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You're right, thanks.

It's dangerous to assume the contrapositive of this claim is actually true (war doesn't start if trade doesn't stop). The best example of this is World War 1 Europe. It was held as common knowledge then that a world war could never possibly break out because of how interdependent the European economies were becoming. Nobody was going to kill the golden goose over some silly land dispute. We all know how that turned out, and it had nothing to do with whether jobs were being created or destroyed.

If the contrapositive isn't true, then the original claim may not hold any actual weight.

Dan Carlin talks about this in his Hardcore History podcast and does a great job telling the story of WWI, definitely would recommend.

I think it's less about the immigrant situation in particular, and more about the way the new President is wielding his power blatantly in front of a nation who is _extremely_ divided when it comes to their opinion of him. It's not that those other issues are less or more important, but that they have a much less identifiable perpetrator. A prominent cause is more easily reducible.

It's a cry for someone or some organization to help guide us back to center. The ACLU just happens to be one of the best positioned organizations to fit this situation.

I'd be more interested to know which of the areas has the highest median fanbase of all the shows. Based on the conclusions this article wants us to draw, certainly that would be the "least culturally polarized" place in the U.S? Or is this just more data noise with very little signal value...

While the objects in the pools or stacks may seem transient (on your screen for only a few moments), one simple technique is to only allocate those objects at load time and then flip them in an "on" or "off" state during gameplay. That way you're not doing any real allocation after your game space has loaded.

Agreed, but tossaway's point hold some merit. If the people in this country aren't playing by the rules they've agreed to, it's going to be more difficult to get them to agree to new rules.

Doesn't anyone else find it a small irony that the website this post is hosted on is so clean, polished, and generally reflective of the very thing he's railing against?

Maybe this should be hosted on a more 'rude' website. Or maybe the way tech looks and feels is partly also dictated by ease of use and not just 'because big brother said so'.

This feels like a very sad way to view optimism. It's from a work of fiction which only makes a guess about Hitler's worldview. If optimism is a delusion, then so is pessimism, but only in the other direction. Neither view can tell us more than how we feel about the things around us.

I think based on what the post was saying that an optimistic attitude doesn't necessarily equate to ignoring reality. To me, the post was more about opinion and self-esteem than facts about a project. It sounds like whatever things have crashed and burned around you in your career were led by people who superimposed their self-esteem onto fact-based decisions.

How is it possible for people to get stuck in such a tight spiral? Not saying that we understand every way a business can be run, but this is like spiritualist sociology.

I see on your github that the assets for the planets & background come from https://playcanvas.com/project/375395/overview/into-deep-spa...

Is this a common asset pack?

Can you explain more about what in UIs you think has gone downhill? I've seen you refer to this idea in quite a few of your comments and it would be great to get insight on what aspects you think need improving/exterminating/rethinking.

There's definitely positive value in the services and apps that you mention, otherwise people wouldn't begin using them initially.

I think the key difference between the services and living life with "Pre-Internet" substitutes is that all of the services have been designed and engineered to elicit a certain usage.

When you use something that was designed, there's a certain set of axioms governing that thing. You've got to buy into someone else's interpretation of value. If you're aware that the other person's interpretation is different from your own, then you'll be much more likely to have the self-control needed to interpret its value for yourself. The danger is that most people don't do that and as a result fall prey to their own assumptions based on what they were told is valuable.

The trickle of pre-internet information doesn't compare to the firehose we have today. There's not one single solution and I agree that a governance of these ethical ideals will be tricky no matter what form it takes.

Thank you for sharing these articles. The first one from vox really feels like it underlines not only the smugness that's crept into liberalism, but also its tone is exasperated and at times even pleading.

It feels like a reflection of the mood of our general political discussion, where people are pissed off with the echo chamber and not getting the empathy that's needed from either direction to make livable decisions. This feels like one of those situations where human nature hasn't changed, but the internet has fundamentally altered social dynamics.

Advertising/Marketing is unique in that it doesn't produce any byproducts. It's conceivable, and often the case, that software is developed because it's something useful and fun to do. The same is true for food, rockets, cars, novels, etc. Advertising/Marketing though doesn't exist for any other reason than to promote products and facilitate flow of money.

I just spent the last week in SF (am from a flyover state), and had a difficult time enjoying walking the city without feeling stressed about not knowing if the next block would feel safe or not. It definitely solidified my decision to not move out there.

I really want to draw in red and blue, then find some of those cheap 3D glasses and see what the result looks like. Very neat program.

Your metaphor about army units has got me thinking: When are we going to see the next generation of AlphaGo, but applied to a real world army?

It's consistently amazing how ingenious some of these runners are in figuring out ways to break out of the apparent rules of a formal system and get creative with it. The TASbot guys have also done things like RAM manipulation of Pokemon games in order to rewrite the game code into displaying twitch chat.

AGDQ and SGDQ are two of the coolest video game-related events held every year. They're always streamed on Twitch, and recordings are posted to youtube. Anyone who has even a mild interest in gaming should check them out. https://gamesdonequick.com/

I'd challenge that buried beneath the sarcasm, there's a bit of truth in saying that humans are more animalistic than we like to admit. Although we have the advantage of being able to reason about our more basic instincts and drives doesn't mean they aren't there.

All too often people fall into the trap of viewing humans as distinctly separate from all other animals and not simply at one end of a continuum of development.

But like he said in the article, he was unable to find a clear policy that gave him the "Stop, no further" point. It may have been a bad assumption to think Facebook was going with the Tumblr stance of "give us a thorough POC," but where should he have drawn the line in his hack and why here instead of where he did?

How likely is it that this sort of a thing stopped being a technical item of discussion and turned into a political one by the security contacts at Facebook?

I'm always curious about what sort of internal pressures would lead people to take a well-reported bug that the author did not take malicious action on and blow it up to the point that the CSO is getting involved.

When was the last time you used it? I've noticed that the discover weekly playlist has consistently featured four or five majorly different genres, all drawn from the music I've tended to listen to lately. It's been good about doing this since I first subscribed back in May.

Some of the songs have absolutely missed the mark, but there have been others I've found that make me go back and listen to the entire album they're from. Definitely have encountered different languages as well.

In the bottom left of each page it says "This is a preliminary draft." I'm looking forward to this book when it does come out though!

I understand the significance of the poem, but if I'm going into Stride Rite to buy some new shoes for a baby, chances are I'm not going to want them to have been worn before.

For those who don't google and use many of the 'big' services: Do you also not shop at large retail chains like Target or Walmart? Do you avoid Starbucks? They all collect the information you give them, sell it, analyze it, and figure out how to better get you to buy from them. I'm honestly curious if it's simply an issue about the collection of your data or if it's an issue of what data is collected.

Reminds me quite a bit of the last true hermit story posted here a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8205993

I think the difference here is that in the movement towards 'smart' IDE's, they attempt to go beyond the purely semantic meaning of the code and deduce what the interpreted meaning of it is. I'm all for what is in this article as far as it pertains to more interpretations of the semantic meaning.

Personally, I would be wary of any IDE that attempted to interpret what my code is doing for me. Each person probably has a different mental image or interpretation of how their code works, and enforcing a singular interpretation of code via IDE might only enable people to 'learn' how to program within that environment. Teach a man to fish.

Very true! Non ecommerce sites suffer just as badly as their users when an executive decision is made to increase the amount of advertising on their pages.

I wonder if the increase in adverts is based on someone thinking that it will pay for their site's cost or if they're doing it with the mindset that advertising is their business model rather than providing interesting content.