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Globalization means that every industry can wiggle out of every regulation- there is always somebody more desperate. So the argument for regulation is also a argument against free trade. You can not have both.
How many smartphone users do even know what a zip file is? I'm fairly certain that at least 70% don't and that is an optimistic estimate. Even more, I think that almost every advanced use case relies on some deeper than average knowledge that the user must have about how some particular technological thing works. This means that at least 70% or 80% of users likely won't even understand what that use case is even about.
> I firmly believe that if all the energy being poured into protecting hate were instead put into eradicating it, the world could only become a better place

HOW? How do you eradicate hate speech? What is hate speech? Anything that makes you feel bad? So do you single-handedly decide what speech is ok or not?

You're lambasting people's protection for free speech as "protecting hate speech" (which is a false dichotomy) and not offering any alternatives. I don't really get what the point of what you're saying is other than "This upsets me." And that's fine if hate speech upsets you, but understand that it upsets other people too, even if those people support free speech as defined by the US bill of rights and legal framework.

I guess what I'm saying is...stop complaining unless you start examining the problem critically (ok, you don't like hate speech... who enforces what hate speech is? how is it enforced? etc. right now you're attacking free speech but not offering ANY compelling or thought-out alternatives) and for the love of everything stop thinking in absolutes. You seem to have forced yourself into black and white thinking. That's not only counterproductive, it's dangerous. People who think in absolutes are targets to become tools of hate. If you don't start seeing nuance in things, you will be easily swayed and manipulated by anyone who has a Nice Shiny Solution to "end hate speech."
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Nuclear Diamonds[0], sounds cool. Pretty sure this will the most viable as the 1% will surely want to get their hands on this because of Conspicuous consumption [1].

[0] https://climitigation.org/nuclear-diamonds/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption
> Says who? You?

Yup. Your idea of good, is not my idea of good. That we can reach an agreement (compromise), the consensual portion.

That good, is often a matter of perspective, and subject to change in hindsight (i.e. a value judgement distorted heavily by the sensorium/ego) is where it is a hallucination.

> Again, your entire argument here is hinged on the assumption that all morality originates from religion

no, it doesn't. in point of fact, religion arises as a consequence, of the argument. So do gangs/police/armies/nations. Welcome to the morass, of humanity. :)

;)

or if you prefer "the road to hell, is paved with "good" intentions".

or more succinctly, "hell is other people".

> Give me a break with this "mathematical format" nonsense

Not a fan of logic?

> and condescending smiley faces.

condescending? not really. simply commenting on an alternate pathway to arrive at the conclusion, as a consequence rather than a posit. as I am not privy to your actual conversation with said "religious" person, I chose to demonstrate the line of reasoning.

But by all means, continue to stick your head up your ass and think its "religion is the only source of goodness" statement, rather than a logical argument, predicated on human psychology and its biases.
Our of curiosity, how is the accessibility of Hacker News? I don’t know much about how to verify that. And I imagine threaded comment pages would be especially difficult to interpret non-visually
So much for me to process here, but I’ll give it a try. First let me say I respect and acknowledge you as a human being FIRST. I don’t know which gender you were born into and to which you do desperately want to transition. What I’m confused by is why does it matter? Better said: why does something you know to be the truth (your gender) become real only if those around you acknowledge it?

Maybe im missing something. I’m female and the last thing on my mind at any given second of the day is obsessing whether those around me find me “female“ enough. I’ve had suicidal thoughts but it’s never involved anything having to do with how others perceived me.

Again, trying to understand here and trying not to preach. If you do have a maker, He loves the being you are. The beautiful being He made. You have to be more - much more - than your genitalia or physical appearance. Your comment was highly intelligent and caught my attention. You are someone I’d love to have a conversation with at a party.

So why so much emphasis on how people perceive you if you know, to your core, the truth? Why bring up Trump at all when he’s a tiny, close-minded moron? You have to think you’re something more than a physical body on a rock barreling through black space. I don’t even know you and I’m convinced you are.

Your physical body doesn’t need to be “corrected”. What would it fix? Seriously, you are an intelligent soul in a temporary meat uniform and are probably gorgeous the way you are.
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> It's fine if you want the US to stop growing. But the rest of the world would desperately like to grow more. And that's 90% of the world's population.

I see the old "[technological] man's burden" is as magnanimous as ever. ;)

Why is the rest of the world desperately poor? It's absurd to imagine that it's because the free enterprise West wants to help that 90%, but is held back by... anti-growth activists. Nothing could be further from the truth. In reality colonialism (aka stealing from that 90%) never ended, it just got better PR and privatization.

> Redistribution only comes through bloodshed.

Agreed, and most of the wealth redistribution in the world today is upward (as 'the rich getting richer' implies). Since we're having the consequent bloodshed anyway, why not redistribute wealth in the other direction to maximize hedonic good?

Warren Buffett put it best: "There's class warfare all right, but it's my class — the rich class — that's making war, and we're winning."

> At least with technology you can build it through hard work, effort, and ingenuity.

...implying[1] technology doesn't cause bloodshed. Talk about a skewed perspective!

Just to arbitrarily pick a (hardly unique) example, what do Amazonian tribespeople think of technology? What have their experiences been? https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/12/uncontacted-trib...

Why was that gold suddenly economical to prospect/mine? Technology.

How were these people massacred so efficiently? Technology.

Why was there such an enormous power imbalance between these two populations? Technology.

"Technology" may look fine-and-dandy to the person behind the keyboard (especially for those who personify it by unconsciously imagining that 'technology' pays their salary), but never forget that all our technological artifacts were ripped out of the ground at some point, typically after using third-world government corruption to steal the land from its former inhabitants. We're merely rich enough that we can push that devastation "far, far away."

[1] or perhaps I'm misinterpreting, and you're just saying that technology brings hard work in addition to bloodshed?
I thought it would be fun...

And did that actually happen? Or did you just think it.
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> “Most of these people retired with a good pension,” said Jon White, who worked at Sears for 38 years, most recently as a manager in a store in Lithonia, Ga., before retiring in 2008. “Most of them are comfortable for the most part — cashiers, clerks, replenishers, all kinds of workers.”
> Ridiculous scoping rules with hacked on workarounds.

If you use "my", Perl's scoping rules are better than those of Python. It's a shame that Python and Ruby are a step backward from the proper (Scheme-like) lexical scoping of idiomatic Perl 5.
And yet you failed to address my point entirely. Which is that far worse crimes in the US end up with more lenient sentencing than immigrants crossing the border.

But fine then, I want to draw up a more apt comparison and I want you to address this. Public intoxication is a misdemeanor similar to crossing the border illegally. How often do you think people caught being publicly intoxicated end up losing custody of their children or being permanently separated from their family?
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The threshold being, I guess, 1/e which determines the width of a laser, the radius of its beam covering 69% intensity?
I've written about this topic myself, though the piece I have in mind is probably not online anymore. No one particularly cares what I think because I'm not famous.

I find myself wondering exactly why we should particularly care what Stallman thinks. Because he's famous? I see no reason to think that the area of expertise that makes him famous somehow qualifies him to decide what's best here.

Granted, to some degree, it's framed as "This is what I do." But he knows many people will read it and take it seriously simply because he's famous.

Anyway, I have found myself tending towards using fewer pronouns and, as above, more frequently reiterating the name or descriptor of the person in question. I also tend towards use of singular they and rewriting sentences to sidestep such issues. It's hard at first, but, like any habit, gets easier over time.

An example is to say "whether you are a manor not" rather than to say "whether you are a man or a woman." The second phrase not only that excludes non-binary individuals etc, it is also agist: It excludes boys. The first phrase elegantly sidesteps all those issues.

It's often a case of less is more. Trying to actively be inclusive is typically a worse solution than trying to avoid being exclusive. Just don't implicitly exclude various categories rather than trying to figure out all the things you ought to include.
Interesting response. My take-away is to optimize for more than just a given day, because not all days/weeks are created equal in their demands. Thank you.
Isn't that a chrome feature? I've never seen a website give me that directly.
Question without an agenda here, honest: what would you replace it with?
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I have just read at https://www.lemberglaw.com/self-driving-autonomous-car-accid... a little bit about this topic. I think it's always interesting to talk about this future technology. However, for now, I wouldn't risk my family to ride inside one of these self-driving cars. They haven't 100% perfect/safe. Maybe 10 more years.
I understood the point well and I agreed with the poster. But in my view, if you are going to argue that we don't need more automated monitoring in traffic then claiming that speed has little impact on fatalities seems quite weird.
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> I hope that some derivative of perl can rise from the ashes, because I'm too stupid to write actual lisp programs, but perl allows me to emulate what I imagine lisp programmers must feel.

Well, there is Clojure. You can script it with `clj` and https://github.com/l3nz/cli-matic, and/or one of the ClojureScript interpreters. It has sane library management, so there is no PITA installing anything. You have JVM libraries, so you have all you need. We find it pretty handy.
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@matznerd

1. What can the average person do to help you with your mission?
2. Where is the kickstarter?
3. Do you have someone working on marketing already?
4. Is there a way to volunteer without being physically present? Marketing, design, just brainstorming etc... I realize you have a "contact us" button on your website, but could you list more specifically what you are after?
5. Where can we keep track of what you are doing now and what the next step is?
6. What is standing in your way now to get your test project going. Specifically referring to "wiggle tank" and first olivine by 2019.
7. Have you factored in all of the economics of this? Extraction, delivery, dispersion?

Thank you.
> A car traveling 30 mph is absolutely as lethal as a car traveling 10 mph faster than that.

What was this an analogy for? I missed it.
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Do something with Pinterest API Crawl site to find jewelry or mittens or puzzle boards or whatever she likes then analyze it with open cv. Forget OOp altogether for a beginner — it’s useful after dealing with large code bases and needing a method to organize code.
I'm a guy who manages people who manage people. It's really important that you let the person who gave you the task know that you don't know how to do it. They may be able to help, or they may have a better use for your talents. Not telling them means you need to spend the time to acquire the skills to do the job, which may be a one-off, while they wait with increasing frustration and a lack of understanding of what the holdup is.

The person who gave you the task is at fault for not confirming that this is within your skillset. So don't feel like this is all on you.
> Is tech much less predictable than law firm associates?

Yes, significantly so. In tech compensation numbers are all over the board. Someone making $50k might be working alongside someone with the same title making $150k.

Both government and law are very bad examples. Government because compensation tiers are quite strict; law because the labor market heavily favors employers, compounded by a culture that expects you to work for peanuts early in your career and tirelessly climb the ladder to partner.
I've got a slide rule to thank for my precocious early math studies. I was always interested in math as a young kid, and my parents got me a Post slide rule for Christmas 1970, when I was in 5th grade/10 years old. I didn't know what the S and T scales on the back side of the main slide were for, so went looking up info in the local library. Turns out they were sine/tangent scales, which led to reading about trigonometry, which led to me realizing I needed to know algebra first. Over the next couple years, those library trips led to teaching myself algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus, thanks mostly to TutorText books. For a nerdy little kid in the early 70s, that was heaven.
e-zines that were transmitted over dial up modems via BBSes back in the days before WWW took off seemed so deliciously subversive.

One night I came across an e-zine that shared a BBS phone number for my city. I made several attempts before giving up. An hour later cops showed up at my door. It turned out I was phoning a secondary number for 911. I got pranked pretty good!
Which is why I'm in favour of a profit sharing scheme. You get rewarded the productivity of your work.
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When it works, it’s great. When it doesn’t, it sows the seeds of resentment.

Now imagine your job is to wander around and find things, fix some, but mostly inspire others to weed their own gardens, so to speak.

Eventually you step in the wrong place.

“Click.”
Guess this is one of the inefficiencies of China.

The central government has to spend resources / outright kneecap regions to keep them under their thumb.

Their mandate to rule seem wholly dependent on wealth.
It is happening.

The founders of Patagonia and The North Face brands did start conservacion patagonia together. [1]

It is one amazing project. [2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservaci%C3%B3n_Patag%C3%B3n...
2. http://www.conservacionpatagonica.org/aboutus_oh.htm
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The difference in between the two is a matter of trust. Maintaining a 1:1 peg with the USD requires that users trust that the dollar reserves actually exist. Presumably, Coinbase will be seen by many as a more trusted 3rd party than Tether.

Stable coins exist to solve the problem of moving money in and out of cryptocurrency introduced by KYC/AML. Bitcoin represents an attempt to create a system of censorship resistant transactions with an absolute minimum amount of counter-party risk. Outside of the open cryptocurrency context, its unclear if something like stable coins would be allowed to exist. Certainly when you go back in history and look at things like ecash or the liberty dollar the answer seems to be no.
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People knew in 1997 that Amazon was going for monopoly and was just going to jack up prices when they achieved it

Is that really the story of the past 21 years though? Instead it seems like Amazon has still not achieved monopoly in retail, and they still aren't getting amazing margins from it.
And animals, ecosystems!
Why do you describe credit unions as if they were trash?
I don't want to move up.I really hope I can stay programming when I'm 90. For me it's as fun now as it was 20 years ago.
If the person did 1 mil dollars worth of work, but only got compensated a quarter of a mil, isn't that getting shafted?

Just because the numbers are bigger, doesn't mean it is less deserving of being fair.
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> I don't know why, but humans are hard wired for religion.

As Richard Feynman once said, in order to answer a "why" you need to be in a framework where you allow things to be true.

I'm not sure we're hardwired for religion, but it's pretty clear were hardwired for semiotics. Try to look at something without your brain picking out symbols to assign to everything. This is the thing we do all the time but can't seem to teach computers how to do.

So there is a certain seductive logic in viewing God as just another attempt the brain makes to sort things out on the symbolic level.
Curious about how many hours you would say you work each week? Or how many total hours per year? A normal 40 hours per week is usually seen as about 2000 hours per year.
Please don't. I have to believe there is always a way.
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Slide rules usually have quadratic and cubic scales.
If a company choose to not prefund its pension when times are good, they can't complain about it when times are bad.
Does freedom of speech guarantee that they can't be coerced into punlic denial? Does a national security letter / other forms of government oversight override this?

(It absolutely shouldn't in a democracy, but there are plenty of things that shouldn't happen in democracies that have been happening lately)
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If Ethereum successfully migrates to proof-of-stake then it won't be bottlenecked by proof-of-work any more ;-)

It may end up rebuilding the current regulated banking system. But if the regulated banking system and the unregulated banking system are sitting next to each other using tokens that are interchangeable with smart contracts, that seems like it could be useful.
There are more agnostic systems, like fluidized bed gasifiers, but they generally create tar rich gas, which can gum up an internal combustion engine. That's why external combustion engines (Stirling or Steam) are so desirable as the pistons and internal moving parts don't come in contact with the flame front.
>is backed by the FDIC

Isn't FDIC backing capped?
"In God We Trust" has only been the nation's motto since 1956 and appeared on paper money the following year[1].

The dollar is of course much older.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_We_Trust
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this is sooo cool. Can you build this for Flask as well - basically Jinja2. I do believe that Django can use jinja2 as well.

However, would like to compile all the reactjs stuff before including it in flask/django.
You could look into the https://github.com/nozzle/react-static project to use their static compiler (which does React -> static html/js) to achieve this exact thing.
The "Paper Feed" section has 2 articles from 2018 and 2 from 2017. The most recent, "20 Years of Escaping the Java Sandbox" [1] is exactly what 16 year old me loved about phrack back in the day.

[1] http://www.phrack.org/papers/escaping_the_java_sandbox.html
Yep, similarly local::lib and a cpanfile for perl5.

(I prefer perl but this is a general principle and I agree)
When we think about positive things, how great the world is and how amazing our life is, we see more proof of it in the real world. What might be considered normal will be considered great in this point of view. The same way when we think about how bad everything is and how life is going against us, we see normal events as being negative and small problems as being gigantic.
It would be really nice if EVERYONE not in the 1% got a raise of some sort.

It’s happened before. But that was when Bush was president, and on the internet we’re supposed to pretend that he didn’t do anything good.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Stimulus_Act_of_200...
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perl5's scoping with 'my' is proper lexical/block scope - same as javascript's new 'let'

python's scoping is "invent a new variable in the current function when you mention the name"

since I actually prefer explicit to implicit, I prefer perl5 to python scoping-wise
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If a regulated banking system mixes with an unregulated banking system everything becomes an unregulated banking system.

Also proof-of-stake has been promised for so long I would be embarrassed to talk about it if I worked at the Ethereum Foundation. Delivering things that work isn't their strong suit.
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Much of the early work on buffer overrun exploitation was published in Phrack. The article Brandon Baker and I did for IEEE Security and Privacy had a sidebar on "Nontraditional literature on buffer overruns" that's got some greatest hits like AlephOne’s Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit from 1996 [1] and The Advanced return-into-lib(c) Exploits from 2001 [2]. Over the years, a surprising number of people have told me that this was their favorite part of the article!

[1] https://www.phrack.org/show.php?p=49&a=14

[2] https://www.phrack.org/show.php?p=58&a=4
perl11 exists because the perl community is full of whacky crazy people who like to shoot for the moon.

Realistically, though, it's not something anybody actually writing perl5 or perl6 cares about or expects to achieve anything. Basically 'urbit with $ signs'
Anyone claiming that Perl 6 is "slapping a new version number on a library" has little credibility with regards to programming language design and history.

"Let the past die" might be a great line for Ben Skywalker in a Star Wars movie, but in practical terms you are screeding against a people (Perl programmers) continuing their to develop their culture (Perl). What on earth could this be doing that affects you negatively?
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cperl is a trainwreck that only exists because the author forked perl5 because he was removed from the maintainance list because he couldn't stop insulting people.

Don't bother pretending it'll ever be a viable project - periodically he sends patches trying to force perl5 modules to change their code because his type checking code doesn't work, then follows it up with a volley of insults when the maintainers go "huh?"