Photography of the Nazi invasion, Kiev Ukraine, 84 years ago today. This photo is a perfect composition, artistically. And we know it’s just day one of a 1,000 days of horror ahead.
Ian, I emailed you a couple years ago when I felt Bench had become worse and worse for customers. I was sad to discover that you’d left and I felt the difference was definitely attributable to your departure. I switched providers shortly thereafter.
So, speaking as a former customer, the tragedy and timeline you mention pass the sniff test for me. So glad your next venture has been going well for you!
“Hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is now being held alongside fallen cryptocurrency tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried in a federal jail in New York, people familiar with the matter said.
Both men are in the same dormitory-style unit in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, which often houses high-profile inmates, the people said. Combs has been jailed since his arrest last week on sex-trafficking charges, but he was only transferred to Bankman-Fried’s unit of the MDC on Monday, they said. Combs has pleaded not guilty.
Bankman-Fried, founder of the failed FTX crypto exchange, was sentenced to 25 years in prison earlier this year after a jury convicted him of fraud and conspiracy. The judge who oversaw Bankman-Fried’s trial agreed to let him stay temporarily at the Brooklyn jail while he is working on his appeal, before he is moved to a federal prison to serve out his sentence.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons declined to comment.”
Apologize to HN: Sorry for Trolling
2 points by benreesman on April 17, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
I was reading my comment history and came to the horrible conclusion that I am a troll. In particular I'm the worst kind of troll, the kind where it's not always clear that I'm trolling.
My childlike enthusiasm for debate (or maybe just my lousy social skills) have led me to say things that are nasty, inflammatory, sometimes clearly false, and ultimately that I have no desire to see appear next to my name.
So if I've offended any of you then I'm really sorry. I promise to reform, effective immediately.
I should have said “attempt to reform”, it’s one of the many follies of youth that habits change in a day.
It’s actually pretty recently that I’ve really started to recognize the gravity of this forum, how much scope there is for causing harm or precipitating healthy change: HN is in a sense a sort of “swing state” in the conversation. It’s a small community in numbers on a national or global scale, but is overrepresented in influential posts in technology, the sciences, and the generally “logic motivated” posts in society.
I really am sorry that it’s been such an uneven outcome for so many of the intervening 15 years since I wrote that. I should have started forming a coherent worldview, analyzing its ethical implications, and attempting to master my own worst instincts in the sense of translating that into a compelling argument and actionable “policy platform” in terms of how I write on the Internet.
And in a sense I really owe a debt of gratitude in a perverse way to a set of people and institutions that represent such a clear and present danger to the legacy of the Enlightenment to galvanize me into beginning to get organized around what I believe in and expressing that effectively.
I’m still an awfully small fish to merit a 16-year post history in a kind of tinker-toy opposition research commensurate with my tinker-toy influence.
That’s a lot of effort even with modern automation for a guy who is basically a nobody with an opinion.
Absent automation it wouldn’t be worth anyone’s time, and in either case, I’m really curious to know what induced you to spend yours on that?
Subject does not like being talked about or dissected too much.
I highly doubt @dang flagged this himself, other people did. It seems like a controll valve that can be used from time to time. Anyone can gang up with a bunch of others to mass flag a story.
