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These are, like NVC, tools to help when people are generally intending to work together. I.e., it presumes non-toxic participation.

Alas, in, for example, big company "politics" manipulating the system to further oneself typically subverts such processes and creates broken/toxic cultures.
It requires exactly access to a DNS and an ISP, both of which do have an obligation to enable fair access.

Access to some blog-hosting SaSS is another issue entirely.

I'm content to provide my own stack from the server up. There is no realistic scenario where I can be deplatformed from purchasing hardware sufficient to host a blog.
I took History of The Far East in college decades ago. The cultural friction between China and the West substantially precedes the current government of the country.

Regardless of what is going on there politically currently, they are a growing economic power. That makes them the proverbial 800 pound gorilla that people are increasingly afraid of pissing off for fear of financial consequences. They have one seventh of the world's population. It's a huge market that simply cannot be ignored.
Some people are. But since this article is explicitly about Blizzard, people are focusing on their actions with Blizzard.
It sounds like passive-aggressive to me. Yeah, it's annoying.
As someone who might be a consumer of content written by that negative karma farming account, please do not do this. One of the most annoying things on Internet forums is trolls intentionally seeking downvotes.

There have to be ways to boost your self esteem without pissing off the rest of the world.
I agree that there are undefinable building blocks of mathematics. I don't think the undefinable building blocks of mathematics are set, function, and natural number.

My list of fundamental, undefinable building blocks are existence, reference, equality, and memory (the capability to store multiple statements at once), which holds for all definitions ever, not just mathematical ones (this is what I meant by a definition of anything, I meant really a definition of literally anything, mathematical or not). It's important to note that reference is not a relabeling of function, nor is memory a relabeling of natural number and set. It's a bit hard to describe why this is true in English because this is touching on such meta-linguistic foundational issues, but the best example I can give is any formal theorem prover. Those define sets, functions, and natural numbers using existence, reference, (implicit) equality, and memory instead of the other way around. Another example of this is that reference can be used to define both functions and relations. As for memory, although you could use sets to model memory, it's important to note that the notion of memory is an artifact independent of sets, in the same way that ZFC can be modeled by an outer series of sets in an "external" ZFC, but exists independently and could be modeled by something else (see model-theoretic reflection).

Taking a page from Wittgenstein and moving away from the ineffable, let's turn our attention to pedagogy. Pedagogically it makes it impossible to explain why first order logic is the logic used for set theory, especially in the face of various model-theoretic problems with first order logic (e.g. Lowenheim-Skolem), instead of second order logic. Namely first-order logic, as I was hoping to show with the BNF syntax, is NOT dependent on a understanding of sets, but second order logic is (which would make using it to define set theory circular). It makes it hard to teach the significance of the Peano axioms. It makes the presentation of logical relations (and functions as a special case thereof) problematic. It makes it difficult to see why basing mathematics on set theory is NOT a trivial, obvious choice and why alternatives might exist.

If you're talking about the Piraha language (and other languages like it), now you're talking about very very philosophical issues that also really sit at the cross-section of all epistemology and language, not just mathematics.
(4) They are desperately trying avoid the Osborne Effect and not tank sales of their current products while they are scrambling to develop and gear up to produce electric models.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
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>The Chinese government didn't even threaten them over it.

Overtly. But this is a clear example of what is meant when people talk about the 'soft influence' which China seeks to develop. At the crude end of the scale, you have indoctrinated CCP people spreading out globally occupied in various positions able to exert leverage favorable to the party. At the more subtle end you have boards mindful of impacting their bottom line if they lose access to a large market.

What we're seeing here could be coming from either of those ends of the soft influence playbook. But no matter what, it's a clear example of the power of the approach, and how confounding it can become to resist it's effect.
Long ago I lost my passport at the Octoberfest in Munich. It was turned in to the police.
Outside of the tech bubble, no one knows what a raspberry pi even is, let alone knowing how to hook it up.
then i suppose it's a good thing he didn't suggest that
It would help (but only a little) to know whether these users of Blind were signed up in the past couple weeks following recent events, or somewhat before that.
https://spreadprivacy.com/google-filter-bubble-study/
It seems like hitchhiking works then! In safe areas, and in super dangerous areas when you look vulnerable... All those families stopped because they were afraid for her well-being. But still, super lucky, if a criminal had got on that road ahead of the family, the story might have been different.
I work at Amazon. Ellisons assessment is trash meant to fool maybe Wall Street analysts, but as an engineer, his claims are laughable. In reality, database migrations are hard. Removing that factor entirely for a moment, engineers don’t want to work on lift and shift projects. They come to Amazon to build interesting shit. Now imagine database migrations are easy and your engineers love this work - well, now it turns out you’ve basically stopped real innovation in your organizations to do this operational work for cost savings.

I could go on... there are so many factors why it took Amazon a while to get off Oracle. Ellison is a heaping pile of dog shit fraudster. Before you dismiss me as being biased, look at my post history. I’m critical enough of Amazon.
> a swing to the right

Further than nazis?
cfront, the original C++ compiler, used to compile to C. Why aren't we using such a compiler nowadays?
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Schools are generally not in session during the summer.
See also "Low-level percepts predict emotion concepts across modalities and cultures". https://psyarxiv.com/myg3b/
So, what, as an LGBTQ+ person, I'm not allowed to be represented in media? Because my existence is "political"?
You shouldn't. I had my iPhone stolen on a nearly full DC metro train. Thief grabbed it out of my hands just before the doors closed and dashed.
Thank you. This kind of thing contributes to the continuing embrittlement of the workplace and of society itself. And we know what happens to brittle things when they encounter a bit of stress.
Actually that sounds like bad NVC. The point of NVC isn’t to obscure what you need from the other person. It’s to frame it in a way that’s objective about what you need and indicating what having what you need will allow you to do/be/feel/etc. The objective description is to remove your own emotionally loaded or offensive language.

I’m sure the HR departments of the world are misusing it though as means to an end and at the cost of employees.
Gold is not abundant in seawater: ~10 parts per trillion by mass.
This is scarcity. It's caused by growing demand in population, and dwindling supply with less people building homes. The equitable solution is probably to split up land more, and let people convert houses to condos and the like.
“In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.”

I completely agree that opposing views that can be argued against rationally should always be allowed. But we were talking about literal nazis who advocate (and act upon) VIOLENT intolerance.
Sure, and in the 80s maybe it was justified, but in the 30 years since then, that justification has worn thin and IMO the cost of UB far outweighs the benefits. I've been writing software in C++ since the 90s and have been growing gradually more uneasy with it the whole time.

The thing is, by the very nature of UB, it could have been (and still could be) patched out in a backwards-compatible way. At the very least, catching UB before the nasal demons get out would allow a bit more confidence in C++ code.
Your first examples are all completely different. The government should not be able to punish the expression of ideas (usual caveats, calls to harm, etc...), no.

Beyond the government? It's just not that simple. The solution is compelled speech? If I run a company, I have to broadcast people calling for my death, for example?

Should Blizzard be forced to allow anyone to say anything on their show? What if someone starts promoting a competing product? How do you deal with who is allowed to demand airtime on their particular thing? What proportion of exposure are given bits of speech given?

I'm not saying there aren't issues with companies having control over speech—this case is absolutely an example of that—but you are pretending that compelling companies to allow any speech is simple.
NVC is a framework for direct communication. To quote the article:

1. Observe Facts - observe the specific facts that are affecting our wellbeing, and bring them up with the other person

2. Note Feelings - introspect about what exactly we are feeling in response to what we've observed, and communicate these feelings

3. Uncover Desires - figure out the desires, wants and values that are creating our feelings, and explain them to the other person

4. Make Requests - ask for concrete actions to help resolve the situation

What you described is none of the above.
It certainly is not true of everybody that appreciation of modern art comes with age. I'd wager the majority of people, young or old, consider it inaccessible or worse.
If it's just a blog couldn't you host it on a home internet connection using an ip address?

I doubt ISPs would easily cut someone's home internet off. Is there precedent for that?
If you're doing it right, it's probably helping.

Good on you. I find the American school system utterly absurd, especially the amount of homework you get.
Communication boils down to one simply rule:

It's not what you say, it what they hear.

Package it any way you want, but unless you're 100 clear about that packaging then you'll leave me to assume. We all know what that means.

From skimming the article and reading some of the HN comments NVC sounds like some cheap knock off of passive aggressive. PA is bad. It's never good.
> One Rich Asshole company

This is just personal abuse.
I co-organize a handful of Meetup groups, and we already pay a non-negligible annual fee. There's definitely money to be made.

Most people seem happy shelling out $100-200 per year for a membership. $2 per attendee per event is simply exorbitant, noone will be able to afford that.

It's so bizarrely extreme, I can only assume it's a psychological "anchoring" tactic - a patently ludicrous number that makes the "real" offer (2-3x fee hike) more "reasonable".
Consider the source though. It’s from another time where racism was much more rampant and India was much further into its traditional ways. Lynchings were not a distant memory.
This is sort of like "If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the banks' problem."

There is a level of power where an attempt at deplatforming would hurt the platform more than the politician, in part because they will make national news wherever they post. Expecting Twitter to pretend people are equal breaks down at the extreme end of the scale.
This is why modern parenting guidance tends away from a blanket stranger danger policy toward something a bit more nuanced like "beware of a grownup who approaches you or initiates a conversations with you, but if you are in trouble, almost any grownup who looks safe to you is probably someone you can ask for help."

You can add a few more layers like seeking out someone in a uniform or who has a stroller, but generally speaking most people minding their own business are perfectly safe.
> There is a rule against that

There is a vague and generic rule designed to let Blizzard slap people who make them look bad with penalties. Nothing like "no politics".
It's the other way around, C++ is turning into a complicated D clone.
Video games are made by creators and there is an artistic side to it. People get emotionally attached to them and it's hard to remove this positive emotion associated with it, but when developers and editors treat it only as a money machine and disregard everything else it is like breaking up with your s.o. and the love is replaced with an irreversible hatred.

I think Blizzard has definitely lost their special place in most of their hardcore fans. The market has become global but so have the conflicts and whether they like it or not, sometimes they will be forced to pick a side.
Yeah, we know you've got us locked in. The steaming piles served up in the console still taste like shit.
The government shouldn't be able to lock you up for your expression, but we are talking about if Blizzard can stop an employee from expressing a view on their product. How can you possibly enforce that anyone should be allowed to express anything in that context? How must time be allocated? Who must be allowed to speak? Can they promote rival products or badmouth Blizzard?
Doesn't sitting down and refusing to leave when asked to, violate trespass laws?
It is not just youtube. It's everywhere!

- Too much violence! The vidya' games did it!
- Can't say anything negative about the drag queens.
- Can't question the tranny operations.
- Can't object to unlimited immigration.
- Everything outside of mainstream-approved dogma is a "conspiracy theory"

And we double-down on these things, and not out of any deep-seated belief! We double-down because we are tired of being told what to say and what to think by the usual suspects, and we know just how much saying these things pisses them off.
I have a similar reaction. There are times I post a bunch of comments in a row just to push a thread off my user page so I can check replies to other comments without having to see that thread that's making me upset.

If I'm wrong, I feel bad that I was wrong but I'm happy other people have let the general public know I was wrong by downvoting my comment. More often though, I'm right and people just don't want to hear it.

The fastest way to get downvoted is by saying "I like typing on Apple's new keyboard, the Esc key on the Touchbar works just fine for me, and their Pro lineup fits my needs perfectly as a professional". Every statement in there might be true but there is a group of HN users who cannot stand the thought that any of those statements might be true and will absolutely destroy your karma for it.

Without any penalty for downvoting unpopular opinions, it's just something we have to deal with. And if it starts to get too much, I jump ship to Lobste.rs for a bit where the community is less toxic overall and downvoting is substantially harder.
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Interesting point, I wonder if they can apply some logic into it, like if the sender is male and he's written to many female non-friends, give him a higher "probably junk" score. But if he's gotten good response rates his message is probably worth delivering.

FB probably already has data to know how much of a pervert someone is... if they linger on those beach pictures for too long, for example.
Rich, undisciplined kids go on to be big spenders who need to hire people to cater to their needs.

What kind of 'answer' could there possibly be? The system works, as it always has. The huge majority of wealthy families squander it all away in a few generations. It's a self-correcting problem.
Dutch people have a very communal value system. Anglo saxon notions of freedom from government interference aren't a thing in their culture.
I read this article as "Because there are challenges with proposed solutions, because none of the solutions themselves will solve climate change, best not to work on it at all".

That's like a general at the start of WWII looking at the stockpile of armaments and saying "Best not fight the Nazis. There's probably more of them than we have bombs in this pile."

Yes, the article nods to innovation at the end, but pooh-poohs the idea that we need to change anything to get there. The best fuel for innovation in energy generation is to clear the marketplace of the incumbent fossil fuel behomeths. Tax them, pressure them, restrict their growth - the green energy innovators will quickly grow to fill the gaps. This can be done anywhere, everywhere.
If you doubt dozens of leaks, hundreds of exposés, archival records, court documents, and diaries from the operatives who coordinated the nationwide disenfranchisement campaigns:

What measure of proof do you require?
I agree the OS doesn't know what the app is doing with it's tabs/windows but the OS could mandate that it tell the OS a list of things the user should be able to switch to and design the API in such a way that we'd get a LRU behavior.

I can dream haha.

Just tried turning on tab support in Witch but AFAIK it can't do LRU so it's not helpful (T_T)
It might. But building product professional (defined goal, scope, time frame, etc.) is an atypical relationship.

I'm not knocking you or NVC. Only noting the siloed use case.
Because almost everything he said reads like a really generic right-wing narrative shaping about media manipulation, complete with conspiracy theory accessories. Like the most egregious one he included in that thread involves a total misunderstanding of publication dates and general time zones.

Don't read that thread and expect to learn much or gain insight, save for the fact that Blizzard really messed up here.
Everything ends up being packaged as some get-<blank>-quick scheme in the US, including how to peddle get-<blank>-quick schemes. Don't blame the idea for the hucksters.
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In those situations, everyone is assumed to be an adult who is strong enough to take direct criticism.

This is the example given in the article:

[1. Observe Facts] Felix, when I see two balls of soiled socks under the coffee table, [2. Note Feelings] I feel irritated because [3. Uncover Desires] I want more order in the rooms that we share in common - [4. Make Requests] would you be willing to put your socks in the washing machine?

Seems direct enough to me. Obviously stating your feelings matters less at work; maybe you'd replace "feelings" with "implications for the project" or something.
I want to live in the world where 650 USD is cheaper.
I think it's a tool. Sometimes, you need to touch on something so intrinsically tied to someone's identity, that any other form of communication doesn't tend to work.

This is, from my experience, rare. Especially among emotionally mature adults who have a well rounded life.

The problem is the people who develop these techniques, like someone who develops a good hammer, thinks that all problems are nails.

Personally, I hate the inauthentic communication style in general, and I agree with you on how it makes me feel.
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"Wei?"

Then what?

(It's the Chinese greeting when picking up the phone)
Only 2 months ago. Why it took so long?
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What happens in two party states and the uninformed party does not concent to being recorded?
A more accurate summary would be “People with $100K/yr may be able to rent homes in sufficiently more desirable neighborhoods than they could buy as to choose the former over the latter while being able to do either”, but it's too long and not hyperbolic enough for a headline.
That's what a bunch of people have been saying in Reddit comments about Blizzard allowing "political speech" for acknowledging the existence of LGBTQ+ people.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Blizzard/comments/dgodfz/we_wont_al...
In a bus traveling south of Mazatlan I met a family and they invited me to stay at their home in Mexico City. This place, as it turned out, was right in the middle of the largest slum and consisted of a metal frame with roofing and side walls made of tarpauline and a mud floor . The first few days there was a queue of people outside just to oogle the foreigner, but it was all good with lots of smiles. The morning teeth brushing and face washing ritual by young and old was fascinating to watch, with everyone awaiting their turn at the single faucet for hundreds of people.Food was simple, mostly made on small kerosene stoves. I stayed for 8 days and at no time did I feel unsafe , despite my host explaining about many pickpockets , expert thieves and robbers living in this area who went to work the tourist spots during the day , like other people would go to an office , but this was home.
My host had a real job in the forestry department of the city government , but he said he could not afford to live
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> Are grade schoolers doing assignments that can't reasonably be completed on a raspberry pi grade computer or lower?

Any assignment that makes use of a proprietary software that the school has purchased.

That is to say that there are plenty of times when a student _must_ use X software that only runs on platform Y, and the school very rarely takes into account what platforms the student may have available to them.

I ran IT support for a Prepatory <-> Year 12 school. The number of times I had to gently remind the early grade teachers that not every child has access to an iPad at home and that an Android tablet cannot run iPad software was quite frequent.
I got mobbed and threatened with violence from none other than the leaders of the Bay Area Clojure meetup, published author(s), and found my Twitter account instantly suspended on Muni home—guessing somebody in the group knew somebody inside the big T to make the suspension happen, or they just got a big mass of reports in. I was physically at the Meetup when these calls for violence were happening, unbeknownst to me since I don’t use my mobile while at meetups, but it explains some if the eratic behavior. I don’t know where to begin seeking recourse, this was earlier this year. It’s terrifying, indeed.
Free speech is about the government not punishing you for your expression, not that all speech should be without limit or repercussion in general.

How would it possibly work if I couldn't be fired for insulting a customer at work, or telling them to shop at a rival instead. How would it work if news networks were required to broadcast my rant about whatever I want? Do I have to associate with the neo-nazi who wants me dead because I can't apply consequences for their speech?

I agree that this case is an example of unjust consequences of speech, and I think Blizzard did the wrong thing. It is not the same as being arrested and convicted for it, and it's not that simple.