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He's not in private a "goose-stepper". He's quite public about it. I actually object, strongly, to the way that you characterize conservative Republican Christians here. The problem isn't that Torba is conservative or Christian (he's clearly not the former and I rather doubt he's the latter). It's that he's a white supremacist. Every nun that ever taught me would have slapped me upside the head if I'd said out loud many of the things Gab.ai's Twitter account has said.

Meanwhile, the current story for the genesis of Gab does not make sense. In the Gab mythology, Gab was created as a haven for ideas Twitter determined to be too dangerous for its platform. But Twitter happily plays host to conspiracy theory, Islamophobia, homophobia, misogyny, and racism. In fact, major figures in each of those buckets of hateful thought --- from the QAnon conspiracy to Pamela Gellar and Ann Coulter to Roosh V to Richard Spencer. It's not a happenstance that these people are on Twitter; they're there because Twitter does not have a policy forbidding bigotry.

What Twitter does have is a policy against harassment and violence. But, guess what? So, ostensibly, does Gab.

What deliberate purpose then does Gab serve, other than to monetize bigotry? Gab is not Bianca's Smut Shack and Torba is not a Bianca Troll.
SNAP IPO should herald the death of dual share class listings. They sold billions in equity to the public, but gave the shares 0 voting rights. So now investors have no recourse to push for changes at the board level.
Any qualified person who's willing to move to the Milwaukee area. If you're not from Wisconsin and you're willing to move out of state after graduating, of all the places you could move to, why on earth would you choose Milwaukee? I like Milwaukee, I went to UWM for undergrad, and I might have stuck around after graduating if the job market were better. But if I weren't from Wisconsin (and especially if I were from somewhere with a warmer climate), I don't think I'd even consider it.
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I have none of those advantages either but I am fantastically lucky to be basically perfectly healthy.

I can only imagine what someone in chronic lifelong pain must feel about me.

I can just jump up and run whenever, wherever I feel like and my prescription drug bill each month is zero. Talk about an unfair advantage in life!
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Wow.

I'd love to hear a perspective from a parent funding their middle aged children's creative lives. Do they feel like they've failed to make their children self sufficient?
I'm not arguing that they're doing good things with it; I'm not an Instagram user. I was only observing that Instagram's rise is conveniently (for Facebook) occurring during Facebook's fall.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with a government tipping the playing field towards local companies.
If most people don't really pay the 'price', is it really 'overpriced'? I mean, it sort of is, but until we get people directly involved in their costs (or at least the cost of their insurance) they'll never feel it, and there won't be enough impetus to switch to something better.
They did have a plan for Brexit but I think it amounted to 1) eat cake 2) still have total access to mainland Europe's cake markets too.

On a more serious note a tax plan is easier because the government only has to negotiate with itself while Brexit actually involves outside countries who are disinclined to give the UK a cushy deal.
There's a reason for defender even with a sandboxed app. Exploiting the sandboxed app may not allow the virus to access other parts of the system, but it still allows messing with the apps memory and spreading online (you likely got it from an app with network permissions in the first place)
Same, however in my experience people like us will be left out of the loop when there are last minute changes to the event. Just last week I nearly missed a weekly public activity: the venue changed last minute and they only posted about that on Facebook. If a friend hadn't told me, I'd have gone to the usual place.

I have an amusing anecdote about being the one friend without Facebook.

Someone told me about a birthday party- they told me where it was and what time to be there. They did not tell me that our group was not actually invited and our arrival would be a surprise.

The rest of the group was half an hour late. I was not. They all wanted to arrive together and were delayed, but no one filled me in on the new time.

And that's the story about how I awkwardly attended a party for 30min where I knew no one but the birthday woman and it was obvious to everyone that I was not actually invited.

All was well once my friends arrived. Still, what a nightmare that was.
Yes, I would really like to do something to put in a floor, so to speak. Something to help mitigate conditions for the people who are the most burdened by current circumstances.

Other people seem to think that's charity or a bleeding heart or something. I see it as just insurance to protect everyone so that stumbling doesn't ruin your life permanently with little to no hope of ever finding your way back to a comfortable life. I also see it as insurance against bloody revolution.

My opinion: Tech giants planning to flee to New Zealand when the Zombie Apocalypse finally hits are fools. A plan to ruin the climate and destroy the social fabric to line their pockets so they can live out the rest of their days in a bunker is lunacy. Why not just, you know, not be so monstrously greedy and, instead, leave the world intact so you can have a better quality of life than that?
Not really. Often new laws are simply more specific, making prosecution easier.

For example a "noise nuisance" law covers a subset of offences that a "breech of the peace" law does. Other subsets could be covered by blasphemy laws, profanity laws, etc..

Along with being more specific it's a chance to declare a moral position and appear to be doing new things to protect citizens/subjects.
>I never see Azure Stack mentioned so maybe Microsoft will look into a Docker acquisition to boost their enterprise footprint.

Podman is looking better and better every day.
Yeah, my parents just started sending me $30,000 dollar checks this year and the first thing they said to me was "We aren't giving you this money so you can go off and buy a Maserati".
Why don't you build your own house, build your own car, filter your own water, generate your own power, build your own transit system, enforce your own food regulations, enforce the boundaries of your own private property, create, distribute, manage your own currency? Do it yourself ffs, it isn't that hard.
> Meanwhile, Gab was able to provide a complete profile of this individual and confirmation of his identity to the authorities.

This repeatedly has been presented as an achievement. How on earth isn't that the absolute absolute basic thing? That ANY service is going to do?
I feel like Facebook has been squeezing their users for revenue more and more over the past couple years, and the result is a terrible user experience. At this point, I'm lucky if 10% of the content I see on Facebook is content I actually care about. Young users have a lot less time and history invested in Facebook, so it's no surprise to me that they're leaving.
This is a great argument for breaking up these tech giant monopolies.
That seems like the worst of both worlds: a custom application and an SFTP server exposed to the world. We would not be thrilled about this. We'd secure it if it had to exist and be secured (sometimes, financial providers use SFTP to do batch job submissions), but would never recommend it.
With comments like ”There’s a whole lot of people out there scrambling to try and come up with a reason not to like this, They can go suck lemons. The rest of us are going to cheer and figure out how we are going to get this thing going forward.” It's pretty clear what happened. Walker isn't a fan of thing like 'reason' and 'numbers' and 'facts' and instead likes to commit billions of others peoples money based on his faith that things will work out if he just wants it enough.

But what confuses me is Foxconn changing what they said they would do. When they announced that instead of building the 10.5 plant they had committed to building, they were going to build a Gen 6 plant, why didn't the state of Wisconsin say "OK, that's great, give back every last penny of money you have ever received from us immediately, and then we will begin discussions on a different deal since you have broken the contract on the first one?" Instead they just keep giving money to Foxconn no matter what they do? Just how many shares of Foxconn did Walker and his family and friends get for this?
And have other large predators (lobbyists) protecting everything.
Shit like THIS is why "fuck Facebook."
You know what I meant, stop being pedantic.
Good to know it's not just me. I've reluctantly been pulled into using the feed (as you say it has some nice features, and it's right there on my phone when I swipe right, so hard to avoid...), but this recent change has really put me over the top in terms of annoyance with Google's tracking behavior, especially in light of recent changes to Chrome.

I'm hoping it's just a bug/oversight, but I wouldn't put money on it...
Yeah, I can imagine there would be a lot of possible damage based upon the blunt force trauma. I guess they picked a spot that was least likely to do lasting internal damage?
Thanks for the pointer. It seems (if the federal courts do in fact interpret this clause to include DST/time zone issues), that I was wrong.
How is that different than what Puppet, Chef, CFEngine, or any number of other configuration management tools do [and did long before Ansible]? How do you propose to have a package that requires dynamic configuration supplied by the system (something from dhcp, for example). Are you conflating package management and configuration management? I'm genuinely curious.
compel: force or oblige (someone) to do something

Speech can motivate, encourage, inspire, disgust, leave indifferent, irritate, and so on -- but people who act on a given idea do it of their own free will. What authoritarian government fears is that people use their independent minds, allow disagreement and debate, and choose to act in defense of their freedoms.
I feel like the Facebook timeline has just become a dumping ground for rehashed memes, vaguebooking, unchecked 'facts', unfounded opinions, and, worse, blatantly false information that causes people to lash out to their so-called 'friends' when they're presented a different perspective.

Not only that, but I've actually experienced first-hand, and witnessed many of my friends experiencing depression and anxiety from the constant scrolling. The 'desire to be seen or heard' factor really plays in to an overall sense of toxicity and negativity that there have actually been a number of psychology studies on.

Overall, I find, contrary to say, HN, which I still spend too much time on (but mostly when I'm bored at work, ha), there is no bar of quality on Facebook. It's a cesspool of humanity's worst sides, especially if you consider the privacy violations of the medium itself.

In fact, it's actually becoming a faster and faster race to the bottom. (Can we all remember this year of 2018 started with 'Tide Pods'?)

Even Reddit has some quality control.
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It's not a good outcome for a UK government that has to justify letting him slip through their fingers having previously spent an absolute fortune on policing.
I don't think any of us want to litigate the fine details of where anti-Semitism becomes white supremacy, but, if you take the time to go read Ken White's Twitter feed, you can find Gab mocking White for adopting non-white children.
This is a good point, we do have some. But I think there is vast room for improvement. For one, the examples you listed require significantly more effort and care to manage.

Perhaps the best platforms of the coming decades will succeed by providing very powerful tools that enable intermediate orgs to more effectively scale up alongside the massive flow of information while remaining true to their core values.

Reddit is probably one of the best examples right now. But I think it is only a glimmer of the potential.

I also think that we have to somehow remove the incentives that push for blindly increasing "engagement" at all costs. The obvious targets being digital advertising and the grotesque, anti-human ad-tech industry that it has spawned.
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The UK used to have a 24x7 watch, but they got bored and left.
Regardless of what she did, in the civilian world, Anne Frank would be similar to a squatter.
> Most adults have at least a passing familiarity with the rules of chess

If anyone ever needed proof that HN lives in a bubble :)
I suppose that all depends on what kinds of jobs you consider to be interesting.

At the very least, those who believe the most interesting jobs are in SF congregate there. And people who create jobs matching that belief do it there.
The Ottoman Empire banned printing presses because they were blasphemous and politically destabilizing and they fell dramatically behind the west leading to their eventual total defeat.

Free speech enabled by new technologies has good and bad parts, but it's more good than bad. The desire for political stability and maintaining the status quo over everything else is a really lousy way to run things and it's just better to accept that the benefits of free and open communication are better than the risks or a pervasive A.I enabled censorship state like they have in China.
You can pay people less if they already live in Wisconsin, very few people want to relocate to rural Wisconsin.
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You still hear the old adage “nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM” in many large enterprise software sales negotiations, even if the veracity of this statement is increasingly dubious in 2018.
I believe they have focused on their web app for this. Turning it into a home screen based web application has been far better. Not as great as a native app, but better than the iPhone one scaled up!
You don't need Proton or dxvk for that. Above was about gaming scenario.
I'm 33, I very much came close to death a handful of years ago when my potassium levels were low enough I was paralyzed and my heart was struggling to beat. Quite convinced I was in my final moments with "well shit, this is how it ends" running in a loop in my mind as I shouted for help, as I was manhandled onto a stretcher, as I was terrified in an ambulance as it took turns and I had no ability to brace myself, as I was manhandled onto an ER bed, as I lay in the ER bed unable to scratch my nose, unable to sign my name, unable to turn my head to see what the nurses were doing. I was quite certain I was on my way out of this world until I felt the burn of that IV potassium raging through my veins. I have zero desire to ever be old and decrepit, to lose any worthwhile ability to care/provide for myself, to ever begin to lose my memories. ( see: https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2013/2/19/flashback... )

I watched my father's quality of life tank drastically when I was 12 before he died of cancer.

I've watched my mother that's now in her mid 60's deteriorate rapidly in just the past decade after getting thyroid dancer, developing semi-rapid bone deterioration, COPD and type II diabetes.

My father's father fell off of the first step of a ladder and died a few days later as a result.

My mother's father is in his late 80's and has severely been suffering from dementia the past several years. His wife died a few months ago having been on oxygen for over a decade and herself experiencing advanced dementia at the end.

I stand by what I said, I'd rather go out at 40 than spend a few, or several, decades miserable.
The spam phone calls and especially texts have dramatically risen over the last two years. Any idea why this is?
Some newer first-party Microsoft games have dynamic resolution scaling in the PC versions. I thought Battlefield One / 5 had it, but apparently not.

It works well in Forza Horizon 4. And yeah, I wouldn't mind the option for checkerboard rendering on PC. I understand purists want nothing to do with it, but hey, too many options is what PC is all about.
> Point 24, just as an example, prevents him from doing any activities that might be considered political.

No, he can participate in Ecuadorian politics all he wants, it merely prohibits him from interfering in other State’s politics; such interference violates international law when conducted from a diplomatic outpost, and Ecuador is obliged by international law to prevent it.
I'm going to be devil's advocate here but the CEO (especially of a troubled company like Snap) needs to take the best decisions for the company and stretch solvency and viability for as long as possible.
Of course, it's unpopular to promote someone, then rescind that offer and hire someone else. But in this case, the tradeoff seems reasonable.
Hiring a well connected, veteran exec who comes from a company known for its operational excellence seems like the right decision. It appears that this was a poor timing issue.

Maybe the handling of the situation was unprofessional and I bet there are ways to avoid these fake start promotion situations, but I think at this stage you gotta play your cards. Either you save face and do the politically correct decision (promoting a good employee, but ultimately an employee with no new insights or inputs) or you take a risk for the company knowing that you're about to make a decision that could be decisive for the company's future but that may have an impact on the impressions people have about your decision-making abilities.

Given that Snap is running out of cash and cred, I think it makes sense to do the latter.
It also seems that Snap may be looking for a buyer pretty soon and some of their recent moves indicate that they are trying to create a story on why Snap would be a good an asset for Amazon.
> 50% of bankruptcies are due to medical bills.

I wonder what percentage of those are people who could have negotiated their medical bills down further, but either were unaware of that fact, or had too high a Conscientiousness trait to think of "imposing" on the hospital that way.
Statu quo is also hurting the local economy. All local businesses have to charge taxes to customers, they are at disadvantage to foreign based companies.
I've noticed what I belive to be fake YouTube comments around politics and financial topics especially. For example, sometimes I'll watch a video related to the US stock market or currencies and then in the comments there will be a heavy bias against US corporations or the USD. I remember one video talking about stocks dropping had maybe ~60 comments in total, yet ~50 of which all heavily biased towards China and talked about how China is great and the USD will fall. Which I understand people out there have that opinion, but seeing 50 people all saying basically the same thing seemed like a well-orchestrated plot.

I've noticed many instances of this and usually, I like looking at comments to find different views or different opinions but sometimes it's a bit too unanimous. I have a suspicion that many of the top comments are fake and made to look like a bunch of random people commenting on the video when it's really a group of people that are trying to change how people think. Which sounds silly but people follow the masses, if the majority of YouTube comments are saying that x thing is bad/good, then people just see that and start believing it as fact since everyone else seems to belive it. I mean the entire comment section is saying that x person is bad, plus there's 100 upvoted on the first comment going into why that is, sooo it must be true :P
Maybe to photoshop who could implement a brush, or some app maker for ios or android who could take a stick figure and make into an Impressionistic painting.

I don't know. Throw out the old rules, if visual art was already tough to earn a living with before, it just got a little harder.

I haven't seen how they created a physical painting out of it, that part interests me more.
I mean he was ordinary in the sense that running wasn't his full time profession and he didn't dedicate his life to it. In order to achieve "greatness" in most any popular sport today you have to be totally dedicated.
> like giving your kid ten billion dollars, you're making it impractical or impossible for others to advance economically.

Zero-sum is one perspective, but not one that I subscribe to.

Does your neighbor having $10b of stuff make you better or worse off than if than if there's $10b of stuff at the bottom of the ocean?
I hope I'm getting downvoted for my sarky tone.

There have been stories that other vendors are even worse but it doesn't matter, they should've updated Defender 12 years ago concurrently with IE as they were developing the tech for Vista, because.. Defender has high false negative detection ratio and so is a plan B, hail marry kind of technology - you should do everything so that you don't rely on it working as it works only passably well for a percentage of stale threats. That's why if it and similar software is enabled it should affect your security only additively and should never contribute to attack surface. Instead in an effort to check if a file contains any of months old malware you get pwned by a bug in decompression function for a file that that you didn't even open that just passed your system and so you'd survive the attack if it weren't for the system that tries to help you survive attacks stupidly.
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Another common one is credit card data. If you buy a special razor at Kroger, expect to see ads about mangroomer on FB.
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Although the authenticity of the game is disputed. Regardless, the consensus among chess historians seems to be that Napoleon was a rather mediocre player.
My 10 year-old nephew had a Fortnite costume that honestly made little sense without the $60USD (separate purchase) foam pickaxe that he barely even wanted to carry around all night from an early Halloween trick-or-treat in his neighborhood. It captured him from social pressure to want to be included but I don't honestly see him pursuing the game in any major fashion beyond cosmetics.
That article seems to be confusing revenue with profit. The $2 billion Amazon made in the UK is revenue; I suspect its profit is actually smaller.
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How about Buyer Beware?

There's nothing illegitimate about raising money without selling voting rights. You want voting rights, want to play active investor? Buy another stock.
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Uk wants to pass a new sales tax, that applies only on "established tech giants" that generate "at least £500m a year in global revenue" of 2% of sales made in the UK.
I wonder if it is also possible they associate you with searches your friends have done after being in the same location? So if you chat about going to Bali with your friends or co-workers, and one of them searches for Bali flights, they then display Bali ads to the entire group.
"should it follow the rate of adoption of other broadly adopted technologies"

Rather than, should it follow a realistically low rate of adoption.
Apple, Google, and Netflix are consumer-facing entities- most people in the western world are customers of at least one of these companies. IBM does not sell to consumers, so you generally don't hear about "life-improving" things from them, since they don't really need to advertise or compete that way.