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> Would it be correct to boycott CloudFlare for deplatforming the Daily Stormer? No, because there's nothing wrong with deplatforming Nazis, there was nothing morally reprehensible in Cloudflare's actions.

Yes, it was wrong of CloudFlare to do that, and if I could choose a competitor I would.

And you would change your mind if someone accuses you of being a "nazi" and your account is immediately terminated. And yes it could happen to you. In this day and age anyone can be called a Nazi. Left leaning Jewish professors are getting called Nazis and assaulted and deplatformed. If it can happen to Jordan Peterson, it can happen to anyone.

So when it comes to the point, corporations have decided that they can arbitrarily deny service to whoever they please, for political reasons.

So I don't want to hear any of you complain about what Blizzard is doing. You should support Blizzard, because "freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences". Any Hearthstone player that insults China should have any company they do business with drop them. Because these are just the consequences of being hateful. From the point of view of a lot of Chinese people, supporting Hong Kong makes you an imperialist hateful biggoted sino-phobic "nazi" of sorts.
>what is being said matters

how absolutely braindead
Indeed - platforms like post game interviews are not platforms for political views. However, it is naive to believe that Blizzard would have reacted anywhere near as strongly to any political statement not related to China.

The inappropriateness of Blitzschung's actions does not excuse Blizzard far less acceptable reaction.
> 'force people to do something they don’t want.'

This is why it unnerves so many people who aren't acclimatized to corporate artificiality.
This seems plausible, it’s my understanding that a huge number of original and long term employees left the company in the past year or two. The prospects of a censored gravy train in China make ones personal financial prospects look good.
I will be greatly surprised if Sears manages to come back from the dead after being largely gutted/looted by Edward Lampert.

Toys R Us seems to have met a similar fate of acquiring massive debt (in its case via a leveraged buyout rather than a merger) and then having all of the money sucked out, but I still hope it might return somehow.
An important tenet of the American ideal of freedom of speech involves specifically protecting unpopular speech, allowing people to express minority viewpoints without fear of suppression by the majority.

By this standard, Cloudflare's censorship of TDS is far less defensible that Blizzard's censorship of blitzchung. Saying that speech within the mainstream should be allowed and speech outside the mainstream should not be allowed is a violation of this tenet. If you support freedom of speech, you should support TDS's right to speak as strongly as blitzchung's.
At the same time posted by a company officially representing Blizzard, unchallenged by Blizzard, and thus attributed to their brand.
Their statements to shareholders put the Chinese market at 10% of their total revenue. ATVI is posting billions of dollars in profits, and has a profit margin of 25%+.

Activision Blizzard is in no risk of going bankrupt even if they lose the entire Chinese market.
How is this possible? If anyone from Instagram is reading this, can they explain what happened? Is this a failed fan-out pattern? Or are you reading off a log like Kafka and did it get into an inconsistent state?
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> When somebody communicates with me using NVC,

> it feels like they are treating me like a cog in the machine that needs adjusting.

You’re using the NVC pattern in this comment, almost exactly. It’s very close. The part missing is where you suggest a course of action. How would you like to be treated?
Qing James.
At least circa 2004, while working on improving Mozart/Oz online documentation, I did not know of any such. The drafts previously available, had all been taken down. Shrug.
It's obvious that human history is very short but it's less obvious that all of our buildings and trash will be so hard to find underground in five million years or so.

Wouldn't there at least be some places where ruins or landfills were largely exposed? And aren't there lots of materials that would stand out since they degrade slowly?

For example, what is going to happen to all of the concrete and steel in Manhattan in the course of five million years? Will it really be compressed to a thin layer that is barely noticeable or something?
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Free speech only for political mainstream is political mainstream speech, not free speech. E.g. completely open borders and unrestricted immigration is surely outside the American political mainstream, is it okay to ban any discussion of it?
I wonder if the initial decision was made by Chinese Executives and Event staff without consulting corporate HQ, then corporate backed them since they have no obvious strategy for backpedaling.
Curious about the focus on revenue versus profitability. I get that most VC-backed businesses are measured primarily against revenue targets, but this seems like a bootstrapped startup and I'd think they'd be more interested in metrics that factor in margins, profitability, etc.

I totally get that when people see "$30K ARR" in the title of an article, they know what it's about. Are there other metrics that relate more to sustainability that we can use/popularize? Not trying to be critical of this founder — just thinking of ways we can change the conversation to be more relevant to/appropriate for bootstrapped startups.
There is some irony that everyone is rushing to build their own competitors because Meetup decided to charge $2. Let that sink in. You're effectively limiting yourself to a LTV of a customer of less than $2 per attendee of their events now. You'll end up in the same vicious cycle of needing to charge for something if you want your platform to survive.

Meetup was making money before they took VC funds and eventually sold to Wework. Their old model of charging $15+ to organizers seemed to work. I paid it for years because of the extra traffic and not wanting my events to be hijacked. They never let you own your own audience though.
Most JIT runtimes also can't produce a standalone binary
How does that work in a live broadcast, or in live events with an audience?
"An explosion is just a chemical reaction, only fast".
It's a complicated issue. This historical event and all the differing opinions about it might be relevant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Olympics_Black_Power_salu...
> Don't they have your company email address?

They do. And we have to trust them that they have only used this information during initial verification and everything is anonymized. And that they haven't and won't ever be compelled by any entity to reveal any identifying information that they may have.
Physical location is not really relevant to who owns a node.

Most countries allow anyone to setup a company and operate servers. Any government organization with a small amount of resources can setup a front company and turn on a server.
Been robbed 3 times in parramatta, NSW, Australia.

I left Australia 🇦🇺
this reminds me of a story from Jason Scott's podcast about a hidden garage for high end motorcycles that appears outwardly to be a residential apartment, where he muses about how many other interesting things must be hidden in our cities

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g3TOirIFh4s
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This is not a very productive discussion. I don't want to blow you off with a "trust the experts" kind of response, but that's basically what it boils down to. You are certainly entitled to second guess people whose livelihood it is to keep Mozilla going from your comfortable armchair, but I'm going to extricate myself from this discussion.
> I hate the tendency to fall back to arguments about free speech when that is not the point.

What you're saying isn't free speech at all; it's supporting the right to express speech you agree with and being ok with views you don't being taken down. In particular, free speech isn't "the point" to you.
Get a job instead of creating a business I ended up not liking. I should've done both, I certainly could.
I don't think that's true, I believe the casters have said Blitzchung showed up on the live interview stream (it was remote) wearing the gas mask unexpectedly.

If someone is to cut him off and not let it happen, it's the job of the production crew. The job of the casters is to try to keep things entertaining and on the rails when the camera's live on them. It's not fair to punish casters for improvising a response.
And so indeed does New York - sections of various lines run aboveground over the streets.

Parts of the BMT from this article still exist, but mostly aligned to and from Manhattan rather than across the borough itself.
Are there any thoughts about where compression fits into this model?

I know networks are getting very fast but with this size of data I wonder if there are realizable gains left with modern algorithms like Snappy.
Stages of figuring out how to make money online without a traditional 9-5
For real though, changing character design for things like skeletons because it has a different meaning in another culture is a perfectly normal thing to do.

Changing characters to scrub them of LGBT characteristics that are illegal in another country is cowardly and should have caused a much bigger outrage than it did.

Banning players for supporting pro-democracy movements outside the game and retroactively seizing their winnings is horrific. Nothing about their rules says they had to do this, it was entirely at their discretion. The chinese government didn't even threaten them over it. They chose to make an example of Blitzchung within minutes of his statement. They went above and beyond to endear themselves to the CCP. If they want to win their reputation back, heads need to roll, and if that means the loss of the chinese market, too bad.
I've received NVC training and I think using it in this discussion is an ironic way of getting my point across, since the point is that I have no respect for people who use NVC.

Suggested course of action: stop talking to people using modes of communication you learned at corporate seminars.
Have you seen the pricing for Exadata racks? I ran the numbers a few months back and over 5 years, Oracle was 4x as expensive for my workloads. It's also easier to find AWS people than Oracle people.
(Which works if you are transferring to an airdrop-compatible device.)
Outside of a blip in CO2 emissions and soil nitrogen, and a dramatic decrease in biodiversity, we will leave almost no trace if we disappeared tonight.

https://youtu.be/8xDK2LgSeyk
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"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - Evelyn Beatrice Hall, often misattributed to Voltaire.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Beatrice_Hall
First they came for the right-wing neo-nazis, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a right-wing neo-nazi.

Wonder where this goes this time.
I would be in favor of this, paradoxically. I'd like to think many of the popular politicians would move to the same alternative platform (maybe Parler?), and hopefully pull a bunch of Twitter users with them. Anything that chips away at censorious big-tech monopolies is a move in the right direction.
The comment currently tops the "best comments" list:

https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

Archived:

http://web.archive.org/web/20191016003251/https://news.ycomb...
It's not twitter, it's how the society ran for past 5 millenias.

When the rules gets too inconvenient, we bend them or add a small attache that removes a portion of that rule. Like the Congress, except that our legislature are elected and not influenced by monetary gains.

wait ..
Is it even available there? Why would anyone dare to use it?
> What about a variety of direct quotes from the heads of different state Republican parties? https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/us/some-republicans-ackno....

That shows no evidence that they are willing to make their views public or that they are shared by republicans on a national level. There is absolutely no evidence for that.
> The judgment is on a law that affects both.

That is not in evidence. The article you cited did not link the court decision mentioned. The court decision is only speaking to the decision to close polling spots on Sunday because it will suppress black, and majority Democratic voters.
Harbor Freight is the go-to place for buying a rarely used tool.

Ridiculously cheap, in both price and quality.
That is a horrible mischaracterization of free speech.

The first telegraph network banned journalists who reported bad things against the telegraph company. They manipulated stock prices and influenced elections. That is why common carriage laws were made, which required communications platforms to provide neutral service to everyone.

I'm sure that you would have been there, bravely defending the coal barons right to shut down journalists trying to report on union organizing, because they are a private corporation and they can do whatever they want on their property and not answer to anyone. You would have screamed "muh freeze peach" at journalists trying to report about labor abuses. Because they are not entitled to use the private telegraph network.

Of course the line between ubiquitous large platform and government is blurry. That is why communications companies over a certain side must be forced to platform everyone, and can only be permitted to ban them when they have met certain criteria.
They can care about the issue and still be greedy and care about money way more. The issue with letting governments "force" things like that is that they might just ban the game entirely and forever.
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My example was mainly on a straight road because it's easy to understand. It applies to curvy roads where you won't see ahead too though. As someone driving, you should never drive faster than what you can see ahead and be able to stop in time. I kind of imagine what I'd like to call a "meteor" incident. Would I be able to stop in time if a meteor randomly crashed just outside of my vision ahead in a turn? If not - probably going too fast. (It's not uncommon to meet a "meteor" in the form of a car) One could call that "speeding" but that's not what it is colloquially. (Speeding to most is going 1+mph over the posted limit)

If the visibility is good, there's nothing wrong with going faster. Aggressive speed limits make more sense to be followed when there's very limited visibility, high chance of stops, people crossing the road, intersections, etc.

But if visibility is good, I don't see it making a difference much in what speed you're going.
Exactly, that's the point I'm trying to make.
I understand how people arrive at this position, but it's not a free speech position. You can't be pro free speech as long as you agree with it, that undermines the entire concept. You can't be pro free speech, as long as there are horrible consequences for free speech you don't agree with. If right-wing extremism and other factors are making people re-think the value of free speech, fine, there are plenty of compelling points to make about the dangers and downsides of free speech, but enough of the mental gymnastics where people convince themselves they're still pro free-speech when they are very clearly against the concept.
They are a private business means there is not legal impediment to what they are doing. They are free to do this all day long. That doesn't mean as an individual I have to support them. There's no contradiction between saying there are free to do this, but I don't support it, or being against this but allowing some other actions to that shut down some categories of free speech. Not everyone believes in a blanket right to all speech in all situations.
Activision Blizzard is not a company that would be bankrupted by the loss of the Chinese market; they chose on their own merely for a potential future in that market.

That they chose to toe the party line on their own, without prompting from the Chinese government, with swift and overwhelming penalties on the player and shoutcasters doesn't exactly speak well for Blizzard.
I also wish you could remember, as my memory is something along the lines of they ran a few nodes on on EC2 for like a few weeks.

I'll try to find a source when I'm off mobile.
It's why we are paying for Java.
> Blind requires verification with a work email.

Thankfully corporations are unable to control their own email addresses, right?
Extremely unlikely, especially given the response afterwards. Blizzard runs things, despite the corporate setup as it is force to be in China.
Refuting the results of scientific studies with anecdotal evidence is not going to win any arguments. Surely you must understand how these scientific studies work?
While still happily buying Chinese products.

Boycotting Blizzard will not make a difference to China, well actually it helps by not transferring money from Chinese gamers to American companies and employees.
Your single anecdote does not outweigh the many, many scientific studies that been conducted on this subject (or any other subject for that matter).

I would have that would be obvious to a HN reader.
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What I don't understand is how those who choose profits over people, or do other such provably horrible things, can then stand up and say they are not doing said thing everyone can see and record them doing. I don't understand what they expect the lies to accomplish over just saying nothing. Your actions prove your character, not words. Do they think people don't notice? Do they really think denial makes the lie a truth or makes it ok? I'd be eaten up inside with anxiety and stress if I did something like that as my conscience chewed at me. Do they not have these feelings?

* I wish people who downvoted would have to put their name with the downvote and explain why. The hit and run "wrong" unaccountable nature of them in any forum bothers me. It's made it too easy for people to just jab at you without consequence and treats people like they aren't other people but rather enemies to bury in grey.
They'll either avoid talking about China or attempt to "address" attendees concerns. If they do "address" attendees concerns it'll be something superficial to try and tide people over while they ride out their spate of bad PR. Like they're doing right now with Blitzchung and reducing his ban to six months which is still outrageous.
In terms of the kindness of strangers, I’m reminded of a friend who decided she wanted to hitch hike around Mexico when she was 18. She was poor but she wanted adventures. She wanted to get away from the beaten path, away from tourist traps, and go out into the rural areas so she could discover what Mexico was really like.

Everyone who picked her up warned her that what she was doing was very dangerous. She was lucky, they said, to get a ride from them, and not the criminals all around them. She got ride after ride like that. Family after family picked her up and took her along on their trip and all of them said, “You are in danger! You are lucky we are the ones who picked you up!”

In this manner, she traveled around Mexico for a month, and she never had a dangerous ride.
D's default package manager already allows you to write code like this which 1. runs the code like a script 2. downloads dependencies if they are required.

#!/usr/bin/env dub
/+ dub.sdl:
name "allthepythons"
dependency "d-glob" version="~>0.3.0"
+/

import std.stdio : stdout;
import glob : glob;

void main () {
foreach (entry ; glob("/usr/local/bin/python*")) {
stdout.writefln("%s", entry);
}
}
But you just described the obvious strategy: say that corp should be involved in punishments that transcend a particular event (I'm sure they were already) and that corp has decided on punishment X instead.
Grew up in Ohio in the 80's same deal from 6th through 11th grade. Hour long bus ride, class started at 7am. Nice thing was we were the first off the bus on the way home, so we were home by ~3pm and got to sleep for a couple hours before parents came home.

Another benefit of delaying start is fewer kids driving in the dark in winter and more time for morning fog to burn off on those marginal days that weren't bad enough in town for a delay.
I can see why you feel dehumanized—since you weaponize your words against others, it’s understandable that they would take an exaggerated high ground in their tone with you.
Why wouldn't the employees on Blind not be representative? Considering how every other company voted the other way, I don't don't see why Blizzard would be the only biased one.
> No hypocrisy because what is being said matters.

Free speech - for people you agree with. Well, I'm glad we sorted out that mess.
Someone has to come in and plug it back in, I’m assuming.
It doesn't work that way in practice. People use Meetup because it handles everything from reservations to ticketing to email announcements to messages boards and things in between. A mailing list is not a replacement.
It appears to be a side project at this point. They have revenue against expenses on their "open" page here: https://simpleanalytics.com/open but as you can see salary is ~$500/mo
When conservatives were banned by internet companies the leftists cheered by saying "Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences." I hope they realize their folly now.
Getting out of bed before ten no matter when I went to sleep was a mortal struggle until I was probably 25. Now I’m gassed by 11 and up by 6. The research has shown that circadian rhythms change with age.
Seems like Mozilla uses Rust with C++ in Firefox on a daily basis: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21262860
In my experience Blind has always been a perfect example of the "Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory" (https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19).

Given total anonymity I see a lot more toxic culture and behavior on Blind than I do in the workplace. I also know people tend to troll a lot there too.
I call this the subway train theory.

I am nervous with one other person in my subway car.

I feel completely safe with 5+ unrelated people in my subway car.
Here is a detailed list of the last 100 times you have screwed up in this way. I've also prepared a short video overview that summarizes the evidence against you.
I understand the frustration, but I think it is absurd to expect teachers and school administrators (who are woefully underpaid, especially in the Bay area) to accommodate working parents by working extra hours just for the parent's benefit. It's a hard enough job as it is, what with the poor pay, large workload, dealing with entitled, helicopter parents and the diminishing societal appreciation for their contributions and importance to society.
Are grade schoolers doing assignments that can't reasonably be completed on a raspberry pi grade computer or lower? It's difficult for me to imagine it, or the family that has two working parents yet legitimately can't fit $40 into the budget over the entirety of their child's career in school.
Any tool that can be used by dissidents will be used by hate groups.

Conversely, any method for censoring hate groups will be used against dissidents.

I used to be anti-censorship, now I'm pro-censorship because let's face it, the dissidents are fucked regardless and the fascists (and worse) are the only ones who are going to get much use out of these tools. But technological solutions to social problems aren't going to work. The computer knows nothing about the meaning of the bytes it processes. They're all just ones and zeroes.