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Isn't there a difference between the mobile market selling products and users investing time, energy and their persons on public online platforms?

The article isn't about the current situation, but about the possible response to it, right?

From other reading, I got the impression the circumstances were suspicious. The obit refers to heart failure, but without details. So I'm left without any certainty.

Good points.

Nice suggestion! What would be your own answer to it?

You might compare the violence with that in a very strict society, like the Soviet Union, or with any other country, whether Latin American countries lately, many African nation with various governments, or certain parts of North America (Dade might be a forerunner), though, so is the reason for violence in Somalia attributable to their form of law?

Isn't the important point here to do with the point at which an individual can, if they want to and are willing to spend the energy, alter a particular instance of disagreement? whereas in the Somali (or other non-government system), individuals can both effect particular justice according to a particular grievance, and individuals can effect what justice is done and how, individuals in our countries have no such ability, overwhelmed on basically every level by the power of the government?

As I understand it from van Notten, the power is institutional and fluid. There are accustomed, practiced, entrenched norms of behavior and custom, which provide general rules for what behavior is against the law -- although it becomes a matter of law only when it affects someone else to the degree they want to seek justice to redress a wrong. Power is embodied by clan leaders (elders who have the support of the majority of their community) and judges, etc, but is fluid in the sense that at any time, if they do something the community doesn't support, they will be replaced casually by their community.

Thanks for these links.

The Stateless article is a good book report. One nice phrase from it: "Thus while a judge may form his own principles, his customers will decide his competence as a judge."

One error to be aware of is in the following paragraph. Successful plaintiffs are not free to resort to self-help to enforce payments. Self-help, as I understand it through van Notten, is a last ditch measure when no justice is agreeable. Successful rulings are enforced by an individual's own jilib, according to van Notten.

Good point.

Minor counter-point: I'm not sure if libertarianism is the goal of Somalians. A certain degree of liberty -- a significant say in how they conduct their own lives and not having a government telling them what not to do as much as we are used to -- but I think they also see the value of a court to temper individual liberty in certain cases.

A couple differences between their system and ours: the point where individual rights and social limitations meet is found where another individual suffers some grievance -- some of which, however, appear to be cultural and not material, although I'm not sure how small this segment is. Also, they seem to have some say in their courts, who administers justice for them, and how its administered.

Successful by what standards or measures? I don't think the "cohere" argument is true, but do you have some examples I could think about? The Soviet Union didn't cohere, for one example I can think of. Neither did the British Empire, including America.

Is there any other basis for seeking peace ever? I think van Notten means here that this is the reason peace is usually sought, because violence is horrifying to those people as well. In North America we also hold violence as the reason to respect social order.

What are the main points about 'the nature and function of law in human societies, particularly in the developed world' you had in mind?

This is an interesting point. I'd like to get some information on this myself. Of course, replacing ANY government or social system with another one will result in social upheaval and difficulties. In the book, van Notten alludes to this, and provides some insight, but it isn't really a clear and comprehensive statement.

This is a helpful warning to travelers, but doesn't necessarily mean the nation isn't doing fine (for Somalis). Also, at different times most nations (or regions of nations) have different events, of course. Many of these warnings can be compared with warnings for other popular travel destinations, such as Guatemala, Mexico, Brazil, etc.

Just curious. Cloudflare published this a while ago: https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/

What is the temperature, though?

Scale of 1-10, how much did you trust them before the ban, and how much currently?

Thanks for the post. Publishing/bookbinding is great.

You might want to try submitting a post, though, that has examples of nicely published/formatted/printed/bound books.

I'm deleting this link because now I see that this site requires a subscription.

- oh, I can't delete it. Mods, if you see this message please delete.

YouTube video of her speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTcNbv7tm80

I would say they do. For everything except using a few social media apps, the PC is used (not the mobile).

You may be speaking as someone techy. For most people, what I said still holds true.

These two aren't the same.

If I want, for any reason, to not use Amazon, I can do that easily (even if I will have to pay more, it is my choice) by typing any other online store or seller into my browser, or going to a local store.

For the typical person, they cannot use anything other than Microsoft if they want to use a computer, period. Except Mac, which many can't afford and which is limiting in what programs it can run.

Looks like they're doing something with rapidly flexing pistons to stabilize. Anyone know what this is?

How about giving us a short article on how to propose new ideas to you, and what happens if we do.

Assuming a reader has a usable idea(s) - a best-case scenario but the only one worth providing information for - what would you like them to do to present it, how can they feel safe doing so, and what happens after they do and you like it.

The title was too long; did the best I could

I wasn't exactly talking about webrings, but now I'd like to see one. Can you link me to one please?

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One notable example from the 90s that I was referring to with this statement was a site that had many, many pages about unusual science/mystery/gnosis/anarchism. I haven't been able to locate it.

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Actually, it wasn't meant as a critique, as I like most people highly value the modern internet.

I will be putting in more internal hyperlinks as I have more pages on the website to link to. Most of the articles there are still in progress, and this one is a sort of introduction to the HN community (which is my main source of news and analysis these days).

Please link me to your ham radio site when you get it ready for us. I'm also building a list of these types of blogs/sites.

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I didn't put discussion on the page in order to keep it as code-light as possible. Reddit is a good option for discussion (at the time of writing), especially considering I didn't want to clutter HN up with a discussion page for each article (no problem on a subreddit).

I agree with you on the value of reddit and platforms (and I actually value Facebook-type platforms as well, with the obvious qualifications), but the old html sites I write about here have a different type of construction, material, and value.

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Google Balloon Internet is what we've been hearing about for years now. They refer to it now as "Project Loon"

Won't competition be both good for Amazon and for consumers? Right now, Amazon is a monopoly (because of Prime and good selection [although still lots of room there for improvement], and I also use Amazon Prime a lot, but a second option would probably improve things, I think.

Unfortunately, HN policy prohibits my changing this title.

PBS did a good report on this development: Sinclair Media is the biggest owner of local TV news (reaches over a third of homes across the nation), and are working towards a merger to control a bigger share yet. However, they are pushing out certain talking points (and other things that have been criticized) across all these stations (these are illustrated in the PBS report).

For people who like this book, I would recommend the books by the haiku poets Issa and Basho (the books include Haiku here). And the Genji.