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The US itself is likely safe. Not many militaries are capable of occupying most of a continent across an ocean. But the absence of strong democratic militaries could easily put subjugation of much of Eastern Europe by Russia, or East Asia by China within the realm of possibility. The latter may be more willing to use gunboat diplomacy in Africa if their loans aren't repaid.
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> outdated notions of "intellectual property."

Could you elaborate? What is wrong with current notion of intellectual property? What is outdated about it?

In general I see this point targeting patents, not the whole concept of IP.
> 4) any contact whatsoever with child services has a strong negative effect

What direction is the cause and which the effect here? Is it possible or even likely that environment and other influences not conducive to highly intelligent outcomes are also positively correlated with contact with child protective services? That seems more likely than contact with child services, as if randomly assigned, was in and of itself the source of most of the harm.
This is true, but these were side services. The core service of having a phone number was, I think, universal the way having a street address is. I mean not so much legally as in popular imagination. Like you can write fan letters to serial killers on death row, if you wish, and nobody is scandalised that the USPS will deliver your letter like any other.
What is the case for NYT labelling Carl Benjamin as "anti-feminist"? He was involved in gamergate, but I don’t believe he’s against equal rights for all genders. I suppose "feminist" means different things to different people.

I also find this to be vague and unclear. Hate speech is bad, but who defines it? His use of the n-word was targeted ironically towards alt-righters. Why is that self evidently off limits? Is referring to the use of the n-word in a context where you are defining it also off limits? How can we be sure it is not? Patreon is not very clear on this in my eyes.
Is there a similar conversion tool for Flow types?
I should do that, but it seems like a Band-Aid solution to the real problem which is poor performance.
> On the matter of value: I suspect that if we find ourselves able to send a message back in time two years (when BTC was less than $1,000 USD) and report that the price is now over $3,700, that we'll find this message to be met with an understanding that this is, at least, a validation of the use of blockchain tech as a store of value

So just ignore everything in between?
Yah, sounds great...

> I suspect that if we describe the details of the lightning network in this message and report that transactions are radically faster and cheaper for retail-scale use, that we'll hear cheers about blockchain utility as a currency.

The lightning network is an overcomplicated joke, which requires on-chain transactions to seed, massive amounts of capital tied up into it, always-on participants etc. It also suffers from fundamental problems around routing, payment contention etc. A year on from its launch, it still has negligible uptake, and fails to really take any load off BTC.

Further, its very existence points to a massive failure in the underlying cryptocurrency as a payment network. I look at lightning and see two failures, not one success.

> Let's hear in our mind's voice about the next cohort of decentralized tech...

Very, very few people care about decentralised money, or decentralised tech as a whole. For most, the very nature of it represents a huge step backwards in usability and reliability compared to fast, lightweight, insured and reversible centralised systems.

> Let's celebrate all the adoption they report to us

There are virtually zero positive outcomes for blockchain tech, a decade on. Time to let it rot on the pile of might-have-been's
We already have systems to develop extremism. That's how these extremists have arisen. What we need is to develop systems that combat and drive out extremism.
Proposing or fixing a bug in a third party product should not affect a web standard. If you want my personal help to assist the NodeJS fix, yeah, I would be good there, but I can’t fix the toxic bikeshed culture that you obviously enjoy. MJS is NodeJS solution. It is not a web solution.
What is even involved in finding a buyer for $10mm btc in usd and then getting that usd into a legal/compliant bank account? Sounds non-trivial. It's my understanding from some work I did for a crypto startup that there is approximately zero usd/btc liquidity, the apparent "usd liquidity" and "usd price" last year was actually dominated by tether-btc and tether-eth liquidity. There was not actually a functional usd/btc market at any point, at least not with liquidity necessary to justify a statement like "startup X holds $10m btc" and this whole thing is a bunch of twenty-five year old entrepreneurs learning about macroeconomics the hard way.
hackaday is pretty interesting for general purposes

I think individual topic subreddits are valuable too, but their quality varies depending upon popularity and moderation (a lack of both, usually)
As the kids say these days: you accidentally said the quiet part out loud :)

When it was Margaret Sanger being prosecuted for distributing information about contraception, well, there's a perfectly reasonable justification for that law! Women can't just go around having sex without consequences! When it was theaters refusing to book touring companies of South Pacific, well, it's Communist to say that interracial marriage is OK! And we're at war with Communism! When it was movie studio associations and comic book publisher associations enforcing "codes" to avoid having formal censorship imposed on them by law, well, topics like sex and drugs are objectionable, and people shouldn't be encouraged to question authority figures!

The people complaining today about being "silenced" tend to hold the same types of views as their predecessors who used to do the silencing. And their predecessors didn't stop at just boycotting or otherwise exercising their right of free association (and disassociation). Even if it's not, in the end, held to be fair play, turnabout is a nice source of schadenfreude.
As I've said numerous times elsewhere in this discussion, I find him to be an offensive and unlikable person. In this immediate thread of conversation, I was responding to the suggestion that a line should be drawn at the advocacy of genocide by pointing out that he doesn't seem to cross that line, at least as far as I've seen.

I fear people are getting the wrong idea by not noticing the full context of my above comments. I hope we've now reached a mutual understanding.
ESR doesn’t know of the Actor programming model. Intersting. In all honesty, neither did I until 16 months ago. Now I’m transitioning our parallel code to an Actor model.
I see him throwing the slurs people in his stream are using back at them.

>Exactly how you describe black people acting is the impression I get dealing with the Alt Right. I’m really, I’m just not in the mood to deal with this kind of disrespect.”

He's saying that these people are acting in exactly the manner they are accusing others of acting, and he's using their slurs to make the comparison.
Markets are moving much faster but we’re still using the same scale on the x axis (time). We’ve seen a 4,000 point drop so far but if that occurred over a one year period we would have called it a recession. However if the market recovers in the next few months we’ll interpret this as the continuation if a 10-year bull market.
Surely? Doing this in any meaningful way requires so much insight into the human mind and culture.
I also appreciated one of the first replies: "Didn't hear many complaints about robots on way up"
Solution architecture may incorporate non-software related concepts and processes, thus defining the role of solution architect broader than role of software architect and requiring bigger set of skills (e.g. when some process should be implemented without software via manual labor, you‘ll need certain understanding of human psychology to evaluate its efficiency). As a solution architect you solve a business problem, using software as necessary. As software architect you focus only on those business problems, which require software. That’s the difference, as it should be (but quite often it’s just one or another marketing tag, as you correctly suggest).
If Ferrara tried to make health claims or tried to market to under 16's they'd be regulated. Here's one example where they were found to be complying with the code after complaints were made: https://www.asa.org.uk/rulings/ferrero-uk-ltd-a18-444638.htm...
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People just latch on to these identities (anti-fem, fem, racist, anti-racist, whatever) because it's an easy way to feel like you are important or what you say matters without having done anything noteworthy or without anything original to say. It is such a big deal to others because we as a society have jumped the shark in regards to "actually matters." It is one of many twisted end-games of post-modernism, an infatuation with the mobius strip of self-criticism and pointless navel-gazing. Incitement to violence only works if people want an excuse to be incited. Zealous tribalism is only relevant because people need the comfort of a mob in order to act out. Neither an individuals screams into an echo chamber, or the response of some forum are any more novel than the previous decades of talk radio or cable television. Hell is other peoples' need to feel relevant in a world where your 15 minutes feels like it is just a few mouse-clicks away. Taking this BS so seriously is just as dumb as any hate-rant. Taking it seriously is the ONLY thing that gives it power and turns it into a memetic pathology that may destroy the world.
> It's not "fascism" or "trump" that we should be afraid of.

If you don't have anything to fear from Trump, that's nice for you, but given that he's openly calling for me and people dear to me to have our civil rights revoked, it's pretty shitty of you to tell me that I shouldn't be afraid of him.
> So we should do away with them?

With some unpopular opinions, yes.

> Your comment is illogical.

Could you explain why?
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Funny that crypto is being called industry.
>>The most important factor for reducing the death rate is economic development.

Don't forget not murdering people, please. I think it's very important not to murder people.
Looks to be a U.S. military-oriented The Onion-style parody news site.
That report was flagged to death on HN because those numbers are not trustworthy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736425
I have an unpopular opinion.

Do you think this is actually an unpopular opinion, or just one not well represented by the two dominant national political parties in America? You mention elsewhere that you are from small-town Wisconsin. I grew up there also (Ladysmith) and now live in a small town in Vermont. I feel like this attitude is still quite common in rural America.

The downside of this framework is that it's hard to justify things like the Civil Rights movement (which I presume you agree was a mostly a positive?). How does one draw a line between "restaurants must serve customers regardless of race" and "businesses can choose not to offer services to racists"? Or does one give up on the first as well, and hope that the force of capitalism is strong enough to fill the gap?
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Well I'm just saying it looks like we're close. Just based on the pieces being prototyped already. There's people on this thread posting photoreal fake videos, text generators exist at least as satire sites (POMO generator), and it's not like you couldn't make a tree of story elements.

Someone is gonna glue those pieces together and make it a business.
You could support .es file types which would work just as well and is more succinct than .mjs, but AFAIK the group won’t because of “branding” issues. Bull. Use .es. Standard semantics for ECMSScript which is the name of the language, no games or pretence.
It boils down to DSLs with interpreters, using underlying primitive actions in a command pattern. The interpreter allows for optimizations. Using the idea repeatedly allows for the formation of boundaries, key ideas is to treat a framework as a bundle of commands and write an interpreter for that. Not many good resources in my opinion; I'm not fully sold on the free monad or tagless final stuff, mainly because I find it hard to read despite a good amount of study.
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Yep, the rules definitely make sense here.

Key being 'make a good game to begin with'. Too many licensed games just take the IP, slap it on a poorly done, generic template and call it a day.

Of course, there are some exceptions to every rule here. Ecks vs Sever was a series of two amazing video games based on one of the worst films of all time. In that case, ignoring the IP altogether was probably the best move.
I am not the person to which you are asking, but I would be _very_ interested in more detailed ways on how to correctly diversify investments in the most safe way possibile.
I have a soapbox.

I like to stand up on it and yell out my views. Sometimes I let my friends use it that way, too.

Some guy comes along and would like to use my soapbox to yell out his views. But I don't like him and I don't agree with his views.

Would you like the government to come force me at gunpoint to let him use my soapbox?

What you're arguing, basically, is that once my soapbox gets popular enough that lots of people want to use it, you do want the government to force me, at gunpoint, to let them use it even when I find their views repugnant.

Or, basically, what this person said, and they said it better and in fewer words:

https://twitter.com/lessdismalsci/status/1076488300188307456
>Then you see counter-arguments, like "well if you don't want to get banned, don't say bad things!" But then, who decides what's bad?

That's easy: whoever owns the platform.
If I own the platform, Daily Stormer isn't going to be using it. I don't want to be associated with those morons, so I'm not going to do business with them. If it's my platform and my business, I have every right to refuse to do business with those people.

If you want to be fair and equal and give everyone equal access no matter how vile their viewpoint, then you need to make a government service that doesn't discriminate. But then, you may have a big problem with the voters if the government is funding something the voters don't like. That's the nature of democratic governments: people collectively decide what they, as a nation and society, are going to allocate resources towards. So it's the voters' right to refuse to provide a platform for this unliked minority as well.

>So, there are problems that people have, and things that need to be talked about, but they aren't allowed to say anything about it.

If you feel that way, you have every right to set up your own platform and allow those people access to it. But if you're giving access to literal Nazis, I also have the right to shun you, which I will. If you want to willingly associate with that type of scum, then I'm going to assume that you're cut from the same cloth.
While the article incorrectly conflates being anti-feminist with being against gender equality[1], it’s worth noting that the ban was not for anti-feminist content, but for other improper speech which may or may not be highly contextual.

But somehow they decided to ban Milo too, making it much less clear what these bans are all about.

Patreon might want to make it clear at this point whether their guidelines are political or not.

[1] I’d rather argue modern day feminist oppose gender equality by constantly promoting special privileges for women. As such being anti-feminist means being pro gender equality.
Modern GCs do a lot to improve performance by using temporal locality, not just the memory layout / access pattern locality that ESR was primarily interested in. I am no expert, but we now have multiple generation, multiple phase garbage collectors that can do useful work in parallel and have minimized the need for stop the world processing (one of ESR's intrinsically serial processes, at least from the executing program's perspective, as it may be an internally parallelizable process).
Now I'm wondering how effective SteamOS is at making sure it suggests the optimal Nvidia drivers that work with your given graphics card, cause all it takes is one update to the Nvidia software and now it no longer works. I'm hoping AMD has improved support so I can just replace the Nvidia card I have (I've never been an Nvidia guy to begin with anyway).

If SteamOS can somewhat maintain proper graphics driver stability I would be all in for it. I'm still unsure why they didn't base their distro off of Ubuntu instead of Debian, or hell even openSUSE (a personal underrated favorite of mine).
1. Start getting help for my depression and other mental health related issues.
I've been dealing with depression for years now, been officially diagnosed about two or three years ago. I've had a few sessions with a therapist last year but I've broke off all contact with them since. I also have another mental problem which keeps me from eating 90% of food, which makes social gatherings in restaurants etc. a pain.

2. Start exercising more.
I've bought myself some dumbbells earlier this year, and I've used them less than I'd like to admit. I wanna gain some strength to protect myself and other people from others, as well as have the strength to help people with moving etc. since i had to help with that a few times this year.

3. Get back into programming as a hobby.
I'm slowly starting to regret turning my hobby into my job. I love programming, but when i get home from work i have no energy nor enthusiasm left to touch any of my personal projects. I'd love to add a bunch of planned features to my website which has about 1.4k unique users a day on average, but i need to get my motivation back first.

4. Contribute more to open source.
This year I've made a whooping 4 pull requests to open source projects. Half of them one-liners. I've been part of this community for a while now and i feel the need to return something to it.

5. Do more volunteer work.
I've donated to a lot of charities this year, but there's only so much money i have left at the end of the month. I have a lot more free time than money, so I plan on spending some of my afternoons a bit different.
I think you mean "pedantry".
Instead of forcing this joke of a file extension, it would be far better to make a breaking change in a semver major release and do away with commonjs.

There is no usecase for having two module syntaxes at the same time. All the big projects already use babel or typescript. The community would catch up eventually.
I'm not sure what the parent was referencing, but at the very least the Polynesian cultures record a story[1] of man learning to make fire from birds. It's possible this oral tradition has its foundations in an actual event from pre-history.

[1] http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/maui/maui13.htm
For those wondering, there’s a setting to allow all games to use proton, not just white listed games. The wording of the setting is ambiguous, but it seems to choose linux first, and proton only if linux is not supported. With Steam’s generous refund policy, I’ve been able to try some of the indie titles I would’ve had to pass up previously.
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> Ah, but who's more likely to do these things?

Look no further than the United States and its historical relationship with labor and corporations (when its government was much smaller), for the reasons you just quoted.

I'm not saying "big government" guarantees the opposite, but corporations have already shown us what they will do with less restrictions and oversight. They'll fill spice cans with dust and sell it as black pepper. They'll penalize break time so heavily that workers will have to defecate where they stand in the sausage plant. They'll pay as little as possible and almost-starve their employees so that they have no energy or resources to do anything except continue working.
Pretending or just ignoring because Electron is 95% developer benefit and 5% user benefit (only because the app might not exist otherwise).
There's a clear difference between "I don't promise this works" and "I've broken this on purpose and knowingly hidden it from you."
And yet, should it become illegal for people to exchange fiat for crypto and for domiciled entities to own crypto all the decentralisation in the world wouldn't help.
In America, we have 3 branches of government with checks and balances additionally we have very difficult to modify rights given in the constitution. Things are not likely to change.
That's less for ideological grounds and entirely to do with the chargebacks that ensue when the wife finds the bill and the husband denies everything, insisting the card was stolen, and the shitty business models of shady outfits opting you into recurring subscriptions that require your using a credit card as "age verification." All of it gets contested and it's more trouble than it's worth.
It's an interesting phenomenon, I always wondered if those complaints/movements are driven by rising inequality, lack of opportunities, laziness, naivety or something else?
Yes I think this 8 hour figure actually causes more people to lose sleep more than anything else.
Yup. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/06/tap/ has better sources and traces it back to 1908.
> turnabout is a nice source of schadenfreude

The problem with the, "ha! now you're getting yours!" attitude is that the situation will inevitably flip, and "your" side will be on the receiving end. Again. Rinse, repeat.

Meanwhile, the power of the tools keeps growing until one day, it will be absolute. Whoever is on the wrong side of the ideological coin flipping when that happens will be in big trouble.
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That reminds me of blancing the power curve in a game. Players want to feel like they're getting more powerful, which essentially translates to making the game easier. But too easy and it's not fun anymore, it becomes boring. Even though the player has gotten everything they thought they wanted.
I wrote all that and this is the only response you have to me? I guess you have everything figured out, and there's no need to consider any viewpoints opposed to yours.
Would you ban her from Instagram?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/27/middleeast/kuwait-philippines...

I can assure you the life of domestic indentured servants in the Khaleej is much worse than that of blacks in america today.
Backwards compatibility with C89 copy-paste semantics, which is only simple for those that never read ISO C documents, and the goal to design a powerfull expressive language, that allows any developer to create libraries, which in other programming languages require compiler and runtime support instead.

Plus even other languages that appear simple, are only so for those that don't really know the complete language standard.

Python is my favourite example, as it is demeed as simple language for begginers, yet the language + library reference PDFs are also a couple of thousand pages long, and there are so many PEPs that hardly anyone can pinpoint which is the minimum Python version to execute a random piece of sample code.
I wonder if there's a way to create a "no assholes" rule that almost everyone could get behind. It'd be hard to come up with for sure.