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>I don't know as much about hate as I should, perhaps, but it seems arbitrary to make rules about what's hate and what's not.

It is arbitrary. This is a closed for-profit platform, run by decree. In the interest of shareholders, it can (and ought to) make whatever rules it wants, as long as they don't violate any laws.
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Is either of the two, Uber or Careem, profitable?
Apologies for breaking the guidelines. I admit the insinuation wasn't entirely appropriate. I regularly encounter obvious pro-China astroturfing on the Internet and I jumped to a premature conclusion/attack in this case.
> My Sci-Hub-ish good deed for the day

Sci-Hub can make the argument that the material it makes available is largely publicly funded research, which the public paid the creators for already by funding that research. That argument doesn't apply to the WSJ.
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We have a 3000 square foot house (less than $340K) in the burbs. We have 5 bedrooms and when we bought it, my (step)son was 15.

We had a purpose for each room of the house.

- the formal dining room was closed off and turned into an office.

- guest bedroom downstairs with a full attached bath. Our parents are getting older and it’s just nice to have a separate bedroom downstairs for even “temporary” disabilities.

- of course the master bedroom for my wife

- bedroom for our teenage son

- bedroom turned into a home gym with weights, a weight bench, treadmill, elliptical, and soon stationary bike

- bedroom for my wife to have as a personal study and a game room when my son’s friends come over.

We stayed well under budget, and chose to move about 10 miles out and bought a house for half the price with still good schools.

Finally, we had each room wired for gigabit Ethernet.
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We always draw a line somewhere when we write a law. Saying "I don't want to draw a line at all" is an attempt to abdicate our responsibility to protect weaker members of society under the guise of some higher ideal that is not threatened by good laws.
I used to think that, when I was young and naive, which was maybe a month or so ago.

Here's a use case: You and I are agreeing to meet at a given landmark. This could be any landmark in the United States, just to keep it simple. The user experience is: you propose that we meet at <landmark> at 4 PM tomorrow, and I agree. This happens on a website.

As far as you, me, and most of the system is concerned, the only sensible way to store that time is as a timezone-agnostic, UTC-agnostic local time: "2019-03-28T16:00". That's because, for the system to store that time as UTC, we have to know the UTC offset of every landmark in the United States at any point in time (which isn't an easy problem!) and consistently, correctly convert between UTC and that local time every time it gets displayed anyway. If we screwed up the UTC offset when we stored it the first time, we have to change the UTC time.

Now, if there's an additional constraint that you can only schedule meeting times that are actually in the future, you have to know what times constitute "the future" relative to the UTC offset of the landmark, so you don't get out of needing a comprehensive UTC offset map of the United States. But if you screw that up, you just end up putting an irrelevant or impossible meeting time in a dropdown and maybe dealing with some users attempting to time travel. Even that is a failure mode that users will somewhat understand, but most of the time it won't matter unless users are scheduling within the same time window as your UTC error.

If you stored it in UTC, you'd be screwing it up all the damn time until you fixed your UTC offsets, at which point previously-working data would be incorrect because someone would schedule a meeting 8 days out in one of those geographic regions for 6 PM and suddenly wonder how it got shifted to 5 PM for no reason.

Now, if we're scheduling a meeting online, and videoconferencing instead of traveling to the Navajo Reservation in Arizona--of course we store it in UTC. And if some of us are traveling to the Navajo Reservation[1] and some of us are dialing in from Newfoundland[2], we're all fucked anyway.

[1] The Navajo Indian Reservation spans multiple states, including Arizona. Arizona does not observe DST. The Navajo Indian Reservation does. However, inside the Arizona portion of the Navajo reservation, there is a Hopi Indian Reservation, which does not observe DST. Inside of the Hopi reservation, there is another part of the Navajo reservation that does observe DST.

[2] Newfoundland's UTC offset isn't an integer number of hours, there's an extra half hour in there. Enjoy!
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Like a newspaper deciding what to publish?
I'm in a similar path, but struggling with it. Any advice on who/where to apply to? I'm really into med/biotech and just love it.
What makes the wire public infrastructure and facebook not? What would facebook have to do to become public infrastructure, or comcast have to do to become not?
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This gets off-topic, but immigration crisis in Europe is not really about Syria, and it's not over either, despite changes in situation in Syria.

(Otherwise I agree that in almost everywhere, people live the best time humanity has had.)
I had his Chaotic Dynamical Systems book checked out from the library for years and carried it everywhere. I should find a copy, what a great book!

I wonder if there's a good sort of "postmortem" on what happened to NLD and Chaos. It seems like everyone said, "Ok, that's a thing and it explains a lot but we can't do anything with it."
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wow. interesting.so we might be able to detect gravity waves without kilometer long lasers?
> And no I do not support white nationalism.

Saying that white nationalists, despite their inherently violent nature, deserve a platform is categorically support.

You're not acting as a neutral arbiter. Instead, you're saying that this group who spouts violent rhetoric, despite the fact that we as a society have said hate speech should not be tolerated, ought to be able to spread their message.
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> it's actually about something very different than most people think

Can you explain what you mean by this?
If I can perceive photons bouncing off of you in public with my eyes, why can't I capture an approximate record of the arrangement of those photons in a digital format?

In the former, I'm storing it in analog form in my mind. In the latter, I'm storing it in digital form on silicon.

If you really don't want to be seen, then don't go in public?
Ok. That makes sense.

I think that Douglas's argument addresses a strawman : UBI fails to fight the evils of capitalism.

Which is totally not the point of UBI. The point of UBI is to increase the efficiency of our economy and to improve the living conditions of our population, which results in all kinds of other improvements.

And I think that this is obvious.

So ya, I gotta raise my eyebrow at Douglas.
Ex-Googler Scotty Allen has done exactly the things you mentioned about for a few years now migrating from California/Seattle to Shenzhen China! He hosts a great YouTube channel called "Strange Parts"[1], you should check it out!

[1] https://strangeparts.com/
I agree. This article has a hard paywall for me. Tried with google referrer (incognito or not) and with outline but that didnt work.
I am also nearly a free speech absolutist, but I feel that platforms like YouTube and FB are nearly in-scope. I can't specifically say what the criteria is, but there's some notion of how much responsibility they take for the content.

Something like the notion of a DMCA shield; where a platform can expose third-party content without consequences so long as they response to take-down requests means that they do not get to do filtering. If they get to do filtering and curation, then they are also directly responsible for copyright violations or libelous use of their platform -- the shield shouldn't apply unless it cuts both ways.

That is, by accepting some immunity from the consequences of free speech, they are then subject to free speech restrictions on their enforcement of their own opinions. A newspaper, for example, is not subject to the same restriction -- they are responsible for all content they publish, so can choose to publish or not publish whatever they want.

This isn't a precise framing, but I'm trying to capture some of my general thoughts on why I find it unappealing that YouTube and Facebook can filter out content that they deem offensive.

Facebook has a natural filtering mechanism through the ability for a user to restrict what they see. If you find content offensive, unfriend or block the person and you're done. Youtube can exercise some discretion in auto-play and recommendations, but they shouldn't be able to ban content unless they are required to do so by inheriting legal requirements.
Beyond even that a lot of what we do in computing is about making it easier for humans to safely forget implementation detail. We have to assume that when you call the object.toString() function that you'll get a string back representing that object. Be it object orientation or functional programming its all about composing the minutia into a grander program and intentionally disregarding implementation detail along the way.

This is why people get frustrated when things are named badly.
At some point, continued conversation is verification enough. The MITM isn't a catfish, and they are going to have a hard time keeping up the charade acting like someone you chat with regularly.
I don't think this is correct. They seem to be saying that they allow posting about nationalism and separatism, and white nationalism content was allowed under this umbrella, but now they specifically disallow white nationalism and separatism.

Honestly though, posting about any serious separatist movement has a good chance of violating their "terrorism" community standard:
"Any non-governmental organization that engages in premeditated acts of violence against persons or property ... in order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim"

You can't tell me with a straight face that if Facebook existed 50 years ago, Sinn Fein would be allowed to post on Facebook, because they were not the IRA.
> Avoiding the question of where to draw the final line with the question of where to draw the first one just implies that you intend to draw more lines in the future.

No, it just implies that we don't need to have the perfect final answer now. Maybe we'll draw more lines, maybe we'll find out we don't need to, maybe we'll decide that this line was drawn too far and pull it back. We don't need to pretend that we have all the answers yet—we don't even need to pretend we have all the questions yet.
Yeah it is. I'd prefer not to post example content here on HN, but like most political movements ISIS/jihadis and white supremacists have both a public and private position, and the public one may often appear innocuous or reasonable at first appearance, although there are differences in recruiting tactics, eg https://cchs.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2371/f/downloads/Na...
Ah, my mistake: I interpreted your comment as referring to a statistical minority, rather than a racial/ethnic one.
have you watched a video of how they vote?

it's a complete joke, it goes so fast the interpreters can't keep up and people end up making constant mistakes

https://youtu.be/zLh9DMuetm4?t=58
I think that humanity is going to look back and see pesticides and herbicides as one of the worst mistakes in history. It's slowly becoming clear just how damaging they are to the world's ecosystem. I urge everyone to stop using them, especially for absolutely needless things like killing dandelions and other vanity uses.
So should I take down my tweets?
I think they mean "'Murican pride." ;)
I agree that finances affect health outcomes and that government and policy is primarily the domain of upper classes, but you leave "human nature" undefined while it does pretty much all the work of holding up your point. Care to define or otherwise elaborate on that bit?

I don't think it's "hard" per se to change the tax structure to be less advantageous to the wealthy, but it does take organization, imagination, and some money.

For every $1,000 a representative received from corporations supporting net neutrality, like Google or Netflix, they were 24 percent more likely to vote for it. For every $1,000 from companies opposing it, they were 2.6 percent more likely to vote against. [1]

So (under this study), regardless of which side you assign to wealthy interests, politician attention is pretty cheap. Furthermore, votes are leverage here (if not a multiplier) and it's a simple fact that there are magnitudes fewer wealthy voters than non wealthy. This can help make up for a lack of press attention.

Long story short, I don't agree that UBI is unworkable any more than I believe that today's robber barons are untaxable.

1. https://theintercept.com/2017/05/04/how-much-does-a-politici...
I believe the problems described here are with future dates, and future timezone definition changes you don't know about 'right now' when you converting a local time to UTC for storage.

The nature of the problem is that when you convert from a local timestamp to UTC, you might have been "wrong" in the conversion. Or, more specifically, it may have been as correct today, but it may become wrong some time in between now and when the timestamp occurs, because of future time zone definition changes. A future timezone definition change may mean you should have converted to UTC differently, which you couldn't have known because the timezone definition change happened after you converted. (Usually statutorily; sometimes maybe because your timezone data was wrong and was later corrected?)

I don't believe these problems apply to _past_ dates or "right now" timestamps. Unless your timezone data is wrong I guess.

Does this seem right?
damn forcing kids off the road/throwing trash at kids?? thats crazy
Thanks for sharing, do you have any links about it? My comment is based on what I was told when I visited Croatia couple years ago and asked about all the newly-planted wineyards along the coast.
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Why not just ban all nationalism or nationalistic posts? Depending on ones relative position it's hateful towards others. But regardless:

> Our policies have long prohibited hateful treatment of people based on characteristics such as race, ethnicity or religion

I'm just saying this has always been selectively enforced at FB, the reason they are speaking to white nationalism now is because of recent current events and they are in the spotlight. I feel this is purely this is a convenient PR campaign.

Not that it's an easy topic to control or address all the platforms have issues with this, but FB is being opportunistic for press.
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question 1. Does the introduction of the first iPhone divide the history of the mobile phone into two distinct, and radically different, segments (say Before iPhone (BI) and After iPhone (AI)?

question 2. Do AI-era smartphones represent a major augmentation of the capabilities of average human beings?

When answering question 2, step out of any jaded First World bubble you might find yourself in and consider people in all parts of the world.
There's good reason to think that the AI Winter / AI Spring cycle is done. AI techniques are now creating so much real world value (more so than in the 80's / 90's) that there may well not be any more "AI Winter" events. Or perhaps they will be, but they'll be less pronounced. Maybe an "AI Fall" instead of "AI Winter".

Part of that too, is that I think people now realize that narrow AI is sufficient to create tremendous value, and that it doesn't necessarily matter if the "AGI breakthrough" happens anytime soon or not.

It's hard to be sure, but I don't see the kind of collapse that happened in the past happening anytime soon.
NOTE: I wanted to say I spoke pretty good Mandarin before going to China the first time. I knew what I was getting into and really wanted to be there. If you appreciate Chinese culture and have studied a bit ignore everyone's warnings - you'll be fine.

I'm late and most of what I have to say has already been said, but I'm a bit of a different story, given as I'm Western but started my career in China. I've worked at a top 50 startup in Shanghai (Video++) and most recently at Alibaba. Given that I'm 22, and have spent the majority of my internship/working career in China I'll give my take:

- Living in China has been better than anywhere I've lived in the US (CT, NYC, ATL, SF). There's abundant food that's both very good, and very cheap (both relative and absolute).

- Not only is the food cheap, but healthy. Very little food is processed (most is prepared fresh) and everywhere I've worked we've had wonderful meal services that prepped healthy portions. I lost a ton of weight working there without even working out or changing my diet!

- Cell service is really, really good and affordable. However, internet service is quite bad and no amount of money can remedy this. At Alibaba, we had fibre laid in Hangzhou so this is the only time I've ever experience moderately fast connection speeds.

- GFW etc isn't as bad as people make it out to be. Any reasonable company already has a proxy or VPN for you to use at work, and there are a number of good VPNs for personal use. I never felt I missed out on the Western web, only that it was a bit slower to connect (see above).

- Technology is abundant and fast-paced. You can rent umbrellas, bikes, phone batteries, etc. If you can think of it someone probably is working on the problem and you'll experience things you've never seen before in the US.

- Pollution and noise are a problem but not terrible. You certainly adjust and you do have to make some concessions i.e. I never cycled while living in Shanghai, and sometimes wore a face mask on particularly bad days.

- Transit is much better. In Shanghai and Shenzhen, the subways are practically brand new. Not only is there cellular/WIFi connectivity but they're always on time and people queue very neatly for them. High-speed rail is ubiquitous and cheap. Didi is objectively worse than Uber though.

- The work environment is quite different:

1. Management (where I've worked) has been practically non-existent as compared to the US. This might be because I do research, but I've never had a micromanager, or standups, etc.

2. Daily naps are a thing. Expect to find people taking an hour nap after eating lunch.

3. 996 is real. Most people at tech companies will work 9am-9pm 6 days/week.

4. It is expected you basically live in the office. You'll eat all 3 meals there, and spend a lot of time with your colleagues. Family time, and going home for dinner isn't a thing like it is in the West.

I'm sure I've left a lot out, but the above has been my experience in China. I'm planning on taking a full-time offer that'll put me back in China, and clearly, am biased as I think the quality of life is better there compared to the West.

Feel free to ask me any questions.
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Why are white people specifically targeted. As someone of an Indian background, I've seen plenty of Hindu nationalist content on Facebook, and -- despite it actually affecting my Christian family who are still in India -- there is no ban on that content. Such nationalism has led to more violence and death than any of the white nationalism stories.
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> But PayPal has quite large fees. From a 9 USD payment, they take like 10%.

Isn't this because the flat fee is something like 50 cents, and you pay an additional ~3.x% on top of that?
there is a long and distinguished history of physicists in biology (w some nobel winners). but ultimately, i wonder if a physicist could do xray crystallogrphy on the microbial fossils found on mars to determine their genetic basis. (dna fossils?)
> Praise, support and representation not of speech encouraging harm, but the ideology itself

The ideology itself is an encouragement to harm.
Facebook went public and now has an obligation to shareholders to make money so that means replacing the dumb pipe with highly targetted ads and articles
Are you really saying that these groups aren't going to be censored by Facebook? Censorship does not require a government.
When a group's ideas all hinge on abridging the freedoms of others appeals to universality are hard to take seriously.
For sure, but it would be nice if there were alternative ways to run "no-need-to-install" apps without bringing all the weight of a browser with it. There's a large class of apps that don't need to link out to other URLs, don't need CSS engines (if they just need opengl/vulkan for example), and might not need as strict of security as a web page.
Based on the evolution of the web, indeed, it looks like new businesses will be made out of this.

With this banned group, I am concerned about what social scientists call the 'backfire effect', where beliefs turn even stronger and bolder. For instance, this happens with groups of people who hold conspiracy theories; when society rejects them, the conspiracy theorists double-down on their beliefs.
> Let's start with curbing speech that encourages harming others.

The day facebook bans advertising about abortion will be the day I believe that line.
I agree, it's near impossible to be a global communication platform and enforce 'goodness' and kindess for your users/audience.
Exactly. I only use signal for chat, and I tell my family and friends that they must install it if they want to send me text messages. It's not because I fear being hacked, it's because I don't want highly personal conversations about sex, drugs, chronic illness, and skeletons in the family closet getting picked up by global passive surveillance.
> it's actually about something very different than most people think and most people haven't actually spent the time understanding their argument before they form an opinion about it.

That was facebook's policy as of yesterday.

They changed it for good reason, and it was not a small reason to overcome that much inertia.
I have to be honest, the linking of 'nationalism' to this discussion looks like hyperbole to me. Those who want to prevent housing growth or higher-density are not thinking "I don't want people of type X living here". They are most often thinking about what they personally want for themselves - the quality of life they want, the neighborhood character they desire, the breathing room/space they desire, the amount of traffic they want to deal with, and so on.

> If you don’t want anyone to move to an area raise taxes and stop allowing new business etc. - ie, actually discourage new growth.

Personal responsibility is still a thing. If someone can't afford to live in some area, or they don't like what they're getting out of it in terms of wages or expenses, they shouldn't move there.

> They actively encourage new growth, just not new housing

If people continue to move there, they are signaling they are OK with low wages or high expenses or any other drawbacks associated with that choice. If they are not OK with those things, they shouldn't move there.