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I’m not disagreeing about what was on television. However, you are saying that if someone disagrees with you that it is because of the tv they watched and your moral and legal opinion on the workings of detainment center are apparently proudly derived from tv shows, or at least that is the only thing you have provided in support of your position.

I’m really not sure why you linked to my profile. I can only assume you are attempting to imply that because my account is only a few months old, and your account is several years old, that that gives you some sort of credibility. So, to summarize, you have used old tv shows and an old account on social media as your bonafides in a discussion on the moral, ethical, and legal framework around Guantanamo Bay. Very compelling.
And this comes in the middle of a pandemic, when so many scientists cannot even go to work to access those papers.
A big part of the justification for Brexit is because the EU is a crap bureaucracy that does arbitrary, self-harming and utterly unnecessary stuff like this all the time. It's totally in character for them to do this, which simply indicates why Brexit is a good idea.
Yes, and it's a false model of "policy change".

Your link even, largely, makes this point, to quote:

Sometimes politicians can move the Overton Window themselves by courageously endorsing a policy lying outside the window, but this is rare. More often, the window moves based on a much more complex and dynamic phenomenon, one that is not easily controlled from on high: the slow evolution of societal values and norms.

It's a description of why politicians will advocate for some policies; it's not a theory of change. (Such a theory would be unevidenced and obviously false).

The quote says "rare", but i'd say, "essentially never". The "slow evolution" is also not really of norms. The public do not "Accept" ideas within some "Window" that you move by "Advocacy".

Almost all "beliefs" are grounded in technological, incentive, preference and practice structures. They are symptoms of much larger mechanistic forces that regulate behaviour (, belief, etc.).

The significant majority of "belief change" is caused by technological and economic change.
Thats a hack done not by Microsoft but probably a frustrated user who needed all subststems under a god damn umbrella.

I hate Microsoft Windows with a passion but I have to stick to it because of work reasons
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I will take sometimes-tedious boilerplate over many-many-layered abstractions.

You can write any language any which way, but some languages just have a culture of boilerplate vs abstractions. The most popular Python and Java libraries seem to love endless layers of indirection, and when it doesn't fit exactly what you need, you bang your head against the wall monkeypatching it to make it work since your whole app is already written in X mega library.

Go culture seems to be quite a bit more boilerplate-y and uses smaller more composable libraries. It's just refreshing.

Really I just need to buckle down on Rust, but I think it's a fair bet that teams and shops that bring in a lot of young programmers and want to ramp them up fast may cringe a bit at the learning curve of Rust.

That's why for now in terms of a bet on employability, I am prioritizing experience with Go.
Interesting, I had not heard about this (looks like it was announced at the most recent WWDC), but the Vimium devs already have![1]

Vimium and uBlock Origin are pretty much the only two plugins keeping me from switching away from Chrome/Firefox to Safari.

Given all the hype around Safari’s performance on new M1 Macs (and the fact that only Safari supports Apple Pay), I’d love to have parity on these two extensions extensions. It seeems like Web Extensions will not provide enough to fully support uBlock Origin, but maybe their Content Blockers will be a close enough approximation.

At the very least, I hope that Safari will gain a larger userbase from these changes, regardless what I choose to use. Having multiple large, evenly distributed userbases will only make web developers think more about Chrome-first or Chrome-only development.

[1] https://github.com/philc/vimium/issues/3610
> It's clearly _not_ hypocrisy by any normal definition of the word.

Okay sure if you define their goals for EVs simply as decreasing _local_ pollution, then you're right it's not hypocritical. Though in that case I would instead refer to it as extremely selfish, since they are using the proceeds from their exportation of pollution to decrease their own local pollution. Honestly I'm not really sure which perspective I find worse.

> There's a continuous debate...

Given you clearly don't strongly agree with what you wrote, I won't attack you on it. I'll simply point out that those arguments are really no different than all the other self-serving arguments people use to post facto rationalize their actions. If them ridiculous. They remind me of the arguments I sometimes hear from fellow Swedes saying that Sweden's large profits from arms exports aren't bad since they'd be sold by someone else anyway. Convenient how easily such reasoning can be used to ignore one's culpability.

> I mean if you think it's hypocrisy you're free to do so, but it's not very productive. What action should Norway take to reduce the worlds CO2 emissions more than they are? The Norwegian green party wants to cut all oil/gas production by 2035. Is that enough, or should they have cut everything already?

If this is a serious question, then I'll answer it. They should stop being hypocrites. That is they should either stop their exports immediately or they should come to terms with the fact that they are making the world a worse place. You might want to get rid of Solberg as a first step:

https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/7335804

"Norge är ett av världens rikaste länder, mycket tack vare sin olja. Men man tar inget klimatansvar för den olja som exporteras.

Det säger Norges statsminister Erna Solberg i Ekots lördagsintervju idag. Enligt henne är det den som köper oljan som har ansvaret för utsläppen. Och då menar hon bland annat Sverige."

Total bullshit. I mean I agree that Swedes need to take responsibility for their actions (Sweden is probably just as full of hypocrites as Norway), but Norway is selling their oil knowing very well the result. Of course they are responsible. They are selling it because they want money. There's nothing noble about it.
Isn't the amount of traffic to sci-hub the answer to that question?
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That's not necessarily true. If your organization has tens of repositories with multiple important branches in each, all odds that at least some of those branches are lost.

Proper backups of all repos are an answer, of course.
> a living room with two white armchairs and a painting of the colosseum. the painting is mounted above a modern fireplace.

With the ability to construct complex 3D scenes, surely the next step would be for it to ingest YouTube videos or TV/movies and be able to render entire scenes based on a written narration and dialogue.

The results would likely be uncanny or absurd without careful human editorial control, but it could lead to some interesting short films, or fan-recreations of existing films.
Well, Iran supporting North Korea, funneling arms and resources to terrorists, and launching missiles at us probably didn't help. The EU disagreement is specifically with the harshness of the sanctions - they still believe Iran should be sanctioned, just not as harshly.
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I think we may be talking about different simulations. I'm talking about THE simulation.
> The Islamic Republic does a lot of small-scale aggression (e.g., they just confiscated a Korean ship on free waters), and they lead many proxy militias. They also pursue nuclear weapons. Their handling of domestic affairs is also bullshit

The United States does all these things too, it just has nobody big enough to sanction it.

For the record, I am not a fan of the Islamist Republic, but banning access to GitHub does not punish the government, it puishes civilians. It also doesn't change the fact that it's the U.S. who pulled out of the Iran Deal or that medicine is impacted by the sanctions too.

I mean the U.S. is buddy buddy with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt etc. etc. the behavior you're describing is clearly not the problem here.
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None of these things preclude a great relationship with the US, however.

One could 's/Islamic Republic/KSA' here and it'd be pretty much the same stories. None of these bad behaviors would stop you from being tight allies with the US as long as your oppressive theocratic dictatorship was in the US sphere of influence.

Heck, Iran is objectively far more democratic than KSA, not that it gets them any credit.

> e.g., they just confiscated a Korean ship on free waters

The rest of the story: Because South Korea is effectively stealing $7B worth of oil from Iran. They're following the sanctions that the US unilaterally imposed after breaking its deal with Iran over nuclear enrichment, which Iran had been following.
“Similarly for advocacy, our model should perhaps be that seemingly extreme proposals serve to stretch the Overton window before the middle-ground wins out.”

This seems like an argument in favor of openly advocating positions that are good but too far from the current consensus to be adopted. Dragging the Overton window toward stupid policies or bad behavior is a different issue.
Now who’s gonna convert and submit uBlock origin to the App Store for safari?

The only extension I truly need before I use safari again.
> It's also very clearly a problem that it ignores player skill, time control and all sorts of other factors that would be basic to any kind of model claiming to have power in predicting chess outcomes.

This was exactly the point the author was trying to convey. The simplest model of chess with the fewest assumptions is that it is just a random number generator with no dependence on any factors, but this is a bad model, and the "fringe" alien who assumes there is some deeper, hidden structure to the game is correct to do so.

If it helps, consider the alien's sport of glorfball. We've never seen a game played, but we know that approximately 50% of the time the Aberdorfs win, and approximately 50% of the time the Gloophbahorps win. Based on this data, is it reasonable to conclude that glorfball is nothing but a game of chance?
I don't know what "SSC" is and a simple google search doesn't provide much, if any context.

Most hosting services have very permissive policies (they have to, they could not possibly preemptively police stuff running in VMs). If you need something more permissive, find an even more permissive hosting service (probably outside the US). I'm not saying that you do anything with a blog and be guaranteed that it stayed available, but you'd have to do way, way, way more than anything a platform like FB/Twitter would take action on.
This is pure speculation. Let me counter with the equivivalent counter argument: More likely that domain holders were given time (about 12 months) to validate their eligibility.
"your “kind of high” claim didn’t line up with the data available to us at the time."

On what basis? The cutoff is subjective. To you, your (incorrect) .6% might seem to be low, but to me, that might seem high.

You mention the Viacom controversy, but dismiss it because it's not lying and wrongly imply that reasoning as being my position. You also quote me about "journalistic integrity". One does not have to lie to be of low journalistic integrity. The Viacom controversy fits the complaint of low journalistic integrity and spans multiple years.

"I believe people should thoroughly read through anything they use to back up their claims, and it sounds like you have a different opinion."

I do believe people need to read and understand anything they are discussing. It's wrong of you to create these ad hominem attacks, and quite ironic as well.
Clicking through some of the links in the article, it looks like it refers to their ticketing operation which was apparently separate.
This is true for the source control aspects of Git, but not all of the project management aspects of GitHub. (wikis, gists, gh-pages: yes. issues, pull requests: no)
> Has anyone ever paid the individual price for an article?

Before the existence of sci-hub, I spent several hundred taxpayer euros to download taxpayer-funded research from journals that my library was not subscribed to. I was not aware that asking the library for a single pdf cost about 30 or 40 EUR, until the librarian told me. Then I stopped because it was obviously ridiculous.
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Restitution is one of the comparably less important facets of our legal system (IMO), the important strength of a good legal system is deterrence. Restitution should (again IMO) in fact be severed from judgement, harmed parties should be reimbursed by the government and the government can excise penalties on the offending parties. There are a lot of cases where defendants should be hit with serious fines due to the potential and foreseeable damages of their actions but the claimants suffered comparatively little - in these cases an imbalanced judgement where the defendant is hit with a strong penalty that is only partially awarded to the claimant is fair... Then again (in the US at least) the legal system is essentially privatized with very little government intervention in cases so this would require some other changes to do properly.

The other side of the coin is quite damaging to our society as well - a defendant being judgement proof (having nothing to penalize or fine) can deprive claimants of funds needed to repair the damage of the crime - this, again, is a case where the government awarding funds and then regaining those funds from the defendant independently would be quite beneficial.
Shareholders own the free cash flow (roughly). But through lawsuits convert that to debt.
I would have guessed Bozeman, MT and Boise, ID based on my anecdata of where people I know have expressed interest in moving to. Didn't see Madison coming as the top gainer - anyone have any insight as to why Madison gained so many tech jobs this year? Is this due to one big company going on a hiring binge or are lots of folks independently finding their way to Madison?
Curious that Ublock Origin still hasn't done this. Is there a reason why?
I suspect to get the same level of availability and trust folks have in github 100% inside Iran using local hosting providers / infrastructure is actually a bit difficult.

I think it's kinda hard to compete with the big boys with limited resources / footprint even whit / perhaps because of sanctions.
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I know some of the people that worked on the gov.uk project. They are really good.
You do know that multiple people have actually died from Teslas driving themselves into trucks and center dividers?

The worst part with the most recent center-divider crash is that it was an regression following an OTA update, demonstrating that OTA can cause just as much harm as good.
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> focus on "improving our ability to tell the difference" between information and disinformation.

Yes, absolutely.

But from my perspective this has nothing to do with the idea of whether Twitter telling you that you cannot post, or flagging your post, is a socially-significant issue that should be considered as some kind of censorship.
It's ok. Other people probably had the same question!
File embedding is a common enough use case (HTML templates, config files) that it really makes me cringe that it's being done with comments.
I'm a fast reader so I learnt Go in 4 mins. Who's hiring?
This is the kind of activism that I do see valuable form GH. Where there are actual costs and not just catering to a small minority.
What your comment and the article both miss are the second order costs to safety failures: it's not only the immediate side effects that are a problem, but rather the change in behavior coming from the rest of the population.

Yeah, it'd be a damn shame if a big chunk of the country had lunatic ideas about vaccinations.
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Part of the point is that it can launch a GraphiQL playground instance (which is how I use it most of the time)

You have the URL to some GQL API you need to look at, and so you run "gq" on the shell and pass the URL + flags for it to start a webserver running GraphiQL and auto-open it in your browser
This is why we should remove any "legislation introduced" posts - as a blanket rule.

It might as well say "so and so said...".

It's worthless news.
A securities fraud lawsuit against a company because the work environment is toxic reminds me of the movie Unforgiven. For those unaware, the movie starts with a cowboy disfiguring a prostitute with a knife because she laughed at him. After the incident, the guy who manages the brothel is financially compensated since he had invested money in bringing the prostitute to his place of business, money which he will presumably be unable to recover now that the woman has been disfigured. No compensation is ordered for the disfigured woman (another cowboy does try to compensate her out of guilt), instead, the perpetrator is flogged, and that's supposed to be enough for the woman.

There's a real gap in our understanding of capitalism and crime if it's easier to compensate shareholders of a toxic company than it is to compensate the direct victims of that toxic behavior. If a toxic culture would suppress stock prices, it seems that the same culture would suppress career advancement, physical health and general mental well being. The problem seems to be that an employee must not only prove criminality but also particularized harm, whereas the standard for a successful securities fraud lawsuit seems to be lower.
Iran and America aren't enemies. Actually if you read the History from the relationship between both countries, you will see that Iran was always a strategic geopolitics partner from USA. Our "allies" aka Israel is totally capable to deal with the issue diplomatically, without any American interference. At the same time, without American interference in Europe, it would force Germany to diplomatically solve any pending issue with Russia too..
This assumes people wake up at a certain time of day. ...which is entirely arbitrary.
> Don't let the necessity for arrogance get in the way of your willingness to do good.

I like this! Though there are other ways to describe the state of mind necessary. For example "crazy" and "naive" are used this way often.

Typically, to advance in drastic ways, one has to break out of the mold, think outside of the box, dream big... Essentially act abnormal in some way.

Most of these attempts fail, the few that succeed are worth it all, because without outliers things can't change and ultimately progress.
> Iran also assassinates its critics abroad, or kidnaps them for show trials

Just like the KSA does, who are apparently fine with the U.S. It's almost as if it's not really about that.
Hello.

I wouldn't say I am looking for a co-founder, but am open to connecting to see who is out there that may have an interest in what I have been working on, and start a dialogue.

So, it's been around 6 years now, that I have been working on a startup system that guides founders from initial idea to launch, early traction, problem-solution fit. At this point if you are thinking do you really want to follow the system of someone who has taken 6 years, I'll have to smirk and note your somewhat valid point.

It took 4 years of working with founders, and investors, to get the initial framework sorted out, which I made in Excel. I took another year to go through the framework again, and remake part of it in Access. Evidently I have a thing for MS. I released the Access version with the first few steps just here actually: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22445660

Got around 120-ish users, got the feedback, etc, etc, and have been going through the framework again, and working on MVP v3. Currently, I am redesigning the UI, polishing various content, few other bits and bobs.

In terms of what I bring to the table: 24-25 years marketing and sales, 11-ish years working with startups, 4-5 years investor portfolio support (family offices and a couple of VC's), investor relations, investor readiness, scout for a few VC's, etc, etc.

I should state I have another startup that has been running for 3 ish years, and am also working on a growth system as well. I shall leave you with a link to a page that shows where I stand on some issues pertaining to startups: https://startizer.com/problems-with-startup-material

On a different note, I see a fair few founders looking to have a chat about their MVP, about early adopters, about launching, etc, etc. Happy to have a chat, don't want anything in return.

Oh, one last thing, at no point will I be looking for outside investment, not looking to go big or go home, am already stuck at home as it is.

Cheers, Ace.

Edit: Sheesh, contact details; ace(at)startizer.com
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I have mixed feelings about it too, for the same reason. But the arguments against it are stronger.
It's incredible when you consider what it would be worth to these companies to influence the decision one way or the other. If Facebook calculated that it would cost $14 billion to convince the government/people to stop Apple from changing this default, it would probably be worth it: Facebook's revenue is about $70 billion per year, and about half is from advertising in the US.

For reference, $14 billion is the total amount spent campaigning for both the congressional and presidential campaigns in the US 2020 election.

Uber was able to buy their California ballot proposition for a mere $300 million in marketing costs.
As an Iranian living in Iran, I think you must educate yourself and do actual researches to find causes of things that happened between Iran and the U.S.

Sanctions to produce "maximum pressure" as you said is still against human rights but oh well guess how UN thinks about that. Putting citizens in misery is not how you treat a government, specially an Iranian one. You are just going against basic human rights, like not being able to import medicines or basic needs of people.

The only miserable person here is you, someone who claims to be Iranian and yet thinks giving access to private repositories on a platform is against his beliefs, let alone the way you talk about Iranian people also makes you disrespectful human being.

Your hatred against the government has nothing to do with Iranian people, so please, think twice before you post anything on the internet again, if you can't handle a simple thing like this, aka human rights, then you must have issues on giving opinions on other topics as well.

Off-topic: seems like you're one of those iranis who escaped the country for whatever the situation you were in and now you've got the tongue to speak out, so you start attacking on normal citizens because YOU think that YOU are better than them, there's just too many of you, you're not the only one.
I wonder if in near future, the war against the West is best taken by this approach, misinformation and pandemic. Seems like this is the holy grail of weapon most effective against Western thinking.

If a nation X and Y and Z can work together to cook more virus and more misinformation and intentionally release it in Western countries, that would spell doom. This is the Prisoner's Dilemma for Western countries.