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> Privilege isn't necessarily bad; it's the lack of access and opportunity that is afforded by privilege that is a problem.

I think that this is something that people who bear privilege (like me, a currently economically comfortable white man) don't realise. I have this privilege; I'm not a bad person for having it, and someone who tells me that I have it isn't accusing me, only reminding me. I can still be a good and empathetic person, and I try to be. It's just important to realise that what I perceive as empathy, by imagining myself in someone else's shoes and proceeding from that premise, cannot fully succeed, since my privilege means that there are shoes that I will never fully understand what it's like to occupy. I should thus pause before thinking I understand such a situation—that's what "check your privilege" means—and make sure that I listen to someone who knows more, from experience or science, in preference to my genuine, well intentioned, but in this respect uninformed feelings.
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We have shit on this planet so much, we do not deserve children. None of us choose to be born. Yet we have to deal with mistakes and evils of generations past. Even the joy of discovery, of exploring a world anew, of making our own rules has been stolen. We live in the dead shells of our foolish ancestors, dragging their legacy into a future chosen for us by the wealthy 1%
You are starting to get to the root of it. For years, people with liberal or progressive viewpoints tried to have good-faith discussions and debates with conservatives only to get back absolute garbage. Arguments like:

"If you let gay people marry, what's next allowing adults to marry children?"
or
"You never complain when black people kill each other, so you are just pretending to care about police brutality"

These are undeniably bad faith arguments - all strawmen, slippery slopes, and other ugly rhetorical devices. In most cases this was all you would get back in return for trying to have a good faith debate with conservatives.

So yes, after a while, we started to assume that people who disagreed with us were acting in bad faith and were essentially trolls.

This is extremely unfortunate. It is harmful to the discourse. It casts a wide net that catches the honestly curious or unorthodox thinkers (people that I may think are incorrect but arguing from a position of good faith). But, it has also been extremely effective. In one generation, the relatively brutal tactics have helped us make real progress on gay rights and drug-decriminalization in the United States.

Cancellation tactics work as an effective tool for combating bad faith arguments and trolls, so until conservatives want to come to the table for real discussion and debate, that is how things will continue to be. I look forward to a time when this is not necessary.

To be clear though, the well of intellectual discourse was poisoned long ago by Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, Sean Hannity, et al, and a million internet trolls. The only part of this they don't like is that now they are losing the horrible game they invented.
Personally I think it common sense that an out-of-state, local paper (the article is from ABC 7 Chicago) can hardly be taken as a primary source in a developing crime story - hence why I said "news coverage" and gave details.
Statistically, there are measurable and not really small differences in attractiveness of parties to different genders, races and religions.

The implied association likely have a lot to do with those visible differences.

Free throught does not mean that everyone finds same appeal of same policies and groups regardless of their differing interests and experiences. Quite the opposite.
Nope, it won't be free as in beer. The ebook will be purchasable when the dead-tree book arrives, but I don't yet know the price for it.
How does editing work given Twitter doesn't support editing tweets?

Looking at the demo (https://twitter.com/chirrapp/status/1282608419321643009) I think it removes the tweet you edited AND any later tweet in the same thread, and republishes those - the first with updated text, and the rest with the same content as before. Is that right?
>The article didn't mention a single word about bangladesh, so why bring it up?

Because if he (had) come from there it's possible someone from there was the one who killed him (or had him killed and got to choose how) hence making the dismemberment make more sense since it's an odd thing to see in a random murder.

>By the way, even that information is totally false, he NEVER lived in bangladesh, so he doesn't even come from that culture. It clearly says that he was a New York tech entrepreneur.

Ok then, my bad. The greater point still stands.
Maybe that would be feasible with lighter weight green threads.

I do this with threads but my system is just a chat bot, so it doesn't really ever turn into a problem.
His company's wikipedia page is being edited to remove any mention of his death. Quite suspicious
The problem is exactly taxes and tax laws. These founders live in a society where if you structure your company one way, you pay 21% in corporate tax, and if you structure it another way you pay 0%, and both are legal - which one do you think they will choose? We need to make profit shifting illegal, but it currently isn't. We can't count on founders being 'ethical' enough to not play the game optimally, we need to change the rules of the game, so optimal play from them isn't bad for the rest of us.
The author says he's happy with the performance improvements he made, but--even at the size where the Rust version performs best--he gets much less than a 2x speedup. After a couple months of effort, that's not a whole lot to show. This reads like a case study in why it's probably a bad idea to rewrite even when you think you have compelling reason for it.
The article and the infographic in question did not call those signs of whiteness, they are referred to as some aspects and assumptions of Whiteness and WHite Culture.

Most of which cause me to wonder what kind of person wouldn't agree with those things... which just goes to show how fully a part of my culture I am. :-)

I didn't see the article refer to those things as right or wrong, merely default positions.
"At the heart of Firebase is Google Analytics, a free and unlimited analytics solution."

https://firebase.google.com/docs/analytics

Of course Firebase is more than just analytics, but it sounds like it does offer much better tools for tracking than PHP.
What? Is this a cry for help? Is it ax-grinding? Are there "unorthodox and true" statements that pg would like to make but is afraid of "terrible trouble"?

I find the idea of "orthodox privilege" an oxymoron. I don't understand what the phrase captures that isn't just "privilege". Maybe the whole essay is just going over my head. Or perhaps I don't hear the same "high-pitched noise"?

Look, I do something called "Reiki". For some people it's commonplace, for others it's crazy-town. I also do something called "computer programming". For some people it's commonplace, for others it's crazy-town. (Being a computer nerd used to be cause for abuse and shunning, now we're celebrated. So it goes.)

My point is, there are lots of ways to rile up the mob and get them to pick up their pitchforks and torches. In some places all you have to do is exist and be black or gay or a woman or white or straight or a man or neither a man nor a woman, or both-at-the-same-time (hermaphrodite), or be both black and white (Trevor Noah's autobiography of his childhood in S. Africa, "Born a Crime", is worth reading, IMO), or be a computer nerd in the locker room at the wrong time, or wear the wrong kind of hat.

Mob-ism, with the pitchforks and torches, is a problem (this is hardly news though, eh?)
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I've seen this called Evaporative Cooling as an analogy to physics.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZQG9cwKbct2LtmL3p/evaporativ...
It’s only a “privilege”, by definition, if you have it and others don’t. So the main point about checking your privilege is recognizing the advantages your privileges confer and how to use those advantages to help those without.
It's not true.

https://youtu.be/HstaR1VwXUg?t=1770
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I made this mistake the first time I ventured out onto my own and did some contract work. The thinking was that it'd be a nice way to give them something concrete to play with as we vetted the ideas / flows.

But, as you describe, from a perceptions stand point, it was the worst thing I could have possibly done. It went from a very happy client, to a very unhappy and confused client when progress "stopped." I actually started recording development work as a way to make them understand all the invisible stuff which goes on behind the scenes.
Don't forget flame rye, or "flammenroggen".
Cisco basically sells software that only runs on their hardware. Slight exaggeration, but the reason old Cisco switches and routers are dirt cheap online is because it's usually a license violation to use them. The software on a Cisco device is licensed to the person or company who purchases it from Cisco or an authorized Cisco partner, and it's non-transferrable. (Also, you can't get software updates unless you have an active support contract or can identify a specific vulnerability and prove that you were the original purchaser of the unit in question in a support TAC.)

Which means if you buy an aftermarket Cisco device, you're pirating the software on it unless you go through Cisco's pricey relicensing process... which mostly makes it cost you as much as buying a brand new device anyways. Obviously, homelab folks and test lab folks don't care too much, and Cisco doesn't mind them, but enterprises can't use used Cisco hardware.

As such, counterfeit Cisco hardware makes sense: It's basically software piracy, but they have to provide hardware that'll trick it into running.
What a weak argument. "Some idiot said something somewhere, that means everyone believes it."

If anything that thread illustrates how weak and stupid the "anti-identity politics" arguments are.
It's telling that the top post on an article about "unpopular ideas" is a attack on a concept that is almost universally hated on HN.

"Identity politics" even has the benefit of being so generic, it allows everyone to replace it with the worst example they can come up with: you hate "identity politics" for the one time that <person> invoked <their identity> to get <something ridiculous> (see examples in this threat). But you use it to tarnish complaints about black people dying twice as often from COVID and five times as often from police bullets.

So, please, continue to be outraged by how unwilling others are to, for once, see it from the perspective of a white heterosexual man with a suburban middle-class background. And how unwilling people are to be "free thinkers" like you, boldly telling people on HN that you kinda think women and black people should shut up.

But please stop glorifying reactionary opinions as some sort of revolutionary insight! When people tell you you are wrong, you are extremely more likely to be wrong, and not Galileo Galilei. If in doubt, maybe try to think of something revolutionary in particle physics or plate tectonics, before going all-in on the biological origins of intelligence or whatever it is you're being criticised for.
Get an audio sensor that covers the frequency range in question. It isn't rocket science, people. There is in fact "the truth", that is, what corresponds to actual reality, and it's completely independent of how many people say they hear the sound and how many do not. (Those are also "truths", but they are not "the truth".) Once you know whether the sound really exists as audio energy in the air, then you can tell the difference between "X% of people can't hear high frequencies" and "100-X% of people suffer from tinnitus or audio hallucinations".
>where will you live while your apartment is under construction?

Maybe my wording was confusing, but this kind of thing won't really happen. If someone in a large city owns a patch of land that is big enough and well-located enough to become an apartment complex, then that person(s) is usually wealthy enough to have other real estate already. Its seen as an investment, not as a more affordable way to own an apartment.
Indeed, doesn't make any less painful, though.
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Also, it's only on by default for 1-on-1 conversations.
This is extremely flawed reasoning, and I'm sad to see a comment of this low quality on HN. Tether's valuation is based on free market trade. If an insider knew they are not 100% backed, he has a billion dollars incentive to short the trade and then drop the bomb. However that has not happened.
Global warming isn't an "ought" belief, it's an "is" belief. "Animal species are being driven extinct" is an "is" belief. An example of an "ought" belief would be, "animal species should not be driven extinct." To further clarify, "the sunset is green" is also a (false) "is" belief.
From the Forbes article you cited:

"While most people get apps from official sources such as Google Play or the App Store, there are hundreds of third-party app stores around the planet, especially in China, where Google Play cannot operate. As a result, Android, in particular, has many third-party app stores."

I think, your argument does not hold when put in the correct context.

Also, it is 17.5$ Billion within 5 years, to put a time frame on it.
Like, I'm very inclined to think it might happen soon.

But what is making me less inclined is the fact it didn't happen within the last ca. 70 years.
Parser speed is negligible contributor to slowness in any compiler. rustc has a couple of places were it performs bounded lookahead to supply suggestions for incorrect code, but the grammar of the language is regular. 3rd party tools don't have to worry about it, and users get accurate suggestions. The cost is 1) you have to implement a more complex parser while 2) making people go "you already know what I meant, just take it without me using the 'ugly' turbofish". It think this is the correct approach for language design.
These rates aren't unreasonable! I've seen storage get as expensive as $1200 per year! We try to make our pricing as affordable as possible ($145/year)
My experience has been similar. I start my day about ten minutes after I wake up, and I'm home the moment my day is done. Effectively giving two more hours of free time. With the exception of the global pandemic this is the most relaxed I have been in years.
> A fair bit by anyone who uses the metric system?

I'm sorry, but what?

Most people who use the metric system can't tell you which is smaller: micro or milli. Most people will never encounter anything in their lifetime they will actually need to reason about in some important manner that is measured in μ-anything.

As a user of the Icelandic layout I wasn't even aware that the key was on there, but I can confirm that we absolutely don't need it. I think there are probably a lot of keyboard layouts that could use modernizing wrt. how they are actually used today.
Quite apart from the difficulty of collecting logs from the hundreds of official and unofficial mirrors, it also doesn't account for the various layers of caching.
From the article:

>This name change has been a long time in the making. As we explained when we announced the rebrand a few weeks ago, we’ve had major issues with a certain gigantic games company which has blocked us from being able to trademark Riot or even Riot.im - a huge issue when it comes to defending users against abusive forks of the app.
Don't apologize for being "politically correct." You're doing the founder a favor, by pointing at money they're leaving on the table. And when I went to a fertility clinic shortly before my transition and they certainly didn't apologize for treating me like a goddamned freak.
Where I live it's more extreme. Construction materials are sourced from different suppliers, and they are given apartments instead of cash. A developer can get started with around an apartment worth of capital. He'll leverage 2-3x through a bank to pay for workers and various. Then raise money before building from some want-to-be homeowners. The pre-construction sale gets you a cheaper price. So he gets 2-3x his capital, whatever he raised from future owners, and free construction materials. If he plays his cards correctly and do sell all of the building, he can 4-5x his money in a 3 years period.

I had a relative in this kinda business and most of his job was "building connections" and "deal striking".
"Of course" to us. IIUC, the lawyer is trying to build a reasonable-person-principle case that an average user, downloading an app from the Android store to their Android phone, who turns off web and app activity tracking, is right to believe that it turns off all tracking on the DEVICE, regardless of who owns the apps (because from the user's point of view, they all come from Google).
My brother's an attorney. He's not tech savvy at all. A device that does Zoom conferencing only and does it well would be perfect for him. I think there are a lot of people in that category.
>If a poor person were murdered like this, it would be newsworthy.

This is wrong, unless you insinuate "if poor people were wealthy and powerful as well" when you say "murdered like this".

It seems like make believe to think we value all life regardless of their economic worth in the news headlines that we click on. In my community alone, mundane and powerless children and adults get shot, executed, dismembered semi-regularly and yet it's more of a statistic than something interesting for most folks, citations below.

I'm not saying that wealth and power are the only thing that makes a headline clickable, but jeez can it make it seem relevant to people in a world where poor people are disproportionately exposed to violence.

https://news.sky.com/story/william-algar-man-charged-with-mu...

https://www.fox19.com/2020/07/07/coroner-identifies-woman-fo...

https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-transgender-woman...
It's notable that the Worlogog::Incident and Worlogog::Restart perl modules on CPAN provide a condition system whose unwinding is implemented by Return::MultiLevel which contains a fallback pure perl implementation that does use goto-to-outer-function's-label (with gensym-ed label names for uniqueness).

Works for perl because while we don't (yet, somebody's working on one) have an unwind-protect like primitive, perl's refcounting system provides timely destruction so you can use a scope guard object stuffed into a lexical on the stack whose DESTROY method does whatever unwind cleanup you need.

Ironically, the main reason I'm not using this so much at the moment is that it isn't compatible with the suspend/resume code around promises provided by Future::AsyncAwait and I'm heavily using that in my current code, but at the point where I need both I'll probably attempt to nerd snipe one of the relevant authors into helping me figure it out.

(EDIT: Aaaaactually, I think I might already know how to make them work together, naturally an idea popped into my head just after I hit the post button ... using Syntax::Keyword::Dynamically and capturing a relevant future higher up the chain of calls should allow me to return-to-there cleanly, then I "just" need to cancel the intermediate futures to simulate unwinding ... but I'll have to try it to find out)
Now is a particularly bad time to build a rig, since new NVIDIA cards are launching in a couple months. The value of a used 2080Ti (Turing) will tank, because Ampere cards will be available with similar performance for half the price.
I believe both halves of your argument are wrong.

X% of surveyed economists probably don't disagree that rent controls will have the effect that rent control proponents claim. They likely believe it will have other effects in addition, and that these other effects are, in aggregate, worse than what benefits might also be offered.

Rent control proponents believe that imposing rent control will lower rents. With the goal of making housing more affordable. Economists know that it will benefit a few but in the process reduce supply and therefore increase average rents. Creating the very problem that you're trying to solve.

By contrast, advocates for rent control probably don't believe that the economists are just making stuff up - they just believe that the downsides of the stuff the economists are talking about are less than the upsides of rent control.

That doesn't match my experience. It is not that advocates for rent control believe that rent control is a net positive despite what economists say. They actively do not believe that rent control reduces supply and increases average prices.

That has held true in both position papers and personal conversations that I've had with people.

Tangentially related. In research, learning positive facts about something makes negative facts harder to remember. And vice versa. This cognitive quirk helps explain why it is hard for people in general to believe that there really are downsides to the things that they support.
I don't really use k8s nor etcd, but one sentence in the article really stood out to me:

> I would go so far as to say that Kubernetes is the worst thing to happen to system administration since systemd.

I know it's popular to shit on systemd, but as a casual user, I honestly don't get it. I've written about a dozen systemd unit files over the years, and each time it's been a pleasure. Write a few lines describing what to launch when, one command to make systemd aware of your new file, one command to launch it.

In contrast, I've written a couple sysvinit files, and the experience was horrible every time. Having to manage pid files and logging myself, setting up the proper symlinks, etc. It'd always end up being a ~100 line script that'd be 99% copy-paste.

There might be some use-case where systemd is worse, but for my (admittedly simple) use-case, it's far superior.
These concerns, in turn, resonate with me.

I think my father is still sharp and have several competing quotidian explanations (projections?) of what's going on.

But, it's impossible to silence the nagging worry that there's a chemical/mental imbalance brewing, or that this will be one of those things I'll look back on some day as an early sign of something.
That would definitely be very feasible with Erlang-style processes, but contemporary Common Lisp implementations do not come equipped with those.
Doubtful that second order payments would be worth tracking. If a judge tips a waitress $5 from his wallet, the waitress is getting paid with private funds, not tax dollars. If a judge tips a waitress with the county court house credit card, that might be something worth tracking, esp if the tip was $5000.
What I meant is Tesla has an easy out until the first cars they sold the FSD update reach the end of their service life. Shitty for the early adopters yes, but not definitively false advertising yet.
Some people would say its "tone deaf".
Do you think it is a big factor that leaders usually live a comfortable life?

I mean, a depressed and suffering leader might care way less about a nuclear war...
Skilled propaganda isn't about making up stories, it is about amplifying and positioning existing truths. Nothing has to be a lie, and it affects the receiver as much as it impacts the whole information supply chain.

This piece might encourage someone else to research a different story and thus it amplifies the goals of the original propagandist. Many folks in a psyop/propaganda campaign are unaware of any sort of coercion. If the receiver understands it as propaganda the effort has failed.

It is an exciting time for sociologists, the disinformation war that is occuring right now is global in scope. If the cold war was WW3, we are currently in WW4.
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