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> There was a time not so long ago that people took pride in saving, repairing and making do.

That's a myth. Just like pretty much all of the "in the past, it was so much better because people X" constructions.

Some people feel that way now. Some people have always felt that way. But many people have always felt a pressure to compete with those around them, in whatever ways were available and socially acceptable at the time.

It's possible that if you go all the way back to before urbanisation, the people in a small farming or hunter-gatherer community would feel less of that pressure because there was simply less to compete about, and more mutual support....but I suspect that even then, people would have competed in their own ways.

In terms of the specific "there was a time" you mention...OK, yeah, there kinda was. It was the Great Depression. People "took pride" in saving, repairing, and making do because there was literally no other choice besides doing without.

Despite the various problems we suffer today, I don't think that's a good model for our society.
Looks like they climbed and maintained ~5000 feet after takeoff, presumably to figure out what was going on before returning to the airport. Wouldn't call that crazy low.
Recently I linked to a press release for a software acquisition, but mine was marked as a dupe, and the blog link promoted.

I am not trying to get them sweet sweet up-votes. Just engage in my community.
This is how fascism and several forms of communism have come to power. If those in power can silence whom they choose, then they play to the people only as long as they have to. When they have enough power, they play no one's game and silence whoever they want.

[edit] It is worth noting that GoDaddy does not equate to "those in power". A business has every right to deny service on whatever grounds they choose (even for no reason).
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Isochrone map (in hours) of travel time by rail from Edinburgh
>Blocking at the DNS level and routing level is technically a breach of the contract with the customer, (...)

A salient point. Throw in "False advertising", because they advertise providing providing Internet access but instead provide their own "walled garden internet" access.

I would add that it should also strip the ISPs of their safe harbor protections[1] if they choose to perform editorial function of the Internet's content, instead of being providers of dumb pipes.
If they want to editorialize, sure, by all means, go for it - but play by the relevant legal rules.

How about this: when an ISP is found to have excercised editorial control of the internet, we penalize the ISP by stripping of save harbor protections[1] for 1 years into the future, and also deem them to have willingly rescinded the save harbor protections[1] during the whole period they were making editorial choices? Effectively making the editorializing ISPs liable for every single copyright infringement, libel, and any other relevant transgression that went on their platform while they were performing editorializing, and would be otherwise shielded from if they were proper dumb pipes.

Let the ISPs decide whethey they want editorial control, or safe harbor protections. No more Schrödinger's ISPs holding on to both privileges that are supposed to be mutually exclusive.

[1] DMCA 512, aka Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act, and any other relevant.
Ah, took me a while to find the right Google term: "nonrecourse loan".

I'm not sure anymore how big a cause for the crisis they were - there are articles arguing both directions.

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/03/03/2185420/fed-vs-fed-on...

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Hsi8ZX8...

Chapter Economic Incentives in the Housing and Mortgage Origination
Markets in https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/11_orig...
The media can "create" experts a lot more convincingly. In fact it's very hard for someone to gain "expert" status on reddit for example. It's hard to do it when your historic timeline is visible at every point (see also: paul krugman). It's easier for a mediocre journalist to hide behind her newspaper's brand (you see it every day with fluff filler pieces).

Expertise is a perception problem , and perception can easily be gamed. It happens in mainstream media too, but it's harded to measure there than on the internet. I don't think we need to regress back to experts, that's always a power play. Giving people a plurality of opinions works better.
Seen here: https://twitter.com/cstross/status/1056884592874008576
This has taken a long time! But also, it's just him working almost alone. I'm so happy this finally happened, though! Yay, more D!
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This does not mean that without low interest rates things would be better. (And I'm not saying Greenspan et al. handled the early 2000s well. But I'm also not convinced that the economy's set point is the federal funds rate. I think it's just an aspect, and business fundamentals - like real aggregate demand, which is much more sensitive to disposable income than to interest rates - are much more important for growth.)
Sophos has pretty solid offerings, their free level of home protection is fairly comprehensive. Windows Defender is adequate though now. I like Malwarebytes, if you just want to run scans without background protection its free.
Thanks for the link! I went down a small rabbit hole from this which ended up with a script that allows for similar style workflows even within the GitHub PR world:

https://twitter.com/jakecraige/status/1056835104440545280
https://gist.github.com/jakecraige/51f9583f1f55cc0ecccfaa11e...
What 'debate' are they talking about? It's a free for all shouting match.
TL;DR: It sounds like they wanted their UI teams to be able to easily deploy UI specific API endpoints, and existing offerings had too much latency.

I’ve often built UI-specific API endpoints, but have often been told such endpoints are a bad practice. In reality, I think they’re great. It allows you to serve up optimal payloads and move much more quickly than writing the equivalent general APIs.

That said, wasn’t Falcor the Netflix solution to this very problem?
In my experience, gdc has produced faster code than ldc for my problems. This is subjective, so please don't ask me to produce benchmarks. I just remember gdc outperformed ldc in some cases, that's all.
You can hide retweets of a specific user by pressing the "Turn off Rewteets" button in the dropdown menu.

Or you can do it en masse in the browser:
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-disable-all-retweets-on-twitte...

I prefer individual control over central control. Maybe they should make the "Turn off Rewteets" feature more visible.
the commitment of the predominant culture.

I'm always less inclined to believe that it's a few powerful people, and more inclined to think it's a cultural war between memes (in the Dawkins sense). People are driven by ideas. If powerful people are contributing to a cause it's probably because they are under the influence of a meme. That, or a more Machiavellian reasoning like trying to purchase social capital.
OK, and where was I confused?

e^X could also be defined by \lim_{N \to \infty}(I + X/N)^N for X a linear map. For my intuition, I find that better than your definition.
The Hooks way creates a lot of inline functions on every render.
Meaning a private 3rd party domain registrar can't do to facebook what GoDaddy just did to gab.com
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A sphere has two sIdes: an internal side, and an external side. This is why there are theories of “hollow earth”!
Escaping Earth – visual history of rockets and who built them
More the opposite. Your contract says 8 hours, but everyone does 11 on average, so there is no way you could dispute ownership of those results.

Secondly most IT companies have 'innovation participation' programs that want to have first dibs on all your creative ideas, whether it's on the clock or off.

Thirdly, in an industry with very low start-up costs (all you need is a computer)and high competition for talent, even the potential threat of a former employer claiming IP over your new business can be a potential deterrent that nudges people into just not do it.
Due to debate getting worse and worse I left both Twitter and Facebook (they both became completely useless and just a waste of time); now it looks like most of low-quality "I am here too doing trivial things, applaud me!" posts moved over to LinkedIn, so I put my account to "passive" state there as well and am considering removing it altogether.

Are there still some places left on Internet for high-quality discussions? Reddit recently ramped up "moderation" and now feels like a mob mentality everywhere with prolific ban give-aways if one's opinion doesn't align 100% with the one of moderators (who sometimes fight with each other); alternatives are full of extreme content that got banned on the mainstream ones, and *chan was always a stable full of manure with some pearls hidden very very deeply for one to waste time finding them.
That's an interesting way of putting it. On the other hand though it feels like a sphere has an inside and an outside...
Seen here: https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/status/1056597035829334022
>> Why would they drop OpenPOWER for RISC-V?

IBM is member of the RISC-V foundation. If they could make a similar high performance server chip with RISC-V ISA I'd take that over OpenPOWER any day due to the much wider acceptance of it. They could also support both and see which goes further.
works ok but I had to remove "on_delete: :cascade" on add_foreign_key lines.
It does definitely speed up the process. But that's about it. You can still share the actual content. A follower of Jones can share content and information on messaging applications to others, for example. Unless tech companies start scanning and retroactively deleting content from user's devices, there is no stopping to this.

Even then word of mouth is a very effective and time tested way. Silk Road was very active and successful despite any social media presence.

tl;dr any tech solution to this problem is only gonna end up blowing in everyone's faces. Find some other ways.
That's a strong point.

I have always thought of freedoms being limited by the effect they have on others' freedoms. You can't use your freedoms at the expense of someone else's freedom. E.g. you can't kill someone because you are restricting their right to live.

That being said, speech is kinda nuanced. Because, spoken word does not directly affect other freedoms. In extreme cases, like shouting "fire" in the theater or "bomb" in an airport, speech is limited because of the direct link between it and the result. But that's not really the case with propaganda, even if it is the goal to misled.

To conclude, we are victims to our own freedom of speech if it can be used against us. If someone can say outrageous things and there are people that hear it and don't immediately think "huh, that's crazy" and walk away that is a different problem. But I don't think the solution is telling him to go sit in the corner, I feel like this wrong and also polarizing.
But I am free to use and support the other half of the internet.
And I am free to use adblockers.

And my home is free to be photographed from the outside from anyone. I do not loose anything because of that. Neither do I loose, if friends upload pictures they made. If I do not want to be on a picture I tell them the moment they make it. Or we consent on private use only. And if people make pictures without consent they are not my friends and there are laws for that. (but I actually do not care about that so much)

What I care about it is my communication. I want to be able to communicate with friends all over the world, without a company being able to control and influence that communication. Which is why I do not use Facebook at all.

And I am able to do that, with all the people important to me. The people who insist on facebook ... I can miss out.

And again: yes the situation IS shitty, but I don't see any improvement from regulations at all. Quite the contrary: we just got the annoying "We use Cookies" banners. But the tracking goes on as ever.
AIUI with containers it's now entirely possible that a running program may be migrated from a host where a syscall has not been implemented to one where it has.
I never used 'like' button in the sense of upvote or 'like' in Facebook. I always used it for 'bookmarking' purposes.

Though Twitter added bookmarking feature, it is somehow useless for me as I can't undo this bookmarking operation for individual tweet but I can simply unlike a tweet.

Personally I think Twitter is just not suitable for debating. I mean you can't articulate your view in 280 charscters. Facebook is better suited for this.
Beautiful outline of the problem (though it's hard to grasp the fundamental difficulty on first reading, I think), and Bitcoin's solution.
Your comment was flagged before I could read. Really curious...:-)
or slack channel, or email.
It seems they are getting ahead of themselves...why should it be a good idea to burn the http/3 name now given the stage of development quic is in?
This seems like a massive mistake to me.

I have 300ish followers. I’ll spend 5 minutes or so crafting a Tweet. If it gets one or two likes, that’s positive reinforcement, it feels worth my time.

It’s rare I’ll get replies unless I said something someone else vehemently disagrees with. So you’re leaving all my reasons not to use the platform, while removing my reasons to use it.

So now best case scenario is a retweet? Meh. This feels like a huge miss-step from a company that doesn’t understand why people use their platform. Honestly, this seems like how you kill a platform.
I have 2 problems with this line of argument that I haven't really heard anyone address in a useful way.

1)While abundance certainly reduces value (by creating oversupply), scarcity can't in and of itself create value if there isn't demand. Say there is only 1 original Sean Hunter painting in the entire world. Since there are 34 Vermeers, it should be worth more than a Vermeer, right? Well no. Vermeer was much much better at art than I will ever be, so noone is ever going to want to own anything I paint.

2)While there is a finite supply of BTC, there is a limitless supply of alternative altcoins, and no barrier whatsoever to entry, so people can keep creating them. Since these can be made functionally identical to BTC, why should BTC retain value through scarcity? It's not doing anything that can't easily be done via another altcoin.
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Discovery works fine if you can view the friend feed of your favorite artist manually, without it showing up in your friend feed. Livejournal worked like that for many years and there was a ton of discovery happening. In fact I much prefer the livejournal model, where you can post your own content or write comments on other people's content, but cannot like/share/retweet. People whose only contribution is point and grunt shouldn't be allowed to contribute, they only make the site worse for everyone.
spinning on which axis you mean?
Software seems to encourage shallow knowledge these days, with a constant churn of new frameworks / databases or whatever the latest trend is.
> Aren't you amused, even slightly?

What about that do you find amusing?
I challenge them all the time. I think it is a moral duty to monitor them and push back against them. Anonymously, of course, because I don't want one of them turning up at my front door with a chainsaw. In my experience, they are like the proverbial paper tiger, a lot more fragile in the face of pressure than you think, and they do fold. You will also find that there is a silent majority which also despises them. They are aware of this and it frightens them.
Fine, then pen and paper ballots.
Yepp, cleaner code that's what I also experience and the connection between the html to the js via the data attributes.
GNU is literally a platform. If you want to run the software on another platform (particularly one which is not as widely used as GNU) then you have to port the software.
__COUNTER__ is not standardized. Repeated inclusion is.
"confusion between QUIC-the-transport-protocol, and QUIC-the-HTTP-binding. I and others have seen a number of folks not closely involved in this work conflating the two, even though they're now separate things."

Well, yeah, they have the same name. My first reaction to the headline was that lots of software isn't ready for http over udp.
And a fair and proportionate amount for Creative Commons article is presumably zero?
This is kinda useless. You can bookmark a tweet. But when you undo this bookmarking, all other bookmarked tweets also go.
Interesting question, absurd conclusion. You exit at a different coordinate on the same side. That coordinate is x/2 meters along the surface, where x is the repeat length of the surface.
The simple answer to this problem has been clear for awhile: Make responses to quote tweets opaque to the original author.

1. Bob quotes a tweet from Alice he thinks his followers will find enraging

2. Bob's followers reply to the tweet with predictable outrage and abuse

3. (present system) Twitter becomes unusable for Alice as she is flooded with mentions from all of the angry and abusive replies to Bob's quote

3. (proposed system) Alice is not shown any of the replies to Bob's tweet. Bob's followers scream into the void.

4. (proposed system, cont'd) Bob's most clever followers know replies will not be seen by Alice, so they @ her directly. However, Twitter is even more clever and has a super-advanced algorithm that goes "if you follow someone who quote-tweeted someone else in the past 48 hours, @-ing the quoted user will not show up in their mentions." New accounts (less than 48 hours old) are also unable to @ anyone at all.

There, I fixed Twitter. Jack, I'll even write out some Jira stories for a very reasonable fee.
I’m not sure how you think that relates to my comment. As I said, it’s bizarre to suggest that the problem was a lack of awareness about the alternatives when there was such a long process doing exactly that.
It would be interesting to see how well upvote/downvote would work.
what do they do to avoid it ? static analysis ? runtime layout tricks ?
It is not generally true that physicians will treat people with somatic diseases well (or at all) if they personally believe symptoms are actually caused by psychological issues.

This is an unproductive, even dangerous thing to tell sufferers.
Hacker News guidelines are summarized by this statement: "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

I'd agree that if it was an article about a Cessna 172 crashing, it wouldn't belong on Hacker News, but in this case, the interesting fact about this aircraft accident is that it's a brand new airliner model, one that has never been in an accident before. Furthermore, we have some basic flight data, so perhaps a bored hacker might decide to debug what they think happened using this data.
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The keywords you should use in filters are "UX engineer" and "JavaScript". You don't need two people if you have a small team. I know a few people who meet your requirements (one person doing both design and coding).

For your reference: https://careers.google.com/jobs#!t=jo&jid=/company/ux-engine...
>> If SOCIAL_MEDIA_X shuts it down, it sends a message that it's not socially acceptable.

If you are the one being censored it sends the message that you are not welcome here, so you find another outlet. I hadn't hear of Gab until yesterday and my initial impression that it was a cool idea to have a social media platform that is pro free-speech, but obviously the community is very polarized and not very diverse in non-hate ideas (still don't have a complete picture of that site).

>>smoking went from the coolest thing you could do to one of the least cool things you could do

That's the power of marketing you're referring to. I was thinking about an individuals freedom to say what's on their mind. And if someone has super confused ideas, I would like for them to be able to express them so they can be addressed.
This covers legally obtained server code, but what about reverse engineered third party servers which allow the use of abandoned game clients?

As an example, a popular 'Blizzlike' Vanilla WoW server (ie. authentic to the original, pre-expansion game) has been built without using the official server software. Recent announcements from Blizzrd aside, it's hard to argue that the original game is not abandoned, as it's been unplayable since 2006.
Do landlord usually care? It usually complaints from the neighbours that I hear about.
>especially if those people can become the target of mob justice.

Well at some point that becomes the only form of justice available. If the state is protecting bad actors what form of justice is left?
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Comeon, you're cherry-picking. The comment about inferring a position on free-speech from Krassenstein's name clearly was a play on his name sounding Jewish. [EDIT: WRONG: And the retweet in the other link was just after the shooting (along with a lot of other trolling) - hardly the reaction of an organization horrified about what happened.]

EDIT: The tweet referenced above actually significantly earlier. They deleted many tweets, so it's a bit hard to figure out when what exactly happened.
IMO, "Like" is just one of the ways for users to express themselves, you remove this tool, they'll find other ways, e.g., flood with one-word replies.

Account with huge number of followers that can block counter accounts could create an echo chamber, which is rather poisonous to a healthy debate.

That being said, I don't think twitter should be used as an debate platform, and there are some online tools trying to solve the problem already, like Kialo. They perhaps are not good enough, but still better than twitter.
You know, I've pretty much stopped using them. Haven't had one installed on a Win machine for a few years.

I take a handful of basic precautions along the lines of closing ports, installing OS updates, having my eMail text only and passive, disabling a few things on the web browser and never downloading/running anything suspicious. It's been good enough that the last time I installed a new Win, a dedicated antivirus didn't even occur to me.

On occasion I'll run a malware finder when I'm seeing odd behaviour and want to be sure, but I can't remember the last time there was a genuine positive find.
I was wondering why the throw-away account, this could be a reason
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The ICCPR allows Thailand to make insulting the king illegal, Pakistan to make blasphemy illegal, and Israel to ban boycotts.

It allows so many "certain restrictions" that the freedom effectively ceases to exist.
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I'd hate to have every email exchange I have with colleagues be picked over like this.
That's true but then again you don't have to be a 100% expert in a particular area to be useful.

80% often is more than enough. The remaining 20% can be researched or compensated for by an IDE if need be.

There's no need for example to know the complete JavaScript API by heart. That's what documentation and autocompletion are for. You just need to know where to look and have an understanding of how things work on a conceptual level.