coolsdude2282

>Who gets to decide what is or is not allowed to be spoken?

In America we have helpful groups like Southern Poverty Law Center which direct us to which ideas are bad speech that shouldn't be allowed. Maybe China should follow our example and privatize their speech curatorship police, then they would be more free.

I've said the same thing many many times, I can't remember the numbers but the monetization of facebook data per person (If I remember correctly from something I read a year back, I'll try to look and add it to this comment) is less than 20$!

I would be very very willing to pay for Facebook to simply not be tracked, especially at such a reasonable price. I know that won't happen, but I'd really love such a thing.

I came here to post this, too little to late. I don't know what they could realistically do to alter their public image at this point besides change their name possibly?

I am going to continue to hate them until they stop existing, and I don't think anyone or anything they do could convince me otherwise.

Honestly if they could transition to even a China-like level of openness that would be light years of improvement in my opinion. Incremental change that doesn't involve some sort of bloody revolution with lots of loss of life seems like a great option. If they were able to build themselves up to be a functioning country it would probably help in a move toward disarmament, or less war-hawking in the highest positions of government.

I was about to post this same thing. I would say I look at lainchan more than I look at HN. It is my favorite Chan board, if you are a fan of chans and functional programming it is definitely worth checking out. The functional programming threads have very distinct and regular communities that are really great to participate in. A lot of beginners and people with expertise intermixing.

The zine itself is ok, there is really not much editing of content, just whatever people submit for the most part gets placed into it to fill the space. The quality varies wildly from page to page, but recent issues have been getting better.

I switched to DDG for the privacy selling point, but once I learned about !bangs I stayed. It is so much better done than any other site. Even if I had zero concerns about privacy I would still choose it over google or bing simply because of the wealth of query features that are so easy to use! I hate how google does queries and Bing is beyond useless.

Thirteen publicly acknowledged by South Korea, and 700 missing. Most of which, if you read the cited article are thought to have defected back or attempted to.

There are loads of sources for it, it isn't as odd as you would think, it is even listed on wikipedia with lots of nice sources. Apparently "their number is thought to be increasing." and "In one case, a double defector re-entered North Korea four times." [0]

Edit: I added the link to the nutrition study below also. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_defectors#Double_...

[1] https://synapse.koreamed.org/search.php?where=aview&id=10.41...

Interesting side note that is rarely mentioned, a surprisingly large amount of defectors actually defect back to DPRK. When you are enclosed in something like DPRK a lot of the time people can't handle the stress of not being in that sort of system anymore.

One thing to note, there was a study that showed that even when they are in countries with an abundance of food, their eating habits remained the same. They ate the same sized small portions that they used to in NK.

As a comment on the article, I think it would be very easy for China to transition them into a sucessful Chinese model with capitalist reforms whilst still being totalitarian. The people don't necessarily want 'freedom' as long as they are adequately taken care of, transposing western mindsets onto them and assuming that they consider things like 'freedom of speech' as necessary isn't generally helpful.

I am a midwest Obama voter who voted for Trump. I don't like anything about him in all honestly. I voted quite literally because of Assange. I followed each leak that was dropped religiously and had a lot of fun bonding with others who searched through them on various reddit boards uncovering information.

All this is to say that generalizations like the one you made are almost never correct, and never tell the whole story. I voted for Bernie in the primary.

Acting like the subcategory I'm in doesn't exist and only furthers misunderstanding of the various complex social systems that were at play in this election creating the outcome.

I evangelically bring this up constantly in day to day life, and people just outright refuse to accept that psychology isn't rigorous. This cannot be reiterated enough, if anyone reading this is unfamiliar with the current replication crisis, please stop whatever you are doing and read up on it. It changed the way I view all social sciences.

But this was why I posed it as a question, everyone says this is somehow 'more interesting' but is that because it is actually qualitatively more interesting or are more interesting things coming out of it simply due to the fact that it is more popular quantitatively with researchers? If it is qualitatively more interesting, what about it makes it so?

I likened it to functional programming because finitism makes things interesting via its purity and restriction in an analogous way.

This is only tangentially related but I hope it provokes discussion. One thing that I don't understand is why Platonism remains extremely popular throughout Mathematics departments the world over and Finitism/Ultra-finitism is so unpopular with them. Combinatorics and Discrete topics are often very unpopular topics to work on in my experience.

Finitism in an analogous way to functional programming seems like the best way to move the field forward, but it is rarely used by Mathematicians in practice. Why on earth is this? (My understanding of mathematics is lacking, so I hope this doesn't come off as a silly comment)

This may sound silly to you all but I have recently given up paying for internet at my house as an experiment due to the prevalence of free public wifi nearly everywhere. I'm about 9 months into having cancelled my internet/cable entirely and it is working out well for me. I have only ever been very mildly inconvenienced by it.

Things like this make me never want to go back in all honestly, I save quite a bit of money with basically no downside (unless you count buying very very slightly more coffee than I otherwise might). Since I don't use google logins, disable tracking/cookies, and also change my mac address semi-regularly this seems like an adequate solution without going full on Tor/NoScript all the time(which I would prefer but the inconvenience cost becomes too great).

If this is allowed to legally stand, I am going to have to think long and hard about ever subscribing to an ISP or creating a google account ever again.

My experience getting offered relates to southern/midwestern states, TN/NC/GA stand out to me, and the drivers I've met/spoken with who did this most regularly operated in areas of Atlanta and its surrounding suburbs specifically.

Although I have also experienced this several times in the upper Midwest. I suspect there might be some bias in my physical appearance that makes me get offered more? Several drivers had a sort of setup where they had goods in a box/console and opened it to make the offer, so it seems likely that if they didn't feel a fare to be the partying type they would simply not make the offer? One I saw had an entire cooler setup.

Another possible explanation could be that in very competitive areas like LA or the Bay the rank/yank system cuts out bad drivers more quickly than middle-america where there is maybe not as large of a pool of people applying to be drivers?

I have never had a bad or sketchy ride in Bay/NYC/Chicago/Dallas. (I have had no experience with Uber in LA)

I just made an account to post this, a factor that isn't really being brought up by any of the comments I've seen in this conversation is drugs and other illicit practices used by Uber drivers to make money.

I have known several drivers who sold marijuana, small individual shot bottles, smoking papers, flavored cigar papers, and other 'party related favors' out of their cars to make their Uber driving more profitable. Without this source of income made from people going to/from parties and bars on weekends, alongside their actual ride fares, their profit margin is not even worth the time.

These 'tipping' hustles are frankly extremely mild in comparison to my experiences. I'm of the opinion that these hustles are publicly frowned upon, but in practice are not effectively policed on purpose. If Uber policed these sorts of practices in an effective way(like if they had cameras/monitors in cars) they would lose a substantial portion of their drivers instantly.