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Well, group injustice is just individual injustice done to many individuals. And, I think, you would not consider it unfair to demand a robber to pay back the money he's stolen. The problem with underprivileged groups is not the reality of the offense against them, nor the identity of the victim, but the identity of the perpetrator, and this is where study and of power comes in. Because the reality is that human society, like gas molecules, performs many acts not as individuals but as a group (even collective property preceded the invention the first private property), and therefore the perpetrator in the offenses of underprivilege is society as a whole. The actions under discussion are not as acts of nature but acts like for men, acting as a group (and collective action is a positive fact). Assigning individual responsibility is as futile as assigning individual responsibilty to specific gas molecules in expanding a balloon; doing so is just an ineffective model. And what society has stolen as a group (from individuals!) it must pay back as a group. Identifying the victims as a group is just a matter of statistical convenience as well as an aid in the description of the dynamics.

That an electron is measured through its effect does not mean that we don't need to describe the electron itself. In fact, it is crucial that we do in order to understand its action. Same thing for power: you almost never observe it directly, but its study, and the term itself, are required in order to understand the workings of society.

And as to this game, I don't think it's inherently bad at all, but if its role in society is not studied it might become an unwilling accomplice to injustice. And, if, one day it is somehow discovered that abilities that convey power are dominantly genetic, I do not think that we should give certain jobs to people unsuited to them, but our society is judged not by the achievements of those born to privilege, but by how it takes care of those who lack it. Exactly how this moral obligation should be carried out is a complex matter in itself, and far beyond what I can write here.
Sorry, I don't know about that. Would this help: http://www.geek.com/microsoft/linux-users-rejoice-heres-ubun... ?
There's no need to give up on the offensive tactic (legal action) because we will implement a defensive tactic (encryption). Inevitable or not, we can do both.
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I just think calling everything "color blindness" isn't particularly helpful in discussions about color vision. In everyday conversations I just say I have a "red/green weakness", which is what most people know it as in my language (German). However the term carries a few unfortunate implications (namely, that it's just about distinguishing red and green in general, which couldn't be further from the truth).

If you're in the same boat as me, having to explain yourself whenever you tell people what it means to be "color blind", I've found this article helpful: http://critiquewall.com/2007/12/10/blindness (the images are nearly indistinguishable for me, except for a few variations in intensity and subtle changes in hue).
Another option would be to just tell them and not play games with them.
If you would like to put words in my mouth, please at least put the right ones in there for me. Otherwise, I'll take that $75 billion you are referring to and let you say whatever you want on my behalf.

In all seriousness, you can support the Federal Government and still have constructive debates.

EDIT: My point is no person is getting $75 billion just to shut up and have their opinion swayed. Being loyal to the Federal Government does not bar you from using its processes to improve its processes.
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> big content providers are never going to sell you a file

This is obviously wrong in principle. The way music downloads work right now is exactly what I've been describing - music from iTunes or Amazon comes without DRM, and they allow me to purchase songs wherever I am, from wherever I am.

If your argument is those DRM-less music files don't make it onto Torrent sites, you're mistaken. Nevertheless, they sell them without DRM, because customers pressured them into it.

I buy it on iTunes, I put it into my music folder, copy it around to all my machines, it's just fine.

So I'm a German national being in France right now. If I decide to buy some music from iTunes, I click on the "buy" button and stuff starts downloading. However, if I try to purchase a TV show, it starts out by showing me only German shows. Deep down, I can find outdated US originals with subtitles - which is the best option they give me! What happens when I try to actually purchase one? "There is a problem with your iTunes account". Oops, I'm currently in the wrong country, no show for me! There is no getting around the fact that this sucks, it sucks needlessly, and to the detriment of everyone involved.
You're probably right. Big businesses like McDonald's and Hilton and Hertz could never be overcome by the little guy.

On a completely unrelated note, if you ever find yourself in North East Ohio, I have some nice apartments you can stay at that are much cheaper than the local hotels:

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/2235649

The airports are a bit of hike to here, though, so you may want to use Uber.
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At least now you have a healthy appreciation of the problems involved in time travel.
That's a pretty broad statement to make; do you have some examples? Linus's coming down on people is practically legendary but I don't remember seeing a lot of grief coming out of Greg over the years.
> “If we can get out of the way, our guests can create more memories.”

“If we can get out of the way, our guests can spend more money.” - FTFY.
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The "cyberwar" which you're undoubtedly referring to is one thing. Mass surveillance of the world's population is something else.

Yes, the future is digital. And yes, there will be dangers from several global parties. But why does the NSA chose to effectively weaken public communication by discovering and using security issues in known protocols instead of making sure those get fixed (if the NSA can find it, who's to say no one else can?).

With their proven effort to make everyone's communication interceptable (and effectively weakening crypto systems in all possible manners) they aren't protecting anyone, but instead putting US companies, US citizens and all global users of the web at an even higher risk.

I haven't even started on the effects on civil rights and freedom of speech of a global surveillance apparatus that is acting in secret and not under democratic control.

If it would be about an arms race, why not enforce secure crypto standards and help the industry in that regard? Clearly it's not about having more "cyber power" than China, North Korea and what have you. Instead, it's about having power on individuals, no matter where they're from.
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I am a Wikipedian, a contributor of free content to Wikipedia. (I contribute in Chinese, in German, and in some other languages too.) I read the Wikimedia Foundation blog kindly submitted here by an early Wikipedian and read all the comments here posted before mine before writing this reply. In the last two weeks, I've renewed acquaintance with quite a few local Wikipedians at two Wikipedia Edit-a-Thons that occurred in my town.

I see the Wikimedia Foundation has a rationale for its suit based partly on United States law. It writes, "Our aim in filing this suit is to end this mass surveillance program in order to protect the rights of our users around the world." Because I edit Wikipedia in languages other than English, crucially including Chinese, I am painfully aware that there are a lot of restrictions of the rights of users of Wikipedia all over the world, evidently some of them not within the reach of the United States legal system. There seems to be no prospect, for example, of the Wikimedia Foundation suing the Russian or Chinese central governments (not even to mention north Korea's regime or the ISIS self-styled regime) to protect the rights of users of Wikipedia. That's too bad. If the NSA surveillance programs ceased later today, there would still be a lot of places around the world where Wikipedia would be inaccessible or Wikipedia users would be harassed by agents of other governments.
Electric cars emit fake noise, DSL lines never had a fake handshake security sound.
Without more staff and without more clear laws and court decisions this isn't going to change.
> Resolution of 2304x1440 which means at Retina this is 1152x720!. This is worse than the 11 inch air, much less the 13 inch 1440x900. I don't think people realize how cramped this will seem if you start doing work on this laptop.

I've been using a retina Macbook Pro with the '1680 x 1050' scaling option for a couple of years; works very nicely. I wouldn't see this as a major worry.
RWW operated for 8 years with no money raised and then cashed out when Richard retired. HuffPo makes more in revenue p.a than what AOL paid for it. They may have only technically not been profitable at acquisition because of their reinvestment in business. There are a ton of other profitable, bootstrapped media businesses - I just happen to know those I mentioned.
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Interestingly, this came to my attention via Twitter as a negative thing (https://twitter.com/hypatiadotca/status/575225661763153921) - I was surprised as other than the title, it seems fairly well-intentioned and like a move in the right direction.
Writing is already open source. You just have to give attribution. You don't have to rephrase something. That's what quotes are for.

The problem with plagiarism isn't really students not citing where a statistic comes from (which is a problem. I always tell students that no one ever got in trouble for citing too much...) but is when they take whole papers or paragraphs from someone else and present it as their own.
nahamed - what did you think?
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I see aspects of neopuritanism WRT sitting, but its not working well because walking isn't torturous enough and sitting isn't enjoyable enough.

The best way to puritan-ize it is probably to greenwash the thermostat up to 85F in the summer and require treadmill desks for the proles, then let management sit in separately air conditioned individual offices at 70F. Guarantee you're going to see this at the "trendy" offices real soon.
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It's a language construct, a figure of speech, nobody is being realistically threatened

I'm puzzled by how someone can miss that, but of course this is HN and some people take everything literally.
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Off topic, but why does Google return "About 187,000 results" for ("* is about to *" site:wired.com) and only "About 14,600 results" for ("is about to" site:wired.com)?

Isn't the second query less restrictive?
Something that is definitely wrong with Linux is font rendering, it is really hard to get something decent, even when using tools like Infinality.
It's not to be taken literally. Still though, it seems over the top.

I think part of the problem with Linus' style is that people will inevitably try and imitate him. Not many will manage the intelligence and coding skills, but pretty much everyone can be a jerk if they put their mind to it.

I suppose you can say it's not his fault if people do that, but perhaps with a bit more kindness (to people, not to their bad ideas), the world would be a better place.
> "... taxes that ... keep people from investing ... in a much more distributed way ... [than] they'd prefer ..."

There's an implicit assumption in there that reducing taxes will cause people to 'invest' more -- i.e. something like the trickle-down effect. I believe there's enough evidence to show this isn't how things actually play out (people still keep their cash).

Also governments, need to set up/support entities that do figure out how to disburse funds appropriately. Like Research Councils in the UK or the NSF in the US who have established processes to do exactly this. How is that less distributed than a rich person deciding for themselves? Also, there are fundamental areas of research that would be completely ignored if we relied solely on the wealthy to solve problems.

> "Please don't thank the government unless you think they know better how to distribute this money than the people they claim to spend it for."

That assumes that people have enough knowledge about where it should be spent. I strongly disagree with that. You cannot achieve fundamental scientific breakthroughs this way.
I don't think they want that. They take this course because "this was preventable!" is very politically disruptive. None of them want to be the guy who voted against mandatory data retention only to play host to an attack on home soil months later. It's sad, but that's the reality.
I really love the Finder Quick Look option using the space key, so you can have a quick pick without using a pane.

Apart from that, Windows Explorer is definitely above the Finder that has been stalling for years now...
Both are true and valid. Making the process seamless benefits the company and the customer.
Will Tornado continue to be maintained?
There are still a lot of commits being made: https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/commits/master
Yeah, but what's their cost for one of these files and how does it compare to an episode of...Nurse Jackie, let's say?

You might not want/need subtitling but the vast majority of the foreign fans of Games of Thrones (for example) depend on it to be able to watch. So, if HBO was ever to give "files" around just like that, they would have to make sure that they are offering something far superior to torrented content, at a cost that makes it more convenient to choose it over the torrents.
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My first reaction to the magicbands was pretty cynical, like this.

But it's really astonishing how much more convenient and enjoyable it made the vacation. No need to slog a camera, wallet, etc. I was surprised that even the smallest out-of-the way Disney feature (Magic Express at the airport, entry into the resort pools, e.g.), they still had a way to scan the magic bands.

If we did end up spending more because of it, it wasn't much more. And it might just be worth it.
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Ouch. Not a traditional attack one would expect on a USB port. Would be there any practical protection against this (surge protector, fuse)?
They would make more than they make now, that's for sure. Because right now, there is no way for me to pay them.

But there are lots of other people that are paying them. If getting you to pay more means that all those people start paying less, then they might very well lose. Also it's worth remembering that the guy in the sofa in front of his TV is not the only HBO customer. They make money selling their shows to other TV channels as well.
I own a macbook right now (it's one of the best laptops I've owned) and I will use this one until it dies because I dislike what they are doing with the new one. If it stays this way, I will likely go back to a windows machine. I agree with the above comment. It's ridiculous. Actually it's not. It's pretty typical of Apple.
Thanks for sharing this - it's great to see this level of detail on an adtech stack. I wanted to ask a little more about the user profiles in Aerospike. What process is writing 12k profiles a sec, and what's the read path - is Aerospike e.g. wired into Nginx using https://github.com/aerospike/aerospike-mod-lua ? Any gotchas with Aerospike versus e.g. a Cassandra or DynamoDB?
But no Thunderbolt to USB-C. So those sexy $1000 displays you just got because Thunderbolt is the new black and integrated seamlessly with your MacBooks? GFYS, they're deprecated, no more Thunderbolt. Two years is a long time for a Retina 27" monitor anyway, time to upgrade.
That's the one of coolest things in Disney World and worth the extra money you'll pay for that (about US$ 14). It's really impressive how does it work and how it gets connected to other services, like restaurant reservations, 'fast-pass' and memory maker management.
I mean, some people complained, bought adapters, and life went on.
Who needs to upgrade to the next device? More likely, you'll upgrade every N devices, where N depends on your personal needs.

This, incidentally, is almost certainly the purchasing behavior of the vast majority of computer owners. RAM and disk upgrades (particularly on laptops) are performed by a fairly tiny minority of consumers. Yet it seems disproportionately cited when shopping, likely due to an illusion of control or the laughable (in computing terms) myth of "future-proofing".
There are always douche-bags in every community. Ignore them.
We're both getting downvoted for this. I'm not sure what we seem to be missing!
> Japan was not interested in any outcome that didn't preserve their empire in China. that was non-negotiable to them.

That is not true according to the article by Walter Trohan I quoted above[1]. From that article:

> 4. [Japanese] relinquishment of Manchuria, Korea and Formosa, as well as all territory seized during the war.

This peace proposal was virtually identical to the one Japan ended up accepting. The only difference was that it did not offer the surrender of the person of the emperor.

The veracity of this proposal has never been questioned or denied:

> The authenticity of the Trohan article was never challenged by the White House or the State Department, and for very good reason. After General MacArthur returned from Korea in 1951, his neighbor in the Waldorf Towers, former President Herbert Hoover, took the Trohan article to General MacArthur and the latter confirmed its accuracy in every detail and without qualification.

(Harry Elmer Barnes, "Hiroshima: Assault on a Beaten Foe", National Review, 10 May 1958)

So there is no reason to doubt it.

As for your belief that the US was concerned about another war in 20 years, I am aware that this commonplace ideological piece of rhetoric is very well documented. But let's take it a face value. Let's say we believe that the real reason the US chose to firebomb Tokyo and burn to death around 100,000 people, mostly children, elderly and caretakers was to save lives by preventing another war in the next 20 years. The very least you could say is that it didn't work very well: the US was fighting another war in Korea 5 years later, Cuba 16 years later and Vietnam 20 years later. And yet the rhetoric keeps coming back, as justification for every single one of these events. So if fighting wars doesn't actually seem to prevent any killings, but always warrants more wars, why not change tactics? Why not try a different approach, for example a game of rock-paper-scissors between world leaders? The answer is that wars do indeed work for the purpose they are fought for. But this purpose is not preventing other wars, as ideology would have you believe, but instead to establish the might of the state in the general competition of states for power and domination. And populations are simply the means by which states achieve this purpose: their own population as productive force for the war machine and canon fodder; and the enemy's population as evidence of the state's power, in the form of number of casualties. The more you kill, the better.

[1]: http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1945/08/19/page/1/article...
Eh, those graphs can be deceiving but still, strange move on his part.
He's not calling for someones death. He's using hyperbole to make a point.

You're of course free to find that offensive, but if you think he's genuinely questioning whether or not another human being should be allowed to live or survive, you don't understand the message.

EDIT: It's also a point that likely stems from longstanding frustration. The amount of userspace software that does stupid amounts of system calls because people still do not realise how expensive system calls are is astounding. My favourite high profile pet peeve with this used to be the MySQL client library (don't know if it's been fixed) that used to do an astounding number of tiny read()'s which could have been cut to a tiny fraction with some basic user-space buffering. You can often find substantial bottlenecks in applications in about 10 seconds by attaching strace and look for stupid amounts of syscalls.
Finder is not Windows Explorer verbatim, which seems to be the primary complaint.
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Precedent is a powerful thing.

I wouldn't give up hope yet, for the anti-surveillance movement.
There are some really cheap options to upgrade that POS, if it is a socket 775 desktop.

Core 2 Duo is about the time when Moore's law really started slowing down, that is you can get by just fine with a 9 year old Core 2 Duo.

Even if you had bought a top of line CPU(Pentium D?) 11 years ago you it would still be sluggish today.
You and me both. But to be honest, I'm not that interested in Apple news unless I'm planning to make a purchase. I've got my iMac and Macbook Pro which will both see me good for at least another two years, I have no interest in buying an iPhone or iPad so why would I take an interest in what Apple is pimping now? I'll come back in a couple of years time when I need an upgrade.
We used to use Schuko plugs here in Ireland, but switched to type G plugs for convenience and trade reasons back in the '60s. I think my grandparents' house still had some Schuko sockets about the place.

Personally, I'm not too bothered either way. I don't find either any more or less annoying as they're both pretty bulky, unless you're using Europlugs, which lack most of the benefits of Schuko plugs.

Still nothing compares in its awfulness to North American plugs. Aussie plugs are similar, but they had the good sense to tilt the prongs at an angle to give the plug better mechanical stability.
Rackspace have a huge office in London.
Note: will only fix the problem going forward. Not looking at the trillion or so sized existing problem.
As people become increasingly inured to the trickle of revelations, I do think that lawsuits are important. If Wikimedia doesn't have anything more than a logo on a slide, however, this will be tossed for lack of standing, like several cases before it.
Wait, how does the Magic Band replace a camera?
Tornado has a BDFL (Ben Darnell) who continues to maintain it, and hasn't been a part of facebook/friendfeed for some time now.
You effectively had that during the latter Hoover years with the FBI. That the headquarters is still named after him is an indictment of the US approach to political corruption.
The gold Macbook is coloured gold-ish. The gold watch is made of solid gold. It's a bit different.
That's not always the case - but it frequently is, and yes, does make the direction of the cable even less of an issue!
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I have a nice mechanical watch already, I wind it up every day and put it on when I get out of bed.

Although I like technology a watch is as much about fashion as it is about knowing the time, and on that basis the classy mechanical watches are never going to look out of place.

(People compliment me on my watch at least once every month or two, although my wife teases me at about the same frequency; "Only old people wear watches ..")
Finder doesn't show the size of folders in list view, either.