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I’ll also add that they did this without a good enough reason too.

I know this is going to go against the media narrative about how reprehensible the riot was, and the reverence we must pay to Congress, but for the entirety of 2005-2020, Congress had record low approval ratings.

Last week we just visually saw the reality of storming congress (you may not even know it’s possible in your perceptions until you literally see it).

Well, people just saw it’s possible. Either base can find a lot more reasons to rile themselves up and go down there. So, I really don’t buy that Americans will by and large condemn the act, especially on the Republican side. Those polls are for sure under-tallied, Congress (and now particularly, a Democratic congress) is way too hated by the agitated right-wing, the once war mongering Bush nationalists, to the reimagined tea-party anti-Obama coalition, to the re-imagined anti-authoritarian Trump cohort, to the newly re-imagined ___________ (militant?).

Not a fringe my dear friends, an evolving force.
It also mentions there a bias in both directions, depending on the topic. Plus, it only considers US viewpoints/political alignments, and not Canadian, British, Australian, or other countries.
Point 2 reminds me how much of our minds are linked to social relationships. I'm jobless and went to help a charity.. the simple fact of being part of the group changes how I wake up, my schedule, my sleep and more.

That said, I'm still seeking the curiousity driven exercise where you're not in passive mode but playful and trying stuff for the sake of trying, it's an internal pleasure and a hygiene you know.

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I don't think "the gloves are off" can be an incitement of violence im any context at all. Even a violent one. It only means "it is time to increase the intensity of my efforts in this context". That context could be a fight or a colouring book competition. The term is origin agnostic and nothing to do with boxing.

If he said "destroy them" as people are out destroying things, yes obviously. Or if he's been ranting about stolen elections and fraud and calling for action.

If he said "fight them, in the polls | marketplace of ideas! Destroy them!" or something then obviously not.

Trying to pretend any of this is like, too ambiguous to really make a call on, is a joke. Anybody can spot the difference.
Then the second biggest lie is:

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plants compete for sun and secrete toxins to discourage other plants (try growing tomatoes under a black walnut tree)

bacteria, funguses and such also try to poison other species, sometimes even their own conspecifics.

The standard model of population growth is exponential at short time but flattens out because of resource competition -- so I'd say even the simplest life forms do some kind of harm.
There is a Slack community here, although it doesn't seem too active: https://lead-dev-slack.herokuapp.com/
The impact you can make as a CTO is bringing an engineering perspective to the board and keeping engineers happy (either by doing it personally or by delegating to someone else, eg. a VP).

Both are important tasks because it's easy for business to start thinking of engineering as just a cost centre (which is the easiest way to make sure your company will never use technology efficiently to multiply its revenue) and because hiring engineers costs can be a significant part of your company spend
Are those then “little details” or “traps”?

The story doesn’t report that only an elite few were able to solve a specific next-level question to get full marks. It says some people are so hung up on grades that they went straight for the honey pot.
We're closer than I think you give us credit. The only major component we're missing is that normal browsers don't have the ability to verify that the portal is serving you the right code - which is of course super important.

Once you have that though, the rest can be done within the webapp itself. Credentials are managed by a separate webapp like https://sky-id.hns.siasky.net/, and some apps already have built in failover to try other portals if one is not responding.

With the advent of utreexo, it's even possible to run full blockchain nodes inside of a webapp. Again you need an integrity check on the code served by the portal, but if you have that you can independently do everything else.
I think the idea is that early Protestants like Calvinists believed in predestination - that it was already decided who would was going to heaven. One would think this would make the predestined not care about their actions, but the trick is that no one was sure who the predestined were. Since it was believed that the predestined would be exemplars of the faith, people would act like they thought the predestined would act.

I’m not a psychologist or a theologian, but it sounds related to that concept in child psychology: when a child misbehaves, it’s better to say “you did a bad thing” than “you are bad”. The latter leads to the child labeling themselves as bad, suggesting that’s the natural way they should act.
From a legal standpoint, the fact that I’ve robbed a dozen banks is not evidence that I robbed a particular bank on a particular date. Similarly, from a quasi-legal standpoint, the fact that I cheated on one exam is not evidence that I cheated or will cheat on another.
> what a real coup (attempt) looks like

While I agree the physical attempt was weak. Parler was literally hyping up about killing multiple politicians ( eg. Planting the head of the VP on a tree).

Additionally, they got really far, up to the chamber where they hid. If they would have breached that chamber, the coup could have succeeded ( eg. No Pelosi/Pence/Biden/..)

I severely underestimated the talks on Parler until I saw the evidence and Amazon banned them.

As a reference, the coup on 06/01 is very similar to this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall_Putsch

Also, the 50 lawsuits without any sufficient evidence to throw out legitimate votes and trying to win by in person peer pressure doesn't belong in any western democracy.

This was a coup.
A failed coup is still a coup.

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If a website knows I didn't really read a contract, can they claim I am bound by it?

I like to hope that the time-spent-reading is logged somewhere. Should it come up in court, Website.com would be required to disclose their logs which would show that I spent all of 1.35s reading their terms and conditions, most of which was spent scrolling.

Another puerile hack of mine is to sign a document with the name "I do not agree" and then press accept, and see if they agreed to let me use the service anyway.
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The problem with the analogy is that children have adults as teachers. But in politics, we are the adults, and there are no teachers who can be trusted to know better.

I also think your last paragraph is over-the-top, and probably reflects a relatively biased sample from the underlying facts.
My sense is that there is so much pressure in the weather industry to get ad clicks/revenue that it seems that they make speculative events seem more likely and more dramatic. The amount of snow storms that are going to be heavy snow and dangerous condition have been overblown to the point that I don’t believe them until after the snow is down. I recognize the aspect of public safety element of calling storms though there is significant risk of crying wolf. I would never have considered myself someone who would fall into that category but the poor level of accuracy has forced me in that route. I’m suspect of this very dramatic prediction coming through.

For the record I track weather for a multitude of sports are dependent on specific aspects so am close to the forecasting nature.
Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom to force others to listen or post your recorded message. Everyone is free to speak out. Everyone is free to write letters.

Yes it sucks your audience is limited but you are correct, people have a right to any platform they are able to create.

Also monopolies and oligopolies are what happens in unregulated capitalism. If frustrates me that the many of folks today who take issue with the tech giants have been pro deregulation, pro capitalism, and screaming about how afraid we should be because a boring sleepy vanilla POTUS is going to usher in socialism and communism... WTF is your solution then? Everyone can point out problems and evoke FUD.
> But in the sense of a system where no one reigns over another.

even in anarchy, there will be those who reign over others.
Yeah deflationary is dumb but not bad when there’s also population deflation.

If millennials invest in btc before boomer pensions get in, it’ll be a needed transfer of wealth.

If there’s a deflationary asset wave, each person is incentivized to get in early. Which I think is what is happening.

Although I think one huge hack or whale unloading could drop the trust in Bitcoin for years.
The team recently did an AMA on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/kogsuw/we_are_term...
Your statement has no basis in scientific fact whatsoever.

The timeline for severe consequential effects of climate change are a hundred years away.

Your hysteria only damages the climate change cause, because in 10 years time people will use proclamations such as yours to deny climate science.
TBH I don't agree with anarchists. I don't think it is possible to have a flat society devoid of hierarchy. I also don't think all hierarchy is bad and it is not clear to me that a flat society would be better. I think it is easy to make the argument that some people should have more influence than others.
The crucial part is how the hierarchy is developed and how stable it is.
Oil and gas is such a large part of Norway's economy it will always be difficult for other industries to thrive. We have the same problem in the UK with finance.
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People design for a wider variety of screens now. The wider variety of screens constrains the set of workable solutions more.

There are also other effects. I've heard it said that Google scores site on readability (no medium grey text on light grey background), which is one more factor pushing people towards using colour schemes like those of big famous sites. (It may be true, it may be false, I don't know, I don't care, it doesn't even matter.) But I think the big factor is that nowadays, site builders aren't permitted to design for 1024×768 and let other sizes suck, so all the classes of designs that suck on some commonish devices have gone away.
I understand your sentiment, but most westerner’s everyday lives will not be affected by climate change this decade, outside of government initiatives to help solve the problem. That’s why it’s so damn unfair: it’s the poorest people in the world that will bear the early burden.

It’s my opinion that if we give people in the west unrealistic timelines, it will only serve to undermine the political effort to solve the issues for the long term.
It breaks trust with the teacher. You are paying for knowledge and an honest evaluation of your mastery of that knowledge. That real-world skill is not a good fit for a test without the foreknowledge or training.
So called "liberals" have a habit of trying to get conservative forums shut down by spamming them with actually illegal posts, not to mention infiltrating the moderator teams, etc. And why not, they don't have to work so they have all the time in the world.

I have never used Parler so how can I know if that's what's going on here, but it is standard practice on i.e. reddit. This makes the whole point of only allowing "reasonable" speech pretty moot. Free speech really is a black and white issue, even if you would never post anything unreasonable yourself.
> Will we defeat ignorance, or will ignorance defeat us?

It's not ignorance that's the problem. The people orchestrating global warming denialism aren't stupid - they are just cynically self-serving.
I personally know two people that lost all data with Contabo, so be careful.
Urg. This is dumb in so many ways. I think articles like this are written as clickbait. Idiots think it's smart and the rest of us argue over fairness/practicality/wider issues.
Not letting people go to the toilet seems like an obvious solution. It's the same during many situations in life. If you really have to go you fail the test and try again later.
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How do I feed myself? I don't know what you mean.

Government's goal is to implement whatever governance is decided to be best to manage people.

You say a mob stormed congress. I saw a dramatic event, that justifies a lot of authoritarian actions to be undertaken on others. Including de-platforming the president! Isn't that amazing?

Other dramatic events are perfectly fine, of course, such as the BLM protests.

Why is that? The answer for me is that some protests suit the governance agenda, and some don't. A message needs to be given to indicate rightthink and wrongthink.

I think you must believe that the government (lights, camera) 'action' you see on TV are far more than a simple soap opera intended to distract you. Perhaps you believe that one side is 'good' and the other 'bad'. If that's it, you are falling for the good cop/bad cop routine, and being sold down the river by both sides.

(I don't mind moderation - but what we have on HN is no room for free thinking, consensus opinion wins the day. Was I really posting too much, was I undertaking a DDOS attack? Or was my opinion, if reasoned, unpopular and not to be heard. Let me know.)
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I do find it interesting that some of those who think that medical professional should have a right to refuse lifesaving medial care to people for "moral reasons" are also up in arms about this happening.
Why give tests at all then? Give everyone a grade of “PASS” and eventually their lack of mastery will catch up with them.
The article talks about whole unsolvable exercise needed for full credit, which is a trap. It is not little detail at all. You used the expression "little details", I have put it in quotes because I dont think it is accurate characterization at all.

> It says some people are so hung up on grades

So? Practically, grades matter pretty often. And even if they did not, there is nothing wrong with being motivated by grades or having grades related ambitions.
At my school an instructor cannot prevent a student from leaving an exam to go to the bathroom if they insist. Keep in mind these exams can be four hours long.

Don't recall for sure if it's a CYA policy or the state law, tend to think it was the latter. They can claim it's not allowed, but more savvy students will know better and you have to allow them. You can however have a TA accompany them and wait outside the stall. You can also make them leave their phone but of course they can keep another phone on them.
USA since a lot of commuting, but I think safety is pretty universal. Depending on infrastructure in any place the climate can kill you might not be a good idea.
>Another is that you see very little “high risk / high reward” economic activity, like really innovative companies

This doesn't seem to be true. Nordic countries rank very high in terms of startup ecosystems and startups per capita.
I think XMPP is a really good contender in the non-centralized personal-and-public messaging space. It doesn't look like an insurmountable effort from one person to support the XEPs required to create a competent chat application, unlike my impression of Matrix.

I think a nice, lean-but-glossy desktop client (we already have Conversations on mobile) would be really good for the platform. It's a lot easier to fight network effects if the end-user-experience is tangibly better (and you can do a LOT better than the current incumbents that are Slack and Discord.)
This was the biggest problem with PeerTube. For Mastodon I clicked the big "join" button on the website and filtered by technology > foss and fosstodon.org was the largest option and seems to have a great community. For PeerTube trying to do the same thing I found some small technology instance with a few hundred videos. I chose peervideo.club because it's the 4th largest (so I'd be in good company if it's taken down) and seemed to be the largest English focused instance. From their about, "Peer Video Club is a chill PeerTube instance most likely just for testing. How long we plan to maintain this instance: ¯\(ツ)/¯. How we will pay for this instance: Owners's own funds". Doesn't seem like a pillar of stability.

My understanding is I could backup (no plans), and restore to another instance. To take my followers with me I would have to leave peervideo.club in a more planned way and set my account to redirect to another. No idea how long the redirect would have to stay up for most of my subscribers' instances to get the message. Even with federated you need some degree of trust that you won't be kicked off or have you instance shut down with no warning.
So do you want to Forbid News reporting on Cop violonece too, because it can result in violent Protests? What about school shootings. Reporting on that can convince others to do it too.
Yes, there are lots of difficulties in the Nordic countries - centralization and unemployment is a plight for lots of rural areas. Some towns are pretty much being propped up by local gov. and state employment, with very little private enterprise going on.

Hell, a lot of would-be entrepreneurs and business owners don't see the benefits / rewards of starting something for themselves, because you put in all those hours, with the possibility to come off worse than if you had just chosen a mediocre state job.

Salaries are quite compressed, which is great for equality - but not so much for motivation, if you're very ambitious.

With that said, we do live comfy lives, compared to most people around the world.

Source: Norwegian
I have similar questions too. It seemed as if it was tied to a single device and transferring information from one to another also seemed cumbersome.
You don't have this dynamic in the States.

You do, there is a huge disparity between coastal states and the rest of America. You can see that in the political map. This leads to problems like we saw last week.
That read exactly like an 'apocryphal' story (make up for effect). I was suspicious from the first sentence.

I wish more HNers could read articles for 'fake news' tells. Especially ironic as the article purportedly was about fake news.
This is true, like anything, you need to build up to it. I lived an entirely sedentary lifestyle for the first 30 years of my life, hated all sport and physical activity. Dated a girl who taught me the joys of exercise and movement and I've been hooked on running for the past 4 years.

Takes some time to build up a base, and of course you need to be careful if you are quite heavy initially like I was. If you just listen to your body and don't overdo it, it all comes together pretty naturally. While bad form is a risk, a lot of what I've read seems to indicate that your body will naturally find a running gait that is optimal for your body and minimizes impact. Running without headphones also helps, just listen to your footfalls and adjust your stride to minimize impact. (I can't find any studies on this, but I can't help but feel that a lighter footfall is likely minimizing impact on joints somehow)
If you can't possess a defensive weapon capable of deterring/ detaining an attacker, if needed, for an extended period of time, until you are either able to escape, or until the police arrive...

then zipties become a useful compliment to a taser (which is only able to disable an attacker temporarily).
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> Norway is probably the least good example example, due to the relative dominance of the oil & gas sector,

I once found an article I haven't been able to find ever since, but it's on a basic economic theory that high profitability in sector X makes sector Y uncompetitive. (read X as Oil and Y as anything else in this example).

This is because the profits not only X push up wages in sector X. But also in Y, because the entire market must also compete with X in a bid to attract labour.

This makes Y less competitive compared to other countries which don't have such a sector X.

Of course in a world without friction, labour would move across borders to the first country's sector X and thereby push up wages in Y around the world. But labour mobility is obviously lower between countries than within countries, so other countries tend to be a little more insulated from this effect of profitable industries abroad.

Does anyone remember the name for this economic theory?

I feel this happened with Norway. In the 70s and 80s for example you saw it become less competitive and more rapidly deindustrialised.

Still, you'd also think this would fuel a high-tech industry because you'd have to get into high-value added sectors to compete. Meanwhile Norway's second biggest export product is fish. Would be fun to have a Norwegian (economist) join us for some explanatory thoughts!
Umm, no. That is not comparable, because censorship is done by the winning side. The comparison you made would be valid if it was Trump who did the censorship, blocking Biden/Antifa/etc and purging them from all major news networks.
Yes, as long as they make it a required step. It's your fault if you choose to not read it.
I never heard of Germany being Nordic country.
No, haven't you heard, it was Twitter's deplatforming that defeated ISIS
Yeah that was my experience at university in the UK (well you put it in your bag and got a ticket like at a cloakroom) and that was in 2008 so pre smartphones being common amongst students. If university's or schools are allowing kids to have access to phones during exams in 2021 they're idiots or silently encouraging their students to cheat in order to boost their rankings (not unheard of admittedly in the UK)
> ability an "ordinary" person (particularly one without substantial inherited wealth) has to influence their life outcomes, and what kinds of things can be done at the individual and societal levels to improve the present situation.

what can be done, as of today, is education, and applied effort to learn useful skills. That's what hard work is! That's why there's such a huge fuss every year in china regarding the national college entrance examination - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_College_Entrance_Exam... - entire towns are run silent and distraction free to allow students to study and take the exam.
I would make a distinction between "objective" and "explicit". Daniel's model is product of his judgment. It's his perogative and responsibility as a leader, and he's well intentioned, etc, but his judgment is subjective. I am not familiar with the UK system but providing explicit criteria and an oppty for feedback seems like a step forward relative to the US. It's a question as to what else would need to change in US industry for that approach to play well.

Pooling diverse judgments is a way to produce more robust predictions. An explicit model can help multiple people engage. Daniel did not mention discussing the re-designed org with any of his team. A less top down approach than his might have included seeking feedback about direction and team composition from members of the team itself.
I have seen a few that forced you to at least scroll down before unlocking the accept button or included a thirty second countdown to keep you from clicking through.
I think we need some universal standards for ToS. The same way we have some visual rating signs for movies and video games. Most of it should be regular and easy to categories. And there should be a separate rating for how many irregular terms are in there.