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Germany needs to apply its great industrial engineering talent towards doing the same thing, to reverse the amazingly stupid decision they made to close theirs.

The ublock origin creators deserve a Nobel peace prize. No kidding or hyperbole.

That's a good question to look for, as it indicates a really stupid and unimaginative interviewer. One should regard it as a possible symptom of a dull management staff. It's also a good one to turn around on the interviewer: "What have you been able to achieve here in the past 5 years?"

"Misinformation" and "disinformation" are in the vocabulary of propagandists. Whenever I hear someone use either, I know to ignore them.

The examples shouldn't sound strange, as they all happened during the past two years. What is "misinformation" one day (complete with banning and shaming) is "fact" or "science" the next, and vice-versa.

The CEO should have instead come out at the start and said hey we're a platform for music and content for diverse tastes and interests. Some people might find some content undesirable. Period. Full stop.

If employees really can't handle diversity of thought and expression, they should seek new, fresh employees (with hiring filters to screen out intolerant minds).

But what about the Eqyptians? It took management skills to organize the army which built the pyramids and the infrastructure of that time.

This is a really well-written and insightful piece, and makes a lot of sense of the dynamics and personalities of fringe SRs.

Pure gold:

   You’ve come across the gentrifiers before, I’m sure. They browse the front page of reddit and the trending tab of YouTube, buy Ruth Bader Ginsberg figurines and wear Che Guevara T-shirts. They vote for Bernie in the primaries and Biden in the general, first outraged that anyone could want Biden and then outraged that anyone could not. They share articles about how the 2020 BLM protests were overwhelmingly peaceful and then hop online to cheer “ACAB” and “F — — capitalism” graffiti and pictures of burning police precincts. They shout “Defund the Police” while angrily asserting that nobody wants to abolish the police. They manage to boldly stand at once for every fashionable cause and against every unfashionable cause, embracing the aesthetics of radicalism while denying complicity or knowledge whenever that radicalism gets too real. And /r/antiwork was the perfect community for them to turn into a cause celebre.

TFA is choosing and fitting facts to support a narrative.

   "Inability to punish students, lack of respect"

When I was growing up in Texas, most teachers had a wooden paddle, often prominently displayed. To be spanked by a paddle was called "getting licks". Female teachers would sometimes delegate the paddling to a coach or other male teacher. Most all this that I recall occurred in Junior High (what they now call middle school. Grades 7-9). By high school, "licks" were quite rare, as most students had learned how to behave better by then.

To people today this all sounds barbaric. However, there were far fewer "broken people" coming out of that system than is produced today. That generation was not filled with sociopaths and 'challenged" people -- quite the opposite. It's the system today that produces those. Lack of ability to administer punishment is part of why teachers get so little respect.

The past 2 years was very revealing as to how our modern public schools are failing today. It's embarrassing, and I understand and support the moves many parents are making to private or home schooling.

The Winter Olympics have been in decline for several cycles now -- they're just not as interesting as the summer games. I recall a couple or more cycles back when they were in Canada that there was hardly any snow and about as much enthusiasm. Stephen Colbert was even there to try and bolster interest.

I feel sorry for Tokyo having been impacted by covid, where they had to postpone. Why we even went to China at all is a mystery to me.

They're also including non-violence such as refusal to wear a mask. This quickly becomes "didn't follow an instruction".

This is 3 days after Jen Psaki said from the white house podium that disclaimers are a good "first step", but that "we" (the white house) want to see "more done" by tech companies.

Now spotify has complied with the government's wishes. We're now beyond "but it's a private company...", and indeed into censorship.

Glen Greenwald did a great piece on this topic a couple of days ago: https://rumble.com/vtyr34-democrats-are-pressuring-companies...

I think you're supposed to just be mesmerized by (and envious of) these wonderful people.

Quite a "hey, look at us" piece.

10 years ago, I would think to myself "Man, it feels like we're headed for a civil war"; but, I didn't say anything as I wrote it off to being too focused on the present-term context. I compared the times to the 1960s, when there was a lot of unrest and division. 5 years ago, though, things seemed even worse, and I began wondering out loud if we're headed for civil war.

Now, I think we're closer than ever to a real split. Covid has exacerbated it all. People are self-sorting in terms of migrations from blue states to red states, and from cities to suburbs and rural areas.

This summer, and the elections in November, could be flashpoints of something larger and worse -- I hope we can hold it together.

As for HN toxicity -- beware items whose number of comments exceeds the votes for the article itself; it's a rough metric for how big the flames are.

   One of the worst things about Donald Trump was that if he or anyone adjacent to him actually said anything good, it immediately became toxic.

That wasn't the worst thing about trump.... it's the worst thing about the media coverage of him. You're blaming him for how media covered him.

And I learned that the cool kids say "trad" for "traditional".

   In 2022 you have the choice of a) "suppressing free speech" or b) "platforming racists"

There's a great example of the False Choice fallacy. "Free Speech" = "Racism" is the implication of your choice -- one which authoritarians would indeed embrace. The Soviets considered free speech dangerous, too; and so does the CCP.

"Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records"

Can't resist puns related to marketing "reduced hours" even for those who've done serious time. /s

This is especially timely and relevant as a recent John's Hopkins study reports: https://health.wusf.usf.edu/health-news-florida/2022-02-02/a...

It's similar overcompensating logic as people use to now rename git branches from 'master' to 'main' or whatever -- even though the concept of master was never anything about, or analogous to, slavery (i.e. there are no 'slave' branches -- it's just not the mental model, at all). Keep in mind that it's ostensibly smart people doing this.

Surprisingly (but maybe I missed a memo), the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI), is in fact defined in terms of master and slave devices; but, I'm not aware of any movements to redefine it. The embedded systems world has not (yet) been cleansed and re-educated.

It's a new Puritan era.

Succinct and timely as we watch the US media and political class breathlessly try to rally us all to go to war with Russia. Even the Ukrainians aren't as eager and worked-up; NATO, in fact, has not stood up any forces so far. It's insane.

The Right needs to read up on this and take it into account. People on the right generally do not riot or loot (1/6/21 is an outlier), as it goes against a tendency to uphold law and order, and from a recognition that individuals and businesses (many privately owned, and many of them struggling) are the actual victims. However, if it really is an effective tool for gaining a political advantage, it should be considered in that light.

One of the biggest issues with it being adopted by the Right, however, is that the press will cover it very differently than when political violence comes from the Left, due to predominant biases in the media. Perception is reality in terms of public opinion. If a riot is meant to persuade opinion, but is re-framed and re-shaped by media, then it can do more harm than good.

Yeah, that's how science works with regard to covid (i.e. tainted by politics) now, which is sad and stupid.

Next step: turn malls into train stations, and connect via rail.

I create a file cmds.txt in project directories which contain lists of any commands I might typically use (especially in the context of the directory where I place it). That way, I can 'find . cmds.txt' to recall. Low tech and brain dead simple, but it works for me.

The groupthink here is disappointing. Rather than be glad that a cheap and widely available drug is possibly effective at treating the effects of covid, armchair experts here instead pounce on it with attacks.

I wonder if Twitter and Facebook will suppress the study.

Isn't Neil Young an entertainer, too? Doesn't he also sell his products?

"There’s a difference between nonconformity and questioning authority and packaging those things for sale"

Yes. The things you're comparing have nothing to do with each other

Like explicit music lyrics, if you find it offensive, then don't listen, change the channel, etc.

Free, except for speech. It's sad how an aging rocker who used to celebrate nonconformity and questioning authority now becomes a finger waving old man telling everyone that there's only one truth.

Odd how the author doesn't even touch on the causes of Argentina's persistent inflation. Rather, it's presented as though it came from nowhere, and the only real story is how people deal with it.