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> The parallels with Turkey’s mercurial president Erdoğan seem obvious.

The invariant remains the desire of the West to insure the Turks are down, and that the region is destablized. The three historic reasons (for the West) remain: Russia, Oil, and Asia trade routes. Given these invariants and historic realities of the region, any sensible wanna-be region native unifier will aim for the same "itihad" (Unity) "-i" (of) Muslims. Is this rocket science? No, it is not.

So to correct the typically myopic view of the region per European (cum West) regarding Turkey, since Western goals and designs for the region have NOT changed in the past 150+ years, so to the reaction from the region's (semi-)indepdentent regimes and/or rulers.

(You may have a clue per above, regarding the very ambitious gambit of the crown prince of the Arabian peninsula minus the "semi-independent" part.)

> cult of personality

Is that like the cult of personality of the Donald the MAGA? Or before that, the Obama the savior?

Why is it that Western press always needs to include a "tyrant", "mercurial", "<insert put down here>" when mentioning the target regions' leaders? Are Western leaders men and women of worth? (Insert chuckle here.)

> the Sultan's nose

It is called 'prestige'. Every state has prestige sensitivities since that is one pillar of maintaining power.

For example, a "foreign agent" news agency, RT, has been pointing out the symbolic 'big nose of the Western governments', and oh boy, they are not amused in the West. See, it is all very "parallel" to what goes on elsewhere.

Nothing to see here, really, except Oil, strategic geography, and containing the maybe-maybenot-European power called Russia.
> The gist of my argument goes like this:
> 1) Passion is a critical component of job satisfaction and overall happiness. However...

> 2) Just because you’re passionate about something, doesn’t mean you won’t suck at it. Which means...

> 3) Following your passion doesn’t always lead to lasting happiness or true job satisfaction. Ergo, my advice to graduates is...

> 4) "NEVER follow your passion, but ALWAYS bring it with you."

It's a shame it was censored. I could have used that advice. I've been considering a career transition into the trades, anyway.
Nice discussion, but the central call to action -- challenging technically ignorant authoritarian extremists in the legislature like McConnell and Feinstein to do something horrible, trusting that they truly won't do it at the end of the day because uhhh their "desire to do the right thing?" -- this is naive tech ideology at work. Realistically, the golden key law is totally feasible, politically viable, and should scare all of us. It would not be used to ban all encryption (which is impossible) but rather to target undesirables selectively and to ensure that either every person's every communication is recorded forever by the government so that they can be prosecuted for their speech later at will, or that they are put on a list of criminals for using banned encryption, so that they can be prosecuted later at will.

No tech person should ever breathe a word of support for this, especially not to play a psychotic game of chicken with people who would permanently disable their brakes in an instant if it would fire up their base for a news cycle.
That’s not the point at all. For example, look how many gamers complained about the Witcher DLC. What bothers players is day-1-DLC and non-cosmetic loot boxes in paid games.
Like animal whiskers still look.
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The "phantom reference": How a made-up article got almost 400 citations (2017)
I agree, a "shared" period where everyone helps is useful, and developers should help all their team members. The other day I cleared my bugs and offered to help our QA lead do his testing, he was hugely bottlenecked and the most important person on the project at the moment.
How do you get that from OP's post? OP specifically said it's about stuff `that is (..) impossible/extra tedious to achieve in regular play to bait the whales`.
I'm more excited about the prospects of running V8 inside ChakraCore inside Quantum.
And thankfully Vimperator is getting ported to: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tridactyl-vim...

Very basic functionality already works.
Ha, I don't know if I could handle that. Would be at the top of my list of reasons to look for another job.
The campaign is 5-8 hours [1]. Perhaps in the long run most of a player's currency would come from multiplayer, initially a large chunk would have come through the campaign.

[1] https://www.gamespot.com/articles/star-wars-battlefront-2s-c...
Most publishers and developers do fine with reasonable microtransactions, DLC, season passes and so on. It's just EA that makes it extra inhuman in trying to squeeze out the last cent out of everyone (including bleeding out their studios), which in turn makes them so unpopular for developers/non-casual gamers.
You could try using a content blocker like uBlock Origin and subscribe to my annoyances filter list[1] - I attempt to block (without breaking site functionality) annoying web behavior like this automatically.

[1] https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances
I believe Santosh83 means even if you leave it on, it will be anonymized performance data
Have it on my tablet that's not even Mediatek or Qualcomm, but instead Allwinner A33... Scary. I think I should throw it away. Or, since it comes pre-rooted and in engineer build mode instead of userdebug or prod, I think I just might uninstall the APK from the shell and sleep well tonight.
Do they have to start making the mask after obtaining the phone?
> with no end in sight

Except an already developed patch and proposal that needs some time from the main devs to be reviewed. For a long time they were very busy making FF bearable for 90% of the users. Now that it's released we'll see if this issue is as stuck as you imply.
It looks really great on mobile though.
Sure, but now you're describing a massive boycott and that simply isn't going to happen. Most people just don't care all that much. They'll buy the game, put in their ~20 hours, and move on. Then you have the next group which will keep playing, but still doesn't care very much about the drama over on reddit and the forums. The issue simply isn't big enough to get e.g. 1M people to decide not to buy.
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> I am consistently blown away at the level of garbage Android users are expected to deal with on a regular basis.

My girlfriend uses an iPhone; I am consistently blown away by the amount of garbage she's expected to deal with on a regular basis. When she changes to another app, our video chats go dark; there's no Termux or GNURoot equivalent (that I'm aware of); tapping doesn't move the cursor but instead selects words (I think that's it); the mail app is hellaciously bad; she's stuck using Safari and seeing ads. So, so many ads. Ads everywhere. I never see ads on my phone, but on hers the Internet is nothing but ads as far as the eye can see.

The sad fact is that the mobile phone ecosystem in general is full of garbage. Neither Android nor iOS is exempt. But at least with Android I have freedom.

> How many times with an iPhone have I been expected to install a custom OS to get around a user-hostile feature like I saw about fifty times in the 1 billion outdated androids thread? Zero times.

That's because with an iPhone there are no custom OSes and you're stuck with Apple's user-hostile features.
My thought is either way AGI is impossible.

If we are entirely math, it seems unlikely the mind can understand itself. I.e. there is minimal program that represents the mind, and if the mind understood itself, then it'd contain a compression of itself, which is this minimal program. However, now the minimal program representing the mind containing the mind (MCtM) is bigger, so the MCtM does not contain itself. A rebuttal is that perhaps there is a fixed point where the size does not keep increasing.

If there is something non-mathy about the mind, then of course it cannot be captured (entirely) as a mathematical equation.
This would imply religious concepts such as the soul are true, but if we can detect the non-mathy aspect then it is still scientific. We'd have a scientific religion.
For someone on a Javascript stack, I highly recommend combining a requester (e.g., "request" or "axios") with Cheerio, a server-side jQuery clone. Having a familiar, well-known interface for selection helps a lot.

We use this stack at WrapAPI (https://wrapapi.com), which we highly recommend as a tool to turn webpages into APIs. It doesn't completely do all the scraping (you still need to write a script), but it does make turning a HTML page into a JSON structure much easier.
Obviously the richer or more powerful, or more credentialed one, right? (Status quo)

/s
Interesting link, thanks. It is a numbers game really and a logical one too; why spend time where you have to tread carefully when you can filter out the savvy targets.
Thanks for the story. Those are the sort of things I'm interested in hearing about. Could you foresee a situation where you might ever donate $100 or more to such a streamer?
Argh, it dropped one feature that I loved: clicking on current tab does a ctrl tab.
They can't take into account prior health conditions or biomarkers, including novel biomarkers measured on wearables.

Yet.
Yup, and making the game pay to win (as opposed to offering only cosmetic items for sale) means the whales are going to come out in full force. It really is gambling and I think it should be treated as such.
This seems rather odd to me. The article hammers on about manufacturing jobs while it has been reported that manufacturing ethos in other countries is better than the USA making it a really bad choice to manufacture there. It costs more, and you get less.

At the same time, this seems to be suggesting that anyone could be doing a trade school type of education instead of college, while to me it seems that is is the lower entry into any form of education. If college equals trade school, then college in the USA needs to up it's game.

Learning a trade is only useful up to a point. As others have posted, there is no point in having 100 million machinists all being very capable of re-manufacturing tower crane gearboxes. Even a million would not make any sense. There is also a limit to what you can do with your time. While you don't need to be a millionaire to be happy, the limit to what you can earn is comparatively low when you are working at the practical side of things vs. what steering/planning/administrating and up can earn.

This does not mean that trade school is by definition 'stupid' and if you don't go to college or university (or is that the same in the USA?) you are therefore not smart, but it does limit your capabilities, at least in terms of growth. Now, if you are comfortable with a trade, if it gets you what you want, there would be no point in going to college. At the same time, if college is too hard, and learning beyond basic literacy and mathematics is not an option, you might be stuck at trade level.

One of the bigger problems with 'trade' or 'labour' type of skill is that it often is very limited in abstracted transferrable knowlegde. What if the way some thing are done are replaced. Say you are very good at cleaning chimneys, that's great, but nobody needs your skills. Or what if you are very good at shining shoes. Or driving horse carriages. Or digging holes and putting down outhouses. This is the same for most of the current trade type of work, it is only useful as long as people need you, and when they don't you can't really go do something else because you don't have the theory behind what you were doing to re-implement it somewhere else.
I watch hearthstone streams and tournaments pretty frequently, and I used to watch a lot of starcraft. It was 80% so I can watch people that are better than me at the game and pick up strategies, and like 20% entertainment.
> College is free, hospitals and medicine at those hospitals is free

This labeling of public or subsidized services as "free" always bothered me. They aren't free. The citizens are just paying for it indirectly.

> So people want to have the same socialist services as people enjoy in France without the tax rate

Venezuela was experiencing food shortages and other issues well before oil prices crashed. Even when they still had plenty of money to bandaid these issues the cracks in the system were already very apparent.

The problems were largely a result of the fundamental flaws of a centrally controlled economy and the corruption that system opens the door to, not necessarily their ability to pay for it all.

For example, Venezuela wanted to make food much cheaper so the poor can afford it easier, so they created price controls. But historically price controls have repeatedly resulted in the opposite happening with more expensive food and shortages. Venezuela was no different.

There are plenty of reasons why, one big one is that no country produces all of their own food domestically, they have to import it, and no country is going to sell to Venezuela when they can go to Brazil or Colombia and make more money. So the government has to operate as a middleman and pay the cost difference to keep imports coming in. But this is easier said than done, as it involves plenty of guesswork and projections and micromanagement that wouldn't otherwise be there in a normal market.

It also highly disincentives local businesses from operating efficiently as their margins were gutted and they can no longer compete by winning over customers with better quality products or variety. So Venezuela started to nationalize these businesses and reduced the variety of food available to make managing it centrally easier. People were flooding across the border to Colombia to buy the products they can no longer find in Venezuela.

The same issues happened in plenty of other industries they got involved with, after Chavez announced capitalism was a dead old ideology.

Wikipedia has a good overview: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Economy_of_Venezuela
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> Just like they control the sale of explosives, for public security, they can also require Microsoft, Apple and Google to put in a master-key. And I don't see a problem with that.

The problem is that there's no good way to control that master key. What do you do with it? Lock it on an encrypted USB drive in a fire proof safe bolted to the floor under the google headquarters?

That works until a police agency wants to use it. And then another.

How many people do you think you can reasonably give this key to before someone who isn't "supposed" to have it gets their hands on it?

What happens when a criminal gets his hands on the master key that unlocks every encryption made by apple, google and microsoft?
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I did a little web scraping project a few years ago using:

* cURL

* regex
I think this writer dreadfully underestimates just how little legislators know about complex subjects, and how unwilling to learn they are.
I also have the 3, agreed on points of quality but fragility.

Looking at the data usage for several of the connected apps (my list is identical to yours as far as I can tell), it looks like the only data they send is as
a subset of engineer mode (their individual data sent isn't shown, only the engineer mode total).

There's definitely some concerning names there. Double checking my recent screenshots, it seems at least that it couldn't be sending full images with as much data as it's used. It's likely that it's not sending data from all of these, but just accessing them at some point. The previous leak on here revealed that OnePlus could track when you opened and closed apps. Based on this, it could potentially track your location, when you take screenshots, when you make phone calls, and a host of other information.
>Considering university tuition at a private university for a single student per year is literally more expensive than the salary of a single low level professor,

Woah. Maybe a few freshmen should band together and hire some PhDs to assemble a fire-and-forget university. If you can pay for one professor per student, a class of 20 students who want to major in the same thing could easily fund 4-6 classes/year and have a factor of five left over to rent a nice room in the community center. Obviously this isn't about education anymore.
I often see this metaphor as misleading somehow..
In both cases ( birds and airplanes) the physical phenomenon is exactly the same: lifting effect, which is related to the Venturi effect.. that is: the speed and the pressure of a fluid (in this case, air) depends on the geometry of the components affecting the flow of the fluid.
Note that the wing geometry in airplanes is actually similar to the birds.. (of course, airplanes have it optimized by CFD for the speed and altitudes they flight)
Although the “flapping” in birds’ wings also alters it’s geometry the main function is to act as the engines...

So, yeah, we need to discover the basic physical principle of the brain.
It depends on what you call socialism. If it means the government owning everything, then Sweden isn't socialist, but if it means that people get what they need, then Sweden is pretty socialist. There's little poverty, very generous maternity leave, unemployment and disability payment, etc.

Socialism is a big tent with many different branches[0]. They share the goal that they want more economic equality and less inequality, but disagree on how to get there. Marx was a big proponent of State Socialism with the state owning everything, but he had a number of very vocal opponents like Bakunin, who claimed Marx's ideas would lead to tyranny.

Social democracy is a more moderate form of socialism that tries to mix socialism, democracy and capitalism. Libertarian socialism or anarchism considers the state to be the source of inequality, and wants to accomplish equality without a state or with a very different kind of state.

[0] mixed metaphor alert!
I've tried to think of something that hardware manufacturers could do to grant access to law enforcement and minimize abuse potential.

The best I could come up with would be to make decryption possible iff law enforcement had physical possession of the phone and if the act of decryption would make the phone unusable after (e.g. hardware access requires blowing some fusible links) and if the acquired data was still encrypted with a key that only the device manufacturer can provide.

I'd prefer to see no concessions made, but if decryption is going to be required, it should be expensive, require possession of the device and the cooperation of multiple parties.
As a Mozilla dev, I fully support the move to WebExtensions, but I also disagree with you.

Porting an add-on to a whole new architecture is lots of work. People who do this on their spare time, or small companies, or companies relying on contractors, may not have the time/resources/will to do it, even within two years. Also, in some case, the APIs are simply not available.

As for why I believe that the move to WebExtensions was necessary and could not be postponed further, I have written a few lines in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15695854
The bank should be entirely at fault here. If they looked at a student's request for a loan that said I'm taking a basket-weaving class at Cornell and I need $120k to attend then it's the bank's prerogative to look into the student's past performance, the rate of return for basket weavers, and the bias to which Cornell would prompt higher or lower returns in this area.

Just like any area of lending, it's on the bank to assess the risk of lending.

(And as an aside and I say down below: This is why I feel banks shouldn't be in this position.)
If it makes you feel better if I got a bunch of similar content sent to me from some mystery contact about a friend... I'd just assume they were a scammer and disregard it.

I wonder how many people who get sent that stuff really change their opinions about their friends, family, etc?

That's not to take anything from your experience, it sounds terrible.
i3 with Fedora runs flawlessly for me out of the box:
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I also have used Simple HTML Dom

One thing I haven't worked on yet is waiting for stuff to load if that is a problem. Otherwise you try to limit hitting a site either using sleep/CRON
A suggestion: wrap the bulk of content in platform-specific .cpp files, with pre-processor guards that'll check for platform. This should allow the library to be imported into other projects, simply by importing all .cpp files, and adding a path for header-includes. With that done, adding support for extra build systems becomes an optional, albeit nice-to-have addition, but by no means required.
Well, this is good opportunity to view The Emacs Handbook
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/
Even if this was law, it would be trivial to bypass. This type of law isn't just tyrannical, it's impossible to enforce. So, you're 100% absolutely right in saying it would be selectively enforced.

Every tech founder needs to standup to these attempts of control.
Not sure if this for personal gain or for charity but others are trying with the same idea too.
"This comes after Sidewalk Labs- a company owned by Google- has lately announced its intention to build a future city in Toronto, Canada. On the other side of the world, another smart city, called ‘Songdo’, has already been built in South Korea."
Source: https://www.arch2o.com/bill-gates-new-technological-city/
The author unfortunately concludes at the bottom that it's impossible to know what the foods really tasted like:

> These early modern foods are culinary false friends. They seem like they'd be the same as our familiar correlates. But we can't be sure that they tasted the same.

> Like so much in history, they're so close, yet just out of reach.

There are several reasons, probably the most important being that the cultivars of plants they used at the time were so different that we can't know what they tasted like. Heavy selection and breeding over the course of 500 years changes a lot.
Sooooo did you make a donation to the author so that they actually have a reason to spend some of their personal time on improving it beyond the initial porting effort? I mean, they have a life they need to live and time they need to allocate too, right? If it's and indispensable add-on, you can probably part with a few bucks to help get it improved to the level you need, rather than the level the author felt was appropriate.
I also have used Simple HTML Dom

One thing I haven't worked on yet is waiting for stuff to load if that is a problem. Otherwise you try to limit hitting a site either using sleep/CRON

What's also interesting is session tokens, one site I was able to hunt down the generated token bread crumb which JS produced, but it wasn't valid. Still had to visit the site, interesting.
Most people would describe government owned property as public because all citizens are allowed to have a say in the management of the property, not just some of them. This doesn't mean day to day management, but its ultimate distribution. In your proprietor/possessor dichotomy, the citizenry is the proprietor - the government, the possessor.

Not a good comparison. Manager and Owner would be a better example than lover and husband.
Given the benefits schools receive from being able to raise prices year after year with such limited downside, your idea makes a lot of sense.

It might be some way to impose some kind of responsibility onto the schools.
Are Quantum bugs in bugzilla or Github?
A good talk covering the issue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNDChDM1hEE