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> It's a splashy headline. "Sneaking" is unnecessary. Replace the word with "Hiring"

No, it's simply accurate:

> Most models’ contracts say they won’t exchange contact information with party guests, and that gets tougher to handle with grace when they’re legally bound to pretend they’re guests, too.

Legally bound ro pretend. Are booth and trade show girls also legally bound to pretend they're not hired? Of course not. So again, you claimed this isn't new, do and I asked you to back it up. Simply because I'm not aware of this practice having a long history and the article doesn't give info on that either. You pretend you know something, now show you know something. But instead you talk again only what nobody can prove or refute, the motivations of the author of the piece (nevermind how much of the article is straight quotes from people running such agencies, but I guess those just want to foster "outrage", too).

> Pointing out that the practice isn't new in the article doesn't mean the article itself transforms into something new and becomes a breath of fresh air.

Who said any of that? The article says the general practice to hire models isn't new, but the practice of faking it becoming common at such scale is. You seem to disagree, because you said how the article "makes it seem" as if any of it is new. That's implying it's not new. You have not managed to back up that implied claim so far, not in in the slightest. Talking about what nobody can prove or disprove, the motivations of the author, is like adding another level below the lowest level of disagreement: you're not even disagreeing with the tone, you're disagreeing with what you make up in your head.

> So yes, I'm saying this does perfectly fit into current events. It was designed to.

What does that even mean? That the journalist Jedi mind tricked these companies to hire atmosphere models at unprecedented levels so they can write about it? If you get upset at the word "sneaking" in this context, like it's some solar system sized alien mothership of clickbait, you're not making a point, you're designing a straw man. Look no further for "design".
At the time it was a joint effort between StackExchange, the USPTO and the Google Patent Search team.

I just spend a couple of minutes to see when the USPTO gave up but couldn’t find anything. Maybe someone here knows?
I don't understand why this is such a big deal to people. Unless Amazon gets a supeana they are not going to offer up anything to the feds. If you do something that would warrant a supeana maybe you should keep Alexa out of your home, and stop using your phone.
What makes you think that? Japanese is just a normal language. You have to study vocabulary and grammar and interact enough with native speakers to learn expressions. The writing system and the lack of cognates makes it harder for an English speaker than, say, Swedish, but there is no reason to believe that you can't ever reach full professional proficiency.
I would rank Taiwan higher than Japan. And in terms of leaving things without them being stolen, singapore higher than japan.

Tokyo people are very fake in their courteousness. Japan is only amazing when you leave Tokyo.
I hope someday the risks from radiation will be evaluated on equal par with other risks of a modern society and nuclear power options will be viable again. After decades of technology stagnation in rocket launch business, Musk and company has orbital class rockets landing back and the launch pad and is looking into nuclear rockets. I wish him luck.
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Just curious, anyone knows what's the advantage of starting up in Japan over say, Singapore? I know Singapore is predominantly English-speaking, you get all kinds of food and the laws are friendly to startups as well.

If I'm an English speaker in Japan, there is a huge language barrier, on top of which there are also other minor nuances to be paid attention to such as: high rent (depends on your area), finding Non-Japanese food and so forth.

Anyone with insights into the contrasts between both these countries, would love to hear :)
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Mainstream browsers didn't, but tabs were around on windows since 1997.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetCaptor
Science should foremost follow a moral and ethical attitude instead of just trying out what seems to be possible. Who gives them the right to destroy the brain of an ape for dubious activities. More empathy please if science should take us somewhere better.
Should go along well with this: https://diybookscanner.org

Be sure to check out the forum, lots of information.
In the US they are. The 4th amendment protects citizens from information like this from being disclosed without a court order. It is in Amazon's best interest to protect their users information, unless a court order tells them to disclose it.
Anyone speculating about what's going on with Bitcoin without at least mentioning Tether is out of the loop.
Yet it’s still much more open and free than iOS or Android, and it’s cross platform.

The web may not be perfect but there is nothing else like it.
This reminds me of the time that other industry being disrupted pressed pause on the disruptor.
Fire good, explosions bad?
> it is by default legal until we decide to make it illegal.

No, it's legal because of the Federal Arbitration Act passing in 1925. Prior to that, waiving of such rights "in advance by agreement" was explicitly disallowed, as SCOTUS determined in Insurance Company v. Morse (1874).
I worked at a software company that went through a "lean transformation" where management effectively idolized Toyota's production philosophy and wanted it used in each and every department.

While it helped our customer service department quite a bit as-is. The Toyota Way is definitely not something you can directly copy/paste and use in software development. Building a Camry 5000 times is not the same as shipping 5000 different software projects, so a lot of the analogies and examples you find in text don't always apply. I always found it amusing that you never see or hear examples used from the R&D and engineering of the actual automobiles -- just once all that hard stuff has been figured out and the manufacturing starts, all the principles are magically, easily applied.

To be honest, a lot of it is just "common sense" or things that just naturally transpire if you have a good team (especially if Agile dev and ideas like continuous delivery are used anyway.)

With the negatives aside, the problem-solving culture part of it is something that can really change things for the better and is worth researching. If nothing else, I found just being able to have a framework for solving problems as they come up is huge -- surely regardless of what a company does. For instance, integrating a standard to collectively write out the "Five Why's" and clearly define the problem statement when a team is gathered to discuss solutions to a problem can save so much time. How many times have you been dragged into a meeting, go through a huge discussion, design a solution, only to realize later that it wasn't really solving what needed to be solved?

Outside the culture aspects, it mostly just felt forced, frustrating devs, and really made things feel almost like a cargo cult waiting for the goodies to drop from the sky.
Imagine if you were half way through the puzzle when the cutover happened, and then you lost your entire puzzle state and the board was reset. For the die-hard crossword players, this would be devastating.
Exactly. But it's hard to make a living criticising bad play calls that go well. That's why I think there are so many bandwagon analysts.

Same with Atlanta passing while in field goal range last Super Bowl and getting a holding penalty and a sack that forced them to punt and gave the Patriots a chance to tie.
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Are you at kubecon this week?
I grew up in rural Ohio (left because of the horrid economy of the 00s) and have spent over the last decade in Southern California and the California Central Coast.

I would never move back to Ohio, but that is for very personal reasons. I'd actually absolutely love to get out of California right now, but my wife is working her dream job for her dream company and cannot work remotely -- So, we are here for the long haul, it would seem.

Columbus is an amazing city with some of the very best health care in the world in the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center. Cincinnati wasn't far off, either, at least back in the 00s, and Cleveland, as well, but don't quote me on that. How it _works_, I couldn't really comment on. My experiences with health care in the area are almost 2 decades old at this point, but my father is a very sick man who has managed, miraculously, to keep trucking (on pacemakers for the last 13 years) in no small part because of the access he has to great health care living somewhat close to Columbus.

Columbus, OH is also very gay friendly. Are there bigots there? Yes, of course. There are also bigots in every neighborhood I've lived in, in California, in Atlanta, GA, in San Antonio, TX, etc...

There is a lot of culture in the area, as well, and it can be had for affordable prices. The Columbus Symphony Orchestra is great and tickets are, I believe, still easy to come by (financially). There are plays. There are museums. There's only 1 professional sports team in Columbus, so it is utterly dominated by The Ohio State University sports, but Cleveland and Cincinnati both have MLB, NFL, and the Cavs are obviously in Cleveland. Pittsburgh is a great city to visit, has major sports teams, great food, lots to do, interesting history, and is only a 3 hour drive. The Bourbon Trail is nearby (though I've heard mixed reviews from friends). There are Frank Lloyd Wright homes that can be toured (Fallingwater and Kentuck Knob both being about 4-5 hours from Columbus, close to Pittsburgh -- I've taken my wife to both in the 3 times that we visited the area). Cedar Point and Lake Erie are fun in the summer.

> can I still get bulgogi and ramen?

Some of the best Korean food I've ever had in my life was in the middle of Georgia, for what it's worth, and I now live in Irvine, CA and eat Korean at least once every week. It's very easy to discount the places in the middle of the United States without ever having been to them. And I'd encourage you to visit some of these places. I spent quite a bit of time in Nashville and Memphis and Raleigh and Savannah for work and loved my time in each of those cities. I have friends working in Nashville today and they're always droning on about how much they love it. I've been to Austin, TX, and it's a fun town, too, but I'll never live in Texas again by choice, but you may have a different experience.

There are a lot of great cities out there with a lot of opportunity, especially for raising a family, and people should stop making judgement calls on them based on things they see in the news (or, at least, do your own research).
How about your odds of defending yourself with a gun against a gun wielding maniac? Because that's the current atmosphere in the us.
Agreed. I'm a hiring manager. Gaps are not a problem to me. When you're explaining your story, just say you took a break to regroup and be very intentional about making the right next step. Because it is, indeed, really hard to find something while still on the grind.

What you don't mention is what you're looking for, and that's the biggest red flag to me. I'd recommend spending your time finding companies you dig and reaching out over interview prep. Take managers out for coffee. (They'll probably buy anyway.) It's a good way to warm up a lead. Even if they don't have headcount, they may be able to make a warm intro.
This article only highlights the importance of end-to-end encryption.
I thought I was the last holdout, but I finally added a Chrome plugin that disables javascript on a domain-by-domain basis.

At this point I have JS disabled for pretty much every single news-related site - cnn, nytimes, bloomberg, sfgate, wsj, salon, etc... and dozens of less notable ones. It's incredible how much more usable these websites are without JS. No autoplay, no popups, no "CPU goes to 100% and scrolling takes 5s to respond". And usually it disables the paywall.

These sites are quite literally training their audience to disable Javascript.
They're either too optimistic, or say "can't do anything anyway". I'm generalizing, but generally, I'm missing that middle part, that actually valuable bit, a lot.
Wired fell for this guy's story. This feels incredibly fishy. A random guy feels sorry for Uber, the lovable plucky underdog of all companies... and invests lots of time and $6K to invalidate patents?

It just doesn't compute. There must be a tie between this guy and someone at Uber. Or it's VC backers.
Yes, it can happen for multiple reasons. I have personally seen it fail once: a PhD candidate in physics was asked a random but basic question about quantum physics, he couldn't answer, and the committee "voted" no.

From what I have seen, it is more common for people to simply quit their PhD candidacy once they form their PhD committee, because the committee members will ask for a soul crushing extra amount of work before the defense (happened to two friends of mine).
There are also bilateral agreements between Japan and other countries regarding pension, and how the years you paid in both can cumulate.
You can. Have many IPs that all "route" to the same machine. You get 65535 ports per IP, not per kernel or whatever. It's the reason why ex. hosting companies can give virtual servers on their dedicated hosts and not worry about port conflicts or anything.
I'm out of the loop. What's the deal with tether?
We're already experiencing the start of this. This [1] article discusses an event when prosecutors in New York simultaneously subpoenaed Reason Magazine for information on commenters to an article, and also gagged them preventing them from being able to discuss it.

The commenters were upset about the judge who chose to sentence Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road, to life without the possibility of parole -- a sentence even greater than what the prosecution was seeking. The comments range from innocuous like "I hope there is a special place in hell reserved for that horrible woman" to ones that are more vile, but still come nowhere near even remotely close our 'imminent criminality' first amendment exception. Given what happened the first time that line was stated, I'm hesitant to quote it. What freedom...

[1] - https://reason.com/reasontv/2015/07/07/ken-white-on-how-he-b...
No such thing as bad publicity?

Probably lots of people didn't about Amazon Key. Read the scary headline expecting burglary or orgy in the bedroom only to learn nothing all that terrible happened. A few delivery windows got missed. A lock didn't work at some point. With numerous positive things sprinkled in, and things that are coming. Oh but the author doesn't like that. "Who cares?" you are supposed to say. "Packages get delayed all the time! Sign me up".
I guess everyone has to live in San Francisco. Cannot be east bay or anywhere else?
I would agree except the article wasn’t about any specific cause or even this particular wave; just a general explanation of the bitcoin phenomenon that may even be taken as a general explanation for investment any bubble in general.
My parents have a plastic container slightly hidden in some bushes (ie not visible from the road), and the postman just leaves packages in there.
I see what you are saying, but to each his own: I’m one of those kids (there's one in every mechanics class) that grow irate at the sin(ϴ︎)≈︎ϴ︎ approximation in the pendulum solution and then waste weeks using the full series expansion, only to find out the results differ only in the third or fourth decimal place. The thing is, I emerged from the experience thinking to myself “that was a useful learning moment”.
IMO risk is absolutely not the primary reason that nuclear-powered rockets don't exist.
I guess people will try anyway : https://kha.github.io/2016/07/22/formally-verifying-rusts-bi...
There's some great work on this front coming from the Rustbelt lab : https://www.mpi-sws.org/~dreyer/papers/rustbelt/paper.pdf and http://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/
Imagine we errect ourselves a tomb made of drones to live in like in lems first contact novella. A local conflict spilling into space.. Whos vast distance enforces autonomy. Autonomy which closes the door on space exploration.
You’re describing cryptocurrency ETFs like http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/gbtc/stock-chart
Are Free VPN good or not?
I hope, if not sure, they followed IRB (institutional review board) for their experiment. You’re right in your point that we, as scientists, shouldn’t simply do whatever is possible. On the other hand processes like IRB provides a mechanism for oversight where ethical issues such as those raised by you are considered.
Has little or no server side validation? (form prompts for min 1), I shared https://pass.sh/show/2582dbae-5450-4a74-a758-152cdac1c049 with delete after -1 views (simple inspect and edit). It does work to some extent tho as I the link comes up empty. :)
I know, I'm German after all and pay mehrwertsteuer on everything.

But wherever it is listed directly up front or not doesn't change the fact that the state takes money on both sides. When you're earning it and when you're using it.

The actual tax in Germany is about 50 %, it's just hidden in several smaller percentages
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Sorry, if you found my statement an aphorism it's by no means intended to undermine the difficulties.

Iam glad that you've been able to do many things which people without disabilities find difficult to do; my statement is many disabled people get denied an opportunity to do it because of prejudices & cognitive biases.
Issue Tether (it is issued, not mined), trade Tether for Bitcoin, BTC price in Tethers increases, due to stated and believed peg of Tether to USD, BTC raises in USD price due to arbitrage executioners.

More details:

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4129543-bitcoin-one-way-go-...
The `unsafe` keyword in Rust isn't about preventing general security vulnerabilities though, it's about denoting parts of the code where proof of memory safety has to be determined by hand.
I fail to see how this helps the discussion on the topic. Perhaps I am taking your comments too seriously.
Science is not supposed to make anyone better. Science is a tool that can be wielded for any task, dubious or divine. Just like a knife.

Turn to philosophy or religion for morals.
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The problem is that the NSA is watching us all, and we know it, so we self censor.

The question is: Do you trust your/any government in 'x' years to not treat your communication and thoughts sent today as criminal in the future?
Where are they advertising anything as progress in this interview? They're just trying to share experiences people had with WebExtensions, so others know what to expect and for Mozilla devs to know where things can still be improved.
Good to know about your friend. I'm sure he understands what I meant as well. The reason he's been able to make you forget his limitations, is because you had been a great friend as well.
Being correct != being right
Tether is supposed to be backed 1:1 by US dollars and function as a non-volatile way to move money across exchanges. It's market cap is ~$815M. Lots of people believe that Bitfinex, the creator of Tether, is not actually holding $815M to back it. Instead they believe Bitfinex is creating Tether out of thin air and could be using it to inflate the price of Bitcoin.
True. I switched from Firefox to Chrome when Firefox stopped working. Literally - it would freeze and make me reboot my PC. Not gonna switch back as long as Chrome works.
This isn't really responsive to grandparent's comment, which seem more concerned with the scientific process than the actual findings.

Also, explosions can be good, too. The Nobel prize wasn't named after a terrorist :)
It was for sure governed by their Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). IRBs are the human equivalent. Also, pedantic, but macaques are not apes; research on apes is extremely restricted today. Last I saw the NIH standards, they involved demonstrating that the research being done would benefit that individual animal, not just humans or even the species.
The halting problem has been solved!
Unless, somehow, every one of those sockets happened to share the same port on said machine, say... port 80. So yes, you need to use the mythological TCP server to pull this one off; it's true that you can't have more than 2^15 outbound connections from the same IP though.
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I don't think you've read many Utopian novels if you think they give a vision to aim at. Many are just criticizing modern society by use of a fantastic one; Butlers Erewhon is a utopia where you can be jailed for being sick, and forgiven for such things as embezzling. More's has slaves wrapped up in chains of gold, which is seen as worthless.

The ones that try tend to not really give us things to aim at, as opposed to things to avoid. "The cure is worse than the disease" comes to mind. They end up being a collection of the pet quirks of the author, often nasty ones.
Many kinds of test strips are less than $1 each here too.
> With the anti-regulatory view Ayn Randians have it most certainly would lead to a heads I win tails you lose style of capitalism.

That sounds a hell of a lot like the system we have today. Wall street has a great run and pockets all the money, then boom and they get bailed out by the taxpayer. I don't know who "Ayn Randians" are, but they certainly aren't followers of her original writing. I consider myself a bit of an an old school Randian, and if I was running the show most people on Wall Street would be scared shitless, because a lot of them would be going to prison.

But then, perhaps she was less than honest, she was drinking buddies with Alan Greenspan, who I think is a criminal of the highest order.

> A wild west approach to capitalism would be disastrous.

Completely agree.

> Virtually all regulations are based on nonobjective standards, meaning that businessmen must constantly defer to the judgment of bureaucrats.

I agree with that more or less. People on the left tend to disagree with this because they want to regulate according to their personal beliefs, as if they were passed down from god. Personally, I'm more than happy to negotiate a compromise, but I sure don't get that feeling from today's left.

I don't think a lot of Rand's beliefs stand up to the test of time, or would be pragmatic in today's world - philosophy should change with the times. But an example of one of her beliefs that I disagree with is the FDA - while I think it has more power than it should, if I recall correctly she believed it should be abolished entirely. Not that this is impossible or would be the end of the world, but I consider it sub-optimal, considering the dishonesty of westerners. But then, we didn't used to be this dishonest either.

She also had a tendency to put principle before pragmatism, I disagree somewhat with that as well.

One should be fairly open minded about these sorts of things.
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