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Before we were voicing everything on the Internet there was both a separation between professional lives and private lives and far more localized communities that had lower interaction with each other.

With the way many are using the Internet is blurs or removes the lines between private and public along with removing regional group barriers.

So, I used to be able to run my mouth locally on some topic and have no work or global repercussions. Now, you do that on the Internet, it could be seen be people thousands of miles away, and it could impact ones career.

It's not just technology but how we choose to use it and guide others to do so as well.
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Your username is apt for this comment. Shukran akhi.
Please cite evidence beyond NYT and WaPo's ultra-left leaning screams. Thank you.
Our government paid good money to organize those HK protestors. The media has an obligation to cover it now.
>I think Blizzard has a legitimate "time and place" argument here.

Blizzard pushed Pride hard when it suited them to do so. What is the proper time and place exactly?

It would seem that only certain political opinions are ok and those would be the type that won't hurt their bottom line.
One is a country with rule of law enforcing its laws. The other is an autocracy enforcing the whims of the current ruler.
This is my favorite audio book. I had a long drive to a friend’s wedding so I picked up an audio book to listen to, Lansing’s Endurance. I recommend it over the hardcover book, which is the way I consume most non-fiction, because of it incredible suspense.

Not knowing who will survive and who will perish and will they be able to persevere under the most extreme circumstances makes the audio presentation one of the most compelling tales of adventure I’ve ever heard. The book is great, but it includes pictures of the ill-fated expedition and so subtlety foretells aspects of the outcome. I recommend listening to it first, then buying the book.

For real life adventure lovers I also recommend Into Thin Air about climbing Everest and the movie, Mountains of the Moon about the explorer/translator Richard Burton [1].

[1] https://www.adventure-journal.com/2016/06/historical-badass-...
No, but the price of rent drops precipitously.
Well, the law is already in the picture; discrimination lawsuits aren't a new thing. And it's also true that, just because you encode certain things in an algorithm (or just let an algorithm learn from existing discriminatory practices), you can't absolve your own responsibility.

There are practices for employment advertising/recruiting that certainly highlight issues in a new way. Is doing on-campus recruiting or advertising in media that targets specific young demographics illegally discriminatory? Probably not. (IANAL) Is targeting young people using Facebook algorithms OK? Dunno.
I agree with this sentiment in the general.

I think people are just trying and failing to voice their actual feelings on the matter.

You could respect Blizzard's right to suspend the player for his opinion. And fully acknowledge that it is them showing him the door and all that.

You could also believe that Blizzard is on the wrong side in this conflict and withdraw your support based on that.

So you wouldn't be boycotting Blizzard for censorship so much as for supporting something you find wrong.

People complaining about "free speech" and "censorship" are complaining about the wrong thing here.
>The commenter in the first case is supporting a marginalized group; the commenter in the second is attacking one.

It's remarkable that you apparently can't even conceive of how someone could not believe one or both of these statements.

You really can't see how someone could believe China is 'marginalized'?

You really can't see how someone could believe American blacks are either not marginal, or are marginal due to their own collective choices and thus not morally supreme?

Even going beyond these, you can't conceive of a morality or worldview where being 'marginalized' doesn't give one automatic, universal moral supremacy over everyone else. Try a worldview where loyalty to family and nation come first - ever heard of that? Or a achievement-oriented worldview, where doing great things is the goal instead of try to seek 'equity' for every group. Or even just a rationalist worldview, where differnet gender, race, national, ethnic, culture groups have characteristics that lead to their outcomes and it's not a giant moral equation you have to spend your life balancing because it's inevitable.

This is the problem with western discourse today. You're so deep in your left-bubble you can't even conceive of other viewpoints, so every conclusion of yours seems obvious and incontrovertible, so you must conclude anyone who disagrees is simply evil.
That's not what I'm saying at all and I've never heard an AI risk person say something like that.

I just read your blog post. It is attacking a weakman[1]. Kurzweil is not worried about AI risk, and his arguments about AI are rather sloppy. Again, most of the people worried about this aren't certain that it will happen. They just think it's plausible enough (say... a 1% chance) that it's worth studying more and reducing the likelihood of.

1. https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/12/weak-men-are-superweap...
The current language Apple is using is:

>Starting April, 2020, all iPhone and iPad apps submitted to the App Store will need to be built with the iOS 13 SDK or later. They must also support the all-screen design of iPhone XS Max or the 12.9-inch iPad Pro (3rd generation), or later.

If you want to properly support iOS 13, that also means implementing dark mode support and breaking your application delegate apart to a scene delegate for multiple instances. In addition to the notched screen "safe area" changes that most developers have probably caught up on by now but are becoming mandatory.

Previous years it's meant supporting flexible sizes for new devices, sizes for split screen multitasking, drag and drop, siri intents, adding @3x retina assets, changing out UIWebView to the (not directly compatible) WKWebView, and a million other things.

For a simple app with minimal support for iOS's growing featureset, maybe some years you can get away with loading it into this year's XCode, clicking the automatic code update button, and compiling. But polished iOS apps put a lot more work into keeping up.

I don't have any knowledge of how Android compares, but iOS is definitely a moving target and Apple isn't afraid of deprecating things or mandating support for newer features.
No, the term "eurocentric" in this context means that for the Nobel prize, european scientists' accomplishments are considered "more worthy" than that of non-Europeans.

And thanks for bringing up how racial equality is a European tradition. How could we forget historical eurocentric bastions of equality, like the study of Phrenology and Kipling's "The White Man's Burden".
I'm addition to trade and human rights-related issues we should also be talking about the Great Firewall as a protectionist tool. China blocks & throttles European / Western digital services but we allow their tech to be sold here. That's not fair. WTO rules should be updated to address digital censorship.
I don't know why you think I'm taking anything personally. I'm certainly not a vegetarian. That was the first example of South Park punching down I thought of.

Like I said, South Park does make fun of everyone. That's explicitly not always speaking truth to power, like the parent poster is claiming. And I agree with the grandparent post that we shouldn't look to South Park as a moral compass.
I thought this was going to be about error-budgeting your carbohydrate SLO in your dietary SLA.
I just finished listening to audiobook yesterday. Really gripping stuff. Amazing what people can endure.
> Look around this thread: It's chock full of fudding about how Apple is taking away their freedoms...

So you project your frustrations with them onto me?

But given how you'd rather type up a long winded rant about ranters rather than answer my simple question, I suspect you either don't know how to do it, or it's in fact not possible. I'm not trying to get free lessons, I'm trying to get someone to prove to me how this works.
But I want more Bezos, Gates, Buffets, and Musks, not fewer.
This article frames this as the US vs China, but it's really been the "Western world" vs China.

And the western world has been incredibly naive and uncoordinated when it comes to dealing with China. We've all accepted the incredibly one-sided deal, in some kind of idealistic hope that the Chinese would latch on to "western" values of democracy etc just by trading with us.

Edit: World -> Western world.
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Removing/changing artistic depictions because they have unintended meaning in a different cultural context is one thing.

Cutting LGBT characters and banning people who criticize the regime is entirely different.
Not really. Blizzard cites a specific rule that all the tournament players agree to that allows them to do that. Most employees don't have any such agreement with their employer.

Even so, with at-will employment, employees have always been subject to being fired for saying something controversial on social media, so this is nothing new.
China will consider it a favor if you block your own "offensive" company from the Chinese market.
I've also done a lot of accessibility work. For people looking to get into it, another crucial thing is using "Semantic HTML". If every button is a <button> tag and every link is an <a> and every form element has a corresponding <form> tag (even for AJAX), then you save about 80% of your accessibility work up front (no, this isn't an exaggeration).
Predictive text on your phone and GPT-2 are two very very different beasts
The person in the article said he was watering his lawn for $40/month previously. The fact that it jumped to $250 while maintaining his watering habits does not garner much sympathy from me. Were it $250 so that he might hydrate his children and maintain a reasonable standard of living, well that's another thing. But just so your grass doesn't go dormant? Here, water your grass with my tears.

In summary, I think some poor examples were chosen.
If I google privilege definition google tells me

'a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group.
"education is a right, not a privilege"'

Obviously whoever wrote that should be penalized because they mucked it up with their example, if privilege is a special right then how is education a right not a privilege?

But anyway, a privilege is something that is understood as something you have been given. The American Constitution holds that rights are something that one possesses innately, although a cynic might wonder what the difference is I think a close reading leads to the understanding that when a right is taken away it is by nature wicked that such a thing should be done, whereas the removal of a privilege would not be automatically unjust.

Thus by the American conception of things every human has the right to free speech, that China takes that away from it's citizens thus not make American's privileged - it makes China bad and its citizens oppressed for having their rights removed.

on edit: sorry about the many typos, not going to fix though as I am dealing with pneumonia and near bed time.
> Roseanne gets canceled because she happens to support Trump

This is false. The show got cancelled because of tweets by Barr that were seen as racist.[1] She was already known as a Trump supporter for 2 years before her show was revived[2][3] so that could not possibly have been a factor in her firing.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseanne_Barr#Valerie_Jarrett_...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseanne_Barr#Reality_televisi...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseanne_Barr#Support_for_Dona...
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>There are two sorts of Magick; the one is infamous, and unhappy, because it has to do with foul Spirits, and consists of incantations and wicked curiosity; and this is called Sorcery; an art which all learned and good men detest; neither is it able to yield an truth of reason or nature, but stands merely upon fancies and imaginations, such as vanish presently away, and leave nothing behind them; as Jamblicus writes in his book concerning the mysteries of the Egyptians. The other Magick is natural; which all excellent wise men do admit and embrace, and worship with great applause; neither is there any thing more highly esteemed, or better thought of, by men of learning. The most noble Philosophers that ever were, Pythagorus, Empedocles, Democritus, and Plato, forsook their own countries, and lived abroad as exiles and banished men, rather than as strangers; and all to search out and to attain this knowledge; and when they came home again, this was the Science which they professed, and this they esteemed a profound mystery.

Science Magick is arcane, requiring math skills and experimenation, rational and ordered

Sorcery is fel, dealing in raging infernals and sexy succubi from the Twisting Nether, emotive and chaotic
The actual principle which corporations apply is, "We should censor whoever it makes the most money to censor." Starting from the assumption that companies are operating on ethics at all means we're wrong right from the beginning. Hypothetically there exists an ethical way to censor, but where that falls apart is when you give that decision to ethics-blind corporations.

You should check out Schelling Fences on Slippery Slopes[1], particularly the section "Coalitions of Resistance".

There's also a separate disagreement which I have here, which is whether silencing people is actually an effective way to create change. It takes enormous resources even for governments to enforce it effectively, as we've seen with Nazis and the USSR in the past, and with China now. With bigots, censorship on other platforms has driven them together into some real cesspool platforms such as Voat[2]. I know for myself, having grown up in a homophobic environment, that the only thing that changed my mind about gay people was meeting and talking to gay people--a strategy which was explicitly executed by Harvey Milk in his coming out campaigns. Censoring bigots does the opposite: it drives bigots into echo chambers where they will only ever converse with other bigots who reinforce their views. In short: if you're censoring bigots, you aren't addressing bigotry, you're just sweeping it under the rug so you don't have to see it.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Kbm6QnJv9dgWsPHQP/schelling-...

[2] https://voat.co
Thanks. It's really obnoxious that they make you sign-in to verify your age, rather than just enter your birth date like some other sites. Especially since AFAIK it's impossible to create a Google account these days without giving them your phone number (thus exposing your identity). For politically sensitive videos such as this, such restrictions seem like a particularly bad idea.
I don't care as much about seeing the unedited thumbnail previews in digiKam as long as I can find what I'm looking for, and then edit and print from Capture One.
That's just reinforcing the point. Privilege is a special "right" rather than a universal one that should be held by everyone, something like the right to be called doctor (held only by someone with a doctorate) as opposed to the right to due process (which should be held by everyone).

Due process is a human right in a way that having a title is not.
That would only be possible if the story weren't fiction. The same problem occurs with science fiction with faster-than-light travel: they can't actually include the design for a workable Alcubierre drive in the book because designing it involves scientific breakthroughs that nobody knows how to make, or even if they are possible.
Some more blog ideas:

Can you apply DevOps thinking to things that don’t involve computers?

Can you apply Agile thinking to things that don’t involve computers?

Can you apply the UNIX philosophy to things that don’t involve computers?
I can see the point of being pathologically protective of your own source history. But the project you are sending a PR to only really need to see the final effect of the changes.

Of course for your own local history the same technique can work, you just keep the old branch as well as the newly cleaned one. Though that might be unnecessary clutter to many.
Careful which examples you choose...

UK, 2018: Pep Guardiola has been fined £20,000 by the Football Association (FA) [..] after wearing a yellow ribbon supporting political prisoners in his native Catalonia.

https://www.fourfourtwo.com/us/news/breaking-news-guardiola-...
According to arstechnica translated he shouted "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our age!" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/blizzard-bans-pr...

I'd agree with a slap on the wrist. Like $500 fine or something. But forfeiting all winners and 12 month ban is insane.

Seems like Blizzard is pandering to China because they don't want locked out of the market.

Shame on them for enjoying democracy in their own country (US) but assisting with suppressing it in other countries for their own profit.
Looks really nice. Especially the hand-picking part of human curation part. Based on the other reply of yours about monetization, wondering why aren't you actively monetizing it. The software engineering daily podcast makes about $60K+ a montb[1]. You can become like that interms of newsletter and aggregation. No?

[1] - https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/114-jeff-meyerson-of-so...
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Can UK bookseller James Daunt revive Barnes & Noble?
Even worse, the search term in the image is "火影" (Naruto, EDIT: the series, not the character; the Chinese name of the series refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Naruto_characters#Hoka... ).

No wonder they're getting results completely unrelated to basketball.
I would think that's because the overhead tends to dominate when calling on small JSON, whether it's function call overhead or python's interpreter, etc.
It's just a nice story.
Thanks for the reply!

>Then all you end up with are clones of the same platform.

There are ways to use familiar design language while at the same time innovating. Like I said before, I just don't want to feel stupid.

>Because unlike Github, the repository is not the main home of the project.

I don't think your UI is terrible btw. I think I'm just primarily confused about this point.

>A centralized idea of a "project" with links backwards and forwards is a blocking planned feature of the Sourcehut beta.

I think this would be so helpful. If I can't see a link to Todos.sr.ht from Git.sr.ht, then how would I know that I have to change the subdomain in order to get there?

For what it's worth, Gitlab is a UI nightmare compared to Sourcehut. So I very much value your emphasis on the clean and simple.
>TikTok, the popular Chinese-owned social network, instructs its moderators to censor videos that mention Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, or the banned religious group Falun Gong, according to leaked documents detailing the site’s moderation guidelines. The documents, revealed by the Guardian for the first time, lay out how ByteDance, the Beijing-headquartered technology company that owns TikTok, is advancing Chinese foreign policy aims abroad through the app.

>The revelations come amid rising suspicion that discussion of the Hong Kong protests on TikTok is being censored for political reasons: a Washington Post report earlier this month noted that a search on the site for the city-state revealed “barely a hint of unrest in sight”.

Welp, Communism runs the world, if you didn't know...
The WTO/World Bank is an arm of the US State Department.

The rules serve to further US diplomatic and corporate interests, not openness or trade.
Most common age among whites in U.S. is 58 – more than double that of minorities
> We've all accepted the incredibly one-sided deal

Trust me, most Chinese people believed the same thing when they deal with other nations.

You either need to label all of them being stupid and naive; or you are saying Chinese are so smarter than anyone else...

The deals are never one-sided...
Which I think is quite interesting.

I can totally understand if a person says "I do not want to contribute code to a project for free when somebody else can make money with it".
But then they can not contribute code to any OSI approved Open Source licensed project. Because with that license everybody can make money with it. And very often is that somebody the wrong one (like for example Amazon).

The only difference with the Commons Clause is that now still somebody can make money. But that somebody is now the entity behind the project. And they normally put that money right back into the project (by for example hiring developers) and make so sure that it improves and stays around a long time.
So I personally would prefer to contribute code to a project which uses the Commons Clause then one which does not.
#1 I am not sure why everyone pees their pants when they hear "pro-Hindu" agenda? It appears most world-media tries to paint this agenda with a ethnic and racist brush, which it ain't so. I don't think anyone in India sees it becoming less tolerant to other religions (except the western media, who lack a full context and are largely motivated by selfish incentives than anything else).

#2 Consolidation of power? Care to cite some data around this? Thank you.

#3 See #2 above. IMO, Modi's cabinet is the most competent of any party who ruled India so far.
I seriously don't see how a stand-alone "hello world" program is meaningfully "interact[ing] with the outside world" in a way that printing a string at the REPL is not. Stop ranting and posturing, and instead please try to unpack that.

In either case you are simply printing a string to the terminal. The standalone program is easier to compose in your shell, which in some contexts matters a lot, but I don't see that it does here. Where is the difference?

Further, if we define "interact with the outside world" in a way that excludes the programmer reading things off the screen, then it's plainly wrong that all such programs are "literally useless". Calculators, for instance, have delivered a tremendous amount of value. I've personally run something at a REPL (in various languages) plenty of times because I had actual use for the value to be printed and didn't need to persist the program.
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Or mecha Barbara Streissand...
It appears that the third screenshot doesn't use the characters 火箭, but some other word?
These conversations always ignore the fact that we, the critics in the US, have paid to murder far more innocent people abroad than China ever has.
I wonder if predictive text will standardize phrases so much that there will be fewer new turn-of-phrases
It wouldn’t be very comfortable for either party, honestly. So I’d have to wonder if anybody small would ever try to enforce it.
Thank you for picking the license you did. Developers should be able to earn from their hard work, versus having a Goliath cloud provider take it and profit from it without contributing anything back. No need to cater to potential contributors who have no skin in the game, but turn their nose up at a license they don't believe in.
How about the Iran Nuclear deal? Or is that a bad example?