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I have a work phone provided to me for free, which I am allowed to use privately, as much as I want, no usage caps whatsoever. I am eligible to upgrade it every 2-3 years to theoretically any brand new Android or iPhone.

And yet, I insist on having a completely separate phone of my own, on my own subscription, completely separate from work.

The work phone is business-only, I have my company email, all of the apps we offer, and the ones we use internally, and that's it.

The personal phone has all the Facebook and messaging and other funtime apps that I use personally, and nothing work-related whatsoever.

The reason for all of this is that I used to have a boss who would call or email at 23:00 and ask me to do something, expecting it to be ready at 09:00 next morning, at the very latest. Because I'm on a "no maximum work hours" contract, he expected me to put in hours basically whenever he wanted (he was later fired, big surprise).

This is why I have two phones, and why my work phone now gets turned off when I leave work, and turned back on when I arrive in the morning. My personal life is not to be mixed with my work.

I fully understand the revulsion towards the day phone/night phone thing. My setup is not a case of handing over, it's a matter of keeping my personal life private.
Nice selective headlining from the Guardian. Usually txes are paid on profits. Wouldn't drive the clicks though.
It's hard to say. Some countries were rich before they were colonised and had all their riches stolen, others were poor to begin with. Ethiopia is actually often mentioned as the only country in Africa that wasn't colonised (though that's not entirely true), and has been rich and powerful in the past, but it poor now. One of the poorest countries in Africa, Mali, was once the home of one of the richest empires ever.

China has been the richest and most powerful countries in the world for 2000 years before European nations crippled it in the Opium Wars.

Finland was never a colonial power, by the way. Sweden was, but Finland was still largely tribal a bit over a century ago, and was kind of a colony of Sweden and Russia alternately. The rise of Finland to one of the most civilised countries in the world over the period of a century is really interesting.

I fear racism is also a big factor. White people in Finland are more likely to get a break from other white people than black people in Ethiopia are.

But culture is also a big factor. In Europe, the most powerful economies are in the traditionally protestant north, whereas the Catholic south tends to have somewhat weaker economies. But why? And why were Muslim countries rich, powerful and advanced in the Middle Ages, and now not anymore?
But there are a lot of markets where it does get close enough that the assumptions are useful in modelling the world. Agricultural products, food and beverage industry, market for unskilled labourers, etc.

And in cases where there isn't perfect competition, many times good regulation can remedy the problems very effectively.

I am very critical of many of the kinds of groupthink that exists in economics, but the idea that markets can work well is really not such a bad idea, especially when you compare it to the alternatives.
No one is judging no one. And you should keep supporting them any way you can.

But I am just stating facts.

> at some point methadone might get de-prioritised

But that is wishful thinking, not reality. Open-ended programs do not work. Period.

By far most people in such programs relapse multiple times. You can't expect from the addict to kick the drug off out of sheer will and good intentions.

> took intelligent pro-active steps to move their lives forward

You don't understand addiction and how it works. It has nothing to with intelligence or logic. When someone chooses an open-ended program is because the people around them force them to take some action and they choose the easiest one.

Again, no one is judging and no one said those people do not need love, quite the opposite. But open-ended programs destroy their lives.
Not a wrapper, it seems:

$ file /sbin/ifconfig
/sbin/ifconfig: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=6bf40c44a9b42715a7670365936e6d0aa16f7bf1, stripped
$ dpkg -S /sbin/ifconfig
net-tools: /sbin/ifconfig

And my man page does not show anything about it being obsolete (Debian buster).
Sure, but that would tie me to Windows 10, and I'm not exactly interested in that.
The main selling point is that reduction and "boring simplicity" can lead to a formally correct program, or at least one where most errors are caught by static analysis/type checking/etc.
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My point is that twins are only difficult to distinguish for people who do not know them. For family and friends it's easy, which means that there are substantial differences even for faces of twins.
The face detection technology will be able to recognize those differences as good or better than the twins' family and friends. If it does not now, it will eventually.
Microsoft needs to make sure Linux runs well under their virtualisation tools. If it doesn't, Microsoft will end up being kicked out of the datacenter as well, as Windows runs just fine under VMWare or KVM and virtualisation drives better hardware usage. Having Windows run only on virtualized hardware is an existential threat to Microsoft.
The WinBtrfs project is very promising. I tried it a few days ago. I mounted my btrfs partition with it, and it appeared in /mnt under WSL. I chrooted into it from WSL, and it felt faster than the ntfs-backed linux fs. WinBtrfs has plans for implementing WSL permission pass-through. I look forward to that.
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Article says they were both CSM members and that the turning happened due to face to face conversations while they were in Iceland on CCP's dime.

Would they have been on friendly enough terms to pull this off if they weren't meeting regularly due to being on the CSM? I don't think so...
I don´t think this is an alien that applied downwards Löwenheim-Skolem to the reals. Rather I think this is an alien which applied upwards Löwenheim-Skolem to peano arithmetic. I think this because the alien talks about infinite natural numbers, aka non-standard natural numbers. It has used upwards Löwenheim-Skolem to get a model of peano arithmetic that has the cardinality of the continuum, and then there is of course a bijection between our reals and the thing that it calls the natural numbers. I see no sign that it´s using a non-standard model of the reals, but lots of signs that it´s using a non-standard model of the naturals.
>> The only nation in your list that benefitted greatly from slave labour is the USA

I do not know for other countries but in France what is told in schools and in media is that France had abolished slavery in 1794.

However it had slavery inscribed in its legal system for West Africa up until the beginning of the 20th century.

Even in metropolitan France, slavery was reinstated by Napoleon in 1802 and was not abolished for good until 1848 (in metropolitan France!).

In west Africa it was only in the beginning of the XX century that an end of slavery was declared by the colonial French administration ( 1905 in Mauritania).

In African states like Mali that are still controlled by France, at least by its military forces and its financial system (CFA/West African Franc), slavery was only legally forbidden in 2003.
What? In EU, Google is taxed for each ad income, as well as app sales, based on the country of where the sale takes place. It's called Value Added Tax. Countries can set the rate. Mostly the rates are in the order of 20 %.
Require UsTech to run their sales to their Ireland and German customers through their Ireland and German subsidiaries. Then tax them based upon the result of their (sales to Irish customers - Irish costs) and in Germany, the equavelent (sales to German customers - German costs).

It's quite possible in those two places, they would pay no tax because their costs are higher, but this is also an incentive to keep employing people in said countries.

To help enforce this, other companies in Ireland and Germany would only be able to reduce their taxes by purchasing from Irish and German registered companies (tax based on Irish costs - Irish sales) which would mean that they would be incentivised to buy from these rather than UsTech global corp.
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Even better, visit voat.co and read for a few weeks. The white nationalists are all about family, community, and a collective. Well, a specifically white collective. It's very important to them and a frequent topic.

Of course, this means reading their posts which is not for the faint of heart. It's like most of them are missing something and are trying to find something to belong to. In a way, I feel more sorrow than anger towards them.
Decentralized social networks aren't working for now because they reinvent their own protocol each time which creates fragmentation and incompatibilities between the platforms.

I think that decentralized social network projects should relies on existing standards and help with their development. That's why I'm working on Movim (https://movim.eu/) for several years now, which is fully based on XMPP and is de facto compatible with many other clients and services out there.
Rackspace acquires Datapipe as it looks to expand its managed services business
A plugin could be an interesting option, thanks.
Goonswarm strikes again!

RIP: vilerat. Hope you're somewhere laughing your ass off about this knowing that your legacy lives on.
F* is a great project and under very active development. Basically at every POPL you find papers with genuine improvements and simplifications to the core of F*. I don't know of any other language that's improving this rapidly.
There's also this 10min podcast episode[0] with one of his friends.

[0] http://www.wnyc.org/story/11-rip-vile-rat/
There's also CoinJar for buying & selling Bitcoin. They don't work with any other cryptocurrencies though. (And their main focus seems to be their Bitcoin Debit / ATM card.)

https://www.coinjar.com.au/
It's not even very good communication. As there often is no clear start and end, when I scroll to the gif I have to watch it at least 2 or 3 times until I really know what is going on, where the loop starts and where it ends. Simple video would be so much better.
Did you take a look at Libre Office Base [1]? It seems similar to MS Access, though I haven't used it.

[1] http://www.libreoffice.org/discover/base/
And there's this memorial [0] from EVE new-service imperium.news which explains his contribution to the game :

An excerpt -- I added a few paragraph-breaks:

If you play this stupid game, you may not realize it, but you play in a galaxy created in large part by Vile Rat’s talent as a diplomat. No one focused as relentlessly on using diplomacy as a strategic tool as VR. Mercenary Coalition flipped sides in the Great War in large part because of Vile Rat’s influence, and if that hadn’t happened GSF probably would have never taken out BoB.

Jabberlon5? VR made it. You may not even know what Jabberlon5 is, but it’s the smoke-filled jabber room where every nullsec personage of note hangs out and makes deals.

Goonswarm has succeeded over the years in large part because of VR’s emphasis on diplomacy, to the point of creating an entire section with a staff of 10+ called Corps Diplomatique, something no other alliance has. He had the vision and the understanding to see three steps ahead of everyone else – in the game, on the CSM, and when giving real-world advice.

Vile Rat was a spy for the Goonfleet Intelligence Agency. He infiltrated Lotka Volterra; he and I cooked up a scheme where we faked VR blowing up one of Sorenson’s haulers full of zydrine in Syndicate – this was back in 06 when zydrine mattered – and that proved to Lotka Volterra that he had gone ‘fuck goons’. BoB invaded Syndicate, then shortly thereafter GSF went to Insmother, allied with Red Alliance, and plowed over Lotka Volterra’s territory, all with Vile Rat’s aid. He came back in from the cold and became one of the most key players in the GSF directorate.

His influence over the grand game and the affairs of Nullsec cannot be overstated. If you were an alliance leader of any consequence, you spoke to Vile Rat. You knew him. You may have been a friend or an enemy or a pawn in a greater game, but he touched every aspect of EVE in ways that 99% of the population will never understand.

[0] https://imperium.news/rip-vile-rat/
Twins are just examples of two people with very similar faces. If Apple are able to train Face ID to distinguish between 6 billion different faces they will also be able to distinguish faces of twins.
The underlying problem is that companies take advantage of "globalization". Companies can legally move not only their production abroad but also the profit. So companies naturally — with the blessing of American business inteligensia — avoid taxes. I think national control of the economy is eminent and is the only way forward if you want to realize and spread some of the tremendous opportunities and benefits that automatization and digitalization brings us.
WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton is leaving the company
Apparently not according to:

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

Rather like 'Look, that's not an "Explosion"' as well... :-)

Edit: I'm hoping that the first manned ship on Mars will be "The Ends of Invention".... ;-)
The text added is, of course, a joke, but the image is real:

https://i.redditmedia.com/E44ciq7vb9r1t9sAzo3giCym74vSloIyK7...

This is Judge posing for a picture with Aryth's alliance leader, The Mittani, at Fanfest.

Every major alliance leader has been to the pubcrawl that CCP puts together, for each fanfest. 99% of attendees pay their own way.
They pay for your infrastructure already (aside from last-mile stuff, which you pay for [partially] whether or not it's a local company).

If you tax it, the prices just go up, nothing really changes.
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This is possible in D using /+ comments +/.

https://wiki.dlang.org/Commenting_out_code#Nested_comments

This allows commenting out code containing comments, which can be useful when debugging or giving usage examples in the code.
The reporting about Aleppo was a bit ridiculous (Aleppo must have more hospitals than any other city) compared to how our Media reports about Mossul and Raqqa. Go look up the numbers of how many civilians were killed by the anti-IS Coalition forces (btw it dramatically increased since Trump is in power). Only because the media is not reporting it in the same extent as in case of Aleppo doesn't mean it doesn't happen. War sucks. Plain and simple.
Fanfest is one thing, regular meetings in a small group that not any player can get on is another...
Is Python fully capable and suitable for functional programming?
It's very resonant,ths for sharing.
Well if we're going down that road, that figure is dwarfed by the amount of debt the Irish State took on to bail out European banks...
Fundamentally the "problem" lies in the fact that the nominal tax rate they can expect to pay in the United States is the highest among all the developed nations. Ireland is prudent and wise enough to be the better home for their revenues.

Globalization means that nations, provinces, and municipalities compete for the patronage of businesses. If you want a global economy, but you also want to be the legal home of Google and Microsoft, you will need to compete globally to offer better ROI: both in the cost of doing business, and in the proportion of the return which they get to keep. This is also why we keep piling on exceptions and deductions in order to stop the bleeding and keep at least some major firms from migrating all of their capital out of the country.
"People do not want to operate their own servers" ... oh, how much I hate that argument. There are so many baseless assumptions in there. What does "operate a server" even mean? Is "loading a web page that accepts WebRTC requests" "operating a server"?

Obviously, what people mean is some sort of "people don't want to learn how to manage the installation and configuration of a linux distribution on the command line". Which probably is true--but also completely irrelevant.

Arguably, home routers are servers. People routinely "operate" home routers. So, people routinely operate their own servers.

Yes, usability might need to be improved. But obviously, the first generations of new technological ideas are built by and for enthusiasts and thus require a bit more motivation to get started. There is absolutely no reason to think that that is therefore an inherent property of the idea itself.
The banned story was hosted on a shady website and quickly flagged. The reason for that was (if I remember correctly) that the website was some kind of right wing outlet.
http://evenews24.com/

EVE is a lot more fun to read about than it is to play it. You aren't missing all that much by not playing it...
> And in cases where there isn't perfect competition, many times good regulation can remedy the problems very effectively.

Then we agree, but that is the big point I see in this discussions "regulations are always bad, regulations destroy markets" and so on. Regulated markets are a useful tool. And like all tools they can be misused or overused.
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There is no Gerasimov Doctrine.
And that is the single most popular reason to run Windows I hear in my bubble.
There’s now a high res version at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvim4rsNHkQ . Could a mod update the URL for this story?
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Every carrier in Taiwan offers prepaid voice, text and data. In both 3G and 4G.

If you need help getting setup, give me an email at me@drsr.me.
Having dabbled in enough Linux over years and still preferring Windows for most of my work, even though I make sure there is a Linux box up and running in the corner, I would say this Linux excels at extremes, i.e. powerusers and novice users who need "restricted" usage. For the rest of the people who fall into the range of not poweruser but want enough autonomy to install and uninstall various software applications, but who do not care to summon script-jutsu Windows still beats out in that experience. I not want to disparage non-poweruser Linux users but they are who they are.
Except in a winner-takes-all market. (This is not about making money, but still needs a critical mass of users to become successful because of the network effect).
The point is that these services work via e.g. the ethereum blockchain (and the best of them will actually have something to gain by being decentralized and trustless). Good luck sending euros to an ethereum address..

Of course it's still up for debate whether it's necessary to have a separate ERC20 (standard ethereum token protocol) token, instead of simply paying with eth directly. One argument I've heard for this is to have the method of payment decoupled from the price volatility of eth, but I'm not entirely convinced by that.
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meanwhile, common people pay even more than small shops - about 60% total income compared to around 20%
EVE is even more fun to listen to... I often have the soundtrack playing while working
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Same with my 81 year-old mom. She has been using Ubuntu for the past 10 years. She even updates it herself (after asking me what she needed to do once).
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Shameless plug, if you are interested in functional programming in Python:

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(PR welcome).
iw is not quite a complete replacement for iwconfig and iwlist. Former don't support some network card drivers, such as [1]. So if you happen to have one of those, you have to use latter two, deprecated or not.

[1] https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu/
In which way transitioning to from full closed source to native POSIX implementation and (10 years after) developing swift as FOSS is a bad/disrespectful trajectory in you opinion?
XPS machines look nice, but I'd recommend the Dell Latitude line for those who plan to potentially use Linux. The compatibility is just on a different level, and they are pretty nice work horses hardware wise.

Latitudes lack that infinity display, sure, but at least I'm almost always using an external monitor anyway. Some of the other features are more subjective, but I also like the matte screen, better keyboard, camera on lid upper edge, support for a docking station, and so on.
"Please, no remote"

then... just don't include REMOTE in your header. right now, everyone that searches for "remote" is forced to land on your post as a hit, thus wasting all of those people's time, and your own. I understand there are searchers who don't respect that. but you are now wasting the time of everyone who does respect that.
And they are traded globally 24/7. That's quite a difference from being traded in one stock exchange during business limited hours via a layer of brokers.
> People who try to perpetuate myths about religion, culture, ethnicity or anything else will struggle to keep their narratives afloat amid a sea of newly informed listeners.

This is pretty damn terrifying.

Who is the authority on what qualifies as a "myth" or a "lie"?

We're coming closer to a Ministry of Truth every single day. And people who I would otherwise call 'smart' are actively cheering for it if it protects their own sacred belifs
1) No. I don't play any more. I do, however, play Dota and CS:GO, on occasion.
2) I lived in wormhole space. You're describing null bloc fights.
3) You're describing null bloc fights, again. We would get multiple fights per day. More than we could reasonably take, really.
4) The thrill in Eve, for me, is that is takes skill to pull off anything noteworthy. It's like a 4X version of Dark Souls, with the multi-person coordination requirements of a MilSim.
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The nesting of comments really bothers me too, the deeper you go into a thread, the narrower the columns.

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You're absolutely right, and this is huge...