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> We define memetic tribes as a group of agents with a memeplex that directly or indirectly seeks to impose its distinct map of reality, along with its moral imperatives, upon other minds. These tribes are the active players in the new culture war.

As the author duly notes, such groups have been the norm for a long time. The interesting part is that today the two largest memetic groups, the "blue tribe" and the "red tribe", are so fractured internally that we should stop seeing them as coherent groups. So the "culture war" is now really multi-lateral.

It would be interesting to parallel this to collapses of Communist regimes where the leading narrative / memeplex largely lost its strength, and many competing narratives started to run in the society as roughly equal; a lot of "fringe" became "the new norm".
The IMAP/SMTP issue is the main one. The stated reason they do it is to decrypt/encrypt incoming/outgoing emails on the client rather than on their servers. But the problem with that is that decrypting emails on the client is well supported by PGP in almost every email client, and even if an unencrypted email is sent with SMTP you can easily add encryption on the fly server-side - something they already do for incoming, unencrypted emails. So the tradeoffs don't make sense, it's just a convenient excuse which allows them to take advantage of vendor lock-in.

They also make promises which are based on trusting ProtonMail rather than trusting the math that underlies their security model - for example, they could trivially store a copy of incoming emails in plaintext before encrypting them normally, and they could then keep your emails in plaintext without you being any the wiser. Users who depend on their communications being private shouldn't rely on this, PGP does not require trust from anyone but the sender and recipient and has been working well for years. If they wanted to improve ease-of-use for PGP they should have done that, rather than building their own crap with questionable security promises on top of it.
“tight” and “loose” cultures and threats
Not sure what you mean by "valid". If longer hours lead to less productivity, why would anyone argue for it?
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I'm quite happy with ProtonMail, it does what I need (folders, receives emails, privacy). The bridge is also quite neat and I set it up so I can use offlineimap with it so I get backups of all my mail...

Regardless of which you pick, I do recommend to look into getting a personal mail domain, then it's yours.
US natural gas prices are 1/2 what you see in most other nations. Those prices can move up further without causing much consumer harm, to offset an increase in capital costs as necessary.

Cheap capital is going to continue to be normal however. The US Government can't afford far higher Fed rates today, and it certainly won't be able to afford high rates when the national debt hits $30 trillion in seven or eight years (the next recession will produce at least a $1.5t deficit year). You're better off assuming the Japan scenario of perma low rates, and all the consequences that go with that in the US (eg corporations getting drunk on debt, artificially inflated asset prices). Ultimately over time nobody is going to buy a trillion in new treasury paper each year except for the Fed, unless you're offering high rates of return on that (which the US Govt can't afford). So the Fed will have to keep rates lower than it otherwise would to keep the government solvent, and the private economy will continually be doused with cheap capital as a result (likely in rolling cycles; when this one runs out, the Fed will drop its rates back to zip and restart QE, and the cycle will repeat; that will increase inequality due to the top 1/3 asset holders primarily benefiting from the cycles, which will increase populism and voter anger in all its forms).
What % of AirBnB business is single room in otherwise occupied house?
Thank you!

We're here to stay — the world doesn't need another email app to come and go :)
Less effective in what sense? If one included drinking water, bathing/cleaning, or sexual relations it wouldn't be a proper religious fast, unless one is excepted from it, e.g. due to health issues. There are no degrees of effectiveness so to say.
Perfect! Yes, this is the passage I was thinking of. Thank you!!!
I know that when I'm developing Linux desktop apps, there are a few things I miss from macOS that I think go back all the way to NextSTEP:

• app bundles, their automatic discovery by and registration with Launch Services, including file-type and URI-schema handler registration (modern addition: inhibited as long as the app-bundle is marked with a quarantine xattr)

• user Launch Agents

• the Keychain

• the guaranteed availability of mDNS, and the ability for apps or services to dynamically register Bonjour/mDNS services (which can then be exposed, or not, via Sharing preferences)

• a centralized system-level caching downloader (nsurlsessiond + nsurlstoraged)

• for that matter, the ability to distinguish "cache files" from other files in such a way that cache files can be purged system-wide in response to storage pressure, with some cache files having higher importance/lower priority than other, depending on their origin app + attributes

• the ~/Library directory, with subdirs for item type (so each type can have separate policies applied—e.g. back up ~/Library/Preferences but not ~/Library/Caches.) ~/.foo/ directories are broken; the XDG standard is closer, but there are no high-level Linux APIs for e.g. accessing preferences that will always use XDG_CONFIG_DIR.

• system and user shared-support directories like /Library/Dictionaries, /Library/Sounds, /Library/Voices, /Library/Widgets, etc; where, when there is an API to access e.g. system sounds, it'll automatically merge /Library/Sounds with ~/Library/Sounds and present that as the available sounds set.

• vendor-neutral system-API-supported user state-file storage dirs, e.g. ~/Library/Cookies, ~/Library/Calendars, ~/Library/Mail, etc. (These state-file dirs were originally supposed to allow interoperation of different user agents that want to sync the same content, e.g. multiple web browsers sharing the same cookie jar. Sadly, we don't see e.g. Chrome or Firefox supporting ~/Library/Cookies as their cookie jar.)

• the guaranteed availability of a Directory Services daemon (opendirectoryd), where a computer that hasn't joined a domain is running a stub Directory Services daemon that exposes virtual records based on local configuration files; and a system accounts API that is just the client interface to the Directory Services daemon.

• Locales being available at the system level, even for e.g. kernel logging

There are also a bunch of other things that I miss from macOS that aren't part of NextSTEP but would be worthy additions, too, like the transparent exposure of filesystem-level versioning as versioned NSData; or libdispatch and its daemon.
From generics to sets and several others, I think there are enough reasons to consider that go does not "come with batteries", especially when you compare it with almost any other modern (>90s) language.
In addition to that, AirBnB takes a lot of the headache out for hosts in regards to local laws.

In San Francisco for example, AirBnB collects and remits the local hotel tax on behalf of hosts, making that a non-issue for hosts. But when I used AirBnB in Italy I had to meet the host and they needed to charge me the tax, print a receipt, and had me sign something...all which I imagine was because at the time or in that locale AirBnB had not set up that convenience for hosts yet. And in SF, they only do this if AirBnB is the sole platform you use--if you use multiple then you'd have to collect/remit taxes yourself I believe. Probably not an issue for someone who rents out multiple units and treats AirBnB as their main job, but for the little guy that just wants to make a few extra bucks from an extra couch, room, etc. here and there AirBnB navigating the tax stuff is huge.
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Yep, Gmail and G Suite for now at least
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Regarding the "The myth of RSS compatibility" article, at one point RSS was evolving and changes broke stuff. But the article overstates the case, and the RSS spec has been boringly frozen for almost two decades now.

> The article downplays the significance of Atom.

Does it? Atom Syndication Format seems like a vestigial feed format, so I'm interested in cases where it's used and RSS isn't also available.
In order to defeat this system, the attacker would need control of the lottery ball machine. But we're already assuming that the attacker has control over some of the election machines, so while this is still strictly better, it's small comfort.
I though lead paint and lead in gasoline was a good candidate for the blip?
This is what I'm waiting for to move wholesale from Dropbox to iCloud Drive, some sort of file attribute that can be sent to say "only store in cloud, keep a local stub" or "ensure always locally cached/pinned locally". Would also love to see iCloud be a Time Machine backup target.
(I work at Stripe)

We are excited about the use cases of Connect platforms integrating Stripe Terminal! We have seen a lot of platforms like AtVenue and Mindbody building an end-to-end solution for their users -- completely on Stripe.
Can you expand on what kind of DoS you're thinking about? Files added to IPFS are stored locally (not pushed to other peers), up until some other node asks about it and/or tries to actually fetch it.
fasting has been common in the western world since forever too.

But that has nothing to do with the fact that it's a nutritional fad these days, much like paleo was the hip-est thing a few years back, and the mediterranean diet was en vogue before that etc.
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I'm the same. I block ads aggressively, and never intentionally click ads. I also don't really engage in the whole Black Friday/Cyber Monday circus in any other way.
With the universal disappearance of the jack, I can't help thinking that there are behind-the-scenes pressures and incentives driving it.

As in television (and so, movies on television), all analog links in the chain of delivery are being driven out.

Even if you agree with that (and I don't), this means that simultaneously, any and all other use cases for these analog channels are simply fucked. Too bad, screw you.

Big entertainment, and its big dollars, monopolizing the platform for its own benefit.

I don't know this. I just can't help suspecting it -- not just out of thin air, though, but rather based upon what I've read about how these industries work and advocate, in general and in other specific cases.
Because DDG doesn't bloody geolocate you and then shove some dreadful localized content in your face, in a language you do not understand. If you travel, you'll know what I'm talking about.
I think it’s more than guidelines. I think it’s the APIs and tooling that provide a happy path for developers to build apps that conform.

I feel that the UI design guidelines plus the developer APIs and tools are self reinforcing.

And yeah, I think NEXTSPACE, by virtue of at least attempting to answer, with software, more comprehensively the questions associated with building a desktop environment with an OpenSTEP implementation could result in a more consistent Mac-like environment. One that’s more Mac-like than a window dressing clone.
what's wrong with people disagreeing with you? isn't that what comments are (partly) for?
Yes, that has been my impression too. Not to slack the guy, who obviously is very smart and comes across as a nice person. Maybe it was the hype of the book but if you write a book about the paradigm changing results of deep work and how you have applying it all your life I would expect a little more impact from your work. He is basically known for this book, and a couple of other on how to get into college, not different from your garden-variety Ted-x talker.

He has played the academic game well to be fair so if you are a just-hired assistant professor and want to be prepared for your tenure decision in 6 or so years you could do worse that heed his advice.
I've also had bad luck with ProtonMail support, such as I send them an inquiry and they never reply back. This definitely doesn't build confidence in the service.
You always see high conversion rates for new ad mediums, and those rates reduce over time as marketers abuse consumer's attention.

One of my favorite examples is Amazon reviews. Once you a time, those were legit and you'd see consumers referencing online reviews for products even if buying the product in a store physically, because it was valuable content.

Now, the reviews are so untrustworthy there are multiple sites that automate going through them to flag BS.

The unfortunate thing is that even after an ad medium becomes ignored by the majority of an audience, there's still an audience that's one to two standard deviations below the norm in suggestability that get preyed upon by advertisers. So it's those people that are the 0.1% clicking on general banner ads and purchasing a product. These are the same people that "call now" for those late night TV marketing commercials.

So the cycle for any ad medium is to get the attention of an audience, abuse it until most people stop paying attention, and then prey on the suggestably handicapped. It's a shitty industry, and quite unfortunate as if everyone could agree to not be awful, the fundamental feedback loop is one intrinsically motivated (find out about crap I'm highly likely to enjoy). But we're talking about a class of organizations (corporations) that can't even self regulate when lives and health are on the line, so that's certainly not going to happen for ads.
Congrats on the release.

> mostly means WebSockets these days

And some WebRTC. Sub-100 ms latencies. 200? Voice and video chat, and gaming. npm's Primus. PubNub.

>> As a web developer for over a decade, I don't recall seeing a web framework described with that before and have no idea how to interpret it.

'Realtime web' has been a phrase for a decade-ish - used to be server push. Google is fruitful; the Wikipedia article... needs help.
Lots of different things go on in Google, that's why they use Java, Python, C++, JS and yes also a bit of Go amongst probably several others.
Being from wix and managing petabytes of media files, we always wondered if a distributed web solution for websites can actually work.

Even with the best of clouds (more then one of the big names) we faced downtimes caused by multiple cloud failures.

Just imagine, a store that is Geo distributed, resilient and just works.

This is super exciting for the web and for customers of websites!!!

Big thumb up.
I don't even remember if the C72 is a chip. Might have been a C74? To further complicate, iirc the C-series is customer specific version with limited data released on it.

ALTHOUGH Nexus is a trace interface, basically Ethernet 10G trimmed down to communicate to a micro directly. And there is pretty much no information on it outside the ultra expensive tools you need to buy.

EDIT: LOL downvotes for Nexus and an obscure STM chip :D Oh Hackernews... be less Reddit.
This type of thing is also generally considered malware today. As a person who used to do IT support for a university, one of the most common malware issues would be Chrome extensions or whatnot switching your homepage to point to a ads-infested search engine instead of Google, and redirecting all search engine websites to the ad-infested one.
You don't think having a ground temperature above the boiling point of water would cause any problems other than the release of oxygen from the ocean? How would you get to that point?
This is a good point. Would be fine with SSN as a unique identifier with no paperwork presented. Would be as easy to fake as current system, but would generate an obvious signal when there is a fake number or collision.
Yes! This is a great list. It could almost serve as a partial roadmap for endeavors like NEXTSPACE.
Lessons learned from the Namejuice/DROA/DROC outage
I've noticed you don't have anything in the menu bar. The option normally appears under Window > Merge All Windows, which is inserted by default by the Xcode template.
> I don't see any benefit to someone in charge of regulating the communications industry having ever worked in communications.

If you replace "communications" with "construction", you're advocating that the people regulating building codes should have absolutely no prior experience actually building things, and I imagine that is not a stance you would take. Why then is communication so different from construction?

The point of regulatory agencies is to take the aspirational goals of laws passed by the legislature and turn them into concrete, executable frameworks. This means you need people who are far more experienced on how companies are going to react to changes in regulation than the people who write the laws. Without personal experience, people are going to have rely a lot more on the corporate lobbying to make sense of what's going on, and they're going to have less basis to understand intentional misdirection in corporate responses.
Would it be possible to detect this by inspecting the certificate information manually?
This is related to the Gell-Mann-Griffin amnesia effect;

whereby immediately after reading about the Gell-Mann amnesia effect, the reader forgets about the Gell-Mann amnesia effect. This effect and it's related origin's anti-memetic properties lead to the constant rediscovery and dissemination of materials related to said effects.
From the landing page: "In-person payment processing: 2.7% + 5¢"

(may be getting A/B tested if you're seeing something different?)
How about Zoho?
Their free offering comes with support for custom domains and something like 20 accounts.

As a bonus, you can choose between Zoho.com and Zoho.eu. Both offer the same services, but Zoho.eu is hosted in Europe ender the protection if the various privacy and data protection laws.
There are no "breadboards" in an IBM 1401. There's a wire-wrap backplane, but that's a production technology. Even manual wire wrapping is very organized. You have a list of X-Y coordinates to attach, and a supply of pre-cut and pre-stripped wires of the right length. You put in all the shortest wires first, then the next length, and so on. A wire-wrap gun-like tool does the twisting and stops when the wire is tight. It's easy, and the result is reliable. Much better than those solderless breadboards the Arduino crowd uses.

By the IBM 360 era, IBM had much of the production process automated.
Wire-wrap backplanes were wired by a Gardner-Denver CNC wire-wrapping machine. IBM's "solid logic technology",a pre-IC technology, placed components in little ceramic bases which were then canned. IBM pioneered automated weaving of core memory. For 15 years, IBM was way ahead on automated electronics manufacturing, and extremely profitable.

All this was a dead end. Making ICs by photolithography became cheaper in the 1970s.
At some level you have a point, but on the level of Hacker News as a discussion forum on the internet with a specific purpose and established conventions, as well as guidelines which document the primary ones, this point doesn't land. So could you please comment civilly and substantively? That's why we're here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Those were the usual channels.
That was one of the drivers. We liked the core technology, but could see there was a significant barrier to actually using it. Being able to point your domain at IPFS content and then providing that (ssl secured) site to the masses is a big step forward.
Tough on crime has gone out of style. We had our primaries recently and only a few conservative dinosaurs even mentioned ToC in their voter biography. Most of the candidates running for AD, circuit judge, and other legal offices were drumming up their crime intervention bonafides.
"technical reasons" should be limited to things like the speed of light, or in this case the necessity to drop packets if the presented load exceeds the output rate of a link for more than the finite buffer can store.

everything else is policy - which means there is a choice. that choice might be heavily driven by economics, or by some kind of business strategy. but its pretty indefensible to say 'the crew in white coats down in the basement told me we just had to do it that way (shrug)'

so in the absence of speed-of-light issues, 'technical reasons' in this case is just a planet-sized loophole.
>No one painted this portrait so well as John Dilulio, the criminologist who popularized the term. A self-styled tough researcher, he surveyed juvenile prisons, where he saw “vacant stares and smiles” and “remorseless eyes” staring back at him. These kids “pack guns instead of lunches,” he wrote. They roam the streets in “‘wolf packs,’” and “‘maim and kill on impulse.’”

Sure sounds like sound science /s. I wish more politicians/the general public weren't so vulnerable to Appeal to Emotion fallacy. A guy wandering through a juvenile prison and being spooked shouldn't count for jack shit in policymaking.
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As a 17yo high school senior, I would say self-disciple, time-management, how to prioritise and sacrifice.

One of the things that I really think more people should teach their kids is how to look back at history of science, politics, or economics and evaluate how we came to the point where we are today. That change takes time, but someone have to have the guts to start. All radical ideas were unpopular at first.

Most of these new generations are soft and spoiled, yes I am talking about my peers and partly myself, Hardwork is an incredible skill that everyone have to acquire by himself.

PS: you can't teach them everything, sometimes you just gotta prepare the way
Interestingly, Dutch news websites usually handle GDPR popup dialogs property. Example: https://nos.nl/.

It's just as easy to opt-in as to opt-out. Just tap the checkmark or the X and then Save your preferences.
Another possibility is that lead has been removed from the ecosystem, leading to less violence.

It's probably worth being skeptical of that hypothesis, since it seems too perfect, but it does exist.
If only hiring 20% more people would mean 20% more efficiency we would have a lot fewer problems.
Yup. The GPS drains battery.
You are correct; it's impossible to fire all the hammers at once on the 1403 since they fire one at a time. Maybe the self-destructing printer is a different line printer, or maybe firing the hammers in the right sequence over-stresses the chain, but I suspect an urban legend.
Oh neat. Should I send a PR to add the others?
Happy to share anything you need - feel free to reach out whenever you like. My email is firstname at firstandlastname dot net, or @joshkaufman on Twitter.
In starvation it's calories not pounds that's critical, also it's not a question of resting metabolic rate alone.

Fat contains contains more than twice the energy per lb and every motion you do requires energy to move every lb of body weight. Net result storing energy in Fat takes ~1/3 the energy to maintain.

So, sure it's not a huge difference per day. But, the difference between dying in 100 days or 100 + X days could make a huge difference.
This is unfortunately dangerous. It means that you can provide proof of your vote to others. That's no good; it makes buying votes or punishing workers/family members/whoever for voting the wrong way much easier.

That said, there are some really interesting non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs for elections that accomplish what you're intending without this flaw. Their main downside is that, compared to tallying, they're complicated.