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Ceglowski wants internet companies to be brought under stronger regulatory authority of local European governments, to protect societies and elections from pernicious forces in those companies and on the internet generally. He hopes there's a spillover benefit to people in other countries.

"Regulate, regulate, regulate!", Maciej urges.

Erdogan of Turkey says, "OK, Maciej!" – blocking Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, & Wikipedia in the name of social order.

Putin of Russia says, "OK, Maciej!" – running the Zuckerberg-of-Russia (Durov) out of the country, blocking protest websites, and moving Russia towards a Chinese model of internet content control.

Newly-elected Macron of France says, "OK, Maciej!" – following previous French initiatives to fine Google for failing to delete truthful news worldwide under EU 'Right to be Forgotten' rules, and to ban 'terrorist' websites by administrative decree, Macron pledges further regulations to "stop fake news".

Theresa May of the UK says, "OK, Maciej!" – unveiling a manifesto to make Britain "the global leader in the regulation of the use of personal data and the internet", penalizing internet companies that "direct users – even unintentionally – to hate speech, pornography, or other sources of harm".
No. Dark matter is spread relatively homogeneously so you would need very small back holes, and those would be visible or wouldn't have existed this long. Baryon acoustic oscillations also limit how much normal matter we can have, and they say there has to be a great deal of non-baryonic matter.
> People had the need to be emotionally invested and get rewards from the process of making the cake not just the end result.

Yes! Not sure it really works with Ikea, but it works in other contexts. See this (excellent) video from Ooshma Garg of Gobble telling the story of her startup:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A21qyXsAfME

Gobble was at first a marketplace where local people could sell their ready-made food to other people who don't have time to cook but don't want to order ordinary take-out.

In order to grow her startup she asked customers what they wanted; they said they wanted instant orders and it failed.

Then she produced excellent food, and all you had to do was heat it up in the microwave. People loved the food but sales were sluggish.

The main insight was gained by watching customers use the product inside their homes; they discovered that although the food was good, people were ashamed to serve microwaved food to their loved ones.

So Gobble offered ready-to-cook elements that you can prepare in a pan, and the startup really took off then.

Maybe she would have saved some time by reading this post! ;-)
I've had my credit card frozen while traveling abroad. Was able to get by on bitcoin.

I've gotten refunds for things like plane tickets in bitcoin too. Way easier than setting up bank stuff or proving mailing addresses for checks, or going through the hassle of having them pick your flights, etc.

These are all first world use cases though. I also keep Bitcoin in case of substantial problems. The financial system melting, war, discrimination, or political change that might threaten the life I lead.

It also gives me independence in a way you can't get anywhere else. The US uses it's status as the world's reserve currency to make a lot of political moves. The USD is a huge engine for pushing US agenda. Bitcoin operates outside of that, and this is something I find valuable, and it makes it easier for me to sleep at night.
France, and yes.
Why regulate just the internet? It's just one way to transfer information.

Surely, if we want to assure the "reliability and objectivity of information", we must also control publishers, including newspapers and independent journalists.

After all, how can government be sure that only correct information spreads unless it has complete control over it?
I do, though I guess I arrived at the idea more informally. I use it chiefly as a checklist, where at the top of each "page" I list the things I want to grapple with that day. Then the rest of the document is where I commit my thoughts and questions about the subject.
I for one would love to live on an Airship. It's the one fantasy/sci-fi thing I don't think I've seen any work on but that I personally want more than anything else.

I read, somewhere, about theoretical floating cities being possible on Venus I believe due to the denser atmosphere and I thought it was brilliant. I just wish we could do it somewhere, where the surface was hospitable instead of instant death (not that either is much closer to being reality right now than the other).
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Text version here: http://idlewords.com/talks/notes_from_an_emergency.htm
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It all comes full circle when he tells Herc he deserved to be done. "... we didnt think it matters but it matters, it all matters ..."

greatest show ever created, his books awesome too. i also loved Treme.
I love Spectacle, highly recommended!
I only have a few milliseconds to do the search. I erred in what I said though. I find one or two improvements on the initial result during the time I have allotted.

I'd reach out, but I doubt the company would approve of talking to a third party about the details of internal work. We also have some experts internally who I can talk to if I get stuck. :) Thank you for the kind offer, though.
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That would give you the thickest part of the shape, not necessarily the center. If I'm understanding correctly anyway. E.g. imagine a long skinny shape with a big thick circle at the end. The lawnmower would finish shaving the main part of the shape and declare the circle the center!

If I had to design an algorithm to do this, my idea would be to sample a bunch of points on the polygon, then take their median x and y values. Then find the closest spot on the polygon to that value, if it's not inside the polygon.
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But does the "pole of inaccessibility" actually work?

Imagine a long rectangle.

The pole of inaccessibility will be a range along most of the length of the rectangle... it won't find the center at all!

Even the illustrated "coastline" example is horizontally centered only by chance, because that happens to be the thickest part.

So not clear at all this finds a plausible "visual center" by any means.
Sopranos is up there also -no ? Sopranos is/was better than Game of Thrones (IMO)
Americans and the French have been brothers in liberty since the very beginning of this country, long before the idea of a large centralized federal government providing all the services you mentioned. My maternal side hails from the Guyenne province of France.

The role of government in society will always evolve and be debated, but it is important not to forget our shared heritage and centuries of friendship, and never to let temporary trends or problems ruin that. Don't leave the country, stay and help to improve it for the next generations. Glad you are here!
No, that's not what I'm advocating for at all, nor would I bring back debtor's prison, or any of the other relics of The Bad Old Days. Just advocating against trying to tell people that it's totally OK to declare bankruptcy in the event that it makes more financial sense for them. It should be reserved for completely untenable situations, and unless you had a reasonable expectation that it would work out, there should be a at least some personal shame involved for having made such poor decisions, such that they don't make the same mistakes again. We shouldn't try to normalize it.

You're spending other people's money. Treat it with respect.
Regulating adtech will really only hurt Google and Facebook, who are capturing all of the revenue growth.

Most kinds of limits on data retention should have no effect on small business (like the kind I run!).
I keep something similar to a .plan file which I serve at /plan/ on my machine so others at work can take a look.

I have headings as: "Working on", "Will be soon working on", and "Worked on" to mark my ongoing, todo, and done tasks.
DuckDuckGo [1] is exactly this - A search engine for hackers (and people who value privacy.) I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned them yet. They're doing fine, but not great, and it doesn't look like they're going to "take over the world".

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/
I honestly don't care if regulation that protects consumers ends up hurting small businesses.

Perhaps something else would also need to be done about Google and Facebook having too much power, but continuing to screw over everyone else to help small businesses isn't really on my personal radar.
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By creating strong regulations to curb the worst practices of ad company tracking, then dismantling these monopolies the same way we did with Microsoft in the 90s.
NIST have an interesting history around security. One such example would be AES. They favored Rijndael over Serpent, despite Serpent clearly winning on technical merit. Also, Rijndael is the one cipher that intel have offloaded on their chips and even called it AES-NI vs. offloading several ciphers.

I agree with some comments here that size matters. It is trivial to put a series of characters in between 2 to {n} words you can easily remember.

____This____Is____Number____42!____ and I would remember it is 4 _'s around each word because there are 4 words/numbers.

More sensitive content should equate to more words; and therefore, more of the buffer characters.

You can even use this to defeat keyloggers. Open up a prompt that you can type in, then type a bunch of a character. Then use your mouse to select the number of characters that represents your buffer character length, or a portion of it. Then copy-paste as required. Keyloggers will capture cntr-v but they won't capture how many characters you selected.

For those concerned about password managers and keyloggers, don't put your actual password in them. Leave off something, somewhere in your password. Maybe the start of your pw actually contains buffer characters that you know to type or paste.

A majority of folks won't be bothered to do any of this. I am just sayin', it's super easy once you train yourself.
Their benchmarks section just says this:

At the moment we haven't Benchmarks to show, but they'll come soon! Consider that benchmarking this library is not easy, we have to reproduce real world situations with big vnodes trees and frequent updates. Run a single patch or a sequence of patch in a for-loop might produce results that are not attributable to a real application.
Your monitor example is good and real, however due to the shape, it's not clear that it could easily be included fully assembled in the same-sized box.

What I point out the lack of, is assembly where it could already be assembled. So, while you do have to attach a monitor to its base, you don't have to put on a rear panel, even if it snaps on, or do anything else gratuitous. (Added by the manufacturer as an assembly step purely for the Ikea effect.)

In cases where something ships with batteries, it's usually not even included separately, but instead, already fully inserted.

Since products don't add a gratuitous user assembly step, this leads me to believe that the Ikea effect is not real. An AB test would probably clear up whether it is.
> Others may choose to use a bundler to concatenate all of the JavaScript files into one or two packages, and load them asynchronously to avoid these problems, typically leading to a SEO-unfriendly Single-Page Application primed for Front-end SPOF.

Shortsighted as I am, I struggle to see how fetch-inject guards against SPOF?

Having said that, I can see how this library could be useful for projects with no bundler.
Obviously there is good and bad regulation. I go into specifics about what I want in the text version of this talk, and here:

http://idlewords.com/six_fixes.htm
It seems to me that France fits the description quite well, doesn't it?
As a spaniard, I agree that it is an overall nice place to be IF you have a decent job (hundreds of thousands of youngsters had to migrate for lack of it) and IF you are not bothered by politics and "mild" corruption. The grandparent stated:

> a government that seems to be truly serving the interests of the people at large
And I don't think Spain is good in that regard.

English in large companies is not common, though, in my experience.

But my wife is french and I have a lot of french friends on Madrid, and they are very happy to be there and with no plans of coming back! So, gp, definitely consider Spain!
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Put the drone soapbox away.
To counter with anecdotal evidence, all the people I know that use Ikea furniture love how easy it is to use/assemble.

I do dislike how difficult it is to move furniture across houses though, I either need to move it as one piece or get the mover to disassemble/assemble.
did anyone read David Simon's comments on all of this: https://davidsimon.com/the-wires-final-season-and-the-story-...
There are a few consumer grade foiling catamarans, but yea, you won't see much foiling on your average day out on the water.
Yes and no. I tend to write long, rambling details along the same lines in my commit descriptions and JIRA tasks (after the shorter summary that people will actually bother to read). I've even got tools to pull all my commits from multiple projects for easier review of the previous week/month.

The only standalone artifact I keep, though, is an excel spreadsheet tracking rough office hours, project, caffeine consumption, and choice of lunch. This helps me reassure myself that I'm not slacking off (especially when I'm considering a short day), a top level rough timeline, keep my caffeine intake in check, etc.
Sound like tech leads are sergeants and project managers are officers.
Exactly for a lot of wealthy people they live in terror of the regular people they are gradually starving to death. As we enter a post human economy we will see more and more mass internment more and more concentration camps. As machines eliminate more and more work the totalitarian state will simply eliminate the surplus humans.
better to call, emails will generally not get you far
Yes it's tiresome, but it's not 1995 anymore. Other people are exactly why we can't have nice things. Spam, abuse, and fraud keep the feudal Internet in business - because nobody wants to do it themselves anymore.
How in the hell are the people of the UK supporting something like this?

Firstly, a lot of people know little if anything about what's going on. They're quite understandably more concerned about high profile issues like Brexit and the collapsing NHS and trains that don't run so they can't get to work and the cost of their kid going to university. The mainstream media is also more concerned with those things.

Secondly, even those who do have some idea of what's going on overall support authoritarian measures if those measures are presented as providing necessary tools to the police and security services to combat serious crime and terrorism, and of course they always are presented that way. When normal people are asked about the actual measures in the laws, for example about all the different government organisations that now have powers to access surveillance data and all the different purposes they can use it for, a lot of people do have significant reservations or even object strongly. But we still tend to trust our government organisations to basically do the right thing in this country, for better or worse, and so supporting the police and security services with new powers is a vote-winner.
I would be a bit stronger. The entire page is a pain to use on a mobile device (iphone 6s with chrome here). Stuff goes just outside the screen in portrait mode, scroll over other stuff when scrolling, etc. I was interested but closed the page after couple of seconds because interaction was a pain and the information did not fit in my screen.

Also 10x faster than? 10x faster can still be slower than I do today. It is all about comparisons..

Hope the experience is great on a non-mobile device and wish you the best with the product.
Ah yes: "hire only the best". Like in baseball, just hit 500+. Or Mike Tyson explaining: "you just need to knock everyone else out". Tony Hawk: "You need to stick every move."

You want to make it to the superbowl? Well that is easy just have the right team.

Great advice.
"All interactions with the DOM are written in Javascript."

You can only be as fast as the slowest link.

Does it help for virtual dom reconciliation to be in WASM as opposed to JS that is optimized and JIT'ed by modern JS engines? I doubt it as the use case is very different from VR/AR/AI where WASM would presumably have some advantage.

Any experts to educate us?
I can't find that quote using google news - do you have the link?
Peer review!= Collusion from buddies. What you describe here is collusion
This is why it's a regulatory argument, not a business argument. Without a regulatory floor, it's a race to the bottom.

People will always respond better to novel forms of advertising, and it takes bad actors some time to figure out how to game new kinds of online advertising. The result is ever more invasive surveillance and tracking techniques, in a Red Queen's race.
I keep a diary:
with following info
day : arriving : departure : time of lunch // travel time.

Why ?

I noticed after 43h in a moving window of 5 days my focus, irritability is up to the roof and I make way too much mistakes that can lead to a dramatic mistake.

My work contract is 37.5 so everytime I reach too much overhead I talk to my manager ask him if he will need me one day to make extra efforts in case of emergency?

He says yes, I say I will abide but if we are working under normal load, than he needs me to rest and give me my time back.

He then picks on me, saying it is my responsibility to not stay to long at work, I make him notice it is because of the company management I have to stay late and the deadline.

He grumbles says it is not the right time.

I go to see the CEO say the same thing

They give me my family time back. I stay quite rested (add 2h30m / day (when the rail company has exceptionally no problem) of commuting with the worsts train lanes of Europa (1M commuters/days)) so it actually feels like commuting is working. Teleworking is denied for lack of control.

Oh! and lunch time is not counted as worked hours except for the other managers. (so I stay away from my family 10hours per day, I see my wife 5 hours a day).

That is the only diary I am keeping.

If I get overworked/burntout, it costs nothing to the company, but I will certainly get fired sooner or later and have a hard time finding a job with a sort of depression running.
I've noticed something about the UK: it's the most "compliant" country I've been to. This isn't always a bad thing: it means that when the rude person in the movie theater is told off they'll shut up and sit down. But it also means that when the government tells the population "we're going to surveil you and control what you read" the vast majority of people don't raise a fuss.

One example of this was when I was photographing some buildings in the UK. I was stopped by a police officer, and knew my UK rights, and he was shocked that I refused to stop photographing the buildings (which I was doing legally.) He eventually conceded, but another time a UK officer did not concede and threatened to arrest me (again, both times were fully within the law.)

There's something in the national DNA, I feel. Like I said, being compliant isn't inherently a good thing or a bad thing: but it does mean that stuff like this, which is pretty horrifying, will probably pass. I type this comment less than 100 miles from the UK, but even here in the Netherlands (although our government is occasionally very disrespectful of privacy) people are more likely to raise a fuss and stop something like this.

Even in the US, politicians have to be a little bit more careful about their support of egregious surveillance methods: hide it in an agriculture bill, disguise it, publicly denounce the surveillance state, etc etc. But Theresa May literally said "we want to put huge restrictions on what people can post, share, and publish online" - direct quote - and nobody's protesting (except a handful of noble British anti-surveillance organizations fighting a losing battle.)
Looks like were there some downvotes. I think folks missed the sarcasm and Australian news:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/15/austral...
> London and other major global cities have formed something almost akin to the science fiction concept of a breakaway civilization. They are their own global meta-nation. Meanwhile the interior and rural districts…

Almost, except that cities are utterly dependent on "the interior and rural districts" for food.
I am from Europe.

Well, your trains are terrible. Our have a cruise speed > 300 km/h.
Didn't Google Maps do this already for free ? Why should I abandon those and use this ?
Sure, Madrid is a lovely place, too. Regarding working in English in Madrid and Barcelona, definitely it is possible, specially in companies oriented to the international market. Also, people will do their best to make people comfortable, from my experience :-)
If you think about it Google is used in a weird way these days, that's completely different from its early years, so it does make me wonder why "replace Google" wouldn't be reasonable.

I rarely visit sites out of a band of 15 or so, and I only use Google to find pages within those sites (which itself follows a normal distribution). I.e. I know I want a page from stackoverflow, or Wikipedia, or arxiv, or Reddit, or Yelp but rather than navigating to those sites I just cmd+T in Chrome, type keywords, and scroll to the site's link on the result page which is almost always at the top anyways.

I'm sure others use Google like this too (varying on your culture's go-to sites), so does it even need to exist as it does right now? I could imagine a new app that indexes just within this band of sites. And Google or some other app is relegated to "the rest" for rare occasions.
Redrawing boundaries, and then massive funding, a la Marshall plan would help.
Slack could be described as a replacement for email, but in a behavioral sense. DuckDuckGo was the attempt at a new search engine, but it hasn't reeeally worked. Khan Academy is replacing universities. Even universities are starting to replace themselves by offering many of their courses online, and streaming many of their lectures. Netflix is obviously the winner under 'Internet Drama', and it's clear that a lot has changed in the last 5 years. No idea about the next Steve Jobs. The Moore's Law thing: Heroku, Kubernetes, and many other startups that try to simplify the cloud.

So you're right, not many "startups" in here, with the exception of Slack and DDG. I think it's more common for an existing and mature company to take over these spaces when the time is right.
As soon as they said that I'd be having lunch with recruiters and leaving.
Zeppelins have problems with severe weather. Only one of the Zeppelin accidents was due to fire.