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> They privilege the consumer of Open Source code over the producer, by requiring that the producer give up certain rights.

If you cherry pick rights you can argue this either way. By using proprietary software, the consumer of the software gives up some of their rights to freely use their computing devices, in order for the producer of the software to enjoy a monopoly on deciding how the software is used.
I remember Robert Heinlein had a vision of a future where houses were all built in factories. There was some essay where he ranted about how absurd it was that the average house was custom built like a Rolls Royce. Of course, we do have manufactured and modular housing today, but it's still normal to build structures much the same way as ever, and it's nearly 2020.

I think eliminating handmade software ultimately is a proposition balanced between a tautology and an oxymoron; everything new that is created is "by hand" and everything else is existing software. Anything that can be reused is. Saying we need to reuse more is not right or wrong, it's just empty.
It is the business of extremist groups to craft the illusion of difficulty parsing between the two scenarios.

The modern neo-nazi movement subverts mechanisms for questioning and checking power, even going as far as subverting the brand power of "free speech" to mean their speech and only their speech, in order to accumulate power around themselves and their interests. It is tragic that we can't have conversations about imperial powers suppressing independence movements without connoting that those principles protect speech suppressing and threatening minority groups.
I think what happens now will be called in future as Blizzard effect.
Fascinating, and I totally hear that. For me, the name is part of what drew me to it in the first place -- the framing that there is a "violence" even in the normal day to day interactions we are all used to was a bit of an "aha!" moment for me that provided hope for something better.
I used to run a local web marketing meetup in East Idaho. It grew to about 260 people! We used meetup.com and I loved that...

Then I discovered that Facebook Groups and setting up events there worked just as well for us. RSVPs, reminders, notifications, etc all built in.

I since retired that meetup due to moving out of the State for a short time, but if I were to start again I would probably still use Facebook.
Pretty sure cable news is legally designated as "entertainment".
You must be really excited about the current administration's effort to fight end-to-end encryption then. Can't have them thoughtcriminals spreading their wrongthink¹.

¹ definition is subject to change depending on which entity is currently in power.
Two weeks ago in Maui at the visitor center at Mt. Haleakala a distraught young woman came in saying she had dropped her wallet somewhere between the visitor center and the peak. When she went to the women's bathroom in the visitor center to check if she might have dropped it there, she found someone else had forgotten their iPhone by the sink.
Within a few minutes an older couple walked into the visitor center and said they had found a wallet on a hike but had lost their iPhone :-)
Two individuals each finding the others lost item was pretty karmic!
When conservatives were banned en masse the liberals cheered. Their argument was that censoring by private companies was totally acceptable. Now that their preferred positions are being censored they've suddenly rediscovered the value of free speech. I hope they learn the lesson from this - free speech is too precious a right to be given up just to shut down your opponent. If your opponents are censored today, you'll surely be tomorrow.
You have literally no idea what might be being communicated in private between China and Blizzard. How can you make such a claim in good faith?
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ID costs here in Europe too, but it's valid 8 or 10 years so it's not a huge problem.

Someone is posting this link about one dmv being opened only 4 days a year for some reason but the population of that place is ca 3000 people. In Europe you don't have a dmv in a village and you get it done after every ten years at some bigger city or town.
> Sometimes it happens, and sometimes not. I lost my wallet 4 times in total, 3 in Brazil (which is $HOME), 1 in Germany. Got it back 3 out of 4 times. Guess where.

That's highly depends on exactly _where_ in Brazil you are, time of day, your looks, general luck and many other factors. In may places you are likely to 'forcefully' lose your wallet, cellphone, car and if you are very lucky, that's all you'll lose. You can be encouraged to make a trip to the nearest ATM or even your house. Hopefully you will be alone and there won't be anyone else that can be used as leverage.

Source: have been robbed at gunpoint on several occasions. In one of them, they were discussing whether or not I should be shot. After smashing the driver's side window, while I was at a stop light. Thankfully I only had to clean up a small amount of blood from my car. On another, I was at a police station, was asked to go to a site of a police shooting to try to identify the crooks that had been shot (and were now deceased). Turns out that there was a separate event, not even 15 minutes apart a few blocks away, also two guys on a motorcycle. Those were not the crooks I was looking for, those got... caught.

That was all in a state capital, not in the middle of nowhere. Population equivalent to almost 3 San Franciscos added together.

You should be thankful of your luck.
The case at hand is an older man who interacts with younger students. Half of them don’t feel safe around him. He’s going to have to do an astounding job with the remaining 50% to make up for that.

It’s not about declaring some people “good” before hand. It’s more about spotting when power is being abused and giving someone else a go.

A government area very close to here recently arrested a politician who was also the most popular politician in the country (by % votes). He’s now been found guilty of some crimes the scale of which is quite small compared to the absolute scale of the area he ran. But all of his decisions and appointments will now be examined. There are definitely plus and minuses to his downfall. But on balance I’m glad that people didn’t continue to turn a blind eye to his corruption, even if some of it “got the job done” faster.
"If a group cannot afford it"

The group does not pay for the meetup, the organizer does. Most social meetups are created by the kindness of the organizer, who want nothing in return. $15 a month is a lot of kindness.

My fictitious group was an example. I do not like dogs. :) But your solution goes back to my original comment. The article lists functional alternatives, but there is no way for someone to find the group, unless they explicitly searched for it. Most end up searching on Meetup and Facebook.
If your goal is to passive aggressively manipulate others, then NVC will work just as well as anything else. If your goal is connected communication, NVC works very well too.
Leverage the Q&A section(s)! Be sure to have a good, legitimate question about the game (in case they're screening them), but follow it up by asking, for example, "what is your opinion of Chairman Xi Jinping?"
Wrong, the casters were fired because they knew what was going to transpire and actively let it happen.
They cant afford to let users gauge opinion. That's _their_ job.
The damage is real.
Thankfully we've now got LangServer thanks to Microsoft which helps tremendously! It means any IDE / editor can be useful once at least a single LangServer project is made per language. Code once, use anywhere!

A good IDE used to be my hangup for D but VS Code has a very solid plugin.
That's why I emphasized the "also"; one thing is a tool whose primary purpose is not to harm people but can be misused to do so, and a whole different thing is something which can only be used to hurt people or restrict their liberties.

"I'm not saying Onionshare is good or bad, just that you need to step back at look at any tool and consider the net potential impact if bad actors are able to exploit it."

True, and that's why we must think very carefully before enacting laws that make this or that tool illegal just because some criminal found a destructive use for it; there are so many things potentially dangerous in the wrong hands that blindly banning them all would either be impossible or would bring us back to stone age.
In case somebody reads this.

My life has started getting better when I got off my ass and worked to make it better.

I got the job I wanted, started working out, started going out more (still working on that one tbh), went from being single to several long term relationships, etc.

None of it was easy, all of it was and is a struggle.

At some point, I realized that nobody else was going to work on all these things if I did not.
“We appreciate the fact that you like to buy the cool stuff we build.”
That's not true according to multiple studies. On mobile, but you can Google them. Kids were found to do better when starting later, regardless of how early the kids go to bed.

The effect is more pronounced in high school aged kids.

Additionally, there is something to be said for accommodating kids who don't have a stable enough home life or parents that care or realize the damage caused by not enough sleep.
I downvoted, since the two incidents are fundamentally about free speech (I have a post attached to a sibling that explains why I think this applies to private companies too). That one form of speech is detested while the other is supported doesn't change that it's fundamentally about free speech.

To be slightly hyperbolic, it's impossible to say something of substance that doesn't offend someone. If all we're allowed to say is that which doesn't offend anyone, then nothing of substance can be said.
When somebody communicates with me using NVC, it feels like they are treating me like a cog in the machine that needs adjusting. They're approaching the conversation with a goal-oriented mindset, where engineering circumstances that result in my compliance is a puzzle they've been tasked with solving.

The appearance of caring about my feelings, the apparent empathy, is only a facade. The other party doesn't care about my feelings, they care about my compliance. The apparent care for my feelings is motivated by their belief that presenting themselves as empathetic will make my compliance more likely.

The overall experience is dehumanizing.
> I think we're not ready, yet.

With your list of fears, we never will be.

If climate scares are true, we're actually doomed if we are to avoid nuclear. I'm OK with increasing risk more than plenty, way above coal deaths, if it prevents a larger crisis for society.

But we really aren't with nuclear.
One one hand, sure he broke the rules. If they had said "don't do that any more", or given him a slap on the wrist it would be understandable. But they banned him for a year and revoked the winnings he had already received in tournament play—

Blitzchung got a worse punishment than people who got caught cheating at Blizzard games. I think that says a lot about where their priorities are.

Based on past events (even Blizzard's own presentations at Blizzcon) it's already clear that the rule against offending people is being selectively enforced.

Edit: And I'm presuming it's being selectively enforced based on who is offended by a statement.
Pls add Belgrade, Serbia
Posted not by Blizzard but by Net-Ease, a Chinese company that isn't owned by Blizzard.
This isn't relevant to the article.
Designing a system where people in power take actions that cause them to be less likely to remain in power is probably one of the most intractable problems in political science. It's why the U.S. has first past the post, why gerrymandering is a problem, and why voter ID laws are racist.
> China does want western media and products.

Does it? It seems like China replicates products that are inconvenient to get otherwise.
Its nearly the exact opposite in fact
The direct ask is "would you be willing to", if that's what you want to know. If the goal is to make sure your food isn't eaten, then "stop!" might work better. If the goal is better understanding of the people around you, and a connection to what's happening for them, then the ask is about what they want, and what they'd be willing to do.
I think this is true for most middle class people, because as soon as you have say $100-$200k you don't want to keep 'betting' and you'd rather put that into a house deposit or pay off the mortgage.

However if you are already a millionaire you might as well keep holding it.

A reason why the rich can get richer, because by holding you get tax-free reinvestment of the current value. By selling you pay tax and then get to use it for something else. This plus average stock returns beating other investments or paying off the mortgage.

Exception is with crypto and 'true believers' who held and held. Maybe they'll never sell their entire stash.
>>>They're banning violations of their ToS. As long as that is performed equitably

Except it isn't, as Tim Pool demonstrated on the Joe Rogan Podcast when he ripped Jack Dorsey and Vijaya Gadde a new one, with examples.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZCBRHOg3PQ
I have been using the playbook here for the past half-year or so. It’s made a big difference not in how I communicate, but in how I understand communication problems. There isn’t much to the book. You don’t need to read the whole thing, you can basically find summaries online and use those. The book is padded out because people won’t pay much for short booklets.

Something that I took from this book is to try and do the communication from the listener’s side—extract the four steps from people who are assaulting you with demands.

This meshes surprisingly well with other books on the subject, like Getting to Yes, which is about negotiation.
The fact that they voluntarily censored it in Russia and China is essentially definitive proof that they don’t actually care about the issue, but rather think it will gain them more money in the US. If they cared, they would have required that China and Russia be the bad guy and force them, but they’d clearly prefer to take the path of least resistance.
I should have said shareholder-primacy vs -friendly.

I was specifically referring to the change in the 70s and 80s from a diversity of stakeholders being valued to shareholders above all other considerations.

It seems fair to argue that the much-maligned dual stock schemes popularized by tech companies is a reaction to and repudiation of this.

Zuckerberg being able to spend money better than Facebook's shareholders, etc.

And I don't think it's a clear-cut decision on whether shareholder-primacy or balanced-management has produced "better" for-profit companies.
> This is a very awkward situation for blizzard, one they have ultimately created, no real way they will win.

I don't think they created it per-say. I think they, and probably most of the executives in the industry, missed just how much a powder-keg chinese censorship is, and how political doing live international (or even national) sporting events can get. Everyone in the west is pissed at blizzard for cowing to China. China is obviously in the wrong here, because they're the ones threatening to kick Blizzard out of China unless Blizzard does what they say.

This is a risk that no matter how Blizzard execs managed it, if China pushes that lever all of their profits turn to zero. I think now any company should start to think twice about the risks of operating in China. I think ultimately this will fizzle out, unless the players don't stop protesting, at which point they'll have to stop broadcasting to China, and probably stop operating there.
this is a really illogical take that sounds extremely biased. I do not believe for a second that if American companies did not do anything you claim they do, that would somehow make Blizzard not be threatened by the Chinese government in this situation.

like I have no clue how you can relate these two. we aren't just talking about public backlash, we are talking about the threat that a government can harm your operations in their country for speech. this is so different.
The NYC blizzard of 1888 had a large impact on the city's decision to build subways which started construction in 1900.

https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/The_Blizzard_of_1888;_the_Imp...
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By qualifying my statement with the word "visible", and presenting an almost identical case where there was visible feedback from China.

Why would China treat the (comparatively huge and influential) NBA one way, and (comparatively tiny) Blizzard another?
You can't totally blame Blizzard. It's a Nash equilibrium, right?
Well, again, if the figures are roughly accurate, no it isn't. There is no way you're getting a new engine for $1000. Even if the price is understated, it should be simpler to install than a new engine.
>And reddit in general was up in arms about this.

For two days.

>Many of the blizzard related subreddits are staffed by mods that remove posts about China. And when you post something in /r/wow you see a big "no politics" banner. Not seeing that many posts about this there means nothing about how the players feel.

Activity level is pretty much the same.

I'm sorry, but this is just the latest outrage target and in two weeks it will be something new entirely.
The 1% is a self-selecting sample (people who signed up for Blind, and voluntarily chose to respond to the survey after seeing it), not a random sample. That leads to all kinds of bias issues that make it a pretty poor sample to extrapolate from.
I think that there would be no meaningful uproar if Blizzard would simply not host or broadcast that interview because they don't like it for whatever reason, and left it at that.
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The population of that place is ca 3000 people. In Europe you don't have a dmv in a village and you get it done after every ten years at some bigger city or town. And yes it costs a bit too.
People know when they aren’t welcome, and anticipate the passive aggressive treatment they will likely expect.
It could be the different extensions you have installed. Often this happens with adblockers, so if you use incognito mode or another browser it would fix it.
so, where can I download the app for a different phone? I'd like to record to text my day on a phone that has no internet. I can't see it on the "play" store
It's possible Blizzard is only surviving if they have access to Chinese market? We don't know their financials, management might be just prudent from their point of view in order to survive (people are way more obsessed with gaming in Eastern Asia than anywhere else and those regions have largest population). The management is certainly fully aware of the whole sh*tshow and likely aren't happy with whatever choice they have.
That doesn't diminish that it was purely Blizzard's decision in the end. Blizzard had a choice, and they picked censoring Blitzchung on their own.
Telegram does though.
If you are empathetic it is easier to force people to do something they don’t want. It costs less political capital and you won’t suffer as much of a backlash.
Not surprising after the leaders of Twitter admitted they're on they are left leaning.
I don't see an inherent reason why the middle ground is correct when assessing blame. Or indeed why blame is a kind of conserved quantity and if we give more to one we must give less to another.

Look, when I got up in the morning I had no intention of looking at videos from the 2001: A Space Odyssey soundtrack, but I followed an urge and lost 15 minutes as it led me to viral videos about deleted scenes from Star Wars and then surprisingly well-made fan videos, and... you get the gist.

On the other hand, many people at YouTube did wake up this morning with the intention of maximizing my viewing time. They are armed with supercomputers and artificial intelligences piloted by Ph.Ds. If in some future world, "conspiracy to steal time" was a crime, this would be an easy prosecution.

That said, that doesn't mean that I shouldn't take any steps to defend myself. I should use something to block certain sites. But just because I have that responsibility doesn't diminish someone else's culpability for inflicting harms.
I mean you seem overly defensive about this. Firstly, I never said that I wrote off the entire OS because of this... you are just putting words in my mouth. I did state that Finder feels like a very subpar file manager compared to Windows Explorer and I completely stand behind that.

Lastly, it is absolutely absurd to excuse a poor file manager by saying that you should just use a terminal anyways. There are plenty of reasons to still use a file manager over the terminal, even if you are an "elite" unix God.
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I dont know what you mean with better, my two sons are top performers in their school and the school network is top 3% performing in NY state. They are in school at 7:45 latest each morning.

There are many benefits to getting an early start in the morning as ling as you have had a long nights sleep. So i would like to see the base if those studies as they dont reflect the reality and statistics i know of.

Edit to those who claim it's anecdotal: Their school network is Success Academy.

And I was originally responding to the claim that you can't be fresh as a kid at 7 if you go to bed in proper time which is simply wrong.

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/more-on-the-phenomenal-eye-po...
I built a site like that focussed around adhoc events for people of similar interests. But when I looked at the business model I saw a few difficulties:

* If it was effective users would probably stop using it and switch directly to something like whatsapp

* Judging by meetup, a few people actually create events and greater percentage attend. This seems common across many platforms - 5-10% of users are actually producers, but a much larger are "passive" consumers. My site focussed on adhoc events and I wasn't sure enough users would create them

* The real issue was needing to promote it hyperlocally, meaning each new location needed marketing. A site focussed around groups can build a history of events for each group which aids discoverability/SEO. But a site that's all about adhoc events doesn't have that benefit in the same way if members are more amorphous (my site was all about creating e.g. an event to play tennis that afternoon, so depended on locality).

I couldn't solve these issues and abandoned it. Good luck though.
> And because of how Blind works, the survey likely reflects true staff sentiment.

What? This is a bunch of nonsense.
"If they could do that to NBA, what would they do to me?"
It never fails that someone will come into one of these threads crying crocodile tears for nazis.

People are free to associate and do business with whoever they want to and that is all part of the marketplace of ideas. Blizzard is choosing to get into bed with the Chinese government and cloudfare chose to get out of business with nazis and their customers get to decide how to react that. Right now it seems to be going poorly for blizzard and well for cloudflare.
Nope. Fox News, and all news orgs are publishers, Twitter, Facebook and co are platforms. Fox News and CNN are responsible for anything published on their website. Twitter, fb, etc are not.
> if it was a random sample

And here lies the problem. How do we know that those people were not ahem, "selected"?
The intent of the founders was to ensure that citizens and journalists could speak out against their government without fear of retribution by the state. The "anything ought to be fine to say anywhere without consequence" interpretation is a modern phenomenon that extremists have used to platform and normalize violent suppressive rhetoric.
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