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I know that the American legislation is quite laissez-faire when it comes to defamation than in other countries (Canada, the UK and most of the European countries). But it still exists and I believe that the 8chan case still violated what's the defamation/slander bar in the US. According to these guys http://kellywarnerlaw.com/us-defamation-laws/ there's defamation when the defendant:

Published or otherwise broadcast an unprivileged, false statement of fact about the plaintiff (true, many of the messages posted on the 8chan would talk about an invasion of Hispanic people who would mostly be into crime, something that can be disproved by just comparing Hispanic crime rates against those of white Americans).

Caused material harm to the plaintiff by publishing or broadcasting said false statement of fact (true, 30 casualties is a textbook definition of "material harm").

Acted either negligently or with actual malice (true, the negligent behaviour is especially evident on the 8chan side, which failed to apply simple moderation guidelines even when advised to do so).
It requires a great deal of ignorance of US history to make such a claim regarding “intent.” The Sedition Act of 1798 was passed by Congress less than a decade after the ratification of the Bill of Rights and many of the same venerated founders who were instrumental in creation and passage of the latter bore equal responsibility for the former. The founders most certainly did not intend the sort of free speech that is enjoyed today, so the “intent” of the first amendment means little.
Only when one doesn't use a solution like having the common logic in a portable language like C++, with bindings to native UI elements.

A solution used by plenty of commercial desktop software as we moved from Assembly as main application language for desktop apps during the 16 bit days.
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> The only technical catch is that you aren't allowed to change the type of the contents in the function

Sticking with your metaphor of container + contents, the contents absolutely can change. It's the container that has to remain the same throughout the pipeline.
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I tried Flutter a few times to have a play - really like it. Obviously a lot of the packages available hook you into the Google ecosystem (Firebase is ridiculously easy to get working).

There are quite a few things missing, and I personally found it quite hard to get going (but that might just be a general lack of skill at getting tooling set up), but there's an awful lot to like if you want to dive into getting something set up on-device quickly.
Fair enough. I mean I guess I wouldn't go so far as to claim that time-tracking is an obviously bad metric. However, I would definitely claim it can be poorly utilized. This metric is just a tool. Employed effectively it can increase performance. Employed ineffectively it can increase...time.

But generally I think my main point stands. We need to be humble enough to sometimes accept lack of control (i.e. not using certain metrics/processes) rather than deluding ourselves by through certain metrics that really aren't very good.
This is an oversimplification. I can have ways of detecting artifacts that is not based on a differentiable loss function, so no, not true.
Thanks for catching my mistake - I did indeed mean Freiberuflich.

> Unlike in many other professions he _can_ be "selbstständig" in the CS field without a degree

I'm not an expert here, I can only tell you that the Finanzamt Köln disagrees with this sentence.

IIRC they lumped "web development" in under "engineering", and therefore required qualification. The only way around it that I've heard of, is some front-ender friends of mine invoicing as "Web Designer", which counts as an artistic profession.
> Which doesn't matter at all in regards to attracting the best minds.

The idea that genius is unaffected by money is wonderfully principled but completely indefensible, especially since all of your examples gained significant material wealth in the process of winning your approval. Again I'll note your apparent unwillingness to factor in the context of the quote, which specifically is from and about the information technology sector anyway. Finally your anecdotal approach to demonstrating via example suffers from a massive contamination by confirmation bias -- e.g. for all you know the finest minds ARE working on adtech, but nobody's made a Wikipedia page about the fineness of their minds. In other words, your argument restricts itself to the set of people who employ public relations staff.

> Please point out the whataboutism in what I said.

Your entire post was whataboutism. I don't know how to teach you to see that. I apologize.

> It's floated persistently and has been for many years as a serious generalized statement - a lament - about what the best minds are working on (ad clicks, not flying cars).

It is a lament, and taken in its original context if you please, you might even notice it's true. A "ha ha only serious" joke in computer science research goes something like "if you want to get funding, look at what the field was researching twenty years ago, and put that in a grant proposal." Progress in the fundamentals of computer science has slowed to a crawl, and the incentives appear to be set to ensure the status remains firmly quo for some time to come.
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The depth and amount of tenuous word association is amazing. I went in expecting another dad joke list. I came out with something like a thematic/"sounds like" thesaurus. I feel so much potential here for brainstorming ideas for creative writing (while not actually using any of the puns).
What are the ERP systems that are well known in India?
Germany isn't America. They are also a vassal state conquered by globalist bankers hellbent on punishing them for eternity for something barely any of the current living population had any part in. Odd choice for an example of "freedom".
You're defending the Daily Stormer,
do I read that correctly?

No, you're reading that incorrectly.

stevenicr is referring to Cloudflare's values of "total content neutrality" [1] where they argued they were similar to a 'common carrier' and should provide services to everyone, like a phone company or mail service would.

Such values have been articulated by Cloudflare's CEO himself [2].

Hence, the DDoS protection service would protect the Taliban, child pornographers, stolen credit card sellers, DDoS-as-a-service providers and, yes, neo-nazis. So this policy had odious consequences, but was at least consistent and clearly articulated.

The new policy seems a lot less clear - drop service to neo-nazis, by all means. But why haven't they dropped the Taliban and paedophiles and DDoS providers and carders at the same time?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cloudflare&oldid=...
[2] https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-and-free-speech/
> There is no such thing as a "natural right of freedom of speech".

In fact, there is no such thing as a natural right at all. Rights are derived from value systems, and the choice of value system is mostly based on aesthetics. There is no way to say whether the Western Christianity-based value system is "better" than, say, the Confucian value system, because the word "better" cannot be defined from first principles (without invoking a particular value system).
The English say "Yes, but..." or " I am afraid ..." but in fact they mean no...

The French say "Non, mais..." ending up most of the time with yes...

So what's important? the start with No or the conclusion with a Yes.
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That's a pretty optimistic view. My recollection is more along the lines of lots of phone calls and people stopping by your office on a regular basis.
It is not my opinion. It is a fact that the United States recognizes freedom of speech as a natural right.
Just wanted to point out that being gay is not an “ideology or belief” in the same way that being straight is not.

Comparing the two implicitly accepts the idea that one can choose to be gay (and can thus be changed with the right methods)
Complaining makes sense, but when you've been doing it for twenty years (the Data Protection Directive, which prohibited many of the same behaviours but didn't impose specific penalties, is from 1995) and you see that businesses keep recklessly doing the same behaviours, you might learn what economists have been saying: they only respond to incentives, and so the EU had to set some of it wished to see its complaints taken seriously.

And so the EU joined the US into fining companies a few million for privacy violations.
> The root problem is Americans. And I'm honestly not sure of how to fix the problem with a whole population that has become so irrational, polarized, ignorant and sensitive to hate speech.

I doubt that only Americans are the problem in this case. I think what has happened is that hate speech and other undesirable (subjective word but bear with me) content is a hack into human psychology and a small percent of human beings regardless of nationality will always be influenced by hate speech and caste-ism and what not. The problem is that as the internet has reached the masses, the lone fanatic has a very large soapbox to shout and a very loud speaker to listen from.
I tend to run Ubuntu LTS in my systems, and only upgrade between them every 2-4 years to a next LTS or the one after (Ubuntu does Long Term Support releases every 2 years and supports them for 5 years).
I will reformat once in a few upgrades, so on a scale of 6-10 years.

Now, I run a bunch of lxd containers for development, and they are a bit more ephemeral and might get re-setup more frequently. This allows me to avoid having a base system with dependencies for stuff I don't really need.

I sometimes also reformat when I introduce new disks or replace them with bigger ones.
You yourself said

> Stories like these are mostly only macOS; since Windows apps usually just re-invent all kinds of UI elements, while Linux's GUI toolkits are super-fragmented. (GTK vs Qt is one thing, and there are lots of other options!)

and on next line you say

> Adding Flutter or any other UI library that draws everything from scratch is a bad idea.

The first thing you said is the reason why we need something like Flutter. There might be a standard way of doing things on Mac but on Windows and Linux there isn't. Flutter at least gives the hope that we will see consistent UIs across multiple platforms while maintaining same code base. That isn't bad thing.
" The only technical catch is that you aren't allowed to change the type of the contents in the function. That means if you start with something of type A in the container, you have to get a container containing something of type A at each stage of the pipeline."

I don't think this is correct. What doesn't change is the overall type constructor (e.g. if you start with a list, you'll still end up with a list... If you start with an IO action, you'll still have an IO action). But the type that is wrapped by the container can and usually does change. e.g. if you "map" over a list of A's, you'll get a list of whatever type your map function returns - still a list, but a list of B's, not a list of A's. fmap :: (a->b) -> [a] -> [b].
Using 'so', as in, 'I do so!' seems to carry almost the identical meaning to me, but it's hardly as universal and idiomatic as the French 'si'.
I still don't see any big advantages over Xamarin Native, Qt or plain C++ with native views, when going through this route.

All of the with the bonus that C#, JavaScript and C++ actually have lots of market demand, Dart remains a possible CoffeScript.
They mainly use cloudflare. There have been a lot of discussions over it and also criticism.
Because it's much easier to succeed (and feel really good afterwards) in bullying the small deformed guy.
Maybe the same way we don't stop for hitchhikers N years (N < 5) after obtaining a driving license.
Can you eat Kinder Surprise eggs yet?

This idea that the US is somehow specially "free" is more mythology than reality. We mostly have different regulations, that's all.
Even if we ignore reprints, editorial series that rearrange papers (and make a paper citable more than one way), and proceedings (which often don't properly distinguish between papers, but use author + proceeding).

Science simply doesn't operate on journal published papers most of the time. The paper mills run so
hot that you regularly cite preprints, that get exchanged between authors directly.
It happens regularly that the proof is supposedly in the "full paper" only that the "full paper" was never published.
does the Us not recognise the right to dignity?
We lived in that world until media pushed mentally ill people to the front.

Look at the graphs reporting on racism and the surge of terror.

They basically revived nationalistic movements for clicks. Not wanting to reverse cause and effect but there is ample evide ce that the call for censorship massivle accelerated occurrences like shootings.
This. Seriously. It compares a picture with a lot of other stuff than the glass building to look at and help our eyes "escape", to a picture where 97% of the space is the building itself. There's nothing else to look at so... yeah... This seems so biased.

/e: words
> stevenicr is referring to Cloudflare's values of "total content neutrality" [1] where they argued they were similar to a 'common carrier' and should provide services to everyone, like a phone company or mail service would.

...in the US

All of these free speech arguments need to be really clear that they're talking about the extremist version of freedom of speech used in the US.

Other countries have postal services and phone companies that place limits on what can be sent over them.
There is always Qt and wxWidgets. Compared to e.g. electron for cross platform UI they are super tiny.
IMO it really depends. There's a lot of big companies that have more than enough resources to be able to pay multiple dev teams to build and maintain apps across operating systems.

From a few years ago, Twitter and Facebook were famous examples. They pushed so hard to try and build their apps using web technology but kept running into performance issues (thanks to infinite scrolling). After spending fuck knows how much they finally admitted that maybe native components are better.

But this is Facebook, who have so much resources they can afford to build their own version of PHP three times over. I just don't understand why they put so much effort into trying to fit a square peg into a round hole instead of just going with native development.

But, I'm not an insider, I don't know the thought processes behind it. Long story short, IMO people overestimate how complex it is to build multiple native apps in parallel.
There's even a song by Mylène Farmer called "Oui mais non"
> the eye focus on the structural aspects of the buildings

which are mostly edges
Some of us use hacker news as a book marking service :-)
That sense of humour certainly runs in the family.

Also, teaching your kids about radio is a nice bonus.
Yeah, the number of words in the language doesn't prove the author's point at all.

That said, the difference in lexicon size isn't a trick about authorities or dictionaries, it's a real obvious thing. In English one can usually reach for an obscure word to find a near-synonym with a subtle change in meaning - as well as walking, say, one can trudge or plod or amble, whereas in French you'd be reaching for phrases instead. It doesn't limit anyone's ability to express themselves.
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The EU might also hold them liable for tracking content of sites they proxy if they aren't careful.
Yeah for publishing you don't want content in links, but you can solve that with data URIs that embed images and other data directly into the link [1].

[1]:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme
There is a middle ground. Germany is choke full of jokes and even hateful comments about politicians like Angela Merkel, and no one went to prison for it as far as I'm aware.

But intentionally inciteful hate speech against racial/religious minorities can (and occasionally does) lead to fines or jailtime.
Why do you think it might have been that the founding fathers were such advocates for freedom of speech? Do you think they were unaware that it would lead to the normalization of unpleasant things being said? These questions can be answered quite succinctly by asking one other question. In a nation without freedom of speech, who gets to determine what can and cannot be said?

The Treason Felony Act 1848 [1] is something that is still technically a part of the law in the United Kingdom even if not actively enforced. In 2001 The Guardian made a legal effort to finally have it officially removed from the books, and failed [2]. The act makes it illegal to call for the abolition of the monarchy within the United Kingdom, even "imagining" such is sufficient to conviction. The max penalty is life imprisonment -- quite progressive as it used to be death. This is a stark reminder of why and where the desire for free free speech came from. Imagine our past without freedom of speech. There undoubtedly would have been numerous states that would have made the mere advocacy for abolition illegal, others that would have made advocating for suffrage of various groups also illegal, and so on.

You may think it simple to demarcate a line between 'reasonable' and 'unreasonable' speech but it's not so easy and ultimately the individuals that get to decide as such are those with the most power in society. The lines end up being drawn as fairly and reasonably as our states draw the lines laying out their voting districts. Laws against free speech invariably end up being exploited to help entrench whatever political ideology happens to get a grip on power within a nation, as the UK laws past and present are a reminder of.

Such laws can even be used to enforced bigoted views. For instance in the UK in 2017 a 19 year old lady was arrested and convicted, forced to wear a ankle monitoring device, abide a curfew, etc for "sending a grossly offensive message by means of a public electronic communications network." Her crime? Quoting lyrics from a Snoop Dog song on Instagram. That conviction was overturned a couple of years later. In another case (again in the UK) a Christian preacher was arrested for stating that, while he was not homophobic, he believed that the Bible taught homosexuality was a sin. Again it was overturned, yet being arrested, let alone convicted, for such "offenses" is hardly a society any should thrive to emulate.

Ultimately, I think people only see things they disagree with as being affected. In reality once free speech goes it will also include some of your views you find in no way unacceptable. In Germany until 2018 it was illegal to publicly insult any head of state. It was revoked only when it became inconvenient to the powers that be. Following a comedian reading an obscene poem about Turkish president Erdoğan, Turkey demanded and lawfully received prosecution which ultimately led to the law's removal. Laws which make it illegal to "defame" the President of the German Federal Republic remain on the books.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason_Felony_Act_1848

[2] - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/13/calling-abol...
I guess I'm searching for a graph that has time on the x-axis and (real gdp * % of income that went to the bottom z%) on the y-axis for 5 ~ 10 different values of z. And hopefully it trends upwards for all values. I'm just surprised this isn't something that economists have already thought of as it feels like it would be the most important GDP-derived metric. Or at least "GDP per capita on median" if that makes sense.
I think this statement is completely wrong and America is on of the most resistant countries against fascism because of its adherence to freedom which fascist really dislike.
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In your value system. Not in mine.
> defamation/slander bar in the US

Those are civil issues, not criminal.
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and then do you suggest 8chan to start making their own ISPs around the nation in areas where there are no ISPs that will peer?
As an aside, the owner of 8chan already hosts 8chan with his own ISP.
I find impressive that on a longer period of time, the US still spent 20 times more on political advertising than all of Europe

Edit: It's far from perfect; if you filter by France you get only belgian, german, and spanish advertising.
> underlying framework/runtime can generate the appropriate UI for the exact target platform

This may seem like a good idea, but it's not. What you will get is a leaky, lowest common denominator API that will break on each new OS version.
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It goes a bit further, and allows to contradict any negative sentence (some example stretch a bit, more context would typically be given):

C'est impossible. - Si!
Je ne peux pas - Si! (I can't - yes, you can!)

English used to have a system with four words for that purpose [1].

An interesting fact is that some early Gallo-Romance languages were named after the "yes" word in that language: langue d'{oc, oïl}. One can recognise oïl as a precursor for oui [2,3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_and_no#The_Early_English_f... (cases with three forms such as French are detailled bellow).

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langues_d%27o%C3%AFl

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallo-Romance_languages
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