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I wouldn't know. I was hellbanned here. Not allowed in the conversation. Very civil, that hellbanning process is. (All joking aside, it is very, very frustrating to see articles like this and hear stereotypes like "techies with poor social skills" only to have an otherwise great web-site like Hacker News trying to increase civility using practices like hellbanning. Why not just let individuals permanently hide my articles and comments? Why not a 1000 other options to work toward these goals. Instead, the internet has gifted us re-branded censorship and winner takes all marketplaces. It wasn't supposed to be like this.)

Good god no. I love that book, but not the right place or time.

Pick something up locally. Don't bring "home" with you.

You're going to Africa. Unless you go there regularly, why on earth would you bring anything. Meet people. Let Africa make an impression upon you.

Thank you for making this. I've been following the outbreak in the news and searching for something better than repeating quotes from the WHO or politicians saying everything is going to be fine.

Even if this models isn't 100%, it's better analysis than other easily accessible analysis I've found. I'm certain it will be of assistance to those trying to help and needing to understand. It may spur others to do similar work.

This is like the ending of SLC Punk when he sells out. So sad.

Did not know about those laws in India. That is mind-blowing! Not good.

I personally agree with this line of logic. I'm working on a personal solution for moving my data off the cloud. But, that isn't a substitute for having this discussion as a country. Until we draw lines that slippery slope exists and these things are legal.

EDIT: Regarding the safe-haven issue, I think that is a major issue with services like SpiderOak. They play up the ability to hide data. I personally believe we should be aiming for a solution that is closer to the locks on the doors of our homes. I feel secure at night, but I also know the police can knock it down by force if given a warrant. SpiderOak and other such services try to be more of a Fort Knox than a dead bolt. This is the cloud after all. Not a thumb drive in my safe in my home office.

This is great until it sells out to Amazon like IMDB or Goodreads. The problem isn't the interface. The problem is our relationship with our own data. It's no longer ours.

Google's actions were legal. The problem is, we, as a country, have still not come to an agreement on what 'privacy' should entail in this brave new world. Given that Google was not breaking the law in reporting this person, I would argue it would have been immoral for them to have sat on this information.

I love that the post directly prior to this one on HN is "Creating the 'Dropbox of your Genome'".

Books are becoming so popular that we'll no longer need an alphabet or grammar!

I see your 'straw man' and raise you an 'ad hominem'. I've just read through your HN comments. You're consistently extremely negative, to no purpose. "Your argument sucks because..." etc.

Ah. Sorry. Should have been able to figure that out. Thank you.

Any chance you're "the" Haruki Murakami?! Big, big fan here.

Why do taxi organizations spend all their effort trying to make life difficult for Uber. It's not as if Uber has some sort of top-secret tech they refuse to share with the world. Perhaps some of their efforts should be spent on improving their own product. As someone that spent 5 years living in Manhattan, I feel qualified to comment on the state of taxi rides. I now take Uber almost exclusively. And several Uber drivers I've had the pleasure of riding with were previously taxi drivers. They've told me the experience is much better for them with Uber as well. Stop trying to kill Uber. Make taxis better for your drivers and passengers and the rest will follow.

I'm just at a complete loss at to how I was down-voted so much without a single comment as to the reason why. I was trying to be constructive and on topic.

sheesh. your comment isn't a pleasant place to spent time. someone needs some internet kitten love.

Please see my other comment on this page where explicitly say I completely agree HN is in the right in running a site in this manner. I was just trying to point out that while you may know Daniel others might not. And, again, I believe that a moderator system is 100% fine. HN news has made it work and produces quality content. But, for someone to tell me that since they know someone I should keep my trap shut, it's a little presumptuous.

sweeeet. ty!

Or, how about "forking" posts. If the content is truly of higher quality, then the fork will be up-voted more from that point on. If not, then the original post will be. And why must the article be attributed to only one person. Karma could be shared by some mechanism if a forked post gits [sic] more up-votes.

I think "hellbanning" should also be a part of this conversation. The combination of mods non-transparent editing practices and hellbanning makes an extremely strong case for categorizing the mod system as a form of censorship.

HN is a private website. So, I fully believe that HN should be allowed to censor if it would like to. I certainly at times censor my friends when they post to my facebook wall. But my facebook wall isn't a community. And it doesn't purport to provide news. Thus, I believe HN should be held to a higher standard.

That's exactly the problem. You received that info directly from a third person. There is no transparency. Would you believe everything I say? I wouldn't. But if the facts where out there you wouldn't need to. On an issue such as this where people take such sustained and intense interest, your second hand account of someone giving you their word is not sufficient. Maybe it is for you, but please don't condescend by passing it along as though it must be for others.

am i still hellbanned here?

Confused about downvote? SpaceX is a start-up in Silicon Valley. Google is a start-up in Silicon Valley. Russia is providing a commercial service in an established industry with huge start-up costs to the US Governement. Halliburton is providing a commercial service in an established industry with huge start-up costs to the US Governement. SpaceX has a founder whose background is not in this industry. Google has founders whose backgrounds are not in the business of providing Government services. Russia is very much in the business of providing government services. Halliburton is very much in the business of providing government services. Seems like a solid analogy.

Elon's priority is to keep SpaceX healthy as a business and lay the regulatory framework required so that human life can become multi-planetary. Simple as that.

More like Google wants to replace Halliburton.

I was just thinking something along the same line! If you look at him early in his career he was much more of an introvert. He appears to play to the press to increase the exposure of his companies which have missions in which he truly believes. He's said something to the same effect. As someone who believes in the missions of the companies he's help found and run, I'll excuse this annoyance. But yes, agreed, enormous annoyance.

Very diplomatic. The author could fork it instead of degrading their hard work that is, even if not perfect, work done. "To the world out there, I demand a fundraising project..." But instead author 'demands' others funding?

Lenovo.

For all of those that have asked the question, "Why don't you trust Google with your data?" Replace Google with Alibaba and you have your answer. Google has set a dangerous precedent in in how much data it has asked users to provide based on the assumption that their actions based their best intentions would be the rule and not the exception. It was a matter of time.

Yahoo ends support of "Do Not Track". Fast Lanes for sale. Facebook is using my data for advertising outside it's walled garden... sigh. Give me back my old 56k modem. I miss my old internet.