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There are ridesharing apps that integrate with local taxi fleets, too! I heard of Curb and Flywheel, which I'm going to try out soon.

Just 'conspirator'.

$1M just got them the best PR campaign they could have hoped for.

On the contrary, you should be thankful these people aren't actively stripping your house of valuables to afford necessities.

Subjectivity, huh? Who can truly say what is "due" in "due process"? Dispense with it!

"Read my lips -- no new taxes"

> I don't understand what these protests hope to achieve.

They wrote a comprehensive explanation of their goals, and now their cause is on the front page of HN

I worked at a non-profit that paid pennies on the dollar for their office space, specifically because the building's owner believed in their mission. If they had to pay the full price they probably wouldn't operate.

Do you not know what philanthropy is? Some people conceive of morality outside raw market forces.

I don't think anyone has an objection to honestly studying heritable traits, including those for intelligence, but rather we object to how quickly people cherry-pick individual studies to support ideologies, without paying any heed to the general scientific consensus or other studies.

"This one study from 1976..." isn't a convincing case for establishing that link.

If there were a good meta-analysis that tied together several studies and made a reasonable, statistically-grounded case that race is tied to IQ, while simultaneously explaining the contradicting studies, the anime-avatar Race Realist crowd would be absolutely tripping over themselves to post it.

Where is it?

> A certain ethnic group (Jews, Chinese, etc) does better everywhere they go.

How many Jewish populations have been dispersed or annihilated throughout history, and their story lost?

Instead of arguing for scientific racism, would you consider the selection bias inherent in your assumptions.

Do either of your black friends know you invoke their race in internet arguments?

I've lived in predominantly black neighborhoods and I've stepped over blood trails and crime scene tape to go to work, buddy, if that means credibility to you. I've taken cover during driveby shootings. Safe to say I don't idealize poor, black communities.

My question to you is: what are you going to do about absentee fathers?

If longwinded moralization about family values fixed anything, black communities would all be Beverly Hills by now, but it doesn't, so we have to look at practical and evidence-based approaches, like increasing access to family planning and drug rehab. These are measurable and reliable solutions, whereas the Bill Cosby approach has not yet demonstrated an effect.

These discussions about distressed communities are centered around recognition for identifying one singular problem, rather than holistic approaches to fixing problems in that sphere, so I don't come to HN with high hopes.

Anyway, my regards to your wife and kids.

And you can find any number of analyses that all conclude, "yup, the link is completely spurious".

The subject isn't debatable in polite company because it has been refuted so comprehensively that the only reason to still stick to it is an unwavering dedication to white nationalist ideology.

On this topic, there is no good faith.

Why do you blame culture, but ignore historical practices like redlining, or the obvious correlation with poverty, or the fact that American black people have had scarcely 50 years of equality under the law? That drugs in black communities are treated as crime, but drugs in white communities are seen as a public health crisis?

There are hundreds of issues of infinitely more substance than whether black children are conceived in wedlock.

What makes you a bigot isn't that you see that as something worth addressing. You're a bigot because, of all the problems facing black communities, you choose that one to judge them by.

The problem is so-called "race realists" boiling complex sociological issues down by way of lazy and fallacious thinking, and then not-so-subtly implying that there is a racial basis for intelligence and human worth.

The snarky "checkmated by FACTS, you emotional liberal!" narrative doesn't work when STUDY after STUDY fails to find any meaningful correlation.

or, you know, legacy admissions. The way you wrote your post, you'd think the rich are inherently more virtuous and deserving

Wouldn't it be possible to make the economics of DDoS symmetrical by enforcing repercussions at the ISP level?

If 10,000 IPs are syn flooding, all out of one ISP, their peers can stop routing that ISP's traffic until that ISP starts mitigating.

I imagine the biggest impracticality is that ISPs are monopolistic, so if you stop routing someone like Comcast, all of a sudden half of America is offline.

Perhaps we COULD let the internet be the Wild West, if we had a fair selection of providers, or if they effectively self-regulated.

If 100k lives are at stake, then a $175 permit is the kind of pocket change you can work out after the fact, not a reason to uproot and relocate.

The argument is disingenuous on its face.

I believe that "no permit required" is for the permit office and the legislature to decide...

Looking through your comment history, it looks like you have a very strong attachment to Uber! Strong to the point that you have to create alternate definitions of commonly-held terms in response to criticism of the company. Any reason?

'legality' isn't the issue, it was Uber refusing to acquire the associated permitting.

the Uber permit was a story because it WASN'T safe; it got in the news for running red lights.

I would object too, but I don't see how that could be confusing moreso than any whiteboard "you get what I mean" pseudocode.

The reader's walking in with knowledge of the product-based construction of N-dimensional space, and we readily admit that "R^2" is (a set literally, but) taken to mean the space equipped with whatever operations appropriate for whatever algebra.

I'm being kinda sophist on this. "G^2" isn't meaningful. I agree. But given the convention of naming a set with the implication of whatever topology/metric/norm, the notation is already under harsh torture, right..?

Those trades are probably black market profits, primarily drugs. Or oligarchs, whose circles haven't been penetrated by journalists. (Or, what, overstock.com?)

I imagine Bitcoin would be a lot more popular if it weren't for the moral hazard of providing fungible currency for people trafficking in 9mms and ecstasy.

I'm reading a disagreement in your phrasing, but I think we're saying the same thing: Math notation is the wild west, dressed in the veneer of consistency but indignant at any untoward implication.

Programming languages are praised by their elegance and economy, even when they're wacky. Any theory (programmatic, mathematical, scientific) benefits from those qualities, because theories like to be axiomatic and terse. But any primer or intro or lesson is made MUCH better through repetition and redundancy. Computers don't need the rule of three, people do, and there's an mismatch.

Can I just chime in again and say, if your threat model includes an adversary who could compromise the Google Play Store deployment process, then you should be comfortable with validating the SHA hash on your APK binaries.

Android is pretty open about letting you sideload and run binaries, which you can do easily as a non-rooted end user. You can personally GitHub pull & compile the Signal app and you're good to go (w/r/t compromised software download).

I was wondering about the extent of NSLs in that regard. Thanks for clarifying.

every tech worker who bought a motorcycle to be Hard and Cool just owned my karma with downvotes

but you will never be a Hell's Angel

Did you look at these metrics? They're weak as fuck. Most of them are "there's a platform or chart for this now" which is meaningless and probably intentionally decontextualized.

To be clear, it's good that people have access to the internet and all the interconnectivity that it brings. I'm not slamming the basic premise.

What I'm angry about is the opportunity cost. Telecoms & ISPs roll out bare minimums and say "hey look, now poor people can [cherry-picked thing that doesn't alleviate poverty]" when the real question is how we live in the most prosperous nation of all time, in an era when we have solved every basic necessity, and kids still experience food insecurity in American cities. Meanwhile, telecom CEOs merge back into monopolies.

Dramatic improvement in the lives of the poor would yield better metrics than a 30% increase in Haitians using mobile banking. Christ, half of that increase could be from unconnected citizens dying from endemic disease & reducing the denominator.

The ACA could barely roll out a website without tragic failure, how have cell phones "dramatically improved" the lives of the poor? They're still subject to as much bureaucracy and denial of basic services as ever. 4G hasn't improved public transpo.

I suppose the poor are no longer subject to long-distance fees during daytime.

You're right, it's not really the product of some set "G" with itself but hooooo boy a programming/hacker forum is probably the wrong place to be defending the syntax of mathematical notation

Is this a genuine question, or are you trying to be blasé about employing the Socratic Method on HN?