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The problem that all “We should have unrestricted free speech” (and the more general case of “unrestricted freedom to X”) proposals must always solve, is what to do when a group of individuals acting in bad faith use that freedom to effectively deny other people that freedom.

Lots of fascists demand freedom of speech. And what do they do with that freedom? Assemble mobs online to harass people who say things they disagree with. Or take control and then ban books and “intellectuals” and so forth.

If you don’t like the example of “fascists,” there are plenty of other examples you could pick, like press barons. History abounds with examples of people using democracy to acquire enough power to uninstall democracy.

This is a hard problem. There are no easy or simple or ideologically pure solutions. Absolute freedom of speech leads to people using that freedom to deny other people that freedom. Absolute freedom to own a weapon leads to people using that freedom to deny other people the freedom to live, much less own a weapon of their own. And so on. And so forth.

TL;DR:

There are no simple solutions to problems involving systems where people are prepared to act in bad faith to abuse the simple solutions.

My personal claim: The above does not mean, of course, that there are no solutions, or that the only options are “unrestricted and absolute freedom” versus tyranny. It’s just that there are no simple solutions.

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Related:

There is a reason that we are having this discussion on a forum that explicitly does NOT grant unrestricted free speech.

Let’s ask ourselves this question: What would Hacker News look like if we turned of spam filtering, moderation, flagging, banning, sorting comments by votes, greying out downvoted messages, &c.?

What value would it have as a community? As a source of information?

Would you find yourself feeling smarter and better educated about an issue after reading the comments on a subject? Or would you feel like you lost 50 points of IQ to toxicity?

Would you consider it a good use of your time to independently verify each and every claim people made? What about disproving known rubbish claims?

How would you feel about logging in every day and having the exact same debate with the exact same people who seem to have an infinite amount of time available to make false claims?
Why do you miss that, I used ddd yesterday.
I think, they would be happy to keep their jobs and get paid for several decades to come. Also, the coal companies wouldn't have to write off their investments, since some of their technology could probably be reused.
That assumes that the lack of appeal of buses has anything to do with money. Until buses can:

* Deliver me from point A to point G without stopping at B, C, D, E, and F along the way

* Provide room for more than a handful of cargo/luggage and park / wait around while I load/unload it

* Actually stick to a goddamn timetable (looking at you, Muni)

Then no amount of money will make buses more appealing to me than a car.

Trains have these same problems, minus the inconsistent timetables, and have the added benefit of typically going at least a little bit faster.
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Just watched it. That was brilliant. :)

Must have taken tonnes of effort.
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cryptonomicon wasn't quite supposed to be predictive, though it did "predict" crypto currency. It was and always has been science Fiction, evidence being - ask yourself, how did Enoch Root die in Switzerland and then appear later in a jail cell in the Philippines?

The question was surprisingly answered in "Fall, or Dodge in Hell" in a way I really wasn't expecting but did make it clear that this was an entirely made up universe.

Think of Stephenson's answer to the question, "why call what is obvious Linux, 'Finux?'" He wrote, "for the same reason it's metropolis and not new York." He wanted to be allowed to do whatever he wanted to without horde of Linux users filling up his (now non-existent) inbox. Same for his universe - like ours, but dissimilar enough to allow him to get away with pretty much anything.
I find this to be odd. Haskell seems to be the one language where recruiters lead with "we program in Haskell here" before saying what the company does.

Do people really choose companies based on the language they are using?
If you can wake up an hour earlier every day [which may mean killing a TV habit, or something] and work on something for yourself, you may have a different story to tell in a year, or three.
Was the culture "revived" or has it been continuously going on?
honestly havent been in an imessage group chat since groupme came out
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I simply meant that when I am initially appalled by someone else's behavior it is usually more useful to try to understand their point of view than it is to demonize them. I also try to remind myself that I always have room for improvement. Of course there are plenty of times where I can't excuse or even understand the bad actions of others. I'm just wary of anyone treating their personal morals as absolute.
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Compare it to going for a walk. How do you know if you've gone for a walk successfully?

Did you walk a mile or ten?

Did you walk slowly or quickly?

Did you stumble or stride firmly?

Whatever happened, you went for walk.

Meditation is just as simple. Sit and focus on your breath. That's really all there is too it.
It's much more impactful for the tech community to push for remote work everywhere except where it's physically necessary than to convince everyone to buy a battery car. Where i live it's impossible to use one anyway due to non-robust electicity network. Despite being an island that is sunny year round, its not possible to incorporate more renewables into the system, so the main source of electricity remains oil. I bet the main buyers of battery cars live in big cities anyway.

https://image.slidesharecdn.com/emissionsfromdrivingtowork-1...
I'm typing this on a desktop running mwm and emacs linked against motif.
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You don’t have time to comment, but you do have time to make this comment?
"urban transit is never used by the wealthy" ...

In North America

What you are saying here is not true of Europe.

This is a cultural problem, and says a lot about American culture. Racism, excessive individualism, and status seeking.

I remember being shocked when I first visited suburban Atlanta for work. Atlanta is a lot like the greater Toronto area (where I live[d]) -- big giant sprawl. But unlike the Toronto area, people in the suburbs were actively campaigning _against_ the extension of rail into their area, because they didn't want the undesirables from downtown coming into their prosperous sprawl.
Yup. The only short numbers of this form I have memorized are 311 and 911. Both use human operator dispatch. I'm not going to memorize and successfully recall a much larger number of these phone numbers, especially given that I probably won't even use a single one of them anytime in my life.
Second this. I've never binge watched anything on Youtube like Sadhguru videos. You can search for "Sadhguru <just about any kind of difficult life problem>" and he has a take on it that brings you deeper than the one dimensional way you were thinking about it in the first place.
I went ahead and modified the author's second benchmark (used to compare linear vs binary search) to iterate over various choices over words, rather than just searching for one word 10000 times (which may be the first on one run and the last on another).

Linear search: 0.92 +- less than 0.0001 s

Binary search: 0.15 s (also small variance, but didn't compute it)

We can talk as long as we want about mean vs minimum vs histogram vs etc, but let's go back to the beginning: you get what you measure.
In order for a pi-bond to easily flip parallel to a different sigma-bond, there has to be some factor making the other end of the new bond more positive, or the other end of the existing bond more negative. And pi-bonds basically occupy two side slots. You can think of them as left&right for one slot and top&bottom for the other.

Aromaticity is basically alternating single and double bonds. So when one pi-bond flips to the next bond down the chain (preferably into the same slot, but not necessarily--molecules can twist and flex), you get two single bonds in a row on one side, and two double bonds in a row on the other. Ordinarily, this would be a strong incentive to flip back to the way it was before, but if a double bond further down the chain can be flipped, it might propagate further down. In a ring, like benzene or a phenyl group, that wave of bond-flipping can just chase its own tail forever. In a polymer, it can go all the way down to the end of the (long) molecule before bouncing back.

When you have alternating single and triple bonds, that triple bond uses up both mutually-perpendicular slots for the side bonds. No other pi-bond can flip over next to the adjacent sigma-bond, because the bonds on the other side just bounce it right back, like having Manute Bol and Hakeem Olajuwon on either side of the paint when the second forward of your high school junior varsity basketball team tries to go around to one side or the other to score a new pi-bond. It's just not going to happen, unless you pump Jeremy Cohen full of so much cocaine, amphetamines, and sugar that he can charge into a gigantic center and somehow bounce the defender into the top row of the bleachers.
Not exactly. The govt can still proceed with the second and third readings and pass the law in a day. If withdrawn, the bill will need to go through the whole process. https://www.legco.gov.hk/general/english/bills/bill_1620.htm
OP is asking for someone who works at CERN. I do appreciate the smartass answer.
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Morally, you should've let all of these people die, except the last one.
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Why do you need studies to give you permission to do something?

Particularly when science is facing a crisis of reproducibility, I would not put so much emphasis on them. It’s really no different than the religious dogma of previous centuries, where scientists act as priests, and scientific studies as scripture.
Which is why you'd want to combine the tax with a subsidy for "clean" products (financed by those very same taxes, perhaps).
We have literally the exact same issue. I'd contribute to your spend if they open our account as well :)
Go Hong Kong visit sometime. You will find British has managed to build Hong Kong into a prosperous and peaceful society with all the elements of so-called Chinese culture and Western culture. There is a church next to a mosque next to a temple in Tsim Sha Tsui district. People enjoy yum cha in their lunch and America rib-eye steak in their dinner.

I wonder whether the Chinese viewpoint stands. It is purely bad governance of HKSAR and CCP.
Jordan Peele tier VR experiences I'm sure.
Not fully mitigated for humans, it's more dangerous to drive at night.
That link isn't to the interview where he yells at his future[1] wife.

However, I think if you linked the actual interview, it would be inappropriate according to HN's content standards: Bukowski uses some very colorful language.

[1] I was slightly incorrect in my previous post, she wasn't his wife yet at the time of the interview.
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You mean the myth of the UNIX way, never followed upon commercial UNIXes and somehow became a cargo cult on FOSS community only thank to a book of UNIX idols?
Or, if you have money, you can opt out of uncomfortable inconvenient dirty solutions to your transportation problems. What's money for after all.
> Lockdown in a terrorist, separatist and rebel location is a security measure more than a curbing of Freedom of speech.

It's curbing freedom of speech just as much if it is a security measure. The pretext, however valid it might be, doesn't alter the essential character of the act. Of course, calling a location “terrorist, separatist, and rebel” because there happen to be terrorists, separatists, and/or rebels in it, and using that to justify suppressive policy targeting the region as a whole is a sure sign of the mindset of—even if the suppressive policies don't yet reach the level of—collective punishment, a war crime in the context of interstate war and a crime against humanity otherwise.
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I would prefer being skeptical instead of blindly accepting things. This behavior will instigate another to provide evidence or a counter-argument. This makes for great discussion, in most cases I think it is healthy.
It's not really stupid, the idea is cows eat plant matter that humans can't eat. Cellulose mainly from grass and other plants.

They aren't eating the same plants that you eat.
It is interesting that the comments on the Twitter thread are "Just use WhatsApp". Which is basically iMessage but from Facebook. Comparing two, the vendor lock-in from Apple seems much preferable to the one with Facebook in light of the data scandals Facebook has and their ongoing effort to backdoor WhatsApp and integrate it with FB messenger etc. Also a group message is only as secure as its most weakly encrypted member and sms definitely loses there vs iMessage.

I would rather have Apple win the network effect here vs another data pimp like Google (who, ads aside, can't be trusted to maintain any communication platform).

I would much rather this all be standardized with end to end encryption protocols. (C'mon Signal!)
This.

In the event of a worldwide, cataclysmic event, probably the first thing that'll go is the Internet and electronic devices. Not immediately but within a couple weeks.

The best thing is to rely on things that don't need an Internet connection. Morse code might be worth learning because it requires the smallest medium to send a message.
It seems somewhat unrealistic for a user to not be able to express opinions about the politics of another country. Elections more often than not have international implications. For example, as an American I have varying levels of interest in Chinese, Russian, and EU politics. Coordinated interference by foreign governments is a completely different problem.
>my teammates always had something to say about everything. But when it came to the violent policing of black bodies, they were silent

Debate is probably the wrong term, seems he was just looking for an acknowledgement of the problem. After one of those police shooting incidents I came into work and all of my coworkers, all white and asian, were talking about how bad the incident was. People at work come together and talk about major traumatic news stories all the time. A consistent absence of that when it relates to a specific topic might seem....strange.
Truth is ad buyers don’t want to be associated with any controversial content and a majority of Americans still feel uncomfortable about Gay and lesbian issues and even more uncomfortable about transgender issues. It’s smart for advertisers to exclude lgbt content from their ads if they don’t think that’s a target demographic
> “Cows eat what’s available,” she says. In California, they eat almond hulls; in Georgia, they eat cottonseeds. Documented evidence attests to farmers in ancient Greece and 18th-century Iceland deliberately grazing their cows on beaches.

> It was, in fact, an ordinary farmer who hit upon the idea of supplementing cows’ feed with seaweed — not for the climate, but simply for his animals’ overall health. On the shores of Prince Edward Island in Canada, Joe Dorgan observed that his beach-paddocked cows got pregnant faster and produced more milk than his inland pastured cows.

From https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-eating-seaweed-can-help-c...
Wow, thanks. I only had a quick look but Figure 2 seems to show 91.5%-95% efficiency depending on configuration. Very detailed study and it sounds like it would answer all my questions if I spent an hour reading it.
Which may only generalize to a specific group of people, in a specific country, at a specific period of time. All subject to change when we tweak a couple of variables.
The "fine" is now $0 after the tax cuts last year
As long as you discussed working remotely with your managers or it's part of the job, you have nothing to worry about.

You don't really provide much detail on your situation, so I'm assuming you're overthinking things.
For software engineering in the UK, they actually look at where you went to school?

I’ve done probably a couple hundred interviews (me as the interviewer) in SF and outside of the “oh you went to MIT? Cool” it was still onward with the live coding session. No one got a free pass.

I’ve definitely seen people from MIT, Stanford, get passed up on.

I’ve seen boot-campers hired, hearing impaired, white/black/Asian/Indian. For any of them, not a clue where they originally went to school.

1) Having a public project will get you an interview.

2) Being able to discuss design decisions surrounding that code will earn you points.

3) Being able to make changes, refactor on the fly, will win you a job.

3a) Some places will have you code an algorithm - also a way to win the job.
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After his foolish use of alloca() in systemd was revealed, it's clear that the derision is well deserved. One would think that after cutting his teeth on PulseAudio he'd have learned how to write safe, system level C.
Why should it matter who made an argument if it is evidence based and sound?
How easy is this attack to pull off? Doesn't bluetooth use spread spectrum? If so, you'd need to somehow predict the frequencies that will be used, which is non-trivial because it's generated from the link key.
Groupme came out before iMessage
It's more of an "intellectually lazy ego indulgence" than true skepticism. It's a false skepticism. Not that there's anything wrong with it, it's part of being human. I'm often guilty of it and I don't think there are people who aren't.
Getting a really rich definition of skepticism helped me make what I came to understand is a very important distinction. Link, In case anybody is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kzZdps9PG4
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I don't read my news there. I much prefer a simple HTML layout, with the topic story as the subject, a little blurb underneath, then I can click into the article if I want to.
I'm someone who does it for 8-10 hours a day at their day job. My fiance works in a retail store. She doesn't come home and immediately start doing retail sales out of her house. Another friend is a teacher and she doesn't run a school out of her house.

Professional baseball players rest after games. They don't finish up and then immediately start practicing again. And soldiers and police get down-time.

Just because I'm doing something I enjoy and that I want to do, doesn't mean I should do it all of my waking hours. I'm not doing this to code, I'm doing this because my employer is paying me to build cool shit and I like doing that. I don't lift weights 24/7, I don't run 24/7, I don't hike 24/7, and I don't program 24/7.

Frankly your attitude is one of the reasons why we don't have any diversity in this profession at most self-described tech companies, and it also underlies a lot of the seeming ageism today. All of these self-described non-conformists expect everyone in the profession to conform to their attitude and it's sickening.
Sometimes it is. Unsolicited phone calls and mailings for instance.
In Europe WhatsApp was huge well before Facebook purchased them. From my own experience, the product has barely changed since then, so I don't really feel like it's a Facebook product (yet), and so while I dislike using Facebook services WhatApp is basically fine for now.

Almost everyone I know uses WhatsApp. Funnily enough my family are the only ones who don't, and use iMessage instead. This isn't an active choice though, it's that they are on an iPhone and using SMS, so they get iMessage by default.

This is a long way of saying that for many Europeans, "Just use WhatsApp" feels like an obvious response, why wouldn't you?
Internal Combustion Engine, cars.

Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Sequestration, most common type I've seen is burning wood or other biomass for energy, capturing the CO2 and pumping it underground so that it doesn't cause warming in the atmosphere.
Most people opts for keeping doing 35 hours (or many more) for twice the salary they previously made in 35.
All things are made this way... Not because of money. It's just that in order to make them often you need money before the fact, and people with money get ownership and credit. The workers never make boat loads of money or get acknowledged for actually making it happen.
I love this book. Swarm robotics evolution in 1964.
Just curious, do you have stats on your watts per mile efficiency you can share? How it compares to the EPA estimates?
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> So whats the alternative? Do nothing at all?

Change marketing in a way that muscle cars are uncool much the way smoking is uncool these days.

This would pave the way for SEVs which are the best solution to start the change but are comparativelly weak in power.
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In the last 2000 years, much of human progress came in the form of freedom.

In recent times it seems there is a pushback towards less.
Gates worked as a programmer in high school, so he was aware that the practice of selling software was not new. IBM was a long standing company by that point that made money writing software for businesses. The first example of a person making money from machine instructions was Jaquard (1804) who encoded his instructions on punch cards and fed them into weaving machines to create pretty patterns. So graphics programmers came first.
Nor can anyone, because it doesn't actually exist as a product that can be tested. This pops up every few months for some reason, with the same note: The rear shifter is not controllable. A wire to the back half with a bearing to a ring around the drive shaft would solve that, but I'm guessing that messes with their stated high efficiency goal.
Recently there was an update to my Android on my Samsung Galaxy S8 that makes it HARDER to see if Bluetooth is turned on. I like to leave it off whenever I'm not using it to try to reduce the attack surface.
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Yes of course you need to start with a goal that will still be physically possible after 20 years of trying.

I’m not claiming that magic exists, that’s a straw man.
Is WhatsApp not used in the US? Honest question.

I'm in EU, I moved to an iPhone a few years ago and I've yet to receive an actual iMessage, but my friends, local or international, all use WhatsApp. I just use regular SMS for more "formal" messaging, such as with my boss or landlord, or to receive OTP codes.
Can anyone speak to the different translations? My local library doesn't have this book and the cheapest Amazon version is the 1973 translation of the German translation of the Polish original. But I wonder if it's worth getting the direct Polish translation from 2006.
When a tree falls over a river, it creates a rudimentary bridge, as has happened for longer than humans have existed. Yet, while we can create huge suspension bridges from steel, we can't create wood.
Norway isn't nearly as homogeneous as it used to be - it's really quite multi-cultural these days.
Not only that but the first 10 minutes of the film were released during a special projection in France and Japan.