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> Recognising the importance of radio in disseminating the Nazi message, Goebbels approved a scheme whereby millions of cheap radio sets (the Volksempfänger) were subsidised by the government. In the "Radio as the Eighth Great Power"[114] speech, Goebbels proclaimed:

> It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio....It is no exaggeration to say that the German revolution, at least in the form it took, would have been impossible without the airplane and the radio. ...[Radio] reached the entire nation, regardless of class, standing, or religion. That was primarily the result of the tight centralization, the strong reporting, and the up-to-date nature of the German radio....Above all it is necessary to clearly centralize all radio activities, to place spiritual tasks ahead of technical ones,...to provide a clear worldview,

> By the start of the Second World War, over 70% of German households had one of these radios, which were deliberately limited in range in order to prevent loyal citizens from considering other viewpoints in foreign broadcasts.[113] Radio broadcasts were also played over loudspeakers in public places and workplaces.[113]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_in_Nazi_Germany

> During the democratic period, when the Weimar government introduced progovernment political news, the growth of Nazi popularity slowed down in areas with access to radio. This effect was reversed during the campaign for the last competitive election as a result of the pro-Nazi radio broadcast following Hitler’s appointment as chancellor. During the consolidation of dictatorship, radio propaganda helped the Nazis enroll new party members. After the Nazis established their rule, radio propaganda incited anti-Semitic acts and denunciations of Jews to authorities by ordinary citizens. The effect of anti-Semitic propaganda varied depending on the listeners’ predispositions toward the message. Nazi radio was most effective in places where anti-Semitism was historically high and had a negative effect in places with historically low anti-Semitism

https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/130/4/1885/191...

Remember that before radio the best you could get was newspapers and leaflets, and both were mostly ignoring the lower strata of society. In religious regions you could also make a deal with the church I guess, it was the only information network that reached masses regularly.

People in countryside don't get leaflets. Poor people don't spend on newspapers. Radio was "free newspaper everyday", and Nazis gave the radios for free.

Also when you buy a newspaper you presumably already agree with its message at least a little, so it's hard to make people change their minds with newspapers. When you buy a radio you get all the stations, so you can be persuaded by them to change your mind over time.
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This article largely comes down to the age-old trade-off that societies need to make: when is the individual more important vs when is the group more important?

It seems clear that people in the upper half of the ability range suffer when the very top of the ability range are creamed off. Does hot-housing the very top make up for the losses in the almost-good-enough?

This is a value judgement, and I think it's disingenuous to say one is absolutely a better trade-off than the other.

There's a lot of conflation by other people on this topic with the social structure of US middle and high schools, with all the bullying. I think that's an orthogonal topic and specific to US, and distinct from streaming / hot-housing.
People report stuff they just don't like. You would need manual content control again.
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There’s literally a natural gas pipeline being built between Germany and Russia.
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Otherwise it is just the sovereignty of Iraq.
Yes, but not per tier.
>I'm coming from having built tools to support a large manual sweep in the 2000s

Any chance you're one of the devs behind C4All?
You could ask the same thing about hypen, dash and minus sign, but they are different in their meaning and as someone who layouts texts I might want to style them differently from each other
This is the equivalent of a Tory saying Hitler did more good than harm

Can you imagine the backlash if any Tory even hinted at that, his or her career would be over. But Abbott and the rest of the Inner Party are untouchable.

For 'mysterious reasons' the above post has been flagged.

I think there is no mystery there!
I don't think influencing the media should be tax deductible. On the other hand,it does seem like the autotrophs of the journalism ecosystem are dying off pretty quickly and something has to be done.
"About a year and half ago I quit my awesome high paying job as an Applied Scientist at Microsoft..."

... and is already reduced to spamming Amazon affiliate links.
This is utter nonsense. There are things that are hard to replace, but all of what you talk about is being studied by scientists extensively. Obviously not climate scientists, becasue, duh, they are experts on cimate, not on long haul shipping.

But renewables are scientifically a solved problem (all the predictions on the long term technological development of renewables also turned out to be far far to conservative). For the last 10% or so you need synthetic gas for long term storage of energy, but actually with the electrification of the heating sector, it turns out that nuclear would need synthetic gas for long term storage, too, for economic reasons.

Further, it is is clear that a lot of R&D is still required, but again, environmental economists have discussed in detail that the best way to incentivize the R&D spending required would have been a solid carbon tax.

The problem is not the lack of solutions, the problem is the lack of political will to implement them. It's disruptive, powerful lobbies have been funding climate denialism for decades, and people are unwilling to suffer even a minimal drop in living standards in order to stop climate change.

The technical hurdles are all doable, but whether we as a species can collectively act on the knowledge that we collectively have is an open question. It's the hardest question, and it's infused with ideological battles on all sides. The US can't even operate an efficient public health system. It accepts enormous inefficiencies and human suffering for ideological reasons. And that's for its own citizens. Climate change will affect the poorest countries most.
I don't know why we aren't going full bore on developing a sun shade that we have some control over so regardless of the cause we can just regulate the temperature of the planet.

You can say it is risky to engage in terraforming projects like that but we have already been engaging in terraforming for hundreds of years now with no plan at all.

Also humans are pretty good at uniting around one singular huge project, but pretty bad at the millions of small projects that are required to fix this problem the correct way.
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In general I think that if the State wants to support some activity it should do so directly by allocating funds, not by making the tax system more complex. The introduction of the GST consumption tax in NZ was admirable in this respect: prior to it there were layers of sales taxes and special tweaks to try to promote specific industries, so the final price at a checkout could be dismayingly more than the sum of the shelf prices. With GST there was a single tax rate, no retail exceptions, and no "sticker shock" since quoting tax-exclusive prices in retail was illegal. About the same time the personal income tax mechanism became simple enough that for ordinary employees four sides of A4 sufficed, completed in half an hour. Bliss! (normalised to expectations of bureaucracy)

A contrasting system: once I bought a T-shirt at a general store in Scotland and having paid the shopkeeper said genially "you won't be needing that any more" and snipped a small cloth loop from between the shoulders, explaining that in doing so he had converted it from a child's pinafore (VAT rate 0%) to a man's T-shirt (17.5% at the time). I want to live in a country where all children are adequately clothed but it seems to me simpler to fund that directly, e.g. via a benefit for those with dependent children, possibly income-tested. If the concern is that the "feckless poor" will just waste the money then I'd question (a) whether this popular demon is actually so common and (b) whether such people switch from proper parenting to wastreldom on the basis of a one-fifth price increase.
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I doubt any at all really, people dont judge teams based on their coaches, or companies based on their CEO's, just as I dont judge my friends in the UK based on their governments decision capabilities around Brexit.
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The pale blue dot is Earth, not our Sun.
If I recall, those first Longhorn builds found a great middle ground between the foundations of XP and the few good parts of what would became Vista, including some nice ui concepts.

Sadly, we all know how Vista turned out at the end.
I'm a big fan of some FPSs but mostly the arena type ones. Quake, UT, CS. I'm not fussed if it's team based, CTP or whatever but it has to be something with a level playing field (by that I mean everyone has access to the same weapons, etc) and respawns. Needless to say, I couldn't get into Fortnite.

For when I want a long term profile, weapons that carry over between raids etc, then I'd invest that time into an RPG.

edit: it's worth adding that I have no issue with unique avatars in FPS. I just don't think it's fair being spawned 5 meters from someone with a customised minigun when the best pick up you can get on that level is a handgun.
Per capita is a red herring, what matters is the total emissions under the control of any one government. China is vastly more, on an upward trend, and not required to take any action under the Paris Accord until 2030. Which is after the end of the world by some estimates.
more like "I tried to adjust the time on my projector-cloaked-as-a-clock. I failed."
Just my two cents: I grew up in Utah and did my undergraduate degree there. The Salt Lake Tribune is a great newspaper (I subscribed while living in the state) and it has been rough watching them downsize and lose some great staff over recent years. I am very much of the opinion that good local journalism is a necessity for holding people accountable. For example: the work the Salt Lake Tribune received a Pulitzer for [0]. Anything to help good local journalism continue and survive is nothing but a win in my view.

[0] https://www.sltrib.com/news/2017/05/07/salt-lake-tribune-win...
Google Scholar offers a wide range of papers about papers around that topic. Maybe there are a couple must read papers or meta studies.
He’s looking at Bitcoin in terms of dollars, but dollars also have zero utility, so they have to be traded for something, and there are an awful lot of them created every day. We’re way overcaptilalized, so most of this is going into speculative investment rather than consumable utility. In that regard, it hardly matters what form that speculation takes, the prices are mostly determined by capital flows rather than internal returns.
But that was my point. Right now I think we have a good handle on the severity of the problem. The policy is much harder and 'listening to the scientists' doesn't help.
Only when Miami is completely underwater and uninhabitable will there be a change of behavior.
Yeah, since the APFS transition in particular, macOS is unbearable on an HDD. And Apple still sells the base iMac with a 5400rpm drive. Ought to be criminal.
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This is the definition I have seen almost everywhere, but I do not like it. Non-practising entities like ARM and patent-owning universities I would never consider trolls just for being an NPE. On the other hand, even practising entities may engage in troll-like activities, asserting a patent beyond its scope to bankrupt a smaller competitor, because legal costs are not usually awarded in the US for such lawsuits (e.g. Nuance vs Zi). It is just that in a lot of cases, if not most, the troll is a non-practising entity.
We will have overpopulation and environmental crises in the future and they will get explained away mindlessly as being completely caused by climate change, when that may be only a partial or even not significant factor in the events.

Not enough fresh water - climate change! Not the fact that the population increased by a factor of 4, and the local acquifers have been drained.
Could you please phrase more clearly that only rich people should have a right to self expression?
It should say Laplacian in OP's post, not Laplacian Transform (if I am not mistaken). The Laplacian is a matrix of (partial) derivitives and is used for the equational conversion.
That's Earth, not Sun.
So biased that you cannot still call it journalism. Guess we want to repeat the 2016 all over again.
Exactly. I have always been wondering how could the brain waves measurements not be overwhelmed by facial muscle signals.
Its not a red herring when huge numbers of people in less developed nations see the amount that people in the US use and aspire to have similar lifestyles.

I find it quite strange that people appear to fall into two camps when discussing this issue. Either The US (and other richer nations) need to cut down emissions because they emit far more per capita OR China / India need to control their population growth and associated emissions. We should be encouraging both sides to do their part not arguing over which one it is.
They explicitly mention that the effect seems unrelated to wavelength of incident light — would love to see a test with a UV or IR laser source to demonstrate that the primary downside of the attack is mitigatable (of course with additional expense and increased safety risk).
this is a pretty compelling survey: http://lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf
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> It's too easy to have fun and forget to write an actual song.

Like any other musical technique, improvisation takes time to master. In my view, this is simply a matter of the difference between a skilled performer/composer and an unskilled one. No surprises there; a skilled improvisor will keep you interested and avoid the meandering and drawn out "wank" that characterizes unskilled improvisation.

Of course, meandering and drawn out music has its place too, but I find it easy to tell when it's applied intently and for good reason and when it's not.
The city I hail from (Coventry) is the final resting place of Thrust 2 and Thrust SSC, they are truly fascinating machines. It's hard to get a sense of the size or scope of these machines until you see them in person. They are housed in the transport museum in the city center and many school children are probably incredibly tired of seeing them.

They are truly more 'aircraft' than 'car', in all respects. (even down to the RAF pilot who "drove" it).

Incidentally the creator of the turbojet engine hails from Coventry also; I would recommend checking out the museum, since it is good one, and British museums are free to enter.

However Coventry is/was an absurdly crime ridden city when I was growing up so I'm not sure I should endorse visiting.
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How is that strange? All kinds of media are/can be nonprofit where I am from...
Taking huge risks and some of them being realized is not problematic.

It's really problematic when it's revealed that Son has failed to enforce basic corporate governance principles to guard his investments. Son has been called 'investor of first resort' but based on his history some assume that there is method to his madness.

It starts to look like his real genius is to separate investors from their money and ride on the top of economic booms hoping for the best. He has taken Saudi money and sucked out Japanese retail bond investors. Not very smart money.
> the human population growing exponentially

This is not true as of 2019. The only continent that possibly does not show logistic growth (yet) is Africa. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth#/media/File:...
Ask HN: Why is functional programming not more popular?
In the last couple of years I been getting involved with Elixir development and as of late starting get my toes wet with Scala.

The more I learn and use functional programming languages like Elixir, the more I'm convinced there is a significant advantage to using functional languages/paradigms specially in certain domains.

Yet, Functional programming is still regarded as a fad or fringe, curious to hear HN perspective on the matter.
Yeah, because the damn environmentalists have all the power to impose their views on the unsuspecting, well meaning, oil giants and global corporations. If only those oil giants and their allies had pushed back early enough, maybe the truth could have won out!

Well, reality check, in the 90s the GOP and even the oil giants accepted the reality of and scientific consensus on global warming, but with sufficient funding from interested parties, they were able to stave of decisive action for decades, netting them many many billions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTmS0exb7r8

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/kochland-examin...
He is talking about why he doesn't like fortnite and discussing the kind of FPSs he prefers in a conversation about why some people don't like Fortnite. He isn't saying other people are wrong for liking Fortnite and certainly not denouncing those people. Ironically the only person being critical of anyone's opinions here is yourself.
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Is he "diss"ing people who enjoy though? Or just expressing why he personally doesn't enjoy it? It read more like the latter to me.
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How is any part of what you described their problem though? He's buying 100x boxes of doughnuts from them and then that's where their responsibility ends. Just like I don't know, a butchery isn't responsible if the store that sells their product doesn't keep it in a refrigerated display - it's not their problem, they don't send an inspection party to make sure that what left their warehouse is definitely being transported/sold in an approved way.
Hu? Climate change causes changes in rainfall patterns. These are hard to predict, but it's where a lot of research is focusing right now. The IPCC also says so. In some regions it might be helpful, in others it will hurt.

So climate change interacts with everything, but I think it's obvious to everyone invlved that it isn't the main driver of everything?
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Wait, so you're saying it allows anyone to store and publish the personal information of Europeans? Without doing anything like have some way for people to contact you and request what information you have on them?

Then what does it actually do?
There is vastness of comments about climate change and the need to do something about it. They all must be written by trolls.
> By that I mean Fortnite is something which long term players will have better weapons etc - often purchased.

There is no such thing in Fortnite.
To get off into the weeds a bit... I've actually spent quite a bit of time using Illumos. The epicenter of The Suck begins, in my mind, with the effort involved in actually building the system.

GCC (and Clang) obviously didn't exist back in the day, so none of the Makefiles for the base system are written for a compiler that was released in the past 20 years. There is actually a wrapper that takes SunCC arguments and calls GCC... so that kinda works, right?

Okay, well, yes. It works. But then, it all kinda starts snowballing. There is a big investment in a debugger from the 1980s which can't unwind stacks without frame pointers. So... we have to emit frame pointers. Okay, that works. Because we care a lot about this, we'll also ensure that all function arguments promoted to registers are also copied to the stack so we can always look at them. Okay, fair enough.

Is this idiosyncratic enough for you yet? Okay, let's step it up a few notches and actually implement the Linux system call table on top of this. Wait, what? The struggle is real.

This is all technically brilliant in any number of ways, but I have things to do this week. All of the man years of effort spent on Linux and the surrounding ecosystem have actually solved a lot of real technical problems and solved them incredibly well.
Yes, in now richer cities. But they still thrive in lower gdp cities.
Unfortunately this is not based on real science. The main argument relies on a source called "arctic news", which is a crank blog.

These doomsday messages aren't helpful. The situation is bad. The real science is grueling. Telling people that there's nothing to be done any more isn't helpful.
“They did it why can’t we” is not a basis for serious policy making, is why. The environment doesn’t care about anyone’s lifestyle aspirations. The West in general has recognised the problem and is managing its environmental impact downwards in a controllable way. China and India are increasing their emissions as fast as they can to keep their present governments in power and no regard for the long term consequences which will ironically hit their own people hardest.
It will be interesting if Krispy Kreme also makes an effort to be flexible with their operation with him. It obviously didn't work to have store franchises previously, the total sales likely didn't cover all the fees and costs, hence the closure.

Besides the geo-arbitrage, it seems obvious that a huge part of this guy's success was going to 8 different Target parking lots, and splitting the (pretty small) total across them.

Simple envelope math: 100 boxes across 8 lots, that's 12 boxes per lot. Pretty horrible if you're a franchisee, but nice and comfortable if you're a college kid looking to earn extra bucks.

If KK can be flexible with him ("here's a regulated supply, you guarantee and agree to certain food safety/brand provisions, now you can drive around like an ice-cream man and sell this"), it's likely he can continue, but if he's diving headfirst into a typical franchisee arrangement, he should run for the hills.
"The old educational system is outmoded; that of learning from a person at the front and then regurgitating what they have told you in order to prove you know it."

I think most university tutors would find this an insulting caricature of what they and their students do. Is this what you actually think happens at university?