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As a 4th generation son of a Midwest-bound German immigrant - it was the fertile land which drew many of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Acts
Your response to this technical blog post shows you have no concept of humor and is never a good idea, and does the presented blog post a disservice.
> This is the part that mystifies me: sacrifice sales to preserve an old model.

The only one I’m familiar with is BBC America in the US. In this case, they’re “sacrificing sales” so preserve the more profitable model. It’s okay to sacrifice sales if those sales are going to cause you more losses than they’re worth (in this case, networks threatening to drop BBCA)
Huh? When did a console become a graphical interface?
For you to have to say "He's not saving the world"

Someone had to say Elon is Saving the World.

Of course that's ridiculous but we put guys like Gates and Musk on a pedestal

and then we're being so edgy when we say they're not really that great.

He's doing some interesting things and saying some interesting things.

I don't think he's playing a chess game. I think he was having fun.

A person asked him a question outside of his expertise and he answered it.

The boring thing to do is say "I don't know ask an expert".

Of course people are only paying attention because he's a celebrity Intellect.
The only thing Waze is doing is giving people information and suggestions. It does not control drivers. And if your traffic system requires drivers to not know information that by all means is public knowledge to work — it's one bad system.
Trello and others are mostly based on Kanban[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban
Most insurance companies offer them. You will have to raise the liability limits on your car insurance to the maximums if you have a car. I don't think they do any sort of risk assessment specifically for the umbrella policy.
I don't know how many neighborhoods are like mine but we recently had our roads redone and each house in the neighborhood was assessed based on the road frontage that they had. Our neighborhood does not own the street maybe but we have a financial incentive to keep them nice since the residents actually paid for a large part of the construction. An extra 45,000 cars per day would wear the roads much more quickly.
Looks like they remade Trello. It also seems to have a certain "sterileness" to it, or perhaps classiness; I can't tell. The colors look good though and product brand looks good.

I hope they have some cool new features that inspire competition and improvements from Trello. Competition is always good if it makes Trello better!

But since I don't like where Microsoft is going with their privacy and advertising policies, I probably won't use this.
I think this post is pretty ignorant.

Yea, people who were formerly rich will have better financial habits. If you were born into poverty, who is going to teach you those good financial habits in the first place?

Yea, that would probably be better diet. But do they even know how to eat healthy? Do they have time to cook? Are they even able to get to a grocery store?

Yea, you could probably get a decent suit at a thrift store for $30. But some people literally can not spare that money. $30 could be the difference between your kids eating or having a roof over your head.
Agreed, except that it would have to be spent by Congress. That makes me... let's say somewhat less optimistic about it being doable.

Could Congress allocate $175 billion? Sure. Could they sell it to the public that it was worth it? Maybe. Could they do it in a way that actually eradicated poverty, rather than throwing big chunks of it down the sewer? I'm not optimistic.

If they could actually do it instead of larding it down with pork, though, I'm all for it.
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Nobody "owns" the street, I don't think that's the issue.

The issue is that the street was built for 10 cars an hour and now it's getting 300. Why is that important? It determines how wide the shoulders are, whether there's stop signs or roundabouts or traffic lights, whether there's on-street parking, whether there's just painted lines or botts dots' or physical lane barriers, etc.

It's not about ownership, it's about a street that was designed for X now being used for Y.
If only Twitter would offer something akin to a "block" feature, then we wouldn't need to entertain the prospect of policing crimethink across hundreds of millions of accounts.
I think that either that, or deep linking would have to be outlawed, which would obviously yield questionable results.
There must be a lot of entirely legal means of doing so. They overreached their authority enough for a proper punishment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Americans#/media/File:C...

The light blue counties are the ones with German being the most commonly reported ancestry during the 2000 census.

Personal note: Being from the Dakotas originally, it's interesting seeing some of my great-grandparents' backgrounds nearby: Native American, German, Norwegian, Finnish (further away), plus a few others that aren't nearby.
Blocking Javascript on those new sites that do this fixes the issue and makes the experience much better overall.
You're right. For example, here is a screenshot from July of 2011 from some other software, two months before trello was released: https://ketiljensen.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/kanbanboard....
It has "routing styles", "avoid toll roads" and "avoid freeways" in settings — sounds close enough.
Reminds me of when..uh.. Beyonce(?).. didn't like the Superbowl photo taken of her, so she had lawyers attempt to remove all copies from the Internet.

We all know nothing escapes the Internet once it's on there.
> "@DieJakeDie" social media efforts are doing more harm than good

That is obvious form the name, before considering the content at all.
This is actually an option in some courts if a plaintiff asks. I had a friend in Florida who owed a credit card bill the card company sued him. He missed the court date, his wife was in the hospital, and a warrant was issued by the judge for contempt of court. About a month later he got pulled over for speeding and was arrested on the spot. He had to post a bail that was released when he attended the new court date for the original claim. Ironically, he ended up winning the entire case on a statute of limitations technicality.
Regarding the first, I think they basically do this to test how "programming smart" someone is. Like my boss tells me when I interview, "determine potential". However, I agree that this shouldn't disqualify someone for a more technical kind of job. For me it is more of a "if he is really smart we should hire him despite the fact he is perhaps unqualified, he will easily learn" thing. The disqualifying questions are easier than this one.

Regarding the second, I agree completely. This problem is good because it doesn't give an advantage to rote memorization of basic CS from college (unlike asking about red-black trees etc), but when stolen from the internet and reused becomes bad because it gives an advantage to something worse - googling questions and memorizing answers.

I assume (or hope) Google switches up the problems they use all the time and hopefully doesn't use automated testing (because I care how someone thinks, not just whether they produce the solution in X minutes), but since you interviewed at a different company perhaps it is a cargo cult effect: Google has some of the smartest programmers and they asked this, so obviously we should also ask the same thing! Cargo culting is extremely common in IT in less-established companies, my workplace is not immune to it either. Pick things a super-successful company does that require almost zero investment, effort or true change, and copy those. It is ridiculous.

Of course, the things these companies really do right, they are too much effort, let's just copy them in superficial ways and hope for the best!
You do realize he copied your comment, don't you?
That's interesting I've got a keen eye for bugs and thought their QA was pretty tight. What kind of issues have you stumbled across?
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> abstraction is a great way to build complex stuff out of simple parts but it is also a great way to introduce all kinds of effects that you weren't aiming for in the first place and this particular one is easier than most to catch.

This isn't a problem when abstractions don't leak. Polishing abstractions until they don't leak is super hard, though.
Will an online recording be available of that talk? I'd love to watch it.
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Don't forget Policeman and uMatrix for alternative content and script blockers.
That was amazing! Many focus on a narrow presentation or style. That had all kinds of visual and mechanical elements to it that were done smoothly.
sounds like a business model almost as slimy as those collecting expired debt, but at least if i was selling forged documents i could sleep at night.
If you're digging ditches in the sun all day, you have zero energy to shop for hierloom tomatoes, pick some basil from your herb garden, and whip up a nice little caprese.

You're in "screw it, but I have to eat something now" mode. Your win for the evening was not telling your boss to stuff it as you were leaving the job site. KFC isn't that big of a deal by comparison.
That still doesn't define a requirement for >1gb/s in a single flow.

A flow is a single connection, such as downloading a file from a single IP address.

When you download a single file from multiple sources (such as with Bittorrent), each connection to each source is a flow.
I grew up with the kind of income that would qualify me as poor. However, my parents' financial discipline were off the charts for someone in their position. Both of them had a decent education for their time and knew what matters vs what doesn't. We never got anything fancy - two pairs of uniforms, one nice set of clothes, one pair of shoes and pretty ugly looking backpack for the whole school year - nothing more. Absolutely no pocket money. No movies, not even extra-curricular activities - basically anything that costed money.

What we got was good healthy food, a great education - things that ended up making a difference in the long term. There were people like us all around us who we could clearly see not appreciating the value of some of the things we valued.

I would go so far to say, it's not the money. People need education. People need discipline and self-control if they are really going to pull their weight. They need help along the way but it's not always money they need.
Why should the DMCA apply at all?

It's an American law. The fact that it implements WIPO treaties does not change that fact, in other words, being DMCA compliant is not something that entities outside of the USA should have to be.
The implication that people who have more knowledge about a local area have more right to publicly maintained resources than those who don't is even more troubling. Maintaining unequal access to public resources is a form of corruption, discrimination, or both.

A traffic engineer whose designs are only effective when there's information asymmetry is either

A) dealing with impossible project restraints/requirements
B) terrible at their job
I'd recommend both, keepass supports that. Keepass supports using a secure desktop to prevent keyloggers[1], but you never know with some of the usb keyboard exploits[2], and good old fashioned looking over your shoulder. While keepass has protection against dictionary attacks[3], why not use a keyfile? you can put it on a flash drive, and now noone can access your passwords without that usb key. (obviously make sure you have multiple copies of your keyfile :)

1. http://keepass.info/help/base/security.html#secdesktop
2. http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/07/this-thumbdrive-hack...
3. http://keepass.info/help/base/security.html#secdictprotect
> But this is unlikely to happen in practice. A lawyer for the driver would undoubtedly subpoena Tesla for access to the data. And a reasonable judge would probably concur. IANAL and IANAJ, so the latter is a guess. :)

So what's the process here? You're going to start suing Tesla so that you hope you can officially subpeona them of the data you don't have access to?

Its asymmetric no matter what. The role of these logs should be reversed: the driver ought to have first-dibs at the logs to determine if he has a legitimate case to bring forth against Tesla.

Then Tesla should subpeona the data once they start getting sued. In any case, Tesla holding the data so that they have the information-advantage against their own customers is a bit fishy.
In my city, the poor school children in 8th grade are at a 3rd grade reading level. They also frequently go without food, have parents addicted to drugs, and are in or have friends who are in gangs. There are also no jobs in their neighborhoods and no transportation to areas that have jobs, that they can't get anyway, because they're in 8th grade at a 3rd grade reading level. And miraculously passing their exams every year.

Poor people do dumb things because they live in shitty situations and are trying to survive, not thrive.

You don't mainline heroin because it's a great idea. You do it because your drug addiction has progressed to the point where this is the only thing you can do. You are addicted to drugs because it's the only thing you can do to escape endless depression from how shitty your life is. And you were born into this life, so "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" seems less likely than winning the lottery (hence why poor people play the lottery).
As much as it pains me, I have to disagree; in 17 U.S. Code § 512 (d), it says providers have to comply with the DMCA takedown requests if they want to avoid being convicted of "infringement of copyright by reason of the provider referring or linking users to an online location containing infringing material or infringing activity, by using information location tools, including a directory, index, reference, pointer, or hypertext link".

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512
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Users can contribute idle CPU cycles to a variety of projects http://www.hyper.net/dc-howto.html . AFAIK, lot of folks have been doing this for decades.
First one I saw and part of how I mentally judge the rest. Amazing work.
And that indeed is what we have to look forward to in online forums over the next 5+ years, as machine learning cuts its teeth on places like reddit, HN & disqus, and spammers try to find new irritating ways of getting eyeballs.
I'd like to see this as a percentage of the world population since the increase over time makes it hard to see exactly what's happening.
It's called "private roads" and existed for centuries, I think.
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"The poor are poor because all of their choices in life suck."

There are 2 ways to interpret that. Which one you choose has radical implications for the methods you might use to remedy poverty.
OTOH, an excessive feeling of ownership over neighborhood roads leads to the Tragedy of the Anticommons: everyone keeps the roads in their neighborhood off limits to outsiders, so everyone gets stuck in traffic longer, with all the entailing health and environmental costs, and thus a formerly public resource (roads) becomes underutilized.
Minimally WSUS needs a server OS to run on, Active Directory, and a Group Policy to point clients at it.

Right, but how many small businesses or power users have those? To a first approximation, the answer is probably "none".

If you buy Windows Pro and don't put it on a domain there's no real difference between that and Home except that you're paying more for capabilities you aren't using.

Well, the above isn't actually true. For example, I'm writing this on a machine with 32GB of RAM running Windows 7, which Pro can use but Home editions can't.

But that aside, whatever Microsoft choose to call their different editions and however much they change what terms like "Pro" actually mean between Windows versions, the reality is that there is a huge market of small businesses and power users who want to run Windows, don't want or need the kinds of management tools traditionally associated with Enterprise editions and Windows Server, but do require stability and reliability in their IT systems. With Windows 7, they had that. With 10, they don't.

For denying updates in such a scenario, you're stuck doing everything manually on each machine via unsupported methods and hoping your users don't undo your changes.

I'm going to do something I don't usually do and guess what the person I'm debating with is like in real life here. You're some sort of sysadmin or CIO within a non-technical organisation large enough to use Enterprise, or at least to be within its target market, right?

The reason I'm expecting that is that you refer to what a huge amount of the market actually does, using tools provided for that exact purpose, as "unsupported". I work with quite a few different small businesses, freelancers, and other such users, mostly in technical industries. It is absolutely routine in these organisations for everyone to have admin rights on their own PC and to handle their own updates, not least because it's very unlikely that there is any dedicated IT staff to manage these things centrally.

The thing you seem to consider weird or dangerous is what millions of professional Windows users do all the time. The sky has not yet fallen, the networks have not yet been taken over by botnets, and actual work has not been interrupted by Windows 10 barging in unannounced. Which is lucky, because if it could, it looks like that entire segment of the market would be out of luck.
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German-Americans are (were?) the largest group in the US. It almost seems a miracle that German didn't become the main language in the US. I guess that since the dominant groups were English-speaking they had to adapt in order to get jobs.
> I believe that cuts off Tesla's access, not just your own

So no way to cut off Tesla's access to YOUR OWN CAR, without cutting out your own access?

And even then, you're not sure?
How does it compare to Quiver (http://happenapps.com/#quiver) notebook?
That's what the internet is for.
and here in california, my anecdote entails me learning via first class mail that there's about to be a judgement entered against me because I failed to respond to papers I never received, because the plaintiff had apparently served them to an old address of mine (probably intentionally by this shady lawyer filing the small claims suit against me).
Again, all anecdotal, but here goes...

Yes, it's nuanced, because poverty and decision making is a complex issue :)

It's opportunity cost - you have the choice between eating fresh food, with the risk that it will spoil, or the choice of eating lower cost and frequently processed foods that have a longer shelf life.

There are also alot of factors to this - in a given week of budget the price difference between a processed product and fresh product might be radically different, but fresh food is almost always available throughout much of the developed world. There is another hidden cost here - when I see something I haven't tried before I will buy it and learn how to prepare it, but when I was poor, I didn't - it wasn't worth the risk that I would ruin the food, or that I wouldn't like it, and throwing away even a small amount of food was an intolerable waste. Less of a risk these days when even most people living at or below the poverty line have the ability to access the internet to learn, but in the late 90s, I was loathe to take those chances. There may be nutritionally rich, low cost options, but if people are too poor to have had regular exposure, or come from a culture unfamiliar with the foods available at reasonable prices locally, then poor eating choices will continue to be propagated.

The decision is not always a choice to eat the less healthy food over the more healthy food, it is a choice to marginally increase the level of food security you have by choosing less "healthy" options that have a longer shelf-life and offer a discount in bulk.
Thanks! I'm 3000 miles away in Maine, but I'll stop by if I'm in town :)
Awesome stuff, yet it was only voted 2nd in the competition (Revision 2016 64kb compo). Here's the winner (fermi paradox by mercury):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ6ZzJeWgpY

The scenes with the moon being peppered with impacts (3:31) and what appears to be storms on Jupiter are beautiful.
This is stupid. We don't store any patient data thus we are HIPPA compliant?
I think most white Americans identify as Irish first and then German second. However, a lot of German heritage was suppressed following anti-German sentiment during WWI and WWII.

Edit: it's actually the other way around. German is the most common ancestry for white people in America.
Can you go into detail how we could improve https://endgeoblocking.eu/#todo ?

I'll expand, at the risk of indulging in jargon:

1. Pass EU law that applies the country of origin principle as seen in the Cable and Satellite Directive to online "broadcasts" as well, establishing legal grounds for services to make passive (non-advertised) sales to customers from countries they have not acquired distribution rights for.

2. The European Commission clarifies that contractual clauses requiring inner-EU geoblocking are null because they do not constitute justified exceptions from the anti-discrimination/antitrust provisions Article 20 of the Services Directive and/or Article 101 TFEU.

3. Parliament & Council pass the Portability Regulation before them today without adding undue restrictions, enabling European to take their paid content subscriptions with them across borders for temporary stays.

The result of these 3 easily doable actions would be to massively reduce geoblocking within the EU by removing the most common obligations to geoblock: Contractual clauses by rightholders and legal uncertainty/risk that causes overblocking/geoblocking-by-default.

Rightholders could continue to bind distributors/services to the release window system (cinemas first, then DVD, then VoD), to restrict which countries they may actively target/advertise to, and of course retain full autonomy over dubbing/subtitling and other localization.
Services could continue to geoblock to comply with other local laws (e.g. gambling, child protection).
The fact that it is advertising the "waze" to get around, they should know how well lit it is, what the incline is, etc etc etc.

It's doing half its job.
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Have you seen TPB AFK? It could not be clearer that they are intentionally facilitating piracy. You can make the case that they are doing it for ideological reason. That may (or may not) be laudable, but that does not have much bearing on the legal reality.
> For myself, having used Linux since early Red Hat releases and Macs (professionally) since System 6 - I am certain that OS X and every Linux desktop are absolute garbage compared to Windows.

It is your tiny zelaot opinion - looking at your comments you're either an ms maniac or you've fallen into the trap of cognitive dissonance. Most linux DEs are far better in performance, customization and usability just like linux is a better platform than windows(at any situation - the network effect doesn't count). M$ Frozen OS is absolutely unstable and overrated complex bloatware with a more and more lame theme and feature at each release - why would it be any better than any random toy DE? It's constantly freezing and crashing while the UI is a complete user experience failure hidden under a huge pile of aggressive marketing.

And if these aren't enough there are fanatics like you who spread it like candy - it's surely good to have a Nagware Spyware Adware OS at work with a wonderful mail client which can't decide what to do: freezing, crashing or both!
Ah, I was not aware of it.
A good note about the use of humor in tech: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289