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You claim I am 'slippery' and 'moving the goalposts'. You said in your last post that I was 'retreating'. Yet you have not even tried to show how anything I have said in my later posts is inconsistent with my earlier posts. Absent that, those claims are not helpful.

You say 'I'm not denying people are mean on the internet. I'm denying people get harmed by it'.

There are two simple problems here. The first is that we are not talking about whether people are 'mean', we're talking about the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour of a specific subculture: 'cancel culture'. I have set out what I take to be the pathologies of that subculture. Why are you ignoring those pathologies, and talking as if 'cancel culture' didn't exist, and if this was just people being generically mean?

The second is that you protest that cancel culture is harmless. I just set out why I take it to be harmful: it degrades the public sphere, inhibits thought and debate, undermines hegemonic change, and threatens a blowback. Why have you not engaged with any of those arguments?

Finally, you raise the issue of 'employers' again. I have already said I take this to be peripheral to cancel culture. The main harm of cancel culture, as I see it, is on the public sphere. A few extreme cases end in firing - and that's significant for those people - but it's a relatively small harm compared to the effect it has on the public sphere.
Thanks! You've summed up my own point of view better than I could have.
Yeah, demons may be pushing chemicals down your neurons or your soul is giving tiny electrical shocks to the axons. Anything is possible.

One would think that the synthesis of urea back in 1828 would at least weaken this argument, but hey...
I am momentarily saddened that my estimate of overestimate was overestimated. Thank you for the actual data, hello LTNS, and congratulations on 11 years :)
Notice how Rackspace's 2019 revenue hit a hard ceiling in 2019 (pre-COVID).

Also, capital expenditures in 2017, 2018 and 2019 were 9%, 14%, and 9% of yearly revenues, respectively. If they hadn't tamped down on their 2019 "capital intensity", and assuming a more normal capex spend of 11.5% (split the difference between 2018 and 2019 for incremental 3.5% capex spend or ~$70M+), their EOY2019 cash & cash equivalents would have been down to a mere $14M (instead of $84M) -- looks like a cash crunch, mainly due to the 2019 Onico acquisition for $316M.
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I'm from Brazil and Brazil is one of the most regulated places on Earth regarding labor laws and it costs the country a lot of productivity. You shouldn't assume that every country is like the average European country and thus what's good for Europeans will be good for the rest of the world.
You have designated yourself as a moral authority by sheer force of your existence. I simply explained the benefit and risks of being a contractor. You have decided that I should not be allowed to sell my labor at a rate I and my client accepts.
>> that "Vocational Education and Training Centers" exist

Yes - they exist. Kind of like community colleges exist.

>> you don't believe that they are internment camps

I don't and neither do muslim majority countries all over the world including UAE, Eritrea, Sudan, Pakistan, and Algeria, among others[0]

0: https://thediplomat.com/2019/07/which-countries-are-for-or-a...
I am from São Paulo.

About our labor laws: They were created by a populist and fascist (I mean in the literal meaning, guy admired Mussolini) government, they are very, VERY, VEEEERY rigid and extreme, to the point Brazil has more "informal" workers than "formal", thing is, "informal" is just euphemism for illegal, basically the labor laws are so bad that most of the population work illegally.

I am 33, and I NEVER, had legal work, never found one, and thus for example I can't get unemployment benefits and many other rights.

Reason for that is these jobs are extremely rare, because it is ludicrously expensive to offer them, in some fields of all money a company spend in personel, 95% go to government (usually it is around 60%).

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Now the second subject, is Uber relationship with Brazil, basically government so far been very hostile to Uber, and tries everything to screw with them, thing is, Uber (and competitors) here been a blessing, not just because it meant "cheaper cabs", but because it was only thing that could rid of Taxi Mafia.

Here in Brazil we have not only strong medallion laws, but often there are corrupt politicians in the Taxi Mafia, where they find excuses to not grant medallions legally, so they can sell them in exchange of bribes and favors, before Uber existed this got to a point where Taxi drivers would kill competitors on the street for some reasons, for example picking up passengers in an certain area without permission from the Taxi Mafia was a reason for that person to be killed.
Threats and intimidation don't constitute free speech, even when veiled. Note that I don't think anyone is advocating for more/harsher laws to protect free speech (although these might be welcomed by some), only appealing for a cultural shift away from cancellation and toward free-speech values.
Correct, my company uses both Rackspace and AWS. We host legacy platforms with low rates of change on Rackspace and use AWS for new work that has high change rates and requires flexibility.
Even better, just stop having non-cash benefits for employees whatsoever, which would allow them to command higher compensation in cash and then buy whatever "benefits" they want or with it or not.

The entire concept of "benefits" came out of regulatory arbitrage to avoid 20th century wage controls or because of differential tax treatment. It's an anachronism that should cease to exist.
Live in a country that criminally prosecutes security researches? Jails them?
Does anyone have a link to a legit security analysis on this app? I'm trying to weed through all details, and I want to get past any FUD.
Nature abhors monoculture
Send him a letter. He might not read HN...
> food stamps

Which countries use those, apart from the US obviously?
"Plain old" (not neural net) machine learning tasks would be sooo much faster.
You could also use a Yubikey to store up to 32 TOTP codes on it. One benefit is that you can set it up to require a touch to generate the code.
We used to string talk back when we were kids, we built a poorman's network of those in my neighborhood and worked well until the next storm took them down. It is very rewarding to actually experience first hand how the vibration turns in to sinewaves and back into vibration. The problem with the current generation of kids is that most of their playtime is digitized, which may have some advantages but also I see quite a few disadvantages. Well, I don't want to take the conversation in different direction, this is about hacking modems over wire and is pretty cool project.
> If Uber drivers become employees, I'd expect Uber would have them work fixed schedules rather than have free working hours.

In California, this is one of the tests of whether someone is an independent contractor or an employee — who dictates the hours worked.

I wouldn’t be surprised if this ends up biting many drivers in the hurt. Uber can easily say “You want employee benefits? No problem. We tell you when to work, and you probably won’t like your schedule.”

And the crappy schedule may not be because Uber is being ornery — it may just be when they need drivers.
Ok, I understand now that people are taking "cancel culture" to mean online shaming generally. In that case, I think it is reasonable to take precautions like blogging anonymously.

I was specifically thinking of how "cancel" is used as a verb to mean "boycott a cultural product from an entertainer", "boycott a product from a company", or something like that.
But Amazon gets the same audience, in addition to others! The initial spending on personal/corporate cards from engineers who need to get work done drives the adoption of AWS.
Or if it's a word where the source language doesn't use the Latin Alphabet. I have low confidence in the accuracy of a Tamil ---> Katakana ---> English conversion.
Not to belabor the point, but you could easily configure the touchbar to put an esc key in the top-left corner.
Not in all cases necessarily, but just read the next line:

> On the other hand, if Adam means to punish the other organization or put them out of business by taking the advantages of their relationship with Bill away, it is more likely that a tortious interference has occurred.
I agree, I do think it is disingenuous to make a blanket statement on Native American's knowledge of land ownership and border establishment. I was merely interpreting what the original comment said.

Given your points, is there a more correct way to define the lands once inhabited by Native peoples?
You pay them so your ops team has someone to blame
Yes it is political. It is CCP controlled company. How is that hard to imagine? Yes this is a problem of National Security. India was the first to ban these apps. I don't see you having a problem there! But if US does it, it pains you. Why? Is National Security a concern only for Countries except US? Why is US an exception in your argument? If China can ban foreign apps why can't other Countries do the same? I don't understand your logic at all!
I've heard some version of this argument many times, but I never really understand the point.

Is your point that because the world has been terrible for years, we should not bother to do better and try to right wrongs? What an incredibly defeatist attitude. That just sounds like you are being defensive to criticism of our culture, which is never helpful.

Is your point that you believe that the United States is uniquely targeted for criticism? I don't believe that is true. There is plenty of criticism of the way other colonial powers treated indigenous people. If you are in the US, the criticism is mostly about the US, but if you go to Europe or Australia for example, people are talking about their own nations and their history.

I don't think your comment is entirely untrue, I just think it misses the point and/or doesn't really have a point to begin with.
Unfortunately, the so-called "liberal side" is going for all the tools like censorship and banning, state interference in the corporate sector, and more that it berates the other side about, so there is no moral case here, just pure tribalism. Actually the "liberal side" invented all these tools but has had a vastly better propaganda machine and hides under the cover of due process and procedural justice that never seem to deliver actual justice to the people most in need of it. I'm glad the world is getting to see the naked body of the "liberal side" under Trump.
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I am working on a tool to measure the speed of work by engineering teams. One visualization shows whether work is speeding up, slowing down, or going at a constant rate. What would you call that?
Interestingly, at Google Translate now:

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>What about boats that are anchored or moored?

Well how else were you going to wash the sides down?
The problem is that arguments like this always end with an implicit "QED" that dismisses surviving grievances regardless of how legitimate they may be. What we need to do is hear each other. Responding by saying, "this happened on every square foot of the globe" is implicitly a refusal to listen, a denial of standing to the other. When I read a comment like this, it sounds like a judge tossing a case out of court.

Your comment includes this in other ways too: changing the subject to horrible things the other side did is implicitly a way of saying "I don't need to hear you", and representing the other side as a straw man ("several hundred years ago should be brought forward to modern times") is a way of saying "nothing to see here".
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I disagree. I think HTML was originally a structured document format. And CSS was another layer on top of HTML, specifically for presentation.

Today, we see a mish-mash of HTML + CSS (+JS) being used for presentation, since neither HTML, nor CSS can successfully solve every problem on their own. They often also need to rely on JS.

Regarding bandwidth and SSR, I disagree also. I think we should do things more efficiently where possible, not less. In my current SaaS product, if we were doing SSR instead of client side rendering, our hosting costs would be through the roof right now. As it stands, we have one large-ish download at the start, followed by very small JSON payloads thereafter. Plus, using service workers, it can work offline, which is not really possible with SSR.
It's fundamentally irrelevant anyway to the immediate questions; the land rights they have were assigned by our own system and have been unlawfully disregarded.
"Core values".
>As I understand the term "cancel culture", it mostly relates to celebrities who were already controversial or polarizing in some way, that were finally able to be organized against.

This massively understates the problem. One could easily put together a list of non-celebrities who have had their lives ruined after making some completely anodyne comment.
First of all, there's a complication here in that some Indian reservations were created by the Indian nations themselves (particularly in the Pacific Northwest), while others were created as part of the genocide of Indians carried out by Europeans in the Americas.

So let's focus first on the second category. Imagine that some people from elsewhere showed up, rounded up you and all your relatives and everybody else living within a 400 mile radius, killed 80% of them, then marched the rest to a patch of land you'd never seen before and said "you'll be living here now, it's yours in perpetuity". Then a hundred or more years go by, and the descendants of those people say to your descendants "Well, actually, that land we said was yours isn't really yours, and so the problems with resources, jobs, social order, purpose and meaning you folks have had for a while are going to get worse".

And then someone shows up and says "why should these particular ethnic groups get treated differently from any other?"

If you then turn your attention to the self-created reservations, the story is a bit different. Now imagine that some newcomers show up in your part of the world. They seem ready to fight, and you've heard stories from people who have travelled east over the mountains that they are brutal nasty SOBs. The newcomers say that they are ready to strike a deal, so you decide that this makes more sense. You tell them that they are welcome to come and live in this area, but that you want a treaty that recognizes that you will reserve areas for your own people, along with certain distributed rights like fishing. The newcomers sign the deal, apparently quite happy with it. 200 years later, your descendants realize that the treaty rights are no longer recognized, and that the newcomers have changed everything so much with their logging, mining and dams that even the original terms of the treaty don't much sense any more.

And then someone shows up and wonders why your people should treated any differently from anyone else.
I guess you could give pause and think that the spirit of America is more accurately reflected in so called “cancel culture” than the romantic idyll of it you suggest. From an outside perspective the idea that it’s not in the spirit of America to destroy a life based on uncharitable interpretation doesn’t really square with things like the Iraq war, the death penalty and the very visible actions of the police over the past few weeks.
Well, it is definitely true that active in-person sitting on a property could be beneficial to those who have more time than lawyers.

Although in a sense this has ceased to matter anyway because any prudent property owner puts up fences around a property to avoid this possibility. At least where this issue is known.

I can see it going both ways. In some poor countries, the protection of the title is the greatest help to the disadvantaged -- to know that no one just by strength of goons or money can take that away. And then in other countries, the poor get to (once in a while) benefit from sitting on land that went unused and eventually having it become theirs.

In the US, everything is so paperworked and documented, that it simply seems strange that this possibility exists.
I believe that people will take deals that don't benefit them. But that's not the point here. The numbers are made up, but say Uber makes 10$ per ride and the driver makes 10$ per ride.

If the drivers get together, they might be able to negotiate 15$ per ride, leaving 5$ per ride for Uber. However, it might be hard for the people to do that, so the government can step in to improve conditions for riders by negotiating for them as a block.
Again, like with the phone, I would always need to take it out the pocket. Which is inconvenient if the pants are in the bedroom but I am not. Or I have a different pair of pants and the contents of the pockets hasn't got swapped.
The difficulty to become a teacher is in no way correlated with the ability to teach.
Verizon attempted a similar content/audience strategy to Quibi several years ago, with their content platform called go90 [1]. Their pitch centered around the lack of 15-20 minute video content with high production values, and the assumption that this type of content would be successful with millennials and commuters.

They burned over $1B and it was a colossal failure -- apparently so forgettable that none of the coverage on Quibi even mentions it.

One major difference: go90 was a free service, and it was even zero-rated for Verizon Wireless customers (i.e. didn't count against subscriber data caps). Yet it remained a failure across several attempted pivots before Verizon threw in the towel completely.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go90
I don't have much to add to this discussion except to say that after years of repl-driven development in Clojure I've switched to Ruby as my primary language, and the iteration cycle is just really slow. I feel like I've traded in my fighter jet for a commuter car.
As reasons why the port never happened? I don't really know, but the sense I get is that it just got too hard to find and sustain the kind of developer interest it needed. Again, though, I don't really know; my familiarity with coLinux tops out at having been an enthusiastic user, and even that was quite a long time ago now.

As reasons for WSL to happen anyway? It's hard to know, despite my earlier glib comment that it would. It's plausible that a 64-bit coLinux might have found enough adoption to provide the same support for Microsoft's Windows strategy that WSL does, although coLinux's FOSS licensing model would certainly complicate that a lot - but, on the third hand, how much does it cost to convince a dev team it's time for an acquihire and a community fork? And how much is WSL or something like it worth to Microsoft, anyway? I know a fair number of devs who are glad to have it, but the next I meet who actually switched (or switched back) to Windows for it will be the first.
I got quite deep into the article, but couldn't get through the morass of PR to understand the basic idea of their agroforestry initiative. At one point, they actually write that a lightbulb went off... but what is the new idea?

Is there anyone familiar with this field who tell a clear story of what their idea is, and how planting trees in existing farms will work in practice to accomplish all the results they predict? I'm sure it's an interesting story.
> From a certain perspective, all of human history can be summed up as an endless series of blood feuds.

Is it so bad that people think we should try to do better?

In my history classes I learned about Europe - itself very much in flux as you mention through the past thousand years - being "invaded" and America being "settled." Things need to be properly acknowledged before they can be moved past. And some of these things that are painted as "revisionism" when they aren't glossed over have lingering harmful effects even today.
> While they are still in the App Store

Not for long! The banhammer is coming for them!
Why do you focus so narrowly on "fighting" speech, rather than the ongoing actions that are dehumanizing humans of all types?
Doom is not a word, I would use. Helpless is more appropriate word, that was the state of Obama White House during the wave of Corporate Inversions and Corporations stashing foreign earnings. They will make a comeback.
> Net utility from the change might still be positive as I suspect these days most drivers work something closer to full-time / shifts, but I'd want to see more data on this.

You also have to keep in mind that full time minimum wage jobs are more commonly available in the market than jobs with very high flexibility, so we may want to preserve their availability for people who need that.

That may even be what the people driving full time are after. Even if you're driving 40 hours a week, if it means you get to do it in weird slices around your kids' schedules, that could be worth the lack of benefits.

But require them and you end up scheduled in inflexible 8 hour contiguous blocks and you might as well be working at Walmart.
Well that's hardly a surprise. At this point idk why anyone would assume Uber wouldn't at least take a cut, if not the whole thing. Look how they treat drivers any other time.
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Same here, but with a 7 yr old and 9 yr old in 2nd and 4th grades. Remote learning in the Spring was nothing but time filler and extremely stressful as a parent.
It is literally a checkbox item for PCI DSS.
If lorem ipsum were softcore erotica...
Wait until the indigenous folks start going back further in time and revising their own conquests. That should be fun to watch. Oh, and they had slavery too, in case where their enemies weren't exterminated outright or even eaten sometimes.

Quote from Wikipedia: "Native American groups often enslaved war captives, whom they primarily used for small-scale labor. Others however would stake themselves in gambling situations when they had nothing else, which would put them into servitude for a short time, or in some cases for life; captives were also sometimes tortured as part of religious rites, and these sometimes involved ritual cannibalism."

And when Europeans arrived, natives held African slaves, too, as well as sold their own _native_ war captives to Europeans, much like Africans did in Africa. I wonder what they think of the idea of "reparations". But I digress.

So when someone says that Mount Rushmore belongs to the Lakota tribe, if we aren't willing to let the sleeping dogs lie, other tribes might want Lakota to revise that statement. Unwind it far enough, and who knows what tribe settled there first (assuming it even exists nowadays).

Cursory search suggests that Black Hills (now Mount Rushmore) was first settled by Arikara, and then, quote: "The Arikara in the Black Hills was followed by the Crow, Pawnee, Kiowa, Cheyenne, Lakota Sioux, and then to the United States. The Lakota Sioux arrived in the region after getting kicked out of Minnesota in the late 1770s by other tribes. The Sioux took over the region after they drove out the Cheyenne Indian nation. The Sioux forced the Cheyenne to move West."

So yeah, if we're going to unwind, why stop at when the United States took the land. Let's unwind all the way.

Or maybe, just maybe, the SCOTUS decision was idiotic.