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> every conversation that goes on long enough always ends up as some sort of brexit complaint

To be fair, we definitely have a problem with normal/non-political conversations suddenly turning political as well. It's even a problem that started in 2016, too :/.
As with most of these "lose money now, make money later" startups, I think Discord's longterm goal is to get bought out.

I don't see any way they can turn a profit. If they charge for hosting servers, they'll lose a large number of servers (people will just consolidate). If they charge for quality, users will start leaving for the oldguard services (Teamspeak/Mumble).

Persistent text chat is definitely a plus, but all it would take is for one of the slack clones to have a mumble client built in for there to be a free/easy alternative. Or people to just go back to a groupme/whatsapp and a voice service.
To clarify, I didn't think the unnecessary parts were obvious, I thought they were manufactured and arbitrary... inventing classifications for books and discussing them at length in a way that didn't serve any purpose.
One of those times I should have read the comments first. Thanks.
Credible claims notwithstanding, at last check San Fraancisco was has not (yet) achieved either statehood or People's Republic status.
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May I suggest that problematic speech is often simply what people don't like to hear?

Of course, I think it's their right to choose what they want to hear. But that does not mean I defend censorship.

How to filter the content they consume should be every individual's choice.

Now, platforms definitely should choose sensible defaults, but one should be able to easily opt out of them.
Agreed. The older I get the more I’ve learned to listen to other people and to question my own ideas. I’ve gotten to the point where I actually view people who listen to others and are open to changing their opinions when confronted with good advice as being much more intelligent than those who are sure they are right about everything all the time.

As the Bob Dylan song goes, “I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.”
> Now that's a strange rant.

It’s called “expanding a conversation with additional perspective that most of this audience is probably unfamiliar with,” including watching it happen to a close friend who thought she could get away with it, but sure, interpret me as angrily ranting at absolutely nobody in this audience because you skipped the “if” that qualifies my pronouns in the part that made this thread upset and would rather talk about your much more interesting obscure classical collection instead.

I love how stupid Hacker News thinks I am, and it’s telling me I’m on the right track in the conduct of my life. Feeling’s mutual, rest assured.
> The book "The Design and Evolution of C++" helps one understand why some things are the way they are and sometimes it helps understand why some things exist in the language in the first place.

I am not a C++ programmer, but I found that book extremely interesting and a pleasure to read. I think I have publicly said so before, but I wish there were books like this for more programming languages. There's a couple of fascinating HOPL talks on languages like Lisp and Lua, but due to brevity, they are not nearly as detailed and in-depth as this one.
You claim "punching down" as a motive. What evidence do you have?

Your claim that disease is genocide is ignorant (probably linked to the "smallpox blankets" hoax). There was no germ theory at that time. They thought you'd catch smallpox from bad humors and that blood letting could cure it. In contrast, blankets were super expensive. Making thread and weaving it was a painstaking affair before automated looms. A goodwill gift of blankets being turned into a desire for mass murder is quite a large shift. Likewise, it wasn't illegal to sell guns to Indians until long after the homestead slaughters happened.

The average American settler family lived on less than $2 per day (less than $60/month) in today's money. For contrast, the average Chinese individual monthly income is $850 or around $28/day. Any settler was way more oppressed than anyone alive today.

The "oppression lens" of history and politics is seldom (if ever) useful for rational discourse. It forces a propagandized view of the situation.
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> I’m familiar with how record-players work, but I have never played a record designed to break a record-player!

If I recall correctly, at some point there were copyright protection measures on some audio CDs got so aggressive that they would actually brick your CD-ROM drive if you were foolish enough not to have autorun disabled (I'm not even talking about the Sony Rootkit scandal). That's a quarter century after GEB was written though.
I was once asked how much money I could sustainably spend every single day without explicitly trying to waste money. I settled on 10,000/day (I assume big ticket items like house/car would be absorbed by that effortlessly).

Then I was asked to do the math on how long it would take to spend 1 billion - the minimum amount to qualify as a billionaire - at that rate.

IIRC, ignoring interest and inflation, it worked out to 216 years.

Now billionaires dont have a bill sitting around in liquid cash, this is just a thought experiment to try a grasp how much a billion is, but it is an effective one. (Also cool as a party trick, as people tend to always pick a power of ten, so based on their answer you can whip out 2161 years or 21.6 years or whatever)
Where's the triple-A games written in brainfuck then?
Why do we as developers feel a need to constantly trash the things we don't like? If you don't like something, don't use it. Talk about the things you do like instead.
I know a UK google employee who is a new college grad and gets 5 weeks of vacation per year on top of 8 bank holidays. And their salary is higher than most US Google new grads.

They are working at a US company, but at least they are still paying UK taxes and contributing to the UK economy.
I'm pretty sure I heard Reed Hastings say it was one of his advisers that had to convince him that producing original content was the way to go.
When you're an adult, your dad will often "have no memory" of the shit he pulled as a dad when you were a kid.

This, I believe, has a couple of related reasons:

1) Plausible deniability. He still wants you to think of him as the greatest dad in the whole wide world, so will deny ever having the slightest fault in raising you.

2) When you're a kid, everything is so much more important, because the world is so new. So what may have been a mere trifle for him, was a disaster for you. And he might have honestly forgot something that you remember vividly for being so devastating.

Source: Cannot get my dad to own up to much of the BS I remember.
How does that work? Does it require giving Youtube access to your file system?
> The thing I missed the most about anki was any possibility to edit and manage my cards in plaintext files.

Well, that's exactly what I implemented with the vim plugin referenced in comment below!
Signal seems to be growing here in Toronto as well.

I'm virtually ostracized by my lack of social media engagement so my list is short, but I encouraged my girlfriend to pick it up after the more public Facebook fiascos as she was a heavy Messenger user.

As soon as she installed it, she found a good selection of her contact list was already on there, including her company's owner. Her major concern was keeping in touch with friends and family in Montana, California, and BC. She's still stuck between the two apps because of coworkers, employees, and other holdouts, though.
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Have you... been to Europe? This is in no way accurate. There are definitely classes of citizen here, from the working class all the way to billionaires.
I am in the same boat. And the damned thing is it's not that hard to do right by your physical health with moderate amounts of exercise and some self-discipline with meals and alcohol.
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> C++ is more insidious -- because it IS a superset of C, it sucks you in, and (like Pascal) it has been embraced by computer science departments everywhere

I've heard of this, but does it happen?

I did my degree back in the '90s at Drexel, I don't recall there being any prescribed language... I did some systems stuff in C, some AI courses in LISP, a concurrency course in Java, some stuff I don't recall in Perl, some math courses used Maple, and there was a bit of shell and some familiarization with the Solaris boxes, etc.

I don't think I ever actually took a course on a specific language, you were just supposed to RTFM and figure it out.
I've basically done the exact same thing as you (though I was there for a different conference) and pre-organizing meetups online is essential, you just don't run into people, as you noticed. Even if you go to somewhere like Red Rock Coffee it's jam packed with people busy working on their thing, so you'd need to be pretty forward to strike up good conversations.

nl's advice seems to be broadly on the money. Get in touch with people online first, and also spend more time there so you don't have to pack the schedule too hard.
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To be fair I don't understand why anyone would bother. I am commenting on a forum, I don't expect to be given homework.
I just made the choice to do it. I let my contacts know I'd no longer be available on WhatsApp - but they can reach me through calling, email, text/signal.

I'm definitely missing out on some interactions but at the end of the day, who cares? If it's really that important I'll get the message another way. I know it's the reality now that most parents/schools use WhatsApp but that's not a reason to not want change. Crucial information should be sent via email anyways.

I also think this is the only way to actually move off the platform. You can't half-ass it, because why would others move away when you're still available?
nah. that's just too vague. Let's be more specific. Specifically, you are less likely to feel happy and fulfilled if you do not find something that you really enjoy actively doing. Actively working on something that is yours is more likely to make you feel fulfilled than sitting around the house after 9-5 work. But many people end up mostly sitting around the house, with occasional break for travel and vacations, etc.
thanks - that was helpful to know
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If I had any real complaint about the execution of C++ it would probably just be the backwards compatibility with C. Don't get me wrong: I love C, and also I don't think it would've been possible for C++ to have gained so much relevance so fast had it not started as C with Classes. However, it does feel like a lot of kludges in C++ come from its legacy. Something that often confuses beginners is the sheer number of ways to do a thing, and some of them are not recommended to be used at all. With C diverging in incompatible ways from C++, the backwards compatibility has made less sense than ever.
>> Never mind that no real coder EVER writes programs with that particular discipline once they get out of diapers...

This line appears to be a snide remark at class-based OOP, for which a regular criticism is that real-world projects rarely slot neatly into the sort of "Cow is-a Mammal is-a Animal" taxonomical hierarchy that is used to teach class-based OOP in school. Rust doesn't have classes or taxonomical hierarchies, and encourages struct-first POD design (similar to C), augmented by traits which provide shallow has-a relationships (composition) rather than deep is-a relationships (inheritance).
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=greggarious has your upvoted and favorited comments and stories. (Your favorites are public, your votes private.)
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Only if it need to have backward compatibility. Rust doesn’t so it can be vastly simpler.
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Get it on your phone. Use downtime to read. It's not as tactile as a physical book, but you always have your phone on you. Any time you'd pull it out to browse/eff about, read instead.

I'll read waiting in line. During unproductive meetings. Riding in any sort of public transport/lyft/etc. In airports. On the toilet.
Your crucial advance began with the Magna Carta.

The history of England is basically the story of how the Government of England became increasingly limited by the laws of England. (At least that was a central theme of David Hume's wildly popular 18th century "History of England".) And yeah, many people in England gave their lives fighting to progress that goal around the same time that the Americans declared independence.
I wish there was a pull aspect to it, like NEWNEWS with NNTP. If the subscriber is offline it seems that there doesn't seem to be a way to retrieve missing items except through the publisher.
Fire is estimated to have begun to be controlled by humans around 1.7 to 0.2 million years ago.
Note: optimism in SF more easily sighted when you’re a well off tech worker
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I have a simple rule - I don't eat any creature that is sentient enough to choose to be vegan...
> If you subscribe to 1000 RSS feeds

I'm subscribed to about 40 RSS feeds on my mobile phone, and I don't even have the time to read everything.

> It's way more efficient at scale (I.e. when feeds are actual people, like in social networks)

Could you show me basic math to prove that? Firms such as Facebook and Reuters already operates at world scale, and don't need a new protocol to deliver news.
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>> The rubbish I see here is a man who doesn't understand the laws he's trying to push forward.

I think this almost universally holds true for most law makers. Atleast if you only consider their public statements.

That being said, I think becoming a law maker is incredibly hard, and a person elected to office is generally quite smart and would understand, or atleast be able to find someone to explain to them, the entire ramifications of any proposed legislation. But they push it forward in any case, for reasons that aren't, and will possibly never be, made public.
The Socialist left dosen't talk about finding the right people to put in power, it talks about putting the people in power

Yes, but that's a meaningless slogan. "People" can't be in power in general, only individuals can, that is the nature of power. And so when it comes to actual implementation time, socialists put specific individuals in power - often a lot of power - and they spend a lot of time trying to ensure those people are good/moral/intelligent/wise/etc.

This is why left wing movements have a habit of becoming obsessed with specific leaders. Mao, Stalin, Chavez, and in more modern times Jeremy Corbyn, to a much lesser extent Bernie Sanders etc.

You later assert that "dictatorship of the proletariat" doesn't actually mean dictatorship in the e.g. Soviet sense even though that's exactly what it always turns into. Because, again, dictatorship of the people is a meaningless slogan.

[Marx] with Engels collected hundreds of factory reports and studied them for theirty years in nearly abject poverty

I'm well aware of Marx's life story, that's why I said it was cloistered.

He spent his entire life doing nothing but reading books in his library and writing political philosophy, sponging off his friends to make ends meet. For a man who claimed to think about the poor so much, here are some notable things he appears to have never done:

* Visited a factory

* Gone down a mine

* Socialised with the working class

* Attempted to win votes or take part in any kind of political process at all

Basically, his life was devoid of reality checks of any sort, which is why his ideas turned out to be so useless and disastrous. He even turned down an invitation from Engels to visit his factory, iirc - that's how much he cared about real workers!

This entirely sealed off existence is one reason he ended up engaging in so much intellectual fraud. His books were notorious even in his lifetime for false claims and faked citations. In particular he frequently found himself making false claims that industrial capitalism was in a downward spiral, because he was citing decades old reports from factory inspectors. Those reports had gone on to trigger changes in legislation and factory conditions, which later improved. His entire thesis was that industrial capitalism would have an apocalyptic end, but it simply wasn't happening, in fact the opposite was happening.

If he had actually spent any time doing real work, or had even joined the factory inspectorate himself, he could have observed this improvement directly. But he lived entirely through the experiences of others, in a dreamworld of his own making.
It sounds like there is a financial aspect to what you are looking for help on so I would like to comment quickly on that.

You may have some options to adjust your debt/finances to lower your costs. If you do have credit card debt, there are services to consolidate them. If you have reliable income, even if it is freelance type work, you can use that to get a small business loan which could be less expensive then putting expenses on a credit card. If the income is not reliable try to make a deal with your client to make it a longer term contract. Guaranteed income is more value in the long run than big chunks of money at unknown times.

There are some things you might want to try to expand your current business:
If you feel like you have a working model for completing work, look for a business partner, whom you trust, to help turn that into more business. If you know your client well, think of other products or services you could provide them that would be valuable to them (that they would pay for) but would be less time consuming.

Right now, it sounds like your time and money are your most precious assets, but you have a wealth of knowledge and a working relationship with a client. Think of ways to exchange your knowledge and social capital (relationships) for more time and money for you.
Because talking trash is fun.

Maybe the discussion will identify some problems with a thing. There's an infamous piece "PHP is a fractal of bad design" that I found very insightful.

But, honestly, it's mostly because it's entertaining.
Yes, WhatsApp is proprietary software and you did describe some issues. However, the context of the discussion is finding a WhatsApp alternative and rolling it out; Telegram is not a viable alternative. The point never was we should stick to WhatsApp.

If the standards Telegram opted not to use are broken we can all be easily hacked. So avoiding those standards just for the sake of using your own, is snake oil. Thinking you know better than the consensus of the whole security community is, in this case, unnecessarily arrogant and harmful.

[EDIT]I'll edit my post since I can't reply:

WhatsApp has E2EE, but you cannot verify the source.

Telegram uses home brew crypto. Stop distracting the reader from that, you scum.

As for the issues with Telegram it isn't "one" security researcher.

I found 2 in 30 seconds: Matthew Green and Micah Lee [1] [2]

[1] https://medium.com/@thegrugq/operational-telegram-cbbaadb901...

[2] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/06/comparing_mes...

[/EDIT]
EDIT: reply to your last comment. The whole idea is to propose a "hybrid" architecture that bridges the gap between a centralized technology such as the Email with the benefits of a decentralized one, the blockchain.

This hybrid process implies you will need to trust parties at some points, e.g., Google and Gmelius. However, the point here is to offer a means to store in a robust way the trace that a specific email communication existed at a point in time, including its context/content.
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Much of this was determined by the so-called "Battle Of Detroit" of 1948. The USA had just defeated Nazi Germany and was looking to make sure that fascism would never return to Germany, so the USA encouraged the formation of strong labor unions, and supported the law that made unions automatic for large firms. The USA labor unions looked at that and wondered "If we are imposing this on Germany as a good thing, why can't we also get this in the USA?" In particular, there was the issue of who should have seats on the Board Of Directors. It would soon become normal for German labor unions to hold seats on the Board Of Directors at German firms. The USA labor unions wanted the same thing. What resulted was the longest and most bitter set of strikes in the history of the USA up till that time. Everyone understood the stakes -- the future shape of labor relations in the USA. The leadership of the major USA corporations dug in deep to resist the increasing power of the labor unions. The leadership of the major USA corporations were willing to offer higher wages -- essentially they were trying to bribe the workers with money instead of power, with the understanding that power is more important than money. Eventually, the corporations won. Although the workers got higher wages, they were denied control of the corporations. And at that time a so-called Red Scare got going in the USA, a hysteria over Communism, which turned into a dramatic episode of labor-union smashing. The most militant leaders of the labor unions were arrested or blacklisted. After that, what remained of the labor movement in the USA tended to be the least ideological and the most corrupt. The true-believers were chased away during the Red Scare. Those left behind were the ones who could be bought off with money. From that point forward, the labor movement in the USA was to shrink, first slowly, and then after 1970, much more quickly.
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