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This is too blatant of a hit piece from NYtimes, low quality and ... wtf is it doing in HN frontpage (top spot, no less)? I would urge people to upvote quality, not their personal outrages.

Repeating "cambridge analytica scandal" will not make it less of a scandal than "obama campaing scandal". And FB already has all the data they need for their dating offering, if anything, they are withholding people from risking exposing these data to other services. What nonsense.

Elections considered harmful.

> How long until Somali pirates show up, murder you, and take all your possessions with no 'government' to protect you?

I assume most somali pirates do operate in international waters, which are not officially protected by anyone.

wiki:

> Piracy off the coast of Somalia refers to criminal violence and threats by Somalian pirates in the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channel and Somali Sea, in what some say are disputed territorial waters.

Thailand's government is a dictatorship. They are BSing, the seastead was beyond their territorial 12 miles, in the contiguous zone in which they have limited power. The exclusive economic zone is not territorial waters either. They have charged the couple with ridiculous "violation of sovereignty" at a place where they dont have sovereignity.

> within region of the sea where Thai government has the final say.

They are beyond 12 miles, this region is not territorial waters but international. They don't have the final say, except in matters relevant to their customs, commerce and artificial islands. If this was in a sea shared by two nations, i m sure the situation would be a lot more complicated.

Also, this was more a statement rather than a realistic seastead. The cost of the tiny seastead is ~$150000. Hopefully more will follow which will lead to a larger discussion about governmental overreaches.

> It’s something that’s granted by others. Sometimes it’s through agreement. Other times it’s by fear of force.

Thailand has signed the UN law of the sea and set its territorial claim at 12 miles, so it knows that its territory ends at 12 miles. They are disrespecting their contract by performing hostile operations in international waters. If anything, the other signatories to UNCLOS should complain.

> The Contiguous Zone is an intermediary zone between the territorial sea and the high seas extending enforcement jurisdiction of the coastal state to a maximum of 24 nautical miles from baselines for the purposes of preventing or punishing violations of customs, fiscal, immigration or sanitary (and thus residual national security) legislation.

https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/Law-of-the-Sea-Me...

@yongjik: china (the country) has no legal basis to extend its sovereignity there. But i guess it can send a ship and station it there , and the us could not lawfully capture it unless certain conditions were met. The US is not a signatory to UNCLOS so this is hypothetical. I am also sure the US and russia are frequent visitors of each other from international waters near Alaska.

pbs space time

That is the worst option of all, unless you want to see random buildings appear / disappear from your map.

If you go down that road, why offer our content for free to google to index? Maps and other google services help the web grow, which helps them sell more ads. It 's a synergy until it is no longer one. I suppose they will not be dumb enough to monetize recaptcha next.

this is not the right forum to present such thoughts

why would he present the results in an academic conference anyway? Those are archaic gatherings with extreme social/political biases and nothing good ever came out of them (i ve been in quite a few). not a very smart academic

What happens if you ignore a patent troll?

citing implies there is some kind of written documented evidence for it.

Yes, that was the plan

especially religious biases

That s how it works in EU now

Go on, let's hear the Intermediate version :)

Torrentfreak should pay Starz for using a frame from their unreleased work.

This suggests otherwise https://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-reporters-compensa...

doesnt bloomberg already reward articles that shake the markets? (at least thats a rumour)

i m willing to bet that 80% more revenue is due to the novelty factor. i believe the ad business is extremely more arbitrary than it is thought to be, and advertisers might be buying these slots because they are new and exciting, not because they are more effective.

The panama papers leakers.

> Until very recently women were denied combat roles because of biological arguments

until very recently physical strength was the definitive factor in war, and few brave women endeavored it. it's not just the attitudes that have changed

> is the division of the world into distinct social networks an expression of increasing social stratification

i think it is more about the level of need for social signaling. affluent people probably dont need it , except the narcissistic ones, while signaling seems to be very important for the middle classes.