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In these cases, please please don’t click unsubscribe. Just mark as spam. Even if gmail helpfully offers to unsubscribe for you: resist the temptation. It puts the incentives in the right place. It’s the only way to fight this, and it’s a damn good one.

I urge everyone to stop clicking unsubscribe, ever, unless you explicitly subscribed to something. [edit: Even that automatically enabled “subscribe to our mailing list” nonsense, or “click this to not subscribe”, or whatever stupid games they play on us these days. No. Don’t let them joke you around.]

Not saying you didn’t, just wanted to take this opportunity for a cheeky PSA :)

Ironically, conditioning people to respect the unsubscribe button has, probably, insidiously led to more spam making it into people’s inboxes than anything else in recent memory.

[edit: to answer the Why not both? ] Because incentives makes our world go around. Make no mistake: They don’t give a damn about you or your inbox and will do anything for those sweet sweet engagement and conversion metrics. Unsubscribe makes them feel the pain (this is the jncentive), and it helps them not take your inbox for granted.

Making them eat bad spam rep score is the only weapon we have, to make them treat our inbox with respect. Use it.
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Downvoting for trying to help is kind of petty though
And nothing from Apple yet, right? Apparently, engineers are hard at work releasing a fix, so there should be known workarounds. Or at least it’s known to them what is actually causing the issue. Instead, we have hordes of people resetting their iPhones, adjusting dates and times, fiddling with notification settings and generally stumbling in the dark.

What would hurt them more, I wonder: publicly admitting that there is an issue (on a massive scale) and listing workarounds, or keeping total radio silence and then publishing a “whoopsies, we screwed up” after the fix is ready. All the while all their support centers are drowning in calls.
My mom has moved plenty of times in her life. It's not like moving is a crazy abnormality—tons of people move when they retire.
No it doesn’t. This is a belief without any merit whatsoever. There is approximately zero chance that Apple are deliberately causing iPhone batteries to drain faster so that people will buy new iPhones.
>publishing your source code does make it a lot easier for outsiders to audit your software, but how many people actually do?

I would say very, very few people in the world read random source code looking for bugs. Finding hidden bugs requires active use like a QA person would do. This has probably already been done on any major FOSS software, so any remaining bugs would be unbelievably hard to find, and very unlikely by just reading source code.

I mean it sounds good as a theory, but it also sounds like, "If I publish my book online for free, lots of people on the internet will read it."
>> You're overthinking this. This is a medical profession in its early stages, but it does do actual research on its methods (see e.g. TFA) and it does produce practitioners who produce better average results than zero intervention.

Therapists are NOT medical professionals. There is research, but as we've seen in recent years, most of it is crap - see articles on p-values and meta analysis. The do produce some practitioners who produce better average results than zero intervention. They have also documented (if you believe their research) that some people are made worse by therapists. They seem to have a selection bias in their results too, anyone who dropped out is not included in results.

It can help. I've seen it help people. But there is no overthinking the selection of a therapist, they are not all the same by a long shot. Nor is their training and preferred modality of "treatment" the same - in fact some are contraindicated for certain conditions by some.
That's basically how the NFL coonbine works
"Javascript: The Good Parts" is often shown as an example of just how bad JavaScript is because it's almost like a pocket edition.
Nice collection. I'm jealous. I missed out on the 15C re-release when it was available. I don't really have a use for it, but I really did want one.

I've got a couple of 12Cs and an 11C. I use them occasionally, whenever I need to do some maths that's not complicated enough to warrant firing up Excel but too much for my feeble mental maths.
If that is true, there should exist cards that let you load other assets on them to cover the cost of spending. Like a card that sells your Google stock to cover the cost of your beer. The ability to sell capital assets without paying tax should make these cards very popular.

If these cards do not exist or are not popular, I would take that as evidence that selling a capital asset is taxable, whether or not it was triggered by a card purchase.
What apps still support iOS 6 to this date? Several websites are probably also broken on Safari on iOS 6... If so, what's the difference between running this version and just using a feature phone?
It is more complicated, like I said. It's not a linear valuation, meaning a 1500 sq. foot house won't be 1/2 the cost as a 3000 sq. foot house in the same neighborhood, but it will be lower and push down the average home value.

If houses in a neighborhood were sold strictly on a price / sq. foot basis, there probably wouldn't be much devaluation, in fact you would probably get an increase valuation based the costs incurred to just build a house without regards to sq footage. (meaning the first $125K is the first 1000 sq feet and the 2nd 1000 is only $75K more.
Neither are the oligarchs in America.
Why should a barber, mechanic or whatever be expected to read books about programming? Your fix makes the sentence easier to read, but only with a trade-off
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What’s a good way of learning statistics for someone who is more into pure mathematics?

I always avoided stats as much as possible because I found the classes extremely un-rigorous. I couldn’t get to grips with what the notation really meant, and there seemed to be a lot of hand waving on the way to results.

I’m not doubting that stats is rigorous, just my exposure to it so far hasn’t been.
Then move somewhere else with their millions in appreciated value. There are plenty of places in the country where you could buy a beautiful home with gardens, space, easy parking, low traffic, and kids playing in the street for 1/5 the cost of the Bay.
I think most people here have the opposite experience, they grew up in suburbia and like to hate it now and love the city with its restaurants, night life, public transport. The grass is greener type thing.

I also grew up in the city, had loud neighbors, flooding us, elevators full of piss, sometimes didn't work and had to climb stairs 9 floors up. Public transport was fun and great, unless people step on your toes or there are pickpockets and such. For all the hate suburbia gets here, I'll pay extra for my house and a lawn.
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The name is clearly just `jrnl`: https://github.com/maebert/jrnl
Prediction: you vote GOP, yet do not consider the support you get from the government in terms a mortgage interest deduction, FHA loan eligibility of people who could buy your house propping your house value up, nor in fact how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (govt supported) actions makes it possible for you to rely on a fixed 30 year rate for your mortgage. Oh no, you did it all by yourself.
And if they move to a rural area with more room, but a decade down the line people start immigrating there en masse and building town homes all over the place, reshaping the community to fit their (the new peoples') needs rather than adapt to the existing community?
1) They clearly are urban areas today, no matter how intensely you want to ignore that reality.

2) The Valley used to be perfect for single-family houses and peach-tree orchards or whatever. And at one point in very recent history the island of Manhattan was a dense forest.

Who cares?

Neither fact has literally anything to do with the maximally beneficial housing and zoning policies we should be pursuing in those places today.
Are clients are hiring you as a team of one? If so, it’s easy to see you as replaceable. If you assemble a team then you get to work on more interesting and longer-term projects.

Either you fit yourself into the structure of someone else’s business, or you’re in business. If you’re in business, there’s no lack of diversity in what you spend your time doing. That’s what I mean by entrepreneurship, not “SV startup entrepreneurship”.
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Run a professional services biz, one aspect is job and academic entrance interview coaching. Skype is becoming increasingly less reliable and stable. I don't want to rely only on Wechat Vid anymore for a lot of reasons including privacy concerns. Zoom, I am told only runs for 45 minutes for the free version. Best case, I don't want clients to have to d'load any software. Some form of embedded encryption would be ideal. Any affordable and/or free services?
I agree. A city can grow too much, similarly to how startups can grow too much and end up wasting a lot of resources and having to cut staff. The Bay Area growing indefinitely is not necessarily good for the Bay Area.
I don't believe prop 13 allows decreasing the assessed value due to depreciation, although I could be mistaken. From what I understand (and is the case with my personally owned home) the assessed tax value of the property is the sale price and then goes up a max of 2% per year or the inflation rate.
Reminds me of the problem that uses Graham's number, where the lower bound shifted from 6 to 11 to 13, and the upper bound is a number that exceeds the bounds of up arrow notation.
Yea, the authorities will confiscate the stolen bill and use it as evidence, and then give it back to the original owner.
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You are agreeing with the comment you're replying to. He/she was saying that the defaults being what they are do not make the statement that you need physical access any less inaccurate.
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Wasn’t there a ruling that they also can’t force you to give your passcode, but they can force you to use Touch ID?
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Marking a single email as spam doesn't do much. Marking an email as spam then continuing to receive it is weighted much higher.
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Maybe this[1] one? Hit enter 30 times to get a root initramfs on encrypted, Debian based distros.

My laptop was vulnerable to this one for quite a while.
[1] http://hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2016-4484/CVE-2016-4484_cryptsetu...
Fascinating. Now, that's what I call Engineering. And +1 to the author for using the metric system :)
It's a cycle. I grew up in the suburbs, swore against ever living in that kind of environment again when I went to college. After college and spending 4 years in New York and having a kid, I long for the suburbs again.
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For the tones, I recommend this apps section on the tones, after I went through it (its only one page with all tones next to each other) it clicked for me. Never really had issues since then. https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/walen-thai/id733242683?mt=8

But I really recommend learning to read. I started with literally learning the consonants names (ด = 'do dek'). Then things kind of just naturally follows.

Actually I'm on the opposite. Maybe the language is hard, but when you learn it step by step it feels very easy, since the next piece is just another step.

Most sites wants you to learn "5 consonants, 4 vowels, a few rules, 1 tone" at first. All this does is to make it more confusing IMO. Just learn all 44 consonants, and once you have them down, learn all vowels. Etc.
You are both right. Having the code helps the kind of testing you’re talking about. Also static analysis.
Yeah... let's also not forget that quaterion multiplication is noncommutative (AB≠︎B A), which makes theem an absolute pain to work with. This is why it made sense to reformulate them from Maxwell’s two to ythe then-prevailing twenty. Then they got reformulated in terms of 3-vector calculus (by Heavside, whose existence and achievements I was ignorant of until just a few hours ago, courtesy of Hacker News).
Very likely there won't be humans in the next 100 to 500 years, assuming any reasonable rate of progress. Humans will quickly change themselves biologically, technologically, we are going transhuman.
Uh, Tokyo?
> This is not the modal employee,

Is this a misuse of the word "modal"? If not, could someone please explain this definition to me? From context, I'm guessing the author means "typical" perhaps?
You are correct. All things with even the vaguest hint of security and safety were lumped there. Antifraud, monitoring who touches which logs, being the sole provider of electronic evidence in all investigations, infosec, competitive information, investigating rapes, putting listening devices into the uber app .....very unorthodox.
>static analysis

Doesn't really change the equation though. That just allows people to not read it faster using automation. :)
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they don't forward attachments, but spamgourmet is not meant for typical use.
Interestingly, this is what NIMBY used to mean (i.e. we all agree there should be industry/prisons/landfills/etc, just please not near me).

But this is something totally different.

This is just urban incumbents opposing further urban developments in their neighborhoods on the grounds that they’ve got theirs and there’s no upside to making it any easier for other people to move there, too.

This isn’t about keeping the oil refinery out. This is about keeping other people out.

That’s a fundamentally different thing. NIMBY isn’t even the right word for it.
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It seems fixed, thanks for the quick turnaround.
This is brilliant on Yelp's part. Surprised a POS system didn't already do this, but I guess they have less to gain. I wonder what % of US consumers max out their data plans in a month - that would give you an idea of what adoption might look like.
Or you could just find a cheaper place to live.
Both Voyagers are still collecting magnetic/plasma field and radiation data (only Voyager 1 is in interstellar space, Voyager 2 hasn't made it yet). Mostly they are measuring the outer edges of the Sun's magnetosphere as it interacts with interstellar space, and it's a dynamic phenomenon so the data is actually more interesting than you might imagine. Several research papers a year continue to come out of the missions.
This is the key point. It’s too soon, the jury is still out on the new ceo... but these are encouraging signs. We’ll see in time, because at the end of the day the only real thing that matters is that the culture actually does reform, all while not wrecking the business (ideally actually improving it). That’s a result that will always take longer than 21 short days...

It’s such a difficult challenge to change a company culture at a whale of a company like this one.
This is what zoning should be for. When you buy a house for a million dollars you need to spend half day or so to look at the zoning of the area and then you have an idea of what is allowed to be built. If you have and empty lot next to you and it is zoned for up to a 6 story apartment building, then when someone wants to build a 6 story apartment building on that lot, they should be able to. If someone is getting a zoning change, that is very different.

In the Bay Area somehow we have moved to where people somehow have power to stop building even when the building meets the current zoning laws. This really needs to change. There is some movement at the state level to help with this problem and I hope they pass legislation that, if your building plan is withing zoning laws, you get to build it.
Maybe you should look up that word before you throw it around.
"Shared source"?
You changed the rules after you got yours. Good for you.
If you are truly interested in the moral and economic arguments around this topic, i strongly recommend Progress and Poverty from henry george from before the 1900's.

With that in your arsenal you understand that this is a political issue.
Way to cherry pick. Usually it’s under $60 from the South Bay to SFO on either service, and I flew about 40 times last year.
Our democratically elected legislators make and change the rules. It's not clear to me why they should preserve the value of an asset for a few people just because the asset might go down. Especially if there's a high cost to people who don't own similar assets.

Can you help me understand why that's a good idea?
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No. Censoring hate speech by banning people who are verbally assaulting others (in violation of Terms of Service that they agreed to) is a very different concern than requiring common carriers to equally prioritize bits.

If we extend "you must allow people to verbally assault others (because free speech applies to the government)" to TV and radio, what do we end up with?

Note that the FCC fines non-cable TV (broadcast radio and TV) for cursing on air. See "Obscene, Indecent and Profane Broadcasts" https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/obscene-indecent-and-pr...

How can you ask social media companies to do something about fake news (the vast majority of which served to elect the current administration (which nominated this FCC chairman)) while also lambasting them for upholding their commitment to providing a hate-free experience for net citizens and paying advertisers?

"Open Internet": No blocking. No throttling. No paid prioritization.

It would be easier for us to understand the "Open Internet" rules if the proposed "Restoring Internet Freedom" page wasn't crudely pasted over (redirected to from) the page describing the current Open Internet rules.
www.fcc.gov/general/open-internet (current policy) now redirects to www.fcc.gov/restoring-internet-freedom (proposed policy).

ISPs blocking, throttling, or paid-prioritizing Twitter, Netflix, Fox, or CNN for everyone is a different concern than responding to individuals who are threatening others with hate speech.

The current policy ("Open Internet") means that you can use the bandwidth cap that you pay for for whatever legal content you please.

The proposed policy ("Restoring Internet Freedom") means that internet businesses will need to pay every ISP in order to not be slower than the big guys who can afford to pay-to-play (~"payola").
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Sorry I ninja edited above. I see your point upon reflection - we’re talking about other dimensions of open source (eg. popular and trusted), not the availability of the code.
> Charge more. Charge more still. Go on.

I find this advice unhelpful. In the past, when I was making $23/hour as a web developer, people would occasionally ask to hire me for freelance work. I've given various answers, from $30 to $100, and haven't had any takers yet. The only freelance work I've actually done so far was when I said, "what do you think it's worth?" and my friend said, "I dunno, 60?" It was for about an hour of work so I said yeah, but I had already done the work by that point anyway.

$100/hour seems like the right amount to me, since my company was billing me out at $116. But no one else thinks so. I'm pretty sure there's more to it than just "charge more".
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> The publishing situation is so bleak ...

And yet we cheer at every progress made in Web technology.
I think the state did prove it.

For certain cases, you don't have a right to trial by jury, such as bail revocation. And often it is decided on a preponderance of the evidence standard.

I don't know the specifics of bail revocation case law, but there are worse known cases, like contempt of court. Martin Armstrong was held for years, the All Writs act is being use as an anti-encryption measure, etc.
This is a good idea.

I took time off when my son was born, working part time so my wife could go back to work part time too.

It’s a very isolating experience. I’d also point out it can be doubly so for men doing it as if you go to a “parents group” all the mothers look at you as though you should be working.

So there’s another market for you.
It’s been a bad week for apple.

Before the next spate of “what happened to quality at Apple” articles come out... I would love to know objectively if there are actually more problems or if it’s just bigger impact or an unfortunate run of problems (happens...).
If a generic programmable analog computer -like the one described in the article- can have power consumption similar to a custom-made digital circuit, you are still gaining something.