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For people who oppose term limits, would you be on board for term limit of say, 30 years? How about 20? or 10? I think question isn't much about if there should be term limit but by how much. My theory is that term limits should be inversely proportional to amount of power. So 2 terms for presidents and may be 3 or 4 for others. No one in politics should be allowed to have power indefinitely. Its just not because people with decades in office have unfair advantage but new ideas should be given chance over old at some point.
The reality is that there are enough firearm cartridges in the world, and particularly in the US, to last a very, very long time without manufacturing any more. Americans currently buy more than 10 billion cartridges per year and cartridges have an extremely long shelf life, upwards of a century if stored properly.

Given that there are probably a thousand cartridges for every man, woman, and child in the US today, it would take at least a decade to burn through the available supply, particularly if people were not profligate with their expenditure (which I imagine would be the case in a post-apocalyptic world).
I was never confident enough in Google Voice (because of the issues mentioned above) to port my AT&T number to Google Voice, so many people had both numbers for me.
There is also one more thing to factor in: freedom from a bunch of weirdos (both pigs and wolves) who want to track every move I make, every purchase I do or every interest that I share over the wire.

Thank you paper. I can shred, burn or let you decompose in the rain to enforce my right of forgetability!
We learn from our mistakes, and my crossings out in my notebooks are an important part of my notebooks.
Oh yeah good point, I had forgotten that Presto does not support realtime. About optimizations, I don't know the details, but for one, Scuba is C++ and Presto is Java.
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I know Dropbox at least has a selective sync option, you can choose which folders are to be synced with the local machine. The gotcha being that when you uncheck a folder it deletes that folder from the local file system.
At least in mine and my family's experience, if you find a Carmax salesman you like and remember to save their number/email, you can contact them directly. Happen to like dealing with this quiet older guy who's happy to get you out the door in ~1 hour.
Yeah, Teamspeak uses the same sound codec (Opus I think) as Discord. I use that to talk with my friends and famility that are 6k miles away and the sound is almost perfect.
I managed to serve for nearly a decade without committing or witnessing any war crimes. You're going to have to dial back the pearl-clutching if you want anyone to take you seriously.

There is a world of difference between incidents of some soldiers in a military of millions failing in their duties and that failure being a national defense policy. You are indicating the latter and I am personally denying the truth of that accusation.
I have xiaomi Mi5 one of their best phones. It is a truly great device - I need nothing more from my phone.
Jitsi Meet. It's great - it gives you a persistent conference room that you leave and join at any time.

We use it exclusively for remote work.

Self-hosted, too.
Seconded. I really liked Fauda - an Israeli show.
I just signed up to track my duolingo practice, but I'm curious what happens once I complete duolingo? Is there a way to end the tracking once it's over? At some point duolingo would get substituted for real-life immersion.
Since absence of term limits is not quite working (we get career politicians) and challengers are at a disadvantage compared to incumbents, I think it's worth trying term limits. It gets us a bit closer to "demo + cracy".

If we can get new non-entrenched people in power maybe we'd see better governance --otherwise why not create a ruling class, if career politicians execute better? Note, I would not advocate for a ruling class but people seem to be saying people who know governance and politics govern better (presuming experience means they can get things done for their constituency).
I was a die-hard Google user/fanboy until about a year and a half ago. I was a Fi user, Voice user (before Fi), Hangouts, Nexus buyer, you name it (I even had a Google TV and almost bought an OnHub). I bailed on it all when I realized that Google has absolutely no long-term vision or desire to support what they produce. I went to an iPhone and despite Apple's warts, it's a night-and-day experience. I'll never again trust Google products.
What do you mean by no weed? Just like in many states where it is illegal, you just need to know people.
I wonder how the author feels about the #NoEstimates movement. Both ROWE and #NoEstimates are very popular trends these days, but they are mutually incompatible. A results-only-work-environment works only if the results (ie quality + time-taken) are clearly defined, and all employees are held accountable for those results. This is fundamentally incompatible with the #NoEstimates movement which says that it's impossible to figure out how much time a task is supposed to take.
There is a difference between a number managed by a traditional carrier using VOIP and a number from a free/low cost VOIP provider, especially when you are using text verification as a anti-spam measure.

>We find that miscreants rampantly abuse free VOIP services to circumvent the intended cost of acquiring phone numbers, in effect undermining phone verification. Combined with short lived phone numbers from India and Indonesia that we suspect are tied to human verification farms, this confluence of factors correlates with a market-wide price drop of 30-40% for Google PVA until Google penalized verification from frequently abused carriers

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
Based on his cabinet picks, probably not.
'Is it secure?' is a question from a reader, hence the quotes. The author's answer is not boolean, it is "yes, it’s probably more secure than conventionally stored data."
On the other hand, as long as those communication islands don't reconnect, all those double-spent BTC will be just as good/bad as homemade dollar bills.

Bitcoin might be postapocalyptically valuable if the apocalypse in question has hyperinflation at its core, but in a scenario without that it will be inferior even to vintage paper money. The true availability of BTC within a given community is just too much of an uncertainty. What could be a sizable fraction of the amount in active circulation one day could be completely devalued due some early adopter backup going live a day later.
> Hell, even shared hosting like Dreamhost which I use for a number of old projects I host for other people has built in LetsEncrypt functionality.

How do they do this? How do you set up an SSL cert on a shared host (aren't SSL certs tied to an IP)?

I have a site on a virtual host (via Hurricane Electric), and I don't want to move to another hosting provide (cloud hosting) if I can avoid it. But unless something has changed (which I admit, it may have - I am not up on all the latest web hosting tech), my understanding was that you can't have an SSL cert on a virtual host.
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This is clearly what I meant, I apologize if it got misinterpreted.
It's partially Facebook doing it right, but not exactly noteworthy. iOS devs can proactively request permissions whenever, and tell you whatever useless reason they want, but that usually gets users to tap "Don't Allow" (and may get your app rejected by Apple.)
I'm guessing you don't have kids.
"collapse of government" doesn't have to mean total collapse of infrastructure. Providing infrastructure is harder without government, but if you charge for the infrastructure anyway, you can just increase prices.

It's of course a problem for low income workers, but here we are talking about the super rich.
>I'm estimating about 30-50% of that is fraudulent.

What are you basing that on?
those documents exist in some form, either partial or whole, in your local system memory, video memory, and probably a filesystem cache of some sort. they also traverse your network subsystem and other IO buffers/subsystems.

a root level compromise on your system can see any of this stuff in plaintext as it gets shifted around.
Thank you for answering this question! I wish cloud storage providers would be much more transparent about their security to allow user's to decide which option provides them with the proper security.

Right now it is hard to know whether or not what you said applies equally to other cloud providers. Also, (no discredit to you) you are a random person on the internet so your claim is far from 100% validated.

edit: spelling
Yes, I'm reminded of this fairly well known quote within the security world - "security is a process, not a product".

I do not trust anyone to house any data of mine that I consider too important or sensitive to put at risk - unless there is end to end encryption so that no one except me can access it at any time. That's about the only exception. If I am not sending the data over already encrypted, forget it. I try to do as much in house as possible.

Also, let's not forget the risk of unintended affiliations - there have been several times when law enforcement has seized drives/servers that were shared and the non-offending users that were simply sharing the resource ended up having their sites unintentionally taken offline. That may not really apply to cloud storage, but it definitely applies to shared hosting services, which are abundant and widely used. Could totally screw over a small business.
You are saying that if anyone is not willing to do these things, they cannot be responsible adults.

Well, yes.

If you are not willing (as opposed to not able) then you are not being a responsible adult.

Yes, there are people who have circadian rhythm issues that prevent this but they aren't the ones to whom I was alluding.
7.5k off MSRP can be kinda subjective. 7.5k off MSRP on a 100k car is not the same as off a 35k car. What was it relative to the dealer invoice? That's the real metric. Sorry, programmer.

Also, my brother-in-law bought a RAV4 in a cold weather state recently and did the whole "I will only pay invoice!" thing. They were like, "Yes sir!. Sign this this this. Bye". It's hard to know what kickbacks the dealers are getting over invoice so the dealer may still be making a good 5% over invoice (and on volume this is really good).

Don't get me wrong, you did the right thing. I got hard core scammed when I bought my first new car and now only buy used. Fell in love with a car from a magazine at 22, walked into a dealer and bought a dealer car (essentially a used car) at near full price with their financing (something crazy like 22%).

I'm not against negotiation. Just buy used and negotiate. Dealerships are evil.

https://help.edmunds.com/hc/en-us/articles/206102377-Invoice...

Edit: deleted a hanging sentence
Edit2: Tip #2: join a credit union. When I finally read the 22% rate (on a 35k car, in 1992) I called my bank. They gave me a 6% quote and said "don't do anything. we'll take care of this". I got so many angry calls from the dealership claiming my credit will be ruined, they will repossess the car, I'm a scumbag, etc. None of those are true. You have a few days in California to transfer a loan if you fuck up (thanks Cali).
So you're just going to pull numbers out of your ass and not provide a single link to back up your claims?

I can make up numbers too! Western Union fraud is actually 1035% of all of their transactions. Seriously.
Its likely Saft optimizes for rough environments rather than energy density. Things like stronger casings, more insulation between anode/cathode, wider temperature ranges are more useful to some applications than energy density.

I've primarily seen them used for industrial/military applications.
Computers aren't ideal for interactive interviewing situations either. The problem is that when operating a computer, people tend to have trouble keeping up a conversation (thinking out loud) at the same time.

When on a whiteboard, problems naturally need to be short and simple due to limited space, writing speed and editing capabilities. This leaves more room for interaction between interviewer and candidate, like planning an approach or discussing written code. Also, whiteboards are handy to sketch solutions non-programmatically, with diagrams etc.

Of course, there's the trade-off that the enviroment differs more from actual day-to-day work.
I was thinking the same exact thing; didn't they say they were closing Voice down in favor of Hangouts awhile back? I freaking love Voice, but Google needs to make high-level internal decisions about which products will get long-term support no matter what, and which won't.
Hey, you have to work really hard to pull that sorta stuff out of thin air.
This "most deportations under any president" thing is a result of them starting to count instances of turning people away at the border as a "deportation".
Basically there are lots of times where I want to have a very brief informal conversation but chat isn't high enough bandwidth(I have to spend 3 minutes writing a paragraph that won't communicate what I'm trying to say as clearly as I'd be able to in 10 seconds talking) and jumping on a video call feels too formal.

It's hard to give specific examples of this but it happens all the time.

Maybe I don't even know what I want to say or ask exactly but I just want to throw a stream of consciousness at them. Sometimes that goes somewhere and there is a longer conversation but sometimes you just say some stuff and realize it didn't go anywhere and you say "nevermind let me think about it more". In person that's easy and not awkward because we do it all the time. It feels weird though to ask someone to jump on a video call, start talking at them for 30 seconds and then go "nevermind" and end it.
The alternative refers to an alternative type checking system - Flowtype. Not that the seconds has the async/await and modules. Both repositories are trying to deliver quite similar tools - type checking, es6 + async/awat + import syntax and linter.
This is a very good point, often overlooked.
I think that if you have ever been in a position where such broad brush generalisation affects you, an otherwise decent and hardworking individual, personally in a really negative way, you will understand why it is not right to make these sort of statements.
Maybe you need to work on your communication skills? I realize that's a snarky sounding answer, so let me expand on that. Face to face communication is nice and has benefits. But there are tradeoffs. It's clear that your company has decided that when making a decision between having certain team members be remotely part of the team or not at all, the choice is clear. So maybe the appropriate course of action is to accept the benefit of continuing to have access to those individuals and work on adjusting your communication style to support distributed teams. Protip: a remote first workflow also improves documentation and communication if you have more than one office.

Personally, I welcome the chance to work with a group of minds that isn't restricted by the filter of "lives within x hours of office". The world is full of amazing projects created by people around the world working together.

I think your observation is valid, but in my experience the drawbacks of remote working are dwarfed by the benefits.
The topic is example number 258726 of the most photogenic controversial clickbait not really having much to do with the reality of anything.

"Society doesn't break down like that."

Unfortunately it does, in the USA. See the aftermath of hurricane Katrina for an example of how well we get along when things are temporarily bad.

Also the geography of the USA frankly sucks. We're rich and its not because our weather is unusually calm. I live on the border of tornado alley (if you stretch the definition a thousand miles) and if you don't have something heavy to sit under in the basement you're a fool. I've had coworkers houses destroyed by tornado. Closest hit to my house is about two miles in the last decade. Another thing that sucks is we get paralyzing blizzards and occasional ice storms knock out power for days, every couple years. You can prepare for it and frankly relax and enjoy a couple days off work, or you can prepare to suffer greatly. So everyone here has a "bunker" and stockpiled food. Its called "living" not prepping.
Why limit yourself to a "kill box" when there are so many useful and charming patterns available: the "kill banana" ("Oops! Slipped!"), the "kill cross"(reserved for non-Christians) and my favorite, the "kill doily"(for the most vile of the unfaithful, cake-haters)?

I can almost see the UI for the "kill design" now: pre-defined patterns + GUI etch-a-sketch (for personalized kill pattern design), a kill pattern library, a website discussing design principles and associated blog, twitter feed ("Killing you softly NOW!"). It will be all the rage.
So logz.io is literally ELKaaS?
It isn't a requirement, but they all provide apps that allow you to sync, and when you download any file, you're downloading a local copy of them. The people who know how to properly secure files aren't the same people reading and deriving value from this article.

Sure, you _can_ be more secure by using these services, but you aren't more secure simply by using them.
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There are four reactions to this article that I can see right now:

1. It is incorrect, and the author misunderstands the nature of management

2. It is neither correct, not incorrect, but is vapid and superficial

3. It is basically correct, but poorly written and reasoned

4. It is correct

Let me respond to category #1 and #3, and try to unpack the claim made in the article.

I assume that there is no debate that some people do not add value.

Most people may also agree that there are some people who do not add value on purpose. That is, they are not interested in adding value. What might be more controversial is that there are many such people, and they are successful.

If you believe that there are people who purposefully don't add value but exist and thrive, then who are they, how do they thrive and why aren't they caught?

I think you will end up with some version of the argument presented here.
I have switched to waking up 4 or 5 almost every day. I have stuck to that habit for the last about 20 months.

It seems I get a boost from a) being alone and knowing I won't be interrupted for hours and b) just start the day by doing something that other people find crazy.

Interestingly it seems that if I sleep past 5 it becomes harder to wake up. That might just be me giving up once I realize won't get ut of the house in time though.

Oh, and for the record: I use an alarm clock that forces me to go out of bed to scan a code. I have also set it up to turn on the philips hue spot that points at my face gradually starting 30 minutes or so before alarm time.
Super-rich don't seem to understand that if the society collapses, only individualism that exists is rugged individualism. Hiding int he bunker might work for some time, but it would be life of fear.

Individuals don't survive alone. It's the tribe, village and family that ensures survival. Best way to survive would be to connect into some tight knit community, where people who know and trust other take care of each other. If you have plenty and someone is starving, you share and bond or you fight.

Here is better survival strategy for Silicon Valley billionaire:

Build hidden storage bunker in the middle of Amish country. Fill it with all the community needs in doomsday, medicine, spare parts, tools and simple food. When doomsday happens, invite all your neighbors to share while you study bible and become important member in your community.
Agreed. It might be nice if Apple extended their "Do you want to continue allowing XYZ to use Location Services" prompt to other permissions, provided it wasn't too aggressive.
I am not a fan of the overly complicated watch - I mean complication in the horological sense. I hadn't heard of Waldan before your comment but they aren't my style. Under the right circumstances I could go with a Navitimer but overall Rolex's aesthetic style just appeals to me more.

There is no right or wrong answer, especially when it comes to something as subjective as this. If you like the look of Waldan take a look at the Omega Speedmaster which has a fantastic history and a similar style. IWC probably has some pieces you would like as well although I always thought they were a little expensive even compared to other luxury watches.

Browse Chrono24 or Govberg and you'll see a few brands you haven't heard of as well and maybe something else will pique your interest.
What I would love to see is an end to end neural network soln. On one end camera input comes through, on the other outputs for speed and steering angle.

But rather than a black box, it's explainable what the different layers are doing. If neural nets are turing machines then we should be able to compile some parts of the net from code.

Then the net is a library of layers. Some Layers trained with back prop, some compiled from code.
Next time take a big sand hourglass say for one hour. Tell them I am going to flip this over, and if the deal isn't closed by the time the sand runs out I will walk.

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you have to be willing to walk. You say, this price or I walk, and if they pull any bs, get up and leave. If more people did this, dealerships would change their tactics
At which point it becomes an arms race of the OS providing more and more realistic looking fake data, and the apps developing newer ways of detecting those fakes.

Realistically though, even the most unrealistic fake data is going to be good enough to stop 99% of apps from complaining.
No actually the 2.5 million doesn't include turn-aways or self-deportation which both add to the final number.
Did they ever stop blocking certain phone numbers[1]?

Since they block a tribal community college, they are on my "not happy" list. I surely hope no recruiter uses Google Voice if this is still true.

1) http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/10/google-voice-were...
It's entirely anecdotal.
Once you complete Duolingo, treat yourself to a vacation in the country where the language is spoken :D I did this and had a wonderful time! From there, slowly immerse yourself in the culture.. for example, I am a part of some Swedish Facebook groups for developers, have Swedish-speaking pals both irl and online, etc. I was even offered a job to move to Sweden to lead a software dev organization but I have my own projects to focus on
I think you're wildly broadening my point to a blanket defense of US military action. That's not remotely what I'm saying. In fact I tend to agree that there's a lot of validity to the whistleblowing of the past decade, and suspect my personal opinions on Snowden, Manning, Gitmo etc have overlap with yours.

But that's not the point. The article is alludes to these "kill boxes" being sanctioned areas of indiscriminate killing. I'm merely clarifying that the ROE still applies (whether or not it's illegally violated).
I see only long list of files from all directories without filters

Not if you select 'Show All Files' in solution explorer, then it shows the entire subdirectory tree.