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I don't think it is the real problem. It is a problem in the sense that it is disgusting but it isn't worth destroying a free society over and I don't think it is possible to stop.

What you can crackdown on are the producers.

You can infiltrate the places where it is originally disseminated.

You can run face and voice recognition on the content.

You can flip lower level mass distributors into informants to gather evidence on the producers.

For rapists.

You can train teachers and counsellors to identify children who have been abused and to handle other psychological problems like depression which are endemic in our society.

You can train police officers to better spot criminals on a basis other than race or status.

You can better fund the CPS.

You can conduct assessments on parents who appear to be mentally unstable.
Ultimately I think the best solution will be universal 'deamplification', i.e. disabling all features that facilitate virality/contagion. It is unfortunate that Facebook, Twitter, et. al. have tweaked their entire platforms and business models to profit from phenomena that appear to be almost without exception socially corrosive and destructive. Modern soc med platforms work like factories for the memetic reproduction and dissemination of bad ideas, half-truths, and other rubbish, as well as for disturbing mob behaviour. Regarding the article, providing 'mea culpa' tools would only reinforce the dictatorship of the online mob, who would invariably bully users into issuing apologies.

It might seem like a stretch, but I suspect that ultimately all of these platforms are going to end up being carved up by regulators, co-opted by governments, subjected to national firewalls, etc. on account of their potential for mischief, misuse, disinformation, misinformation, open source intel gathering by hostile powers, meddling, etc.
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I think this definition of abstraction is lazy. Abstraction is indeed hard to define precisely, but it may be more accurate to describe it as the process of implementing interfaces that are conceptually familiar to users, often through metaphor, such as the unix "pipe".

Creating the "right" abstraction is _not_ the process of bundling up repeated code and only questioning how "abstract" it should be, it is the process of creating an interface that is familiar and conceptually easy to grasp. This is done through naming, comments, the use of metaphors, etc. From this viewpoint there can be many correct levels of abstraction, some more useful than others. We should aim to create good abstractions at all layers of code, even if finding abstraction bliss is unattainable.
Ironically, your cite mentions King Arthur:

"A West Saxon expansion westwards is halted for some years by perhaps a King Arthur one of the last Romanised Britians in England."
US Customs halt has had the desired effect in GPL compliance cases before:

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What? That isn't the argument most anti-discrimination people make.

Most argue that subconscious bias and wealth inequality due to historical reasons are a significant part of discrimination. I've not met someone 'anti-discrimination' who believes there is a deep conspiracy of people working to instill discrimination across society.

In modern times in the western world, conspiratorial sort of discrimination seems to me to occur more in pockets or if the culture of an organisation goes bad and festers. But it's rarely overt or widespread.
More subtle and nuanced forms of discrimination are still everpresent of course, but everyone I discuss and work with in these issues knows this all too well.
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Why is Vic so expensive?
Just because there exist immigrants who have fled their home country to find a better life in US doesn't invalidate the plight of other groups in the US right now: just look at the police brutality protests.

If your bare minimum is "at least your family didn't get incinerated so get over it", that's extremely heartless and cruel: the US can and should do better than such a low baseline.
Aren't there already anti-dumping regulations for similar goals?

I'd wonder if you'd see a lot of products sold "ready to assemble". The software is free, or some mandatory-license component costs pennies, but it's useless without the remaining bits to plug it into.
The reason people want social media to host more nuanced discussion is because we are stuck with them...we can not convince people to stop using the services, so let's convince the service to adjust to the people.

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing, just stating their case.
All the things you said about Grant are correct. But it can be argued that the good things he did outweighed the bad. In that case, is it ok to tear down a statue?
Someone should load up a copy of Soashable. I ran it as recently as 2017 against the current Prosody, just enable BOSH and I think legacy auth (xmpp). The copy on SourceForge can be massaged to run with just the obnoxious browser detection check disabled as it fails in new browsers—an otherwine great 1.0, if I say so as the author a decade later. Xmpp4js that it usess also works in JS Core, as it has its own everything down to DOM. If I can get around to it I’ll try to get it up and submit it, but am homeless with barely functional IT and web access right now.
Yale should change his name.
The word "integrity" has a positive connotation, but it doesn't simply mean "goodness". It also means consistency. In that sense, it makes sense to call the way we act differently in front of different audiences a "lack of integrity".

So, I agree the statement is a bit robotic (specifically because it points out a natural part of human behavior as a character flaw), but not that it's twisted.
Normally, this is achieved by printing money, so they lose relative value, "expire". That is, bu running an inflation.
> Hardware devices should receive security updates until they start physically failing.

That's just entirely unreasonable. I recently dug my original iPhone (now 13 years old) out of a box and it still works fine, but, you can't expect Apple or Android to support 13-year-old devices.
It’s markedly higher today than usual (unsure why).
Mistaken cost cutting? Mw broadcast energy 24/7 costs money.

Also consider repurposed bandwidth with national reach for unidirectional broadcasting of digital data could be useful. Asymmetric networks with differential return path is what direcTV did with sat dishes and modems.

The bandwidth is low, but the reach is phenomenal.
I'd get in touch with people such as LGR, Retro Man Cave, 8bit Guy and such.
Relevant: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/new-earn-it-bill-still...
oof... that list is not long enough
The rituals and pride surrounding citizenship, an entirely arbitrary and fictional distinction, never made sense to me. All it is is a way to justify denying things to some people that are granted to others: usually things that are, or should be, human rights, like free movement and due process.

Remember: citizenship is as real as Oz or Wonderland.
This shouldn't have been voted down. It is actually a sound question and one that should be examined.

Edit: I looked at the previous replies. All of this talk of 'society' this and 'we' that is of no use whatsoever when you are talking about global phenomena and companies like Facebook/Twitter/etc. Under the given circumstances, the ethical questions are much larger. The problem is probably totally intractable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_whiteness_in_th...

> However, "color challenges were never sustained or systematic" when it came to Italians,[85]:28 who were "largely accepted as white by the widest variety of people and institutions" throughout the U.S.[85]:6 Even in the South, such as Louisiana, any attempts to disenfranchise them "failed miserably".[85]:28
or treat intellectual property the same as physical property - pay a property tax. The value of the IP is the amount of transfers and licensing it has - so you cannot hide profit by "selling" IP from a foreign offshore tax haven.
My mother was an immigrant. While she always loved her country of origin, she grew to love America more.
I guess it depends also how developers get forced upon them.

Windows NT family branch has had asynchronous and event based support since the early days, being heavily multi-threaded, yet not many cared to use it properly.

To the point that Microsoft pushed for an async only world with WinRT(UWP) and it got mixed up responses. Now with Project Reunion going forward it remains to be seen how async will faire.

However at least .NET, C++20, Rust and JS now have full asynchronous support, as the main Windows desktop stacks.

On Android, Google only had AsyncTask, with multiple caveats how to use it properly, then came the fashion with RxJava, Java executors, now it seems Kotlin co-routines are the future, assuming a #KotlinFirst world, with C++20 on the NDK.

On the Apple side we have GCD still as the main workhorse.

As for the other OSes, I guess they are pretty much still the same as they always have been, so that leaves language runtimes for better async and event-based programming.
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I sometimes wonder if today’s political divisions are substantially deeper than in the past. Infighting seems to go back to the founding fathers.

So is today the end of democracy? Or standard operating practice?
The most famous one I'm aware of is the 'one child policy'[0] Though there seems to be debate on how effective it was.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy
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>as we rely heavily on social proof to sense-make around norms.

What is this formulation? Why not "to make sense of norms"?
This is likely it, though I don't know the particulars of this grid. In most grids, there's a small amount of super profitable frequency regulation to be performed. However, there's very limited capacity needed for that. Doing energy arbitrage over time is much more difficult to make profitable, usually. A huge amount of new solar and wind in the US will be built with batteries attached in the next five years, because it's easier to make energy arbitrage work when you're an energy producer (and also make the tax credits for storage work, which typically require that the batter is only charged from zero carbon electricity).
Please consider that you are in an extreme social media and/or real life filter bubble. "The elites" aren't some secret Soros/Clinton/HerEmails force out to destroy America.

I've found that taking a long-ish break (2-3 weeks) from reading the news and social media can be extremely eye opening.
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> England did, and the US inherited it

I think this is bollocks. In 1775 the slave owners were British subjects. By 1800 they were US citizens, but they were the same people. They didn't change, their citizenship changed.

The better argument is, they're all dead now. All of the slave owners and all of the slaves are dead. Their children are dead. Their children's children are dead. It has been seven generations.

More than that, the large majority of the current day US population are descended from immigrants who came to the US after the abolition of slavery, and even the large majority of those present during the civil war didn't own slaves. Are we to blame a family who immigrated from Poland during WWII?

The dead are responsible for what the dead have done. We are responsible for what we do.
We have fewer Covid deaths per capita than four of the five biggest countries in the EU. Do you think people in France or Spain are “ashamed” of their country’s handling of the outbreak?
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You're distorting what I said.
As regards these protests I believe that they will probably only make things worse. Black areas are where the most crime occurs so there is going to be more police activity in those areas. The protests encourage a feeling amount black people that the police are the enemy and that if you're stopped it's always only because you're black. On the police side this means that the typical interaction with a black person will be more difficult on average, leading to a perception on their side that black people are trouble. Put the two together and you have a greater potential for someone to get hurt.
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It's generally left up to the states to deal with it as they see fit. I don't see anything particularly wrong with that. Some governors have stepped up, some haven't.
Electricity is approaching 1c per kWh in some recent solar plant bids. For example, there were a few bids in the middle east recently that were getting close to that. Battery cost is on track to dip below 100$ per kwh. E.g. Tesla is rumored to be at or below that already/in the near future.

By 2050, energy cost is going to be measured differently. IMHO it stops being a variable cost once it dips substantially below 1c per kwh. Your basically spending more on coffee to keep yourself going on an average journey, Arguably, if you have access to square meters, it's a cost that is amortized over the one time cost of installing wind turbines, solar panels, batteries and other infrastructure. Kind of expensive today but doable; that will be very much different 3 decades from now.

Any business operating fleets of vehicles will want to minimize this cost. That means investing in cheap sources of energy and a mass switch to battery electric vehicles that is already kicking off right now. This takes time obviously and doesn't happen overnight. But it's also not going to take decades. It's one of those things where the payoff is non linear meaning it goes from "oh wouldn't that be nice" to "I must do this now to survive as a business" in just a few years. In other words, this will have largely been completed by 2050.

This is good news for hydrogen as well because it means that there will be plenty of excess energy from peak solar/wind that's basically there to be used. Producing hydrogen and other synthetic fuels (and water) is an obvious way to put that to use and can be used as a solution to fix e.g. shipping, heavy industrial use, and other sectors currently depending on oil or coal. That's after we've topped up our TWH of deployed grid and ev batteries of course.

And maybe we'll figure out fusion as well by that time.
Which policies or lack thereof specifically target the black people? We should definite fight to abolish them. Otherwise, wouldn’t it fair to say that the US legal system has flaws that every group may suffer, and therefore it’s really about law and order?
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This and similar schemes all ignore the benefits of diversifying. You want don't want to invest in your area (or your employer, etc.), because in that case, if your area has a crisis you lose not just your job, but also your investments. The justification given for it just bizare. For example:

>A 2019 report found that Americans over 65 who own homes have a median net wealth 47 times larger than renters of the same age.

Correlation/Causation anyone?

Invest in index funds instead.
he is arguing that your brita pitcher working does not mean it's suitable to scale for your city's water purification system. the success of the tesla deployment for its intended purpose hence means zero for large scale systems.

apparently you also think the chinese government using its people's money to sell panels at a loss makes the panel cost less to produce, proving the opposite of his point?

do you actually have a point, beyond 'your point is false because of this fake argument i made up?'
True, but on the other hand the components of this filter bubble are mostly people that have benifited from the current state of affairs
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I think the value of most IP is to abstract to apply a tax to it. Some patents are extremely valuable, most are worthless. Some are only useful to Patent Trolls, or for defensive purposes, etc.

How would you tax a company that patents something it develops and sells itself? If the products/service they sell involves lots of non-patented features and/or multiple patented features, how do you determine the value of any individual patent?

How do you determine the value of patents effectively licensed through an Agreement Not-to-Sue?
Facebook buys out their competitors.
You don't need a third-party tool.

Firefox + NoScript + Page Style->No Style

Fixes many many sites including this one.

Many sites are just fine without that final No Style step. It fixes many of the most recalcitrant sites. If that doesn't work I usually don't bother reading the article.

Similar trick for Safari. Just enable the Develop menu and you can check Disable Styles and Disable JavaScript and you get both the text and the pictures.
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Could you provide a hypothetical example of where this might exist?

I'm having trouble envisioning how selling some form of hardware at an extreme markup is necessary if the compulsory license fee for being able to copy it is a PORTION of the sale (and not profit) price?

That would ideally mean that someone else has decided to bring the product to market for more people, and that the actual inventors get rewarded for enriching society faster and more greatly in total.
As Dijkstra put it in the '60s: we start with hardware, which is fully capable of solving our problem, but not designed to make it convenient to express that solution.

So we make "virtual machines" by creating new "instructions" that extend the physical machine. (Dijkstra called them virtual machines; these days we might say APIs or something.)

We keep doing this: extending level n-2 into level n-1, with the guiding principle that n-1 should be a "virtual machine" that makes it slightly more convenient to express level n. At some level k, the solution to our original problem is trivial.

Other important properties of these abstraction levels is that

- They should do resource allocation and management to the point where a raw resource used by level n should not be visible as such in level n+1.

- Any level should ideally only depend on one level below it.

- No level can ever depend on a level above it -- this creates cycles in the dependency tree and prevents further extension and contraction of functionality.

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Drawing further from Parnas instead: abstractions should hide design decisions that are likely to change. Typical examples of those are the format of data, layout of data structures, implementation details.

Things that are less likely to change are things that come from the problem domain. Design interfaces based on problem domain concepts, not solution domain concepts. This applies at every level: the abstractions of level n-1 should have interfaces in terms of problem domain concepts of level n.
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Focusing on the "cancel culture" is, IMHO, putting the cart in front of the horse. It is a by-product of a society where a cop can murder an African American in broad daylight and (in most cases) suffer no consequences. If you can't trust the society to not murder you, why would you refrain from tearing down anything you don't like?

When the society doesn't serve justice, people will implement "justice" with their own hands, with often bloody consequences. Thousands lost their heads during the French revolution: I'm sure many of them didn't deserve it. People died and lost their homes during the American Revolution, and during the Civil War: I'm sure many of them didn't deserve it, either.

I'm no big fan of the so-called "cancel culture", but justice is the only way I see that can rein it in.
I’d say measuring by weight is also faster, cleaner and easier for my overloaded brains (how many cups did I put, was that cup semi-full, ...)
They are designed to clean water off glass. I've never lived in a dessert area so I may be wrong, but I expect they're not great for cleaning large amounts of dry dust and dirt off at least without using huge amounts of water.
Can someone comment on the economics of this? Rocket Lab is charging $5m for 150kg to SSO. SpaceX offers 150kg to SSO on the smallsat rideshare for $1m. What sorts of payloads would not be suitable for rideshare or would be worth 5x the cost for better scheduling or a better orbit?
That is also why I ask all forklift operators to watch where they are going. Not to be flippant, but 'it takes two to tango', and if I had hit him I would have been almost entirely at fault.

However, I don't think I'm getting 19th century in thinking someone walking through an active warehouse should be watching their surroundings. This is also an area where people pick stock off of rolling staircases, it isn't out of the realm of possibility to have a 45lb case of product be dropped off a rack.

I should have mentioned in the original comment, it isn't just the handbook, we stress during training that this is a potentially hazardous area, and that you need to be aware of your surroundings. My goal isn't to avoid insurance/workman's comp claims; my goal is for everyone to leave at day's end safely & without injury. I realize there is no such thing as legislating safety, which is why we immediately point out any unsafe behaviors. There are unfortunately just some workplaces that by their very nature are hazardous. I spend ~40% of my time in an office environment, and the hazards there are tripping or paper cuts. However, for the warehouse I manage, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect employees to be aware of their surroundings. This is a workplace where there is moving equipment, blind corners, people on ladders, and the possibility of falling objects. The bare minimum in this situation is to look where you are going.

We have pedestrian travel paths, and he wasn't even close to one. He was so engrossed in whatever he was watching on his phone that he had wandered 60' away from where he even should have been to get back to his station. He was paying so little attention he was actively walking away from his destination.
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I think you will find that the descendants of immigrants who suffered unimaginable trauma have not "gotten over it," either - they just know America is not responsible for that trauma, so they don't have anything to demand of America. (In many cases, the political entity that enacted that trauma is effectively no longer existent, so they have no one to make demands from and they have gotten as close to justice as they ever will; in many cases, America was directly responsible for that happening, so they certainly have no reason to feel like America owes them anything.)
Could well be, and I have no definitive evidence otherwise, but sometimes it's hard to imagine anyone being that bad at exposition. Some "benefits" might be seeming smarter and more knowledgeable than they are, making it harder to exactly replicate their methods (most relevant in applied areas), or citations by intimidation ("I don't understand this, but it seems impressive and relevant, so I better cite it.").
Agreed on the modal user, but two quibbles:
(a) how often does anyone follow secondary sources that are only a few months old?
(b) it is less trivial to create new primary sources. (not that publishers are in the habit of giving easily followed references)