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> Republicans, moreso than Democrats

Dunno. Fighting institutional <word that ends in 'ism'> is pretty popular on the left.
There will be no wake up call because nothing is really going to change for the end user. All of this slippery slope nonsense about a walled off internet is just hysteria stoked by social media.
In my county library costs $150 per person per year in taxes. So not exactly free ;-)

Edit: actually it's ~$200 per household (depends on the value of the property)
Our democracy is hardly a democracy. I kind of wish people would stop discussing it as such. The opinion of the population matters very little to the outcome of legislation, and for those whose opinions it does matter (legislators), they are bought and paid for.

Also, if you really think that people who voted for Donald Trump understood the intricacies of net neutrality you must be an incredibly optimistic individual.
I think the argument that content itself comprises a monopoly is a tough sell since content is something that can be demonstrably created by lots of parties (Netflix, Disney, Amazon, Apple, NBC, YouTube, etc.). In fact in today's environment it would be nearly impossible to form a monopoly because content creation and distribution has been so democratized.

If they merged with Netflix and controlled pretty much all distribution, then that might be a more compelling argument, but still difficult.

It seems to me that people throw the term monopoly around way too freely. Two major content distributors in today's environment is not destroying Netflix's ability to compete. When Microsoft controlled the OS of just about every desktop in the world and wouldn't allow competition in the browser space, that was a monopoly. When Standard Oil owned every oil field in the United States and the gas stations, that was a monopoly.
Never got the meaning to "drain the swamp". Is there a negative perception about having wetlands?
Or those in a representative, Constitutional Republic, which is what the United States of America is.

USA is not a democracy, thank God. A democracy is mob rule.
I can also see some of the four horsemen (AAPL, GOOG, AMZN, FB) discussing something along these lines: "We have enough cash and/or market cap to buy some of these last-mile companies AND we can block our competitors. Shall we pull the trigger?"
Why are you associating those douchebags with the south? Newt I get, but aren't the rest of them in NYC?

The real divide in this country is rural vs. urban. Cities in the south are plenty progressive, and rural areas in the rest of the country are plenty conservative.

I've lived in Boston and Atlanta, and Atlanta is a much more tolerant, friendly place.
well... I've never been in USA but you must have really great streets. but a lot of streets are already painful to use.
and if every internet company could dig holes and put their cabeles in, it would probably be even worse.
I mean in germany it's common that the street gets opened 3-4 times.
1. to repair/create it
2. to repair/add everything to do with water
3. to repair/add electricity
4. to repair/add networking/telecom

why?
because most often they unify themself, because everybody said that they should pay less, because they do not do much... It happens way too often here. I'm just 27 years old and I already seen it many times a year. this year was especially painful. I've seen streets completly remade - and then after finishing it they opened it again and again 1 month past finish

yes it might probably help the competition. but it could make other things worse.
I think land-lines, water, electricity should be in the hands of govt. or some kind of foundatition that manages these things in a escrow fashion and everybody could get a piece if he pays x % for x% of usage.
After decades of extreme propaganda on the subject, most Americans equate piracy to theft, which is obviously untrue.

Beyond that, there is a hatred toward piracy that is arguably worse than that of theft.

Fighting this propaganda-fueled nonsense is difficult, because piracy, on the surface, is a choice to not pay rightsholders, which is, on the surface, bad.

As soon as one digs beneath the surface, however, it is easy to find many neutral, or even good reasons to "pirate" content.

The abuse by rightsholders, organizations, and even government in the name of protecting copyright is bad, and not simply on the surface. It is a deep-rooted, malicious system, and people ought to understand that whatever hatred they have toward piracy, they should have ten fold toward anti-piracy.
As I've previously said: for people that believe Pai acted according to good faith, are you willing to bet that, as soon as he is legally allowed to do so, Pai won't be given a VP-level sinecure at Verizon or Comcast?
This is a bit misleading...

He was appointed by Obama, but not as chairman -- and was a recommendation from McConnell.

Obama was pretty clearly pro net neutrality.
Interesting, attempts to disinvite more left leaning speakers in 2017: 4

Attempts to disinvite more right leaning speakers in 2017: 24

At least on YouTube it does seems like there are more attempts to prevent conservative ideas from being voiced on campuses by rowdy demonstrations that interrupt speakers.
Are the big companies really in favor of neutrality? At least in the short mid-term I believe it’s more helpful for them to get their silos even more consolidated...

Also... they haven’t been super loud for neutrality and this happened. It almost felt as if they did not care.

It’s a sad day.
the problem with this statement is we weren't given a fair choice of options.. It was this or that and they both stunk to high heaven.
And yet they still vote for candidates with known public positions that are contrary to their own!
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I am not going to give up on civic engagement

Please don't. I mean that very sincerely. The fact that you took the time to do this is very inspiring to me. It reminds me of this guy: https://professional-troublemaker.com

It kind of blows my mind to think of how much individuals who are focused and determined can really accomplish.
Ajit Pai is an appointee, not an elected official.
> another provider

This is laughably naive.
Well, as I said in the other subthread, I don't necessarily blame Apple for this - they're just doing what's best for business. And what are your other options for spy-speaker providers? Amazon and Google? Do we think that they wouldn't have done the same thing if one of their employers had faced the same backlash?

You can't place the companies you buy from under too strict an ideological purity test, either in one direction or the other, or else you'll never be able to buy anything.
This is OT but I don't see the innovation of Netflix. It's TV on the Internet. They were actually a more innovative, or at least weirder, business when they were mailing DVDs around.

It's like Russ Hanneman (Mark Cuban, right?) on Silicon Valley. We can take this thing called the "radio" and put it on this new thing called the "Internet". Not as mind blowing as he believes.
Tangentially relevant: this HN thread from 2015 has some fascinating comments about the early days of FedEx, from one of its first employees.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9281466
If they're smart they will just build a backend delivery platform and APIs and make their franchised content available to anyone who wants to consume it.
Uniquely? Do you really have a hard time finding news sources that align with your views? This has been a solved problem since the invention of the newspaper.
Violence isn't the answer but boy would I love to smash that smug asshole's kneecaps.
Well, by saying that Title II was an overreach of the government and stifles competition. (Not my opinion. Just stating that it's not exactly inconsistent with their ideology. Just another example of ideology over common sense preventing people from doing what's right)
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He was appointed at the direction of Republicans to occupy one of the Republican seats on the Commision.
The amazing thing is that Paddy himself (the leader of this daring raid) was just a normal English schoolboy, until he set off on his walk across Europe at age 16 or so...
Roy Moore and Newt Gingrich are about as South as South gets and they definitely campaigned against San Francisco values. Newt Gingrich essentially defined the modern Republican Party's approach to campaigning and governing.
Please see my other reply in this thread about censoring people vs. censoring ideas. The only one on this list that's somewhat convincing is the Laurier one, since that was in the course of an academic class. Milo isn't an academic. A professor beating someone with a bike lock might be inappropriate and criminal but isn't about academic discourse unless the other person is a professor, and it seems this person was a former professor, anyway. Jordan Peterson himself has been able to spread his ideas far and wide via his YouTube channel, which as far as I know is not censored on any campus network. etc.
What if it's dark and I shine a light on your ad in the window? (The issue at hand isn't DOS or resource-based, but permission.)
Houston is always surprising to people who've never been there (and was surprising to me when I first moved there as a 19-year-old kid). It's among the friendliest places I've ever lived. And, for all its horrible traffic, the drivers are among the most polite I've seen, as well (though they drive terrifyingly fast on average). It's one of the biggest/best cities that nobody's ever heard of or thought about. Great music, arts, and food, on par with the best cities in the US, as well.

As an aside, there was a study many years ago about the friendliest cities, and New York and Houston were at the top of the list; both were considered surprising by the authors, I guess based on reputation. While the deep south was way down the list well into the "unfriendly" category, which also seemed surprising to the authors given the reputation for "southern hospitality", but I'm from the deep south and I wasn't surprised, at all. The deep south is, by and large, insular and mistrustful of outsiders, except in a few larger cities. Poverty makes for higher crime, as well (one of the tests of "friendliness" included leaving a wallet in public places and seeing whether it made it back to its owner with cash intact...in NYC and Houston it almost always did, in some other places, not so much), and the south is pretty poor on average.

But, Houston is not a "southern" city. It is an international city with a huge amount of people who've moved there from other states and countries. It doesn't feel southern, though it does feel like other big Texas cities to some degree. I don't really consider Texas the south, though small-town Texas kinda looks like small-town Georgia or whatever. But, also, small-town California is kinda like small-town Texas...lots of cow towns, oil towns, and farm towns, just like Texas. And, tends to be Republican-leaning, just like small-town Texas.
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This is being downvoted because it is a grammatical correction which is wrong.
I'm having trouble parsing where you are disagreeing. The linked article says the average over age groups is about five hours, plus additional screen time on devices, with average time spent going through a dip when we become young adults, then an increase as we age.

I used to be in the Nielsen TV surveys, for the manual data entry (IIRC they had a thing that attached to your TV but I wasn't in the automated survey portion). They had some tiny reward program with a dollar showing up in the mail every once in a while. I believe the average person is probably a little like me and too lazy to fill in every single thing they watch and self conscious sometimes, too, about self reporting too much. The manual diary was pretty laborious.
>Maybe next time don't railroad my candidate (Sanders) during the primaries. I will never vote for a neoliberal or corporate Democratic candidate, even if you hold my country hostage.

This isn't a game where you earn points for purity. You can pat yourself on the back for not voting for "a neoliberal or corporate Democratic candidate" all you want, but the election had consequences, one of which is Trump becoming President. Presumably as a supporter of Sanders you oppose most if not all of the policies Trump is pursuing, yet your refusal to vote against Trump helped enable everything he is doing whether you intended or like that. Real-world consequences happen regardless of how you think or feel about them.

You're putting your own vanity over actual beliefs. If you truly stand for what you claim, you'll fight for it any way you can, even if that's not personally appealing or ideal.
It is fine that you think the opposite and I'd be happy to keep talking about it. You're probably overestimating how much it means (to me) for me to regard someone as unethical.

I don't see how I can stop extrapolating from "action X is unethical because the expected consequences look like bad ones" to "this person who dearly wants to bring about action X is behaving unethically". I simply don't see them as being meaningfully different statements.
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While I do not think Donald Trump is turning out to be a great president, his competition was not any better for different reasons. I think there is also a problem with how our Democracy elects people as well.
I don't agree with your analogy. If you play craps, then given the odds, we can predict that you will lose money on average if you play a large number of games. That's a pretty specific statement. Which specific statement are we making when we call something a bubble?
> Refusing to make a choice in the system also has consequences, whether you like or want them.

Continuing to support a broken system has consequences, whether you like or want them. This action by the FCC is one of them.
I too am from Idaho and voted for a third party candidate because I didn't feel comfortable voting for either Trump or Clinton. I know my vote will likely never change Idaho, but I still vote for who I think is right.

The problem with most voters is that they choose an identity and then vote according to how they think that identity votes. It's why you end up with people who vote Republican even if it is not in their best interests. I try to vote for people that I think have strong moral character and will be willing to do what's right (in my opinion) rather than what's likely to get them elected.
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I do not agree. I believe Republican voters do not in fact want the government extensively regulating the Internet. It is very difficult to argue in 2017 that the Republican party is the party of a pragmatic, consumer-protected regulatory state. The Republicans believe that the market will take better care of Internet users than any regulatory agency. On this one issue, it's possible they're even right.
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The SF type of free speech is just of a very different kind. In China the wrong political ideas can cause you trouble with the government and potentially in jail. In SF the wrong ideas or words can lead to rejection from your social circle and loss of your career. To a lot of people the latter is just as scary, if not scarier than facing a hostile government. A year in jail doesn't sound as bad to some as becoming a social pariah.

And the government is at least sort of predictable, and is unlikely to make you disappear without any warnings. Social circles and careers can flip at a moments notice based on criteria no one is exactly sure of. A less than favorable opinion on any racial or sexual minority group or gender? A too favorable opinion on something sexual? Some comment regarding a woman's appearance? Support for a certain political party? Not thinking some individual woman/minority is amazing? Desiring the (il)legality of guns? Desiring the (il)legality of abortion? Other opinions on healthcare? Expressing a preference to (fe)males for some occupation? Acting on the belief it is okay to flirt in a workplace environment? Believing 'political correctness' is bad? Thinking human engineering is a good thing? Being for/opposed to the trans movement? Having some religion? Not having a religion?

You never know which one of these is capable of killing off your career/social group. In your average environment today, you really just can't tell which of them will set off the bomb. So you're silent on all.
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Hand waving and saying the market will correct itself (somehow? someway? someday?) is unhelpful.
> For hacker news I expect people to be a lot smarter but apparently no one in the entire thread realized I said Tulipmania. Not Tulips.

Yes, and then you went and compared the tulip mania against the entire history of Bitcoin. The current orgy of speculation and people taking out mortgages to buy Bitcoin is a recent phenomenon.
In the last ten years, I've lived in 6 different localities and have had a total of 4 options for ISP, never more than 2 at any given time. In at least some of those cases, I've watched as potential competition to those options was shut down by ISP-lobbied local regulation. At whatever point there's a possibility of competition in this space, I'll readily buy the free-market argument that they should be de-regulated.
Yea, I definitely was not suggesting it was a mistake with the info you had. Most clinical trials don't work.

Thanks again for the info. Best of luck!
Vibe I'm getting off this post is that it's ok to be PC and woke until that starts interfering with money getting absolutely everything it wants.

I am not surprised that he felt more comfortable in China...
There's only one ISP (Xfinity) that provides 25+ mbps in my area (Bay Area). If they decided to throttle, it would be very hard for people in this area to not simply live with it...

Based on my limited knowledge of the ISP market, there's significant barrier of entry in each area for a new ISP or even an existing one like AT&T or Wave G.
Could you please point at a few controversial topics (not off-topic discussion threads) that have been censored here?

I'm genuinely interested.
1. You have to have your people's back, this is the most important thing... be there for them 24/7, insulate them from problems and management stupidity and always fight for them.

2. lead by example, never ask them to do something you won't do yourself.

3. Communicate, I have booked on afternoon a week from 14:00pm till 16:00 and more to just talk with my team and discuss everything from work, to weather, sports, to bitch and moan against the company, etc...

4. Get together as much as you can on a real "team building exercise" - the whole team in another city for at least 2 days with a great party and lots of eating and drinking on company dime...
as a counterpoint, i have a similar geographical history and felt and saw more raciscm in the south than elsewhere (although to be fair, it wasn't vastly more so).

what you're feeling in that smugness is an exercise of social power on you. my guess is that you're white, which is why you didn't feel racism in the south but did feel the smugness of the "coastal elite" (and why you tie those two things together in your mind).
I think it's completely fair to think that a lot of these thoughts are coming from a good place. But the people who are espousing these perspectives need to understand that there's a lot of really intense history behind ideas like this. When these ideas have surfaced in the past, it usually hasn't really been about "fixing the cons" -- and even when it has, it often has major unanticipated and unintended consequences that cause serious harms.

I guess what I mean is that even when folks are talking about these things in good-intentioned ways, they're not appreciating the weightiness of the ideas they're throwing around -- and depending on your priors, it's reasonable to worry about that.
I uninstalled the facebook app from my mobile and only use once in a day for about 10-15 mins in the evening to get update on web. This has become very effective and I still keep update with some of my friends/relatives there.

I think facebook has to do much larger research on the impact it is having on wider group of people and not just in western world in terms of politics, news, kids, humans behavior, etc. I have seen people spending hours and hours of unproductive time on facebook in very poor and developing countries where the same time could have been used for more useful stuff.
> One year ago, the states chose Donald Trump as president, knowing they he would end Net Neutrality

More charitably, they chose Donald Trump on the suspicion that he would do "better" than Hillary Clinton on: abortion, immigration, the economy, leading in "the culture wars", and maybe a few other issues. Net neutrality was a litmus test for basically nobody.
They don't have a broad enough basket of content.

This is covered in the linked article, read around this quote:

> Moreover, not only does 21st Century Fox have a lot of content, it has content that is particularly great for filling out a streaming library: think The Simpsons, or Family Guy; according to estimates I’ve seen, in terms of external content Fox owns eight of Netflix’s most streamed shows
You wouldn't know it from their stock.
Or get it from the pirate bay itself:

https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/8118457/TPB.AFK.2013.1080p....

While I do recommend adblock, there is no reason to be afraid of the site, or of torrenting this copyleft material.
If they start losing money they will have a much stronger motivation to act. I feel like they say they are for it but they are not spending considerable resources (they should be) to stand up to the FCC.
Totally agreed. We could have an army of terraforming robots establish a space on Mars, for instance, then send humans there when we're sure it's hospitable. Or send drones throughout the galaxy with human embryos to potential habitable planets. An ethics nightmare, to be sure, but interesting to consider the implications nonetheless.
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Great. So, I live in NY State. Tell me what the people that stayed home 'did wrong' being that it was an overwhelmingly Democratic Electoral win here?

It does matter, but it only matters in small sliver of states, as those states literally can swing elections.

Whether Republicans and Democrats have the same, slightly different, medium different, or wildly divergent views is secondary to the fact that for most Americans, the choice has already been made.
> you'll be looking at 850W with preferably 1000W+ PSU

I will eat my hat if the iMac Pro comes with a kilowatt PSU.
That comment broke the HN guidelines by adding flamebait and calling names rather than saying anything substantive. Your comment also breaks the guidelines, as you'll see if you read them all. They aren't long, so would you please do that and start following them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I realize people have quite wide-ranging views about downvoting. But we're not going to remove it, for the same reason people need white blood cells.
Swamps have a lot of standing water which creates a lot of mosquitoes that carry diseases. Draining a swamp reclaims land and prevents kids from dying.
You say this as if Hillary would have been so much better.. No, this ones on all the people who continue to stick their head in the sand and try to blame the other team.
Absolutely. The strongest point of each candidate was that they weren't the other candidate.
The "both sides are the same" argument is false at the congressional level.

Take a look at some of these votes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/6brytw/comment/dhpcbd...