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Oh, the pedantry. Clearly the point is that it behaves _just like_ fiat in the specific ways mentioned.

It's -- you know -- an element of literary style.
Also the stereotypical pay issue. They'll only pay average or lower despite the annoyances of the job being top 1% or so of jobs. (drug tests, sec clearance, unbelievable endless bureaucracy, weird job reqs, etc)

There are cultural issues, I remember reading something about "mid career" mech engineers being five years exp. Which is great if you graduated at age 55 or so, not so good if you graduated at 22 with loans that will take more than 10 years to pay off. Meanwhile theres a handful of "lifer" boomers who clog up the promotion pipeline until death at which point the talent pool is empty between the ages of perhaps 30 to 60.

Its a poor conditions, underpaid, temp job, more or less. Insert surprise that people would rather work anywhere else.
Recently I had a series of unfortunate plumbing mishaps at my home that set me back a bunch of money. I did very minimal google searching (just confirming the spelling of the plumber's name), but ads offering emergency home loans have started popping up in my browser.

If I can go to a search engine that doesn't sell the fact of possible financial problems to whatever loan shark is willing to pay the most to get to me, I see that as a win.
The article doesn’t give the impression that modern standards are higher, but it may be the company culture that is the problem rather than the rules. Having mass resignations is hardly a sign of a good company culture.
When you put it this way, it makes me realize I'd rather live 400 years while losing three quarters of my waking hours than to live 100 years without any loss of waking hours. Experience centuries, and all that.
That's a good question. My reply would be I'm not sure the intelligence community / legal profession can collect and hoard such things without legal approval.

Certainly Equifax has other data. Maybe they didn't get what they wanted? Maybe Equifax isn't being transparent? Maybe they don't know?
Except your example doesnt work. If coke and pepsi didn't advertise, more people would drink RC Cola and Faygo and fruit juice. Drinks are not a duopoly.
There are factors to consider for this kind of high school logic(logic 101?) implication. Do you want to talk about statistic? Or do you want to talk about other factors, like consequence of being privilege? Do you want me to change it to "most of white privilege"?

Idk, your naive questions that intent to force me answering black-white, true/false kind of questions don't make any sense to me.
I wish I could tell some of the stories about working at this place without getting in shitloads of trouble. "Staggering incompetence" was the phrase I learned there.

They used to have these radiation detectors you have to walk through in order to catch people who might be trying to smuggle out materials like plutonium. The problem was that after you worked there for a few weeks you started setting them off with nothing on you. Entering and exiting. Because you'd been exposed to so much material, you were slightly radioactive yourself.

This was deemed highly problematic for "Security" reasons, nobody seemed to give a shit about all the people.
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Could you provide an example document that exhibits the issue, and a more detailed description of what goes wrong? Say, to one of the email addresses in my profile. Thanks in advance!
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That is indeed annoying.

If you use X11 (at least on Linux), and have a useless key in your layout, try to find its keycode from the output of "xmodmap -pke". If you want to enter the backtick without a modifier key, it should be the first symbol after the equals sign. Replace that symbol with "grave" and feed the whole line to "xmodmap -" (or, if you prefer, "xmodmap -e 'keycode XX = grave ...'").

This is not ideal, but I think preferable to flogging all those dead keys :)

I have no idea how to achieve the same on Windows or Mac; I suppose they have more user friendly mechanisms to remap keys.
You're missing the point. That is it's possible, if not probable (per books like Dragnet Nation, Snowden, etc.) that data is being collected and you have no idea why, who, etc.

I'm not saying i think that's what happened. I'm saying there's a part of me that has good reason it it's possible it could be that. Crazy? Not more than some of things we know the intelligence community has done or tried to do.
For some reason the article focuses on the solved problems and then complains that they are still solved with the same good old solutions instead of being completely replaced by newer solutions that might be worse at the old problems but good at newer problems.

Keyboards have solved the problem of efficient text entry.
PDFs have solved the problem of displaying documents exactly the same way on every computer.
Written text has solved the problem of efficiently recording and passing on information thousands of years ago.

The new solutions solve the same but slightly different problems by trading off one aspect for another.

The touch screen is not the most efficient way of text entry and selecting 2D points but it's the most portable. But this comes at a cost. When you use a touchscreen your fingers obscure the screen and virtual keyboards take screen realestate away. This is an acceptable tradeoff when you're not constantly interacting with the computer.

The bandwidth of a human to a computer is very limited. Even very fast typist can only transmit two words per minute or 10 bytes per second. It's not worth it to waste 50% of you r already very limited productivity on something just because it's new.
David Lange: And I'm going to give it to you if you hold your breath just for a moment ... I can smell the uranium on it as you lean towards me!

Famous (in new Zealand) anti nuclear weapon speech during a debate at Oxford Union.

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/sound/oxford-union-debate
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Au contraire! Many people are seeking precisely the universal. It is their (and my) opinion that modern language and its interpretation is the barrier to distilling further meaning from these concepts without significant pondering. That doesn't mean that these concepts don't hold merit, unless you put a postmodernist spin on things.
I think it's not gone too far; It's gone astray.
The are wildly popular but they are in a niche yes. When they were not the Google we know today there were not many providing the same service or value, and potentially still isn't, so that is why they could get away with bland design. It was never bad design mind you.

Amazon is also king of providing value in their markets, and their markets are also apathetic toward flashy design. I don't need animations when I am provisioning an AWS instance nor when I am buying goods at the lowest possible price I can find.

However if I were not me, and I were shopping for luxury or boutique goods, a site that looked like Amazon would not instill me with confidence.

My point is just that the web has diverse design and UX needs and the current toolset caters for that. If someone managed to build a platform with those benefits and more and the webs market penetration then I would be on board.

I will argue still that it is necessary if you want an alternative to the web, as the alternative has to be a better value proposition for the end user not the developer.
The NRC publishes daily reports of lost materials, criticality issues like this, and related kerfluffles here

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/...
Not really. Constant presence of politics and companies not caring about their
employees' well-being and professional growth are what is killing morale.
Everything else is just a minor pain compared to that.
The plusses of plaintext systems are:

- free data (not locked by proprietary systems like Word)
- ability to diff, search easily
- ability to quickly refactor (biggest one for me) of not just content but markup too!

Now readability is subjective plus if you know what you are reading.

If you know Org markup, reading even raw Org will be easy. If you know Markdown, reading Markdown will be easy. If you don't know Org, you might think that the headings look like bullets. But that just because you don't know it not because if is less 'readable'.

I linked the raw Org earlier. Here is the Markdown conversion of the the same Org source: https://gitlab.com/kaushalmodi/kaushalmodi.gitlab.io/raw/mas...

To a Markdown-untrained eye, that wouldn't look too "readable".

Now of course, if you use a good editor that allows folding of headings, optional hiding of markup, coloring code blocks in the right syntax, etc, that definitely becomes more readable than raw. The same applies to Markdown.

It's basically -- Pick the right tool to make the experience more pleasant. But even if you use a wrong tool, plaintext content will allow you to get the job done. It's your choosing.

So as I mentioned earlier, "readability" is a perception, subjective to each individual. Based on their experience with plaintext, Org or Markdown "readability" can change. But the plusses of plaintext I mentioned in the very beginning stay unaffected by that.
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Unlike modern democracies, the ancient democracy was a real democracy, because they understood politics much better than us:

"It is accepted as democratic when public offices are allocated by lot; and as oligarchic when they are filled by election. (Aristotle)"

See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
I haven't used an alarm in probably a decade, outside of super early flights. I consistently wake up when I need to. I have no problems with insomnia. I don't need caffeine to feel awake and in fact haven't drank any in about three years. I wake up feeling refreshed and happy and looking forward to the day.

I say this because I used to have pretty bad insomnia. Weeks of almost no sleep. Let me tell you: when sleep is not going right for you, nothing is going right. Sleep does wonders for depression, too. So I looked at everything I was doing wrong and changed it all. I changed my diet, my work habits, everything. I don't do a lot of critical thinking an hour or two before bed (no work, no computer). I've trained my body to know how to sleep. I go to bed at around the same time every night, and I listen to my body. Barring those with actual medical issues, for the majority, it is a choice.
OMG, high level of political corruption while selling chocolate to end customers via (ofter foreign company owned) private retail chains. That is quite a stereotype at work here.

What I usually see in Vienna is Milka at 0.99Eur price for 100g package. Slovak price tend to be bit higher at around 1.19Eur for 100g, with 0.99Eur used as promo price. I never actually bothered to compare ingredients.

Please consider that selling to end customers is selling to certains price points, regardless the costs to a large degree. Milka is sold as premium chocolate bar with given price point. There’s plenty of competition both cheaper and more expensive. This is all about marketing and until recently, people were not really sensitive to ingredients, so they went with whatever is cheapest to produce within some margins of customer satisfaction.

So, I think your last statement is what is considered around here to be true.
That anyone knows about. He's a smart guy. 5 years of sitting and thinking, "Hmmm, how could I do this better next time and not get caught...?"
Anyone who has watched a nature documentary knows that tribalism is essential for an organism longterm survival. Humans are just imaginative enough to want to transcend nature and reality.

To quote Cormac McCarthy, "There's no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous."
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> The entire point of security questions is that their answers are supposed to be things that are permanently stored in your memory, that you are physically incapable of forgetting because they are so ingrained. If you store these in a password manager, it is possible to lose them - and that is unacceptable.

With a password manager such as Lastpass or 1Password you only need one very strong password you as human can remember. The passwords it manages don't need to be human-rememberable. They can have as high entropy as allowed.

> Anything relying on tech (like a password manager) is a bad idea for the general public. The average person does not have multiple off-site backups to guarantee that the information is physically impossible to lose.

2FA of the strong password plus physical OTP (like YubiKey) with one backup key is more than suffice. Sure, its not 3 letter agency proof. They can easily break in your house and steal your backup key temporarily, whilst recording you typing in your password, or catching you on the go. But against most criminals (a much more common vector for the general public) this is going to work just fine.
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It is a 'winning strategy' only for the winners. We can just as well call it a 'losing strategy'. As the players become more intelligent, they are able to cooperate better and everyone wins, meaning cooperation is even 'more winning'. That is, unless your intentions here are something like eugenics.
The most notable information here is the dumpster diving at airports .. and what it can get you. Namely - people discarding their airline passes at airports. "Barcodes can also be found on “forgotten” boarding passes in aircraft or other locations." ... holy shit, I never thought about that ... wow.
>The difference in mood is massive.

What are two adjectives that describe your previous mood, and two that describe your current one?
To your [2] - you can run it, but legibility is kind of a problem. Also, the next Bluetooth keyboard I find that supports remapping Caps Lock to Control will be the first.
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There are incentives to fix it. Some of us pay for things rather than have ad supported content, and as a result see far fewer adverts than ever before. Music, TV and news are now paid for and no adverts are seen (with an ad blocker sorting the rest rather than paying the content providers directly sadly).
> Why does almost every cultural on Earth, even relatively secular ones, repress activities that bring pleasure and life, but promote violence and death?

In a pre-modern society, reproduction has to be controlled sociologically because it can’t be controlled technologically. And violence is how you do everything from get your food tonprotecting yourself from people trying to take your resources.
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Gruber also stopped development on markdown.pl a long time ago. I suspect the worthwhile innovations made by Org reimplementers would very quickly become part of org-mode as well.
I am a huge proponent of keeping it simple for websites. If you can achieve the same branding with less tooling then that is ace, and it is what I try to do. Less complexity means it's more maintainable and normally quicker to build.

But it will need to be the same experience that the client asked for. Coke is never going to ask you for a react website with webpack tooling and a lambda backend, they are going to come to you with some grand vision of an application that their marketing team imagined in the shower months ago and has been workshopped into a mess. You may or may not be able to deliver that with simple HTML and CSS.

I am also keen for the web to move toward some kind of stability in technology as well, the churn and wheel reinvention factory that we currently have is creating a bit of a mess but I don't think it's worth throwing the web away just yet.
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Agreed, I learned Elm a year ago and haven’t looked back. Love being able to dismiss all other frontend web talk without a second thought.
That's definitely an issue.

Regarding your second point, it's not a matter of the level of tribalism staying the same vs completely eliminating it. I think the overall levels have been reduced over the centuries, and there are people out there that are pretty non-tribalistic in outlook.
This is a straw man article. We don't have an anger problem, neither had the ancient greek one. We have a problem with the distribution of wealth and this is where the anger comes from.

Start taxing the rich a bit more, stop wasting the tax payers money on wars that cannot be won and the anger will go away. Anger always has a cause. Listen and find the cause for the anger. Then fix the cause, but don't point the finger at anger.
The Javascript security model breaks down in the case of file:///, no overflows are required. The security you get today is more flimsy than you probably think. And it used to be far worse.
This is tangentially similar to a product a company I consulted at started, and after they were sued, an employee left to partner with another guy who created one exactly like this.

I didn't physically work on the one that was made at the company I was consulting for, but I provided feedback. The way that they built it was in violation of all sorts of laws, and eventually they were sued for it [1].

The other one which was exactly like this has since expanded into custom review app development for clients, texting directly to the manager who can respond right then, and iPad-based kiosks for polling and feedback. They are pretty big players now, but they started exactly like you did, with a text message after checkout with a link to a feedback survey, and when they received the feedback, they routed it exactly the same.

This is an industry that is filling up, but there is still plenty of opportunity if you work hard and find a unique angle to work. Good luck!

1: https://www.edmunds.com/about/press/edmundscom-reaches-settl...
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> your markup without the blank lines and

That's because I like that and only I am using that.

If it's a matter of team collaboration, certain ground rules can be set to resolve that.. like use blank lines after headings. You might be surprised but there's actually an Org mode setting in Emacs which can be configured to set how many blank lines to auto-insert after each heading -- I set that to zero.

> the fact that headings look like bullets to me make it harder to follow.

If you start using Org, it won't look like that. In fact, I use hyphens for list items in Markdown too as they work there too, so there is not too much context switching as I switch between Org and Markdown. I went through a lot of that as I was developing the ox-hugo package :)

Also in Org, lines starting with "# " are comments, which intuitively are comments in many languages. Markdown doesn't have comment syntax! I need to do stuff like below to fake a comment in Markdown:

[//]: # "comment"

So the "headings look like bullets issue" will wear off once you start using Org, and then you wish Markdown also did the same :)
"As an iOS developer" is another way of saying "I can't see past the walls of Apple's walled garden".

Seriously, the reactive frameworks (any really: React/VueJS/Preact/...) used in tandem with a separate state container (Redux, Vuex...) is a much better "thought out" approach to application programming than anything in the Cocoa/Swift world.
Wow, what an awesome read.

This guy spent 40 years of his life going from janitor to branch manager at McDonalds.

He saved up 250k, and then Wells Fargo sold him an investment that (somehow) lost 100% of its value in 2008.

He and his partner then bought an RV and attempted to live off of $1,100 dollars in social security payments.

Which I thought sounded doable, but they apparently really like to work, so they now work entry level jobs at Amazon.

Color me confused and jaded.

It's an absolute shame that Wells Fargo conned this guy into an investment that took this guy's nest egg of 250k! I mean buyer beware and all, but the guy lost 40 years of savings!

There's no reason he should be working at Amazon right now, and neither should his partner who also lost 200k! They should be sitting on the beach enjoying their golden years, not begging for a factory floor job.
> How many hacks, data breaches, and privacy violations does it take for consumers to start giving a shit?

There's a quote by Douglas Adams pops up in my mind whenever the subject comes up:

> Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

This is the only explanation there can be for this. Every time there's a breach somewhere (of which there obviously are plenty), there's a big outrage. But those who should go "oh, could that happen to us, too?" choose to ignore it, usually with hand-waving explications of how the other guys were obvious idiots and why the whole thing doesn't apply to them.

This obviously goes for consumers and producers.
> Both can be true simultaneously. Precision ads can be immoral and creepy and still not actually work.

And both are true in the cases people most often complain about. I buy a camera and then get to see ads for cameras everywhere. That's both precise and completely ineffective. Basically, the smarts are is in the targeting side, the dumbness is in choosing what ad to show...
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Correct me if I'm wrong: doesn't the CET 2.0 proposal changes to paging entries (SSS bit 60) conflict with PKRU protection keys index bits (PK 62:59)? It seems like they might want to update the proposal again to use bit 58 for SSS instead of 60.
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Of course I am aware of that :)

I did my "market study" before I started investing time for this project. I have a page on ox-hugo Documentation site (the first link in my original comment) that talks in detail why I needed to have a ox-hugo: https://ox-hugo.netlify.com/doc/why-ox-hugo/
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> Eventually she seemed to start avoiding me, and then went psycho and left the organization.

I often think that people say that someone is "psycho" when the person is actually just someone stupid who ended up with some power, perhaps through physical attractiveness, or through simple dishonesty, or maybe even both. Was that woman less intelligent than you? Was she not very intelligent to begin with? I think it's actually more helpful and more accurate for people to replace a psychoanalytic view of others, with a straightfoward smart-or-stupid view, and of course that is to be done in context. It's important not to overthink things. A professional chef may think I'm "crazy" for how inefficiently and poorly I cook my food every day, but actually I'm just stupid at it.
Oh, but we do have an anger problem these days. People are not angry because they carefully examined their situation and decided it's caused by deep wealth inequality. People are angry because a) things are bad, b) media feeds them outrage-inducing bullshit, and c) they don't even verify any of that, but get angry.

That is, people's anger is often completely disconnected from reality.
I repeat the question, because it seems that you have not understood it.

If a 70% of the population of a territory (and I'm not talking about Catalonia, because there is no majority for independence) wants to secede, what the State should do?