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There is another possibility, which is that once upon
a time the system was severely tilted, and for various
complex reasons there is a _massive_ multi-generational
delay between leveling the system seeing the results of
leveling the system.

I think most people would agree that many of the effects of inequality are felt on a multigenerational scale, and that solutions will only fully be realized on a similar time frame. Nobody, even the people making slides at Github, think this can be fixed in an afternoon.

What's the functional difference between "living in a system that is severely tilted" and "living in a system that has allegedly been repaired, but in practice will remain tilted for a number of generations until this alleged new-found fairness has a chance to propagate through the system?"

To those affected, I think there would be no useful difference between the two. Long-term solutions do not preclude the need for short-term action.

Consider how difficult and unlikely it is for a low income
white male living in a trailer with, say, alcoholic anti-intellectual
parents to, say, become one of the wealthiest people in the
country.

Absolutely. Odds are definitely stacked against that guy. White males can have any number of horrible problems. And many people of color are born into relatively easy lives.

To be clear: nobody is claiming otherwise. Regardless of your feelings about white priviledge, please understand that it does not involve the idea that all things are always easy for all white people.
Honestly, the constant hints at social naivety and how the author felt victimized by any negative comment like he lacks the proper empathy to realize that hey, sometimes people are just having a bad day, immediately gave me the vibe that he is somewhere on the spectrum.
The lack of something is hard to notice, especially when the majority of people don't sign commits. Perhaps if people start widely signing commits and tags, Github could add an option to explicitly mark commits or tags as "unverified" if they fall after a specified date and don't have a signature.
I'd rather see this integrated with some simple signing tool like openbsds signify.
I've had several friends who have owned and sold their Model S rather quickly (less than 2 years) because of problems they had with cold weather - they lived in North Dakota and Minnesota. One of my friends remarked, "It's like they didn't bother to test this in an even mildly cold region of the country."

Everything from greatly diminished range (which is already well documented) to the drivers screen not working, or working intermittently and other weird stuff my friends attributed to cold weather.
Try North Carolina, which has regrettably chosen to become a former tech hub.
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I honestly have no idea. Chat bot mania sure seems to be in full swing though. Call me cynical, but all I can see is a lot of tech and development hours desperately in search of a problem to solve.
I can tell you the reason at Daimler (Mercedes -- did some work with them in Sindelfingen): They care about the car and the driving experience (sound and reliability of the motor, doors etc). The radio and such? Not mission critical, so they just write a spec and outsource it. You don't get any advancement for worrying about those things.

I've owned a bunch of mercedeses over the year and they've generally been pretty good, though expensive to fix when something does go wrong.

My mini, by contrast, has a "sport" button. The documentation says "makes the car more sporty". The current "S" models have a turbocharger not a supercharger. 40% of the manual is on the entertainment system. I think these are all great.

(Of course at the end of the day that mini is a BMW so has all the fit and finish problems I experienced with BMWs before I gave up on them. Fun to drive but never again!)
I finished the levels during the beta and have the first unique badge (a timing attack no longer possible on the last level). I was looking for a really specific set of job requirements and patrick both 1)was totally willing to accommodate and 2)really on my side during the application process. They got me a great interview at a large, well known company- who didn't end up making an offer, but had a great hiring process.

It was overall great and exactly what it said on the tin.
What's even sadder is what the other manufacturers put in theirs. A prominent OEM I recently worked with was planning to put a significantly worse SOC than the Tegra3 in their 2017 head units to save a few bucks.
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It seems like a lot of folks believe that things - people, places, stuff - are naturally meant to remain in one state forever? I get the anger at not being able to afford the place you live in any longer, but all these arguments seem to be built on an assumption that things shouldn't change. "Just ride the wave, bruh."
Very dense neighborhoods can still be quaint with trees and bushes. This census tract is around twice as dense as San Francisco:
https://goo.gl/maps/d2rQ7wc6Tc12
There's blade-water friction as well as water-water friction. The link you provided does not quantify their relative contributions. [edit: Actually, I'm not even sure how much blade-water friction there is, due to the boundary layer effect.]

There is also heating from cavitation bubbles collapsing in the water. If you look up cavitation heaters you will find a wacky rabbit hole with unsubstantiated claims about achieving heating efficiencies over unity. However, apparently there are some industrial processes that benefit from cavitation heating by getting even liquid heating and avoiding heating elements that can develop scaling. More info: http://hydrodynamics.com/cavitation-technology/scale-free-he...
Politicians aren't like that because people aren't like that. What you are looking for is more of a bureaucratic dictatorship like Singapore's.
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yes, of course, and explicitly targeting workers under 45 over workers over 45 does violate labor law in many jurisdictions.

However, to the best of my knowledge, there's nothing illegal about offering people $35,000 a year for full time work. I mean, you are delusional if you think you are getting any but the programmers nobody else wants at that rate, and right now, there's not a lot of those, but there's nothing illegal about hiring people who don't have a lot of other options, and from experience, when you underpay, people will use you as a stepping stone to get to a job that pays well, but none of that is illegal, or I think even unethical. One could argue that you are giving people who otherwise wouldn't have a chance a chance, and once they have a programming job, even if it's a job that pays shit, it's way easier to get a programming job that pays okay.

(at $35,000 you are going to have a hard time arguing that they are exempt, of course, which could be a problem... but you could legally pay them a lower hourly wage and time and a half overtime, if you wanted; that's just an accounting/planning "compliance issue." And there's a lot to be said for just working eight hours, which is more common in my experience than it is in conversation.)

To me, this whole conversation is weird... my experience interviewing at startups is that yes, they expect me to be younger and cooler than I am... but they also pay way less and expect more work than big companies do. I kinda think that the "young and cool" thing might just be a cover for the "not willing to pay very much" thing. It's more socially acceptable to be openly discriminatory than it is to just openly say "Hey, I'm cheap"
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Be sure the email you commit with is also on your key. May not be your primary GH email address.
They are also in the ads business and can sell across both platforms.
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There is no difference, WhatsApp and Signal both use the Signal Protocol, and the same code: https://github.com/whispersystems/libsignal-protocol-java
My mom looks forward to her StoryWorth questions and puts a lot of thought and time into writing her answers. Even though I may have heard some of the stories growing up, I've discovered so much more through her StoryWorth responses. For example, I knew that one of my mom's favorite toys was her doll, but when StoryWorth asked, "What were your favorite toys as a child?" my mom replied with a 465 word response! I learned much more detail: "I didn't have a lot of toys as a child because of my family financial situation...but I remember when I was about five years old, my father got a chance to study in the US. When he came home after a year he brought me a big surprise. I got a beautiful doll, you can imagine how happy I was. It was a boy doll because a boy doll was cheaper than a girl doll. She didn't have a princess dress or long blonde hair, but I was still very excited..." I really cherish the stories and hope to share with my children one day.
BTW: KiK (different capitalization, full name: KiK Textilien und Non-Food GmbH) is also a German fashion seller: http://www.kik.de/
Even knowing better now, it's still tempting. In most cases, throwing it in a isolated linux system should be okay.

Of course, unless it's one of those USB-Killer devices that pushes voltage back... Curiosity is fun and dangerous at the same time
I agree. I've been bouncing around the idea of creating a "Millennials[1] Union" blog to promote more collective bargaining and expose how my generation's getting fooled.

[1] I hate this word
I'm sorry someone is forcing you to own a car, and forcing you not to pay a garage owner for somewhere to park it.
The author takes a long time but eventually compares this guy to the unibomber. Why? Who the heck knows. I really don't think that's a justified comparison.
WhatsApp uses a proprietary (fork of XMPP) messaging protocol and does not interoperate with anyone else (intentionally), like Hangouts and Skype, and unlike Matrix which is federated, and has gateways for IRC and XMPP already available.
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Usually it's the guys in the room smoking cigars, guys you've never seen before. Bill Hicks explains it perfectly:

http://billhicks.tumblr.com/post/24578142318/livinglikebill-...
That is not true for Spain. Since the attacks on 11-M 2014 in Madrid, it is mandatory to provide in the local shop your National ID card or passport to activate any SIM card. But the verification is done by the shop attendant.

Anyway, I do think it is pointless as there are plenty of ways to get a SIM card anonymously: buy it in other country, steal it, buy it from somebody, clone it...
Ever try to take twenty thousand in cash through airport security? Here's a secret: Those millimeter wave body scanners are only incidentally for drugs and weapons.
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Lyft/Uber seem to split on the Friendly/Professional preference, so it makes sense to me that Uber would do better in cities like New York and Boston while Lyft does better in cities like Austin and Minneapolis.

I've heard many people say they like Uber because the drivers shut up and have nice cars. I've heard other people say they like Lyft because the drivers are friendly people in normal cars and it feels more like a friend giving you a ride.
On the other hand, it would appear to be a great way of persisting information you don't want removed.
Letting a customer enter a credit card and then parsing it on to the credit card processor means that you would need to be some level PCI complainant. You really really don't want to be close enough to the credit card numbers to do something with them, especially client side.

Having the credit card field, where you can access it, means that you become a target for people wanting to inject javascript into your site. Perhaps you're safe, but what about all the third party javascript libraries or tracking/remarketing/tracking script most sites have?

Sorry, it's a really bad idea. Let you credit card processor deal with the that hassle.
It can be, but with a bunch of caveats that I'm not sure people are fully aware of. There's a fair bit of over-enthusiasm about chat interfaces and IMO not a lot of realization of its limitations.

The usefulness of chat interfaces is proportional to how complex the task is and how poorly the user understands the scope and structure of the task.

To use a contrived example, if you have no idea what's left in your fridge, saying "Computer, restock all my essential groceries" is easier than going into the fridge, figuring out what you need, and ordering it via a traditional interface.

Or think of a customer service hotline, where the caller has no idea what options are even available to them, nor do they understand the hellish tree-structure of the touchtone menus. In these instances natural language interaction can remove the need to understand the structure of the task and get them directly to the thing they need. Many customer service lines are already doing this in a simplistic keyworded way, and they can be better.

On the other hand we're seeing a lot of people try to apply chat/natural language interfaces to tasks that are both simple and well understood by their users, and I think these will be doomed to fail. Ultimately voice/text is harder and more annoying for the user than punching buttons, the tradeoff being that they can be valuable when the task is complex/opaque. Most of these applications don't hit a positive tradeoff for the user - and end up being a complicated/annoyingly unstructured mode of interaction nobody wants to use more than once to show off to their friends.

Simple/well understood things like "call an Uber" I think will be pretty DOA if you try to shoehorn a chatbot into the middle - users will prefer the actual UI over it any day of the week.
Yeah, as someone running like hell from the Bay Area (to Manhattan), I think this is the key.

It's actually possible to get cheap, bad, but livable housing in NYC. It would be difficult to get a plot of floor with a roof over it of any quality at $2k in SF.
This is huge! Not so much because of signing software, but because fairly soon most devs will have setup gpg and you'll be able to easily find their pub key and trust it!
> It would, but it would most likely be less efficient than filtering the water you're floating in :)

To put some numbers to this, they have achieved ~1kwh / L, wikipedia [0] puts reverse-osmosis desalination at ~3kwh / 1000 L

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_osmosis#Desalination
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Everybody knows about Pyramid schemes too, and they're still scams. The real scam is in convincing people that they are near the top.
That sounds like Spain to me.
Just tried this, and apparently Github doesn't recognize my key... I have a master key, and three subkeys (encryption, signing and authentication).
US is a pathological case. I wrote this for the sake of fellow Europeans as well as the rest of the world, because I see the increase of anti-police sentiment (including linking to that "Don't talk to the police" YouTube video) in countries where it's not warranted.
It seems like it addresses Linus's complaint about author verification, especially needed with a mission-critical project like the Linux kernel.

I wonder if GitHub will have out-of-the-box support for pull requests by email. That would be wonderful.
There were secure alternatives available several years ago. Unfortunately the industry is moving from code running on bare metal to having the main panels and now the door controllers run a full embedded OS. The complexity of how everthing interacts now has increased exponentialy so your attack surface is now much larger. All for easier initial development.
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After a few weeks, non-updating users will get a stern warning that Whatsapp will stop working until they update. Whatsapp does this with every version. They expire every few months.
Kik CEO actually has a pretty good narrative on this

https://medium.com/@tedlivingston/the-future-of-chat-isn-t-a...
For one, because it costs money to send SMS messages through gateways like Twilio.
Blue Byte did something along the lines of your suggestion with the copyright protection of Settlers III. When the game detected that the DRM was broken, iron smelters would only produce pigs instead of iron.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Settlers_III
No, he potentially gives the police access to additional evidence (via your passwords/decryption keys) in the hopes that the police don't do what they usually do (and what is in their right to do): confiscate all his electronic equipment and data including all backups of photos, videos, work projects, documents-in-progress, archives etc and not give it back for years.
It's a lot easier for people to see this argument with basic income than with minimum wage, but the signaling on property owners ends up being the same whether you know for certain all your tenants now have an extra $x in funds or just some of them might now be getting a raise to the new minimum wage. From the property manager perspective, suddenly they're getting more demand on units than they were previously, so they balance that by increasing rents. An increased minimum wage can play a part in that rise in demand even if no single person can afford an apartment on their own at minimum wage. For instance perhaps there's a group of 4 people cramped in one apartment, but now with all of them getting more money, they can afford to split off into two groups of 2. Until the landlord raises rents, anyway, because they aren't enough units for everyone to do that and building new units takes time.
What do you mean by "fixes parallel histories"? What is a parallel history and how do you fix it?
What about CLI though?
Looks promising. Does it handle force-pushes to PRs? It says it doesn't lose comments when pushing new commits, but it doesn't mention how it handles history rewriting.
Really? While still leaving all the input of credit card numbers to PayPal? I mean you'd still have to have some "landing page" with Paypal.

If you happen to have a link handy I would very much like see how they do it.
I forget where I read it, but being on the BSD mailing list also put you on said FBI list.

I'm sure I'm sitting nice and pretty on several lists.
> - Does WhatsApp Auto Backup encrypt messages before sending them to Google Drive or iCloud?

So you make a backup and loose the phone. What about the key? Is that gone too? Without it, encrypted backup is useless. How do you backup the key? You and me maybe will manage to do this, but what about grandma and all those people without anybody close who knows about this?
It's such a naive idea to apply this to every PR unilaterally.
If the exit node only permits HTTPS connections out of it then it would be impossible for him to view the contents of exiting traffic, right? That one restriction would seem to absolve the operator of responsibility for the contents of the communications.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11431108
>OTOH the Model S is the most well manufactured anything I've ever sat in.

The Tesla forums have quite a few people complaining about blown drive units, missing paint, stuck doors...this is for a low volume car.

From an outsiders view, I'm not sure your experience with 1 GM and 0 Teslas is relevant.
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None. But 'gentrification' in, say, Pittsburgh means houses in newly-hip neighborhoods that used to cost $50,000 are being renovated and sold for $250,000, instead of houses that use to cost $500,000 being renovated and sold for $2,000,000.
This is clearly false. Every country has rules and limits about who can enter and what they can do while there; backed by the threat of imprisonment or deportation.
Yeah, Kloudsec is being disingenuous here.
Because I'm old enough to have seen stupid trends like this come and go. I like to browse the web on my terms and not be bombarded by useless information. I know it's a crazy concept for some young people these days but sometimes people don't want any interruptions or distractions like real time notifications. If anything notifications should be entirely opt in where you explicitly go to a page on a website and turn it on--not spamming every time you visit to ask if you want to turn them on.
I'm curious about how you write "%20", instead of the more common "20%". It's the first time I see it, really. Is there any place in the world where writing the percentage sign before the number is common practice?
i pimp everything, so i guess that means everything is a dud. i am an equal opportunity pimper. i plan on pimping again tomorrow on AVC
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Metro (being the Portland area's multi-county regional government) voted last year to not expand the urban growth boundary. So the supply of single-family homes with yards is basically fixed, while demand is growing. Expect home prices to continue to grow (Portland's rate is top in the U.S.) as new housing construction continues to be constrained to dense multi-family structures for the next five years until Metro votes on UGB expansion again.
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Isn't that a clear indication for lack of experience? I've been through my fair share of acquisitions and I've never been told things won't change.
One way to manage this is to have your own contract serve as the basis for the agreement. The second part of that is to be willing to walk away from potential clients who insist on changing it in non-trivial ways.

Good luck.
Well the things I listed in my OP are my concrete ideas for how to approach these working on these things. If you have other concrete suggestions, I would love to hear them.

As an example: The reason why I focus on studying rails is that all of the debugging techniques I know about involve getting a better idea of the system at some layer of abstraction. I suspect that my best shot at getting better at debugging is to know the framework the code is written in very well and thereby be able to understand the codebase more easily.

For a problem like "I can't get clarity around what we are trying to do here.", it seems like there aren't any books on the topic. Thats why I figured that finding a mentor would be good.
well so then you get the point that not willing to share your tx info with "the world" (which is what the mixers are for) != money laundering
You are right. This is the same reason, why island birds like dodo have lost their wings - there wasn't enough selection pressure for it.
I wonder if it wouldn't be prudent, if you wanted to run an exit, to pay for dedicated static IP, maybe even on a totally different ISP. Hard to guess what the warrant would cover, exactly, in that case (probably still a free pass to all your machines). Of course, it's easy to imagine the opposite situation, where someone connects an exit node to ${random neighbors ap}, with terrible results.