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> We don't send any personally identifiable information to Google.

Yes, you do. While you use[1] the "Anonymize IP" option, a packet is still sent from the user's IP. Google's business model includes gathering as much data as possible so it's foolish to think that they are throwing data away in this situation. You may disagree and trust Google to honor the "Anonymize IP" option, but trust is not transitive so you shouldn't ever assume users agree (use opt-in in every situation).

However, claiming you don't send pii to Google makes me wonder if you have actually read the documentation for GA? The "Anonymize IP" (aid=1) option is blatant doublespeak. From their own documentation[2]:

> The IP anonymization feature in Analytics sets the last octet of IPv4 user IP addresses ...

They are only masking out the last 8 bits of the address, which are the least interesting bits. You can still discover the ASN from the remaining data. At worst all that option did is add a 1-in-256 guess when correlating your analytics data to the rest of Google's tracking data. That is trivial to overcome Google's massive databases of tracking data.

You even provide a unique additional per-install tracking number that lets Google track users when they move to a different IP address. Once a correlation exists between your analytics data and everything else at Google, your analytics events provide a reliable report about that can allows other tracking data to be correlated to the new IP address.

Why does that option exist? It's possible that it was designed to mislead developers into sending Google tracking information, but their own documentation[2] suggests a different hypothesis:

> This feature is designed to help site owners comply with their own privacy policies or, in some countries, recommendations from local data protection authorities

This is a feature designed to check boxes on compliance requirements, not to provide any provide actual anonymity to users.

[1] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/fd4fe3b80cab9902437016...

[2] https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Coin_Offering

People should really learn to define acronyms before using them in all writing mediums. I don't care if the author has used the term 10,000 with colleagues, he should still define them upon their first use in the article body.
A rack version of a BBC Model B, nice.
I'm not sure what the RILE score is but that chart is worthless if you want to understand party alignment.

Because Germany doesn't have a two party system, putting the parties on a simple one-dimensional chart doesn't tell you much.

For example, the Greens are one of the most "socially progressive" parties (think immigration, LGBT, gender theory, feminism) but their positions on social welfare / workers' rights are fairly conservative compared to The Left (which in turn is extremely "pro-worker" to the point of bordering on anti-capitalist but doesn't place as much emphasis on LGBT issues). The Left is also much more strongly anti-war. The Greens also (obviously) place a lot of importance on ecological issues and renewable energy (which in Germany always means anti-nuclear).

The CDU has indeed shifted towards the left under Merkel but the SPD has also previously shifted strongly towards the right under Schröder. In fact the left wing of the SPD split off (that's the WASG mentioned in the footnote) and joined the Left, leaving both major parties left and right of the center. The SPD's campaigning this time is a bit more "left populist" than usual but that seems to be almost entirely strategic (to steer protest voters away from the AfD by offering a "real alternative").

The FDP is generally considered the most "employer-friendly" party and has a history of leaning towards neoliberal ("privatise everything") but has recently marketed itself as more centrist libertarian.

I find it very odd to see both the FDP and CDU described as more conservative than the US Democrats, as well as seeing the FDP described as more conservative than the CDU.

The CDU is probably most tolerant of getting involved in wars and only the Left and Greens take a strong stance against weapons exports but none of them are anywhere near as militarist as the US Democrats (or Republicans). None of the parties could honestly be described as "tough on crime" either. If anything the CDU can be defined as generally being strongly in favour of the status quo.

If Merkel loses (which most likely also means she'll leave CDU politics), the CDU will have an identity crisis. Merkel's "left-leaning" course alienated many right-wing voters, the SPD has become indistinguishable in many aspects thus competing for the centrist voters. The CDU would be expected to snap back to a slightly more conservative, more right wing position but Merkel practically eliminated all possible leadership candidates. Von der Leyen will not be the next Merkel, but all other public figures are either gone already or on their way out.

We're almost guaranteed to end up with another coalition government. It will likely be led by Merkel's CDU. I think we'll also see the AfD reach a two digit number -- I hope for less than that, but less than 5% (which is the minimum for getting any seats) seems unlikely.
I'd disagree. What Bitcoin fans want is "digital gold", not the gold standard.

The gold standard is a system where paper currency is backed by a guarantee that it is redeemable for a given amount of gold. Of course the govt can rescind this promise at any time.

What Bitcoin fans want is something more akin to gold coins, where the value of the currency is independent of any state.
Most libertarians aren’t opposed to government. For expample, most libertarians would agree that government is necessary as a means to enforce contracts. Somalia has no civil justice system of note, so Mogadishu is hardly a libertarian paradise.

Libertarianism is about the rights of an individual to engage in transactions they find beneficial. However, libertarianism is not about the right to infringe on others’ rights to do the same.

Libertarians support individual rights at a vastly greater level than anyone else. In collectivism, there are no individual rights or at least they are secondary to collective rights.
suggestion: surround yourself with people who constantly challenge you to do better. Everyone has times that they feel are "lost" but the time you need to remind yourself of is the moment that you realised you weren't doing what you wanted to be doing, or that something needed to change.

It wasn't until I started to spend time with people who I knew would ask hard questions and challenge me to keep going that I started to actually get shit done. Happy to chat if that'd help, but don't worry about time – my experience is that failed startups mean someone has a far broader level of experience than even they think they have.

And I'm one of those 27yo's who many people think have "made it" but still have the same sense of crippling "should I have done that differently" / "I squandered my youth" fear. It never goes away.
My opinion is not important. The issue is lots of unsophisticated investors are betting their savings / money they can't afford to lose on cryptocurrency in hopes to flip their investment quickly and get rich. This is something which should be regulated so you can't just randomly dump your IRA/401k to buy some random cryptocurrency generated over a weekend by some person in a garage with shell company in Cayman Islands.
I hate to be a wet blanket here but it's going to be difficult to impossible to maintain a large-scale voice commo system during a widespread natural disaster. This is stuff that Amateur Radio operators practice on a regular basis and it's difficult even with organized net operations schemes, this is not something people can manage just calling in. There is a very finite amount of bandwidth and during a time when normal commo links are down you need to maximize what bandwidth you have.

If you switch to a TTY type interface you are going to be able to maintain comms a lot more efficiently for a given amount of battery life, and a much greater total communications volume. However from what you've said here, the voice is carrying a significant amount of contextual information and this might not be desirable.

I recognize the merit of connecting rescuees directly to rescuers. However from what you've said, the "flat" organizational model is becoming a bottleneck and you don't think you'll be able to scale.

My suggestion would be to look at the 9-1-1 model. You need to get people to local operators who can triage the most urgent calls according to certain categories (medical emergencies, trapped personnel, etc). You can record the 9-1-1 calls and push very compressed recordings to some kind of central system to maximize trunk bandwidth (assuming this is any kind of limitation vs operator time).

During an emergency situation, it is probably not important that these "operators" are actually official emergency personnel, that is what you are doing when you connect rescuees directly to amateur rescuers anyway.

I would just directly expose the triage category data to rescue personnel (volunteer or otherwise). Let people see the triaged location+severity of incidents in their area and communicate amongst themselves and they will respond intelligently to the most urgent situations. (again, this communication is much more energy-efficient in text form rather than in live voice)

Please let me re-iterate the importance of rehearsing these scenarios. Amateurs regularly drill their net operation skills and since the "Cajun Navy" is now a thing it would be good to rehearse that as well. Nothing dangerous but imagine amateur radio operators calling into a net and requesting rescue at various (water/road-accessible) locations throughout a weekend for a real-world dispatch/recovery operations scenario. It's great that people stepped up but we absolutely need to drill these skills to prevent dumb mistakes. This is going to happen again, courtesy of global warming.
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I am definitely in favour of the notion of avoiding "management silos" but I would echo the sentiment left at the end that it seems to be much easier said than done in practice.

"you can talk directly to a VP in another dept., you can talk to me, you can talk to anyone without anyone else's permission." I imagine someone in such a high position would then receive an influx of e-mails to the point where it is counter productive as they cannot address each one on top of the already ~100 hours of work?

I have never worked in an organization where this was the explicit rule established by the leader but maybe someone can shed some light on whether this practice has worked for them, or the challenges that comes with it?
Good point and saying they 'worship money' was an unintended pejorative.

Still it is a bit more than that. Flowers are merely a gesture/ritual whereas burning money is an attempt to send money to the afterlife (if my understanding is correct), which inevitably does elevate it somewhat in the minds of believers. I feel the original point is partially intact, in that they definitely do have superstitions surrounding money e.g. red packets ... etc.
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what does the end code outputs?
Without those problems it would be much easier to help them.

The solution to the problem is to eliminate the stigma of mental health issues, to subsidise mental health therapies, and educate people about the signs of deteriorating mental health so they can seek help earlier. If people can be helped before they're homeless then they'd never become a homeless person. That's better for everyone.

I strongly suspect this would be incredibly hard to implement in any country that doesn't have a national health service though, and even if a country does it'd still be difficult.
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Could you please clarify what you mean by "streamlined"? Because OPs observations were quite detailed, and "streamlined" sounds like a meaningless buzzword in comparison.
A few points from a German:

It is not true that the Left is more liberal. They are more socialist, which is simply not listed in these article's diagrams. A strong socialist pariticipation in Germany results from a huge part of it being under Soviet control for a few decades.

It is also not true that neither top party has aimed at the social system. Both actually do try to minimize it. But they frame it into pro-social-system-wording because otherwise the people would start to fight them.

In terms of climate change we actually found a great way to make a profit from it. Since we are one of the high tech leaders in the world and climate save technologies are usually high tech, we can use that to gain bigger global market shares in many markets that were locked up previously.

Why is 3000€ considered high income? Is that post-tax? Pretax it's less than what Germans would expect with a college degree or higher.

I consider myself liberal, education, high tech focussed. But I would also agree that Islam is political and not just religious. Just look at its history. That statement alone doesn't mean one should fight Islam. The bad thing about hte AfD is that they want to fight Muslems. Educated people of course frown upon discriminating on such a simple fact.
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Thanks.

I read the whole article wondering what on earth it meant. Then I went on Wikipedia which is usually pretty good with TLAs (Three Letters Acronyms).

So I made a point in reading the whole article just to figure out if they were at least defining it loosly...

there's that:

>ICOs involve raising funding by creating and selling new crypto tokens — commonly based on Ethereum — to investors

Which is not really in depth. It got me wondering if the person writing it understood what it meant.

Please don't do that when you write, always assume the person you're writing for doesn't know what you're talking about.
I think the main problem with IE technology was the way Microsoft pushed it down our throats. The tech wasn't necessarily bad, but when the giant corporation pushes new features while not respecting/implementing the existing standards very few people support their efforts.

So as a result 96% hated the IE and the other 4% were using other browsers. No wonder nobody wanted to use the newest Microsoft only features.
Very nice solution, dont forget you pay $8.500 per year per 1M requests on the google maps api.
I like the purple button in the cosmopolitan hotel example, and that is a full gradient as far as I can tell.

I agree that gradients can be use tactlessly but I find when the colors are chosen correctly they look really well.

Of course bevel is also a great looking option
Can't you do this with the notorious Intel ME?
every valuable project starts with an idea though.
Would Superman have amounted to anything if he hadn't been from Krypton, and if his father hadn't been a scientist who was able to put him on a spaceship and send him to Earth?
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Is this truly a ban on all ICOs, i.e. the technology? Is there a decent translation of the report at http://www.pbc.gov.cn/goutongjiaoliu/113456/113469/3374222/ ?

I don't see why projects such as "useless etherum token" https://uetoken.com/ should be banned.

You may want to ban trading the token to prevent money laundering but that would apply to all crypto coins.
Most of these ICOs are utter garbage and the only reason people "invest" in a garbage coin is because they think there is some greater fool that will buy it off them.

To give them credit people have made many times their money buying and reselling but it would be idiotic to let this madness continue.
that's the tough thing about design, it's subjective. I personally really like the win10 design much more than 7. 7 Seems to dated to me.

I'd really love it if MS embraced shell skins. There are so many great ones, but I hesitate to jump through all the hoops to make them work.
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I don't think they can do much to harm OpenJDK as it's GPL and developed by various parties and individuals.

What they definitely can do is start charging for Hotspot which would have a disruptive effect on the whole ecosystem. From my experience around 9 i 10 shops use Hotspot before any other JVM implementation.

They may also withdraw access to the TCK which would render alternative JVMs not suitable for organizations that heavily rely on standards and have strict policies in that respect.

Should this happen, I am absolutely positive companies like Azul, IBM or RedHat will step in and build a new (friendlier) open Java platform based on OpenJDK. Heck, maybe that would even mean resurrecting Apache Harmony.

I wouldn't be too much concerned about that in genereal. Oracle does not have absolute control over Java.
No answer here, but I was wondering why you're asking, if it's similar to my experience.

Have you been finding the youtube feed extremely uninteresting only as of late. Something has definitely changed but I can't put my finger to it other than lots of click-baity videos rising to the top, and my subscriptions and history of views not kicking into the equation.
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Why do you let your clients make your technological decisions?
> As Rob Dodson said, "Polymer is the jQuery of WebComponents".

How about x-tag, a competing WP framework from Mozilla/Microsoft? I don't see any any mention of that.
"Musk works about 100 hours per week at the electric carmaker"

7 / 100 = 14.3 hours a day. Or 100 / 5 = 20 hours a day. Does he not require food then? Or any non-work activities? Talk about hyperbole.
BTCChina's ICOCoin ($insert yo dawg joke here) stopped trading since saturday, I think most sane investors saw this coming from a mile away.
I'm less concerned about JVM incompatibilities and more about licensing terms.

In my opinion, you only own your technology stack if you can build the build systems of your product on your machines. I can do that with OpenJDK, and with Debian's apt-sources it is a matter of two command lines and waiting for the build.

From a glance at IBMs Java site I don't really find anything about their licensing. The Oracle JVM isn't open-source, nor is its JDK.

Let's be honest: the impact of most (including my) project to live or die with what Oracle does with Java in the future is marginal, in comparison to much bigger unknowns. Still I think that the big Java shops out there must have a contingency plan in mind, and I wonder if anyone could hint at what's their plan.
Some trains are fully automated, and machines have been able to handle general operation of a train better than a human for a while. But train drivers have some advantages when it comes to making decisions on shutting doors, handling emergencies, and making out announcements and their cost is spread over a lot of passengers so eliminating them has never really been a priority.
The last part about patents is not true. The OpenJDK has a patent pledge in it. Google even started incorporating OpenJDK into Android to protect itself from the patent case. The whole patent case with Oracle was not about OpenJDK but about Dalvik / Harmony, Google's own Java-like implementation.
LZ-based compression won't look like noise.
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> It is not true that the Left is more liberal. They are more socialist, which is simply not listed in these article's diagrams

This is an important point which trying to ram non-US political parties into a US-based single left-right spectrum does not account for.

Another important distinction which people miss is "Islam" (the religion) vs "Islamism" (its involvement in politics).
>It's pretty useless, you can google it and see how had a lot of hype, but in real case uses, it's useless (example: yes you can open a company remotely, but if you don't live in estonia, is a mess with taxes...

Pheew, I thought I was the only one with this opinion, given the hype there is about this thing all over the net.

To me the whole stuff seems a lot like the plans of the gnomes in South Park (but in five steps):

1) get an e-residency (please read as "pay us some little money")

2) establish an Estonia company (please read as "pay us some more money")

3) open a bank account in this or that bank (please read as "give our friends a little more money")

4) ?

5) Profit.

The only practical use I can see is to create a new sort of Double Irish:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement

but aimed to the single/poor instead of large corporations, but it has to be seen how the EU will take the idea ...
Pathetic that the Italian State cannot cough up 10k to get to the bottom of this. 10k is less than the monthly benefit of an Italian member of Parliament...

What a failed state, what a shame on us!
You are still one year ahead of me. Turning 30 in a few months and all the work over all this time has little to show for it.

It's a bit depressing how many currently billion dollar ideas I've had myself over that time too. Makes you feel that given different circumstances it could've been you.
My understanding is that Intel ME has security issues.
Wonder if it would be plausible having light sensors on a tablet and base shadows on the room's available light?

Having a table flat on a surface and have UI "shadows" move around with light changes would likely be a pretty immersive effect.
Just because he receives emails doesn't mean he'll answer them all. He probably tries to fill some quota of 10 emails a day or something, then moves on to other things. As an employee, you would hopefully have the common sense to not email him about trivial matters anyway.
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I'm sorry, but I find your viewpoint laughable.

Telling them to STFU, when in the ME they have been fighting for longer than 2000 years. 2000 years! Think about that for a second.

This video succinctly tells the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-evIyrrjTTY
> https://uetoken.com/

Did they actually do an "ICO" or was it showing as "finished" from the get-go?

Let's find out!

30 seconds later.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170627123240/https://uetoken.c...

https://etherchain.org/account/0xbe5c1c298d0088886146a906cdf...

So they did but apparently nobody sent them any money, unless they also used some other addresses.

Another 60 seconds after that.

Actually they have a link on the current https://uetoken.com leading to https://etherchain.org/account/0xbe5c1c298d0088886146a906cdf... with 23562 txns total at the moment. Wonder if any of it was legit and if he got any money out of it.
Yet pay for software developers in those companies is so much less than for those in America.