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Against modern tanks, there really aren't. Even military grade explosive mines don't stop a modern tank (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-IED_equipment#Mine_Res...) - not to mention things that go in the frontline in urban areas like armored bulldozers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armored_bulldozer)
In an interview, Evan Spiegel described Facebook with the single best succinct description in my opinion: “Facebook is a market for attention.”

HN can be too, and I like to think that I am asynchronously contributing stuff that may lay off the typical radar of the Venn diagram of typical HN readers.
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Same, That's exactly what i was thinking seeing this comment ironically at the top.

As someone addicted to checking my upvotes on hacker news, please don't upvote those of us that admit that to you ;D
> Topics including but not limited to: biological self-determination (modification, design), geo-engineering, transhumanism, the abolition of college, transgressive media, sex, the softer side of doomsday prepping, the nature of conspiracy, the benefits of starvation, constitutional monarchy (what?!), revisionist demography, immortality, drag culture, and building nations

Nothing actually Heretical then.
These are so useless
The article says those are costly, and the cost would have to be passed onto the consumer.

Honestly this feels like it's a feel-good piece "look, we're doing our part!" when the technology is still a long ways away. Better than saying that the airlines are working on teleportation, but I don't know by how much.
I just don't see how you can map someone trying to break up a pro democracy demonstration as an innocent trying to protect themselves from an attack. He's a civil officer armed with lethal force. The protesters had blunt objects.

If you enter into a conflict bearing deadly force you either must be prepared to kill or withdraw your presence. It is not some accident that the police officer was there.
Not a remote one playing by "everyone region has same pay-rate". Because if there is another one and paying more, then Bob, would also apply there.
It creates a signal in Neo designed to be picked up at a lower layer of abstraction, like using 0xDEADBEEF as a value so you can spot it in a hex editor.
Anti-vaxxers start with their premise and then work backwards. "They contain mercury!" is just shit they flung at the wall that stuck. Eliminate the mercury from vaccines and they'll find a new excuse not to vaccinate their kids.
One example is that news organizations will often choose not to report on crimes when they're committed by racial group A even when they report on the same crimes when committed by racial group B.

Highlighting or minimizing demographic information of victims and assailants in crimes is a huge way news organizations insert their biases while still reporting factually accurate information.
Yes, and then? There was this US-vs-Taliban thing...
The shoot first attitude is what gets unarmed citizens and other cops killed in bar fights

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/30/us/bronx-officer-shot-dead/in...
It did offer us the chance to read thoughts that might mirror our own but in a more succint and well-written manner. I definitely saw a lot of relatable elements in the article and appreciate what was written.
I was initially excited when I saw that Ikea was now offering speakers that could be integrated into the Home Smart (Trådfri) system.

Then I saw that they were Sonos-based, and immediately noped out of buying any. I'm not keen on buying something if the vendor can yank features (or worse, brick the gear they sold like Logitech did) at their whim.
Well stated. It's political in many ways, and at least for me that makes it a turn off.
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Gitlab actually pays really well (relatively to local companies) in lower cost zones, I don't think you can find any market in lower cost areas where Gitlab is only slightly above the market.
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Their whole business model seems to be "take quality white box hardware and build a management suite around it". It's not even particularly expensive when compared to white box gear. They already covered the traditional IT MSP model with voice, data and video; so it makes sense they would branch out into facilities management (since a lot of non-tech shops are pulling office IT infrastructure under facilities anyway).
>I guess we need to say that some people with a sexual interest in children will not commit offences against children, and so some pro-paedophile commentary is acceptable.

this is just incredibly stupid to believe, pro-paedophile commentary is acceptable? why in the ever living fk would that be aceptable? because a pedo might not actually commit those acts? are you stupid?
I override HN's css to not display points just for that.
Docs are here if anyone is looking for what you can do: https://developer.sonos.com/reference/

I'll assume not everything is covered.
Nice little collection of questions, I'll give them a go. I'm curious, what kind of responses have you seen to "Would this work in an environment like yours?" and why phrase it like this?
Many years ago someone told me that we should care about our mental hygiene as much as we care about the hygiene of the food that we consume.

I quit FB two years ago after 11 years of active use. For a few weeks after deleting my account, I had these temptations to go back but after two months, I totally forgot about it and after two years, I'm very happy about leaving the platform.

I also realized that it wasn't just FB or social media that contributed to my stress and anxiety; sensational and provocative news was as much to blame. These days, I try to get my news from only a handful of news outlets that I trust. I know this is not a perfect solution but at least, I've been able to avoid click-bait titles.
I guess this is my cue!
The IOC only banned using their likeness to earn money while the games were ongoing. They could do so before and after the games. I use the past tense because the IOC forwarded an amendment to 40.3 to the national olympic committees this summer to be implemented which greatly relaxes that ban.
> Imagine a conference for people banned from other conferences.

Sounds like a nightmare.

Anyway, maybe it's just the conferences I go to. But. I've never heard of someone getting kicked out for offering a controversial but considered opinion on something.

"Y'know, we've found that PHP is really the best tool fo---"

"OUT WITH YE, HERETIC. DO NOT RETURN."

Usually people are banned for, y'know, doing something destructive or offensive that's out of the bounds of normal discourse. The idea being that banning them improves the experience for everyone else, which is (usually) a good thing.
I took a year off of all of social media and took a break from startup tech in general. I didn't miss it, at all, and I wonder what real tangible value it still has coming back.

One thing is for certain, being plugged into the hive mind has clear advantages, especially as it relates to employment. It's like the old adage - it's about who you know, not necessarily what you know.
That's exactly what I was saying with "and is currently trying to arrange for exceptions." The EC could allow exceptions, but they haven't yet actually allowed for them.
> Anti-vaxxer refers to refers to someone who rejects the mountains of data (often having no data analysis skills themselves) based upon their "feelings".

I thought it was someone against vaccination?
Why washing raw chicken can lead to food poisoning
interesting != happy != success != wealth

These are all different, often orthogonal things.

There are people who are "stuck" in a socio-economic dead-end who still lead happy and interesting lives, nonetheless. They are able to take their situation in life and make the best of it.

The OP can do the same. He certainly has far more opportunities than a day-laborer or subsistence farmer. In a way, that abundance of choice is a burden. But nowhere is it written that PHD's are guaranteed to be "interesting", or even more interesting than anyone else.
> Do you think it was okay that he escaped censure so many times for no substantive/relevant reason?

If that is true, then no. I don't know the details of the other issues though.

> What I'm trying to say is that the two answers should be the same.

If the situations are truly mirror images, then yes my answers are the same. I'm skeptical that they are, though.
How convenient then that manufacturers keep their costs secret, so we cannot verify such excuses for extortionate prices.
I quit social media for a long time too. And then I noticed how disconnected I was from all my old school friends and contacts. Even close family that still uses Facebook but I otherwise don’t talk to much directly (brother’s wives posting about their kids and stuff like that, maybe even more extended than that).

Really, I’m starting to think that opting out of social media altogether is a bit like opting to be a hermit in today’s society. Sure, I’m not advocating posting every 5 minutes on Facebook and getting into dumb arguments, but it really feels like opting out is a way of putting walls between yourself and the rest of the world (that is on social media). You will miss out on news of friends having kids, graduating college, going to college, getting new jobs, and even planning events together since many events are organized officially on Facebook - from free local concerts to your friends bachelors party. Many people just go through Facebook and create a private event and invite their Facebook friends when they have a birthday gathering nowadays. You will miss out on these if you opt-out completely. I did.
Why is this a joke for Swedish speakers learning English? Does it not work just as well purely within Swedish?
Great video in the comments of that article, from one of the original creators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhM8NAMW_VQ
I quit social media for a long time too. And then I noticed how disconnected I was from all my old school friends and contacts. Even close family that still uses Facebook but I otherwise don’t talk to much directly (brother’s wives posting about their kids and stuff like that, maybe even more extended than that).
Really, I’m starting to think that opting out of social media altogether is a bit like opting to be a hermit in today’s society. Sure, I’m not advocating posting every 5 minutes on Facebook and getting into dumb arguments, but it really feels like opting out is a way of putting walls between yourself and the rest of the world (that is on social media). You will miss out on news of friends having kids, graduating college, going to college, getting new jobs, and even planning events together since many events are organized officially on Facebook - from free local concerts to your friends bachelors party. Many people just go through Facebook and create a private event and invite their Facebook friends when they have a birthday gathering nowadays. You will miss out on these if you opt-out completely. I did.
Moore's Law Is Dead
You read enough of these ‘quitting social media’ articles over the years that you almost know word for word how the linked article is going to go.
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This means he's also meta-smart. He focuses his limited mental energy on the things that lead to success in the areas he wants (he's been elected PM, that's the peak of success by any measure). The fact that he has gotten away with being "dumb" on some details is a fault of the system.

Same goes for the USA POTUS. At some point you have to say "don't hate the player, hate the game."
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This article and thread further alienates those in this community who are affected by Stallman's comments and pushes them away. While providing no value other than creating a venue for others to talk past each other and upvoting/downvoting those who take their side. In other words, it's politics.
Good managers are good leaders, which means they sometimes need to teach. There's nothing wrong with an engineering manager teaching someone about the proper type for a database column as an exercise in actual leadership and mentorship of their development team.
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Aren't people who watch the Daily Show under the false impression that the setups for punchlines are real news? Why would anyone knowingly watch them butcher the news just to make the punchlines work?

Watching the Daily Show when you follow the news is like watching an observational stand-up focus on weird contradictions in everyday life when you already know the un-intuitive aspects of the matter that cause the discrepancy they're riffing on. Except a bit more depressing, because it means either their writers are bad news consumers, or are just changing shit to be more convenient to their joke structure.
I have 50k here and 36k on electronics.stackexchange.com. It's a good thing I'm too ugly for Instagram.
Seems like a rant to me. What exactly are you criticizing about the way Google decides which results to show first, in this particular case?
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> Practically speaking, I don't think today's Americans are equipped to provide a credit threat against a dictator and may never will.

I think they do- but we are so far removed from people actually caring about providing a credible threat as of now. Once people lose their access to basic amenities though, everything changes. And the type of people that do see the government as a threat now, already have organized militias, rudimentary training, military connections, and stockpile weapons and food. The right to organize into a militia is a constitutional right, and extremist elements have certainly been taking advantage of that.

And logistically speaking, we have very porous borders and inevitably foreign entities that would seek to assist an insurgency. The American Revolutionaries had the support of the French, and the Southern confederacy had the support of the British.
Do you have any specific examples? I know why vaccine compensation exists, and it's not to hide wrongdoing.

Wait, why do you need the third group (saline solution) as part of the control?
> I'm done with Sonos after they removed the ability to play music straight off the phone onto the speakers.

Did they ever support this? They don't have built in Bluetooth, and I think they only talk NFS and Samba(?) for audio servers.

The other integrations over UPnP/SOAP (IIRC) are for sending it audio URLs or instructions to play Spotify, Google Play, etc.

Some of these pieces might have been pulled out with recent API updates?

I don't have firm details, only forum hearsay, and I'd love to find out what's actually going on with Sonos' APIs.
That almost sounds like it would be a great way to screen potential companies! (But I don't have kids so that makes it difficult to implement for me.)
17000? Damn, I really am a nobody.
I'm contesting the statement If anything the war in Afghanistan has proven that technology is no match for resilience and grit.

It's not really technology holding us back, in either situation. Fear the day technology is good enough that the few can act without the restraint of civilization.
Loved the tips on how to sabotage organizations in ways I've had personal experience with.

Examples:

- Make "speeches." Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your "points" by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences.

- Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products.
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>Here's the thing - from an ethical standpoint, it never makes sense to actually fire it. If you're dead, well, you're dead - there's no sense in murdering millions of citizens of an enemy nation.

Everybody does not die in a nuclear war. You want your survivors to have a better chance. Leaving whoever nuked you mostly untouched is highly counterproductive to that.
I've gone the same way with Twitter -- from massive amounts of tweeting to posting fairly regularly on here. Though not to the 17,000 points scale... I was around the 700 mark last time I looked (I don't look at the number very often).

The difference for me is, on Twitter you get people quote-RTing you to ask their friends to hate you. Here... it's a relatively polite reply explaining why I'm wrong (and I often am!) in their perspective. Or that I've missed some key point which utterly skewers my argument.

Maybe it's more like giving up meth and replacing it with codeine...
That is not really about buyer, but seller. If seller hides price, that is usually good indicator. They know that they don't compete on price, that showing price frightens potential clients.
Apparently the person was concerned that this would allow people to control any narrative they want. For example he suggested that nobody should have to be obligated to acknowledged him as, say, a Christian. I genuinely dont know if this is a good equivalence.
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Sounds very similar to Prometheus Fuels. The AMA thread on here from the founder was amazing.
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