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No. It's true that democracy was weakened when the early "wild west" internet interfered with broadcast media's ability to steer public conversation. The temporary result was a rise of anti-democratic populism in the west.

However, democracy is already reasserting itself, as governments and capital learn how to shape consensus formation on the internet.
There's demarchy - a random sampling of the population. Like democracy, it ensures that people have a way to change laws they don't like.

Unlike democracy, it doesn't suffer from the fact that the corrupt or power hungry rise to the top. Lobbyists would have less power.

There are also some suggestions that a random sampling of a population will lead to a better selection mechanism - similar to suggestions that promoting randomly would be better for organisations.https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/education...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
I just tried and it was not blocked. maybe the block does not work on IPv6..
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This tool does not rely upon the application you use it with. You can use it anywhere with any application which allows you to paste text.
Could you expand on why you think the name of the company is not important here?
Think about this:
Looking at the past few years it's becoming more and more clear that data has an enormous value and grants a lot of power to the entities that are able to extract knowledge out of it. In turn, this knowledge could shape a policy that will yield the desired outcome much more reliably.
Up until now, democracy, with its distributed governance system has had a significant advantage over more concentrated forms of governance systems. Simply since making decisions involved more people, and therefore, the decision process was much more controlled.

Now, it seems like dictatorships is on the verge of getting the upper hand. In democracies, there are limitations on data accumulation (privacy laws) and data is distributed across government entities in a way that is (sometimes even intentionally) hard to consolidate.
In dictatorships, data for all entities could be concentrated in one location, granting the government a lot of power if it will use the data to its full extent.
China is a great such example, they are working towards this goal as we speak, by putting cameras everywhere, monitoring all Internet traffic, and more...
Sorry to break it to you buy Democrats are not left, if anything they are center right by western European standards, the Republicans on the other hand are going right off the cliff https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/03/politics/trump-maralago-remar...

aside: Last time Europe had politics like above it ended badly for millions of people worldwide, except this time nuclear weapons abound
For me, it lacks the ability to sync the saved post into one account. Any idea for this?
I'm somewhat hesitant to post this as I don't condone online bullying, but if you wish to send a polite message explaining your opinion about this, here are some contacts:

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this is discussed here in the comments extensively. The best answer is that they block Germany because they expect if they complied by only blocking certain books they would have to deal with many more requests in the future. They also decided to take this chance to make a statement to encourage a public debate.
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After I moved back from the US to Germany after having lived and worked there for almost a decade I never got a car. I walk (that's the #1 mode of transport by far), I bike (#2), I use public transport (rarely). In the US I drove enough to last a lifetime, I spent way too much time of my life in cars. The worst of owning a car is that I have to spend so much time and energy on that... "thing". Where yo I park it? Is it clean? Does it need an inspection? Insurance? It's like owning a horse but without the benefits (of a living companion). I use the horse not because of the transport analogy but because it's big and requires lots of your time and resources too (food, insurance, medical expenses, housing it,...).
I'm rather more inclined to use Akasha to supplant my current social network tools:

https://akasha.world/

The only challenge, really, is convincing my friends to use it.
I was on the same after university and had a great time. Talked with my manager a few months after when visiting and he asked if I liked it so much why didn't I let them know and they would've sorted it out for me to stay longer. Live and learn. Maybe once I get these AWS certs under my belt...
The Sovereign Individual and Atlas Shrugged have interesting alternatives to democracy. Just work in ones rational self interest and watch the world collapse as you rebuild your own.

Not saying that’s a good alternative to democracy, but it sure is interesting
That is not what I am suggesting at all.

My point is that google appear to be getting better-than-average protection (a whole fake bus to catch a BB-gun vandal), yet paying less-than-average (taxes) toward it, and are hardly a vulnerable member of society, where that might make sense.
The EU broadly follows the French legal tradition that copyright isn't a "monopoly granted for the useful arts" as we hear so much on here from Americans. Copyright is considered to be a property right, period. And hence inheritable.

The Hacker News contention that the US exports it's copyright policy flat out isn't true really. The EU has always had very similar beliefs on the value of strong, long term copyright.
geofencing is not perfect.
I think it was a Celica GT-Four? Great series, too long between episodes...
> Unlike democracy, it doesn't suffer from the fact that the corrupt or power hungry rise to the top.

I don't see any reason to believe that is true in any substantive way. Most of the corrupting and influence mechanisms that work in democracy work in demarchy, and some are cheaper. OTOH, there's an entirely new corruption mechanism introduced, corrupting the “random” selection mechanism (either at the source or between the notional mechanism and the public reporting of results, which is ultimately what really matters).
When will we be able to run more OSS on our Teslas, or at least a security hardened version? It's pretty obvious that they can be remotely hacked and made to look like a fatality was driver-error.
Same here on 1&1.
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I may be naive but I think this is a tech problem.

The vast majority of us share a common set of ethical norms. We are also relatively savvy. If we know someone has acted against our interests before we wont be keen on working with them again. Eg. A dodgy Mechanic. And this goes for everyone, regardless of education level or armchair-economist status.

There is a technical solution out there that combats misinformation and riling people up against each other. And promotes educated decision making. So that we can approximate an optimal policy that complies with ethical norms and shared longer-term goals. And evaluate the impact of policy as best we can.

This probably wouldn't mean direct democracy (as there are very few experts in a given field), but rather in built in validation of expert opinion and evaluation of consequences of decision making. A little less prone to abuse than our current systems.

You can even see hints of how it could be done in online communities such as HN, where despite a relatively diverse community the shared goals of learning is still optimised.

I dont think this is head in the clouds, technology impacts governance all the time, from printing presses to pamphlets to socmed. And we have done some pretty impactful things with it recently, governance could be next.
I live in Germany, and I neither have a driver's license, nor do I own a car. Same for many of my friends and colleagues.

In cities, almost everything is faster by bike than by car. European cities are very dense, parking space is scarce and many inner cities are car-free.

Public transport infrastructure is great and while people like to complain about Deutsche Bahn (the railway company), it's still more predictable and comfortable than driving a car.

Oh, and did I mention how much money it saves not to own a car?
I think outrage amplification may be a side effect of optimising for engagement.

Do you think that changing that would be tantamount to having a social credit system?

Or that a social credit system is the only way to price in outrage amplification?
Greasemonkey and its descendants (e.g. Violentmonkey) can run user scripts which work across pages.
Term limits tend to hand power to the beureaucracy because the newly elected official doesn't know enough policy to be effective.

Democracy needs:

Democracy needs smaller states and districts. Citizens per representative as a ratio is higher than ever, and we lose representation responsive to local concerns.

Media now focuses on national politics. State and local politics suffer because of it.

Increased State/Decreased Federal power provides a way for ideological divisions to be resolved at the local level , and thus lose potency as political red meat.

Move to a weekly news cycle so policy can be worked out and digested before being reported.

Foreign state powers ( especially geopolitical advesaries) should have very limited access to manipulate hearts and minds of citizens.

Mass microtargetting of citizens with personalized propoganda tailored to their personality and weaknesses should not be permitted or heavily regulated.
Agreed on all points. The C++ Standard Library should not try to become the next .Net Framework.

Libraries such as 2D graphics can be created any day by the worldwide C++ user community. Only the isocpp.org can change and improve the language itself and that should be their main focus.
This is the case, and has always been the case.

It is pretty common for people to sue international publications for libel in the UK under UK libel laws on the basis that the site has British readers.

The US decided to unilaterally breach it's treaty provisions on that front and doesn't enforce British libel judgements (you may think this is a good thing, but that is what actually happened), but notably if you ever visit the UK as an American publisher you're still liable...
35% of ecommerce customer journeys already start on amazon. It is not like they totally depend on SERP rankings.
I did not know that. Turns out it’s a bit weak though, all untrusted clients have full access to all other untrusted clients. So you only have two levels. Still, better than nothing.
I think you have a big shock coming about how international law works and applies to websites outside of their country.
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Sure, but Germans having an issue with an American site just cost that American company €50,000 for no reason at all. I agree with the poster saying that if Germany had an issue with content they could have just blocked the website themselves.
> Drawing inspiration from physics, he thinks of rational solutions to equations as being somehow the same as the path that light travels between two points.

What does this even mean? This looks like fancy words for "Kim used lines in his solution".
> You can use it anywhere with any application which allows you to paste text.

Thanks for this clarification. (Even pasting becomes increasingly impossible. For e.g. Google does not allow me anymore to paste my username at login, and my (work) username is very long... I suppose pasting might offer an easier way scripted attacks. But yeah, most applications still allow it.)
I wouldn't say exactly jealous - I'd say more often it's outrage about how a lot of those rich folks came to money - via crass worker exploitation (SE-Asia style) or stealing millions from the government. A rich person is often perceived as someone who you wouldn't want to hang round, as he/she's likely to be very morally dubious.
I’m in Italy, we’re voting in our first national elections in five years today (despite having three/four governments in the intervening years, depending on how you count). Democracy definitely seems dead or at least mute here. As I made my way to the polling station, I was reminded of my favourite quote from Thomas Pynchon: “If they can keep you asking the wrong questions, they don’t need to worry about the answers”. I don’t mean it in the sense a conspiracy theorist might, but in some other ineffable or inexpressible sense whereby parliamentary politics has simply become to weak and ineffectual to contrast and compensate for other forces that act on societies (economic and financial ones, particularly). That might be why strident or extremist viewpoints of various kinds are more prevalent now than they used to be: because faced with a body politic that cannot effect change or even visibly affect the trajectory, many people just choose what they perceive to be a bigger rudder to steer with.
It will become uneconomical to stick to IC cars as the entire world shifts to electric over the next ~30 years. Germany's auto makers will disappear in that scenario, because they'll lose all the global markets. Just losing part of those markets will destroy their margins due to the change in economies of scale. Their only good bet is to aggressively adapt. I'm sure they will, even if they drag their feet initially.

Toyota has put themselves in a similar running from behind scenario, because their leadership chose to put a lot of effort and money into hydrogen instead of the lithium-ion approach. I'd bet on them similarly eventually throwing immense resources into catching up.
And the US’ right would be considered quite far left compared to many Asian and Middle Eastern countries. I’m not quite sure what point you’re trying to make or how it’s relevant to GP’s. It’s quite clear GP was referring to the US’ policies spectrum, not that of the entire world.
Honestly had no idea how those folks even made money. Thanks for that.
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Just take a look at this image http://english.ahram.org.eg/Media/News/2014/9/26/2014-635473...
Small Block into a Volvo 240 is a pretty common hack in Scandinavia, to the point that you can buy kits that have all the required hardware and necessary paperwork to get it approved. They won't do 190 mph, but they are able to convert rubber into smoke perfectly fine.
> On the internet, where project gutenberg is located. The argument put forward, that you repeated, implies just as much that someone could be prosecuted in a Chinese court for publishing a harsh (to the point of being illegal in China) criticism of China named freexinjiang.com, at least if the site included a Chinese version. And that, since it refers specifically to a Chinese province/area, would have at least some nexus to China, whereas Project Gutenberg has zero connection to Germany.

You can be. A US court would be pretty reluctant to enforce it, but you can and always could.
First, I think it'd be good to separate the Western world from the rest of the world. The West has been meddling with other countries' governments for centuries, such that it's impossible to say that true democracy ever existed outside the West. Is it better or worse today than it was 50 years ago? Hard to say... What seems to be the case though is that more countries are escaping the West's sphere of influence than 20 years ago (after the collapse the USSR, only the West remained).

In Western countries, I think it's an issue to link the rise of national sentiment to a decline in democracy. Disinformation is certainly a thing, but for it to work, I believe there needs to be a general discontent with current politics such that people are using the urns for exactly what democracy has been designed to do: change government when people are unhappy with it.

US democracy will be in danger the day when access to some information is prohibited or some parties are forbidden, which is far from being the case.

These people at MIT forget that most republicans are fairly moderate, and a good chunk of Trump voters would have voted for Bernie Sanders if he had been nominated.
Finally someone advocating civilized discussion instead of finger pointing! Really if we want to improve society we must stop screaming and get to work!
I have pretty much every Linux handheld ever made, and my original First Batch Open Pandora is still the one I go to for my casual gaming needs. The reason is that the community around this device continues to produce absolute gems for the machine, as can be witnessed in what would have to be one of the most underrated app-store/repo's around:

http://repo.openpandora.org

My next-favourite device is the GPD Pocket. Its simply a great Linux workstation - near-perfect hardware design (unibody: yay! shitty keyboard: boo!) and - since its Intel - pretty much everything you could want to run on a machine this size is just an "apt install" away. Paired with a couple of iControlPads' (lol!), this is pretty much the ideal portable gaming rig.

I can't wait for the Pyra, and if there's a GPDPocket2, I'm definitely in for that. I'd love to have a device that delivers the community and form-factor of the Pyra, with the materials (unibody) and architecture (Intel) of the GPD Pocket some day. In order that we get there, I'm supporting any of these companies that push us closer .. even though, of course, a Switch or an Android tablet would probably be a better investment for gaming needs. ;)
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As title says.
What do you mean by “it” & “the agenda”? I’m not quite sure.
My personal take on Linux handhelds is that they're held back by their user interfaces. None of the options I've seen have the polish of iOS and Android; they just look ugly and painful to use. On desktop this is 1. improving and 2. partially masked by the paradigm that you're supposed to "get work done", but mobile is in a large part still a platform for consumption and issues such as these make it difficult to seriously use them as such.
Well bad news. The world doesn't and has never worked in the way you want it to.

Countries generally find enforcing their laws against entities with nothing inside their borders at all a bit more hassle than it's worth, but it has never, ever been the case that they can't.
How big is the data?

I think that is also a good case for hosting this on ZeroNet, the internet as it should be : P2P and decentralized.
Forgot about The 10,000 Year Clock (http://longnow.org/clock/). That seems nerdy but somewhat hard to conceptualize.
It still works for me and I can access the content of books. My provider is unitymedia.
Maybe it means something along the lines of "instead of thinking of those equations as curves in a flat space, he thinks of them as lines in a curved space". Disclaimer, I know nothing about number theory.
go-wrk[1] promises HTTP/2 support and is similar to wrk. I don't have a lot of experience with it though.

[1]: https://github.com/tsliwowicz/go-wrk

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- Your HTTP endpoints will need to be whitelisted with traffic quality groups and creative scanners (This can take a week or so). I recommend using a separate dns domain name for this since adblockers tend to subscribe to these lists.

- Your JavaScript should not be abusive. There are subjective tests for this. Generally doing an image request or some POST data of a few kb isn't going to be an issue. Some ad servers (like sizmek) download 2mb "test images" to exercise their bandwidth from some locations (like the US).

- Costs vary based on device, region, the web page the ads are on, and silly things like demographic. Some of these factors are interesting to benchmarkers but others are not. Thinking about what you actually need to test can help keep your costs efficient.
If you have an EU entity, you should be able to hire anyone in the whole EU (EEA).
Interestingly the issues sounds a lot like what a high performance Haskell implementation would run into. One additional note though on GC: highly tuned PL implementation requires completely control over object layout, pointer representation, and GC. (!)

No off-the-shelf GC will ever be perfect for all languages, thus I think WASM would be far better off doing whatever it could to facilitate runtimes implementing their own.

(!) Example from the lazy world: lazy closures when evaluated and updated often results in an indirection. We rely on GC to shortcut these. Sometimes we even have GC perform trivial constant-time evaluations when we know the result is smaller than the suspended evaluation.

Example from the Lisp world: cdr-coded cons cells can cut size in half, but no generic GC would be able to do this.
> On the other hand here they are very much status symbols. People like to drive big and powerful German cars - you would never see someone driving a Fiat Cinquecento, even though they are much more appropriate for wages here.

Interesting. When I was visiting Malmo (in suposedly egalitarian Sweden) I was shocked about the amount of premium cars (Audis, BMWs etc.) on the streets. Seemed anything but egalitarian to me. I had similar impressions in Germany or the UK. It's interesting why Rome is different.
Absolutely, it's known to be a common occurrence.

In South Africa, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has a solution called SeaFAR [0] that combines satellite-based AIS reception with low-resolution synthetic aperture radar satellite imagery to track ships with AIS turned off. The solution uses some machine learning approaches to not only classify (and if possible, recognise) ships from low-resolution SAR imagery, but to associate those with their tracks from before AIS was turned off.

I've seen the solution in use, it's surprisingly effective. I have no doubt there are similar approaches elsewhere, this is just one I'm familiar with.

[0] http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&vie...
I have to be blunt here, whomever is giving PGLAF legal advice here almost certainly did not advise that last paragraph, because there is abundant precedent that it's incorrect.

In addition, EU copyright harmonisation means that the publisher would succeed in this case in every country in the EU (or just getting the judgement from the German court carried up to the European court). Will PGLAF block the entire EU when that happens?
One interesting thing about the 'zero' approach is that it learns through self-play. So you can use a database to bootstrap the learning, but in principle you'd only need the game rules and enough training time.
Like sibling replies, I've never driven or owned a car in my 5 years in Germany (and pervious 8 in Austria). This is not unusual for city dwellers.
I think, taking everything and not releasing as open source ( only after a lot of negative feedback) did hurt some toes.

But that's normal, still, amazon tried a one-up on a shitty way.
> DEC64 is intended to be the only number type in the next generation of application programming languages.

Sure, but to get there it'd need to interface with the current generation of languages which still use double.
Nice. It is unbelievable that none of today's widely used programming has standard support for handling money correctly. I don't want to know how many programs use (binary) floating point to do it.

(Disclaimer: I don't work with any financial figures and I have not checked whether the dec64 proposal is a sound one.)
Would it solve anything? With many countries we can look to each other for ideas on how to improve things. If one government that is not possible.