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There are 102 automobile fatalities in the US every day.[1]

1600 cancer deaths in the US every day.[2]

I could go on with other fatality statistics, but I think you get the picture. Death by terrorism is a very very tiny (though tragic) minority of deaths in the US compared to death by other causes.

Yet can you imagine major US papers (never mind virtually every paper around the world) having front-page headlines like "27 PEOPLE DIED OF CANCER IN THE US TODAY"?

It's preposterous. So is the completely disproportionate and hysterical coverage a relatively minuscule number of terrorism-related deaths get.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...

[2] - https://www.inquisitr.com/2697153/cancer-surpasses-heart-dis...
If you want to be opinionated about the middle east first read these articles:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Revolt

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone

The most recent stuff you may be more familiar with.
The US doesn't need to annex any country, they just pay their "partners" overseas, or, if they go "rogue", a few US navy ships show up and that's it.

BTW, you are forgetting more recent events in which the US govt. has been involved, directly or indirectly:

Iraq (war)

Afghanistan (war)

Syria (war)

Libya (war)

Honduras (coup d'etat)

Brazil (soft coup d'etat)

Paraguay (soft coup d'etat)

Venezuela (economic blockade)

Mali (war)
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No. Even basic documentation sites now has to be a fricken enriched browser experience
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You made $18,000 net?

Years ago, right before everyone had a smart phone, I had a Palm tx.

I was at a going out of business sale at Goodguys.

I saw Halo 3 Collector's edition on sale for $5.00 a game.

I didn't know anything about video games, but in the back of my mind, I remember a friend telling me, "Don't rule out computer Games."

I crossed the street, and got on Larkspur's Library Wifi. It was always on back then. Went to ebay, and even though my TX was slow, I started seeing $50 sales on eBay.

Went back in, and bought all the games on the shelf. People were laughing when I bought all of them.

The Salesman, laughingly said, I have three more boxes in the back. "Want them?" Me, "Yes"

I still don't know why they had so many Halo games, and nothing else?

Anywho--went home, and in the next few months, made $10 grand net on those games, and many happy moms. "I don't know what's in that game, but my son hasen't left his room."

That it. Money gone. Never had a deal like that.

(I have had a hard time competing in business. I just don't like the game of selling. When I had that Palm TX, I had such a gift. I could check out prices before I bought.

I thought I found the keys to the city of selling. A year later, it seemed like everyone had a smart phone. Ugh.)
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Key words here are foreign and domestic.
In there too, but tl;dr:

https://www.salesforce.com/blog/2013/04/how-to-create-alignm...
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Thanks for the info. I can imagine you do NOT want to share the roads with cars in those conditions.
Terrorism implies a political agenda. Killing a lot of people doesn't automatically make you a terrorist.
I hope there’s a Gopher phlog CMS called Phlogiston?
At least the top reply at the time, by @mapgrep, addressed the concern:

> Come now, Paul. Yes, Yuri is smart. But he also has huge sacks of money to throw around, most of which comes from oligarch Alisher Usmanov

> It's kind of sad, to me at least, the extent to which a sort of amorality has really taken hold in Silicon Valley. It's nice that he's helped your investments out, Paul, but where does Yuri's money come from? Have you looked into him and Usmanov? I mean, the sad thing about Yuri Milner to me isn't that he's an ostentatious outsider, it's that he fits in so darn well in Silicon Valley. I wish this was the sort of place that looked completely alien to someone from Moscow or Wall Street. Every year, it seems that's less and less the case, at least in terms of culture.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3143960
The difference is the Go tooling is dictating your whole code layout that may not match your personal preference. I work in a multitude of languages and I organize my code in ~/code/work for work/contracting code bases, ~/code/personal for my code bases and ~/code/third-party for source code I want to look at and maybe contribute casually to. I have never figured out a good way to fit GOPATH into this without completely rearranging how I organize my code, which I have zero desire to do for one language, especially one that's not my main.
I don't know why, but bad electrolytic capacitors also sometimes have a fishy smell.
That would be any dictatorship government. How are they doing?
That is the choice of giving up my money, or dying - during a robbery.

I am talking about the choice I have in any free marked: where to spend my money and what to get in exchange. I have none of that when it comes to over half of my revenue: my taxes.
I didn't get "paragon of social equality" from what he said at all.
While this is definitely a personal opinion, my takeaway is that the image of terrorism that is commonly painted on the nightly news in the US is vastly different from what terrorism is in the rest of the world.

Reading this article made me reflect on my understanding on the goals of counter-terrorist measures of the United States and how they (somewhat hypocritically) revolve entirely around a consequentialist point of view.

Maybe I have my tin foil hat a little to snug on my head, but I can't seem to find a way in which the mentality of the U.S. government's perception of "terrorism" has evolved from the days of COINTELPRO. To the US government, the only difference between MLK and Kim Jong Un is that only one of those was a threat to the state in 60's while the other is a threat now.

While I'm admittedly not really well versed in stoicism, I believe that an individual's oikeiôsis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oikei%C3%B4sis) of something or someone else is the guiding factor of how they act or behave towards something. However, is it really fair to hold people to the same standard as a government?
http://www.homebrewcpu.com/

Bottom of the page.
8 million dollars in 1993. 1 million dollars when Trump purchased it.

1 million / 8 million = 1/8.
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This seems to be a response to Jamie Dimon:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/12/jpmorgan-ceo-jamie-dimon-rai...
I do remember those websites. For me, the difference is that now the Web is much more useful, but back then it was a lot more fun. True, you could sometimes waste hours following random links hoping to find something good, but the thrill of discovery when you stumbled across a gold mine of information was a huge part of the appeal.

Nowadays, anyone with a basic understanding of search engines can find almost anything they want within seconds. That makes the Web on the whole much more useful, but the thrill of the hunt is gone -- that's what Jakob Nielsen was referring to all those years ago when he talked about "information scent".

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/information-scent/
I also got thinking about them in the last month or so. I thought it might be fun/interesting to put one together today for the sake of nostalgia.
You don’t understand that states covertly use money to exercise power? I’m confused why you’re harping on that word unless you genuinely don’t understand what he’s getting at.
Hey maybe you are victim of this and I missed out!

I don't consider this a game, I take it pretty seriously to help others. However, I am human like many others and as of late I've been a bit caught up with family. If this happened to you then by all means I can own it and apologize. Otherwise shoot me a DM if you really need help and if I can't help I'll find someone who can
My theory is in general criminals are dumb. I think most people realize that, long term, crime didn't pay. Smart people realize it is easier to make and keep money if they make it legally.
Similarly smart people realize that being a terrorist didn't really pay either. Unless they are a psycopath, being a terrorist doesn't get them anywhere.
It is fortunate because we aren't really ready for a criminal Mastermind.
I asked her about income inequality, for there it's quite extreme. She says it's not that bad because people there have a reasonable standard of living

I think the point is not that Singapore is a paragon of equality, but rather that its rulers have had the sense to provide adequate comfort for their subjects, rather than trying to take absolutely everything.
The definition of terrorism is a very slippery and politically charged one.

The US military has killed orders of magnitude more people for political reasons (such as getting rid of Saddam Hussein, "liberating" various countries, preventing the spread of Communism, or "bringing democracy") than all the acts traditionally designated as "terrorism" put together. Does that make the US military a terrorist organization?
I have had the opposite experience. Clojure has been dead simple for me to set up on mac/linux.
well you have the example on the left of graphs.
> the old html sites I write about here have a different type of construction, material, and value.

These still exist. They are prettier and more content packed than the 90s ones you're reminiscing about, and there are many, many more than there used to. I honestly think you're seeing the early web with rose-tinted nostalgia glasses.

Unless you liked the DIY amateurish hacker feel of it (which I agree has its value on its own) I think they've changed mostly for the better.

Just to be on the same page: what's exactly that type of construction, material and value you miss? What did you like of it?

EDIT: After re-reading your original post I think I get your point. It's just... #RememberWebsites, of course it's nostalgia-fueled! And that was the point of the post, right? Celebrating it (which I completely misunderstood as a celebration of websites themselves).

There are still many. Here's one that might fulfill your oldschool needs: https://www.justinguitar.com/
> what we have now is a paradise compared to what we had then

Here's how I recall it:

Back in the day, you'd search for subject {$foo} and you would find mostly websites written by some cranky bearded weirdo who is obsessed with {$foo}, who has devoted weeks of his time to personally collating his every thought about {$foo} into one ghastly-looking site.

Nowadays, you search for {$foo} and find mostly beautifully template-designed pages of text written by indifferent fiverr freelancers who had about 20 minutes to stuff in as many keywords into as many column inches wrapped around as many ad slots as possible before moving on to the next subject.

I know which one I prefer.

(I may exaggerate. But only slightly.)
There's no response to your statement that would lead anywhere.

I believe that every American VC fund has objectionable limited partners even when they are not authoritarian regimes and no VC-funded company has clean money coming in. All those Monsanto and Goldman pension funds have to be parked somewhere. The obvious response is that I am deflecting or that "two wrongs don't make a right" or something like that.

The only implication would be that I rationalized away all ethics by working in the industry.
They are still out there. Probably even more than ever. You just don't find them because the SEO-sites drain away all traffic.

I believe my own site would qualify? http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/
“From what we can identify, the only reason today to buy or sell bitcoin is to make money, which is the very definition of speculation and the very definition of a bubble,” Thiam said. He added that in the history of finance, such speculation has “rarely led to a happy end.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-02/blankfein...
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As opposed to the "blood money" invested by the US govt. in technology companies? Do you also have problems with Twitter, Google and Facebook getting money from the US govt.?

Let's not forget, the US govt., both Republicans and Democrats, have directly or indirectly killed millions of people in the last decade...

I don't see you complaining about that "blood money" here or anywhere, though.
Facebook, as well. Along with all the other ad-supported businesses.
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Good questions. Another I'd add is: are there any contractual/legal requirements preventing these intel subcontractors from proxying the full firehose to CIA? If so, it's possible those requirements would be respected on the government side.

I'm skeptical there would be any practical restrictions in RT's case.
This was totally obvious and led to an interesting exchange between PG and Fred Wilson:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3143604
This is really encouraging to hear, I run an Open Source community that is a fifth the size of Webpack. And in the back of my mind I'm trying to figure out how to help fund/pay/reward the community, without then making it awkward, political, or money driven.

How did you get the companies to sponsor? It seems like once you are above a certain threshold/community level, it makes sense for a company, but did you just reach out or was it people you already knew? Or people you bumped into while talking at a conference? But how do you know if they are the ones at a company that can sign off on sponsorship? This very much seems like "sales", how does an Open Source-loving engineer get good at sales?
Thank you for sharing! I did some quick Googling and found this BBC article that seems to back up what you're saying (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39176110). I really do wonder why they wouldn't talk more about it? I think it would be a fair compromise to say "hey we stopped X amount of terrorist attacks, but we can't tell you everything about how we stopped them because that's classified."
You just don't get it, like so many people here. Just because the OSI put up a website supposedly defining a word doesn't mean that was the definition before they came into existence.

The very first sentence of what they are saying "Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code. ", is exactly what open source meant before they came around. There is source available, isn't it? It's even freely available.

The "definition" of "Open Source" was made by people with certain political goals. Just because your goals might be the same, or --more likely -- you are ignorant of the history, because you are presumably too young, doesn't change that.

You are on a forum of ignorant young people all echoing each other as parrots. The previous generation would listen to the older people in their respective communities, but it seems all the millennials are just in a race to demonstrate their underdeveloped brains.

Just because you can "vote" things up or down, doesn't entitle you to wisdom. In fact, I would consider Hacker News to be mostly a place to become stupid, judging by its community of startup wannabes.
Actually I think it's the focus on large scale attacks that keeps us safe. From a psychological perspective, a series of seemingly random small scale attacks drawn out over several months would be far more devastating and fear inducing than one big attack (baring use of a chemical or nuclear weapon). Imagine a mass shooting every week in various locations (a mall, a hospital, a sporting event, a rural location). People would be afraid to go outside even though the overall damage and risk to them at a population level would be relatively minimal.

Why don't people do this? My guess is because it's not sexy. People want to participate in a high profile huge attack, not a small random shooting which by itself doesn't do much.

Large scale attacks are inherently watched for, planned for, and guarded against. Small scale attacks are almost impossible to guard against and stop.
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This crosses into personal attack, even though you don't specify what you're insinuating. That breaks the HN guidelines, which ask you to be civil and assume good faith, so please don't comment like this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The writers struggle with whether beauty is objective or subjective. I think beauty is objective but hard to explain. Paul Graham approaches it here, http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html
What if this action is required not to incriminate individuals, but as a proof that the system doesn't work as intended or publicly described (and there is probably no other way to prove it). Would the hack be more moral then?
Oh nice, thank you for the heads up. I'll let her know. I was unaware, she may be across it though.

I gave the impression that she exclusively deals with IKEA products but from what I understand it's more diversified than that but, I'd suggest it's still her bread and butter.
Hacker News readers may be amused to hear of this modern twist on proceedings - burning an effigy of the local broadband provider: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-41876557
It's more then nice words. It's showing you listen, it's empathizing, it's putting yourself in that persons shoes. To fix things like usability we have a lot of long work ahead of us and we want to do so.

I don't consider that person a hater etc. I think maybe the transcript of my talk didn't really mean to couple that statement with that slide etc.
Couldn't we say a similar thing about gun violence? Just because more people die in car accidents than in mass shootings doesn't mean mass shootings aren't indicative of larger societal issues that need to be addressed.
I remember a bunch of MSI motherboards I had slowly dying over a couple of years because of this.
I will not dispute anything in this article, and it is discouraging if the allegations are true. However I will point out that an outlet like the NY Times is threatened by Twitter and Facebook financially. I would keep that in mind as to one reason the legacy media have been choosing to report on topics (and they don't always choose to report just what is newsworthy) concerning foreign influence and "fake news" emanating from social media.
I remember soldering in new caps into a PIII Abit Mainboard that stopped working.

Good times... (haha maybe not)

But the issue was known to interested parties and generally publicised.
It's a philosophical work about leavers and takers and what is the nature of both nature and humans, as well as their role in it. It's told from the perspective of a man taking instruction from a speaking ape.

It is something I've read many times and get something new every time I read it. Given the context of this thread, I'm not sure I could recommend a more salient book.
In a business culture that values growth above all else, is it really any surprise that this happened? American corporations have an ethics problem and we're going to learn our lesson one way or another -- whether it's the easy way or the hard way.
Hi, I read your comment here -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13152917.

Are you still developing your software, and is it downloadable?
> and still winds up doing harder things than Americans more easily

Can you elaborate?
Everyone knew "Yuri Milner" was a Russian and Russian is not an open system or democracy or system run by a rule of law. Why is the news any surprise now?

What I think is happening is - Russia by bring up these topics in news (in outlets like nytimes) so that it can de-emphasize it's partnership with Trump government and the role it played in bringing that egoist to power.
The code breaking machinery was not the internet. Besides, the code breaking machinery relied on tubes (and later, transistors) both developed by the free market.
As a community services announcement: you should probably replace that battery immediately.

It might never burn your house down while you sleep, but someone else might read your comment and think it's okay.
I was a part of the Geocities team in 1998. Part of the reason a large part of the early web no longer exists is that many of these web pages were hosted for free by Geocities. Tragically when they were purchased by Yahoo, Yahoo decided to simply shred the early web, they decided it was not worth it to keep supporting the service and simply hit delete on a huge chunk of the content of the early web.
The tool aims to be agnostic to work flow it's a trade-off to be generic in our case. We realize it too.
The homicide rate is much higher than the random mass shooter homicide rate.

So most proposed regulation of firearms wouldn't make us a whole lot safer, because it wouldn't address people getting angry and getting their licensed pistol.

(the point being that addressing mass random homicides won't actually make us a whole lot safer...)
I remember web rings. I used to own a couple of sites that were part of a web ring. I remember it was actually hard to get into them back then -- the maintainers only wanted quality sites and you had to submit yours for review and explain to them why you deserved to be included. They were actually a decent source of traffic in the early days, before search engines became a thing.
Might makes right.
Whenever I have friends give me electronics stead throwing them away, without actual data, id say 95% of the time it's a capacitor

I really wish manufacturing encouraged easy swap components stead filling landfills
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Look for people aiming a lens in my direction.
AFAICT, that's pretty similar in STEM, except that Americans who don't take STEM degrees don't ever take what other countries would consider pre-university STEM courses.

Mind, other countries specialize their students in early or late secondary school, so the differences may not be quite commensurable. A UK, French, or German student going into a STEM degree will probably have taken calculus and linear algebra by the end of secondary school, but they may not have taken an equivalent to America's AP World History. If you told them they ought to take a first-year university course in world history to get into a STEM degree, they'd look at you a bit weird, but this is admittedly how American admissions works.

I also know an American who basically took every available AP course, had a perfect grade average, volunteered in Girl Scouts, won valedictorian of her well-regarded high school. She ended up wait-listed to MIT, admitted with no financial aid to Cornell, admitted with a moderate scholarship to McGill, and admitted with a full-ride and honors to her state flagship school. She took the full ride.

(Also, we met and later married :-p.)

This contrasts with Technion (I did research there), where you could get into the top-flight STEM institution of the whole country just by earning sufficiently high marks in your matriculation exams.

It really does give me the impression that both other countries educate more rigorously at the secondary level, and Americans have a perverse fetish for inhumanly grueling competition. I think this may be precisely the opposite of a good system: a good system would assure that everyone has a very solid baseline, and then maximize the fraction of top talent that makes it through the training pipeline to do the most difficult work.