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>Empires bring civilization and prosperity - from The Roman Empire to The British Empire and The French "Empire(s)", to the decades of "American imperialism", if you objectively weigh the good and the bad

No, Empires destroy regional governments, customs, and cultures, and bring upon them iron peace, of enforcing the will and customs of the winners. It's the peace of the graveyard.

And while the Roman empire is too far back, the crimes of the British, French, and other modern empires are too close for anyone to have the gal to call them "peace".

That's what jingoists and racist creeps called them in their time -- doing their "white man's burden" to bring civilization to those pesky Africans, Indians, and so on.

There have been lots of turf wars in History. None where more unjust, more unwarranted, bloodier, and more sick than the colonial wars and enslavement of over a billion people.

After the peoples in Europe fought to bring down the old empires and feudal kingdoms, and establish their own nation states, the ruling classes went for colonialism to expand their rule and build new empires, this time by exporting the exploitation globally (not that they gave up domestic exploitation completely, until the collapse of colonial empires after WWII reduced the power of the elites, and forced them to content -and deal with- their own population).

From the Belgians, who killed millions in the Congo, maimed kids, slaughtered whole villages, to the French, who killed thousands of protesters asking for their country's freedom as close as the 1960s, to the British, who gauged out prisoners eyes with spoons, and exhibited the last native survivors of their atrocities as museum pieces...

Hitler, even numerically, had nothing on those people. He just did those things to Europeans. Had he done them to Africans, Native Americans, Asians, Indians, etc, there would be people still applauding his empire and "peace" today.

And unlike the wars of the long past history, the people who ordered and performed the colonial "imperial" atrocities didn't have any excuse of not being well educated and well bread "gentlemen" of means...

The appraisals of empires is because history is written by those who killed, not the killed. And the people doing the appraisals are the descendants of the murderers.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/22/britis...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/apr/18/britain-destroyed...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/worst-atroci...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_S...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/belgiums-genoc...

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/inglorious-empire-w...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/08/india-britain-...

https://www.history.com/news/native-americans-genocide-unite...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_indigenous_peoples

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/04/the-k...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truganini

Some "peace"...
Chikfila is doing similar things in house. So is everyone else. See https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2018/05/28/starbuck...
true, I initially missed the final response & only noticed it now when I linked the discussions. It is a bit disappointing and follows the common "wait until it cools down & give a non-response" pattern. But it's actually more than I expected.

A response like this shows that they really were in a bit of a blinder there for a sec :)
Isn't that a bit disingenuous? Your role at Amazon is nothing like the typical engineer at Amazon. You live in the shiny new world while the majority of engineers are stuck on something that's not too far from the article.
“email has largely stayed the same with static messages that eventually go out of date”

It’s amazing how reality is completely the opposite of what they are saying. I can still read a text email sent in 1999. No way an interactive AMP email will still work in 20 years.
Good for Microsoft and their toolchain for finding this. They take security seriously.
I think customers will find this very annoying. There's already way too many options on the menu. And their in store self service ordering kiosks are horrendously complicated already.

They should eliminate about 60% of the menu and focus on speed and quality for the remainder.
All the sillhouettes of kids in the banner have undercuts and it makes me shivver. Hate that style. I guess I'm an old man now.

Anyway, I'm hardly surprised that kids aren't spending time with friends in person, because nobody likes spending time with people in person as default. In my childhood in the 90s, I did it only for events that require it, like board games or sports, or when the alternatives are boring or unavailable, like when I haven't had a new game to play in a while, or my sister was hogging the internet.

The separation has only increased as at-home activities have gotten less boring and more available, and as physical presence became less neccessary for social activities like games.

AIM was great, we could chat without having to be physically together.

Battle.net was great, we could play games without having to be physically together.

Xbox Live was great, we could play games AND chat at the same time without having to be physically together. (many fond memories of high school nights quizzing each other on history while blowing each other up in Halo 3)

Facebook was great, we could share stories and media without having to be physically together, and asynchronously as a bonus.

I am not convinced that face-to-face interaction is an inherent good. The last several decades of technological development have been the story of people striving to spend less time with each other physically. Especially given the article's proposed explanation that "friend groups meet on instragram now, and kids without instagram are lonely", the barriers to telecommunication are lower than ever before.

Or maybe we should cut this thread short and save the discussion for Linuxfest Northwest.
But if you do that, you can easily wrap it in try-catch, to make it robust to wording changes, not breaking the site.
But they have most of the premium market. If you look at app revenues they're 2x android: https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/16/apples-app-store-revenue-n...
This has gotten silly.
I don't think you understand how AI works.

If I know facebook, they are going to make McDonalds addicting AF
This typesetting is fantastic. Love the style.
Hmm... Facebook was opened to the public near the end of 2006. No idea if there's a correlation or if it's even possible to find one.
I'm not sure if patent exhaustion applies since QTL (licensing) and QTC (chip-making) are technically two separate business entities (subsidiaries).

I wasn't aware of that; that's quite interesting. But it's unclear whether it affects exhaustion, in that QTL would still have (or have not) licensed Intel (or QTC). So either (Intel or QTC) have a license and exhaustion applies, or they do not, and are the actual infringers.

Now, the law being the law, "the actual infringers" is not going to be a strict legal concept, but in some areas of law and/or some jurisdictions, there are legal structures that produce similar outcomes – where a suit cannot be brought against someone one or more "jumps" away, e.g. just to find a defendant with deeper pockets. I'm absolutely out of my depth re: US patent law on this topic, except that it seems insane for a patent holder to be able to sue all the users of an infringing product. But then patent law so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Probably advent of instant messengers made them feel less lonely, culminating around 2006-2008 when modern social networks really took off, but peaking in today's result of every post on fb/twitch/instagram engendering social anxiety and thus 'loneliness'.
FB+iPhone?
On HN, what matters is not the site but the article. If it's a bad article that shouldn't be on HN, flag it. Many users did in this case. (There's a small karma threshold of 30 before an account is able to flag.) Please don't post off topic complaints like this, which add nothing of value.

Like many other sites, the NYT publishes both articles that make good HN submissions and articles that make bad HN submissions. We want the good ones.
After the first 10 employees or so, you're looking at nickle and dime stock option allocations (0.05%, 0.10%...) Factor in dilution, liquidation preferences, etc. and you're looking at a nice down payment at a house... if you're lucky enough to have a successful exit. That's a very big if.
That having a fat dude in a fan usually means they should put in another order of fries?

And as a result, everyone gets hotter fries?

I don't see why having Math help make better decisions is a bad thing.
Good sounds :) Do you know Future Sound of London? Try their Lifeforms and Environments (I, II, III, ...) albums.
This was a procedural maneuver by Republicans; it has no bearing on what the support for an actual “Green New Deal” bill would be.
> But of course -- "the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it"

A friendly reminder that this was said about TCP/IP. It does not apply to the application layer (WWW), neither in theory nor in practice.
An AI driven menu scares you more than the contents of the food does?
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> "because nobody likes spending time with people in person as default."

That's very far from true.
Great. Thanks for all the work you're doing!
Design and "fit and finish" are some of the tools the bigs use to keep you locked into their increasingly user-hostile ecosystems. If you really want to escape their clutches you have to give up some of the creature comforts.
funny that they rolled their own license, where the terms seem compatible more well-known licenses. Maybe the project started before convergence to standard permissive licenses?

Would it even be possible for them to change it at this point? I'm guessing it would be difficult at the least.
You could use a GCP GKE cluster. Then you wouldn't have to worry about anything under Kubernetes and likely have a simple deployment and update process.
Someone should probably add (2018) to this post as it's from May 2018.
I reckon you're right. This was peak Yahoo Instant Messenger time, and it launched in 1998, just before the graph starts moving downwards.
Well, not everyone. This is mostly limited to the major chains.

But by "scary", I refer mostly to the outright purchase of a data mining company, and they're already talking about intrusive surveillance such as using license plate readers.

They're also being pretty up-front about wanting to use this to straight-up manipulate people. I don't know whether to give them credit for honesty or not (since all the cool kids are manipulating people these days), but it makes me recoil nonetheless.
Plaid is another cool artist on Warp Records.
Well, this article gets something right, but gets a lot of stuff wrong as well. What can be confirmed is that his access to the Amazon tech scene is limited, and he takes a sweeping generalization that is how the whole Amazon works.

Disclaimer: Ex-Amazonian, left like one year ago.
When I go to McDonald's, if they suggest anything that I didn't ask for it pisses me off. Their food is pretty shit at best. The only reason I go there is to get something quick without any ceremony. If they can't do that, there's no reason for me to even go.
The OP needs to put a date on the article, because AFAIK things are very different in 2019.

Also, it's interesting how they equate "experimentation" with "open source".
You can download the data for the chart. It's actually 2007 if you don't eyeball it. I think we're probably seeing Maslow's hierarchy of needs here. The great recession made loneliness less important to them or less apparent to them. Pretty cool actually. This kind of thing is probably unaccounted for in many similar studies.
> I don't see why having Math help make better decisions is a bad thing

It isn't. But collecting unnecessary data and using it to manipulate people certainly is.
I believe we both have reasonable arguments from our paradigm, it is just the paradigms have conflicting definitions.

When people who share camp with me say "Open" or "Freedom" we mean Free Speech AND Free Beer.

Where the disagreement happens is on Free Speech:

There are many people/governments that define Free Speech as "Free Speech as long as someone does not shout 'fire' in a crowded room." This is the spirit of (a)GPL in restricting people.

The other group defines Free Speech and/or "Freedom" as "without restriction". Not because they want people to yell "fire" but because they attribute restriction/regulation as the mechanism towards monopoly & centralization. Not that regulation/restriction on its own is bad (every individual ought exercise self-discipline), but it is particularly dangerous once monopoly & centralization emerges because it produces totalitarian or fascist structures.

To counter my own view, many people in the camp opposite of me, have expressed same end-goal concerns "we want to restrict hate speech so fascism doesn't rise". I think it is admirable we have shared-goals (stopping totalitarianism), but for reasons you probably don't share, I think it is more effective to stop fascism by removing the ability for fascists to enforce rules/regulation/restrictions on individuals, even if that comes at the cost or risk of someone yelling "fire".

Why? (I don't assume anyone cares about my view, so don't feel obligated to read) Because I have higher optimism that humans will eventually overcome their individual immaturity (shouting "pen--" in a crowd), especially through incentive design, than in humans overcoming their tendency towards abuse of power (or even worse, most people who "abuse" power don't think they are abusing it, they have a conviction that the use of power is for some greater good). Wielding power is often the end game of any incentive structure, but yelling "fire" or "p--is" often ruins your reputation/power so naturally is disincentivized over time (or where it matters most).
> But Freenet is still around, although it's too risky to use it, except via Tor.

Hi, I'm a Freenet developer of the past ~ 10 years, so I'd like to clarify upon this :)
(The project is still active, there was a release just this week!)

While there technically were indeed lawsuits in the US, the situation is not as black and white as "it's dangerous".

It is an anonymizing peer-to-peer network as well!
What is dangerous under certain circumstances is only one of the three modes to use it:
1) Opennet, where Freenet uses random strangers as peers.
2) Darknet, where you only connect to peers you manually select, e.g. your friends.
3) Opennet with some Darknet peers in addition (I'll call it "mixed mode").

So Opennet allows law enforcement to connect to your Freenet potentially and thus analyze your traffic.
Still, this does not mean that your Freenet will plainly tell its peers what you are downloading!
Traffic is always redirected across a random number of peers, none of which tells the others who requested it - which provides plausible deniability.
All traffic is encrypted, only the recipient can decrypt it.
So you cannot just watch traffic and filter out illegal JPEGs or whatever.

What LEA did then is to come up some math and then claim to deduct from it that there is a certain probability that the illegal downloads were requested by the people they claim it came from.
Their math is known and discussed by the Freenet core team, it may be addressed eventually - but from watching the discussion (not the math) I can say it should be taken with a grain of salt.
It's not absolute proof that the claimed downloaders were in fact the downloaders.
It's just a probabilistic assumption, which may possibly be wrong because the way Freenet works is rather complex (>200 000 LOC).

So as Freenet stores content encrypted on random user's machines (which is the advantage over Tor, Freenet is completely decentralized!), it is imaginable that law enforcement accusses people who did not willingly download it, but just happened to store it.

But: You can use Freenet in Darknet or mixed mode to be reasonably safe:
The more of your peers are not controlled by attackers, the lower the probability that a statistical attack can be conducted.

Further, the said legal cases only happened in the US to my knowledge, and I'd argue that the legal system of that country seems a bit flawed.
Outside of the US you can just run Opennet and probably be at the same risk as some random non-exit Tor node.
You transport traffic which you cannot look into (because its encrypted) and store files which you cannot look into (because they are encrypted), so what's illegal about it anyway?
It seems like when your company's revenue has been flat for over a decade, you should focus on improving your core offering of, you know, food quality, and not find new ways to annoy customers with data mining and extreme personalization.

In 2009 Dominos realized their food sucked, committed to improving it, and have since been doing very well. (Their stock has more than quadrupled.) At some point McDonalds will need to do the same.
Yep, can confirm. NPM is very compatible and easy to use in Amazon. It is just not allowed to serve critical traffic, which I think is a wise choice anyway.
Then you'd have to tell me what kind of action my comments imply. Opposing consolidation of power over multiple populations who can only oppose it in aggregate is what I imply is bad, and discord / lack of unity among those populations gives umbalanced influence to that unified central power.
True - I can still hear that MSN "new message" sound echoing in my head..
>Societies should define what is a privilege and what is a right.

That's a hard no. I see where you're going with this, and we likely agree on 90% of this topic anyway, but the issue with society defining rights is that you end up letting the mob decide the "right" of green eyed people to live has just become a privilege.

Rights stem from nature, and exist with, or without society. If a society wants to add to the list, they're more than welcome to do so. Those are usually called privileges and its up to the society to attach proper protections to them.
Simple point-of-sale app for Zcash, prototype
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What’s your motivation for helping? Is it to gain recognition, specifically public recognition?

You may need to re-examine your expectations. In a healthy workplace, helpfulness is expected; unless you go extraordinarily above and beyond it’s not considered something that deserves calling out.

A private “thank you” for an assist, yes, absolutely. A public display of gratitude? I’d be interested to hear what makes you think that’s in order.
Standards like these may be proposed by a single entity, but they're not controlled by it.

The problem with amp4email isn't that it makes everyone part of Google (though I'm willing to bet it'll ultimately imply all MUAs will end up having to embed Chrome engine). The problem is with Google using its near-monopoly position to push a "standard" that makes e-mail serve its users less, and serve companies seeking to exploit those users more.
While this looks very nice and fun to read, in the real world we deal with very emotional people. There are times I use these subconsciously when needed but I know there are many clients I dealt with would reject me the moment I start talking like this.

I personally find people using NVC tactics very insincere. It is very obvious they are using some "you can't use this sentence against me later" tactics.
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They're not, regardless of medium, the same cops and IP lawyers can get on it and track down people to arrest and sue according to whatever laws are on the books, good or bad.

What if this satellite Internet service is a multinational corporation, with the directly owning entities based in Russia and China? Or perhaps Sweden? Part of a conglomerate under the ultimate control of a corporation on Mars?

I think we'll definitely have crossed some threshold when we have our first extradition from a different gravity well.
I don't like the food, and I don't like the surveillance and manipulation about equally as much.
Why do you suspect that about developers? I've yet to have a hiring process be faster than a month, and that was unusual. The last time I went looking the turnaround time from recruiter pre-screen to an offer was six weeks. My job hunt lasted three months and I ended up not taking any of the middling offers I got. These were mostly series A and B "startups." I've shifted my focus to bigger, FAANG-like companies.
> iPhone

I doubt it. How many high school seniors would have owned one soon after its release? Too much of an early-adopter luxury item.

I'd be curious to know when smartphones actually started became ubiquitous among older teenagers.
"I don't want to use a P2P alternative to YouTube or Reddit, because 99% of the content is on Reddit/YouTube."

Wouldn't the killer feature of these P2P platforms (admittedly, none of which I've ever used) be to have a 'transparent bridge' to the mainstream platforms? I.e., like SciHub, almost transparently pirate content from their original source? Do any of them have it?
focus on speed and quality

That's the idea. Part of what they're trying to do is speed up drive-thru service, since that's now where the majority of customers visit.

Humans can't predict what to make in the minutes before a customer pulls up to the speaker, but an ML tied into a number of systems and inputs might be able to do a better job.

It's not really anything new, to be honest. Back in the days where restaurants cooked and wrapped the burgers ahead of time and held them in a warming bin for 10 minutes at a time (at least that's what the spec dictated) the managers would keep detailed records on customer count, weather, cars in the lot, local events, etc and try to make predictions based on historical data. Wasn't the most effective, but it helped. This is just a modernization of that idea.
Wasn't your comment all about how driving is not that needed in Europe?

Try getting to a different province/city etc, easily 30-100km away or more on "public transit".

Even where the connections are there (and not like a couple of buses each day), it's neither fast nor pleasant enough to make driving "unneeded".
tl;dr: technology in the late 90s and mid 00s gave power to users to be more social on their own terms, technology in the late 00s took power away from users and gave it to platforms to dictate social interaction with notifications

It appears that this dip in loneliness started as early as the late 90s when internet and cell phone technology was connecting us and enabling us to be more, deliberately, social. Perhaps in the late 90s to mid 00s we found the sweet spot for balance between social technology and loneliness. After the mid 2000s, Facebook became a thing, smart phones became ubiquitous, and user behavior was increasingly driven by non-deliberate means: notifications.

Notifications are making people miserable because its turned social into a fucking chore. You are less likely to have the social engagement you decided upon, and instead to have one generated for you by an algorithm.
Yes, this NVC is just like what a lawyer use to attack others.