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New comment by newen in "No support Linux hosting shutting down from hack"

newen — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 19:56:31 +0000

Topical example is Parler getting shut down by AWS for whatever reason Amazon gave.

New comment by newen in "Cixin Liu's Postscript for the American Edition for “The Three Body Problem”"

newen — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 22:00:01 +0000

I’m just trying to explain the dynamics of typical HN comments regarding Chinese citizens, where the usually American commenter writes under the assumption that the Chinese citizen is held under this brutal dictatorship and must use any and all opportunity to speak up and/or oppose this brutal dictatorship. It’s a relatively recent phenomenon in American politics and it’s interesting to think about.

New comment by newen in "Cixin Liu's Postscript for the American Edition for “The Three Body Problem”"

newen — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 21:37:49 +0000

Most Americans are under the impression that Chinese citizens secretly hate their government but can’t speak up due to the authoritarian tendencies of the ruling CCP. Of course, any news that contradict this feeling can be ascribed to CCP propaganda. And of course, when asked to examine the source of this feeling, it can never be American propaganda but cold hard facts.

New comment by newen in "Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advanced features"

newen — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 21:00:18 +0000

This is what is generally called a straw man logical fallacy. The issue is that something as simple as copying and pasting code (say from one file to another, both of which the programmer has written) is made excessively complex due to whitespace being significant. Call it code smell or developer smell or keyboard smell or whatever you want but this issue simply does not exist for programming languages that do not have whitespace significance.

New comment by newen in "Navy speaks up about its “UFO patent” experiments"

newen — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 15:23:26 +0000

It's actually marked as "labor" or "for salaries". These terms should include benefits and overhead.

New comment by newen in "AOC calls out Robinhood for blocking GameStop, suggests holding a hearing"

newen — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 21:22:47 +0000

You let the real economy be post-growth and you do a money printer go brrr. There, now the economy is financialized and stonks only go up.

New comment by newen in "U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 50 Years"

newen — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 21:16:26 +0000

Everybody has a different price they are willing to work for based on their circumstances but that doesn't mean you let them do that. Allowing people to work for low wages drives down wages for others, which is undesirable for lots of reasons including income inequality and not wanting people with families to become poor. Sweeping nationwide minimum wage laws is certainly one solution for that.

New comment by newen in "U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 50 Years"

newen — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 22:08:33 +0000

The ones being subsidized are the kids' employers, not the kids.

New comment by newen in "New Transistor Structures At 3nm/2nm"

newen — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 22:10:33 +0000

It's not just computer engineering. I'm in natural language processing and was in academia and I see a lot of mistakes and misunderstandings in the comments in those topics. Probably the only thing reliable in HN comments is website design.

New comment by newen in "WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update"

newen — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 16:22:45 +0000

The leader of an organization that has a large impact on society, and potentially will have a very large impact on society and the world, being secretive is concerning and suspicious, yes.

Edit: Why? Because the public should know the people who have significant amount of influence in society.

New comment by newen in "We Crush, Poison, and Destroy Insects at Our Own Peril"

newen — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 14:45:15 +0000

That's in terms of nationwide total vote count. That's not how the electoral college works though. Biden won by a few thousand votes in a few key swing states. Therefore, it is more accurate to say that Biden won by a few thousand votes.

New comment by newen in "WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update"

newen — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 13:45:22 +0000

Isn’t Signal run by some guy named Moxie Marlinspike who likes to be very secretive to supposedly protect his privacy? Signal is much more suspicious, IMO.

New comment by newen in "Parler partially reappears with support from Russian technology firm"

newen — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 16:17:38 +0000

I still can't believe 4chan actually managed to make the OK hand sign into a white power hand sign. Pretty impressive.

New comment by newen in "Julia adoption keeps climbing"

newen — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 19:03:18 +0000

It's not generally recommended but you can do a custom getproperty() for Tuple.

  julia> function Base.getproperty(x::Tuple, f::Symbol)
       if f == :a
         return x[1]
       elseif f == :b
         return x[2]
       else
         return x[3]
       end
       end

  julia> (3,4,5).a
  3

Edit: Okay, why am I getting randomly downvoted here?

New comment by newen in "35 Percent of Men and 17 Percent of Women Masturbate While ‘Working from Home’"

newen — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 15:37:11 +0000

Just an American thing? People online seem to say this all the time but I can’t imagine any country that talk more about sex and ex positivity than America.

New comment by newen in "Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner"

newen — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 20:53:04 +0000

It's the result of having a good public relations firm.

New comment by newen in "Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men"

newen — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 19:56:08 +0000

Exercise increases testosterone levels, for one. So I would think, yes, if only because being pressured into acting more manly makes men do more exercise and sports to look more manly.

New comment by newen in "Intel is dying and we can’t save it"

newen — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 15:24:38 +0000

Multiple branches of US military are pouring tons of money into AI/ML, so they definitely want to get in to AI.

New comment by newen in "Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar (2018)"

newen — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 15:15:47 +0000

No he didn’t. He just made that one post with the questions and you randomly accused him of sealioning. Just asking questions is not sealioning. I know where the term originated.

New comment by newen in "Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar (2018)"

newen — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 02:05:08 +0000

From Wikipedia

> Sealioning (also spelled sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with persistent requests for evidence or repeated questions, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity. It may take the form of "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate".

One post is not it.