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There is no mystery whatsoever.

The video is footage of someone murdering people, and the manifesto is a mess right wing islamophobia and strange call-outs.

Both are offensive both at a basic human level, and under the legal definition here in NZ.

There's no information hole - the contents of the video and the manifesto have been very widely reported.

What do you really expect to learn that you can't already learn from the reporting?
Well, they're tracking the location of the university not the nationality of the student and the absolute best students go to MIT/Stanford even if they're from outside the US. I haven't read the paper but the article here says:

> But the researchers corrected for this by separating out anyone who didn't list English as their native language; the gap was unaffected.

But this only corrects for half the equation; it removes foreign students from elite US institutions but does not "add them back" to their home country's results. Tsinghua may have a gap of students that went to Stanford instead. Though I'm a little skeptical that this accounts for much of the effect. China and India have too many top students for the US to steal enough of them to effect the outcome this severely and it's unlikely the test is able to separate the one-in-a-million students from the one-in-a-thousand stduents.
Not if the engineers were assured the pilots would be trained to quickly recognize trim issues and flip off the MCAS when it started misbehaving.
Yes..... but historically a lot of middle class housing was luxury housing 20 years prior. You can see this in older areas all the time. I think a place like Boulder - smaller city, with most of its wealth and housing problems coming from national recognition and “lifestyle appeal” - is in a slightly different boat than most places.
The biggest issue is that the insects are dying because of pesticides and fertilizers. And it's getting worse:

“The main cause of the decline is agricultural intensification,” Sánchez-Bayo said. “That means the elimination of all trees and shrubs that normally surround the fields, so there are plain, bare fields that are treated with synthetic fertilisers and pesticides.” He said the demise of insects appears to have started at the dawn of the 20th century, accelerated during the 1950s and 1960s and reached “alarming proportions” over the last two decades.

The 2.5% rate of annual loss over the last 25-30 years is “shocking”, Sánchez-Bayo told the Guardian: “It is very rapid. In 10 years you will have a quarter less, in 50 years only half left and in 100 years you will have none.”

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeti...

So...either we stop using intensive agg practices and our global food production goes down and we starve, or we kill all the bugs and the food web collapses.

I'm predicting between this, plastic, massive garbage problems and climate change we're most likely going to have mass migration, war, disease and famine outbreaks in the next twenty years. Like a billion+ dead outbreaks. As far as I can see the entire industrial revolution has been a giant externality on nature.

It saddens me that me and everyone around me will have to live through this.
Cycle lanes tend to be designed for speeds below that which a cyclist of even average ability is capable (otherwise, they would tend to more closely resemble roads).

Sheltered from motorised traffic, they cater to a wider age, experience and ability range, and the fact that they are typically narrower than roads exacerbates problems that arise from mixed-ability/experience users sharing same facility.

Features of cycle lanes[1] tend to put cyclists in closer proximity to pedestrians than they would be on a road, and this creates a lack of physical and psychological separation that further reduces practical speed (and utility). They also create new challenges such as situations[2] requiring a cyclist to observe a 270°-arc on the approach to a junction. In the last example, it doesn't matter if I have right of way, and it doesn't matter if I'm wearing a helmet; all it takes is a motorist not to be paying attention or to misjudge my speed and I could be the victim of a fatal accident, and that's not a risk that I'm willing to take.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/CkAxcE5.jpg
[2] https://i.imgur.com/0q9PadV.jpg
I agree with most of your points in general, but Boeing tried as hard as possible to pretend MCAS needed no training. There WAS no simulator scenario to train on for this failure.
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Ever browsed the Web on an Android tablet? I'm a little concerned with installing apps that require full access to my location, files and everything else that should not be shared. Maybe there is a trustworthy chrome add on that would not require all of these escalated privlages that you could suggest?
On the face of that, this seems like a nonsensical objection.

In my view, obviously "middle class housing" is just "average quality housing"; as more luxury homes are built, existing housing stock will start to be considered as middle class or working class.

Further, this is how things have worked historically; in most cities I have been in, the working class housing stock is invariably older, and was originally built for other purposes, eg, a mansion now turned into apartments, or a middle class house now turned into a duplex, or simply a bunch of originally middle class tract housing now that the middle class can afford better. We have not historically, nor are we now, building large amounts of purpose-built working class housing.

> If only luxury housing gets built eventually the amount of middle class housing will become too scarce.

If housing of any type is built, then housing will not be scarce. If no housing of any type is built, then housing will be scarce. Worrying about the type seems like misguided micromanaging.
They are taking a few Billion a year from Google for search placement after that any marketing they do about privacy is mostly bull.
What does grow ads mean? FUD?

YouTube Premium is ad-free, it says so in their frontpage. Are you saying that's a blatant lie?

That doesn't address my point that content producers should get paid.

From YouTube Premium ad: "Ad-free YouTube, and our new music streaming service, YouTube Music. Services: No ads, Downloads, Background play."
While not an official statement, this forum post from a Spark employee is worth a read: https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=184&topicid=24...

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I am NOT officially empowered to talk about this but I want to shut down any conjecture right now.

No actions of Spark taken now or over the next 24 hours or so should be considered representative of policy. They may turn out to be temporary, they may even with hindsight not be considered the best move. However the number of direct links going around to certain sites and threads where some truly horrific and almost certainly illegal material was being hosted met a threshold for immediate and extraordinary action. We're killing the DNS entries for a couple of sites.

I should note that this had approval from the highest levels, and we're not the only ISP doing this.

Right now is where we all get a chance to demonstrate our humanity in the face of a terrible tragedy. Reach out and help people. I know many people in Chch and around the country that are in shock. I know I am - and I know there are hundreds or thousands of people that are directly massively impacted by this today.

At some point in the near future we'll evaluate what to roll back. But not today.

Cheers - Neil Gardner
"I don't see any problem with a government who is freely elected enacting laws that allow slavery."

I cannot help but read your comment like this. Just because a government is freely elected, it does not make their actions just. To use a very tired example, Hitler rose to power through the actions of a freely elected government.

In an ideal world the judiciary would moderate improper laws, but we live in an imperfect world and the US has many examples where our judiciary has failed in this regard.
Is explained in the article. It has a double nationality US-Irish.
Well, the Obama administration were the ones who ignored the Russia meddling. They knew about this for months. But President Obama opted to not call Russia out on it publicly or inform the American people. In fact, his administration didn’t even draw public attention to this until October, just weeks before the election.

They also ignored violations of the nuclear treaty, various previous hacking attempts, cancelled missile defenses in Eastern Europe, allowed Russia to sell air defenses to Iran.
The Obama Administration was extremely soft on Russia.
This is obvious to anyone who lives in the real world.

Add 10k $1MM apartments to San Francisco and it won’t do anything appreciable for people making $55,000/yr. it will just attract more millionaires and investors.

Trickle down anything is paper theory for your intro micro course. By the time you learn about externalities and non-linear equations you quickly realize it doesn’t play out in reality the way you want it to.

Maybe the term isn’t really that misleading though. The concept of trickle down is kind of like a clogged rain gutter. Sure, a few drops trickle down, but most of the water just piles up.
As you suggested if there are no floats there would be no reason to NOT use the better algorithm. I personally don't use floats often and definitely not inside paragraphs.

As suggested by others bad line-breaking has a bad effect on the large reading population.

Also I hope they can do the thing to adjust spaces on the line so all lines look about the same length.
Twitter (and Facebook and any other online site) has Terms of Use policies that all customers must abide by if you want to use their platform. If you don't follow their rules, they can remove your content or your account. That is their right since it's their platform and you agreed to their rules when you signed up. If you don't like their policies you have the freedom to not use their platforms.
Nobody is developing properties to leave them vacant, so any time you build housing you increase housing supply.
So just like after 9/11 in the US, the terrorists win. They scare the powers that be into making life worse for an entire country's citizens. I guess people never learn from history. Both corporations and the government end up doing the terrorists' bidding while thinking they are protecting people. The people have no say. I bet the shooters are laughing from their cells just like al quada did from its caves. Terrorism all around. I'm sure this is just the beginning just like 9/11 was just the beginning of a terror campaign mostly waged by our own government here in the US.
Actually, it's conservative. How many times per hour can you push a tape in and press "play" then click "record"?

But hey, I've digitized a hundred or so home movie tapes for my extended family. I'm sure I've got it all wrong.
Wow. Yikes!
I've always thought cities with a snowy season would be great candidates for bike lanes. Bicycling drops dramatically in the winter, so the bike lanes sit mostly unused. This makes them a good place to deposit excess snow.
Apple has sketched out their middle ground here: differential privacy. They're already using this for e.g. QuickType suggestions. However I still agree there is a significant risk here.
Not a Boeing driver, but in a few GA aircraft I flew, runaway trim can happen regardless of AP on/off status.
Social class and education level perhaps?

I feel like the awareness about the dangers of social media and cellphone usage is higher in people who are affine to tech and education.

Implied would be an exploitative effect of what big tech companies are doing (to people)
Do you have a reputable source for this? All I can find is from fringe sites.
Why? because Australia and NZ have large immigrant populations (in fact, are large immigrant populations) that contain many races. Racial disharmony causes huge problems, and creates the real possibility of violence, mayhem and bloodshed. As reasonable societies, these things are seen as bad and to be avoided. Consequently, actions that will create racial disharmony are illegal.

You can hate on whoever you like, but you can't grab a megaphone, head down to the mall, and encourage other people to hate the same people that you do. I don't know about you, but that seems like a pretty benign restriction to me...
>a far more representative and democratic parliament that any US government due to the use of proportional representation.

any US government? Do you understand that many state-level governments are proportionally representative?
>All pilots of Boeing aircraft know that when the autopilot is off, there is no automation between the controls and the control surfaces

This isn't even approximately true. Pretty much all passenger jets since the 50s and 60s have had yaw dampeners, for example.
Is that a serious question, or did you just not do any research? Yes, Airbus planes have crashed due to malfunctioning automation. It hasn't even been that long since one of their newest planes actually experienced a problem eerily similar to the 737MAX issue, but got lucky in that it occurred when the plane was higher and had more altitude to trade for time and the pilots were able to regain control.
This is way too dismissive. Siri and Apple Maps don't know who you are (except on-device) while Google Assistant and GMaps aggressively push you to log in and link your accounts. These real differences aren't erased by choice of search provider.
He/She should have said that then.
discrimination is a purely human thing. animals see sex and reproduction as a leisure activity, and as a result, don't nearly give it as much though as much as humans do. Plus they don't have the bible, which can be interpreted as not allowing for homosexual relations.
> Also, why are people allowed to loudly proclaim "white people are evil" loudly, and broadly, without issues

Source? And I don’t mean calling the individual(s) in this case evil – which they are practically by definition – I mean broadly painting “white people” as being evil.
> I'm also going to have to strongly disagree with you in regards to Euler's proofs. Analysis as a discipline is far more mature than it was in Euler's time, but Euler still clearly proved the things we attribute to him. I'm not really sure what your expectation is here - we have more sophisticated means of articulating proofs, and likewise much more mathematical scaffolding to support new theories. But Euler's work is rigorous.

What about the Euler product formula and using it to prove the infinitude of primes? At best it has gaps that can be easily filled, but it wouldn't meet modern standards of rigor. See http://www.math.harvard.edu/~elkies/M259.06/euler.pdf (the best source I can find on my phone)
You can find them because they don't exist.
Well the maiden passenger flight of the A320 crashed at the Paris Air Show, and the pilot said the fly-by-wire system didn't let him pull up[1]. Officially it was pilot error though.

There have been nearly 1,400 fatalities with the A320, with some pilots blaming the fly-by-wire systems, but many of those happened before the age of Twitter and social media virality of this sort of thing so who knows what the public reaction would be today.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_296
All the sites in the article were hosting illegal (in NZ) content - they were temporarily blocked till the video (of a terrorist killing innocent people) was taken down.

Nobody needs to see that.

It's not about free speech.

The sites in question are used to spread hate, racism, violence and bigotry.

Why are we tolerating this kind of media in our lives? Why are we letting people upload this?

It is not free speech. It is targeted hate.
Very disappointing article in the Economist. Their journalism is usually quite sound, but not this time. The very conservative bend is clearly present.

The article summarizes as: there are a number of studies from specific geographies (Germany, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, etc) that show very dramatic declines (> 50%) of insect populations over the last few decades. Since there is no data for most other countries, we should not react for now until more studies are done.

In the general case, when there is insufficient data, such an attitude can be seen as rational. But not when the data are so severe, and time is clearly running out. It is time for action, not for more business as usual.

Ugh. I hope future generations will be around to forgive us for screwing up the planet.
Somewhat related, but not the same thing; I'm curious when Firefox will finally get proper line breaking support for Burmese and related languages?

Burmese doesn't have spaces between words, just between phrases and sentences. Breaking lines between sentences results in really ugly jagged paragraphs. (I've ended up inserting Unicode zero width spaces between each syllable to get line breaking to work consistently in projects I've worked on.)

Checking just now on Windows 10, Firefox and Edge aren't doing it correctly but Chrome and IE are. Even Windows Notepad is getting it right.
Wow I just checked the thread, most seem to be "online memesters" but there also seem to be some really bad people on there. I didn't understand the nature of the site. I'll remove my opening post - thanks for pointing this out.

However, the fact that NZ police are looking for personal information of the site members, especially since the site is hosted outside NZ and by a non-NZ citizen still doesn't sit well with me.

>If that maintainer of that site is serving content to New Zealand, that it seems reasonable that he should be beholden to NZ laws.

On what planet is this reasonable? If I set up a website accessible to the world, I should be beholden to the laws of all the lands? Am I misinterpreting?
Emacs is seriously the best 'app' for anyone working with text, including writers. And if its (default) looks put you off, have a look at extensions (and Emacs is designed to be extended) like the Poet theme: https://github.com/kunalb/poet
For many years I've used a few shell scripts to turn YouTube into a "radio" of sorts, basically going through search results for a specific term (usually a music genre) and playing each one. It works pretty well, and the only ad-like experience is when it decides to play something not-really-related-nor-actually-music that just showed up in the results, but IMHO the "what was that?" aspect is part of the fun.

I'm clearly not the only one who came up with such an idea:

https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube
Such as? There’s no plan to increase block size and LN is off-chain. I haven’t heard of any other credible plans.
I find this interesting:

> During our 14 day trial we do not give trial users an SSL secured public dashboard. Due to technical and abuse reasons this only kicks in when you become a paying customer.

I see "technical reasons", but it would make sense to give even trial users a LetsEncrypt certificate. I don't see how issuing TLS could be abused.
I recently spent 200-300 hours of my life digitizing, editing, and tagging about 60 VHS tapes of family home movies. It's harder than you think...

The stuff you can buy on Amazon is cheap and captures with the audio and video out of sync. It also loses parts of the video frame. I ended up going through three different capture cards and bought two different VCRs, one of them a high-end S-VHS player with S-Video out for around $200. I could never get the quality to where I wanted it and finally surrendered and sent the tapes to a pro digitization shop for ~$600. But that was just for the capture part of it. I still spent ~150 hours cutting the long files into clips and tagging them.
One reason this is less of a problem in Texas is the high property tax rates (about 3% per year vs. 1% here in California). Combine that with no prop 13 and you have homeowners with mixed incentives — yes, equity appreciation is nice, but ouch the tax bill! Thus you have a lot of home owners who support keeping costs down via supply growth.

In Texas, taxes are heavily leavied against _wealth_ and _lifestyle_: high property tax, high sales tax (but none on staple goods and tax holidays for back to school etc.), and no income tax.

Conversely in CA, the tax structure makes it easy to shelter wealth (low property taxes AND they never increase), with moderate sales tax and high, almost flat income taxes (the brackets ramp quickly to 9.5% at $45k then are flat to $1m/yr).

Not surprising so many people are moving to Texas in search of an easier ladder to climb.

Having made the opposite move for a big tech job, the headwinds here against upward mobility are really striking.
All the political parties of NZ government agreed on the ban of semi-automatic military style weapons, which should have been illegal long ago.

What 'curbing of freedom' do you see happening, exactly?
Yes it can happen due to a jammed switch, relay, wiring short, etc.
Based on accurate descriptions of the intended scenario for MCAS, they would be right. When the system is working, it does what it was designed to do. The failure mode when an AOA sensor goes on the fritz is the problem. The proposed fix is what they should have shipped out with the first plane, that's the real failure here -- someone at Boeing surely saw this coming and raised a flag, and got shouted down. A reckless decision given that the 737 is a cash cow and historically such a successful line of planes that I imagine Boeing would be keen to keep the reputation intact.
Here is a moon shot idea for US cities, by 2050:

1. All car streets need to be under ground in tunnels

2. All vehicles must be 100% electric

3. Over ground traffic is limited to: walking, wheel chairs, bikes, scooters and wide load special permit vehicles.

Forget Trump’s plan for going to the moon another time, can we do this instead?
Companies may not be legally culpable for freedom of speech, but they are still morally culpable. Rights are not a legal construct, but a moral imperative. The founders of the United States recognized the importance of these rights and created a tiered system of laws in order to ensure these rights would be maintained by the government. Sadly we have no such guarantee from companies.
Hate speech is free speech that you happen to not like.
I bike commute in Boston. I avoid a 1 mile stretch of grade separated cycle track because there are so many problems with it, I don't even know where to begin.

- Cars emerging from side streets don't stop at the cycle track so there's a constant T-bone risk.

- Parking (the only parking lane on the road) obscures drivers' vision leading to a high right-hook risk.

- The grade separation disappears at driveways and side streets so you're constantly going up and down like a rollercoaster.

- Because the city plows it and homeowners suck at shoveling their sidewalks, people walk in the cycle track like it's a sidewalk.

- Actually, people walk in the cycle track regardless of the season.

- The "entrance" is marked by a seriously deadly right-hook risk at a Y-shaped fork. And when you're not at risk of getting hooked, there's probably a car blocking the entrance while waiting to turn into traffic.

I mean it is a seriously deranged and broken cycle track. Even with cars road raging, honking, and revenge-cutting-off me, it's better than getting smeared against someone's door panel.
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Not all peoples. Some cultures are "collective" (as opposed to the West's "individualistic") and value social harmony more than individual rights. In these cultures, speaking your mind when it causes any kind of disagreement or conflict is not encouraged and can lead to social penalties. This is not "the authorities" censoring free speech; this is family, friends and neighbours trying to maintain a harmonious community.