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> I am simply asking if replicating American (broadly, Western) cultural values is necessarily the correct solution to solve poverty and other problems around the world.

> Personally, I would rather see the diverse cultures of the world manage to develop technologically and socially in their own unique ways, rather than simply adopt Western social structures.

100% agree... in an ideal world. Income equality between where a lot of issues are centralised and where the money to solve them comes from isn't balanced.

Trying to solve issues on a global level will always mean one culture will have some form of dominance, otherwise you might compromise back to an ineffective solution.

It isn't ideal, but across the spectrum of Good, Better, Best - solving the problem in the medium-term in a ham-fisted American way is probably still "Better" than waiting on solutions. There are, of course, cons to that strategy - but there's an opportunity cost (a very real, human opportunity cost) in searching for the perfect solution.
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>That's the kind of society I want to live in, one where I can't say anything for fear of a mob lynching me.

I'm sure that's hyperbole because comparing being asked (I assume) to resign after downplaying child sex trafficking is not functionally or morally equivalent to lynching.

As far as watching what you say, that is the world:

1. As it has always existed.

2. It exists today.

3. Will always exist until the end of time itself.

And that will never, ever, change.

Don't conflate raging anonymously online with being able to say whatever you want in public.
This is plain disgusting. I've known RMS for years and he clearly doesn't respect social norms in many aspects. It's not a secret, there are also many stories about it on the Internet.

But to paint him as a pedophile and a molester - that's really crossing a line. I disagree with RMS on many topics, but the mass hysteria going on right now is mind boggling.
Something I am glad to say he has retracted some years ago.
They are likely trying to buy the install base, once they control the extension they can slip ads or other goodies in.
I don't remember where I saw this, but I do remember reading that if you are going to object you cannot object to the settlement amount, just the settlement in general. And reasoning for the objection cannot be monetary.
By default I'm getting a buy or subscribe to solar, with Tesla commercial solar branding and a note saying its only available in California.

I am not US based.

I assume that's what I'm supposed to be seeing?
I understood this as "the most plausible [given what I know of Minsky]".

Also, he doesn't say that she wanted it, but that she might have lied about whether or not she was there willingly (possibly being coerced into lying).

Paraphrasing "The most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing": "I have a hard time imagining my late friend willingly raping someone."

Not that I think that, even in that scenario, Minsky would have displayed sound judgement by having sex with her (especially given Epstein's reputation and past conviction).
They were saying that in this context it should say victims.

Saying consumers changes the way it is read.

Following your logic try this one:

Equifax doesn't want children to get their $125

It reads differently.
It's like you're halfway there.

Ok. Let's say that becoming a Fortune 500 CEO is like winning the lottery. Let's give that to you for a second.

It's a lottery that only a small section of the population has access to. Men overwhelmingly that lottery. White men especially. If it were truly a lottery, we'd see statistics that would more closely mirror the general population.

You also note that men are more likely to earn a lot of money and influence. Then try to contrast it with women marrying into that. You then lament that men hardly have the opportunity to marry into money.

You know why?

Because historically women haven't been afforded all the same opportunities men have to do the same. Women don't have the money to marry into.
The vast majority of the settlement is designated for people who experience actual harm (identity theft of some kind basically) from the breach.

It's perfectly reasonable that people who's lives haven't been negatively impacted in any real way don't receive anything more than a token payment.
This whole process is a joke. I went and dug up my claim number, entered it into the site to amend, and the site just dies and doesn't allow me to proceed any further. If they had my contact info to begin with, just cut me a check and skip the shenanigans.
yeah, i don't understand outrage over taking the money at all tbh.
did he obtain the money donated from sex trafficking?
The life-long increased susceptibility to identity theft is worth quite a lot more than $125.
I also recommend this documentary on the Pruitt-Igoe public housing project in St. Louis >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pruitt-Igoe_Myth

and also this youtuber (donoteat01) has some excellent commentary >> https://youtu.be/xqJbE1bvdgo
Wise worlds, extremism is rising because of Cancel Culture. People might not speak but they will certainly act.
I think the big thing is that hub and spoke was always considered more efficient but here they are saying that if you take into account resilience into the equation then p2p may be more efficient than a hub and spoke model.
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He disagreed with the wording "assault" which he felt was ambiguous. He would almost certainly have been fine with the wording "had sex with a 17 year old girl on a billionaire's private island". I'm sure a number of other wordings that call into question said girl's consent, the legal status of said girl on said private island with regards to sex, and so on would have been fine as well.
> don't treat women poorly, period

Is it OK to treat men poorly?

Why single out women for special treatment?
I agree. Until someone's ass is on the line, and I mean in terms of prison time and not merely their job, the rational thing to do for a shitty company that never cared for its customers is to continue with that approach.
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My WeWork in Gurgaon, India has a biweekly bhangra dance class at 4pm on a weekday

After the third such class, I decided to get the hell out of my lease.

It's like their entire corporate culture is built around finding creative ways to not work. It's awful environment to build a startup in.
This attack on Richard Stallman feels much like a witch hunt to me; he's being vilified, and what he's actually said and done is being buried under a bunch of mass hysteria. It's sad to see; I have a lot of respect for him and it pains me to see people calling for his head doing what he's always done in questioning the status quo. He just made the mistake of questioning the wrong thing, not of any grand crime, as he seems to be accused of; it seems like he'll be misquoted and raged at until he disappears, and I think in doing so, the world is being done a disservice.
perhaps I misunderstood, but to me it sounded like the reasoning that it's not rape if it was a willing interaction. But it is the rape, because the law says that minors can't willingly get into it. It's like getting a little kid drunk and saying: well, I didn't force him to drink, he did it willingly. It's not acceptable. You as adult are required to know better.
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It's doubly painful, because the "free credit monitoring" on offer is provided by Equifax -- the exact company whose competence we don't trust anymore. The compensation for being affected by Equifax's security failure is a gratis security offering from that same company. For crying out loud, they could have at least paid Experian or TransUnion to do the monitoring: while they are just as shady, we don't have immediate evidence of their security incompetence.

It's like if you purchased a product that exploded, injuring you, but somehow the manufacturer was permitted to compensate you by giving you other products they manufacture. Why would you want those products? How do you know they won't also explode?
> are growing phenomenally fast though, and could become profitable quite easily.

Exactly. Cut their S&M budgets overnight and you'll see a ton of very profitable companies. Just look at their Gross Margins.
I, for one, think it's kind of unfair that equifax is being blamed for the contents of communications it had no hand in crafting. Especially when the major organizations like the NYTimes are so unclear in their headline writing about what is actually going on.
You've missed the words 'she presented herself'. You can't separate them from 'entirely willing' without radically changing the meaning.

He claimed that she was unwilling, but was coerced by Epstein into pretending otherwise, and that Minsky was deceived.

That is also, technically speaking, the most plausible scenario. Epstine wouldn't have girls going up to people and reading a script like "I don't give consent, I hate you, you have to rape me now" without knowing anything about the prospect. There would have been an element of acting.
I don't know if you're right or wrong.

I have the feeling the state of mind wasn't really neutral in the past, so there wasn't a neutral time that created all this.

There was much more gate-keeping going on in the past. I think this cost us much more innovation and new technology.

My impression is as following:

I don't think we move from non-political to political and from "free for all" to "only the good are allowed".

We are moving from one political strucuture that prevented some kind of people to cobtribute to another.

I'm not sure if this will yield better results, but I certainly hope so.

Also, I think the good tech/ideas of the past shoudn't be thrown away, because if we throw them away the people who created them did bad stuff to other people, the victims did suffer in vain.

But we should strife for creating things in the future with less suffering.
I mean physically small. In my view much of the mess the internet is seeing right now is because of the lack of local/real-world consequences. Links between people are now on a global spider-web scale, so to say. Whereas it used to be on a local neighbourhood-city level scale. This gives way to a separate space decoupled from your local environment. If a community is (relatively) tight-knit on a physical scale sharing repulsive content or blatant propaganda could have a real-world consequence and definitely wouldn't get the reach it has right now.

It's not the pipe dream of what the internet was supposed to be back in the 90's, but I think it's safe to say that experiment has failed. Humanity has shown itself not to be able to behave itself enough for this.

I'm sorry if this sounds abstract or convoluted or anything, I've had a long day and am a bit brain-fried but I have thought pretty extensively about this. I'm having a bit of a hard time putting it down in a HN comment. Maybe it's worth the effort writing this up.
Luxuries have a way of becoming the norm. iPhone was a luxury, where Ballmer infamously laughed at its sky high price. [1]

1 day seems unnecessary sometimes, but more often it is fighting back trips to local retail for me. I.e. Terro Ant Bait with the recent change in weather in Portland.

[1] https://youtu.be/eywi0h_Y5_U
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This should be a massive lawsuit on behalf of all 3rd party sellers.
Do they oversell hot desks? Can you usually and easily find a spot to work? A price of $430/mo for a hot desk is a lot more than I was expecting.
Was the shipping time the same? Perhaps the seller is closer to your father than you. Was it prime 2-day? Or was it FBA i.e. Shipped by Amazon? I think you'll need to provide more details before we can conclude Amazon is price gouging.
The fact that WeWork has received multiple billions in VC money is a pretty damning indictment of the financial sector
You're right, cultural norms work both ways. Work needs to be done on both sides so that both genders are free to choose what they do with their lives.
Thanks for the response. I love the info provided. I guess my real question is this: if I wired a completely random wheel (of course making two for sender and receiver) and chucked it into an Enigma machine, would it work as intended, break some prescribed rule of the encryption, or just completely destroy the machine?
Anyone who has actually read the email thread and considers it a defence of sexual assault, the topic of the thread, is as intellectually bankrupt as the media witch hunts rms was warning about and fell victim to.

We should be all concerned that media witch hunts like this can in act such results. It is abhorrent that any discussion that triggers a progressive dominated media can destroy people's lives.
yes, and the FSF should be free to fire him as well. him being fired isn’t a witch hunt.
> the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing but that she was coerced into doing so?

What's missing here is some consideration about the judgement of Minsky. He was a smart and powerful person with a long life of experience. He has absolutely no excuse for what he did and he knew what he was doing.

Nor does RMS have an excuse for what he said and now we're finally seeing that the aloof misanthrope schtick only goes so far. Good riddance.
>instead of building the elevator from the Earth’s surface (which is impossible with today’s technology), it would be anchored on the moon and stretch some 200,000 miles toward Earth until hitting the geostationary orbit height (about 22,236 miles above sea level)

Yeah, that's totally feasible and useful... /s

I hope those guys are not paid with public money...
You’re a product of your genes to an equal degree.
I sense a generation gap here. csail-related is a closed mailing list. If you disagree with a point, you are expected to come back with some arguments. Not to leak emails out with zero effort in making a discussion. That's the established mailing list netiquette for almost 30 years.

It's also funny that you complain about RMS twisting the "everyday English" meaning of "assault" while at the same time you call "child" someone who you'd most definitely call a "teenager" or "youngster" if you met in person.

This urge to abuse words in order to sensationalize an already perfectly valid argument is what RMS was pointing out in the first place.
To learn the fundamentals sure. But it completely depends on how you learn, your dedication. What's your end goal? When do you think you will have "learned" programming?

It's a constant learning experience and if you ever stop learning in this subject, i think you're doing something wrong.
>I don’t think anyone in SF or SV would ever consider WeWork to be a “Silicon Valley” company

Well it is based in New York, so it really isn't a Silicon Valley company. It's a NYC one.
The moon has a ton of deuterium which could be used for all sorts of things, nuclear power plants and possibly future propulsion tech for example.
How does this compare to the technology typically used by public transportation companies so we can find out if our bus is late? Cheaper to implement? Easier to implement? Different features?
I remember a discussion with someone who lived in a French equivalent (perhaps not as bad), at the time those were being constructed (from the 50' to the 70'). At the time, people who started living there were happy, because the alternative were shantytown/slums. Of course it didn't last, but I found it interesting to see this viewpoint.
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I think the point from the article is: women never get the choice. Once they're born, their whole career path is laid out and set in stone.

You might think about how that's not the case where you live/according to your background. Congratulations on being born in one of the places where it's easy to succeed!
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I think the purported slope is that currently you can be fired at the whim of your boss (who presumably knows you well), but in the future you might be fired at the whim of a blogger (who has never met you). You have only one boss to keep happy, which is stressful but substantially under your control. Giving equivalent power to myriad bloggers scares people because there is less accountability and more possibility of false accusations.
Ugh I thought that was amusing, at least until I read yesterday about a 10 year old girl in Texas who died from exactly this.

The amoeba is called Naegleria Fowleri and nagelerisis is a terrifying way to die: even with treatment there's a 95% mortality rate.

The amoebas enter the nose when they traverse the olfactory nerve via something called the cribriform plate to enter the brain. Once there, they mistake neurons for bacteria, which they consume.
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Я бы хотел повстречать инопланетный разум. Только одна мысль об этом завораживает. Одни мы в этой галактике или мы всего лишь чей-то эксперимент?
Yes, there have never been cases where young women have sought the company of older men in exchange for power and money. Never. The terms "gold digger" and "sugar daddy" were never invented for these kinds of exchanges.

As for 17, as someone in my 40's, I couldn't tell you the difference between someone who is 17, and someone who is 18, without them telling me or asking to look at their (hopefully non-forged) ID. If she lied (under coersion from Epstein), how could anyone have been able to tell?
Large sun focusing mirrors might be sufficient
He sure made some people's lives better.
New to Keybase & Hacker News.Seems legit and a good tool to start learning the ins and outs.
Apple would have us live in a reality where it's legal for them to not pay taxes and illegal for us to repair their devices. This isn't common sense it's simply corruption.

It's hilarious to watch FAANG's corrupt tax deals slapped down all over the place but it's sad that executives don't end up in prison for them and it's ridiculous that countries have to litigate to collect tax, litigate to force fairness, litigate to protect consumers.

The EU had to force Apple to stop claiming stuff had a one-year warranty so they could upsell Applecare while they were compelled to provide two years. Litigation to get them to update their marketing material to not be deceitful! We should feel obliged to defy the reality being dumped on us.
Additionally, apparently Minsky turned the 17 year old down.

Seems to me it’s some of the other things Stallman has said which are more troubling.

Although he has renounced many of those prior statements at the very least.

A man of such convictions, working in tech but eschewing so much of it, not surprising he’d have some quirky or harmful views mixed in there.

Too bad since I appreciate his FSF work and hard line views against surveillance.
That may be fair, but I'm looking at the publicity for this and how they're "finally ready to show you Dark in action" which I guess just means... they have a couple demo videos and a private beta?

I guess I'm just disappointed because my interest was piqued a couple months ago (probably when they hit alpha??), and I expected the next big announcement to be able to download something and try it out, or at least play with an online REPL.

Also IME "Show HN" means I can try something out. In this case it just means "hey we've hit another milestone but you still gotta wait indefinitely if you want to use it".

I'm probably being too negative, but again it's because I'm excited by the concept. A definite hurdle for me on my side/hobby projects is setting up all the infrastructure for some little toy app, so this concept is really exciting to me.

Congrats to the team, seriously--based on the demo this is a pretty mature product and the UX looks really amazing. I hope the next big announcement is that I can try it out :)
> People calling for government action are willing to make collective sacrifices. Making individual sacrifices will not change the trends that need changing. That's realism, not hypocrisy

Yeah, no rain drop believes it is responsible for the flood.
I'm sad that P2P never took off in the messaging world and now we are stuck with servers storing data even if it's E2E encrypted.

I use NAT traversal for Firestr (http://firestr.com) back in 2013 though this is still cool because of the ICMP hole punching. I'll have to see if I can incorporate that.
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i once listened to a talk where the speaker argued that classical music per se does not exist.

and i believe he is right. what we think of as classical music is very much defined by how it is played. the choice of instruments etc. many film scores sound like classical music, but they surely aren't. heck even heavy metal sounds like classic if played by a string quartet. and i bet you wouldn't immideately recognize a classical piece if played by a rock band.
I wonder if the increased “harvesting” has to do with Bezos getting older.
FWIW, you’re engaging in name calling rather than putting forth a substantive argument. If IQ is discredited, then lay out some sources.
I don't see it as RMS defending his friend. He was purely concerned with making the correct accusation. Some people considers that as "defending", which might have never been his intention.

Why would he be concerned with such details if not for defending Minsky? He is weird, and pendatic. But that we knew for a long time.
Sure, the spin bit allows for buffer bloat detection, just like icmp ping does when used actively.
Just like stated in the material you share, the best way to mitigate this issue is to remove bufferbloat in the network. There are great easy to configure AQMs nowadays, and servers can do their part by using congestion control algorithms that are less prone to cause excessive buffering e.g Googles BBR.
I recently deleted all my “controversial” tweets (about 3 or 2). I just don’t share the same opinion than the majority in a couple of topics. I never got into any kind of trouble because of that, my tweets were far from inflammatory, but after reading so many stories of people losing their jobs after someone found an old tweet, I couldn’t risk it, I just can’t risk my family’s stability just for expressing an opinion.
If mj is legalized I'd suggest you give it another go, the strains you'd smoke to get high cause my wife's pain to heighten while as more cbd heavy strains help reduce it from her life - it's not critical to avoid thc entirely (and it may help the cbd act - research isn't in here but pure cbd oil products are less effective than a mix for a lot of people).

And yea, Canada is nice like that.
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His Behavior being commenting or having opinions on things we don’t agree with? I think he should be able to say whatever he wants, and further that in this instance his comments have been taken wildly out of context.

I hate this morality police sweeping in saying that he simply can’t talk about this because it is forbidden, wrong, etc. The majority should not decide what is ok speech or thought, we should judge him by what he has actually done, and challenge his thoughts directly with reasoned argument rather than immediately dismiss and denounce anything that isn’t in the moral majority.
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This is contentless. What is it--an ad for Tesla?
In 2015 I remember seeing billboards around construction sites saying: "Biggest construction project in Europe". Not sure what the claim was based off.
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