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This once again goes to show that you can do nothing illegal and still be virtually locked out of the internet. The viewpoint that "it's okay to kick 8chan off the internet" is not consistent with the viewpoint that "the internet should be neutral infrastructure". Take from that what you will.

People are doing the "yada yada not entitled to a platform" thing, but the distinction between free speech and having a platform is meaningless in reality. It's like saying "you can say anything you want, but we won't let you use the atmosphere to propagate the sound waves".

We now live in a society where it is acceptable for private companies to essentially completely ban individuals from exercising their free speech on the internet. The canary in the coalmine was The Daily Stormer; all the content there would be considered very objectionable and completely without merit by any remotely sensible person, so few people complained about it being shut down. Then came Gab and such. Now it's 8chan, which last time I checked still had more posts about video games and anime than about politics.

Make no mistake, sites you use will be next. /r/the_donald is already quarantined. Youtube and Twitter have gotten much more aggressive with their moderation too.

We need to allow people on the edges of the spectrum to say what they want even if it is without merit. Extreme speech is what prevents normal speech from being censored.

More than anything we can not allow random internet companies to be de-facto lawmakers and speech police by controlling who is allowed to say things on the internet.
If only the internet wasn't an international phenomenon that anyone anywhere can build upon.
I think it's being updated as it tumbles.

Right now, it says 875
40 for 50 is not so bad. Some regional ISPs installing FTTB/FTTH offer 100mbps + voice for ~40€, which is a pretty good deal.

Due to heavy oversubscribing cable is an inferior product in Germany (on weekends actual speeds drop to a fraction of the advertised line speed), and the biggest cable provider by far (Kabel Deutschland/Vodafone) has serious user support and service quality issues, not to mention they only offer ipv6 dual-stack lite connectivity.
If you had written less, we would have read more!
> I mean, it literally radicalized white supremacist terrorists. There's no "had the potential" anymore, it's a fact.

Other than the fact that 8chan had things on it that you didn’t like, where is the evidence to support this claim? How do we know that it was a website that was responsible for the views of its userbase, as opposed to any other media they accessed? How do we know that 8chan specifically was the factor that caused the outcome?
I used it in Recklinghausen, Dortmund, Dusseldorf and Koln, so yeah, within the cities. You're right, on the motorways the speed was sometimes atrocious, less than 1Mbps
See, you didn't answer my question. You essentially only said that nobody should even be able to ask that question.
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My guess is that it's considered so unlikely that they wouldn't be required to demonstrate the full range of behaviour. In the same way as I wouldn't expect them to demonstrate all of the edge cases of the flight envelope with a failed yaw dampener. I could well be wrong though, I haven't found any good references.
> What people (seemingly) fail to realise is that neither Cloudflare is the Internet nor Voxility is a public infrastructure.

Everyone realizes that. We're past relying on the First Amendment argument.
Seems like just another way for Google to funnel non-Chrome users into Chrome
I'm pretty baffled someone thinks this is a sustainable business model, but good luck regardless.
Discussed twice last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18186392

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19192625

Also 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15819489

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12484568
There is no "newfound obsession" with it. If you think about what it means, you cannot have a healthy economy with a prolonged inverted yield curve.
I honestly would expect that at a national park.

To me that would be what a national park ... just is.
that is not free speech though, that is explicitly illegal.
So I've posted before about how bad this is, and been flagged and downvoted, which sort of proves the point - this is not an open platform for the exchange of ideas in the same way a chan board is.

However, rather than reiterate my previous points, let me pose a question. Where are all the angry young men going to go to now? Will the problem become worse because now people with mental health issues have no place else to form community?

I feel we are in uncharted territory and keep trying to fix the symptoms of a broken society rather than the cause.

Make no mistake, what these young people did was sick and wrong. But they were social "losers" that no one helped or cared for. Because that costs time, money, and "sharing" social capital. By which I mean sometimes you've got to let the little guy win, because humans are social animals and we're hard wired to desire "fairness".

And our society doesn't promote fairness and fraternity. The US, as a culture, just does not give a shit about the little guy.

You want the shootings to stop? Start giving people more than McJobs, make mental health professionals cheap and accessible, start trying to gasp figure out how to get incels laid.

Do we do any of that? Fuck no. Society makes fun of nerdy anti-social people, because it makes people feel big to put others down.

Sometimes I feel like I'm living in the land of the crazy people...
They could have been using it as a honeypot. Or they were going after something very specific with a limited warrant.
Only if you are using your hens as collateral for the loan, which isn’t very likely. As the hens are just overhead, the banks are more interested in the value of your farm (eg related to the price of eggs you are selling).
This China has been propping up their currency in reality. They chose to let it float more and it instantly crashed. There it could go all the way to 8.4 ish if they let it fully free float.
> Stocks are just like hens. They lay eggs called “dividends”,

The general advice of not worrying about market dips/corrections is good. Even if you only invest at market peaks, if you stick with it and don't sell, things will turn out pretty well:

> Meet Bob.

> Bob is the world’s worst market timer.

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/02/worlds-worst-market...

The specific advice of going after dividends is not as prudent, as one should (especially with retirement savings) go after total return:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpXI_Vd51dA

There are a whole bunch of myths that have sprung up over dividends:

> Dividend Myth #1: Companies that pay dividends are inherently better investments than those that don’t.

> Dividend Myth #2: Dividend investors are successful because they select excellent companies and buy them when they are attractively priced.

> [Total of six myths.]

* https://canadiancouchpotato.com/2011/01/18/debunking-dividen...
That link should be flagged.

"This would explain why shootings occur in “gun free zone” schools and movie theaters rather than in police stations or gun clubs."

Seriously HN?
Probably silly question. But is there any benefit then in always quickly moving your funds out as soon as they come in?

1. What if I quickly withdrew the funds as cash (inconvenience aside)

2. If I transferred (auto-transferred) the funds to a second account be it same bank or different bank. What then?
I've spent most entire career at relatively small companies (25-100 employees). I've never seen these types of issues (I can't say they've never happened, I'm just not aware of any).

In fact, reading these stories is probably why I've never had the desire to apply to work at any of the large tech companies.

I can't say for certain what the differences are, but I think smaller companies tend of have less office politics, less ambition as there is less opportunity for promotion, more shared goals (everyone works on one product), fewer layers of management, and more personal interaction with management.
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I assumed you were talking about J. Edgar Hoover since the president and the guy who founded the vacuum company don't seem very relevant to a discussion about surveillance and censorship.
I have absolutely no clue what this thing does.
If you think you can stall the flow of information on the internet, I have some bad news for you.
Not that hard, 8chan has other sub forums which are related to other interests, they should have given time to 8chan admins to temp block /pol till they figured out how to moderate illegal posts.
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> It feels like a tool for virtue signaling.

It's this sort of broad usage that makes me feel "virtue signaling" doesn't have any descriptive value any more.
I guess, they'll be just juggles between bunch of contracting companies? Or maybe new ones will be formed all time and old ones will be dissolved?

What loopholes can Google use if this comes into a law?
This isn't censorship, it's someone being shown the door.
Lol

These aren't exactly organized bands of people funneling in millions of dollars for carrying out actual training and misson planning/execution. They're watering holes where disaffected elements of society hyperbolically play up various happenings.

Just take a step back for a moment. We have an increasing population and increasing saturation of that population with streams of data. When something happens, we know with a speed that is uncommon in human history (to be euphemistic about it).

More population = more happenings = more things to emotionally charge people in the same 24 hour frame. Even if population increases by a bajillion, we still only have 24 hours in a media cycle.

Even if the per capita incidence of violence decreases, a rising population means more slices of highly charged emotional manipulation within the same media cycle.

Edit: So instead of increasing population, resultant increasing pop density, increasing information density, and a myriad of clusterf* systems running haywire (even in an era where we're safer than even 20 years ago)...4chan and 8chan are the devil and satan for allowing people to shitpost in a hyperbolic hyperironic manner?
Free speech is a fascinating debate to me.

When I was younger, I was a free speech absolutist. I believed in rationality and that if you couldn't defend/oppose ideas then your position had no strength. Censorship was a sign of weakness. Even clearly "good" censorship (say, banning child porn) has problematic boundaries.

Now...I'm far less confident. I still believe in rationality, but I also see clear weaknesses in human's ability to process. Rationality emerges over time, not in the moment. Speech isn't just ideas, it's emotion. It creates social pressure, fears, threats. And humans are social creatures. Even this forum is chock-ful of signaling patterns and inclusion. These aren't personal failures, but human facts - to be without these would be to dissolve the functions that make us form communities - to remove the items that make us NOT be "defectors" (to signal).

We have to trust others, or we'll spend all our time verifying all the information we get and never accomplish anything. But this introduces the ability for others to exploit this. Speech has never been inherently good nor bad, and thus "free speech" is also neither inherently good nor bad. It is just a force multiplier for whatever you try to do. And "good" speech can't be solely dedicated to battling "bad" speech if it wants to achieve any change, while bad speech achieves its goals just by existing, or even by demanding the attention of those giving "good" speech. An inherent imbalance.

In the big picture, this all shakes out over time. The good speech investigates and explores ideas. Bad speech is beaten. Speech in the middle helps ensure that the "good" speech really is good, and periodic bouts of bad speech help the system enforce the boundaries that move everything in a healthy-for-society direction. But to zoom out to that level is to ignore all the suffering such a system entails. "You can't have a society that is afraid of hurting feelings!" free speech advocates will cry out...correctly. Some amount of suffering is unavoidable. Pick any arbitrary line between restricted speech and unrestricted speech and it's easy to see that people will suffer as a result. But that does not mean that we should automatically accept that unrestricted speech is the answer. That we should be blind to all the suffering that IS happening because we fear the suffering that MIGHT happen.

Or perhaps unrestricted speech IS the answer...but a lot more of us need to be calling out for the societal responsibilities. Free speech is a powerful tool, and like any tool should be used wisely. If we aren't calling people out for using it poorly, but are calling out people for any attempt to restrict it, we're empowering only one side of the equation. But that gets into a circular argument, because if you replace government restrictions with social ones, you have the same result - restricted speech.

I don't know where I stand on this. The only thing I see clearly is that the number of people that seem to be seriously examining the issue is vanishingly small relative to the population.
The entire east coast seems pretty well situated for job switching, too.
free speech is highly overrated, is not even granted in other democracies that are functional

It has also not prevented the US to go into a de-facto oligarchy state if anything the NRA and others have manipulated the "free speech cult" to promote private interest over a public one.

Same as with gun ownership, that sad illusion that owning guns will prevent tyranny is beyond hilarious at this point.
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Wait, you'd be more comfortable if the censorship came from the government?
People _are_ allowed to shout over protesters. It's legal to do that.
I'm not a Constitutional or 1A scholar, but I believe the test remains whether the speech is substantially likely to result in "imminent lawless action". Whether you wanted people to get trampled, or just thought it was a lulz thing to do, exigently emptying a crowded room on false pretenses is probably going to yield some pretty lawless behavior.

EDIT: Even so, that test was IIRC conceived as a means of measuring whether political speech — specifically, advocating the use of force or criminal behavior — was 1A-protected, so I really wonder whether this line of thought isn't moot.
Brandenburg overturned the specifics of Schenk, not the idea of free speech having limits. "There are valid limits of free speech" remains as true as ever.
That’s insane compared to elsewhere in Canada. $95 CAD for 150 Mbps up & down, unlimited data, here.

For $120 I could bump that up to 750 up & down.
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My feeling is that OpenTrons and similar systems would be a cost-effective way to scale up to warehouse-scale high throughput biology with more control over the process automation, making it easier to (for example) upload all the generated data to a large cloud and do large-scale machine learning and analysis over it.

The model I like is basically the same as how Google scanned so many books so fast and cheaply- rather than buying the Hamilton equivalent, they built their own crappy scanners and trained the techs to deal with the crap. This was much more cost effective and scalable. but you need a ton of inhouse experts to deal with the crap hardware, and most large compannies don't want that- they just want a service that works.
/r/The_Donald is not very far from the kind of hatred and prejudice used on 8chan. White supremacists use places like /r/The_Donald to "normalize" ideologies and move the overton window far enough from normal that the extremer places like explicit calls to violence on 8chan are now palatable. It's all part of the same pipeline.
I work in defense. We treat blue collar pretty well - hands on people are critical to large production of things like warplanes.

We used to treat them even better, of course.
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I think that is a travesty, and not for free speech reasons. Like many, I spent some time on the site this weekend. It was incredibly disturbing, but kind of inline of what some chan sites are about. I had an idea to try to mobilize some people to start spamming /pol/ with goodness. Pics of bunny rabbits and bible verses and MLK quotes. Anon is for all, but channers have intentionally scared off almost everybody else. If a massive amount of people meaningfully engaged with the board, started open discussions and appealed to reason, maybe some lives could be saved.

Too bad its gone. Their community will simply move and dig in, and reaching them will be much harder.
I realize this may not be the best place to talk about it, but is there some good explanation for what seems to be a totally insatiable thirst for white supremacy in America these days? It seems to me like this is the real story here and, for the most part, it is not being covered in any real sense by either liberal, conservative or independent media.
That's an extremely narrow view of a nuanced issue. We have divisive cultural issues, a severe mental health problem, an opiate addiction problem, and problems with access to guns in some areas. We also have a huge country. We also have a huge country, taking away guns from people in Alaska will solve nothing.

How's the knife banning in London going btw?
I guess you're right. Users do tell the difference! But they usually tell the difference between laggy (even 100ms IS noticeable!) and janky UI vs. snappy & smooth UI. It's not about the graphic styles and font widths and such. It's about being fast even on overloaded cheap devices in power saving mode, and don't doing anything too weird or non-sensical.

TBH I'm not sure Flutter can be fast and smooth enough for all... the market is full of crappy devices and even the good ones perform badly when their RAM is maxed out and CPU throttled bc of battery saving.

Maybe full native is the way to go. But not because of "perfect" shadows and font widths... Users care about consistency of stile inside one app, not app-style vs. system-style.
Quoting the CNN article:

"Asian markets all fell more than 1.6% Monday, and Hong Kong's Hang Seng closed down 2.9% as protests continue in the region. In Europe, London's FTSE 100 finished down 2.5%. Germany's DAX and France' Cac 40 closed 1.8% and 2.2% lower, respectively."
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It's fine, we can get rid of the bad. It's not impossible to tell good and bad apart, so we don't need to keep the bad if we also want the good.

The slopes are not that slippery. Germany isn't a dystopian hell-hole because they banned Nazism.
Contrary to what you hear in the US, China has not been trying to devalue their currency for the past few years. In fact, they’ve been trying to strengthen it as they’ve been trying to build their domestic market and present the Remnibi as a dollar alternative.

Admittedly China did indeed artificially weaken their currency to help exports in the past but this hasn’t been true for quite some time.
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I don't think equating people to mosquitos is a good analogy, it seems dehumanizing the other to me.

But let's roll with it anyway. What we have here is actually a large-scale land owner who leases out the land to anyone without further conditions to the lessee. It would seem silly to blame the leaser and not the lessee for what happens on those lands.
Of course the government can still come in and request that they do something about the mosquitoes, if laws and regulations require that, but until then they won't become active because it would mean going back on their lease agreements which grant the lessee free use.
Are 8chan and 4chan related?
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I am saying that public forums like the Internet is a kind of shared resource. It is the new town square.
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so if there’s a chinese product that i like and it costs 100 yuan before devaluation, and say 1 dollar == 100 yuan. after devaluation, the product might cost 150 yuan but now 1 dollar == 150 yuan. so my dollar still buys the same amount of goods. what am i missing?
The logic that they have different social conditions that place different incentives on people's behaviour. For example, Venezuela banned private gun ownership, but that is not the reason for firearm deaths falling. The reason for that is because of the economic meltdown is so bad that bullets are too expensive for even criminals:

* https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/venezuela-...

It is a control on the variables that can confound comparison so we have a more apples-to-applies situation.
This is what economic protectionism (for which Germany is famous for) and lack of competition leads to - no investments in the infrastructure.
Somehow you moved the discussion to AI comparisons and macros back again, instead of the point of solving/simplifying math problems by using abstract symbols and grammars.

Although Julia can be represented in a homoiconic representation, no one sane can believe that Julia is homoiconic. Unless such person is so optimistic that could believe things such as Europe-Asia-Africa is a big giant island.
Dow crashed because China is more competitive with cheaper yuan, and they are unafraid to use one of their most potent trade weapons: currency manipulation.
FMV is pretty neat but there are scenarios where it's not ideal, so I'm not surprised to see it not used in what is meant to be a lightweight high performance library.

Notably the fact that the dispatching is done at runtime means you are trading off the convenience factor for code size and running extraneous dispatching code in your critical path. Additionally I've anecdotally seen on modern Intel hardware the power heuristics can penalize you for even _speculatively_ running some of the wider instruction sets.
But this is the place where you might get lost and without cell service, you are really lost.

This is quite annoying in the US, that national parks or deserts have no cell service. The places that need it most (life and death situations) - this is basically a health service there.

In comparison to Europe the mobile density is quite sparse there.
Do you have much experience with the chans? I've spent an embarrassing amount of time on them over the years, and my experience is that it would be ridiculous to compare the ratios of politically hateful, extremist content to normal content between Facebook and the chans. The difference is night and day. The chans are full of great, diverse content, but an absolutely solid core of their identity is inevitably dominated by the worst elements of society at any given time - it's just inevitable due to the nature of the format and rules.
Right, perhaps real estate won't be such a focal point of the next recession (beyond a few bubble areas).

So in terms of recession proof REITs - commercial or residential?
This is nonsense. This is the same warped view of the world along the lines of "the person is political" and is a thought worm that has to be binned.

I don't buy bog roll as a political decision, I buy it so I can wipe my arse.