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Engineering seems widely undervalued as a profession in many asian locales (not in Beijing/Shanghai/Shenzhen though, but then you have to use air- and internet filters). I don't think they have any easy options if they want to stay in Taiwan.
I don't get your comment. The first sentence seems to say "solving semantic confusion won't get us to the root of the hard problem". Your second sentence seems to say "we should admit that some questions are just semantic confusion". Is that right? The two sentences seem non sequitur together.

The hard problem is not a matter of semantics, but yes indeed some confusion may be just semantic. I'm not sure if that plain truth is all you meant to say though.
Often it's a really nice and interesting exercise to approach a problem by thinking along the lines of:

"This shell script is a bit complex. Instead of rewriting the shell script in another language, is there some simple and standalone way I could massage the data, in order to make the shell script simple again?"

It's quite a lot like thinking like this:

"This Python script is getting a bit slow. Instead of rewriting it in a faster language, is there some little part of it that I could isolate and only write that in a faster language?"
Yes, but he is consistent. So you can always read his reviews and peg it down a notch if you regularly slightly disagree with him. I don't mind biases in reviewers if they're consistent in their takes.
>Otherwise, people being horrible really isn't your problem unless you train yourself to be very conscious of their opinions and to care deeply about them.

I don't buy this. If an internet forum like FaceBook, Twitter, Reddit, or whatever allows increasingly toxic behavior it eventually spills into the real world. For example, unmoderated forums facilitate doxing and incitement. What happens when an online harasser posts someone's home address, work address, and childrens' schools online with a call to real world violence? Should the victim just not care? What if online trolls set about smearing your professional or personal reputation? What if they decide to out you as gay to your parents or in a country where being gay is illegal?

And don't tell me you can simply avoid going online, that isn't practical. Its precisely places like Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, etc where marginalized people can find a supportive community. Also the internet should be for everyone, not just the most horrible, hard, and callous among us.
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One of my oldest friends now runs his dad's small alarm manufacturer and he is 100% not interested in any new sensors or applications, at least when I bring them up. Their main goal appears to be stability and maintaining distribution to -- and the happiness of -- their installer customers. It's one of the most 1970s "independent auto parts store" mentalities I've come across in any business.
I got a note about a phone-related release October 4th, so I'm reserving judgement until then.
I've a made a bunch of Taiwanese friends when I was working in Korea, including former HTC employees, and salary was often the main motivation for their move (easily double in Korea, adjusted to CoL).

Funnily enough they've now all left, to mainland China!
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That quote sounds like the average Breitbart comment, actually.
Killing other humans. It's not necessary in an abundant society. In a mismanaged/unequal/resource crunched society, like Somalia, it happens routinely.

You give far too much credit to humans following the rule of law. There's a fine balance between humans using their abilities for their own desires.
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>a judge may not care

Why? This seems like clear and compelling evidence that the site was not designed to actually phish.
The whole reason Google bought Motorola in the first place was for the patents. They even said as much in [their blog post announcing the acquisition][1]:

> We recently explained how companies including Microsoft and Apple are banding together in anti-competitive patent attacks on Android. The U.S. Department of Justice had to intervene in the results of one recent patent auction to “protect competition and innovation in the open source software community” and it is currently looking into the results of the Nortel auction. Our acquisition of Motorola will increase competition by strengthening Google’s patent portfolio, which will enable us to better protect Android from anti-competitive threats from Microsoft, Apple and other companies.

They also were very careful to explain that they were _not_ buying Motorola in order to get into the hardware business:

> This acquisition will not change our commitment to run Android as an open platform. Motorola will remain a licensee of Android and Android will remain open. We will run Motorola as a separate business. Many hardware partners have contributed to Android’s success and we look forward to continuing to work with all of them to deliver outstanding user experiences.

I doubt Google's reasons for acquiring HTC are the same in this case. If in fact this time they _are_ planning to use HTC to get into the hardware business (and that seems likely, given their efforts with the Pixel line recently) you should expect them to handle this acquisition in a completely different way from how they handled Motorola.

[1]: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/supercharging-androi...
Debt to GDP in China is pretty unsustainable. Asking for a cause is hard and property markets are generally less liquid so rises and falls tend to be more drawn out, but it's probably going to be Chinese banks getting hit by bad loans and the government propping them up. The Chinese stock market isn't as frothy as it was a couple years ago, but the larger Chinese economy still relies on property backed debt for business expansion.

While I agree that property in places like Canada aren't overleveraged, demographics (baby boomers) are masking the true picture because a very large percentage of the population is relying on home equity to sustain their standard of living into retirement and there is a non-trival amount of "off-book" leverage in the form of mom and pops lending a couple hundred grand to their kids to get the 5% or 10% down that you're legally required and the kids are ploughing the majority of their income into their mortgage just before having to support the healthcare system as mom and pops retire and start to really hit it. With less of paycheque available mortgages are going to get strained, even if interest rates stay this low for the next couple decades.

This is all kinda handwavy, I'm not really sure how, but I'm sure that what we have now is unsustainable. I might be wrong about a hard crash, they could try to inflate their way out of the debt / inflated assets, but we're definitely not going to see a good amount of growth in the stock market for the next 7 years or longer if there is no pullback.
Each individual sock-puppet may be easy to block, but in aggregate they can overwhelm any attempts to constrain them individually. If you instead employ a whitelist, you miss out on conversations with people who tried to contact you but couldn't get through because you had no way to distinguish them from trolls.

Offloading contact curation on each individual user doesn't solve the fundamental problem of identifying malicious users, it shoves it where someone else has to deal with it.
It's the $10 per hour part is the killer. No one wants to do dirty work for that much. I did plenty of construction, landscaping, painting, and other dirty jobs. Hours were long, often 10 - 12 hours per day. I remember the day I started making $12 per hour and I felt like a king. I taught myself to code and got out of that game as soon as I could manage.
My dad was in the Army Special Forces during Vietnam. He says "they" didn't like the term Green Berets and I don't remember why, it might have something to do with the song (which he also claims was not well liked) or the movie.

I think he has a conflicted view of his time, he did not stay in the service afterwards and to this day I think he both regrets his participation in the war and is proud of it at the same time.

I think war, and by extension the military allows people (mostly young men historically) to push themselves and put themselves in danger, forming some of the most memorable moments of their lives. The problem is this often goes with creating some of the most traumatic moments of their lives, and they are forever stuck with the juxtaposition of those memories.

I've personally felt a longing for the former but not the latter and I wish there were more opportunities to gain those kinds of experiences and the camaraderie without having to do things you are morally opposed to. I've found myself looking into disaster relief work and things like that at times as an alternative but that might not be a realistic option at this point in my life.
Not sure if that's the case. Samsung was always developing Android and Windows based mobile devices -- though Android was selling in much larger quantity.

Both Moto and HTC were/are way past their prime and I personally think Google should just let it die and pick up distressed assets at bargain price when it goes belly up.

It'd be also interesting if Samsung would drop Android altogether and starts using MS mobile OS.
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Why would the mom make her son a beret when that's what killed her husband?
OH BOY SHE'S GOING CRAZY
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This is exactly the point I wanted to make and was the anecdote I was hoping someone would share.

Funny how once their penises start growing they're accepted for the boyishness, but the "real" girls are stuck in their shitty gender role, and few people note the hypocrisy.
Google is also poaching quite a few Apple hardware engineers if my group of acquaintances is any evidence. I wonder if they're going full on into hardware production with tight integration like on the iPhone?
The main problem we're having is that newer versions of RN use React 16. React 16 has breaking changes, particularly the changes to PropTypes and createClass, which some of our dependencies have already fixed but others haven't. This means to upgrade RN, we need to either submit fixes for all these libs or use a version of RN which still uses React 15, both of which have their own problems, especially since React 16 is still a release candidate and not a full release.

We're not creating our own libraries for a couple of reasons: firstly, this was supposed to be a quick project to see if an app is viable (but has now lasted long enough that we've run into this issue), and secondly we've already got forks of key libraries, which is taking more time away from implementing actual features since we now need to maintain them and pull in updates from the original repos.

Yes we should have kept dependencies up-to-date, but constant breaking changes are just taking too much time away from development time, so it's not a good fit for our project as it stands.
> So to split your coins, you would need to get conflicting transactions accepted by the two chains, and wait for that to settle.

Good point. I hadn’t thought of the possibility of having one part of a double spend be confirmed on the main chain and the other part on the fork.

But I don’t see how it relates to the part I quoted.
How can something be decent and stupid at the same time?

People who are concerned about having their code ripped off often use the GNU Public License.

If you want to keep code close to your chest, make a demo, show people something they haven't seen before.
I'm amazed by how the Spanish government manages all of this. Haven't they study independence movements in Canada and the U.K.?

The only reason Quebec is not a country is that the Canadian government kept a 'somewhat' cool head during the two referendums.

Breaking Point is a damn good CBC documentary about the Quebec referendum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl7lOundk4Y
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This is 100% incorrect. A residential structure can still be required to be ADA compliant dependent on use. Do your research.
I find that "thousands of trolls" generally amounts to "thousands of members of the public who responded to the statement I shouted out into public". The character of those responses doesn't even enter into it.

Don't get me wrong, I see why it's a pain in the ass to wind up with a popular comment even if the comments are mostly positive (and especially if they're not not), but I think this is better handled by UI and rate limiting on notifications rather than the alternatives.

>in some cases other people see the trolling about you even after you block it.

Pardon my arrogance, but I don't believe it's your place to determine how other people are allowed to talk about you even if you've excused yourself from the conversation. Down that path lay dragons. For a quick example why, sub out "you" and "your" in the previous sentence for the name of any unpopular politician.
I did dirty blue collar jobs for years. Then I would sit on my couch with a laptop and learn Python every night, from 6 or 7PM until I couldn't stay awake any longer. It was no picnic but it can be done.
PC-ness tells you nothing about the idea itself, but solely things about how the person responding to it sees it.

The most "anti-PC" people in the US have their own jargon and codewords and "safe spaces" with all the same restrictions, just turned on their heads. For instance, there are very few places you could go where people would tell you to your face that black lives don't matter, but a much larger set of places where it wouldn't be "PC" to wear a Black Lives Matter shirt.
And I'm guessing they found them otherwise retraining their old employees would have been more attractive.
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I would put up a lot of posters.
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> Buying BTC using INR is as hard as buying USD using INR since you need to show the paper trail.

What do you mean? To whom are you showing a paper trail? Do you have to account for cash withdrawals from a bank?

Do you have to show a paper trail if you take out some money from the bank, and use it to buy a motorcycle, or twenty barrels of grain, or ten iPhones?
Well, well, well, well... You should read the constitution and compare it to what the catalonian establishment is doing.

The rule of law applies also to politicians.
Especially a non-existent business meeting that he had not been invited to.
Non-US citizens won't be able to enter the last 6 digits of their US Social Security Number so the site is not going to be of value to you. (Although I'm not sure why they block Europe, there are certainly US citizens living abroad now.)

I don't know where to send you, but I would advise against sending at this point any additional responsibility or personal information to Equifax if you haven't already.
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>> The problem here is that Facebook seems to be choosing sides.

There is ALWAYS choosing sides. When FB decides to block pornography, they are choosing a side. When FB decides to mark some posts as spam, they are choosing a side.

Could they have a platform with ZERO choosing of sides? Technically, yes!

But, do you know what that would look like? My guess is more and more spam posts.
Sometimes I think there should be a search engine that has a button "these results are not satisfactory". When you click it, you can describe in detail what you were looking for... and hordes of cheap minimum wage or outsourced workers work 24/7 on these reports. Culling spammy search results, boosting good links, etc.. Solve what Google was always claiming to do purely algorithmically, with additional brute force labour.

(Actually, I suspect that a major ingredient of Google and Facebooks "algorithms" are really human reviewers... they want to keep this fact secret since human reviewers are responsible for judgement, whereas algorithms still count as impartial. This is not true of course, but it is the perception.)
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The force multiplier arithmetic of the internet changes this. Almost all people are fine, but some are not. It was only last week that we had some idiots put another bomb on a tube train, for example. On the internet, if you can attack once you can attack everywhere. If you could put a bomb on every train at once with ctrl-c ctrl-v, we'd probably all be dead.

America has a mass shooting every week. If the real world was as reprisal-free as the internet, and people could just keep shooting, how many casualties would there be?
> Person as in what, a natural person?

Person as in a legal person. This includes entities like corporations, organizations, representatives and so on: http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/person

> but it doesn't cover anything about patents used by contributors...

It tries to. Any change contributed to the project grants permission to incorporate that change under the same terms of the license, which includes the patent grant. This is how people generally tend to behave with open source.

> May? That [...] should really be changed to [...] will

I also considered "will" and "shall" and "grants permission to" and a few other options, but "may" fits most precisely and succinctly. Submitted contributions aren't necessarily going to be merged into the project, but they may be, and if they are, the act of submission back to the project grants permission to incorporate them under the same terms of the license.

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/may
Yep, that's our long-term plan, but saying we want to get rid of our working app and re-write it as two new apps from scratch doesn't go down particularly well with the business.
'DannyBee, I blame you for this, so do you have any recommendations?

Jeremy, not that you need the help, but I think this is really neat and if you want to pass the hat around to pay for something formal I'm happy to chip in.
Yep. People complain about the "adpocalypse" and censorship from YouTube and Facebook, but they're really stuck between a rock and a hard place.

That said, I think they should always err on the side of free speech wherever possible.
Well, there's also the problem that it's very difficult to change your 3rd party gatekeeper to one you trust & agree with, and the gatekeeper function is tied up with a lot of unrelated stuff (maybe I like the policing of Dallas, Tx. but the community standards of New York City, the firearms law of Vermont, the health care of Canada, the food policy of France & the speed limits of Germany — there's no way to get all that in one bundle).
If forced to label myself as a human being, I would probably go to 'Pervert Philosopher'. I am a big believer in the utter critical importance of facing the "ugly" side of our human nature and dealing with it openly. It disgusts me, and I see it as immoral, that so many platforms wish to scrub the primary conduits through which modern human culture is both formed and transmitted of the 'human' element. Humans cuss and spit, they stink and fuck, and they do this alongside those who heal and build, who help and protect. Any attempt to eliminate one side will eliminate both in equal number, because people aren't immutable. They move across and among those groups throughout the course of their day, week, month, year, or life.

Eric Schmidt's book, 'A New Digital Age' is starkly terrifying. He openly says that Google, because its rich, should use its position to actively mold human culture. We've seen individuals or small cabals take outsized roles in culture many times throughout history and the result has always been the same - tragedy. I see no reason why this would be any different.

Internet access should be a public utility like water or electricity. It should be metered. The cost of it should be tied directly to the price of providing the actual service (and its tech so that means the price will rapidly go to zero). It should be regulated by municipalities just like water companies are. The amount of profit they earn should be capped, just like water companies are. And just like water companies aren't allowed to charge restaurants a higher fee just because they make soup from the water and sell it, muni ISPs should never be permitted to charge different rates to people just because they're doing business over it.

I'm not advocating for the idiotic 'muni owns the fiber, private corps get access to the fiber and share' model, I'm advocating for muni ISPs. So that when the feds come knocking on their door, they will get told to pound sand unless they have a warrant signed by a judge. Private companies just bend over, especially ISPs who largely depend upon the government for most of their business existence (how long would they make it if it was legal for anyone else to run a line next to theirs and compete?). Municipal govt employees love telling the feds to get lost. They'll have their neighbors backs.
The indoctrination starts young, and it sucks. And the majority of role models in society reinforce it. People in general seem to lack the self awareness to realize what's going on and chalk it up to the natural way of things.
That's great to hear! Most welcome, and glad to know there's a plausible option - with the rapid deprecation of the old API, this might save a lot of time. (I can't rely on replacing all my old extensions with shell oneliners, after all...)
However, freedom of speech is an inalienable human right (and in need of most protection when it's political speech) - so regardless of whether you think that government's power derives from the people, they should be allowed to talk about the referendum.
How many capsules do you take of the "Mood Positive" at a single sitting?

Do you cycle your dosages to prevent the body from becoming acclimated or do you just take regular dosages?
I like reading spec documents when I spin at the gym: reading docs or books about a topic over and over again in parallel with actually using the technology in work helps me get a complete understanding.
I feel like.... maybe some of these guys are feeling the hangover from other people's money, and trying to have it both ways.

It's far from easy to bootstrap, but you basically solve all the problems these guys are talking about if you can survive it. The problem, of course, is that your unit economics have to work, you have to have the personal patience and resources to get to profitability, and you have to survive a potential funded competitor using their financial leverage to sell at or near a loss and torch your position in the market.

So a lot of folks take the money, but you take the money, you gotta pay it back. An IPO is ultimately just kicking the can down the road, and taking on a new set of guys that are going to cash out your venture debt for public debt. Who also expect to be paid back. I don't see a way out of this devil's bargain short of, you know, delivering on the milestones you talked about in your pitch deck, or in your roadshow.

But spare me the crocodile tears, huh? You took the money, you gotta pay back the money. Plus interest. And a lot of these IPOs, they had to make big promises when they went public-- big multiples, big projections, to support big valuations. Now you are sitting on a big pile of teachers' pension money and you have to deliver.
I never thought I'd see the day where a Buddhist monk in robes is calling for the genocide of "Muslim vermin". (I don't think he literally said "vermin", but that's basically the analogies he's using.)
If they go completely free speech then nobody will be able to read anything over all the spam, and the servers will be confiscated for possession of child porn in a few days.