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Free markets are not devoid of ethics. They function in large part on trust, accountability, competence, loyalty, liberty, determination, etc... Of course there are perverse elements, but so too is the case with the state.
Not really but if I can avoid it I would like to settle for just one primary domain that I would share everyone and ask them that my gmail addresses should be removed from their contacts for good. I would like to use it everywhere and get done with it for once and all. Otherwise I'll just keep waiting for that perfect domain (or first-name.com that a lawyer is squatting on since last 7-8 years).

One problem I see with .im is it's from a different country than mine and they can change the rules to allow only residents or so, or they can hike the renewal cost to something really high. Also, I am from India where .in is common so some people might confuse .im for .in. I am inching towards <9 char>.in or <9 char>.net (my first name), but then I am not sure whether I should give up my <4 char>.im (my nick name).

Also, mailbox.org supports up to just two domains in the plan I am paying for.
You're certainly entitled to your opinion, and I don't mean for this to be too uncharitable to your point of view, but I do find it fairly presumptuous to assume the poster you're responding to doesn't understand what racism is or how it affects people simply because they have a different view on exactly what kind of language, and in what context, can be considered racist.

Based on my direct experiences with racism and discrimination due to my skin tone and national origin, I'd find it fairly insulting for you or any other poster here to lecture me on what racism is and how it affects people. I like to think I have a pretty good understanding of it, and not just from academic studies, but from my own experiences. For the record the tweets I've read from Sarah Jeong seem wholly unacceptable to me, and quite racist.
You are mixing up a whole lot of stuff here. The relevant question with regards to centralization is how power is distributed. In that regard, hosting your website with some hosting service is not the same thing as using Github or Facebook.

Hosting your website with a hosting service has no network effect for the hosting company. If they misbehave, you can simply move to a different hosting company with absolutely no change visible to the outside. You keep your domain, you are still reachable using the same web browsers at the same URI, via the same bookmarks, via the same hyperlinks.

So, while that arguably is more centralized than running your own hardware at home, it's nowhere near the level of centralization of power with services that have a business model of building a monopoly, such as Github or Facebook. If Facebook mistreats you, you cannot leave Facebook and still keep using the service they are offering.

Especially with the example of git hosting, the primary problem isn't the hosting part, it's the specific business model of Github. The problem isn't that you are delegating the hosting to a specialized business. The problem is that you are delegating it to a business that's holding your hostage and using you as leverage against the general public.

Also, you are making some assumptions that might be worth questioning. Like, why doesn't it make sense to maintain your own web server? I assume you assume that takes a lot of tinkering that you don't want to bother with. But why would that be the case? Is that a technical necessity? Or is that just some experience of yours that doesn't really have to be that way? Is there any reason why hosting your own server couldn't be more reliable and less work than using a hosting service?
> What UK law prevents parent from marrying his GF and raise his children in the UK?

It is very difficult to immigrate into the UK. This is because fucking idiot racists appear to be influential in the polls, and governments keep tightening the requirements to appease the racists.

OP is a British citizen. OP is a British citizen by descent, which means their children are not automatically British citizens. OP's future wife is not a British citizen.

If OP wishes to move his wife and children here for more than 6 months they need a family visa. https://www.gov.uk/uk-family-visa

The family visa has minimum income requirements. https://www.gov.uk/uk-family-visa/proof-income

For the spouse you need a combined income of £18,600. If you already have children you need an additional £3,800 for the first child, and £2,400 for each additional children.

The rules for who is or isn't a UK citizen are quite complicated. Being born in the UK is neither required nor sufficient to get citizenship. If British parents give birth abroad their child will be British by descent. That child's children will be British if born in the UK, but not if born outside the UK.
These days you can buy the adapters on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=hdmi+lcd+controller+boa...
>and ISP upload speeds are in most places pretty bad

If that was an argument against it then nobody would have shared anything in the first place.
Never talk to the press, under no circumstances. They either get ir blatantly wrong, or outright spread lies to meet their deadlines. Just show em the door. I have been interviewed a number of times, and never has the reporter ever written what we talked about. They either simplified matters to a point where you wouldn't be able to identify the original intent, or made up things I never said. Experience has taught me to not repeat that error.
Alex Jones has the complete and total benefits of free speech - he can continue saying whatever he wants without any repercussions from the government. Apple making a decision like this isn't influencing free speech in the slightest.
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All of this plus the screen is more readable, it's way, way easier to use whilst hurtling down a mountain (actual buttons) , it's considerably lighter whilst having longer battery, it never falls off the mount onto the road (where the screen promptly cracks).

You could use a phone (I did for a bit) but the experience is worse in every single dimension. Until, of course, you get really lost and need Google maps...

Actually, I have also found it extremely useful when navigating unmarked trail races. It's small and light enough to keep in your pocket and the mapping beats anything on a GPS watch. I use it to track my progress too, no problems with elevation for me but there isn't much of that in the UK anyway.

I used a Garmin for about 5 years but I got the Bolt last Summer and I have found it considerably more reliable. The worldwide maps are great too. However, on the basis of the complete disrespect for OSS I will stop recommending it to others and I won't be buying another. Shame.
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Head down to Curio Bay and see the remains of a forest from 180mya, too.
Do you know what the effects of this "on the ground" are? Is it getting farmers to change what they grow to better adapt to the new local conditions? What affect does it have on agri-business as opposed to family farms, where the former might simply move or have the capital sufficient for large scale change in practices that the latter does not? Also are there any effects on corporations further along the supply chain - for example reducing food waste might have a greater impact on the volume of food needed which in itself would reduce environment damage?
Yes. My prediction from the observation above, which agrees with predictions from many others, is that it is a matter of time before that happens (likely within 1-2 years if they continue to work on it).
When somebody points a gun at you and asks for your stuff, giving them anything they want is usually the best decision, no matter how much martial arts you know.
And as on HN, 'rubbish' (or anything we really would prefer not to see even if someone else would) is defined by users' actions.
She tweeted about her motivation:

> Yeah but if you look at my track record, no one that did it to me is going to dare do it to the next girl...that's what counts. That's why you do it, I "lose" every time- reputation takes a real hit. Important to be likable and sweet as a vlogger. But they think twice next time

https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/102622332283131494...

She knows she's not going to come out of this ahead. She's doing this on principle to protect the next person they try to bully. Respect.
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In Germany the main Usenet providers never carried any binary groups, so that certainly wasn't a reason why Usenet died. It has always been the ISP's choice which group hierarchies they wanted to provide.
Your argument buys into the core of identity politics, namely creating a hierarchy of oppressors and victims, where the supposed victims can do no wrong. I find this an incredibly patronising worldview.
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I largely agree. I'm very much coming at this from the angle of 'knowledge work', and think a system of this kind is most useful to (though definitely not only useful to!) scientists, engineers, designers, lawyers, journalists, etc. While the population of knowledge workers is admittedly much smaller than the population on the whole, though, it's still sizable. Knowledge workers play an incredibly important role in our society, and anything that can amplify their intellectual capabilities is well worthwhile in my view.
Pointing the finger at the rich & powerful is fine, because they have benefited from these adventures, while people and societies swallowed the costs.

If Facebook & Google would share their profits with the users and were always painfully transparent about how the information of the users is processed, maybe it would be hypocritical for them to point fingers.
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I think that hiring someone as an editor who has a long public history of very racist tweets, reflects very poorly on the New York Times.

I am not part of any 'online mob', nor am I misogynist or alt-right.
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To me "this is a red flag" and "how the world really works" are not incompatible statement.
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Our Sifu at Kung Fu when demonstrating the 'best defence' would run as fast as he could out of the kwoon. It got some laughs but he was deadly serious!
I believe that in this case the term starve might actually be accurate:

"... the inability of ketone bodies metabolization due to various deficiencies in mitochondrial enzymes is the major metabolic changes discovered in malignant cells"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5450454/
Otherwise it would require all 5 agents gathering there, expending their magical abilities and investing a lot before actually seeing a reward. (which is unlikely to happen)

This is the key - if we had machine learning techniques that allowed it to reason at the level of "what happens if I kill this?", we could explore more of the interesting state space more quickly. Perhaps there are advances in intrinsic reward systems that allow this.
There's a lot of public housing but it's not very well managed and a lot of people cheat the system. Once you have a public flat you can pretty much keep it forever and pass it around within the family which means that it's not uncommon to walk past a public housing estate with Ferraris, Bugatti Veyrons and other exotic sports cars in the car park.
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People can learn about service providers after they've been using the service for a while, when they understand how it works and what value it provides; it is then a good time to decide whether they want to migrate to a more stable or close provider.

The sign-up form during the first experience with the service is not the point to educate the newcomer about those issues, beyond maybe a friendly reminder of who is the one providing service to them at that point.

The sign-up process should be streamlined to make sure users arrive to a server that provides a good experience based on their interest; not on educating them about the technicalities of the service.
I think Apple is completely in the wrong here. They are unnecessarily censoring. They should not censor, they must not censor. If this crook called Alex engaged in nonsense and hate-speech it should be the state's obligation to sue him.
How much "belongings" do you carry on you anyway? Probably something around 1000$. Not worth risking my life for that, by trying to overwhelm some crazy person.
Thanks for the clarification. I do not know much about poker.

The observation applies to a given variant of poker (or any other domain). So if an AI beats humans with 10000-hour experience in that variant, the best experts in that specific variant are not far-off targets.

Superficially similar problems might in fact require very different techniques to solve as your example illustrates.
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Apple and Google have a monopoly on the App store(s).
Not just new products, but creating entirely new product categories. Just having well-selling products (lie Apple tv, Apple Watch etc.) isn't enough to move the needle compared to the money faucet that is the iPhone. Apple is still growing nicely and the stock is priced like a mature, but still very healthy company, but it's going to be very difficult for Apple to achieve another "hit it out of the atmosphere" homerun that is necessary to outperform a 17 P/E ratio when you have a trillion dollar market cap already.
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Nothing, other than the format and experience of downloading a document to be opened with a desktop application.

There's a lot of one click image sharing services out there. I use Windows key+shift+S to take a screenshot and then go to imgur.com which supports reading images from the clipboard, bam, instant URL for my pic.
arguing those things is sort of useless. we are referring to more debatable aspects or society: left vs right, religion is fake news? etc.
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For every founder who left a company early and lost out on millions there are thousands of other founders who left a company early that went on to fail. Ronald Wayne's story is interesting but it's not advice. If you take anything from it that should be the lesson that he is an outlier, and in practically any other startup doing what he did would have been a very good idea.
> Something I never read on any site.

I feel sorry for you - the original early-'00 blogosphere was actually very good, with all sorts of people building connections and intelligent debate through comments. After a while, the conversation was so deep that comments ended up being too short, so they had to define Pingbacks so that people could post elsewhere while still connecting with the source material.

And then spammers and the political sphere co-opted the technology, and it all went downhill.

I think there is still space, for defensively-minded geeks, to create ways to communicate that can keep debate open while shutting down the trolls. It's clear we don't have such a thing at the moment. I fear, however, that well-intentioned researchers like OP will simply end up building new systems that will replicate the mistakes of somewhat-naive early pioneers.
alt.hackers. It's a moderated group, but with no moderator and that's intentional. You have to be somewhat clueful to post to that group.
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TIL the UK Home Office has over 700 projects on GitHub.
Magnetic striping on the sea floor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics#Magnetic_strip...] is probably our best clue. It's the piece of evidence that sealed plate tectonic's place as the dominant theory.

Plates which are separating let molten rock from the mantle up, where it cools hardens. Any rock which can be magnetised (iron) is aligned with the Earth's magnetic field when molten, and gets fixed that way. The magnetic field swaps every 10,000 years or so [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal], so you get a stripey effect.

Working our more precised dates for the magnetic swaps is a matter of slow and painstaking correlation with other bits of evidence: dating of radioactive elements, tree rings, rock layers, the temperature of the Earth, composition of gas bubbles trapped in rock and ice.
When I had my IQ test results it seemed like standard practise where I was to give two numbers: one total, and one when not counting the tests relying on speed. Not too surprisingly to anyone who knows me, the difference between the two numbers was for me unusually high.

On the other hand, contrary to the Darwin quote, I scored very high on abstraction capabilities -- although before getting my results, I had assumed I was doing very bad at that.

Conclusion: you probably want to measure all subtests individually to make sense of your strengths and weaknesses.
That's how I see it, and there'd be no point if no further information is exchanged. As a sibling comment says, some people use it more like a ping, where I'm uncomfortable using something other than a more traditional greeting:

That is to say, when passing someone in a hall, I want to stick to "hi" or "good morning", and feel uncomfortable if the other person says "how are you?". If it's the start of a conversation, "How are you?" works absolutely fine.

I think the problem is that "How are you?" doesn't finish an exchange nicely. You can easily greet someone in passing with
A: "Hi"
B: "Hi"
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It doesn't work (for me, at least) to go
A: "How are you?"
B: "(Fine.) How are you?"
A: (optional)"Fine"

If A responds fine, it feels almost rude to abrubtly finish a conversation that had previously involved both parties asking questions about each other (even though they're really just being used as greetings). If A doesn't respond at all, that's rude for not responding to a question!
What a mess, I am glad that those ideas failed and the web turned out how it is right now. Fortunately, practicality beats half-baked ideas.
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In my limited personal experience chatting with employees and hiring managers from a couple of big name US tech companies, what I've come to realize is that occasionally they hire talented foreigners simply because they're talented. Of course this doesn't apply to every foreign hire they do, but if they find someone that fits their culture and is above the average by a big margin, they'll be happy to create a job on the spot for that person. So while we try to think of the job market as fixed thing with N available places at any given moment, this certainly doesn't fully apply to creative/innovative workplaces.
Isn't some of this illegal? Wishing OT for free sounds illegal. Some of the other items may also be illegal... Perhaps that is why it was shut down
The same way you would ban Swedish trolls on Twitter.

Fun and russiophobia aside, there is an article by Eugen Rochko (maintainer of mastodon) somewhat covering that topic:

https://medium.com/tootsuite/learning-from-twitters-mistakes...

AFAIK they also utilize crowdsourced block lists to automate part of the sorting in the fediverse.
Facebook, for the massive scale of their operations.
> Shane, who had also come to see our suspicions of Gloria as silly and paranoid, was now suspicious all over again, as was I. "What were you doing in North Korea, Gloria?" he asked again. "Tell me, Gloria."

Over here in Eastern Europe this way of putting questions would have gotten that passenger out of the taxi in a matter of seconds (especially the "tell me, Gloria" part), with some departing swear words for good measure.
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> Can you please provide a source?

Sure, its was fairly rememberable since the new reportage went bad since the news reporter tried to address and ask question about the political aspects and the academic economy researcher was very academic about it. When they got the question "why did you do this study when it could be used as political material next election" the answer became something like "we were hired to do a study, and having knowledge about the subject is better than having no knowledge".

I also noticed that I did miss-remember a detail. The time frame was between 1983 and 2015, so 33 years rather than 20 years.

https://eso.expertgrupp.se/rapporter/tid-for-integration/ - report (there is a English summery linked on the page).

https://www.svt.se/kultur/medier/forskaren-i-uppmarksammad-i... - interview

> However, the article here is talking about the H1-B program

Yes, as I wrote that could change the result and if so it would make for a great news. Further studies is something that should be funded as the political environment around immigration is about as bad as it can be. I also believe the argument about immigration as humanitarian aid is a good one and focus the discussion towards reasonable middle ground rather than extremes.
It's sort of like texas holdem. You can play your cards the right way and fold on the flop, then the river comes and it turns out you would have won if you stayed in the game and played 'foolishly'.
If you think that Jeong's
tweets are equivalent to
actual racism, you don't
understand what racism is
and how it affects people.

If you think that Jeong's tweets are NOT equivalent to actual racism, you don't understand what racism is and how it affects people.

limits their opportunities.

Ask yourself: would Jeong have been accepted to Harvard and Berkeley if she was white, or male or as old as Sullivan? You know that the answer is negative.
Given that elite US universities like Harvard and Berkeley are known actively to discriminate against whites (and even more against asians in the context of technical subjects -- in other words asian men), males and old people, you your 'definition' of racism is in direct contradiction with the rest of you claims.

old white men are not
actually threatened.

Old white men are
actually threatened.

Different ethnic groups always fought each other (contemporary examples: shiites vs sunnis, jews vs palestinians, croats vs serbs, muslims vs US (Iraq, 9/11), buddhists vs muslims, hindus vs muslims ), but in the past US whites had numeric superiority over other races (and -- arguably -- other advantages like better education), which gave security, but with demographic changes, this security is withering away, which makes it more likely that the annihilatory phantasies ethnic groups have of each other (but usually don't express too publicly, or only obliquely ... have a look at Rastafarianism ...) will be acted out.

just arbitrary rules about words.

I recommend those rules as a heuristic: if by swapping <you own ethnic group> to <other ethnic group> you turn a statement S into a statement S' such that you feel S' is racist to <you own ethnic group>, then you should strongly assume that S will be perceived as racist against <other ethnic group>. Therefore it is prudent not make statement S.

That's a good rule to follow in life.

It's pretty clear that Jeong understands this. The reason she made these sexist, racist, and agist tweets are also very clear: being controversial on Twitter brings attention. Indeed nothing but extremes bring attention on social media. Sufficient attention on social media brings money. Jeong monetises sexism, racism and agism to get a cushy job at the NYT, because the NYT know very well -- like any journalist -- that racism brings outrage, brings clicks, brings money.