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Say my phone catches fire in my pocket and I get some great video.

1) I contact Giant Corp. and say hey, if you don't pay me for this video I'm going to release it tomorrow.

2) I contact Giant Corp. and say hey, this video is going public tomorrow. I'm offering rights for sale to anyone who wants its.

It is effectively the exact same thing but you might get dragged out of your home in the middle of the night for the first one. Those laws are likely unconstitutional. What about threatening to sue a company unless they meet the terms of their contract? That is standard affair but no one would call that blackmail.

Blackmail laws seem like disturbing the peace laws. You are guilty if you piss enough people off without committing a real crime.
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This isn't the raw archive. It's just a collection of all of the released documents from the archive and links to associated news articles that source the archive or release documents from it. As far as I'm aware, you cannot download a tarball or equivalent of the _entire raw archive_.
The biggest group of government sponsored trolls is those of US politics related. Go to any "mainstream" politics subreddit eg /r/politics and I guarantee you half the commenters are paid shills.
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I find that when an article about China is posted on HN, for the problematic posts, there's about an 90/10 split between two groups of trolls:

1. People who disregard everything about TFA, to remind everyone for the five hundredth time about <some unrelated crime by CPC>, and <why are we still trading with them>, and <can't we just build a wall around it>, and <the Chinese come here to steal all our things>. These posts, depending on how inflammatory they are, or what side of the bed HN woke up on, tend to hover slightly positive.

2. Green-named accounts speaking in... Non-perfect English, praising some aspect of China. These usually get downvoted to oblivion.

There's also a lot number of posts that express more-reasoned/more-on-topic pro/anti-China viewpoints. I don't consider them to be trolling, and I don't really care what colors the names of the people posting them are.
Isn’t Steven Universe some American cartoon? Why would the sub for it be relevant to discussions of any kind of politics? What am I missing?

Note that I haven’t seen the cartoon, but from adverts it seemed pretty banal rather than political.
Can we please stop calling him Beto? It's clearly intended to try to appeal to the growing Hispanic electorate by making him sound Hispanic/Latino, when in reality he's totally white and Irish. To pretend otherwise is disingenuous.
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At least they're relatively easy to spot, due to how different English and (presumably) Mandarin are as languages. Check out the quotes from the banned user(s) in TFA, almost all of them have some sort of grammatical error. I've seen comments here with similar errors, pushing extremely pro-china arguments while not actually saying they're from China themselves.

I think the recent issue with the harassment of the Tibetan student council president(?) by Chinese students shows that it doesn't matter whether it's government-sponsored "trolling" or not. If your government punishes people who aren't outspoken in favor of the Party while abroad, then those people are still shilling on behalf of the Party, even if they're not actually paid to do so.
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Are men not being able to cry nowadays.Isn't the last generation "generation snowflake"?
/r/sysadmin might be the most depressing job related sub besides maybe /r/consulting
I think "TacoLand" has a meaning that could be awkward.

The food can be a metaphor for genitalia or for the attached humans. For example a tacofest, much like a sausagefest, is a gathering in which one sex is greatly overrepresented compared to the other. Meat goes in a taco.

So, one can guess what was featured on his BBS.
That was nearly six years ago. Secrets should have lifespans, and governments are notoriously bad at ever deciding that a secret should be released.
That viewpoint seems a little condescending. Maybe people can comprehend exactly what is going on and simply don't care. The type of people who frequent HN will quickly dismiss the "you have nothing to worry about if you have nothing to hide" argument, but it is still the belief held by a wide swath of normal citizens. Many people are perfectly fine with some faceless government entity knowing who they are talking to if that decreases their odds of dying in a terrorist attack by a tiny percentage. I also have yet to see anyone in our tech circles able to clearly establish a link between this surveillance and a negative impact on the day-to-day life of the average American voter. If you want people to make this issue an political priority, you need to do a better job than just appealing to abstract ideals and slippery slope arguments about future dystopias.

It is the same thing with Facebook. It isn't necessarily that people don't know the sacrifices they are making to their own privacy by using Facebook. It is that the utility people get out of Facebook is more valuable to them than any abstract idea of privacy. You need to show people the real world repercussions if you want them to change their behavior or beliefs.
I believe telling small children scary stories so they would refrain from doing something particular damaging is quite common among many cultures.

In Grant Morrison's seminal "Doom Patrol" run, he talks about fairy tales as a means of traumatizing children to prepare them for life.

And when children once grow older or are particularly smart, they would mistrust it and everything adults had told them, clearly more damaging than beneficial.

A lot of this has been lost in modern sanitized re-tellings, but lots of traditional culture is rife with double meanings and subtexts. (I was in a trad fusion band, and I remember the moment when our lead singer started to realize this. Much good-natured ribbing was to be had that day and days after.) My take is that the smart ones are meant to realize that these things aren't to be taken literally. Rather, they are meant as cautionary tales and as a sort of map to the maze of inner feelings and impulses within all human beings. [1]

There is a scene in Larry Niven's The Magic Goes Away where one wizard (Clubfoot) is talking about being one of many young apprentices taken up to a mountaintop by his master. The master wizard enchanted a cloud and let them play bouncing around on it, no warnings, no explanation given. Clubfoot speculated that it might be a sort of implicit test. Any apprentices stupid enough to go back up the mountain and try to jump on an unenchanted cloud would effectively take themselves out of the apprenticeship and the gene pool. This has a lot to do with how I think of traditional stories and myths.

Certainly, yelling at small children or even spanking them is not optimal and often not very helpful but anger is not the evil per se either. The key is to choose wisely how to act on this particular feeling. Suppressing or even disguising it under a friendly facade is not helpful, often even damaging for one’s mental health and relationships.

A lot of this has to do with the cultural environment. If a child is surrounded by people who implicitly enforce certain values and have a certain demeanor, the child will tend to pick that up. Inuit children are the way they are because they are in that particular culture. What US culture apparently does to children strikes me as horrifying. One thing I love my wife for, is that I can see that she's wonderfully nurturing, while I also very much see the "Tiger Mom" within her.

([1] Jordan Peterson's work in this regard is very interesting. Look up his take on Pinnochio.)
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Hi, erikig,

If you have the chance, please have a look at my comments about Steemit in reply to commnts by Simon_says. Steemit is far more than this comment thread has represented thus far, as I hope the quality of my article about the chicken machine might indicate.
the content on Wikipedia should always be able to be recreated from the article’s sources

If Wikipedia only wants content from published sources, then it's going to miss the 99% of history that's not reported on a newspaper web site.
>I want to live a middle class life while making music. Sounds realistic?

Not even remotely. These days the arts are for trust fund kids or risk-takers, not those aspiring to be middle class.
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If a person dumps a paint can into their recycling, that person is not going to clean and sort their waste into multi-stream recycling.
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Yeah that $0.14 per ride may sound reasonable, until you realize (as someone pointed out earlier) that it's essentially a EC2 t3.xlarge for one whole hour. Now, imagine that your model requires a 4CPU, 16GB RAM server to handle just one ride per hour - is that really efficient?
In the spirit of science, I suggest you actually listen to what Wakefield says from his own mouth.

A few points most people don't know:

1. He wasn't against vaccines.

2. He found a "correlation" between gut inflammation and autism.

3. His paper in the 90s didn't say vaccines caused autism. (that I recall reading anyway)
When people talk about anti-GG they are talking about centralised groups of game journalists like the GameJournoPros private chat where video game journalists discussed and organised how to handle GG. This was after the journalists in that chat released articles with a similar gamers are dead narrative.

Heres my evidence:
http://www.deepfreeze.it/article.php?a=gjp

These are all substantiated facts that prove you wrong, I don't care that you are wrong for all I know you are a bot. But I wanted to show how to make an argument in good faith and substantiate your claims, it's up to you what you do with that.
They also have the cable internet. My parents wanted to keep both. She got cable internet one summer when I stayed with them and I needed to work remotely. Cable sucks about as badly. The speed and the price is about what you would expect (35/5) but the 300Gb data cap is ridiculous.

I’m surprised that AT&T doesn’t just try to transistion their few remaining DSL customers to the cable company. I’m sure that the cable company would offer a bounty for them and keeping the internet backend must cost AT&T something.
Ugh that complicated things for sure.
According to this article and comments here I should be getting paid simply for disagreeing with the pro-USA nonsense everywhere. Where do I apply?
Oh the quality of life behaviors of residents that use a very small percentage of the water? Residents use 10% of the water, 50% of the water is "environmental" and is dumped into the ocean for the smelt, etc.[0]

[0] https://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/
This quote gets me thinking about how snow is treated in this system.

It isn't like water in a stream because it stays where it is. It isn't like a reservoir or aquifer because the water isn't trivially dispatchable.

I suppose it depends where the snow is, some could be 'permanent', some seasonal melt, some gone by next week.

So really we should be differentiating the different types of snow?
> In an ideal world, Rust's lifetime management would be automatically derived by the compiler (in several cases, when it's simple, it already is).

This is exactly the type of work that's gone into the language over the last few years. It's actually quite rare with non-lexical lifetimes (and the advancements before it) that you need to explicitly call out the lifetimes anymore.

I think the language is moving in the direction you want.
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Fascinating. Almost every comment is either outrage or blaming Western media perception of China.

Are these real? Professional trolls? Probably a bit of both? Can we even tell them apart?

I guess we just to be skeptical of everything you read online, but damn is it exhausting. Easier to just cut off these data streams and just live life ignorant. "ignorance is bliss"
Why do people have that right? I don't feel that right on behalf of my corpse, and I'm not aware of any legislation indicating as much. What I DO think people have a right to is to not see that content, if they so choose.

As far as being right wing propaganda, the video could be seen as propaganda for all kinds of agendas, but that doesn't automatically call for censorship. Jussie Smollet case is a good example of how right wing violence is jumped on by left wing activists as a means to demonize their opposition, in much the same way an uninformed "Social Justice Warrior" screaming that "all heterosexual intercourse is rape" is more likely to bolster right wing opposition than encourage other leftists to follow suit.
It dominates the profits (87%)[1] which probably correlates with the premium subscriber market.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/03/02/apple-con...
Good to see a fellow MUME player! (current or ex :)

> the gameplay balance was horrible.

I think I know what you're getting at, but it would depend on when you played the game.

What balance did you find horrible, and roughly what year was that finding?

Thanks!
The problem is that you can't have a tram/bus there because the population density for that part of the trip is too low to justify it. An empty bus is worse than a single occupant car.
Ah! I had Swordfish in mind but my brain blanked and I couldn't think of the name. For Hackers, I have no excuse.
It seems that when an actor announces their plan and then provokes, response is to the provocation not the plan.

Similar to Bin Laden's goal of bankrupting his enemies by luring them into never ending wars.
> And hasn’t pretty much almost anyone driven drunk at least once?

No...
yes, geo ip ranges can accomplish close to this
~80/90s hackers aren't really the same thing as most post 00 hackers. A lot of people were in it because they were curious about this new thing and the opportunities to explore something and express themselves. The same way you would in other emerging cultures. Those aren't bad qualities.
You seem to hvae a very black and white view of how history unfolds. There isn't a single moment when the tide turns (and I don't believe it has). It's the result of small things adding up over time.

Since the late '90s, states and local communities have argued that Amazon's ability to skirt charging local sales tax in most states gave it an unfair price advantage. It took years for the laws to close that loophole because we didn't previously have a major business that could sell exclusively online without opening in-state stores.

> They got large because they built things people wanted.

Again, this is a selective reading of history. Amazon was making losses consistently until about 2004, 10 years into its life. It was kept afloat by investors and lenders, not customers.
But if it can produce it faster, more reliably, in greater volumes, and with industrial grade parts to extend its useful life ...?

It's not just the coffee that's "the end result."
But Spotify can’t even tell users how to upgrade to premium according to Apple’s rules. The best they can say is “You can’t upgrade to Premium in the app. We know, it’s not ideal.”
Yes and no.

Anytime a li-ion battery is charging, discharging, or even just sitting there the chemistry is breaking down slowly. Charging at higher speeds, charging at higher temperatures, etc. all speed up that break down.

> Supercharging does measurable damage to batteries.

However, I'm calling bullshit on this statement, unless by "measurable" you mean you will maybe lose 1% more battery capacity (which would be maybe 3 miles of range) than someone who coddled their battery. Measurable? Barely. Meaningful? Not really.

My Model S is 5 years old and at 80,000 miles, and I supercharge regularly. My battery has gone from 265 miles to 260, which is inline with what is expected.
> I know 2 dozen people with 3s purchased in the last 8 months

What's the population size of people who you know who purchased any car in the last 8 months?
i moved house recently. people keep buying me IoT housewarming gifts.

i'd rather receive a potato with a telnet chip jammed into it because at least i can turn it into gnocchi.
It might be too late for you to see this, but this is an option in the hamburger menu, even if no pop-up window shows up when you start Firefox.
It was a close race, and he lost. That seems like an impact.
I use Kiwix to do that. Much simpler. Plus they provide other dumps too. So allows you to play with say wikipedia and stackoverflow simultaneously.
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And common use the word theory describes something unproven or speculative. Evidence is great, but in the presence of undisputable evidence we wouldn't call it a consiracy theory but simply a conspiracy.
What? This is quite a jumble of assumptions. Sampling in most hip-hop is to create something new. Electronic pieces like those made by Wendy Carlos, William Orbit, Ulrich Schnauss, etc, actually sound like modern interpretations. It's nothing to do with what is lacking or otherwise in older pieces of music. If anything classical music is gaining popularity among certain listeners, although I'm not sure if that's due to an ageing listener or modern composers, film and TV scores, etc. Personally, there is very little in modern music that I haven't heard before (I quite like avant garde music for this reason), so I deliberately listen to older pieces of music to hear something new, whether that is jazz, classical music, etc.
Not always. Nintendo was making a profit in each Wii sold, as a unit, from day one.
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It's a trend, like yo-yos or pokemon. People see other people doing it, it looks fun, so they join in. Facebook and youtube have made it easy for people to join in on the fun.

What you need to understand is that for a minority of people who take truth, facts, reason and science very seriously, flat earth is infuriating. But for a lot of people who are just looking to have some fun, it turns out to be a lot of fun. The protests from the first group that you shouldn't joke about things like that, that it's wrong to be wrong, etc just sweeten the deal for the people having fun. It's trolling in the classic sense.

For most of them. Of course when you have people pretending to be idiots inevitably a few real idiots will join in, thinking themselves in good company. But for the most part flat earther arguments are constructed with obvious comedic intent that very serious people seem blind to.

Or you can think of it this way: being wrong is a taboo, and some people enjoy challenging that taboo.
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A vocal and significant fraction of any community of reasonable size is going to be populated by blowhards.
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I don't think I follow. Is your perspective that the extent to which it's possible to experience fun and/or enjoyment of art is not - at all - constrained by having to politely sit still?
Sure. Check the presentation slides.

https://github.com/Microsoft/MSRC-Security-Research/tree/mas...
I can't say that I agree completely with the message from this story, but I do think the point would be stronger if the last bit was changed to:

The American said, “Then you would retire. Move to an exclusive coastal tourist village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your grandkids, take strolls with your third wife, go to an expensive place in the evenings where you could sip fancy wine and watch people who remind you of your old amigos play the guitar.”
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What is a "telnet chip"? Quick google came up empty.
"Disrupters" are just temporarily embarrassed status quo fatcats.
You mean can we trust the Pulitzer Prize winning staff of Buzzfeed News or can we trust the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist organization Buzzfeed News?

Because I don't know if you know this, but many members of the staff of Buzzfeed News have won Pulitzer Prizes and the organization was a finalist in both 2017 and 2018. The accuracy of their reporting is no more suspect than any other well-respected media organization.
As dams probably not, as aquifier recharge projects there's a lot underway as far as I understand.
I don't think Tesla wants the credit. Open source patents and a simple desire to drive adoption of technology.

I think the eye brow around the criticism is people creating a straw man to knock down.

Tesla doesn't ask for credit and only seems to celebrate the successes which are big wins for all of us regardless of whether we buy their cars or not.

If the critique is that they miss production goals, then the defense is that hey are doing remarkably well for any company attempting to overcome these challenges.

If the critique is that _because_ they are missing production goals they don't deserve praise then well....they didn't ask for praise for it so folks can just keep it and move along.
I don't at all agree. The DNC had a system to allow rigging, and I'd willing to bet my lunch they still do. If they had a system of rigging - why do you think they would give that up what would their incentive be to do that? They didn't want Bernie then, they don't now, it's the same people in the organization.

But... Because neither of us can possibly prove it. I guess we'll just wait and see. I believe they just won't let him and they'll either do it by rigging more subtly this time, or have Warren there only to split his votes. Either way, it'll be more interesting than the "show" they put on last time with Webb and Chafey bowing before Hillary.
downvoters probably believe they're isolated incidents of mental illness.
No, because doing their job is something they ostensibly said they wanted to do when they took the job
> He named his BBS "TacoLand".

It certainly wouldn't have been unusual for a young Beto O'Rourke (or any other Texan) to have tacos on his mind for any number of reasons, but "Taco Land" was the name of a punk bar in San Antonio. It was well known to Texas punks and their ilk and was immortalized by the Dead Milkmen in the late 80s by their song "Tacoland".
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I have some spare time to learn to improve and structure my time better.

I remember seeing lots of recommendations for GTG couple of yrs ago but not so much now.
> a mid-range sedan, and a mid-range SUV

Is there a definition for mid-range vs luxury? I wouldn't consider a sedan that starts at $35K (with an average sale price of $60K), or an SUV that starts at $47K (over 50% higher than the median US worker's gross personal income[0]) mid-range. Both the Mercedes A-class and Audi A3 start at $32.5K even.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...
>> So, how's this $8M per month?

Microservices? :-)
True, but I posit the opportunity cost of them not recycling is less than the current actual cost of tainted materials from single stream.