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The death toll of communism is debatable because a lot of deaths in the Soviet Union and China were due to famine, and people can argue how much of it was due to the inefficiency of collective farming, or deliberate starving of people the government didn't like, or just bad luck.

As for "all societies that had slaves were capitalist" -- it is unclear what you mean by that. Certainly the US was capitalist and had slavery, but many (indeed most) pre-capitalist societies had slavery.
I'm pretty sure Firefly is Fox.
Because FB collects so much data about everyone and it would be nice to have personalized news, events, articles in your feed. Instead of using websites that show the same thing for everyone.

But they use all that data to show me pictures of crappy food, kids, drunk parties and stupid FB game ads.
well I use both divy and magnet.
divy is better for more fine grained window management especially on 4k, whereas magnet is great for general placement a la windows
Yeah, I am still mad at Chris Roberts that he sold his former company "Digital Anvil" to Bill Gates / Microsoft in 2000.

Of course "Freelancer" (hyped like "Star Citizen" today, and basically the very same game idea) came out late and most announced features were missing - actually the same features are now announced again by Chris Roberts for Star Citizen.

And another game of "Digital Anvil" never got released thanks to Microsoft, it was called "Loose Cannon". It was announced in 1998 and it would have been the first 3D open world game in the very same sense of Grand Theft Auto 3, just released 1-2 years before GTA 3 !! Nowadays we could be playing Loose Cannon V and no one would play GTA. Anyway "Loose Cannon" was very good looking for it's time, and the actual gameplay video footage back then looked really promising. Barely any media can be found online today, but much more is on CD-ROMs of old PC Game mags (1998-2001 era):

https://www.unseen64.net/2008/04/15/loose-cannon-xbox-cancel...

http://www.ign.com/games/loose-cannon

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

Like the poster above me, I say the same: "Fool me once..." to both Chris and Bill.
Copy of the article without a paywal http://www.cetusnews.com/business/Etsy-Picks-Google-for-Firs...
I'd be pretty upset if I grew up to find out that my parents had been sharing pictures and details of my life with an advertising company from an early age. You've taken away his ability to make an informed choice whether or not he wants Facebook to have a permanent record of his entire life from birth... and for what? Internet points?
Confuse the government and big corps with new technological innovation.
That's totally fair -- and I appreciate that you're willing to engage seriously about these things!

Your last point is well-taken. It may even be the case these days that the majority of people who hold views similar to yours think the way you do. But I think we need to take into account the uncertainty that people in these situations face. It's hard to know what the other person is thinking -- and if all you know is that person's opinion, it's hard to know what's going on when you're not looking. Bigotry is often dressed up in talk and behavior that seems polite, even respectful at first glance, but that is ultimately materially harmful.

For example, I think a lot of LGBTQ people from religious backgrounds have had an experience of being told that their family or community will "love the sinner, but hate the sin" -- and then subsequently being subjected to unfair and harmful treatment (bullying, psychological abuse, ostracism, being disowned).
How is that a good thing for where you get your news? It is one of those things where it is probably better that you are getting an objective (not crafted for you) selection of the contemporary news instead of one that's filtered for you.
As a prolific (and I mean prolific) gun owner, I've yet to see evidence of mass-Democrat candidate opposition to the 2nd amendment in general. "Gun Grabbing" hasn't been a party-wide concept despite Republican propaganda otherwise.

Stupid gun rules, like magazine size limitations, sure, but they almost never "come for my guns." Often the suggestions are perfectly reasonable in my mind - national gun registry, for example.
> But I wish I could open FB and read political and tech news

RIP Google Reader
>Congress is where the action happens (ACA repeals, despicable tax bills, etc). Repealing the clean power plan?

Congress drafts legislation, true, but it would be much harder for Republican legislation to pass if they didn't also control the White House. You'll recall that legislation needs to be approved by the President to become law, and at the very least a President Clinton would not be assisting a Republican Congress and Senate in passing all these things you oppose.

>I'm putting principals first.

They do work hard to lead their schools and deserve admiration for that, but we should probably be discussing principles.

> I don't fault you if you don't, but what I "stand for" is still going to come to pass

Maybe, but faux-religious certainty of future victory ignores the very real suffering that comes between now and the glorious future. People losing access to food or healthcare today thanks to Republican policies, for example. That could have been avoided with a different electoral outcome, and telling someone who can no longer afford to eat or get the medication or treatment they need that some day we'll have universal healthcare or UBI or whatever isn't exactly helping.

>Step 1: Set fire to house

>Step 2: "Do we have your attention now?"

>Step 3: Progress

Step 1: Set fire to house

Step 2: You are homeless and have nothing

Step 3: Some day this situation will fix itself, I guess? In the meantime you are starving and living in the street.
WhatsApp has a better image on this kind of stuff, but I’ve found it to be even more obnoxious when it comes to nagging you to enable push notifications.
Don’t relocate. Stay in your damn house. Go talk to the people who are actually running in those districts. If you can write them even the cost of a ps4, they want to hear from you.

In particular for Democrats running against entrenched Republicans, these people aren’t evil corporate fat cats. They own restaurants, teach high school, are small-town mayors, or nurses. They need help to compete. The DNC is not going to help candidates who don’t show viability on their own.

NOW is the time to get involved, before the primaries.
> ... as pretty much every site/person of significance has stated their opposition to such a repeal ...

But what exactly did Google do to oppose this?

In my view: doing nothing == being evil.
Thanks! Currently trying to find a wallet that will let me double spend. Any recommendations?
I would guess that a major part of "On The Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin is still heretical in San Francisco.
Look I understand what you're saying, but it's complicated. Obama chose to respect a tradition and he did so at the cost of allowing anti-NN people into the FCC. He could've found a republican that was pro-NN, but he didn't. You can argue about what tradition dictated, but as the president I think you have to take some responsibility for the choices being made, even if they are hard ones. Obama broke a lot of traditions and he suffered for it, especially in his first term, so I'm not saying this is a simple decision, or one that would've cost a reasonable amount of political capital, but he did have the actual, legal choice, and he did make it. This enabled Trump to select Pai as chair. So without Obama's decision Pai would not be chair either. It's ComplicatedTM.
> Appointed by President Obama allegedly as a sort of "Olive Branch" to the Republicans.

It was an “olive branch” to Republicans in much the same sense as the British sovereign offering the leader of the party that has secured a majority the opportunity to form a government is an “olive branch” to that party; it is, through combination of law (limiting the number of members of one party, and mandating Senate
confirmation before a nomination becomes an actual appointment) and established custom (as to how nominees that are not of the President’s party are chosen), a requirement that, if violated, would produce a major crisis.
More importantly, you can edit Sketch files while not using macOS
>It was made law in 2015

Net neutrality has never been made law, as the 2015 FCC Open Internet Order is not a law. The FCC cannot write laws. Full net neutrality, as defined here [1], has also never been mandated in the US.

The 2015 Open Internet Order mandated "net neutrality protections", not net neutrality itself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality
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> As a mid-30s guy, I use Facebook primarily to share pictures and updates of my son and things we do together with my friends and family.

Make sure you have the originals of those pics backed up somewhere else. When I tried to use the "takeout" (not sure what's the proper fb name) to download all my FB content and get pics from a decade ago when I wasn't as diligent in backing, I was surprised to find out that fb gives you 800x600 versions of your photos, with all EXIF metadata wiped out, even though they still have the original size.

It was a big "oh, you want your stuff so you can leave fb? here's a big fuck you". They actually spent resources to make your experience worse.
ISPs shouldn't be different than the phone company: Both should be prohibited from anticompetitive actions via the Sherman Antitrust Act. It's time to do to both El Goog AND ISPs what was once done to a phone company: Breaking them up.

For the record, I didn't address your "space-constrained areas like telephone poles and conduits" before because neither is remotely space-constrained (especially in the fiber age), and this is a complete red herring.
$.50 / minute in Singapore sounds rather expensive. Is it not?
This is the best article I've ever read from Sam Altman.

Seen from abroad, SV and the US in general is becoming less appealing every day and it's not really Trump's fault.
Note "(dependent on memory type)". It can do LPDDR3, and it can do 32GB, but not both at once. You'll note that any laptops which do 32GB will list DDR4 RAM.
Thank you for doing that. I sincerely hope this fight isn't over yet; hopefully your comment gets its rightful fair hearing.
Not sure what you mean by 'disappear'. Moderators did routine moderation in this thread, much as we do in any other, especially 'hot' ones. I don't see signs that the users who participated were doing so on false premises. When we do see such things, e.g. users replying to themselves with other accounts to skew discussion, we ban them.

We do sometimes mark subthreads to be auto-collapsed, usually when there's something about them that is too far outside the scope of the site. That can be because they're off-topic, but also if they're off-spirit, so to speak, in the sense that the spirit of intellectual curiosity is too absent. When that happens, nastier spirits move in, so moderation is needed.
> which so far is the only real world example of "net neutrality" being violated in the world, by a Portuguese ISP

How would you describe Comcast's throttling of bittorrent or Rogers throttling of all encrypted traffic in Canada?
The broad history of violent bigotry in the United States does not get magically forgotten by people just because they write code for a living. And that history and that present reality means that many things are not just abstract propositions but are direct threats.
The CTO said that support for machine learning was the deciding factor. In that case the lesson for Amazon would be that it should get serious about machine learning and offering pipelines and automation around it. MTurk puts them in an excellent position for that, imo.
Who is "we"? People who read Hacker News? Yeah that will surely change things.
Comcast isn't a Tier 1 provider. Cogent, the netflix ISP at issue, claims to be, but that is very debatable. The internet isn't built on two T2 or T3 providers doing no-fee exchanges.

Net Neutrality doesn't prevent peering disputes.
> People losing access to food or healthcare today thanks to Republican policies, for example. That could have been avoided with a different electoral outcome, and telling someone who can no longer afford to eat or get the medication or treatment they need that some day we'll have universal healthcare or UBI or whatever isn't exactly helping.

How quickly we forget that Bill Clinton was responsible for dismantling welfare in the 1990s. [1] Hillary would've done better? I don't believe so. Nor does Hillary Clinton think she could get universal healthcare done [2].

> Step 3: Some day this situation will fix itself, I guess? In the meantime you are starving and living in the street.

Step 3 is in progress. Step 2 was beyond our control due to Republican majorities. Excuse our dust while we fix our country.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/03/the-wor...

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-single-payer-he...
Is there any recourse? clever technical workaround? switch to tor network?
So Republicans don't have any agency? They don't have any accountability for making this part of their platform?

That's pretty rich for being the "party of personal responsibility".

Ajit Pai has the confidence of Republican leadership and was appointed by Obama at McConnell's behest, again because of requirement. I'm sure if Obama could have appointed a political ally he would have.

Ajit Pai certainly is responsible for this, but he is acting on behalf of the GOP and has their full backing. I think it's fair to hold them accountable for that.
You'll get the "vote with your wallet" speech. Which for most people, and like myself, your only other option in order to do just that is to buy an LTE wifi or get satellite internet.
Your comment exemplifies what the OP is criticizing. By writing off the people in SF and Alabama as "zealots," you've closed the door to reasoned debate and to educating them on their miscues. I don't disagree that people occasionally take unjustifiable stances, but that doesn't make them unreasonable people. You have to understand their reasons and convince them of yours.

As someone who has lived in Alabama, I assure you that long term economic uncertainty, lack of good public education, entrenched mistrust of the government, and familial loyalty signaling do more to shape opinions than a logically sound argument and upstanding ethical principles.
I also am from Idaho and always vote- thank you. We need everyone to have this attitude and we may just shift the narrative off of "hopeless."
I totally agree. Who cares if the worst case scenario is tiered pricing, as long as their is REAL competition, a competitor can come along and say "we offer it all for one flat fee because our infrastructure is better." Boom, done. These municipal exclusion deals are the real problem.

I also think this is going to backfire and bite the telco's in the ass if they try to roll out tiers. The legislative outcry when joe schmo is affected could become so deafening that congress will be likely be forced to get up off their ass and intervene which is exactly what they don't want. If they were smart they would only go after the Netflix and Face-books of the world and leave the consumer out of it.

Can you imagine the 2020 campaign slogan of "Donald Trump ruined the internet." Ignoring this issue was stupid but I don't think they thought this through.
I don't think the regulation was limited to http traffic.
I'm not asking about starting a new one - but based on the wording it sounded like from inception of the project/idea to it being launched was 1 week. Seemed odd.
Great! So the competitor can rely on leasing municipal broadband networks to avoid expensive, wide-spread fiber buildout? No, because that’s illegal in many cities thanks to lobbying from Comcast and friends.

Ok, so the competitor can build their own fiber network. That’s very expensive and time consuming, but it can be done...if local legislators approve it. Sure hope Comcast and friends don’t have any influence there! This is one of the suspected reasons for the failure of Google Fiber, but hey, maybe it’ll work next time.

Incidentally my two options for internet service are:

1) Comcast
2) A local competitor offering sub-1MBPS

Some choice.
Except you can't, as I've said, engineers are not good at estimating. They get significantly worse when you start estimating months out instead of days out.

The problem is not that they're engineers, no one is good at estimating work they've never done before. This is a well known problem in pretty much every single software shop I've ever been in. Teams never deliver what was planned on time, only functional teams cut features for releases. This is not a "win" for estimation.
> Access that does not require authentication should never be a crime.

Careful, this could legitimize things like accidental denial of service. Depending on circumstances, even basic scraping could cause problems.

(I need to be vague to avoid violating an NDA.) A major internet site had a URL that went something like somedomain/group?id=xxxxx. It turns out that a simple scraper, that called id=1, id=2, id=3, ect, ect, caused a major problem! This was because rendering these pages required significant resources; so most active pages were kept in RAM. Of course, the scraper tried to read everything.

Of course, no one thought the scraper was malicious in any way!
VOTE.

As I've grown older I've realized more and more that this is the only way for citizens voices to be truly heard. You aren't going to outspend the big donors and you aren't going to out influence the lobbyists. If you want a particular rule set or laws to be enacted you'd better vote for the politicians who agree with your worldview.

Mad that the FCC has repealed net neutrality? Vote for congress members who are pro-NN.

Mad that national parks have had their land area significantly reduced? Vote for pro national park congress members.

Mad that we're giving a huge tax cat to billionaires and corporations and yet the middle class gets a temporary reprieve? Vote for congress members who want to deliver true tax reform.

I could go on and on but I think you get the point.
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I don't like Hillary at all and think the Democrats would've easily won if they hadn't used establishment tactics to put thru their establishment candidate over Bernie, but..

>his competition was not any better

Really? Hillary was going to carry on a lot of Obam-ian policies. Net neutrality would still exist, pedophiles would not be publicly endorsed by her, and a 'tax cut' that is actually just a confusing mess that only clearly benefits the super-rich would not have happened.

So what exactly would she have done to be as bad as Trump? The guy is incessantly mired in scandals; says things that a centrist family would barely tolerate their old, crazy, racist uncle saying around holiday dinners; and is basically a narcissist.

I don't like Hillary at all and don't see how you can say "she's not any better than Trump" with a straight face.
Well yeah. Their services will definitely be part of the "Core Internet Bundle" and their small competitors' services definitely will not be!
Actually the competitors would have trouble competing with Google and Netflix in this scenario due to the fact that they would be harder for them to beat out what Google and Netflix would pay.

This also ignores the fact that consumers have paid the ISP for general internet access, no where did it stipulate some services you want to access should pay extra for us to carry their data to you.
They brought in dogs to search the room, then let everybody back in. Pretty safe guess that was a credible bomb threat.

Especially considering 4chan was sending Pai's home a pizza every half hour for a while, if Twitter is to be believed.
This is pretty disingenuous because one elected official is oftentimes overloaded with multiple responsibilities. In this case the FCC chairman was appointed by the president (Barack Obama). Are you implying that the REAL way to deal with the Net Neutrality issue is that we need to become single-issue voters with respect to net neutrality next presidential election cycle? That seems a bit silly, and yet seems like the only reasonable way to affect change in this situation by "playing by the rules". It would be a lot less anxiety producing if people had a more direct way of affecting FCC rules without having to possibly sacrifice some other completely unrelated issue they care about (such as Supreme Court appointment, or health care direction, etc. etc.).

It would be a lot easier to get behind the idea that we should elect "good people" if we weren't concentrating so many responsibilities to the one magic "good person" we get to choose.
FWIW, (I'm the person you initially replied to), I appreciated your point and upvoted. I just don't have a good response.
> If we're talking about great, innovative artists, I think few of them actually benefit much from the copyright system anyway.

This is a really stunning claim and one that needs a lot more defense than you're giving it. I can think of countless innovative musicians, film directors, and authors who benefit from selling back catalog that's 10-20+ years old. I'd be happy to furnish a list if such a thing is necessary, but as it is your statement seems absurd on the face of it.
Thanks, I was looking for a version of blockfolio for desktop. AI signals are a nice added bonus as well.
Their job is to serve the public interest though. Not sure that's funny.
LOL that's not what's going to happen here.

You're right Google and Netflix et al will cut a deal with the major US ISPs to get their traffic delivered, they have the money to do so.

But innovation... the next up and coming netflix (or any other data heavy service) isn't going to have a good time. Start-ups can't afford to pay for the same as rich incumbants, so they have no chance.

Why would a US ISP agree to carry a data heavy service without recompense now, when they can charge incumbants with deep pockets for the same bandwidth.

This seems very likely to hurt innovation , not help it.
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Isn't it fundamentally a bootstrapping problem? A state can reasonably presume to sell a new currency in exchange for older (or foreign) currency— this is similar to issuing a bond or whatever else to raise money. And there's a guarantee of value in the sense that the state will accept the currency later on as your taxes.

The Bitcoin network/ecosystem has nothing to offer in this sense— there's no plausible reason for it to be "raising" money by direct sales, and no one owes it taxes. So the initial tokens were distributed based on the fact that they were mined by early adopters before the difficulty got to be too great. There is indeed a basic unfairness in this, but it's not obvious to me how to resolve it for future projects of this kind.
People keep saying this like he's the person who chose Pai. The way these commissions work is:

- it's staffed by members of each party

- each party's leaders (typically in the Senate) choose the people who will be appointed

- the President typically rubber-stamps those appointments

- the President at the time really only gets to choose which member of the commission is the Chairman

So if you want to blame someone for Pai, you should be blaming Senator McConnell for telling President Obama "here's the Republican we want you to put on the commission".
It's not an olive branch. The President is required to appoint no more than 3 members of one (his own) party, and 5 total. The chair is then designated by the President.
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