skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. Right now, Amazon has about 40 billion dollars of cash and is generating another 10 billion a year and growing. Shareholders don't mind companies investing in future earnings but once they start having too much cash on hand signaling they don't know what to do with all of it, they will start clamoring for share buybacks and dividends just like what they are doing with Apple and Google who have had too much cash on hand.

I would make a large bet that Amazon will announce a share buyback and/or dividend in the next 5 years.
No one is entitled to a youtube channel, that I am aware of. Would it be bad publicity? Maybe but, I'm sure plenty of people would cheer the ban.

I've never needed Facebook, Google or Cloudflare to have an internet presence, but maybe I don't know what the internet is.
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7083786?hl=en

Discontinued August 1.
There's a massive, massive difference between calling for erasing an entire people simply for existing and fighting a declared military force. No one in the US is going over to wipe out all Arabs

The clash of civilizations rhetoric makes this assertion dubious to most people that are not in the USA. That coupled with the large-scale widespread bombing of much of the world since WW2 and the support of despots engaged in torture and repression makes your fine distinction a cold comfort for hundreds of thousands (we think the price was worth it) of children.

The tendencies revealed in 8chan are a reflection of core values of US civilization.

To pretend otherwise, and agonize over the origins and supposed abnormality of racist genocide in the USA is copper-bottomed duplicity.

I suppose it makes it easier to sleep at night -- _this_ particular genocide is abnormal for us nice folks.
I should not be obligated to refute another person's speech. I thought silence was not consent. Right?

Furthermore, the chans are about as technologically receptive to challenging ideas as is possible:

Anyone can post from anywhere through any connection, without fear of harm or censorship.
And yet Facebook offered $50k for retuning interns on their first year. This was 5 years ago when I was an intern manager.
https://sites.google.com/a/slu.edu/swartwout/cdw2019
Counter question: Why not fill lenses with Nitrogen? I know outdoor cameras CCTV cameras do this (more so to prevent condensation from internal moisture).
> It should be obvious to state that if you get rid of 8chan, those people aren't suddenly deradicalized

More importantly, you should ask yourself how they found 8chan. They were using other means of communications that didn't disappear. The invisible force that gathered them together on 8chan is still there and can definitely do that again.
Interesting, which stocks should I invest in for dividends?
For sure.. it sounds like Google has more of a problem with everything becoming public as opposed to a higher % of people behaving badly.

Stuff like being able to call a Town Hall Meeting to criticize the decisions of upper management seems unique to Google though. Imagine that happening at some place like Oracle!
Your facts are irreverent. High speed rail isn't useful for the NYC-LA travel. However the NYC to Atlanta, GA route is much shorter and would work well for high speed rail. That is just one of many possible routes where good rail would be good.
Why? If you want to break into a house, it's a lot easier if you can just walk up to the door and look like you were invited in, then attracting attention picking a lock or kicking down a door.

It also means you can hire someone else to do your dirty work by tricking them into thinking they were invited in and asking them to "grab a few things for you".
It depends on how much data you have. When you have everyone's emails you can rank everyone by closest match and narrowing parameters.
I don't want to go into specifics, but I spent time on some of the more unsavory parts of Reddit for a while. It got me into trouble with friends and family - I said some truly mean and hateful things. I was going deeper and deeper into it. But when Reddit banned those communities, I just... moved on.

I'm ashamed I ever let myself fall into the decaying orbit I did, but when the attractor was removed, I didn't seek out a new one. I didn't even have to install tor if I wanted to: they had just moved to Voat. Still, that tiny barrier to entry caught me. And I'm glad it did.
> To them its just entertainment.

I would not doubt that a not very small percentage of the conspiracy theories posted are done so by people who don't actually believe it but want to see how many others they can convince.

However, I do also believe that some pretty sick people use 8chan to recruit people to continue their campaign of hate.
I found another article from June https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-hangouts-disconti...

"The classic Hangouts On Air streaming experience is going away later in 2019. For quick streaming, try YouTube.com/webcam"
It's not really that ironic. Censorship can come from both the far-left and far-right. Both ends of the political spectrum tend towards authoritarianism.
You've written a lot without addressing the key point. It seems that you are fine with poor people getting much worse care than rich people. At least, you've declined several opportunities to indicate that you're not fine with this, and none of the suggestions that you're making would make things any better for Americans who currently lack insurance. Indeed, you're quite clear about what happens to people who can't pay up: "When that account runs out, you're screwed." Charming.

The fact that the cost of cancer treatment may go down in future is totally irrelevant to the question of how we pay for people's cancer treatment today. As far as I can see you only bring it up as a means of dodging the question of how poor people can get cancer treatment now. Rather than indicate how this might be possible now under the system you envisage, you talk about how it might be possible 100 years hence. You may whine about me taking the moral high ground, but can't you see how crass it is for you to play down people's present suffering on the grounds that people 100 years hence may be better off? What sort of reaction were you expecting to comments of that nature?

The concept of "catastrophic" health insurance transparently makes no sense. Any insurance plan that doesn't cover all the expensive treatments is next to useless. So obviously, no-one (either insurers or patients) can save very much money by nickel and diming patients for inessential treatments. Indeed, if these "catastrophic" plans don't cover screenings and other preventative measures, they'll probably end up increasing everyone's costs in the long run.

Bizarrely, you seem to think that the main problem with the current system is that people have too much coverage. This makes so little sense that I'm unable to engage you on that point. This is particularly so given that you are simultaneously so vague about the nature of the system that you favor and so unwaveringly certain that it would deliver better "results" (if, of course, we ignore all the poors).

The countries that pay less for drugs are the countries with a greater level of centralisation and government control. Drug companies are behemoths, and it takes another behemoth to negotiate a good deal.

>I could just as easily say, "you have no realistic plans for controlling costs while delivering high quality service in abundance."

I can point to plenty of existing systems that do this. E.g., the healthcare system of pretty much any European country.
Oh, not just Iran. 10 years ago Cambodia had already better coverage than Germany. Either mobile or WiFi. Go figure... Positive thing in the Alps is you are quite often close enough to get coverage from Austria. No idea why it has to be that bad.
My first job out of college was for the U.S. Army on behalf of a large military contractor. My team leader worked for a different contractor. In the first few weeks he built up an insane environment of paranoia and micromanagement.

Our customer was a government employee. Twice in my first few months, my team leader came back from her desk yelling things like "YOU ARE SO STUPID" loud enough that everyone in the office could hear. I brought this up to a coworker, and he said that this happened periodically for as long as he had been there.

In retrospect, I should have immediately reported this. Since it was my first "big boy" job, I was feeling out how to deal with it. I figured since the government was our customer, one word from the person he was berating and he'd be ejected into the sun, or maybe everyone knew and this was just how things in this office worked?

Some time later, the micromanagement reached a crescendo. I completed a learning module for an instructor as per their specification and asked to do a demo. Team Lead responded saying no, the simulator was all screwed up and he was going to personally help fix it.

For 3 days in a row my team lead spent all 8 hours of the working day sitting in a chair behind me saying things like "move that box one pixel to the right.. no.. one more.. keep going" as he "felt out" the way the UX should be. I suggested that he could take the source from perforce make these changes from his desk. Nope, he didn't want to do that.

The work product delivered by 2 salaries over 3 days was marginal changes to UI element positioning, misaligning almost all of them in weird ways. I felt like I was going crazy, was he making my projects worse on purpose?

We had an excellent CHI engineer on the team. He had a masters degree in the field. He confirmed that nothing I was being asked to do made any sense at all. Nothing about this made sense.

I asked to take some time and talk to him about his management style. This was a mistake. He started out telling me that I was incompetent, and he needed to "show me how to be a good designer" and that he was going to continue micromanaging me for as long as needed to happen to accomplish this. After about 2 hours of back and forth, he seemed to at least understand that I needed him to back off. As we parted ways, his final thought was "You know what? You need to just shut up and do what you're told."

Yeah, no. I went to my desk immediately and sent an email to the site chief, detailing my experiences with him, and all the stuff he shouted at other people in the office. Despite my belief that everyone must have known what he was doing, that apparently wasn't the case. Government employee was too scared to stand up for herself, despite the fact she had the power to make him disappear instantly. Team Leader was escorted out of the building within 30 minutes and never came back.
> Soph threatened to murder YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki earlier this year, which resulted in the site temporarily suspending and demonetizing her account, according to BuzzFeed.

Why is this controversial in any way? She was lucky to get back on.
> Serious question: is climate science immune from the statistical abuses that have recently been shown to plague other empirical and/or model based disciplines?

I'm not sure what you're referring to, and I'd love to read up on it if you have a source?
But in these cases there is a blurring of bad national policy with an entire group of people unconnected to it. This is very dangerous.

For example, there maybe those who dislike Israel and even want war. But to then say "all Jews are evil" is incorrect. Most don't even live there to control policy. Of those that do, many object to policy. It's like saying some terrorists are Muslim so all Muslims are evil. Or that North Korea is dangerous therefore all Koreans are dangerous. Or America does some bad things therefore all Americans should die. It's all obviously incorrect.

You can have a reason to want to fight a _country_ but there can never be a reason to annihilate a complex, nuanced group because of their skin color or religion etc. There can be reasons for war (which is bad enough) but there can never be reasons for genocide. Americans might have reason to hate Japan after Pearl Harbor but to lock up all Japanese inside the country is obviously wrong.

More generally, there can be very good reason to stop a group organized around an action (eg Neo-Nazis). But to say "all whites must die" (because all Neo-Nazis are white) is obviously an incorrect expansion.

Unfortunately, it's a common blurring that exploitative leaders take advantage of. Today some Western leaders foment hate against all Muslims and some Islamic leaders foment hate against all Jews. In the past it was other groups. It is these leaders that are the danger.
This is a pretty tough spot. You don't want to impede someone's career because of there reproductive choices but at the same time were the teams wrong in not wanting to introduce a new manager about to take a months long medical leave?

You can look at the suggested early medical leave as being pushed out (and it certainly could have been) but it also strikes me as a good option if you only want to work in a rock star position at a rock star pace.
The girl is platformy-challenged, you shouldn't mock her for that.
There is substantial prior research into those questions, some of which made it all the way to law.

It's an interesting topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly#Law
In the 2000s, the US federal government used anti-trust to keep local and state governments from passing laws banning internet sales of products. If they hadn’t done this Amazon would have never has the success it has. It’s only fair that the government stops Amazon’s anti-competitive behavior as well. Big companies should compete with small companies and customers should choose the winner.
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> who´s to judge which ones are right and which one are wrong?

Who's to judge that anything is wrong? Murder, theft etc.? In the end, we must organize a society. If you don't like thinking of society's judgment -- made through whatever institutions it creates -- as universal moral rulings, think of them as organizational rules. If you kill someone under certain conditions, society puts you in jail, and the word "wrong" is used for those things society deems jail-worthy (and probably beyond that, too). In this case, society does decide what opinions are right or wrong in the correctness sense, only what ideas can be detrimental to its own survival to a degree that justifies enforcement. Who decides where is that line? The same institutions that decide the penalty for reckless driving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUvdXxhLPa8
Todos: taskbook[1]

Notes: Any decent quality paper and .38mm Uni-ball Signo

1: https://github.com/klaussinani/taskbook
"Unchecked extremism compounded by more unchecked extremism inevitably leads to scenarios like the ones we’re witnessing more and more often" exactly this. When you have a group of people that are on the extreme of society (think that's the polite way of phrasing that and covers all groups on the edge) and isolate them; Then you end up with them being contained in an echo bubble that amplifies their extremes and increase the odds of some other form of communicating with society that has cut them off in physical ways.

Having them there, and allowing such extremes to be questioned, and with that, kept in check. The whole recruit aspect is a mixed one, shut them down, then their words can not spread. But equally they can't be questioned and raises the mystik and that means anybody who is curious will be forced to engage in a phsyical meeting with such people, allowing them to be swayed more easily than somebody engaging with them online, open for all to show the errors.

I always thought it is better for such extremes to make themselves known in public, rather than hiding in the shadows. Makes it easier to keep track of them and their state of mind.

So however much I disagree a mindset, I'd rather have them in the open and kept in check.

What would the solution be. Well, sadly the web really does need some universal age content control that is imposed upon such extreme websites. After all, a young mind should be nurtured for rational debate and not indoctrinated into a fixed mindset. We should at least get that right upon the web now, whilst we can. With that, a safer control of such extreme content is maintained. When history has shown that pushing underground, has more negative outcomes than positive ones.

Digital prohibition is not the solution we want happening here.
Do these hold up under Washington state law? I know most states do not support non-competes when it comes to lawsuits, it wouldn't surprise me if Washington is one of them.
The Incomplete History of Bitcoin Development
Data Structures (Programming Algorithms Book by Vsevolod Dyomkin)
I was brainwashed in Windows that the grit made me a better developer. They’d always say “a Windows X is an <other org> X+1”. They also convinced employees that if they ever left the org they’d never get back in because they’d lose the cache and not be assumed to have the competency of your level.
There's a lot of exuberance lately in areas that benefit from low interest rates; housing (again), corporate debt (this one is huge), and sovereign debt (another big one).

Over the last few decades, we seem to have a boom-bust debt cycle of sorts, and it doesn't seem to be abating at the moment given what we're seeing with the Fed, yields, and debt.
Generally, gold performs well in high inflation. Stocks and Real Estate have a much shakier track record there.
External Debt of Haiti
Thank you for your suggestions. I purchased Challenging Problems in Algebra and a text book by Titu Andreescu. Looking at the kinds of problems in Olympiad, it seems like they'd actually be helpful and more fun to solve.
Hubitat Elevation: https://hubitat.com/

It runs entirely locally.
8chan being shut down because their server supplied stopped doing business with them isn't an issue of free speech. You're really arguing that the 1st amendment means businesses can't refuse a customer, and that's just silly.
I was deservedly banned from chatting in World of Warcraft when I was 14 because I said some stupid shit, and the things I said weren't remotely comparable to this Soph kid. Sure, I'm glad my incident didn't get written about in The Hill, but do we really need to pretend that there is controversy every time a racist crossing over from 4chan gets an account banned on social media?
All of these companies (Amazon, Alphabet/Google, Facebook, etc) are very fortunate that the others exist because every single goddamn time anybody criticizes one, somebody will try to derail the discussion with "well what about [one of the others]?"

They all suck. Stop trying to use one to justify another.
A problem is that most users are likely in a mixed computing household, such as using an iPhone and a Windows Desktop. It would be a lot easier to suggest to some of my family, for instance, to use KeyChain if they had a good Windows client. (With the recent modern iCloud update in the Microsoft Store, I could even see this possibly happening, as opposed to the many years where iTunes for Windows was an afterthought.)
My science seemed to tell a clear story until I took a closer look
> How legal is it to give false information to a bank?

Irrelevant. These are only security questions. They can be anything, and in fact, for most of them they are not supposed to know.

If you are applying for one of their products and you get a form, and THEN you provide false information, it's a different matter.
"Though there was a weak El Niño in place during the first part of 2019, it is transitioning to a more neutral phase, making the extreme July temperatures even more alarming."

This is not going to get the coverage it should because of the shootings/8chan and the trade war, but this is extremely, extremely bad.
In my family we are collecting climate data since 1948 and as child i remember temperatures above 37C where extremely rare (like 3 times in 60 years). We were super excited when once the record was exceeded of a decimal point.

Now we have days with 37 and 38 C every summer, sometimes even 40 (we are in south europe).
This is part of a book on Algorithms and Lisp:

http://lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com/2019/07/programming-algori...
Windsor Blog – Replacing Traditional User Management
I don't have a lot hooked up yet, mostly just the software infrastructure. I'm building it all around Home Assistant. That integrates nicely with my Unifi network controller, which gives me presence detection (phones connecting / disconnecting). I have one Sonoff wifi switch which I reflashed to work with MQTT, mostly as a proof of concept, but now that I know it works I'll probably get a pile more. And I have a Honeywell T6 Pro thermostat (z-wave) on the way.
> Why do banks insist on restricting character limits to 12 - 20 characters?

Because they are not hashing your password, therefore it needs to fit in plain text in their database column.
Or they see a Master Lock advertised as "4-pin cylinder for added pick resistance" and think it's harder than "trivial" to pick.
Digital infrastructure is mostly privatized (and monopolized).
That was the first option, to which Parent is replying with alternative/related options.
> It looks like Germany's population grew by over 20 million just recently.

Uh, that'll be the fall of the Soviet Union adding ~16M East Germans.

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

> Some countries don't even have a census every year

You don't need a census to get a population count. Governments definitely keep records of births/deaths, as well as immigration. Your own link provides population numbers for every year from 1900 through 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Germany#Statis...

> Facts are so unpopular.

Indeed.

German population in 1998: 82,024,000.

German population in 2018: 83,000,000.
I'm in a major city too, not in a rural area. It's freaking ridiculous. I have learned to live with it. At one point, I was using my phone. Downloading things to a VPS and when I visit my folks, I'll download from my VPS to a usb stick. In 2020! If I liked downtown tho 15 minutes away where there's competition, I'll have Wow cable or fiber and much better service. Comcast is garbage.
> We also found time and time again that it was faster than opencl for what we were trying to do and the hardware available to us on cloud providers was Nvidia GPUs.

Were some benchmarks done perhaps or could you provide some more low-level reasons as to why CUDA was more performant? I'm not experienced with CUDA, just generally interested.

I also have to say that I am a bit skeptical of Nvidia as I have never received any proper support for Linux development on Nvidia GPUs for drivers and generally tracking bugs on their cards. It was so frustrating that I just switched to AMD GPUs that "just worked". How is this different for these kinds of use cases? Does Nvidia only care about their potential enterprise customers but they don't care about general usage of their GPUs on Linux? It seems to rub me the wrong way and I don't understand.
When will they learn that more censorship equals more mass shootings?