Human folly for 02017-08-22

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• Israeli Minister relations with Trump are more important than calling out Nazis (jpost.com):

  #Israel Communications Minister Ayoub Kara says “Trump is the best [#USA] leader Israel has ever had,” says it’s comparatively less important to condemn #neo-Nazis. He’s not Jewish. #politics

• Juggalos Nazis March Washington (dailydot.com):

  #USA #politics #Juggalos #neo-Nazis. Warning, super heavy page, using like a quarter gig of RAM.

• Explaining React s license (code.facebook.com):

  #Apache Software Foundation blacklists the #React license; Facebook explains its self-defense clause against #patents

• 6Debug (plasmasturm.org):

  The six stages of debugging

• (graydon2.dreamwidth.org):

  #Graydon Hoare on programming language design: what’s next? Modules, errors, coroutines, effect systems, extended static checking and dependent types, real formalization, session types, parametric mutability, richer pattern-matching, unit-of-measure types, typing that bounds computational cost, heterogeneous memory and parallelism, extensible implementations.

• I saw my city die civilian suffering in cities (medium.com):

  #War is urban now and it kills lots of civilians

• When big business happens to your PET (bloomberg.com):

  profiteering veterinarian chains like Banfield provide worse care for more money in #USA

• Mastodon is big in Japan the reason why is uncomfortable (medium.com):

  #Mastodon is popular in #Japan because being hosted locally means it allows lolicon

• Decentralized web (dci.mit.edu):

  #PDF #ebook of 113 pages on #decentralization for #human-rights, covering #Mastodon, #IPFS, and others, though not Scuttlebutt. #toread

• (youtube.com):

  #video on fictional computer #UX (“#FUI”, fictional user interfaces) by the dude who wrote the “Make It So” book

• Story driven resume my best work (krebsonsecurity.com):

  #security journalism by Krebs, including lots of people getting their bank accounts robbed in 2009

• Juggalos are Mad as hell and theyre not gonna take it anymore (vice.com):

  #Juggalos march for #human-rights. #USA #politics

• Gang related what antifa and Juggalos have in common in this Strange new world (medium.com):

  “What #Antifa and #Juggalos have in common in this strange new world” #USA #politics #human-rights

• A short walkthrough of webrender (masonchang.com):

  Mason Change explains how the new #graphics system in #Firefox works. #toread

• State of NAT traversal (zerotier.com):

  How to do #NAT traversal: 80% are full-cone NAT, doing synchronized UDP hole punching with port number prediction gets you to like 90%, and to get to 95% you need randomized retries. #networking

• Judging things by their side effects (status451.com):

  Against the logical fallacy of judging arguments by how bad it would be if people listened to them. “…activists…[act as if] they don’t think truth matters.” #politics

• Igcww (archive.is):

  Archive of “Picol”, Antirez’s #Tcl implementation in 500 lines of C, also at <http://antirez.com/picol/picol.c.txt>. #smallisbeautiful

• Cambridge University press China Quarterly complies with censorship removes 300 articles on topics like Tiananmen and tibet in China (qz.com):

  #Cambridge University Press #China Quarterly submits to #censorship by China. #politics #human-rights

• Blog (scottaaronson.com):

  Debate on #feminism and #Damore on Scott Aaronson’s blog. #USA #politics #Google

• Hubpower (github.com):

  #source-code to turn off #USB #hardware power by sending a command to the hub, if it supports it.

• (youtube.com):

  #video on why to study #music theory on a music-theory channel

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  The Jagiellonian University in #Poland disputes #Google #patents on ANS

• Idealos essay (joshondesign.com):

  "Ideal OS", a desktop operating system intended to revitalize innovation I guess? He wants a system-wide real-time (?) document database with a message bus and a compositing window manager

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  discussion of #Ideal-OS

• The conservation of coercion (americanaffairsjournal.org):

  Social equilibrium, antisocial behavior, stateless enforcement, that kind of thing: “Is there a sort of law of conservation of coercion in well-functioning societies?” A #book-review of #politics book “Technology and the End of Authority: What Is Government For?” by Kuznicki advocating “agnarchy”.

• White nationalists genetic ancestry test (statnews.com):

  #Neo-Nazis and genetic testing. #USA #politics