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I stopped posting because of the whole thing about social media written in ink. I'm not posting something which may be held against me, or have me randomly shamed in the future because the nuance of my joke was lost in text. When I last posted in 2007, the internet seemed to be a much different, friendlier place.

Facebook in 2007 was also mostly about friends, and not selling me stuff that it couldn't possibly know I was interested in unless my movements over the entire internet were being tracked.
Is it bad form to share one of these "datasets" here?
Big straw-man there.

I've chosen to avoid putting labels on people based on twitter-length blurbs. It's disrespectful to the person generally, and very tenuous since there's definitely context I lack. I'm not familiar with Gab, so I'm just going on the information I see presented. I stated what I felt I could prove up if called out: the comments criticized Jews and Israel. To that extent, I concede they're anti-Semitic. (There again, Semite is a category that includes many populations of which Jews are not even the largest). I haven't seen the full on overt, racist, 'final solution' type of Nazism you're saying there is, which maybe there is, but I haven't seen it so I shy away from claiming it.

These conversations can be dangerous because of how very easy it is to over-state yourself, particularly when you go throwing labels around.

I haven't presented any argument here. I'm asking the man to fill in what I see as a gap in his argument, that is, strengthening his argument. I'm being called to the floor over it.
What? Think about it, call center employees are going to suffer first on a large scale. NLP is getting better and Google Duplex already showed us that human voice is no problem anymore.

It's way easier to remove call centers than coming up with physics simulations that replace humans. Also I think porn is incredibly cheap to produce so everything must be automated to beat the current production cost.
Mark Bob ran with the 'NeXT takes over Apple' meme also featured here.

Did not make a bad job of it.
There are also scenarios where your coin collection might save your life. Collecting coins is also not completely nuts, but the fun of it is nearly all of the value of both hobbies.

The fun of picking, buying, storing, so many fun little decisions to make and so, so many scenarios you can occupy your head with till you die or get bored.
Fellow Wisconsinite here. I went to UW Madison when the protests you mentioned were happening. The 100's of thousands of protestors you mentioned were bussed in from all over the country. Many of which were bought and paid for by all sorts of Political motivators. I literally would ask people why they were here and they would say "because I'm getting paid $10/hr to hold this sign".

If you are going to site examples of a states corruption, at least use concrete evidence rather than vague allusions. The only real corruption you listed was an on individual/(small group) basis. This is not an indicator of a corrupt system, but rather anecdotal evidence of a the most noteworthy bad apples.

Overall in my very humble opinion I have found that the Wisconsin government is fairly well run.

Finally I don't see how the name of a restaurant has anything to do with government corruption. The name is purely based on its location, (within 400 ft from the capitol), and has nothing to do with politics. Also they have great food, I would highly recommend trying it out!
> Publishing the truth only constitutes interference in the eyes of those who don't want to see it.

That something is factually accurate does not mean it is not published with the purpose of manipulating political outcomes.

Not that everything Assange has done is non-editorialized relay of fact.

> If he was publishing fake news, I could understand Ecuador.

Ecuador is merely fulfilling it's obligation under international law; the primary offended party is the UK, here, who is the party that has objected that Ecuador permitting Assange’s political activities directed at the UK and other states violates Ecuador's obligations under international law.

Having diplomatic facilities on the territory of another country is not a right, it is a privileged extended under terms (many of which are standardized in international law.)
Good Bot :)

Sorry, seriously though, have you noticed this with HN comments? I sometimes get that feeling when browsing here, I really notice it on the comments that immediately flood in when Apple are having a conference....
I take it you have never encountered the competence of a U.K. government-run service?
Used to. Pensions are gone and wages have stangated for decades. Most anything above $20/hour puts it squarely in "the capex to automate this makes sense now" territory. And everything else gets farmed out to rotating temps so that any benefits that do exist can be advertised but are only rarely paid out. I've seen that play out a few times just among relatives (consider this a tacit response to your second paragraph, BTW).

More importantly, Foxconn's agreement with WI states that up to 93% of workers can be paid $15/hour. That's barely enough to live on even in Wisconsin.

If Foxconn were legally required to pay 50k+ with benefits for factory work, I would happily agree with you. But that's not what the contracts say. The contracts say basically everyone except management and engineering can be paid $15/hr.

Also, the Amazon fulfillment center just a few miles from the site of Foxconn's new plant pays $15/hour and is constantly hiring. So we're basically paying 4.1 billion for... a bunch of jobs that are roughly equivalent to openings that already go unfilled just down the street.

Finally, remember that we're talking about 4.1 billion dollars. That's a lot of healthcare/education/infra/small business development/etc. opportunity cost.
It's selling ads. Its consumers are the (UK) businesses buying those ads.
We'll squeeze an article in there to make it a bit less confusing.
http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/03/olive-oil-fullerene-a...
Haha you're just so honest. As if USA doesn't regularly transport Americans and non-Americans alike to dungeons in benighted locales around the world for extrajudicial torture and disposal... "charges", that's classic.

Back here on earth, USA Senators from both parties regularly accuse Assange of all manner of perfidy. They've all got incriminating shit on file at the TLAs, and regular whinging about Assange or Snowden or whomever is table stakes. When Bloody 'Gina gets her hooks into this guy, who besides Rand Paul will complain?
I know this gets said a lot, but I live for the day the world sees innovation and quality tech companies from Europe instead of taxation and regulation.
How is cp illegal now? Each image is just 1s and 0s on your drive. It's really just an illegal number.
I am going to call this the Great Stimulus.
They aren't necessarily evading taxes. When you participate in an ISA or pension program, you are using the tax code as intended. When a film production company decides to film in a given location due to favorable tax credits, that's using as intended. When multinationals set up shell companies in Ireland, the Caymans etc. whose sole purpose is redirecting revenue to avoid taxes it's arguable that in many cases this is evasion rather than avoidance. To the point that there are countries going after companies for back taxes related to some of these schemes now that its been made public and obvious that there were no 'real' business activities occurring in those locations other than minimizing taxes.
>I haven't seen how they created a physical painting out of it, that part interests me more.

I don't know about this specific one, but Dafen, China would probably blow your mind:

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-village-60-wor...

And the YC backed middleman, InstaPainting: Upload a photo and we'll get an artist to meticulously hand-paint it on canvas. Ready to ship in as little as a 7 days.

https://www.instapainting.com/blog/company/2015/10/28/how-to...

https://www.instapainting.com/
That seems like a correlation argument. I'm sure at least 86% of those users had also been exposed to cell phones and sugar.

Even if that correlation shows causation, that's a big jump to:
> What if they're being intentionally coerced by pharma?
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He's probably right about being a scheme... goes about it entirely the wrong way to stop the scheme.
If they told you they were crediting the bill and then slammed your credit, that's just more fraud. Probably a felony, but IANAL. Of course, nearly nothing you can do about it except take them to small claims court?

At least in my case it never went to collections or hit my credit report. This was 5 years ago, I guess it's never too late for them to try. Makes me wish I recorded the call when I finally was told they were crediting the bill.
This last Wednesday was the first day that I scrolled to the bottom of my feed and it said something like "There are no more posts to show." I only check once a day and never post or comment. The vast majority of posts are not from friends, especially not those my age, but of pages I once "liked". Facebook is a ghost town.
Caring about a person can make you do nice things for them and support them even if that results in a financial loss. If one is of good character, and able to help someone they have a good relationship with, they will do so.
It's the other way around. Diplomatic vehicles do provide the same protection as an embassy. A diplomatic bag, however, does not cover people, so if he was found to be inside one he could be arrested.
The fairest way is to pay tax where you do business, you know, like you’re supposed to.

It’s not really different for tech companies or global companies.
Hey, but he's a product genius no?

https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&q=evan+spiegel+%22pro...
or men of any race who get the "walking behind a nervous women while male" treatment when walking around their city at night
Thanks for this. I have been thinking about getting an academic yet beginners education in neoliberalism. Can you suggest a good primer?
Seconded... but you also need the rest of it. I'm making a lot of money, doing work that helps people, in a (mostly) sane environment, with really good co-workers. Yes, I'm kind of bored, so I could be talked into leaving. Not for less money, though. And not for a garbage working environment, or for co-workers who are jerks, or for management that is insane.
The purpose of trolling and fake comments is not always to directly shift anyone's opinion. It can also be about spreading doubt and confusion by constant repetition of falsehoods, until certain topics and positions that previously were completely unacceptable become an ordinary part of discourse and a viable "view". It's about manipulating and eroding social control mechanisms.

For example, that's how it can become possible for a politician to get elected who openly advocates torture or extrajudicial killings.
The Anti-Commons Clause. I agree, this is a non-starter. No sane company would introduce themselves to the liabilities this presents and no sane open source project would utilize a nonfree CI.
> Why would you think that the question immediately implies an insinuation?

This may be culture-dependent, but I guess most people would feel it that way.
Seems like you're getting lost in the details, and missing the overall point they were trying to convey...
It's not guaranteed happiness but getting 30k a year guaranteed would make my life much more secure.
Well, I probably wouldn't make it—at least without clearing it with my hosts—as a guest of an embassy.
Unless I misunderstand something, "a billion times 100 nanometers" would be 100 meter crystals (!) ?
True. But I think the contrast here is who is more capable of adding value to Snap. The Ex-Time Warner marketing executive or the Ex-Amazon Ad executive. Profile wise they are pretty similar but yet they come from very different industries and probably have very different operational philosophies.

Also, 2 months is a very short time for everyone but Snap. In a 12 months runway, 2 months is 16% of the time you have before running out of cash.
Why would that bother anyone but the customer? Tech giants will just add it to the tab.

People have no idea how much digital service is worth so if they want it, they pay whatever is the price. I don't think 2% (or even 10%) price hike will cause them to not advertise online their one simple trick to improve health of your joints. What are they gonna do? Print newspaper ad?
That is not what propaganda means. By its very nature it [tends to be] misleading.

By all means clear communication of facts is beneficial for democracy. But that is not what propaganda is.

[edit: dragonwriter pointed out it is not strictly necessary for it to be misleading - this is true and not what I meant to suggest. In practice nearly always is misleading. It's purpose is to manipulate, which is always detrimental to democracy imo]
What leisure-filled society are you referring to in the post you originally responded to, and where are you getting the notion that somebody here thinks such a thing would be a utopia? All I saw in that quote was the ideal of achieving a world where we have the right to work hard at whatever passions we have, which sounds like a hacker's utopia to me.
Exactly. The issue isn't that he made a choice, it's that he made a different choice first--not too long ago--and made it public.

Sure, walk back a commitment if it's the right thing to do--but your employees/investors will be right to ask why you made the commitment in the first place.
Is Argos exempt from this tax? They certainly exceed the 500m in revenue threshold.

If they are, this tax seems to be more like a tariff than not.
Stopping him from voicing his opinion is also a violation of international law, refugees are guranteed the right to free expression.

I'm also unclear as to what law you say they're violating. At most, I can see them put in a situation where Britain doesn't respect Assange's diplomatic immunity, and we are well past that point.
If he was a sucker in this deal, then can he have been corrupt?

Or if he is corrupt (as in he knew that it was a raw deal for WI but carries forward for personal benefit), can he be a sucker?

In this instance, is it possible he was both corrupt and a sucker? Maybe so if he was playing WI residents while getting played by Foxconn? Not drawing conclusions here but trying to play out the implications of what others have stated here.
What approach can a normal, non wealthy, non connected citizen take?
http://boards.4chan.org/h/thread/5159549
Also, art does not only have a function in terms of entertainment. Art is vital to human expression, and a very powerful tool to propose an idea or "mood".

cities would be terrible without public art for example, they would be dull, gray concrete silos of empty existance.
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You have a lot to say here, but I'd like to respond to just this:

>I'd argue the definition of what is open source is up for debate

It's not up for debate. It hasn't been up for debate for years. There are two generally accepted definitions of FOSS (each addressing the F and OS respectively):

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

https://opensource.org/osd

No one disagrees with these who isn't trying to sow discontent in the open source community. Disagreeing with the OSD or FSD is akin to denying climate change.
They don't, because you do. That's sales tax at work.

Taxes are usually paid each time money moves hands.
Yeah, there are some things that are kind of the "cost of entry" like decent work conditions, etc. But once you meet that minimum bar, I think more money is the easiest way to lure most people. Now there will always be some people who can be lured away by something else... one good possibility would be offering a private office instead of open plan. Hell, I'd probably take less money just to have a private office. But I doubt everybody feels as strongly about that as I do.
Yeah -- I bought some puts at 5 expiring in January for a nickel apiece in August... It was pretty obvious there was nothing there and would drop like a stone -- the question was when the market would wake up. I honestly don't understand what the longs are betting on here, either.
Evan thinks he's steve jobs. Lost god knows how many users of Snapchat because he felt compelled to completely redesign the app himself and looks like he off course when Instagram started copying Snapchat's features. A lot of these companies that aren't profitable rush to become public without a proper business model and end up getting crushed ( eg: HMNY company of movie pass) It's no surprise that Snapchat is doing so poorly and lots of us could have called this ahead of time. I really don't see this company being around in 2-3 years.
what way would you suggest? keep in mind that the longer it takes the more people will die/be injured.
I imagine a lot of drivers do not have the luxury to stop driving if it doesn't make sense because Uber has encouraged many to take on financing (either through Uber or elsewhere) for these luxury / more recent vehicles that they would not otherwise have bought.
Sure still achieves the UK.Gov goal, raise additional revenue, don't directly impact citizens.
> I doubt the real answer is for the designer to code

I'm not saying they have to code 100% of everything, but I'm really fed up with having to deal with that sort of "well gosh that's not our issue!" hands off sort of 'design' folks.

Internal design teams that work in the same building as the implementors/devs... maybe a different experience. I'm sometimes brought in and given "mockups" from an external team, done in whatever tool of the day they use, that have little bearing on real world web implementation.

it's apparently beneath some of these folks to learn css/html and use ... you know... a web browser to mock up a web site. i don't care how much 'freedom' some tool gives you, you're just punting the hard implementation to someone else.

Came off a project recently like this - the original team had done 'weeks' of 'design' and 'planning' with an external design firm. "but plan on having some iteration as you discover gaps in the design" sounds nice, but in their mind, they'd already "thought a lot about it" 8 weeks earlier, so any implementation issues I found were somehow... my fault? my problem? "these guys are a really strong design firm..." who don't seem to have ever actually implemented anything they design, from what I could tell.
so i will have to pay all those pills for life to live 3 weeks longer ... hmmmm ...
That's pushing it too far. An image might be represented as 1s and 0s but what it represents is a "real world event" which actually happened. If it was stored on magnetic tape instead of on a hard drive it would still represent the same thing. It's what the event represents (child abuse) which is illegal.

However, a neural network represents a mathematical model, not a specific "real world event". Although I suppose you might argue that since the dataset required to generate it would be illegal, it is illegal?
Everywhere I've worked in the valley in the past 12 years standardized on CentOS.
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It does for shareholders, the only people who matter in a capitalist economy. The only people at all, really, everyone else is just a resource to be maximally extracted from.
Not just any service. For instance, Apple refused to assist the FBI in unlocking the iPhone belonging to one of the late prime suspects in the San Bernadino massacre. Wikileaks is refusing to co-operate with the CIA. Microsoft is resisting the FBIs demand to conduct so-called 'sneak and peek' searches on emails held on foreign servers.

Bowers also had profiles on Twitter and facebook which were probably just as nasty, but we are not hearing any calls to shut those services down.
Sometimes, civil disobedience can be the right way to solve a systemic problem
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Some of them are doing much better at other firms... from what I hear, leaving for SNAP and then coming back two years later at level N+2.
A few years ago these claims would have been considered conspiratorial, and would have yielded public outrage. Now it's just banal and accepted that a municipality and private company got together to manipulate and effectively rob their own citizens.

How have politics become so corrupt? At the early days of the broadly available internet I was sure it would lead to a more informed public, and from that a more accountable, responsible leadership. If anything we have gone in the opposite direction.
Civil disobedience is sometimes necessary. Good on him. I hope he brings more attention to this story so that action may be taken to change the system.
This is false, exporters usually pay taxes on their profits "at home", rather than in the jurisdictions they sell their goods, with the exception of thing like sales taxes.
Going through proper channels failed completely, so all he can do at this point is try to bring attention to it. He's certainly succeeded at that, since this article is the first I've heard of it.
Anne Frank and her family lived in a building where her father worked. Not one he owned. They were hidden there by her father's colleagues. It's as much squatting as Assange's case. Not that it matters, I was simply pointing out the absurdity of trying to make such ridiculous analogies and characterizing people based on that. Also, I don't play shame tag bud.
Get the local news to make a stink.
I obviously was not commenting on the article's content directly but on the doom and gloom scenario that others have, regarding the fall of Facebook (as a company.) Hence I said "as a company" in my original post.
Most likely the parents' income doesn't come in as an annual lump sum either.
In America? hahahahahahahahaha
Sorry Comrade, that would be socialism.
> And how would he get from the Ecuadorian embassy in London to Russia?

Easy! They fly 15 specialists over on a day-trip, equipped with some good music and a bone saw, and every part of him will be in Moscow the same evening.
I love it when people concede that a fact central to their line of reasoning is false, but argue that their conclusion is still true.
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Idk. Also, a bit crazy, but maybe called to say he was going to do it with news coverage, but not actually do it?
Gross taxes are a terrible idea. They just encourage vertical integration. Maybe this will be a simple US style sales tax, in which OK, I still don't like it but it's not as bad.
Maybe this will create small arcade like "museums" where people go to legally play old games with each other.

That would be neat.
The ability / desire / necessity to break laws where those laws are dysfunctional is, at the very least, important, if not essential to a healthy society.

We call this civil disobedience. The article draws attention to this.

From the article: The shortened duration times at the traffic lights generate $32 million for Suffolk County, which is why the county allows the practice to continue despite their own study showing they lead to an increase in accidents with injuries.

The wrong people have been arrested here.

If you can't offer a comprehensive alternative to his actions then your comment lacks substance.
If you read a lot of comments on the same subject, they all start to look the same after a while. I don't know how you could tell the difference between a bot and a bunch of people who share the same ideology.

Either way, it's not a random sample, which is what you'd really need to gauge average opinion.
Any way to get a law in the books that specifies a minimum yellow light duration for a given speed limit?

www.shortyellowlights.com/standards/ has a formula.