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Getting back to the article, this is best seen as a variant of 'Banking 1.0'. Remember how in the old days banks would have gold that your paper money could be converted into?

Well, with these new investments you can buy into the Bitcoin goodness much like how our forefathers could have their wealth backed by gold.

With a bank backed by gold the actual gold does not leave the vault very often. It was theoretical that you could go to the bank and get your paper notes changed for actual gold.

In this brave new world of Bitcoin backed investments your transactions to and from the fund do not involve anything being added or removed from the blockchain. There is just a wallet there, in the bank cold storage with however many bitcoins on it. The bank does not have one wallet for its bitcoins it has thousands of the things, so the account is sharded this way.

The difference is that rather than gold being the real backing it is a Bitcoin wallet. If you get out of the fund then the bank won't be selling the contents of that wallet on Coinbase, it will just sit there in the fund ready for the next punter to buy into.

An investment fund that has gold as the backing store of wealth is able to track the value of the gold, same with Bitcoin. If Bitcoin goes up then your investment is worth more, the fund takes its percentage and it all works fine.

This is what Bitcoin has come to, if you strip away all the 'fintech' mumbo-jumbo buzzword legalese this is all it is, a variant on 'Banking 1.0'.
It's not impossible that it really was fentanyl and some dirty cops stole it.
Yes, you're wrong.

>godaddy should act like the transparent utility service that it is

Look, found the false assumption!
Why wouldn't you use WSL?
Hmm, maybe? I mean, being a foreigner in America (USA or Canada) is pretty easy compared to being one in China, I'll definitely give you that! China also has a net emigration rate, so they aren't really geared towards having immigrants.

I do like that China at least tries to reciprocate on some things, like 10 year visa durations.
Not tooo uncommon either. It's a "reasonable" way to write generators in C (if you're masochistic Python programmer, I guess.)

Switch on the last return point at the top of the function, and make all variables that need to persist between calls `static`.

(I've written it before, and I swear I didn't invent it... Maybe it's just a short skip from Duff's Device? Still, using it to pick up before the last return instead of after is new trick for me!)
Great stuff Jed. Have had a play with the latest preview and like it a lot. Also starting to get a better sense of how you could apply Orac in an organisational context and look forward to discussing next time we catch up. Cheers, Dave
> Now, it is true that you can make a coherent argument for leaving sites like Gab and Stormfront alone; "more speech is antidote for bad speech"

A coherent one, but maybe also a wrong one. We've heard a lot less in the news about various de-platformed people. When was the last time Milo was in the news? https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjbp9d/do-social-...
How do you figure inflation differences for events happening in the exact same moment, especially when that moment is now?

I don't need an inflation calculator to know how much I am paying this year for braces and glasses and broken bones and Prom and car insurance for a new driver. I know what it took to raise children 20+ years ago. I did it. I know what it takes to raise children right now today. I am doing it.

Yes, "the cost of almost everything that's necessary & essential has risen by insane amounts." So you have to choose to trim things that are less essential. A baby carseat can run $250. A $4 coffee every workday adds up to $800/year.

I'm not insensitive to those who feel overwhelmed by the commitment required to raise children today. I admit that it's a little amusing that some seem to think that the commitment wasn't overwhelming 20 years ago. Maybe it was easier 20 years ago. I honestly don't think so.
Many employers have clauses about owning any IP you produce while employed there, regardless of whether or not it involved company time or property. Whether said clauses are actually enforceable varies from location to location.
Sure, these platforms can be used for both good and evil. But I don't see how that is relevant to my point. You don't have to allow the evil just so people can continue to do good. Or are you arguing that people are drawn to Twitter by the hate groups and are then recruited away by good Twitter users and those converts outnumber the number of people that the hate groups are able to recruit through Twitter?
For those of us less aware of the crypto space, can you ELI5 the Byzantine Generals problem and how the Nakamoto Consensus fixes it?
This is the difference between open source platforms and capitalistic platforms.

One is far more benign and is simply an unopinionated tool. The other has a huge power and daya asymmetry can do anything at any time, subject only to the reputational and competition constraints. And the competition needs to build everything from scratch instead of just forking.

Guess which one always wins in the end :)

As time goes on, the Atlas Shrugged argument of “but who will want to build the next thing if you limit their upside with taxes and regulations?” will be less and less relevant. I’d like to see a society where instead of John Galts we have collaborative snowballs like Wikipedia and Science where everyone adds a tiny bit without chilling effects of intellectual property lawsuits. But how will people eat? UBI.
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That lines up very closely with the experience of some friends who sold their (growing rapidly, highly profitable) startup to IBM.

It took a few months for them to realise their startup was going to languish completely within IBM, and their destiny for the 2 years after acquisition was to sit by quietly and wait for their payout, while looking for the next thing to do.

Any time & effort they put into trying to grow their startup product's future within IBM was going to be a waste of everyone's time. This was a hard lesson for them to learn post-acquisition, but I think the money in their bank accounts 2 years down the track will help them get over it
I mean, following that logic x86 is open because Coreboot exists. Or all of ARM and MIPS is open because YABOOT and U-BOOT are opensource.

You can get the HDL for both those archs if you join the right orgs too. No, open source means more than having 'open' in your pproject name.
My biggest lesson and cautionary tale after launching a professional services company in Shanghai, think English resume editing, LinkedIn Profiles creation, interview coaching and academic entrance services, is to to pick your partners very carefully. There is an infuriating aspect to contracts here where upon signature, the real negotiations on terms begins, even for the simplest points. Be prepared to spend inordinate time on what would be obvious and elementary in the U.S.
If you want to directly search other sites without having to choose a different engine in Firefox: if you search through DDG, you can put !g before or after your query and it’ll forward you to google.

There are a bunch of these. !a forwards to Amazon, !w to Wikipedia, etc.
Sure, if they felt that was necessary to protect their image! (Or if they wanted to for any other reason, but the image idea seems most likely.) Right now, that's not an issue because all of the browsers are equally able to access all websites. So no browser's image is tarnished by providing access to Gab.

Like imagine if there were four browsers but only one could be used to access Gab.ai. And people who don't like antisemitism knew that and began threatening to boycott that browser and encourage others to do the same. It would be totally reasonable for that browser to remove support for Gab.ai at that point.
What? By this logic, the government should have funded printing presses. Gab.com is going to find another provider. They are unhinged and no private entity is required to serve them.

Also, this XKCD: https://www.xkcd.com/1357/
They and some other finance newspapers do seem like the last bastion of separation of facts and opinions
The difference is Twitter is willing to remove the "far worse content" while Gab is not.
The frustrating part of this, is they instead claim major accolades and bonus points for how fast chrome is. :(

It would be one thing if I felt like I was getting something fancy for my wait. I don't.
I hate to be that guy, but I've seen this business pop up on HN dozens of time, and it's still struggling. Time to try a new idea? I guess execution isn't everything, eh?

It's just a run of the mill monthly box that gives people cavities. Next.
> If we want principles like free speech to continue, we need to segment some of that sphere to be funded and protected by the government

This is diametrically opposed to the First Amendment’s intent. Nobody is entitled to spout garbage. Or associate with those who do. What we are entitled to is protection from the government in respect of the garbage we spout. (And, protection from the government for assembling, or choosing not to assemble, with those who spout what we believe to be garbage.)
It is bad because you are willing to believe one side (composed of multiple companies) when it's in their interest to say what they are saying and completely discount no just their article but their publication.
GoDaddy is completely in their right to do this. They are demanding Gab.com find another provider.
Illegal aliens are largely white Europeans that overstay their visa?
I actually prefer having the thread with the most recent post at the top (or bottom depending on how one sorts it) of the list. That, I find is helpful in terms of keep up to date with the most recent comments. The equivalent in HN would be that the next time you load HN's front page, this particular article would appear at the top of the list and this comment (along with other new comments) would be highlighted when you load the comments section.

Thunderbird does this by default. Reddit breaks threading when sorting by "new". On HN, you have to search the comments page "minutes ago" or "hours ago" to find new comments in an existing thread.
In C++ you could also make an object (per thread?) and use member vars instead of static vars.

Also, if you're going to use static vars in multithreaded contexts doing this, better to write

thing = 5;

(via that macro magic) than `thing++`. Then at least nothing too bad should happen...
Even then, only ISPs were to be regulated like utilities. Registrars were not in scope.
As did I. Actually, it never occurred to me that it could have come from anywhere else.
I think he internet is already that public space. Hosting a web page is approximately free already, and if we restore Net Neutrality, then ISPs are obliged to shuffle bits between any two consenting on-net individuals.

I think the government should firmly stay out of hosting. If they become a dominant player, then government interference will become a major threat to free speech. And if they don't, then in practice the only people who can't find hosting anywhere will be the worst of the worst, so it will be a government-sponsored 4chan. I have no interest in using my tax dollars to pay to distribute content, as here, from murderous anti-Semites.

Freedom of speech just means that the government won't stop you talking. It doesn't mean the government has an obligation to build you a free megaphone.
No you are not wrong at all. They are exercising editorial control and Gab has not even been charged in connection with any crime, much less convicted of anything.

“Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.”

^^^ (guess the right-wing nutjob being quoted)
An internal NNTP server would work better in that aspect when compared to email.
The curve you get is a flat horizontal line. That's art.

Maybe. It's also death.
Regarding openSUSE (I work for SUSE so obviously don't speak for the wider openSUSE community, just my 2¢ as a contributor):

While people do have a reasonable level of hostility over the Novell acquisition (which has left some deep cultural scar tissue within SUSE), they did give us openSUSE.

Overall there is often worry when we have an acquisition (since a very large portion of openSUSE maintainers are employed by SUSE). With EQT quite a few folks were worried about how separated the finances were between openSUSE and SUSE and I believe Richard Brown commented on how exactly he's pushing for better financial and trademark separation (the only two things that they really share anymore).

So while people do get worried every one in a while, I get the impression that overall things are going okay despite the series of acquisitions in recent years.

However, Fedora/RedHat have a different structure and relationship and I wouldn't use the openSUSE/SUSE model to predict how things will work out.
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We're in a weird place where the presence of multiple competing intermediaries (in this case DNS registrars, but you see the same thing with banks and such) leads to them not being regulated as utilities. So when every single intermediary exercises their right to refuse service to someone they end up locked out of the system but nobody's responsible.
No. Words have meaning. Forcing someone to do something means coercion + intent to achieve a specific outcome. There was no evidence that WF intended anyone to commit identity fraud. You don’t get to redefine the meaning of well understood words.
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Does anybody else see the irony of a self-proclaimed 'social networking service' turning to Twitter because nobody would notice if they posted something on their own service?
"We reserve the right to refuse service to anybody." GoDaddy exercised that right. They are not obligated to provide service to anybody.
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I think I agree, but I think for somewhat different reasons.

I think that the government has a duty to provide the existence of town halls/squares where people are free to gather and talk and collaborate and even be ignored or ridiculed for what they say.

I think that providing, at the bare minimum, Internet access and domain registration, might be the 21st century version of this.

I don't hold this position strongly. I haven't thought this through a whole lot.
Isn't that the OP's point? What if no accredited .com registrar wants to serve them for fear of being criticized in the media?

Gab would be SOL and lose the ability to meaningfully exist on the internet. Why are private companies the gatekeepers to being able to express yourself online, all of a sudden?

Domain registration that is immune to knee-jerk responses like GoDaddy's would be nice. I am reminded of the time that GoDaddy revoked that "fake" Stripe EV cert (https://stripe.ian.sh/) because of media reporting, even though it was acceptable under the CABF EV guidelines. In other words, arbitrary.
>What we are entitled to is protection from the government in respect of the garbage we spout.

With the implication being that only the government can legally stop you while you're in a public space. If there are no public spaces, what does it matter if the government can't legally touch you, if a private entity legally can? We have to ensure publicly-owned spaces exist for free speech to exist.
Some companies are better then others. I am confused about why you would ask a question that is intellectually equivalent of "... have you stopped beating your wife.." /S
https://opensource.microsoft.com/

https://aws.github.io/

https://opensource.fb.com/

https://netflix.github.io/

https://uber.github.io/

https://opensource.apple.com/

This list is not nearly exhaustive, but my main point is Google is hardly the outlier here.

Good on all the developers pushing for open source so much. The industry is in a much better place than it was 25 years ago.
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Use a VPN client, don't allow location, files or contacts access to applications you don't trust, look for alternatives to software you don't trust.
Fascinating the first image that pops into my mind is the building of US railroads and what a bad rap American business owners get for using slave labor. I don't know much about the period but wonder if one man's slave laborer is another man's very low wage but grateful laborer.
It doesn't really matter, if you are only borrowing 50-65% of the value, the secondary lender will get screwed, as the first mortgage holder is first in line and gets paid fully before the second mortgage holder gets a dime. Many US banks are similar...if you have 50% to put down, nobody really cares if you make the payments or not. If you make them, great. If not, they'll foreclose, be made whole (plus lots of fees and interest), and have essentially no risk because the equity is so great and they are first in line.
> you seem to be treating bus stops independent of alternative means of transportation

Perhaps you misunderstood my point, which was more about data and statistics, as is the article itself, rather than transportation.

A similar argument could apply to the article's example of "average class size", where that's a valid statistic when observed by a teacher (or facilities manager), but misleading to a potential student. Something like "average size of a freshman's classes" would be more meaningful to a prospective student, and "oversampling" would not be a valid complaint there, either.

> instead of waiting at the bus stop, because of what happened to them yesterday at the bus stop.

It sounds like you're suggesting that there's an even better measure than the two I proposed, rather than the original measure being better. If so, I don't dispute that there could be many more, as I never claimed "best".

In this instance, though, measuring people who never show up to the bus stop in the first place is impossible, and even measuring those who showed up but abandoned waiting (i.e. never boarded) is impossible without additional instruments (whereas, presumably, electronic fare collection equipment could closely enough approximate counting boardings).
What the expletive! (Awesome, really didn’t see it coming though!)
I'd guess that it has had frightening vulnerabilities since it started.

Ideals are hard to live up to ... for many.
This is really cool. The GPU project they are currently featuring is amazing. I didn't realize that was possible.
The problem is how to achieve agreement (“consensus”) on the truth when at least one person is actively lying and trying to disrupt the truth. In the context of digital money, it’s how you prevent the same coin being spent twice when manipulating digital information is easy.

A related problem is a Sybil attack, where a decentralized peer-to-peer system that is truly open makes it easy to generate new identities and overwhelm the system, so simply relying on the majority of accounts to agree on truth can still be subverted by a motivated attacker.

Bitcoin was a novel solution to this problem by using “mining”, or raw computation power, as a mechanism for enforcing consensus. This made Sybil attacks worthless as the only thing that truly matters in Bitcoin is computation power, which is expensive, and an attacker would need 51% of the power to attack the network.
> only the government can legally stop you while you're in a public space

Its meaning is closer to the opposite than to this.

> If there are no public spaces

The public space is deeper and more easily-accessible than ever before. Nazis aren’t having trouble distributing their message—Gab will find another registrar. Society, on the other hand, is having difficulty responding. The threat from the latter eclipses the former.
Wonderful news. There is no such thing as absolute freedom of speech. People are threatening and inciting violence against some target demographic, and you are only being obtuse by trying to be apathetic to that in the name of free speech.

Besides, godaddy is a private company. It is not obligated to give rights of freedom of speech to anyone.
> All this does is opens up godaddy to pressure to start suspending other "offensive" domains.

To those of us who want to see bad websites go away, this doesn't sound like a terrible thing.

> 10 years ago, nobody with any sense would have supported this.

Ten years ago, antisemites were a lot quieter.
If they found that despite the fact that a story can start happy and get sad, no story had ever done so, and it actually seemed to be impossible, well that would be quite an amazing discovery.

However they only discovered that a variable can go up, down, or stay the same. Not exactly rocket science.
Like a dear friend here in Shanghai says, the highly efficient delivery system will break down when labor decides they don't want to work for a pittance a day. Doesn't look like any day soon.
It started when the domain for The Pirate Bay was seized. And the precedent that linking or providing a way for someone to search for illegal content is the same as hosting the illegal content. Internet companies have to now take an aggressively proactive approach to avoiding hosting, linking, or being associated with a domain or content provider that may become the target of a lawsuit.
I don't understand the point you're trying to make here. It looks like you're trying to associate something a large corporation is doing, and has every right to do, with an entire swath of America because... because... why? Are you feeling particularly repressed by liberals as of late?
Is there any chance they don't yet have the tools to police it? It's taken a fair amount of time and resources for other platforms to do it, to the point that YouTube/Twitter rely on users to do so.

And when threatened, they've done so:

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/gab-user-deletes-anti-semitic-...

Again, seems to me we're holding to different standards.
i didn't read the article that way, but i can understand your perspective. to be fair, i think squealing, romping, pooping pigs and donkeys might be more of a nuisance to more people than scooters are.

it's dangerous to ride on major roads if you're not in a car (truckers apparently call motorcyclists "organ donors"), so i propose a middle ground: encourage scooters to use secondary roads, which have less traffic, so they won't need the protection of the grade-separated sidewalk. this already happens for bikes through the placement of unprotected bike lanes on those secondary roads, rather than on major thoroughfares. but for major roads, allow scooters and bikes to use the sidewalk if there is not a protected lane.

the longer term vision would be to convert parking lanes into protected travel lanes for bikes and scooters, leaving sidewalks solely to pedestrians.
I think it would require significant architectural changes. As far as I know, the replication and consensus protocol are just too slow.
Windows < 10/1809 compatibility, ability to ship standalone applications, force of habit, need for something WSL doesn't support.

Ironically, Cygwin might be closer to "native" than WSL is in some cases.
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It looks like you're very familiar with Gab, and I can't look into it myself while the site is inaccessible. You've argued:

what you can't do is try to argue that Gab is just Twitter

Can you explain what systemic attributes of Gab-the-speech-platform differ from Twitter, if any? I wonder how it got to be the way you've described it to be. You said,

it actively courts white supremacists

Could you provide an example of what you mean?