skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...are stupid even to contemplate while we're still increasing carbon emissions. If you actually cared about the impact — and weren't just cynically cashing in on environmentalism's recapitulated caché — you'd be shorting big markets. The biggest threat to the world is unbridled capitalism, which VC's like you are incapable of abandoning. May as well ask a fish to bicycle.

This post is a pitiable joke, whose highest purpose is to stand in a museum, one day, as a testament to how blindly we charged into the apocalypse. I only hope that museum's curated by our children, and not whatever species finds our remains.

For a good, hard look at why I believe this, read Naomi Klein's "This Changes Everything," and Peter Frase's "Four Futures."

If you're daring enough, you can follow those with Nancy Isenberg's "White Trash," and Barbara Ehrenreich's "Dancing in the Streets" and "Witches, Midwives, & Nurses" for a deep look at how and how long we've been going wrong.

If that all doesn't make you straight up suicidal (let alone quit maintaining your startup pyramid scheme), I have more reading suggestions for how to turn this ship around.
Recycle your Apple devices by returning them to Apple. You might get in-store credit:

https://www.apple.com/shop/trade-in
The "gray rectangles showing me where words and letters could be" is so prevalent that Facebook used them in TV ads.

https://youtu.be/Q4zd7X98eOs?t=39
Chats and phone calls aren't neutral in the same way as the content of a newsfeed or timeline. Who calls you or texts you is hardly a random population sample.
With the appropriately-tuned hate-filter you wouldn't get to defend your idea and have a discussion, you would just be de-platformed.
I'm not sure this is true. Medical professionals must keep updated on newer technologies, but it doesn't move anywhere near as fast as software does.
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At least according to this document, when your USDC account is blacklisted you may no longer send or receive tokens from it. With Bitcoin, even if Coinbase blacklists you, you can still send your Bitcoin to other accounts and exchange it for things. I'm sure it's a huge pain but your Bitcoin will not just be lost forever.
That's not a completely fair example, though, for a number of reasons.

If you think there's an honest chance that a $1500 independent review could turn up something that would make you turn down the deal and try to find another, do you then expect to have another $1500 review done? What expectation should you, a non-expert in doing this kind of calculation, have about the total cost of having independent reviews done?

Also, $1500/$1million sounds tiny, but nobody who thinks they can't afford a $1500 review buys a $1million house in cash; they get a mortgage and expect to pay $4.5k/month, and people in general don't save (or have the ability to save) as much as I do/would. So it's $1500/$4500 in the immediate future of having to make your first payment, on top of closing costs, etc., for benefit that is already unclear to a non-expert.

And by definition we're talking about a non-expert, because that's why they would have the need to hire a lawyer to do an independent review.

Anyway, it's not that I necessarily think lawyers are that expensive across the board, but the existence of that perception shouldn't be very confusing. A non-expert doesn't have the tools to accurately put a value on expert services.
It does indeed imply just that. You're abstracting the impulse to eliminate other groups away from that fact that it comes from a perspective of supremacy: the idea that your type of human is more deserving of existing than a foreign human.
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Ideas aren't cockroaches, they're plants. And sunlight helps poison ivy grow just as much as it helps tomatoes and flowers.

There's no plausible mechanism by which talking about an idea more and more, makes it disappear. That's all an idea is: something to talk about.

Now, if you want to argue that no ideas should ever disappear, go ahead, but don't cloak it in "antiseptic" language. Antiseptic kills things. If you're talking about antiseptic for ideas, you're talking about killing ideas.
Essence of article IMO
"If democratic countries make tech firms impose limits on free speech, so will autocratic ones"

Free speech is what defines a democratic country.

Terms like 'Hate Speech', 'Fake News' are buzz phrase distractions that get in the way of the core of this reality. We already have a legal system in place that defines libel, threats etc. We don't need a new layer of corporate jurisdiction over our ability to speak online or monitoring what we can or can't say
Let me just leave this here if there are some people who have missed this jewel: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
> Ideas are the only counter to other ideas and how we communicate those idea is via speech.

A lot of holders of bad ideas have no interest in rational debate. For those people, sunlight is an energy source, not an antiseptic.

When ISIS posts a video of a beheading, there isn't a lot of reasonable discussion going on in the comment section.
Coinbase has a guaranteed sum available from the bank, that part is regulated. If coinbase operated as a fractional reserve with regard to cryptocurrency deposits it would be unregulated and could lead to losses for users if it goes tits up. If the bank fucks up coinbase funds are secure, if coinbase fucks up customer we funds are not.
That's a very clever idea! In many places eviction is a drawn-out process that can be taken advantage of.

It's worth considering that that approach might be an excellent way to make it very, very difficult to get a new place. Squatting to afford rent on a new place is very much like declaring bankruptcy so you can afford a new car loan, complete with the major black mark on your credit report that makes it much more difficult to get a reasonable interest rate. This is less fanciful than it sounds, as agencies that track information about your rental history can and do exist.

Your idea is very clever. It's maybe worth thinking about if clever is the same thing as a good idea.
Yes. It's very easy to create a personal definition of what's offensive. If you were the King of the world, I'm sure it would be very easy for you to tell everyone what is and isn't good.

>Speech that explicitly or direct line implicitly dehumanizes anyone.

Except, you've gone nowhere. You've substituted the intrinsic ambiguity and subjectivity inherent in 'hate speech' with the same intrinsic ambiguity and subjectivity inherent in 'dehumanization' .. in fact, I have a better idea of what 'hate speech' is than what 'dehumanization' actually entails. I've seen people argue that a model in a bikini is dehumanizing.
I think there's a difference between people who study lightly and score high, and people who grind it out and then score high. I'd guess that the majority of high scorers fall into the latter, while he falls into the former.
Review of what?

As I understand it, the title company reviews and insures everything related to the title. And the Purchase and Sale agreement is a standard form contract. What would a buyer need a lawyer to review?
The costs to a city, county, or state agency for digitization under state Freedom of Information laws is zero dollars.

The costs of records requests are entirely borne by the requestor. We pay for the copies (but only the actual duplication costs, no mark-up allowed), we pay for the labor (at the government worker’s actual salary), we pay for the physical media like a USB hard drive or DVD’s, we pay for the shipping.

All the clerk needs to do is agree that the Freedom of Information request is legitimate and not prohibited by any exceptions to the law. And for that, the government employee has free legal counsel available to them in New York, in the form of the Committee on Open Government (COOG), which provides free Advisory Opinions of questions of the law. They answer questions by both e-mail and phone within 24-48 hours, from both requestors and agencies. Other states have similar programs available.

So yeah, this digitization is actually totally free to the government. We bear the costs, not them.

...unless they ignore the law entirely, in which case they get the pleasure of paying for their attorneys, and our attorney fees too. We’ve won those twice so far.

(by the way, the “corruption” in Albany line is a song lyric from the musical “Hamilton”)
With checkboxes looking like [X] (is it checked or not??), confusing on/off switches, very big ‘Allow all’ button, fake delay to opt out from tracking, a message telling you that you can’t be sure to be opted out if you do not allow 3rd party cookies, very very long list of 3rd parties to switch off one by one (unless you find the confusing optional ‘disable all’ switch) etc. etc.
It’s a concentrate of dark patterns.
It's not hosted - you install it on your server. https://cloudron.io/get.html. Why is closed source an issue? gmail, helm etc are all closed...
Please add a 5 second gmail loading screen before your page is interactive.
For some definition of "works" since the analysis doesn't consider unintended effects or potential adverse long-term consequences. This all seems joyful while the technique is being applied to those with whom we disagree, less so once the technique has been turned on you yourself.

Defending free speech means defending those we disagree with, and maybe even hate.
I really don’t think so. You just replaced hate speech by dehumanizing speech but have the exact same situation. Same question then, what is dehumanizing speech, who defines it? The definition that you offer doesn’t seem too different to me than saying hate speech is content that you find hateful.
The storms are from the jet stream moving from north of Seattle, to south of the region. When the jet stream is directly above us, we get storms.

Summer is when the jet stream is to the north, and we get included in the band of warm air that California always enjoys. Winter is when it moves to the south, putting the Seattle area in the cold band that Alaska always endures.

The jet stream is late this year.
It's only a few months since a motorway literally collapsed in the middle of Genoa.
Can we discuss space sunshades? Assuming the cost of getting freight to orbit goes down substantially as companies like SpaceX ramp up launches, what's the limiting parameter on some sort of sunshade over the north and/or south pole? Is it indeed the cost of launching the sunshade, or are there other factors at play which make the space sunshade unrealistic? What materials would be reflective and resilient and cost-effective to block the sun? Would polar blockers be enough to cool the planet as a whole and stop warming, or would multiple sunshades spread around the globe be better?

Also, generally, what about increasing cloud cover in general? Wouldn't this reap a huge reward for cooling the planet? I know it doesn't remove gasses and prevent ocean acidification, however it may help with heat-related issues.
Counterpoint: no it isn’t. US law isn’t global anyway, and companies already do it.
The original paper [1], written by some of the best scientists of the era, correctly called it "Teleporting an Unknown Quantum State", and nowhere did it use the term "quantum teleportation". Later, in interest of conciseness, the ambiguous term "quantum teleportation" got introduced. It would have been better if "quantum state teleportation" had been used.

[1] https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.70...
> if 1) do you consider yourself a human? A) yes, then why haven't you killed yourself? Since you haven't you think you're more deserving of life relative to everyone else and therefore are dehumanizing everyone but yourself,

This is circular reasoning. If we've already established that I might not think all humans deserve to live, you can't claim that thinking I deserve to live means I think I'm more human than everyone else.

It's perfectly possible to think someone deserves to live less than I do while still thinking they're human.

Such tortured logic is hardly "direct line implicit", which is exactly why your definition doesn't work.
There's another possibility that you're overlooking, and that is that your subjective view is far more polarized than the average persons view. The language you've used so far shows you are thinking about all of this in very absolutist terms. Most people recoil from absolutism.
From reading the article, I'm sold on the idea that I need to be better at selling. Is there any material you'd suggest to help founders get better at sales?
Not sure what's more annoying:

A) People looking at their phone/smart watch while I'm talking to them.

B) People looking through me while fiddling with a ring on their finger.

At least I can call people out on A...
I guess trees could be planted more creatively. There is one particular situation where I think they should cut down / or move trees, and that is when trees are near power lines: it's basically a matter of time of when the tree falls down and the local power company has to fix the power line and the local population has to deal with the disruption in power.

Maybe there is a good business in finding a good way to truly move old trees, so that we aren't forced to cut them down?
It's been interesting to watch my own thinking evolve:

20 years ago: "I'm sure technology will figure out how to reduce emissions. Sequestering tech is neat, but will only take off if the end product is itself useful in bulk"

10 years ago: "Sequestering tech will take too long and has too many potential complications to rely on, we need to get serious about reduction."

Now: "We're screwed and it's only a matter of how much people end up suffering. I'm very skeptical of sequestering tech, but we need anything that works"
(flips table, charges toward floor-to-ceiling window, fails to even crack it)

Well, at least some engineers are good at what they do?
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Re: "the standards process, is how we get specs that are sensible." - They are not sensible: different vendors interpret the grey areas differently. A sufficiently thorough written standard would be longer and harder-to-read than the code itself to implement such.

Re: "Your proposals break Web compatibility" -- Web compatibility is whatever we make it. A one-size-fits-all UI/render standard has proven a mess. What's the harm in at least trying domain-specific standards? We all have theories, but only the real world can really test such theories.
Yes, but thinking you deserve to exist more than someone else has nothing to do with whether you think they're human.

My girlfriend's dog is very sweet and loyal. I think it deserves to exist more than a (human) child molester does. This doesn't mean I think dogs are human.
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Interesting, wonder what impact this model could have on the industry if it's successful.
>standard approach of emission reduction

With how well that's been going, I'm wondering why they even need a plan b...
If they don't use the blacklist, will they get added to the blacklist? (Is it viral?)
Maybe a reasonable workaround would be for Google to do the same thing Apple does for some of their products and sell licenses to third party manufacturers of repute.
Well, if you group monarchy into this, most of what we consider world wonders where created by those systems. Don't benefit the individuals, but make for spectacular tourist attractions. Great Wall, Pyramids, Cathedrals, ...
It's there in the article.
Also, since when is using the demographic of a behavior a reason to blame all behavior on that demographic? If demographic X commits crime Y more than anyone else, and I see crime Y, isn't it bigoted to blindly say "it's those damn Xs again"? That's exactly what you're doing here.
People have begun studying makeup and hair styles that foil today's face recognition in general: https://cvdazzle.com/
People keep saying that hate speech isn't defined clearly. It is, but these people have just never had to interface with it and have never cared to learn the boundaries.

Why haven't they had to interface with it? Because they have privileged positions in society, so hate speech has never been directed at them. Their lives have never been made harder to live by someone else in an influential position saying they don't deserve to exist.
According to this interpretation, arguments supporting capital punishment is hate speech and should be banned.
I don't agree with that definition at all. It is an atrocious and immoral definition of 'hate speech' (and dare I say probably racist in practice).
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Everyone is capable of becoming fluent in a second or third or ninth language! All you need is the desire to learn and the right system.
Except, perhaps in the long term, those that want the UK to adopt the common currency.
The splash screen alone drove me back to using the HTML version - it's just so much faster!

Direct link:

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/
I'm quite impressed by this presentation. There is a tremendous amount of content here to excite some different audiences about opportunities for planet scale changes.

I'm super concerned about externalities for any sort of geo-engineering, but we are going to get some externalities of the present course anyway.
I’m not entirely up to date, but I believe there are calls for regulating WhatsApp communications
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Added bonus if there's a link to a list of supported browsers, and your browser is actually on that list, but it still pops up that warning.
A Google presentation titled "The Good Censor" was recently leaked where they talk about how themselves, Twitter, and Facebook, should censor free speach. They say that they want to move to a "European model" where civility is valued over freedom.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/10/17961806/google-leaked-r...
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> If you're supporting an attacker's right to denigrate, abuse, or harass other people...

Did that person's comment say that they support those things? Weird, I didn't read that...

When it comes down to the fundamental rights of an individual you can't pick and choose when something is an unalienable right and when it is not. We can either have free speech (warts and all) or we can live in a world that dictates what a person can and cannot say (a world I want nothing to do with).

Back to the previous point, I support someone's right to say something, not what they say. I think white supremacists are morons who sadly misunderstand there position in the world. I support their right to SAY what they want, but I don't support the contents of their speech.

The discussion around free speech requires nuance; none of it is even remotely close to as black and white as you paint it.
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> No one is seriously asking Apple to police hate speech in iMessage or Facetime, for instance

Many people are demanding that Facebook do exactly this.
The price is the true price for any phone, when taking into account being a responsible manufacturer.

If your phone is cheaper, it is being built irresponsibly.
How do you define "bad" person? Ungood? Doubleplus ungood?
You might want to look at targeting Wordpress Plugin developers with this. That's a good niche where this might be a good fit. There is already some competition there so you'd need to rework your offering some.

With web applications usually I'm either developing them for the client so it is their code or I'm licensing them as a SaaS app from my server so I don't really need anything like this.

This doesn't feel like a good product market fit, I'd keep using it and work on targeting WordPress developers.

WordPress isn't the greatest ecosystem but there is money to be made there.
If you were influenced by a high-church growing up, you're more likely appreciate hymns.

For those interested in this sort of thing, Minnesota Public Radio's app has an entire streaming channel of choral music.
Pre paid visa card? Gift card?
Buzzfeed article related to the same: http://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/how-a-mas...
It took centuries of British colonization to make British English the lingua franca of the world, and decades of American cultural and economic imperialism to switch the default to American English. It is unlikely that a complete switch to Chinese will happen on any shorter scale, if ever.
On the other hand, VR/AR/MR application windows wouldn't necessarily need Retina resolution. I'm imagining a world (as a first step into virtual monitors) where I have a real monitor, but beside it I can have a graph of my server's response time. The application might only be rendering at 480p, but that's good enough. If I need to interact with it, I can move it back to my monitor.

In this situation, I read text on my 4k monitor while I put charts and graphs and notifications and iTunes and my time tracker on my wall. That frees up my real screen for the stuff I need a high resolution for, while the low-res stuff is off to the side. If I need to look at it, it will flash to catch my attention anyway, and then I can turn my head.
I've read through 3 or 4 of your comments, and you are completely incapable of making argument without resorting to slogan spouting and offensive slurs against those you disagree with. I don't think you're an honest person and you come off as very unpleasant.
I've watched both and I think the US series is the better of the 2. Maybe it was just me but I found the Office UK's David to be a completely unlikable sociopath. The Office US had enough time to develop most of the characters and create some very funny scenarios. And most fans barely remember the trying to hard to be British 1st season.

200 episodes was probably too much, yet 12 episodes would not be enough.
Or wear a government issue spook "ugly t-shirt".
Ok, we changed to that from https://www.infoq.com/presentations/agile-2018. Thanks!
> Let me simplify further, in the face of your ad hominem:

Sorry? I attacked your phrasing and logic, not YOU. Its like you're wanting to get angry at nothing.

I'm done here if you don't want to act civilized.
Deplatforming is about deciding which ideas are granted resources (pushed above the cultural baseline), not who is punished for speaking (pushed below the cultural baseline).

People without platforms are still free to speak. If dang banned me from HN I could still go stand on the corner and read my posts aloud and no one would arrest me.

Free speech does not mean I'm entitled to someone else's platform.
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In this case, the issuer of USDC, Circle, would be the one to decide which fork of Ethereum to support. It's not like USDC the ERC20 token is worth anything without Circle's backing.
I think it's pretty safe to say that child porn would run a lot more rampant if it could be easily shared without consequence?

I understand that there's a different level of consequence we're talking about here (legal vs comment deletion) but how we treat child porn is the extreme for intolerance and I think it's safe to say child porn is less than it would be in the more "tolerant" alternative. And I actually do mean think, I don't have evidence, and I don't know, so if there's evidence otherwise that some society accepted child porn with the caveat of "this is bad" always being placed beside it and then saw it's usage and distribution drop I would find that pretty damn compelling case.

I would point to other comparables though. What causes a decrease in smoking? Did putting health warning labels on cigarette boxes decrease smoking? How did that compare to banning commercials and removing indoor smoking?
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So what benefits does this have over PayPal then?