fiala__'s comments

Anyone who still has doubts about the extent of Facebook's undemocratic power is clearly about to be fully convinced.

Yeah, that bit is bonkers. A huge privately-owned tech corporation talking about 'public good'. We truly are entering the era of global corporate despotism.

Literally the first sentence of the video description:

> Between 1900-2006, campaigns of nonviolent civil resistance were twice as successful as violent campaigns.

You're just saying "No." without providing anything more than an opinion and some anecdotal evidence. You're absolutely right that under many oppressive regimes like China pretty much any kind of protest beside outright civil war is suppressed, but that doesn't defeat the point of the article.

Also, saying things like

> dirty communist pokes his finger ...

really doesn't help you here.

The problem with YouTube specifically, is that while blog posts are easy to host on pretty much anything that has a CPU, self-hosting videos at scale is essentially impossible. So while Medium only added a marginal amount of convenience for your average blogger, YouTube straight up enabled the kind of content it hosts.

someone definitely needs to write that article

I tried the new interface, and even after a couple of minutes I still couldn't find where my saved posts were. Went straight back to `old.`

They're probably also the kind of person who tells depressed people to "cheer up, life's not all that bad after all!"

If you've never seen a depressed child then I beg you to pay attention. Children have incredibly complex, fascinating and perceptive minds, they aren't just happy food processing automata until they reach puberty.

It's exactly this kind of reductionism which leads parents to ignore their children's psychological needs, which leads to schools having to take action.

I'm no mental health expert but isn't mindfulness a proven method for improving one's mental health?

Schools can't fix dysfunctional families. All they can do is give kids some tools to cope with such challenges. Even if it doesn't help a particular child, why would it be wrong to at least try?

> Children have no problems with happiness or well-being.

Have you ever met a child IRL?

I'm about to switch to Linux from my 2010 MBP (which is still basically working) and my main motivation is exactly the fact that "Just Works" no longer applies to MacBooks.

My £2800 company MBP has half-broken USB-C ports, malfunctioning Touch Bar, various audio issues, and I can't use Blender to render on the GPU because of Apple's shitty outdated OpenGL. I could have two Linux laptops with better specs for the price of this piece of fancy aluminium, and a similar amount of bugs/broken stuff.

Many years ago I used Omm for a bit, it's pretty good if you really want to concentrate https://ommwriter.com/

I suspect you wanted to comment on this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18722952

I wonder if there's a demonstrable correlation between level of police funding and support for such initiatives. In the UK's public sector there is definitely a strong drive for automation, but it does kind of coincide with austerity and drastic cuts in police services.

This is kind of similar to how the USSR industrialised in the 1930s. Western nations were simply stunned at the rate of change, and while we now know it was underscored by unspeakable atrocities, it still applies that such a tightly controlled economy can be very agile and responsive to threats such as climate change.

They've been in continuous use in Bratislava since the 1940s, and they also have the hybrid ones. They're especially suitable for steep slopes where rail-based transport doesn't work. Absolutely iconic vehicles!

Mastodon is cool, but it's far from immune to mob mentality – see Wil Wheaton thing a few months ago:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/31/17801404/mastodon-harassm...

I think the reason why a lot of this stuff is being called "Kremlin Propaganda" is that real Kremlin propaganda isn't really propaganda anymore. It's not necessarily coming from an evil troll factory in an imposing Petersburg tower. It's a lot more subtle and indirect – more of a cultural practice than a directed media effort – and it might not always be intentional, but people still need a way to link it to the power that benefits from it.

That said, there's a lot of this stuff being produced in western countries, including the EU. It just so happens that the plague of neoconservatism + political division has become state policy in Russia, so it makes sense for EU institutions (whose objective is political unity and inclusive welfare-oriented policy) would link it to the Russian state.

This is very interesting! In film production, it is also a common rule of thumb that you film about 10 times more footage than you end up using.

1. jot down a bunch of buzzwords

2. come up with a buzzword that summarizes those buzzwords

3. put normal words between the buzzwords

4. take the paragraph PR emailed you earlier and insert it about 85% into the text

5. publish to Medium and post on HN

I love the idea of going back to a decentralised Web but I worry about it becoming just a way for the next generation of Silicon Valley kids to make billions. I would like to see more technical posts dealing with the actual workings of decentralised systems, rather than this mindless PR.