doktrin

Trolling is malicious, just normalized and give a cutesy name.

I lived in Japan for several years so I'm quite aware of the upsides of that country, and more aware than most of its dark and downsides.

Ghosn is undoubtedly guilty of something, but he wasn't arrested (and subsequently rearrested a half dozen times on the same charge) because of his culpability. It was a Japan Inc. hatchet job through and through.

Bottom line is that he was facing a kangaroo court and a judicial system with a 99% conviction rate. Everybody deserves better than that.

Good on him for escaping. The japanese judicial system is an outright farce and they deserve to be humiliated on the world stage.

You can always tell which pedrstrians in Oslo are visitors, because they wait for cars to slow down at crosswalks before setting foot in the street. Norwegians are so accustomed to motorists being attentive that they blindly and confidently stroll into traffic (at crosswalks).

Agreed. Nothing wrong with writing about "old" news. Just because I / you / anyone might already know something doesn't mean everybody does, and even if we already know something doesn't mean revisiting it is pointless.

So, like a PR rep?

Yes and no. I just began a period of what I guess you could call voluntary unemployment, due to years of neglecting my mental health. I've had all the symptoms, but have been more than a little embarrassed at even thinking of myself as being depressed, let alone taking medical leave or time off for what I've never been sure is even a real thing - not depression in general, but myself in particular. Am I depressed, or just lazy? Is it not an insult to think of myself as sick, when there are people out there with life threatening illnesses who somehow carry on? Etc.

Long story short, I've always compensated by just working harder - working late, staying up late, basically the workplace equivalent of constantly cramming. I hit a wall recently, and decided to take time off to sort out my life - which in my case means actually seeing a professional regularly and beginning treatment with antidepressants / SSRIs.

I'm not sure where it will lead, but the absence of stressors is for the moment quite nice. I've been able to cut out a number of bad habits, notably self medicating with (insert substance here). I don't want to get too candid, but you get the idea. I still haven't built myself back up to a place where I have a real and driving motivation to get back to work, and I still struggle with what might be considered pathetic 21st century spoiled aspirations of self actualization, but I'm hoping that in this downtime I can work my way back to finding the motivation and meaning in life that I've been missing.

I'm another person who for whatever reason was never able to adjust to vaping. It quite literally hurts, even with modest inhales, despite trying numerous models (disposables, cartridges, expensive sub ohm systems, you name it). This applies both for nicotine and thc vaping. I just wrote it off as something that was a personal eccentricity.

Honestly it was for the best - I ended up using gum and eventually just quitting, and stopped using thc for other reasons.

> The Chinese news would emphasize isolated incidents of violence by the protesters during the protests, pontificate on it and publish op-eds analyzing the cause of the protests ranging from the failed economy of Hong Kong to the profound corruption of its youth.

You still haven't explained what 'truth' is missing from the english language news coverage. Pontificating about the "corruption of HK youth" and cherry picking isolated cases of violence sounds more like partisan hatcheting than actual news or analysis.

> there's truth in both sides

Most likely, but the truth rarely exists at the median of both 'sides', or even anywhere close to it. Enlightened Centrism(tm) is dangerously myopic.

At a certain point I think we'll arrive at the collective realization that we all have digital skeletons in our closet. When we all stink, nobody stinks.

TIL Samuel L. Jackson is the most wikipedia'd person who's ever lived in Washington DC. That's kind of wild considering the competition includes every US president ever, among many others.

How is that not apples and oranges?

Former 15-213 student as well. This was one of the best CS classes I've ever had the pleasure of taking.

Also worth noting the plagiarism detector actually did its job, at least in some of the most egregious cases that I heard of.

> It goes without saying that being a Professional Penetration Tester is one of the “sexier” jobs in InfoSec

I thought this was mostly the perception from people outside infosec. The vibe I tend to get from people within infosec is that pentesting is a low status specialization.

In the US, very little if anything. Overseas, it depends greatly. I tried to use Amazon Prime in Norway, and it's a mess. The user can see all the titles, but can only play a fraction of them. I even got shafted after purchasing a movie because it wasn't available to stream to my location (this was on console so bypassing with a vpn wasn't a 1-click thing like on PC, that is if amazon hasn't blacklisted most major vpn providers to begin with)

tl;dr - doesn't work that well, depending on where you live. I've become reacquainted with torrent sites these last few years.

Yeah, 6 figures USD as a minimum basically describes SV and NYC, and that's it.

Is there an easy way to bypass the paywall? Wouldn't mind subscribing to the economist tbh, just not right this instant.

> Amazon has literally won everywhere else in the world.

Disagree. I live in northern europe and haven't used Amazon since moving here. Every single product is "doesn't ship to your location" etc., there are domestic and local competitors that are superior - to say nothing of the China based suppliers, and of course amazon has sub-par customer service even in the US - but there at least their infrastructure and product catalogue let them carry the day without breaking a sweat.

I'm sure that if you live in a market that is well served by Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.de they offer a user experience that's at least broadly similar to that in the US, but e-commerce is an evolving beast. As far as I can tell amazon hasn't changed meaningfully in the last 5 or 6 years (and their website is famously, almost comically, static), only a matter of time before someone else starts beating them at their own game even in core markets.

The state to which the US tax system is an absolute hellscape becomes crystal clear when/if you move abroad. I currently live in one of those small european countries touted (often accurately, sometimes not) as a utopia, and sure enough filing taxes is basically 99% automated. The more complex your income the more work is involved - of course - but for the vast majority of users who own 1 piece of property and derive most of their income from an employer, it's basically ready out of the box.

The hardest part for me - by far - of filing income tax is and remains filing my US taxes, which unsurprisingly becomes extra complicated and burdensome as an overseas citizen.

We can only dream of the day when the bizarro hydra that forms the anti-tax-reform lobby is somehow defeated, but that realistically feels like a not-in-my-lifetime kind of deal.

I think at the absolute worst I've spent almost 10 minutes painstakingly walking through successive google CAPTCHAs before just giving up. The modern web is basically openly hostile to anonymity (or pseudo anonymity). That's one of those genies I don't see any way of putting back in the bottle : the privacy conscious consumer is just too small to matter at any kind of scale. They end up relegated to a niche set of tools and services (which ironically enough presents a neatly encapsulated attack surface for any malicious actors who might be interested in targeting these users).

Ultimately it may all be moot : we're slowly moving towards the point - still years or decades off, admittedly - when effective de-anonymization of the public internet will become a reality. For better or worse, I guess.

If you're implying that abuse by elites is some new phenomenon within the last 50 years I completely disagree. In fact social inequality has probably been more favorable and egalitarian during the last 50 years than basically any other time in human history, and US history. There's always room for improvement, but it's worth remembering how far we've actually come.

You could apply this reasoning to literally anything, because every organisation / nation state / what have you has at some point and in some form considered the consequences of their actions. History shows that internal evaluation is an imperfect science. I suspect you know this and only reserve this extremely circular reasoning for cases which you already agree with. It would be easier to admit you've already formed an opinion and don't care to change it under any circumstance, rather than weakly appeal to Twitter's own authority to justify their actions.

it's hilarious that your main defense of twitter's design decisions is an appeal to twitter's own authority.

"twitter is doing these things for a reason and surely these reasons are good, otherwise they wouldn't be doing them!"

case closed my circular dude

“User engagement” on social media platforms in 2019 is a proxy for “triggering users emotional responses and luring them into internet arguments”

Min maxed “user engagement” is almost certainly a net negative for society at large

Frankly I agree. There's a lot of ridiculous hand-wringing in every thread about Huawei on HN, but unless what's reported here is factually wrong I'm not going to lose sleep over them facing consequences for a shoddy product.

> Remember that these folks are pouring all of their energy into a free product, and remember that they're sensitive to how you perceive it.

I hope I live to see the day when the internet stops bringing out the worst in us. The Linux community might not be as vitriolic as cesspools like gaming, but some days it really isn't that far off.

> But I've never gone to someone's house and seen their bathroom in that condition.

I broadly agree with your premise, but the nitpicky HN part of my brain feels obligated to point out that a certain amount of selection bias might be at play here. Public bathrooms are by definition places the entire spectrum of the public visits, and is probably a broader and slightly more diverse pool than the people whose homes you personally visit (unless you're a social worker, which you probably aren't because then you would absolutely have seen swathes of homes that a lot of people here would probably deem uninhabitable)

That said, you're not wrong : we've all witnessed friends, acquaintances et al behave differently from one context to another. I live in Norway, and the prototypical example that comes to mind is that kids / young adults here are significantly more belligerent and antisocial abroad than at home where they are subject to the Scandinavian brand of tut-tut judgyness. Basically the spring break phenomenon so it's not unique by any means.

> Everyone still runs their fool mouth same as they used to

I very much doubt this is true. Yes, people run their mouth on FB and other real-name / real-identity accounts, but not to the same extent as with anonymous profiles. What you see on real name accounts should be assumed to be the tip of the iceberg.

Willing to bet money the author switched to something else by 2017. For the overwhelming majority of developers Clojure is this tinker toy we fiddle with for 6 months to a year before getting bored and fed up with its limitations.

> you NEVER dunk the rice into a mixture of soja-sauce and wasabi (no matter if real or not)

why not?