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>Peterson isn't making many scientific claims, or even claims as such.

My first encounter with Peterson was hearing his "lobster theory", which struck me as such pseudoscientific piffle that I've tried to pay him as little attention as possible ever since.

I imagine the reason Peterson elicits such strong reactions is because he presents differently for different audiences. As suggested elsewhere in the comments, "he's built his own persona into this gigantic strawman that looks like an ogre to everybody", luring them into attacking a position he never held so that he can appear calm, wise and reasonable in his rebuttal, and take the role of the poor attacked underdog.

He speaks of "postmodern curtural marxism", yet by his own admission, has never debated a marxist. Like the best controversialists, he picks his fights very carefully, preferring to "debate" with campus teenagers than other "intellectuals".

For those who haven't heard it, his "lobster theory" goes:

1. Lobsters are animals with a hierarchical society

2. Lobsters have a "seratonin based nervous system". Humans also have a "seratonin based nervous system".

3. Therefore, a hierarchical society is natural (and therefore best) for humans.
>This was a well-known design choice where the user could balance between transaction size and privacy--people who preferred faster/cheaper transactions chose to sacrifice untraceability. Nowadays, the default option enforces higher untraceability.

This has always been wrong and it is wrong on the face. Your privacy does NOT depend on your ring-size. That is only for backward-tracing. For forwards tracing [more common: you have bad money and want to turn it anonymous so it is good] you rely on other people on the network false-spending your money.

Between the low ringsize [3, now 5, soon 7] and the fact that a good double-digit % of network is owned by LE-accessible entities [ShapeShift does at least 7-15% of tx].

Even with these papers Monero refuses to provide any sort of disclaimer that transactions may be traceable despite readily admitting you must do churn over time to gain privacy. Monero deserves a lot of criticism even if ZCash is worse in some ways.
from the ant front page: "A design system with values of Nature and Determinacy for better user experience of enterprise applications"

This looks like someone spent a ton of time building something that is probably very useful. So, with all due respect, what the fuck does that even mean?
Was JavaScript the first language to do event driven programming — if not it at least made it popular right? Maybe Erricson’s Erlang did it first? Which came first the actor or the onMouseOver?
Not your parent, but the verb "exploit" is frequently used in a non-negative manner, especially when talking about natural resources. It simply means to make use of.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/exploit
One of the things this article doesn't touch on is the very deep roots of hog farming in rural NC and the general prevailing attitude of "This is how we've always done it and I don't want no gubment telling me what I can and can't do with my land!" There is a sense of pride in being a hog farmer like your daddy and your granpappy and your uncle and you hope to pass down those roots to your sons some day. As to why there's a blind eye to the literal rivers of hog shit flowing into the creeks/rivers every time it floods, that I have no idea- I don't understand why people who live in that part of the state will cut their nose off to spite their face by accepting huge hog waste lagoons as a fact of life with hog farming. Being from NC I absolutely see Southern Stubbornness at work here.

Driving down the interstates in the eastern part of NC you see multiple billboards both pro- and anti-hog farming, with arguments ranging from "Hog farming keeps my children fed!" to "Hog farming is destroying our environment!" It reminds me of the pro- and anti-coal arguments currently underway in West Virginia.
This is getting annoying. Is anyone else sick and tired of the FB related propaganda? 6 out of the top 30 stories are FB related. It was like that yesterday. The day before. Usually the mods are very good about getting rid of the clutter but for some reason, FB related spam is allowed.
ITER nuclear fusion project avoids delays as U.S. doubles budget
Collection of emulated handheld games
The primary mechanism for wealth redistribution in capitalism to which I was referring to in the original post was quality and productivity improvements and the resulting lower prices and exponential increase in the quality of life of the poor. The exploited workers of China have access to healthcare, communication, education and transportation that dwarf anything a king could have dreamed of 400 years ago. And these developments are strongly related to market incentives and the free flow of capital.

That's not to say the income distribution aspect is not important, it's another side of the same issue of class relations. But I don't think a claim can be made that capitalism itself is a strong factor of income redistribution. And in the short run, distribution is the only thing that maters to workers.

Crucially, capitalist redistribution, to the degree it works without state intervention, is strongly related to the value of the human capital each person is born with or can acquire in life - it's no coincidence that massive public investments in education were strongly related to increasing equality. Once human capital becomes relatively devalued by thinking machines that can do more and more complex things ever cheaper and faster, we will pass biological limit when workers no longer have anything to bring to the negotiating table: they need the products of capitalism but can no longer capture a meaningful fraction of the income in relation to capital, nor can they amass significant capital due to diseconomies of scale.

The feudal model is thus appropriate: all-powerful lords waging war over turf, a cast of mercenaries fighting the war (knowledge workers and specialized professionals) and a vast mass of peons.
The amount of progress over time is a bell shaped curve. For a period of time after the technology becomes practical, it will get more funding & smart people involved. During that time most of the major advanced in the tech will be made. This phase may last a long time. After much of what can be done with it is discovered and optimized, the amount of progress will slow down.
Delivery people in hazmat
Well that's a weak argument. Just give them a new address. Many bitcoin owners have 100+ addresses within their wallet.
It's a good thing too. I wouldn't want a file system to implement the "Murders your wife" feature.
I don't know. If I remembered I'd have attributed it. I noted that it wasn't mine as the next-best-thing.
Trusted setup only compromises the supply integrity not privacy. I am not a fan of Zooko or the Green comments on backdoors and LE but do not misrepresent trusted setup.
> we accept some risks while walking bicycles across multi-lane highways at night without watching for oncoming traffic.

The accident occurred on a surface street in a fairly busy area right down the street from ASU's main campus where there tend to be a lot of pedestrians and bikers
I'm a user who picked the Monero side of things. Here's the short run down on the difference and why I ultimately sided with Monero.

Monero uses ring signatures to prove that one out of n people signed a transaction without revealing which one of the n. Over the course of k steps the possible transaction history might be in any of n^k states. Typically n=5.

Zcash uses Zero-Knowledge-Proofs for anonymity. Any private zcash tx may have gone to or come from any other private zcash tx.

Here are the problems with Zcash as I see them

1) trusted setup. There is some toxic seed data that needed to be destroyed at the time Zcash was created. With that seed you could inflate the coin as much as you want. There was an elaborate ceremony of 6 people (5 of them Zcash employees) showing the seed was destroyed. But elaborate ceremony isn't cryptographic proof.

2) privacy is optional. If a transaction goes from non-private address, to private address, to non-private address it is traceable. The Zcash anonymity set is actually very small.

3) Zcash is a company. I consider the political structure of a coin (or lack thereof) as an attackable surface. A government can force Zcash to back-door their software (hi NSA). There is no head of Monero.
That is for their “megawatt” chargers not the current infrastructure.

And that is a problem just count the average number of semis in a truck stop they’ll all have to share power.

Also many of these truck stops are in the middle of nowhere and while they have electricity they aren’t connected to anything that can provide that much power.

Say you get 100 500kWh semis in a stop that need to be charged 80% that’s 4mW if
we’re taking Tesla’s 30min turn around that’s 8mW which is not an unnoticeable portion of what a power plant produces and hour.
I don't see how Volvo is responsible for Uber's recklessness. Volvo didn't make them test on public roads with unsafe technology.
What’s stopping a metasearch engine for food delivery services, with various attributes, including the restaurant’s preferred service ranking? Google Maps has started quoting ride-hailing pricing, which is a step in that direction.
Agreed, after years of JVM dependency hell (which happens in any language), I think "never make breaking changes" should be non-negotiable for publicly-published code.

E.g. repo managers like Maven central/etc. should use binary API analysis to reject any jar upload that has breaking changes.

My only hesitation is that, AFAIK, semantic import versioning has never been tried at scale, so having to constantly bump imports from "com.foo.v1" to "com.foo.v2", and deal with "app1 wants to pass com.foo.v1 objects to app2, but it expects com.foo.v2 objects" might introduce more pain than expected.

Granted, right now app1/app2 are blithely passing around "com.foo" objects that may/may not be compatible, but if it's an 80/20 thing, or 99/1 thing, and most of the time you get lucky and it works, perhaps that's good enough.

But would be great to have go be the first community to try this at scale and see how it goes. I like it.
That's the whole point of fusion: it produces energy. But you can't do anything practical with it until you have a reactor that produces more power than it takes to run.
Visualization of comments posted on Oscar-nominated movies' trailers
> I'm surprised there's not a whole lot more discussion of it.

As someone from outside the US who views "The Valley" as some kind of incredible utopia (ok, apart from the housing costs), I'm also very surprised by this. I imagine it would make a lot of single men think twice about moving there, if it was more widely discussed.
I don't think his critiquing of modern identity politics is necessarily an ideological thing. Like you say he's been embattled for some time over his opposition to the whole "C-16" gender pronouns thing. For better or worse this firmly gained him cheerleaders on "the right" while gaining him vociferous condemnation on "the left".

As GP points out he's not so critical of his alt-right cheerleaders. Perhaps we would like it if he took some responsibility for his more regressive fans but I don't think he sees that as his problem. Maybe that's fair enough too. Maybe he just sees himself as a guy who's "speaking the truth" moreso than "a leader".
"why would JS still by the goto"

Because that's where the libraries are. In most cases, a language's ecosystem is far more important than the language itself.

We seem to get the next great front-end framework every couple years. Maybe the next great one will be in a language other than Javascript and at that point we'll start to see a significant language shift.
Yeah reactivating just requires 1 login, I've done it a few times. Sometimes it asks you to point out a few friends in a bunch of pictures.

The fact that your failed login reactivated your account is kinda scary. Anyone could just try to login with your e-mail address and your account would be reactivated ?
MicroLED is the first new screen tech in a decade. Can it beat OLED?
Restaurants don't pay a large up-front cost to be on these food delivery services. All of the services make money by taking a percentage of the revenue (generally 15-30%) from the orders they fulfill.

As long as the revenue from delivery exceeds the food cost (marginal cost of preparing an order) it is beneficial for restaurants to be on AS MANY of these delivery services as possible. This is why you'll walk into some places and see 5 iPads next to the register - they're working with not only UberEats, but DoorDash, Eat24, Postmates, GrubHub, etc.

I do have many issues with these food delivery services, but the restaurants aren't getting the short end of the stick here - the drivers are.
Utterly useful feature for wet evenings. Can't count all the times people asked me when i left, and google map location history could back me up.
> 1.18 deaths in 100m miles for sober drivers

> Uber is less safe than sober drivers

But the 1.18 deaths in 100m miles is for all drivers, not just the subset of sober drivers. Not quite sure why you are claiming it is only sober drivers.
A Hierarchy of Search
I always had this feeling of having heard similar quote to Jeffrey's quote. Now I know exactly where.
Mozilla's Facebook Container extension keeps your Firefox browsing from Facebook
>"There is little to no "public interest journalism" anymore, only click interest journalism."

What an incredibly uninformed and naive statement to make. Just because inferior sources of something are abundant does not mean that quality alternatives don't exist. This is as absurd as drawing the conclusion that fine dining doesn't exist any more and pointing to the prevalence of fast food restaurants as evidence of this.

There is no shortage of quality public interest journalism or entities committed to it. Here are some examples - The Marshall Project, First Look Media and ProPublica.

>"Considering the media's hyper focus on how the RNC used FB with the CA story, ..."

There was no mention of the RNC in the news piece being discussed here.
This is news, reporting the remnants of fake news that was busted yesterday.

Sadly, its easy to unmask and bust fake news. But genuine news reporting based on fake news, will remain to be the scourge of the new age media
I think FB has scooped up the older half of millennials. FB was the hot thing as they were just getting to college, when it was still limited to college kids. We can't discount outside of US/Europe though — they're big over there too.

As for Snap, they definitely have Gen Z or whatever it's called, but I don't think the data on Snap is as strong. And Instagram has a strong hold on them too. Most teenagers I know keep Snap/Insta, and if they had to pick between the two, it'd be Insta.
That's from Facebook's response to the scandal, right?

Has that prompt always been there? A lot of people seem to be unaware that Facebook has been doing this, and I haven't seen anyone say they saw that prompt in 2015.

I searched Google for the text of that prompt, or any reference to Facebook accessing your SMS history, in 2014 to 2017, and didn't find anything.
OwnTracks (http://owntracks.org/) could be a good starting point. It doesn't record your location out of the box, but there is additional software for that (https://github.com/owntracks/recorder).
What's made you leap to that assumption? One would think they'd be keen to make the thing work before they start defining its applications.
And I suppose that just because arms dealers allow warlords to buy weapons doesn't mean arms dealers are responsible for people being killed by them?
New Marijuana Laws Put Pot Producers at Risk
Solidity for Fun and Profit: A no-nonsense smart contract tutorial
I've always been frustrated by the GIMP interface. I started out using Corel PhotoPaint in the 1990s and used it through version 5 which was about the time it lost parity with Adobe Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop and GIMP's interfaces have always felt clunky and non-intuitive to me. I use Photoshop occasionally at work and GIMP at home and really don't enjoy or look forward to using either. I actually try to stay in Inkscape as much as possible with everything I do these days.

That being said, GIMP is capable and it's fantastic for the price. I just don't like it.
> On Linux, since you're using /proc.

Exactly; macOS doesn't use /proc.
I think it's fair to assume that moving so many users to a new platform (new to the users) - will take some time and getting used to. Email being one of the biggest pain points.

If anything, such a large migration from software suite to another is most likely very rare. So probably begs the question why would a company do something like this if there isn't obvious benefit of doing this.

Since I haven't used Microsoft products in a long time, I can't tell gsuite is vastly superior, other than very specialized edge cases for excel and word. For most people, it probably is more than good enough and not worth the extra money or (presumably) worse user experience.
A living wage can be defined as: enough money in the particular location to rent an apartment suitable for human habitation, pay all necessary bills for heating, water, power, phone etc, eat nutritious if simple food, drink safe water, buy cheap but functional clothes and ordinary groceries, commute to work, and have a little over for leisure. If your locality is barbaric enough to charge money or require insurance for healthcare, that is included too. Automatically tracking for the price of any of the above with no political input permitted.

And make it a pull tax system. Tax take = cost of UBI. Tax sources = income, financial transactions, static wealth and savings, land value, job-replacing automation.
Point taken, but all four of the companies in your 2nd paragraph are spending significant amounts $800k in total against privacy.

Comcast/Verizon get to collect your data and their rent on your cable/mobile bill.
Indeed. Good engineering does not consist of disabling proven safety mechanisms for the sake of ones under development.
You obviously don't like Facebook's practices, and neither do I. I wish Facebook would see its users leave in droves, for a privacy-conscious competitor to emerge, for decentralised services to make a comeback, or for regulation to put an end to the dark side of Facebook's business.

Which is why I believe it's not constructive to arrogantly ignore the case this article is making.

The reasons why people may find Facebook useful seem compelling: staying in touch with people you don't know well enough to see or call regularly; staying "on the radar" when, for example, someone from your extended circle of friends goes through their contact list to invite people to their party, etc.

Even if you're right and there are some reasons why these mechanisms actually are detrimental to our social lives, I think the article's arguments are far more intuitive, and closer to what people actually believe.

If you want to convince them to leave Facebook, it would be far more effective to start with an understanding of their point of view, instead of insulting them as animals governed by lesser instincts.
On the two occasions my Volvo has decided to take over (both admittedly due to overhanging bushes in a parking space), it has taken over control immediately and entirely.

There is no warning.
This happened when my father worked at the same factory, so it was all the way in the 60s. My father passed up on the same job because he didn't think it was worth the raise. He's the one that tells the story--the entire thing was not noteworthy to my grandfather.
Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
Because the decoy selection is not part of protocol not everyone is doing it. Some exchanges have increased ringsize but kept old selection system. Not to mention that exchanges make up a large bulk of Monero TX and hence are one warrant/hack away from killing a bunch of decoys anyways.

Monero would gain credibility if it took a conservative approach to ringsize then used research to lower the ringsize. Instead we get no justification for ringsize saying there is no research that shows an increase needed. This is the opposite way of how security is approached. Indeed: The only MRL statement I know of on churn is that it does not work.

I appreciate the work you do and MRL overall. But without practical examination of real-world threats it feels a bit empty. And Monero team refusal to provide any sort of disclaimer at all really undermines the sincerity.
New Leadership Has Not Changed Uber
I have never seen anyone claim that Apple cannot monetize your data; only that, at present, they do not.
If this technology becomes practical and we don't have the military applications figured out, other nations will. Sorry Citizen, you must speak German now, Changeover Day was yesterday.
Buttermilk: beautifully simple React routing
Dunno if someone/something is driving my cab I'd go with the one that was safer.

I note elevators used to be controlled by human operators - you don't get much of that these days https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator#Manual_controls
Perhaps this is a form of karma. After all, the change in how PR works today compared to last century has a lot to do with the rise of social media and 24 hour news cycles.
Someone sold a car and it was used in an unexpected way. People agreed to give Facebook data and it was used in unexpected ways.
I think you mean "regulation is necessary in the digital advertising space".

Advertising has already been regulated for a long time, and for the same reason: scams, misinformation, and outright fraud.

The main issue is that the same standards that have been applied to TV, radio and print have not yet come to the digital world. That probably explains how ridden the industry is of shady practices...
Presumably it reactivated because you got the correct username and password?

Don't get me wrong the reactivation step should be after the 2FA step but I can see how this happened, feels like it's a Hanlon's razor situation.

It would need testing again if an attempt with an incorrect password reactivated the account
> I'm more disturbed by your labeling something as "propaganda" simply because you yourself didn't feel it merited reporting on.

There is a world of difference between objective reporting and biased propaganda.

I hate facebook. I never signed up for facebook. But when news organizations are actively attacking facebook, it isn't reporting, it is propaganda. When news organizations are pushing #deleteFacebook, it isn't reporting, it isn't journalism, it is propaganda.

If you want, use the waybackmachine and check HN's frontpage. For the last year, there has been anti-FB propaganda on it every single day. Today, there are 6 anti-FB stories. Yesterday, I counted 4.

Just because you don't like facebook doesn't mean you have to like propaganda/anti-FB spam.

I wish HN would allow us to opt out of topics. I already know FB is rubbish. I don't need constant spam from the news media and their social media team to tell me what I already know.

Talk about polluting the internet. The likes of bloomberg and their social media team are just as guilty of it as facebook.
As an American, I have to say Parliament debates are relatively entertaining and seem light years more intelligent than what comes out of Congress.
> All that assumes that basic prices wouldn't rise in an environment where money metaphorically fell like manna.

Also, surely some percentage of taxpayers would stop working if they didn't need to work to live, so taxes would have to be raised even further.

And the higher the taxes go, the less point there seems to be in working. This could lead to more people dropping out of the workforce, which requires higher taxes on the remainder, and the cycle continues.

I don't know that it would happen this way, but if it did, it would destroy the economy.