance, avoid sudden changes in direction, anticipate stops, ensure your lights are not obscured by snow etc) there are only a handful of days when travel is not advised (usually due to blowing snow).
The joint statement by 7 intelligence agencies...
France, Spain and Portugal can implement these laws without the rest of the EU. That's a big enough market to make many companies invest in such a "censorship machine". After that, there is precedent.
> Surely the only difference is you won't meet the people at work, but you probably wouldn't date them anyway would you.

Traditionally, work has been a very common place to meet future spouses. I believe the rate has dropped in recent decades, but I would be surprised if it was so low as to be inconsequential, especially when considering something as important as many people view this.
To me it looks like a somewhat balanced mix of liberals and conservatives, both with a bit of a libertarian/federalist streak. Not a lot of other states seem to look like that right now.
Yeah but the state, union of states, confederations or whatever will exist in a form or another. Antitrust in pretty much hard coded into every country's legal doctrine.
At what level of accuracy is it acceptable? Cable outlets allow for a fairly targeted ad campaign (limited to one town, for example). Granted, perhaps not as well targeted as Facebook, Google, etc. But we should give a good justification of where we want to draw the line. It sounds like Facebook is getting criticism for merely being more efficient than traditional media.

As if we're saying "Yeah, we can tolerate the concept of ads, as long as they're fairly inefficient".

Ultimately, your comment sounds like the issue isn't about elections, but the dangers of extremely effective ad distribution networks (Google, Facebook, etc). As a tool, it can be used for all sorts of mass influence leading to outcomes some people do not like - that are not inherently tied to elections. Examples could be effective ads targeting a particular racial demographic regarding education. I don't see that being any more or less desirable than using it to affect an election.

I'm all for that conversation, as long as it is about the broader topic and not tied to the much narrower topic of influencing elections.
Like information, guns may cause harm. It sounds like you're looking for an absolute definition of illegal. I don't believe that exists given the evolving nature of law and society. Bottom line: information, content, or whatever you want to call it can be illegal, regardless of the elements that make up its physical form. Who is liable in the chain of creation and distribution of the content may be debated.
What's the body trick?
To take it to a logical extreme: using this argument you can say that calling digital child porn photos illegal because they are just ones and zeros is silly, which is obviously not true. Illegal content is not a “fake” idea, even it it’s used in bad ways by bad actors. Ones and zeros aren’t illegal because numbers aren’t illegal, but it’s the arrangement of those ones and zeros, the context, that is key.
So the example would be:

1 to: 10.

Sends the "to:" message to the number 1 with the parameter 10. Returns a range representing the numbers from 1 to 10. You can then iterate that range with by sending it the "do:" message with a block argument.

1 to: 10 do:[ :i | <do something with i> ].

And so on. Looks a lot like syntax for a for-loop, but is just message sends to collections with keyword syntax. Every type of collection implements do: (and collect:, select:, reject: etc.) Conditionals work the same way:

1 > 0 ifTrue: [ <do something here> ]

Sends the ifTrue: message to the result of 1 >0. This will be the true object, which is the sole instance of the True class (subclass of Boolean). The True class defines ifTrue: so that it executes the block. Conversely, the False class defines ifTrue: so that it does nothing, ignoring the block.

The fact that what is usually syntax is just message sends means that you can define your own messaging protocols in libraries that also look like syntax.

Dan Ingalls explains: https://youtu.be/P2mh92d-T3Y?t=574

Also, the Grace language expands on this concept by allowing effectively regular expressions of these keyword parameters. Really quite nifty.
I really don't see the point of this. The mining power is so low it wouldn't even be worth the cost to operate. Samsung should focus on updating ALL of their current devices with OS and security updates rather than replacing them with another OS and not updating the drivers or firmware when they get bored of it. Their flagship devices are still not on a monthly security patch cadence and they treat their low and mid range phones as if they don't even exist.
Right. I'm curious which approach the auditors wanted - either one would be a weird thing to mandate!

In theory, pinning your servers' private keys is actually kind of reasonable, if you generate like two or three sets of backup private keys and put them in off-site storage. And I've long been an advocate of buying at least one backup certificate from another CA just in case your current one gets distrusted.

(And it makes sense from a technical perspective why HPKP supports both of these approaches, but the ambiguity probably didn't help it from a policy perspective).
"Under the terms of the agreement, which contained no admission of liability, all Series A, B and C investors had the right to receive an increased equity stake in Zenefits in exchange for the investors releasing all claims against the Company. The increased ownership was effectuated by allowing such investors to exchange shares of Series A, B and/or C stock for a new series of Series A-1, B-1 and C-1 stock with a higher conversion rate of preferred shares to common, which had the effect of diluting the ownership of the other classes of existing shareholders (Founders Preferred Stock and Common Stock), including Conrad. Following the settlement, Zenefits had an implied post-money valuation of approximately $2.0 billion, down about 56% from the original valuation." [1]

Value was re-allocated from founders and employees to investors.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2017/33-10429.pdf § 46
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> certainly not some small minority that is somehow manipulating parliament.

The Catalan nationalist parties won the elections. Everyone knows that they are a LOT of people (majority in most regions). There was no need send the police, unless you seek to look strong to your followers. Just like there was no need to declare the independence right now. Each party is forcing the other to the worst possible options.
> 11 nuclear scientists had unnatural deaths during 2009-13 in the country, latest data provided by Department of Atomic Energy shows.

> In one case of Barc, police claims that he committed suicide because of prolonged illness and closed the case while the remaining cases are still under investigation.

> Two research fellows at died in a mysterious fire in the chemistry lab of Barc, Trombay in 2010.

> A scientist of F-grade was found murdered at his residence in Mumbai. It is suspected that he was strangulated but the murder accused remained untraced till date.

> A D-grade scientist at RRCAT also allegedly committed suicide with police closing the case.

> Another scientist posted at Kalpakkam allegedly jumped into the sea to end his life in 2013 with the case is still under probe whereas a Mumbai based scientist committed suicide by hanging, with police citing personal reasons for the same.

> One scientist allegedly committed suicide by jumping into Kali river in Karwar, Karnataka with police again pointing at personal reasons.

From:
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/11-nuclear-scienti...

similar article from Sunday Guardian newspaper.

> Atomic energy department saw 70 unnatural deaths in eight years

> The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre alone saw 38 of its officials die unnaturally, primarily because of accidents, between 1 January 2008 and 1 October 2016.

From:
http://www.sundayguardianlive.com/investigation/7559-atomic-...

Now compare the noise made in those cases with noise made in following incidents.

Gauri Lankesh Murder:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/opinion/gauri-lankesh-ind...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/who-is-nex...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-41169817

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/gauri-lan...

Lynching:

http://www.indiatomorrow.net/eng/killers-of-pahlu-khan-shoul...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/world/asia/india-lynching...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/world/asia/india-cow-mob-...

Of course leftists(Maoists?) are controlling the media narrative in India, otherwise it is just not possible that death of seventy scientists from Bhabha would go unnoticed, whereas deaths which are potential source of political mileage and further polarization in society, will cause international noise.

Assuming NDA government to be pro-Nuclear power, as it was NDA government at the time of PM Vajpai who did Pokhran-II, I am sure that nuclear scientists will be provided critical security.
We had that for frontend for many years

It's called Adobe Muse.

Demand is still high as ever.
Better transit and a unified representative government is a great idea.

It's also never going to happen. Or if it will, it's decades away.

I've become convinced that if we want real change, it needs to be done by technology. Lyft for example could solve the transit problem if they figure out how to lower the cost of a ride, perhaps with automated drivers. Then you wouldn't need to build too much more infrastructure -- no need to get the entire bay rallied around a hundred billion dollar public transit system that's just going to get outdated again. We might need to make another bridge though...

Housing is another problem though. I've been wondering if technology can help there too but I haven't come up with any good ideas yet.
"This contract contains all your private information, embarrassing life stories and more. Pay $100 per month or decryption key will be released." ?
Definitely a good call; I don't think I'd want to marry someone who thought they could evaluate my value as a future partner in a couple of weeks.
Fine; corrected. I grew up with guns, so I didn't mean anything by it.

To your edit, you're just punting the question. What do you do when the information cannot be removed, and the service is critical infrastructure? What happens when the content is in a decentralized internet that everyone uses, and that everyone receives automatically?

You can punish the uploader, sure. But do you ban the service? You'll take part of your population with it. Most countries seem to agree that banning Bitcoin is a bad idea, for example.

So what do you propose?
Would you have paid 15 cents to tell them they lack vision?

Somethings make sense on the blockchain but I don't know about a clone of the epicenter of shitposting.
Dollar vans totally can. In countries with low cost of living private vans can be profitable at 20 cents per ride. I've rode plenty of those.
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The last time Sway came up as a topic at HN there was a conversation about whether a particular terminal manager was compatible with it yet. It seems to me that if the applications you use can have compatibility issues with the compositor you use, if you want to use an application your choice of compositors will be necessarily restrained to those that are compatible. And if compositors can be compatible or incompatible with particular hardware, that means that it's possible to have an application you want to use that is only compatible with compositors that are incompatible with your hardware.

What am I missing?
AirBnB arguably has the potential to help with housing. Some would argue it also winds up hurting it though.
> In the U.S. I'm not even sure what such a mechanism would look like? How could you enforce this?

Some entity produces the data that finds roads unfit for driving based on weather and publishes it, local governments consume that data and institute a driving ban, non-essential personnel cannot drive or they'll get a citation.

> I don't understand this mentality out-of-hand, especially because I've been in cars that have had mechanical failures. There is no mechanical system that is perfectly reliable, and I'm not sure we're considering the emergent effects of this properly.

Correct, but I believe that a well-conceived autonomous car has a much higher standard of proper operation than a human, so even if there were mechanical problems, I'd trust the autonomous car to halt operation before the human.

I also don't really understand your last point so sorry for not addressing it.
So true. Also, the transputer. The tech is catching up. FPGAs, cores on graphics cards. Different implementations, same patterns as late 90s tech.
You can put the parameter names in method calls, which makes for much more readable code. Like a makeRange method may take parameters `from` and `to`, when calling this method you could do `makeRange(from: 0, to:10)`.

That’s a fairly trivial example but it demonstrates how readability is improved. You can imagine how this becomes even more useful with methods that take many parameters.

An interesting document to look at regarding this is Swift’s guidelines on naming methods.
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Neat! If you're looking for a more advanced library that's easier to use, try https://www.styled-components.com/
If what you’re getting at is does raw information in and of itself cause harm? No, but I would argue that information can directly cause harm when learned, which is the only way information is used (information has no meaning if it cannot be applied and learned). Example: learning the information that a loved one has passed can cause a person harm.
That is mostly the point, yes. And I'll note that autocomplete is already challenged in a functional style, since you aren't always dispatching to methods of an object.

As an easy example, if you are looking for functions that can return a Foo, autocomplete does little to help you know that you have to call .convertToFoo() on any of the baz instances in scope. There is already more than just basic type mapping going on. (To that end, a graph traversal assuming shortest path from symbols in scope to the desired shape works. So it is doable, of course.)

To your question of "empirically typed", that is close to some of the stuff that more advanced tools can do. I liked showing folks that Coverity wouldn't just tell you that you forgot to check for null, but would show you how the null would get there from the call patterns. Quite impressive.
i3wm. I thought it couldn't be that much better, it just a window manager. Now it's hard to imagine using anything else.

If you want to get started the long exhaustive way, start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1I63wGcvU4.
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I supposed that means freedom is a process, not a state.
The people have political organisations of our own, you realise - I donate to a few in my country that regularly have people talking to our elected representatives and the people in charge of creating Government policy.

It doesn't actually cost a lot of money to lobby the Government when enough people are actually interested in a problem. The problem is broadly apathy.
Do you really think the republics in the USSR had only minimal cultural differences? By the way, according to the 1977 Constitution of the USSR the republics had the right to secede (of course, they didn't really have it in practice... until it happened).
Generally speaking yes, I think artists add an element of interest and entropy in an area compared to professionals in white collar positions.

Wouldn't agree on the 'wonderful' or 'unappealing' value judgments though; I think you added them for rhetorical emphasis.
That isn't stopping you from doing it. That is just making it more difficult.

But, and this is my point, this was effort that had to happen in creating the static languages, too. Just now we locked out the benefits to existing problems to problems that are rewritten in the new languages. Contrast this with hardening existing codebases by running enhanced tooling against them.
"You can put the parameter names in method calls, which makes for much more readable code. Like a makeRange method may take parameters `from` and `to` ... That’s a fairly trivial example but it demonstrates how readability is improved."

Is that something like keyword arguments in Lisp?
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Right, but as far as I understand it, the problem is that the reported LIBOR and the actual LIBOR could differ, and they could arbitrage that different. I don't think that applies here.
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