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The point is, if every platform pulls a YouTube, there will never be new, strong contrary information. It’s a tough problem. But scientific advancement depends on the ability to challenge broadly held opinion.

I think part of the solution to the misinformation problem is to A) have a much better education system, and B) have much better media presentation around the facts.

If you don’t have A, all is lost ultimately. There’s not much hope for democracy if the majority of the citizens are misinformed and incapable of critical thought.
Your points on nuclear brinkmanship are good. It's an absolutely horrible prospect.

But what do you suggest as an alternative? Standing by and doing nothing is certainly not my preferred option. If the premise is that the export of tyranny must be stopped, what should be done?

Reducing the problem to its absurd conclusion: ceding liberties because the risk of war is too great, is not an acceptable choice. Hopefully today's reality will not be that extreme, but that's ultimately where we'll end up.
I read the bits you listed, then had to scan back to figure out what "RWA" means. Correct me if I am wrong, but this book seems to have recycled the ridiculous Theodore Adorno/Frankfurt school nonsense pathologizing Christian Western civilization. The entire idea that people who go to church on Sundays and have world-normal psychological responses, rather than the defective WEIRD[0] emotional pattern that literally only appears in some fraction of highly educated Westerners seems .... a bit questionable. I'd posit that "RWA" is a contradiction in terms in the sense it seems to be used.

I mean I get where Adorno was coming from: a bunch of seemingly normal people had just massacred a bunch of his cousins. That doesn't mean I have to take his insane response seriously; particularly when current year WEIRD non-authoritarians so casually massacre members of neurotypical civilizations[1]. The persistence with which people cling to this nonsense indicates it must scratch some psychological itch. It is, however, nonsense.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEIRD#WEIRD_bias

[1] I dunno, nobody seems to give a shit we've been blowing up "barbarians" in the middle east for the last 20 years in hopes of making them more .... tolerant.
You know for sure there's a Strava running segment on that thing. I wonder what the longest distance (most times in a day) someone has done on that.
>Every Muslim woman I know (hundreds) who wear hijab wear it without the threat of violence from their family

You'd be surprised. Plus, it's not like something they'll admit openly.

Second, there's also internalized violence/indoctrination, from a young age.

There is of course voluntary choice too -- even western women who have converted and adopted wearing it (in which case there's no youthful indoctrination). But for tons of muslim women in Europe, which see their non-muslim friends not having to wear any, it's imposed by their families and communities.
Ie the bsdgames package.
It's really sad how the most well-payed engineers and designers are spending the best years of their lives working on this hostile platform. I'm so tired of being treated like garbage by these companies, I just hope there is some tipping point, a straw that finally breaks the camels back, that leads to their downfall.
How else should it be?

Should campaigns be banned from conducting opposition research? Should we demand that journalist sources not have agendas? (Then who would speak to the press?) Should we require journalists to refuse assistance with their work?

I'm not a great fan of access journalism, but the reality too is that journalists will publish puff pieces or shaky misinformation pieces to curry favor for more solid news from that source in the future. That's why you see journalists even at institutions like the NY Times repeatedly publish stories from "anonymous" sources that turn out to be completely wrong but which advances some cause of the source - this has become an epidemic in the Trump era, given that a lot of political figures and career civil servants do not like the administration, and mass layoffs in the news industry have meant the replacement of veterans with younger reporters who have to curry more favor. I would prefer they not do that, but as long as you read the news with a critical eye, it's not a major problem.
It very much is. So is your rope, carabiner and belay device.
The US simply invaded Vietnam. It was not the case of "getting involved in a civil war". The Chinese invasion was miniscule in comparison.
While I agree that social media is not the root problem, I cannot grasp why a disquisition about Intellectual Property could help us to understand what is going on.
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Perhaps they did understand, or perhaps they do but the decision was made by someone who didn't.

If Twitter et al really want to be public resources they need transparency in their decision making and possibly independent oversight. If they want to just be regular businesses they need to take responsibility for the bullshit they propogate.

Straddling these two lanes hasn't been working for society and it seems like regulation or breakups are close to inevitable.
I don't think border changes are a good measure of conflict. Iraq's border hasn't changed since the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and it's had plenty of well known conflict since then.

> I guess lessons have expiration dates. We're going to have to relearn this one.

Which lesson are you talking about? The lessons we should have learned after the League of Nations collapsed?
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You sure they didn't in the Korea or Sino-Vietnamese War?
Well yeah, that just about sums it up for me. There’s a subtle myth in absolutist free speech circles (to which I used to belong, and which I still think envision a society worth working towards) - that people are rational. In a world of rational actors, the solution to bad speech is good speech.

Humans, on the other hand, have proven themselves largely unprepared for the modern media environment. We have consumer protection laws about what can be put in our food, and I think it’s worth exploring what that would look like for media.

Personally, I come down on a power*responsibility compromise. Individual people should have the broadest possible freedoms, but:

1. Wealthy and powerful people have an unchecked ability to amplify their voices, and we should think carefully about how to manage that. Returning to a sane world of campaign finance law would be one example.

2. Media corporations have a lot of power, and many have abdicated the corresponding responsibility. I think we should work towards editorial standards, mandatory complaint resolution and correction at least for those masquerading as news.

3. Platforms like FB and YT have shown themselves capable of algorithmically maximizing engagement, and it seems that for a subset of their users the effect is radicalization and conspiratorial nonsense (Qanon, anti-vax, climate deniers, holocaust deniers etc.) I don’t have the solution, but a bit more gatekeeping against misinformation would probably help.
I tried humming for a few minutes and it cleared some mucus. Running also does that but not rehydrating makes it worse. Hyperventilating by imitating Yoga breathing patterns also do. Allegedly singing clears sinuses. Is there any chance of an easy science-backed breathing activity in future?
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Why not using something like https://github.com/Ravenbrook/mps?
The Lisp Machine was the iPhone in this analogy. Granted it was built in an era before the web, Google, git, or cloud computing. But the degree of thought put into integrating its tools was astounding. The system anticipated what you needed at any given step and gave it to you almost before you asked. I would love to put that team back together and tackle modern development.
If we're going by who has the best records, then you open up a whole can of worms. I agree when you say that Cuba has a better record in recent decades than Russia, the US, and China. If you go back far enough though, even Cuba had violations. And if you go back even further (Batista), you're talking about out and out horrors.

Now of course, where does that stop? Because if we go back in US, Russian, and Chinese history the violations are out and out horrible as well. Some bordering on genocide. (I'm sure if you're a native American, you would say they were genocide.)

Point is, you can't always just throw the human rights violations of great powers into their faces all the time. The countries that are doing so well today in terms of respect for human rights, all had their problems in the past. They don't have problems today probably because they are not powers, let alone great powers. If we demand a spotless past, we'd end up with nothing but, like, eswatini or something. Politically speaking, you have to have the great powers on board.

Would it be better if these powers were not as openly hypocritical as they are? Yes, but that's just how the world works. A necessary evil in my opinion. The council would mean less than it does now if there was just eswatini or botswana or something sitting there saying, "You guys have violations."
> Any reasonable definition of "coding" is creating something.

Not necessarily creating something. The OP really did shoot themself in the foot by using the word "coding", where what they most likely meant was doing simple alterations to computing systems that require understanding some basic control flow structures - conditionals and loops. Things like, "I seem to be doing the same repetitive sequence of steps 100x a day, let me automate this somewhat". Think Tasker and bash, not JavaScript and C++.

> this piling up of expectations just lead people to give up and pay for services rather than learn all that

A small bit of knowledge can save you a lot of money in services. I can get why wealthy wouldn't care, but most people aren't wealthy. Also, I feel there's more pressure from the sales&marketing departments of services than from modern society's demands on free time.
How could you possibly know the feelings of most Chinese citizens when they aren’t allowed to express them?
Now do per capita and income inequality.

Shanghai is modern. Huge parts of the country are developing.
>The US has concentration camps for blacks, native americans and immigrants, where they reeducate you to follow a tyrannical political system

While not concentration camps, the US still does have residential schools where they put Native American children into Christian foster homes and educate them to follow our political system in public schools. Plus the church makes millions doing it. Certainly better, but still pretty terrible.

> Where journalists repeteadly disappear? Where a treaty with the UK is ripped up and a city is invaded?

The "Collateral Murder" is video evidence of the US killing journalists during their illegal invasion of a nation. You can disagree with my evaluation of those events, but it's hard to see how we have the moral high ground here.
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Fauci admitted they lied because they knew there was a mask shortage, and they wanted to make sure medical personnel could get masks before the general population bought them all.
> Perhaps revisit the start of this discussion.

For what? People who side on curtailing a public health crisis do not want the economy to collapse.

To claim a lockdown is ineffective is to deny the transmissivity of airborne viruses.
It was profoundly more than beating wives. The entire foundation of the West is based on genocides and mass theft that make the Uyghur crisis seem small. My argument is more along the lines of: our emotional reaction to Chinese colonial projects is a subconscious projection of our own unresolved acknowledgement of the price we paid for modernity.
I think you're missing the main argument: It would take a lot of money and cross-domain knowledge to design and build a passable printer from scratch. Contrast that with software, where all you need is time and a low to medium power computer. In fact, compared to software open source, all other open source engineering is non-existent (relative to OSS, not in absolute terms).
It isnt a bad spot to be in. My only gripe against Twilio is its definitely priced for enterprise.

I wouldnt build a startup on Twilio its costs eventually add up much higher than competitors. "Just because someone spends a lot on marketing doesn’t mean you should be paying for their marketing budget, especially as the core product commoditizes."[0] On the other hand they definitely have a rich API and I suppose they have tremendous uptime to boot. I never had a single issue setting up Twilio or Sendgrid any issues I had were with a web framework or other libraries, or network firewall but never Twilios APIs specifically.

[0]: http://alanquayle.com/2018/02/sms-api-pricing/
The website does not seem to have been updated but the prediction security of PCG has been fully broken recently (and does not rely on the "Challenging" part of the spectrum): https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02700791/

Hence any cryptographic use of PCG is definitely prohibited
Putting away all the evilness about Facebook away, why would they shoot themselves in their own foot? Even from a completely evil company perspective, advertising is the biggest revenue generating aspect of their whole ecosystem, what incentive do they have to cripple it (and at least, not immediately react to it)?
Try Amethyst: https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst

It's a great window tiling manager.
It's interesting that every site had directory/portal home pages until Google. Now most search engine mimics Google's minimal search home page with little more than a search bar.

I wonder if things will ever come back around to having directory on the home page?
Facebook requires that you pay them enormous money but you do not matter to them at all otherwise, as there are always more suckers out there to replace you if you leave. Both Google and Facebook understand that support costs them money, so they don't provide any, which lets them keep the money. Quality costs money, so not having quality lets them keep more money since people are desperate enough to put up with a lack of it to point ads at 2B people. The market for ads is completely captured by Facebook and Google, so you either put up with no support and no quality, or you can't play.

It's like living in a run down tenement, no matter how many rats and roaches you have to deal with due to a lack of maintenance, you have no choice if the alternative is the street. Yet the owner makes money no matter how horrific the building.
>Negative thinking can have a detrimental effect on physical health - usually labelled as stress. It seems completely reasonable that positive thinking could have positive heath benefits

Sure. But that's neither here nor there, as bathing in ice cold water is not the mechanism - positive thinking is.

The idea that the Hof's regime did it, is what's the dellusion.
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Yes, I thought about that. "My neighbor of the same religion and complexion won a Nobel! I'm so smart!" Everyone is happy to put a finger on the scale for their own benefit. But this is different from everyone in the West benefitting from the telephone or whatever. They do! So does everyone in Japan. As for compound interest on historical plunder, that's another matter. I'm as American as can be (and as British in ancestry as you, I am sure). I do not believe I am responsible for the original crime. I am responsible for not acknowledging it or giving it back. But to a large extent that egg cannot be unscrambled.
Never used Sendgrid (have always used mailchimp) but was it also considered very developer friendly?
Again, I think you can separate these issues and care about both.

Men dominating leadership positions is a problem. Men getting degrees at a much lower rate than women is also a problem.

They have separate causes. It's not like every gendered trend is a tug-of-war with every other issue.
Definitely.
Once the AVX512-IFMA instruction set becomes more common (only available on Intel 10nm CPUs so far), I may try a PCG with 104 bits of state.
Wanting SIMD rngs (separate generator per vector lane), PCG is hurt by 64-bit integer multiplication being on the slower side. AVX2 has to perform three 32 bit multiplications, while the AVX512 instruction has much lower throughput than the likes of a xor, shift, or floating point arithmetic. The new IFMA may change that.

My use cases are Monte Carlo, where "passes statistical tests" is probably all that's needed for good results.
Maybe I should just try an mcg.
From an external position, I'd say theoretically yes. It is enough when a political rift goes through society and also the military. This rift could lead to failure of command coehesion, split of the military and ultimately infighting.

Which could, if you ask me, be a risk in case trump wins but it is rather clear that the election was fradulent (not saying it will be, but let's assume for the arguments sake it was). In which case the military would have to decide which "president" to follow, or to follow congress, or the senate, or someone else. Which could tear the military appart, let alone to speak of the national guard.
Well done youtube!! About time!

We should realise by now that Google, youtube, facebook and apple really DO have the truth! They studied truth hard, and know it! Why others don't know the truth is their problem.

Its definitely not the case that the FAANG companies are espousing a self-serving opinion, nor that they are driving a politically divisive agenda for their benefit. Its just not that!

So sorry - FAANG have the Truth, and those who get banned deserved it! And if you know what's good for you, you'd better learn the truth too and quick!
99% of FOSS consumers only care about free beer, hence the uptake on MIT like licenses.
The world has enough Islamic countries. Most of them are not open, industrialized first world countries.

Where you have Islam and a non islamic population, you have trouble. Be it the Philippines, Armenia, Myanmar, nigeria, russia, ethiopia, you name it.

China is not a non-interacting gap country like most (all?) Islamic countries. And as a westerner living happily in China, I am actually glad that China does not accept violent, tribal behaviour in China. In fact, as someone who has worked with enforcement and militaries I find the Chinese police highly professional.
One thing I love about this wonderful story is that it shows you can use constraint logic programming to solve a problem (in a hilariously roundabout way), by using a tower of languages:

Level 0: PROLOG

Level 1: (non-relational implementation of) LISP

Level 2: (purely functional? implementation of) microKanren

Level 3: (purely relational implementation of) tree balancing

In [0] we invert this approach, also arriving at code that behaves relationally:

Level 0: LISP

Level 1: (purely functional implementation of) miniKanren

Level 2: (purely relational implementation of) LISP

Level 3: (purely functional implementation of) tree balancing (or whatever)

At first glance it may seem goofy to implement LISP-within-miniKanren-within-LISP. After all, we started with LISP! However, the LISP we end up with inherits the relationality of its miniKanren implementation, which means we can encode our problem in LISP, but have miniKanren apply the search and constraint solving under the hood.

The last example in [0] goes further:

Level 0: LISP

Level 1: (purely functional implementation of) miniKanren

Level 2: (purely relational implementation of) LISP

Level 3: (purely functional implementation of) LISP

The extra level of LISP interpretation allows us to put logic variables representing unknown values in new positions, giving us increased expressivity, at a significant performance cost.

If we can figure out how to apply staged evaluation/partial evaluation/supercompilation/etc. effectively to these towers of interpreters to reduce the interpretive overhead, these "jokes" may turn out to be surprisingly useful.

[0] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3110252 and http://io.livecode.ch/learn/gregr/icfp2017-artifact-auas7pp
looks pretty interesting, but as a developer why would I commit to spending time learning and using this product without even a hint of what the pricing will be? That's a non-starter.
Yea yea ad company like microsoft and google are ruining the world.

Ads Sucks. and specially nude ads on twitch. I am sorry but ads sucks in reality.
My printer is out of yellow ink but it won’t let me print in Black and White mode.
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There is no proper framework to define a 'developed' or 'developing' country. At the WTO, individual countries are allowed to self-allocate themselves. Those in the 'developing' group then get preferential trade benefits. These trade benefits are the only reasons China holds tightly to the 'developing' country label.
I work with inkjet printers in research for my Masters program. I found the three blog posts about printing on this blog to be helpful: https://www.kylescholz.com/

The author describes their work to make a very simple DIY inkjet printer for under $1000. While they are using a nozzle that they purchased, you can make a similar one yourself (check out the book "Microdrop generation" by Eric Lee).

All-in-all it's fairly complicated just to start printing droplets, to say nothing of scaling beyond a single nozzle or precisely moving the printhead.
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Mostly the nozzle. The nozzle for an FDM 3D printer could be easily built with desktop tooling from a hardware store. The nozzle for even a cheap inkjet is not within the reach of hobbyists.

Open source 2D plotters do exist.
I’m not a fan of moves like this, but this is not the same thing as having your right to free speech infringed upon. You don’t have a right to appear on a public company’s video service. You have a right to say what you please (within limits) without fear of being punished by the government.
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The NY Post states no hacking occurred and this allegation is itself "baseless". It appears Twitter/FB simply assumed it must be hacking so they could use trigger their anti-doxxing policies, as otherwise they'd have had no policies to block it, as it's clearly journalism. But if the NY Post are telling the truth then it's actually FB/Twitter spreading misinformation.

Very, very bad move by Twitter and Facebook. The partisan rule-bending is clear.
By big FireWire, do you mean Apple's 30-pin connector? I don't remember any iPads that came with a 4/6-pin interface.
When the manufacturer of your printer offers a "driver-only" download, rather than "complete customer experience" version, it is quite small. Also linux.
Here is the crazy part about Facebook Ad Manager. It had a targeting option called "React (Javascript Library)" in Additional interests. That has been removed since last month. But Angular and other frameworks still exist as a targeting option. It is crazy because React is a Facebook product. I literally have no idea why they deprecated their own product's targeting option. And as usual, if you ask anything from support, you get back canned replies. If you are in the drop-shipping world you'll know the daily gripes drop-shippers have with Facebook Ads. Like is said in the article, the first few days are decent and then it tanks completely. Someone at Facebook who knows what they are doing needs to get Facebook Ads under control. It was working fine until all these changes wrecked the platform!
> An open source 2d printer would allow for a lot of things commercial printers don't allow for. For example, I'd like to be able to print on things which are not paper.

Those kinds of printers already exist commercially. The argument is the same: Printing on clothes or PCBs might be cool, but crappy DIY printers that can do that are even more niche than crappy DIY printers that print on paper.