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> There isn’t darkness without the light, it seems. So it’s probably fair to say 4channers are, at least a little bit, right: Their haven is the soul of the internet, the deep source of its sights and sounds, for worse and, occasionally, for better.

I couldn't see much notable in the article, aside from a negative slew at the start, and some 'the other side of the coin' in the above quote.

15 years is noteworthy, however, and I'm surprised so short, as I started visiting it back in 2003/2004; it seemed about as busy then as today. 4chan hasn't changed much from an external perspective. Traffic has probably been at stable levels for years, while the price of traffic has fallen.

I quite enjoy it's existence. There is a great diversity between message boards. Some are the reverse of b and pol highlighted in the article, as is the case on Reddit.
Anonymous can be good. a la Hacker News's freedom of registration.
The problem is voting-theoretical good outcomes has no relation with "good outcomes" that lets voting methods to win. cf. Canada case in GP.
That’s true but also what makes EA interesting. Ineffective charity is as good as nothing and sometimes worse. All the money poured into former colonies is a good example where it may be doing more harm than good.

The reason EA is not interesting is finding out what’s effective is so hard. Maybe local is much better.
> But you still get far less moral credit for donating there than donating somewhere more effective.

I take issue with this attitude. How is this anything but degrading and shaming those who give their time and money to a noble cause? I frankly don't see how your opinion on efficacy matters, it appears you want to make people feel bad for doing good-but-not-good-enough things.
I have, and I'd fault the immaturity of the ecosystem more than anything. VS Code was launched just 3 years ago. I don't even know if it had extensions from the beginning.

The extensions I've generally used were quite solid, haven't had many problems with them.
The numbered trains have more accurate data than the lettered lines. Here's some more detail from this article: http://www.metro-magazine.com/rail/article/715387/nyc-transi...

"Over the past few years, however, MTA New York City Transit (NYC Transit) customers using the numbered lines (except 7) and the L have benefitted from the installation of countdown clocks that alert them to which trains are coming and how many minutes away they are. Countdown clocks were first introduced along the L in conjunction with the installation of the Communications-Based Train Control (CBTC) moving block signaling system. Second-generation clocks, facilitated by Automatic Train Supervision (ATS), were installed along the 1 through 6 lines.

Countdown clocks take the guesswork out of waiting for a train, offering a reduction in stress levels for harried New Yorkers. The clocks are arguably the most welcome innovation to the New York City subway since the arrival of dependable and effective subway car air conditioning. Instead of leaning over the platform, all they have to do is look up and the arrivals of the next trains are displayed in real-time.

With stations along the numbered lines (A Division) nearly all covered, that unfortunately still left about two-thirds of the system in the dark, so to speak. Given the size of the B Division and the technical complexity of the implementation, customers using the A, B, C, D, E, F, G, J/Z, M, N, Q and R Lines were looking at 2020 before they could begin relaxing those neck muscles.

Then, prompted by New York State Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, innovation combined with the arrival of a new technology to create a solution. That solution involves the use of beacon technology. In description, the system being piloted is relatively simple: Installed on platforms are Bluetooth receivers that communicate with beacons placed on the first and last cars of a subway train. As the train enters a station, the system uses its arrival and departure times to estimate the time at which the train will reach the next stop. That information is them transmitted via Wi-Fi to the LCD screens."
As far as I'm aware Australia just uses the same voting system as the UK, Ireland and New Zealand–i.e. almost the entirety of the non-American Anglo-sphere. Is there something else unique about how Australia does it?

The Open List system used in most of Europe (with France, parts of Germany, and Spanish congress being notable exceptions) seems like a very good, successful one also.
Yeah, that video explains our Senate voting process almost exactly - each state gets a number of Senators, and you vote preferentially either at the party level (about 15 - 30 choices and you can preference up to six), in which case the party decides which candidate gets the first votes, or you can preference every candidate in the whole state (can be over one hundred - the voting paper is comically large[1,2]!)

For the House of Representatives, each electorate is much smaller and parties only have one candidate each, so you only have five or six choices, and you preference all of them.

1. https://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/z/r/7/i/p/image.re...
2. http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7296/9569414534_b3ee06fd84.jp...
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Until this story gets as good as iOS', you can count me out of the Android universe.
And this is probably the origin of most political disagreements.
I just finished Bad Blood. It's slightly disjoint, but the anecdotes just made my jaw hang open. Well worth reading I think.
Inspired by IWearYourShirt from a decade ago, I decided to do something similar and launch it on Product Hunt.

I built it using Carrd, and it took me no longer than a few hours overall.

I had no idea what kind of response it would get, but it has completely taken off! I already have many paying customers :)
Nobody hired them for advocacy, but e.g. the MMM webpage makes a lot of money in ads. A lot.
As someone who has frequented 4chan for nearly 15 years I don't think you want 4chan to die for many reasons. If 4chan is gone then all of the time people spend there will be spent somewhere else. Maybe the internet is too far gone to be significantly impacted, but I'd rather not test it.

Most of 4chan boards aren't really that bad though.
Indeed, nearly every evil of the internet begins, or picks up steam, on the site. To invoke yet another metaphor: It’s a breeding ground. (The fact that 4chan has been called so many things suggests a feeble attempt to make sense of chaos.) Many of the recruitment techniques of the so-called alt-right were piloted there; many white nationalists started out as 4channers. It’s unclear if or how one ages out of the site—but it is clear that it unleashes trolls on the real world.

Sounds like a great place.
As some commenters point out, it's not clear whether that's a good or bad thing. But approval voting would broaden out the conversation by allowing more heterodox parties to attract a significant fraction of the vote, reflecting their actual support, rather than just an artificially low 0-3%.
Pompalomoose - Music, with weekly cover releases. Interestingly one of the members is the founder of Patreon.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSiPjfAJBgbFlIUsxOWpK0w

Applied Science - Fairly deep investigations into science and tech.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCivA7_KLKWo43tFcCkFvydw

Clickspring - Builds things in brass. Super detail and high production quality. Currently working on making an authentic replica of The Antikythera Mechanism from raw metal stock.
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Others are either gaming related that I don't watch much anymore (use twitch for that) or things that have been mentioned several times already.
In that case, sorry for the inaccurate statement.

However, go to my original comment and replace "third party" with "it's not done yet and only experimental right now" and the meaning stays the same... :)
I live in Tokyo, and and if I become a billionaire, the second thing I will do (after starting a thrash metal guitar university for girls) will be to commission a Planet Earth II level documentary about the crows here.

They are fucking HUGE, they own the city (especially on trash-collection days), and they can go really high. When I moved back here I stayed a few weeks in a hotel on the 53rd floor. There were no pigeons, or any other birds I could discern, other than the fucking murder of crows who owned the place.

I now live on the top floor of a 9-story apartment building, and I am trying very hard to make friends with the two crows who have apparently successfully acquired the crow territorial rights to it, and live on the roof above me.

Anecdotal evidence suggests they won't shit on your balcony, or try to peck the back of your head, if you do so.

Also, as a child I lived in Bodega, California, and my house was featured in Hitchcock's The Birds. So I might be like, overcompensating a little...
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While in general I agree with your realpolitik viewpoints this example was perhaps not the best thought out when rationalizing the application of US military resouces:

"not to mention daily active engagements over Syria/Iraq/Afganistan etc."

That's like saying it's ok to first smash windows and then charge for replacing them and being happy about how good you are in mending broken windows. It would be better no to break the fucking windows in the first place.

While US is a stabilizing force in eastern Europe and the pacific, it has totally fucked up the lives of millions in the middle east area by it's interventionist escapades. The only charitable interpretation would be that US views world history through the narrow disfiguring lense of it's own revolution which was an astounding feat by any measure. It's as if they all believe that if you just give rebels guns then a George Washington will be magically summoned to lead the country in good order to a proper form of post-despotic administration.

Of course there are lots of other reasons to interfere in other countries, but given how easy it seems to be politically to engage in these activities I can't figure out anything else masking common sense.
> If you grew up homeless for example, you're more likely to give to a cause that helps alleviate homelessness

But does your charity actually alleviate homelessness? Effective altruism is still useful even if you have picked the cause to which you wish to contribute. You picked a great example, because homeless charities are notably bad at alleviating homelessness, and indeed may exacerbate it.
Yeah, for sure you can find $60k diamond rings and $30k cognac at Costco (not kidding, see Costco in M.V.). But you can also get the least expensive per weight corn flakes, milk, potatoes and beans. And croissants...

I used those examples as a versus to the daily $7 Starbucks breakfast that many young folks seem to go for.
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I'm a developer and I'm about to move to the middle of nowhere. I'm looking for remote work, but most of the job boards dedicated to remote work I've found online are for companies based in the US which seem to make the implicit assumption that you're a US citizen.

Are there any remote-focussed job boards that allow you to specify the country the employer is based in, so I can limit my results to UK companies?
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This proposal seems really naive. How does the approval voting system make the American South vote more liberal candidates or California vote more conservative ones? How does it create better leadership in either major US political party?

A far better solution would be for one or the other party in the US to come up with a program that more than a fraction of the country believes in.
> Can you try to formulate those values?

This is an issue I see with effective altruism and other (new atheism, veganism) hyper-rational movements. It's not enough to establish a viable alternative; they also have to exterminate every other line of thinking, in the pursuit of the almighty rationalization.

There's a lot of charities out there and I think it's enough if EA creates a marketing channel for some of them to have a unique advantage. "No one paid attention to us until we showed we save the most lives per dollar". If everyone agreed donating was entirely about maximizing lives/dollar then maybe this truly is the most important stat. But people donate for scads of less-than-rational but still well-meaning reasons.

It works against EA's (new atheism's, veganism's) best interests to draw a line in the sand and alienate everyone else. To me this feels as rational a conclusion as you can get, which makes it funny to me that the people particularly taken up by hyper-rationalism behave the way they do.
On HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17196415
Isn’t this just a statement that you disagree either with the relative probability of an AI-related disaster or the relative degree of harm it could cause?

It seems harsh to say it’s “morally repugnant” when in the end you’re just saying the way you assign probabilities and degrees of negative outcomes would lead you to invest in a different portfolio of charities or efforts than what this other group would do.

(I’m not arguing for or against the correctness of a belief that AI poses attention- and funding-worthy threats. Only that these other people motivated to allocate resources to it have studied the problem in great detail and their sincere belief after looking into it is that it is worth being part of the overall portfolio of charity investment, and this really would (in their sincere judgment) mitigate big-scale harm, no different than fundamental research into global warming or drug-resistant bacteria, regardless of whether lay people can more easily envision the types of harm from those other threats.
> and Afghanistan is hardly a country to begin with, neither country has ever posed a military threat to the USA.

I hate to call out the elephant in the room, but there are about 9,000 people who might disagree with you---3,000 we'd have to assume, because they are dead.

Nation-states don't have the excuse of "We're barely a country" when their territory can be used to launch an asymmetric attack by private terrorists on another nation. At best, that's an abrogation of responsibility. Since the Taliban was in charge at the time, I'd call 'abrogation of responsibility' way, way too charitable an interpretation.
Ah sorry, I didn't realise that the original link pointed somewhere else.
> What is "evil" about working with the military or developing weapons?

Watch this video[1] and realizing that Project Maven is contributing and enhancing the capability of the slaughter drones and knowing that current U.S. President(or future presidents) or any command chain above the drone operator( including the operator) can kill anyone (military personnel or not, in a war or not, in conflict zones or not, American citizens or not, yes there was a precedence from President Obama) with or without due process, with Google's AI, doesn't give you chills?

Yeah yeah I know if Google didn't do it someone else will. But for a company who's been claiming "Do No Evil" as motto from early on, I am holding Google at a higher standard - but obviously it has fallen from the moral highground. Hence being evil.

[1]: https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/11/20/watch-out-for-killer-...
> persistent high housing prices, aggressive foreign investment behaviour, and foreign hedge funds carving out Australian businesses.

yet here in the USA, thinking the same way would get you branded a facist..
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Cancelling such a scheduled change is harder though than simply blocking a change in the first place.
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LiveOverflow is pretty awesome. Very easy to follow after working day.

https://youtube.com/channel/UClcE-kVhqyiHCcjYwcpfj9w
What's quite sad however, for an alternative to the big usual services and free software is to require user to sign up/register either using one of those big services with OAuth… or to feed Google's recaptcha service.
One way or another, user loose. Or just stop to report issues/try to be involved in the projects.

And this apply to both gitlab.com or GNOME's instance. GitLab is supposed to be an alternative, but actually depends on those other services for users to use it (Google, GitHub and so on…)
I'm not saying there aren't legitimate reasons for writing scrapers. I've written plenty myself. It was just odd to see this disregarded entirely.

As for the commonality of principles, game theory explains most of them, so it isn't more surprising than that we all work with the same prime numbers, say. A simple principle of reciprocity will produce something along the lines of "respect other people's wishes".