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You'll have to be a little more specific about what you're looking for. Are you looking for world history? US history? Philosophy? History in tech?

I can't say much about world history, but I've been reading some books to get a better understanding of American politics:

- "War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires": Interesting analysis on the rise and fall of conquering civilizations. Tons of parallels between dead empires and the US empire.

- "The Death and Life of Great American Cities": Nations are built on cities, and America's cities are very poorly built. What are we doing wrong, what could we do better?

- "The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War": Very dense, lots of data. Suggests that our current political turmoil is due to our economy and society expecting unrealistic growth, and a disconnect between reality and the expectation of citizens.

- The Origins of Totalitarianism: "Slippery slope" gets thrown around a lot w.r.t. suspicious legislation. This book provides context on past societies that slipped, and where we stand on that slope.

- "Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization": Optimistic look at the future of globalism.

- "1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed": An analysis of the cascade failure that took out almost all the great bronze-age civilizations around the Mediterranean region in 1177BC.

"Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" - I haven't read this, but this is the #1 book that pops up in conversations.
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So, is there any truth to the accusations of discrimination and harassment over at FSF?

Either way this kind of drama would seem par for the course for people who view software development through political and philosophical lenses, but from a practical perspective it makes her mic drop seem a lot more noble if she's right.
The Riddle of the Labyrinth by Margalit Fox is also a good book on this topic. It talks a lot about the people who laid the foundation for Michael Ventris, particularly Alice Kober.
Have you tried to setup a Yubikey with RSA-keys and click-to-sign? It's things you expect "just to work", but the tooling around the Yubikey sucks big time and thats what holding them back. It's a shame though cause they make really good hardware.

Their strategy has been to gain tracktion through the major tech players. Think it's time for Stina to realize they cannot ignore the rest of us if they want to make it big.
I don't think you can reasonably frame clicking on too many ads as an act of sabotage. It's interfering with the metrics that some people who you don't necessarily have a business relationship use to make business decisions (like paying out money), but it's not obvious to me how you're obligated to be particularly cooperative in their gathering of the metrics. The system continues to work as intended, you're just not supplying it with the data its creators would ideally hope to receive. That also seems to contrast it with a DoS attack.

I agree that Google should probably remove browser extensions that are convincingly designed to facilitate actual fraud. I'd also be on board with Google removing a browser extension that was designed by a site operator to produce artificial clicks on ads on that particular site, since now there's someone involved who probably signed a thing saying they won't produce artificial clicks.

But my point with my examples was that you can harm someone's bottom line without it being fraud or otherwise illegal, so it doesn't just follow that if you harm someone's business, you're doing the equivalent of a DoS or smashing up their merchandise.
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I've been feeling the same way. Having millions of people and billions of dollars blindly dumped into index funds leaves me uneasy. Many view index funds as a "7% return machine". The conventional wisdom is "buy and hold", blindly, regardless of what the market does, what companies fail, or who you're investing in. Most 401k users probably couldn't name more than 10 stocks that their fund is comprised of. Stock markets assume people buy stocks because they believe in some fundemental value of the stock, and have thus done analysis to believe so. When markets are composed of people who don't adhere to this philosophy... I'm not sure what happens next. Having such a large mass of investors who are not thinking rationally about their investment seems like a recipe for disaster, but I'm no economist.

REITs, small-cap funds, international stocks, and perhaps commodities seem like the best choices if you're looking to diversify. The reality is if everyone's investment behavior precipitates a large collapse, pretty much no sane investment strategy is going to do well. Diversify, hedge your bets, and just stop worrying about it. That's the conclusion I've come to, anyway.
When I manually click an ad for a political candidate or party that I despise, am I committing fraud?

(Not saying that I do that, of course. Entirely hypothetical.)
Not only that, but the quality of the video feed. For example, highly compressed 4K is indistinguishable from much less compressed 1080p.
Companies should have an incentive to invest in the training of their employees - it seems they're always claiming that the people they're looking for just don't exist, and it comes off like they want people to emerge from the head of Athena fully-formed and ready to work to the company's specific needs.

It doesn't need to be the whole solution - regular education and training still plays a big part, because many skills are general enough - but there should be some responsibility for a company to help develop the employees that it needs. (Maybe through tax incentives or what-have-you.)
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And if you take out a couple states, Clinton won the electoral college. What's your point? That we should ignore the votes of two of the largest states because they don't agree with you?
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I liked Element and then Honda stopped its production.

I like it because it is a small/middle sized suv with big openings. seems to be the only one of its kind on the market.

what I don't like is that its back seat only sits 2.
It's risk/reward. For lots of people, uprooting, changing their job/family circumstance at X time is too much risk--and a lot of people are probably right in that regard. There is no assurance that your bold venture will succeed, despite your planning, ambition, etc. And if it was all but certain, it wouldn't be very bold, it'd just be common sense.
interesting! my friend wanted to do something almost exactly like this but over video. They got a working prototype for it too.
Oh, I didn't know that. I restart Chrome less than once a month :)
Heh, great! And only 17 years in development!

First commit: https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/770ae45
Well, as I think I may have said poorly, I don't really know if I can tell 4K from 1080p reliably, because a 4K stream that contains such high quality pixels in it that it qualitatively different than an upscaled 1080p stream is very hard to come by right now.

According to the charts, I'm right on the outer edge of where it may make a difference, so it's at least physically possible I could tell, if I got a truly 4K stream.
>" The fact is you pay ~16% of your paycheck into social security."

Not quite. This is actually split between the employee and the employer. With each contributing 6.2%.

https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10022.pdf

Also why are you admonishing the OP? He has every right to pessimistic about this current state of social security.
Those are still pretty high limits, well above the median tech salary even in the Bay Area. If you're in "income phase out" territory you're probably not worried about your retirement.

The thing I don't like about Roth is that you're contributing with post-tax money during your prime working years--the time when your taxes are probably as high as they will ever be. Especially true as a tech worker where your salary plateaus in your 20s. I'd rather save pre-tax now, and then pay taxes later when I'm 60 and back in the lowest tax bracket.
Will you continue maintenance on this indefinitely (barring orders from higher up) or is this meant for a one shot translate and dump?
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I found this https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132135 which was created when someone noticed the issue happening to their honeypot input box. Looks like it was closed a while ago.

I saw this example doing the rounds on twitter. Hopefully the chrome devs notice the noise and move up the priority on fixing / addressing it.
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Yes I would fly in any large airplane which is properly certified for scheduled commercial airline service, regardless of how it was designed. The FAA has earned our trust and has a good safety record so if they tell me the design is satisfactory then I would believe them. I also wouldn't take the risk of flying in any non-certified experimental aircraft, again regardless of who or what designed it.

We have no way to determine whether an explanation is true, false, or simply a post-hoc rationalization. We like to believe that we can, but we're just fooling ourselves.
The input lag can be a serious issue with certain monitors and video cards. It's very noticeable to me when playing and FPS.
That's all very interesting, but before and after a concert, sporting event, big talk, etc., it makes no sense to not have protection to ensure so that the main attraction can perform once again. Them "going to and from work" is not the same as you taking your Ford Windstar to Initech after you drop off your kids at daycare.

Let me ask you something. Why do you insure your home? It's dispensable, and surely not as important as the World Trade Center, so why do you even bother? Because it's important to you, that's why. These high-status people, although meaningless to you as you sit at your keyboard in the presence of your monitor glow, are important to many people. Businesses, brands, even separate industries entirely all have a stake. Why wouldn't they protect that when their person or team of interest is minutes to hours after they've been in the spotlight? Co mon here...

These escorts are necessary and many, many people have collaborated for a reason to have them. What if someone stood up and suggested them unnecessary and a useless cost? Would they receive a large bonus from the money everyone will save? Or would they be laughed out of the room followed by a letter to clean out their desk by the end of the day?

If that causes downtown Vancouver traffic to be marginally slower from 6:00pm to 6:10pm and 9:00pm to 9:10pm on event night, sorry, you're off to the side shaking your fist.

Reserving it for the very top of human existence (and frankly, only of political interest) and anything under as unworthy and a waste of resources is... I have no words.
FWIW, the Esc key normally gets rid of these. Regardless, it is such an annoying marketing trick. Who knows... it must still provide a positive ROI if so many sites are still using it, unfortunately.
Seems like Safari is doing better than everything else if I'm reading the charts right.
ONLY would mean all one off transactions must be deterministic strategy. I am not sure that's the case due to uncertainty.
Then D.C. Somervell's abridged version of Arnold Toynbee's Study of History. Don't worry that the original is controversial and you don't have to believe every word but read it for its passionate delivery and scope and that it should make you think.
Thanks, this is a great introduction. I have no idea how I am going to afford this person. But already I don't know how I can afford to NOT have this person!
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3) HR don't give a fuck, and are just told to do the thing the business wants to do because it is incenivized to do so.

The benefit to the employees and ability for HR to feel positive about their position in the role are arbitrary. The employees could also suffer when business wants to do something that negatively impacts them, and HR can be used to carry that out too. e.g: Switching to a shittier health plan to save money.
Only allowing non-(display:none) fields wouldn't be enough. You could still position them off screen, or behind an image, or very small or nearly transparent, or any other sneaky tactic.

Your second idea about an auto-fill warning would be better. Maybe a simple footer warning or something.
Solely discussing stock valuations without also considering bond yields is a little misleading. With interest rates so low on a historical basis (albeit now possibly picking up), higher stock pricing is expected and isn't necessarily "overpriced"

A good recent discussion of this: http://brooklyninvestor.blogspot.com/2016/11/bonds-down-stoc...
>Either way this kind of drama would seem par for the course for people who view software development through political and philosophical lenses

If you are a software developer and don't think about the social impact of what you do then you're being irresponsible.
It's a pleasure to see DHH pat himself on the back each time his stopped clock overlaps with the hour. He shows the palpable schadenfreude of a man, sitting on the sidelines, who won't shut up about the players in the game. But I notice another flaw to his prose aside from the self-congratulations.

Many people who stumble into a certain amount of fame and adulation, like him, get sloppy when they write. They start to repeat themselves. They don't offer evidence to back up their claims. They don't dig deeper than the insight they offered in the last five columns. In short, they don't do the work any more. DHH's post show all those symptoms. He lacks a good editor, and probably thinks he doesn't need one.

It might be interesting, for those who want to do the work, to consider why VCs invested more than $120M in Ev. One answer is that VCs tend to invest in strong founding teams, and he is about as strong as a founding team gets. Personally, I would never invest in a media company, but abstracting away from the sector, Ev looks like a very good bet.

Secondly, investments fail all the time. Medium might be one of those. Our understanding of the world doesn't change much if that's the case. None of this is really news.
Advertising (and the greater concept of marketing) is a major part of the economic engine of business.

The implementation of it online definitely needs work but advertising itself is just fine.
When you're the head of state, you have unique access and influence that others need.

You have the same access and influence as a F50 CEO, but for longer.

Technology is simply an extension of our will, we fashion it to govern us, but it can never replace us.

Famous last words.

edit: I'll just say it, the company (and I believe it will be a company) that builds AGI, will for a brief period be more powerful than the collection of all nation states.
Exercise and eating healthy is a bit more important that that - unless you are including in "stupid risks" eating unhealthily and/or being sedentary (long term).

One useful way to think about it is that genetics mostly gives you an upper bound on longevity. How you live your life can shorten that substantially.
Why not just leave it plugged in. That might be tricky in a train or so, but normally its fine. I use a Nano and just leave it in most of the time.

Its not only more convinient, its also far, far safer then TOTP.

The will not support TOPT because that would require constant power.

You can get a U2F only stick for 18 bucks from them. Once in a while (for example when github interduced U2F the sell 2 for 5$).
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Urban roads + cycle paths all get salted though ?
I'm not sure I am a fan of the analogy, but either way, I think we've moved away from calling it fraud so I'll accept that.
They had evidently worked out a bypass for that in the app that the government had been unable to block at that point.
Last year I went full time on my side project https://dropevent.com, a group photo sharing site. I've doubled revenue but it is still far from matching my previous software developer salary.

Growth has all been pretty organic with just a few forays into adwords and facebook marketing. Growth is really the keyword for 2017 and what I will be focusing on.
Actually, they said they would keep programming in python.
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The correlation matches the phasing out dates in various places. The dates lead were discontinued weren't the same everywhere. Edit: how would games explain the geographic distribution? Areas with heavy lead contamination seem to have more of the effects, although no mention is made of game console/computer prevalence in any of the lead articles.
> This situation is somewhat akin to OS X uninstalling Spotify.

Yes, Spotify and AdNauseum disrupt iTunes and Google, but I don't think it's a fair comparison because Spotify is a competitor (in that it provides music) whereas AdNauseum doesn't compete with any Google products, but just disrupts them.
America won't even accept an Atheist member of Congress, at least not openly.
It is not your money, it is a tax on income like any other. The Supreme Court established in 1960 (Flemming v Nestor) that contributions to Social Security are not your property and the government has no obligation to ever pay you benefits regardless of contribution. People have had this entitlement revoked in practice, though the targeting tends to be selective for out-groups and not a substantial fraction of the population.

The government strongly encourages belief in the myth that Social Security is something other than a welfare tax with no implied obligation to the taxpayer because that notion makes the tax much more palatable than the reality.
> By the way, Google Translate makes a pretty horrible work at translating those pages. I think they need to add some more DeepMind to it :-)

I think they made an announcement about that.

> Found in translation: More accurate, fluent sentences in Google Translate

https://blog.google/products/translate/found-translation-mor...

So it doesn't seem to work so well.
The esc key is about 50/50 for me, at best. I usually find that the back button is more effective.
It's not man-made land though.
I think you all are misunderstanding the article. It's extremely common on medium articles to use stock photo at the top of your article. This probably also serves as an article thumbnail in article summaries/indexes.

The author clearly uses a photo of what is ostensibly themselves as their profile pic. Nothing in the article indicates "this is me."

More important: there is little if anything to be gained by this deception. The article includes self promotion, including "Connect with me on twitter" in the author byline. But this is IMO a par for the course quid-pro-quo in nearly every blog article ever written.
"macOS" is unusable for me without three finger drag. But then I have to deal with deciding between two or three finger dragging. Why not make everything work either way? It seems like requiring the user to remember UI engineering details to make the UI work properly. ("This is a toolbar, so you should three-finger drag that, but that is a map, so you should two-finger drag to reposition that. But this other web-based map needs a three-finger and zooms from two finger dragging. Is that an Apple API implemented map?")
The <input> elements are not hidden, they are just drawn off the screen. So the browser would have to determine if the item is visible to the user, which is not trivial. Should autofill skip regular form elements that are just a little below the viewport?

Maybe some feedback from the browser detailing which datapoints were autofilled. I don't know...
In case anyone is worried, most (all?) browsers do not autofill credit card information without the user explicitly clicking into the credit card field so there's no chance of a hidden field stealing your CC information.
Agreed, but bullish sentiment remains strong and most people are oblivious to valuation metrics.

As long as people don't panic sell in the next crash, they should be able to ride it out and break even in a decade or two. Unless we end up like Japan, that is.
> There already exist many services that allow exploration of new products

That is still marketing. You're not really arguing against advertising.

> Advertising is a net loss on the economy - it's a zero-sum game (people's attention is finite)

That's how marketshare works.
I often click ads with no intention of buying... just to redistribute money around to Google and website owners.
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The Elo system for Checkers has changed over time. Tinsley had a rating around 2700, but he would not get that rating today.

Chess ratings from the USCF have a floor of 100. What you are thinking of is that they start people at a provisional rating of 1200 and then let them drift to where they belong. But a person who just knows how the pieces move will quickly head down towards that floor.
> There are far too many people who really can't save for retirement due to low wages for a significant part of the population. We aren't going to let these people live in abject poverty, and they aren't going to have any money to cough up to support themselves.

The history of the US in the past several decades suggests that yes, we absolutely are going to let these people live in abject poverty. Unfortunately.
It's too bad the NPR didn't provide a tx id so we could see the issue, we just have to take their word for it? I think it's a terrible example with no evidence. It makes for a very weak argument.

Not accepting BIPs and failing transactions aren't mutually exclusive, you can't assert that something that hasn't happened caused something else.

I'm not trying to convice anyone of anything, just point out how wrong you are so that others don't take your FUD as fact.

And no, we were comparing markets, bitcoin and your beanie baby example. Never did i say bitcoin is a successful developed currency. Keep trying though.
The fact that he runs Facebook, is well, disconcerting... but if trends continue the 2020's will be in desperate need of people who actually understand the full implications of technology on social problems. I'm not sure Zuck would be my first choice, but a Silicon Valley mogul in the Whitehouse in the 20's might be necessary. If you look at Trump as the push back on globalism, there's going to be a pushback on technology on a very real scale in the near future. Globalism is our sneekpeek into the future.
But it earns them revenue in the same way that setting your house on fire will warm you up.
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It sucks that we have to use our employer's 401k vendor. We should be able to have our 401k contributions sent to any valid 401k provider like Vanguard/Fidelity/etc instead of only being able to move it when we switch jobs.
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Your confusing CDN with something else.

A CDN doesn't do versioning support, it serves files and respect the caching headers it was given.
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I agree. It would be fantastic to have access to a writing platform that focuses entirely on content quality as it's product.
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