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Please. You are pretending White Supremacy is this totally benign thing because you are ignoring reality in pursuit of egalitarian ideology. You cannot simply ignore context for the sake of argument.
I was taking the point to an extreme. You're saying a society should support free speech so Facebook should let the white nationalist content stay on their site (by their own good will, not forced by government). Is that not accurate?

Deciding what I allow on my site is an exercise of my free speech. Why is hosting white nationalist free speech more important than my free speech to not host racist content?
Just because white nationalists are white, doesn't mean that they've received any kind of largesse because of it. If you look at the demographics of white nationalists, it will be largely overrepresented by poor whites from marginalized, backwater communities.
Like in dollars? I think it would just turn users off seeing how little artists make off streaming.
We are talking about less than a half pound difference of weight between the 2015 and 2016. Whether or not you relieved yourself this afternoon would be a greater delta. Difference in thinness is 0.12" between the two. The bezels are slightly tighter on the 2016 machine but unless you are looking for it with both machines in front of you, I don't think you will notice this. I don't think these changes in geometry make the 2015 chassis "horribly outclassed" today.
Fuck the Chinese, they have no rights to take over other country's territories. The region's nations have to make a united stand against this. Hopefully in 20 years, India will be much more powerful than China and can use its clout to shut their stupid claims and bring order to the region.

Sorry about the language.
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I left california went back to India after staying in US for 11 years and stayed for 6 months, did nothing. If you have some money, say 50k rupees a month. Life is easy. You need to get used to seeing a lot of people and bad infrastructure. That shock will go away in a couple weeks. If you have money you can do the same stuff you do in US. You can travel to thailand if you want good beaches.

In those 6 months, I received Canadian PR. Now I am in Vancouver. I think Vancouver is a better place to be than Santa Clara( i was there). But I think so cal is still the best place on the planet. I lived in orange county and would go back to so cal if i ever recieve a green card.
This is obviously part of a much larger campaign to silence disagreeable speech. You aren't a "free speech absolutist" if you aren't alarmed by this. You admit that people have a right to use of "root infrastructure", but registrars and hosts are already discriminating against people for legally protected speech.

PS: Observe the downvotes without comment. These are the adherents to the school of thought that advocates not caring about reasoning with people who disagree with you. Everything is simply a bare power struggle in which considerate words are not the weapons of choice.
> Let's start with curbing speech that encourages harming others.

No doubt, explicit threats or advocacy/conspiracy to violence exist, and should not be tolerated.

However, there are countless complicated grey areas subject to interpretation and potential bias. Was Kathy Griffin advocating violence by holding up a mock Trump severed head? Is “Abortion stops a beating heart” a coded message to inspire violence against abortion doctors? What about “Eat the rich” or “The only good billionaire is a dead billionaire”?

My favorite edge case is this WKYK sketch, which is clearly satire, yet trivial to indict as an explicit call to unlawful violence: https://youtu.be/eg3_kUaYFJA
May I suggest reviewing the history of the civil rights movement? That sort of discrimination used to be normal in large parts of the US and was overcome through a combination of civil disobedience and legal challenges.
I don't think anyone is saying there's no room for improvement but I would really like it if the requirement was that they fit a high-quality keyboard in even if it meant being 10% thicker. My home laptop is still a 2010 MBA because, even after almost a decade of heavy use, it still feels better than the brand new keyboards — that's completely ridiculous.
As long as you're admitting that there's no general principle being evenly applied here, and it is entirely discretionary on Facebook's part, we have an understanding.

e: But it's not an arbitrary exercise of power when I do it!
I wish I could work 12 hour days. :P
I've used multiple generations of ThinkPad X1 Carbon at my past 3 full-time gigs, and the touchpad works great in Linux relative to any other laptop I've tried.

A large part of the reason the Mac touchpad works so well is tuning in software. I doubt you could come close to tuning it as finely under Linux, but it works well enough.
As a counter-point I've always heard them shortened to Mando and Canto (as in, "do you speak Mando, Canto, or both?") amongst Asian-American friends. Never thought anything of it really.
I'm glad Spotify has opened up as a new revenue stream for musicians but it's a laughably small amount of revenue for how much work it is to compose/record hours of original music. Live music is still king for making money.

As an amateur pianist myself, $400 isn't a lot of money per month. I can pull $100/hr in an afternoon at a classy gig playing Classical/Jazz/Folk/Pop, you do that once per week and you're well over the $400 total for the month, without all the long history of recording/mixing/mastering/promoting that OP has done. This has allowed me to focus much more heavily on my musicianship and expanding my repertoire, rather than on recording tech/marketing. My ceiling for income is much lower this way-- I can't/don't want to find enough gigs to solely perform...but that's why I code to pay the bills.
India did sometimes try to be in a neutral position with respect to both the West and the Soviets, for eg: the Indian Nuclear program had large support from the Canadians.
Indian space program had help from the Americans and the French as well as the Soviets.
We had a bank teller who would drive around all the new home construction areas in town, and take photos of houses under construction, especially in middle to upper income areas. She did this for a year, with a plan in mind.

...

It was ALL profit, almost zero overhead.

I guess it's a clever concept, especially if you enjoy driving around town taking photos of homes under construction. But that sounds like a lot of overhead to me.

On the other, if this was supposed to be a spoof of side-hustle culture... well done.
I appreciate the response. We have to be really cautious about this, because the cost of getting it wrong is so high, both to the community and to anyone who is unfairly accused. If you look at the thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19401961 you'll see an example of this.
> If FB decides to ban bigots, or YouTube wants to kick anti-vaxxers off their site, so be it.

Will they get rid of Mark Zuckerberg? If there is any single bigot driving that company into the ground with both illegal practices and bigotry, it's him.
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There was a Mir Publishers bookshop close to my college in Patna and I would make regular visits in hope of landing gems like IE Irodov. Alas, most other Science books were so so and nowhere near their American counterparts (Halliday Resnick for Physics, Morrison Boyd for Chemistry comes to mind).
Hopefully, when the European people find themselves firewalled from services ranging from Wikipedia to eBay, they will learn and remember who's responsible.
I have the same problem. Most of the time I am skipping through >50% of Discover Weekly because the songs are poor recommendations for my tastes or are awfully sequenced in a playlist from separate listening habits (e.g. EDM-AlternativeRock-LoFi).

Finding new music on Spotify could use a lot of improvement, especially for mobile. After a while, it seems like I'm just listening to the same playlists over and over.
According to an ossi friend of mine, the moment he could no longer buy Sputnik, that torch of progressive socialism at his local Leipzig newsstand was the moment he realised that the GDRs days were numbered...
The ultimate question to me is how the common weal benefits. A question for which in part the problem is in not having a good measure. Certainly not GDP or mean income, though measures of net happiness or well-being exist.

But individual advantage is a false measure.
How many tests did US conduct since 1950s?
There's really not enough long term jobs in academia so people have to look elsewhere. Fortunately physics really sets you up for a lot of very different jobs. I myself am one of the lucky ones, am working on a permanent position (similar to associate Prof) at a Uni in Sweden. I was thinking of jumping of academia and doing something else several times but somehow also a good opportunity just at the right moment. One thing that is often easy to forget is that there is so much more than the current hot topics that make the big media splashes (quantum computing, gravitational waves, graphene atm). I work in optics/photonics primarily in optical telecom. My work is much more engineering-like than many of the above topics. Anyway the further along in your career you come the more managerial work you do, same in academia as everywhere else I think.
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I suspect that Chomsky would consider child porn - or at least the part of it that is illegal - not speech in this sense.

Speech is the process of communication ideas. Porn is the process of sexually arousing someone remotely. Criminalizing the latter is not criminalizing the former.
You can claim that white nationalism has penetrated the White House all you want, but there is no evidence of this being the case.
> As other people pointed out, it's not like there wouldn't be grocery store staff and that's the end of it. The demand is still there. And when the supply is low but the demand stays the same, the wages go up.

The reality is that this doesn't happen when it gets really bad. A few real-world examples:

Nebraska had (as of December 2016) 11 counties without a lawyer[0].

In California, when immigrant labor started getting deported, celery farmers kept increasing wages to attract new labor, and even after more than doubling their wages, couldn't get enough people to pick all the celery.[1]

[0] https://www.npr.org/2016/12/26/506971630/nebraska-and-other-...
[1] https://www.npr.org/2018/05/03/607996811/worker-shortage-hur...
Does it matter what section they use to classify it? The fact is that they ban it. And many more. When important topics are debated, even the most respectfully formulated argument can be deeply hurtful to the side that is on the opposing end. For example, if you respectfully tell a religious person that their religion is bunk and they are wasting their time on a bunch of fairy tales - it could be deeply hurtful. Should we ban all atheists from social media?

Banning such discussion very soon precludes any disagreement with increasingly narrow set of orthodox doctrines. Of course, Twitter has fully legal right to do exactly that - but what's the use of such platform? And if all major platforms do that - what happens to the society where important questions can not be publicly discussed?
> - Take lots of notes with code examples and thorough basic explanations to self.

I gained a ton of productivity when I started creating a set of helper functions, examples, and gotchas for each language / domain I work in. I used to use a network call helper in JS for ages to remember all the different ways errors can bubble out of fetch. I also have a file with a bunch of ML algorithms, cause there's no way I can keep it all in my head, but I don't want to forget the right tool for a job.

I'm still self depricating, but my 'babys_first_elixir.exs' has been invaluable resource for me to dump interesting funtional patterns into while reading other folks code, then referencing when it's time for me to write.
Good points, they can just shuffle the money from one balance sheet to another, but then get to deduct the whole thing anyway.
> Nobody has the responsibility to do anything for free.

In general, yes. If you call something an Open Source project, however you take on certain responsabilities that you wouldn't otherwise have, such as not playing bait-and-switch, and can hope for people sending in bug fixes and patches (and even signing copyright assignments if required for dual licensing).

If it were just "doing things for free" and not receiving anything in return, FOSS would not interest anyone and we'd get back to the shareware world of the 90s where (as a user) you got an evaluation license but no stake. Some developers prefer the shareware model to going full OSS, which is fine. Playing bait-and-switch by turning an Open Source project (with the community and the help and credibility that potentially come out of it) into a Shareware product will, like any bait-and-switch, irritate people.
The good ones, in an organization with any sense at all, keep you from having to answer "when will it be done" and "why isn't it done yet" questions from non-team-members, which is wonderful. Those questions will come up, and if ICs are answering them to anyone outside their own team then your (the general "your") process likely sucks and is slowing everything down and making everyone miserable.
A sufficiently good mechanism from a cryptographic standpoint, but which from a usability perspective totally falls down because people never do it.

It’s a very worthy goal to make these events rare and scary so that users might actually bother reading those numbers out loud to each other.
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Some of it makes plenty of sense.

The atmosphere is hardly a problem. You'd use numerous beams simultaneously, fired from all over the country. No single beam would be powerful enough to cause atmospheric breakdown. The sensible choice is to surround every power plant with lasers.

No, this won't be undetectable.

Light pressure is fine, but probably not as productive as ionizing the surface to produce thrust. With high power, atoms at the surface can become multiply ionized. They get blasted off the surface. This would be pulsed, since otherwise the resulting ions would absorb some of the beam and there would be a risk of melting the surface.

If the thrust isn't enough, for example due to a very high orbit, you can just keep going until the target is gone.

Weather isn't much of a problem. There is probably clear weather somewhere over the country. Station keeping won't last forever.

Oh, and if you don't insist on a neat and tidy removal, you can just use non-pulsed beams to melt the target.
BTW - your link from above is great - thanks for posting.
I agree that these endemic procedural messes reveal that core parts of the EU may be illiberal, overly federalized, and could use reform. But how is acknowledging its weaknesses ammunition for illiberal systems in general?

Out of all the alternatives it gives ammo to, those advocating for more local, directly democratic governance have been receiving the lions share compared to those advocating alternative authoritarian schemes.
I work in a semiconductor company and we have process engineers as PhDs. Development of a semiconductor process has little deep technical work and more about managing suppliers, process characterization and lots of statistics.

But we have folks with deep technical know how and PHD in some esoteric subject of proton-proton collision inside a nuclear reactor core developing ball attach processes on BGA chip packages or working on chip shooters. It makes no sense.

Also, these PhDs are terribly unhappy and usually on H1-B visa locked in and unable to change jobs.
I imagine they'll get around to it eventually.
Except deplatforming is shown to work against alt-right hate speech: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjbp9d/do-social-...

Anti-semitic speech has traditionally relied on soap boxes to spread their message, for decades before the internet even existed. That's why most academics won't engage them, because these groups are not interested in genuine discussion but in broadcasting their prejudice.
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It's the publisher vs platform debate. If you're curating content based off of promoting your company's vision of acceptable free speech, then you become a publisher and a whole different set of rules apply to you. You're liable for much more in the eyes of the law.

You can't cherry pick the advantages of both and hide under the guise of being an open platform.
Private sector censorship is not a concept. These terms are mutually exclusive by definition.
I think we need a few more years to see whether LSTMs retain their importance over time. Awarding it now seems premature.
>I'm not sure what the right move is, but I don't think its as simple as "my private site is my private site, thats the end of it"

Well get back to me when you've worked out exactly when a private entity shouldn't be able to decide what content they allow. This ambiguity is really too difficult to figure out.
I wouldn't worry computing is about building a solution then abstracting that layer away so that you don't have to think about it. DO that and you'll be fine. I for example rarely remember the specific names for things but remember and derive concepts very well. Consider it your own personal advantage that you're not weighed down by details.
There's a difference between celebration of heritage and white supremacy. Please don't conflate celebration of Oktoberfest with calling for an ethnostate. They're different goals.
> Already many (most?) elementary schools in HK speak Mandarin instead of Cantonese.

Mandarin is far easier to learn and speak than Cantonese
I was planning to buy Macbook 2018 next week now after seeing all this complaints, i think I should wait for the 2019 model. Anyone with an idea when the next release would be?
> What public space offers infinitely scalable many-to-many communication? Public space is distance limited, these platforms aren't. Just because these platforms chose not to heavily regulate the content doesn't preclude their ability to ever do so in the future, nor does it make a comparison to a theoretical public space that never existed any more valid.

You're still extremely limited on Facebook and Twitter by natural space and time constraints. Just because these take a slightly different form and aren't based on physical distance between communicating parties doesn't mean that communication on the platform is just completely unfettered.

So "infinitely scalable" does not mean that each person can actually consume all content produced by all other people. That's not possible in all current iterations of social media and presumably is fundamentally unachievable. Rather, it means the system can scale to an arbitrary number of producers and consumers, each of whom is still subjected to natural physical constraints, whether those be determined by physical location, screen space, the loudness of your voice, the speed at which you read, the speed at which you type, etc.
If there are any WIP implementations utilizing CloudABI and Capsicum they would be interesting to look at.
The difference being that white nationalists generally don't want to run away to a large private homestead and live out their lives privately and whitely - they want to convert the existing multiracial society they live in into a uniracial one.
My personal experience has been very positive.
Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter also have as their primary purpose the propagation of information and messages by and among their users. It's not some incidental or secondary feature. It's what they do. And they promote this to the public with almost zero barrier to entry. Yes they are still private entities, but like a hotel that is open to the public, they become constrained in the restrictions they can impose since they have chosen to be in that business.
The curious thing about insinuation is that negation doesn't negate it.

Consider a construct like, "I'm not saying you're a spy, but...". Saying I'm not saying something is a way of saying it.
Even if they publish their server code there is no way for anyone to verify that it's the code they are actually running and it would be just a PR move. If the client implementation is good there should be no way that the server can compromise any message.
To date, Kong's configuration has lived in a DB, but with DB-less you can hold the entire configuration in a single YAML or JSON file. You'd want to use DB-less in instances where you want to use declarative config, or in instances where you want to minimize the number of moving parts. As long as your config can fit in-memory, it's a great way to keep things simple.
There should be some word or phrase for the fact that our culture can't seem to actually produce great literature, and modern people can't seem to muster the attention to read great literature, and so kids stuff like Calvin and Hobbes and Harry Potter is touted as being "great literature" somehow. It's not; it's insipid kids stuff. Enjoy it for what it is worth; if you call it "great literature" you're just revealing the fact you don't read much in the way of literature or greatness. Go read some Dostoevsky or Melville, or for heaven's sake, even some Kipling or Tolkien if you can only read kids stuff.

Next week we'll have something on the high literary qualities of bazooka bubble gum cartoons, and asterisk and obelisk comics; how Winnie the Poo was the 8th incarnation of the Buddha.
One dehumanizes people based on religion and the other dehumanizes people based on skin color. They are both cars, one is blue and the other is yellow.
Aren't causal convolutions basically CNNs with masking?
I used to be in this boat for financial reasons. I downloaded tons of documentation and learned to love specifications.

Of course, nothing beats Google, but if the docs are good (big if) you tend get a deeper understanding of your tools.
The question is about career. Sorry, no experience there as I actively said no to recruiters in India as the main motivation to go to India was to not work for someone else.
Java inside the browser doesn't exist. That's fine. That's not what I'm talking about or making comparisons to.

Java runs just fine outside of the browser. You don't even need a browser installed to run Java applications.

Javascript and WASM run fine inside the browser, and that's not what I'm talking about or making comparisons to.

I'm talking about running WASM binaries outside of the browser. Similar to how Java runs outside of the browser. Very similar, actually. Java needs a runtime to be installed or available, so will WASI. Java is a write-once-run-anywhere type of platform, so is WASI.

Why does WASI need to exist if Java already exists for the intended uses?
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Calvin and Hobbes made meta-commentary on this as well, "High" art vs "Low" art: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2013/07/23
What do these people owe the world? Nothing. How much net positive does the average person due to for the world? Not much. Are intelligent people your slaves? You mean some smart person who's done some good for the world should be ashamed for trying to afford good schools for their kids? That's the worst possible attitude.