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Thanks for the feedback!

From here on out we're going to focus on simplifying the product down and cutting back on meh features (and their accompanying bugs). As time goes on our categorization and labeling systems will get better--that's just an editorial problem. We're refining as we go.

We're currently working on adding a simple voting system to make user curation less challenging, and also video thumbnails to liven up the view a bit.
Pathogens and pests tend to replicate quickly enough that traditional methods of genetic engineering (breeding and selection) would work decently well I think. Since we avoided bioweapons so far I'm fairly confident that we will be able to do so in the near future as well.
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I have the same issue. My full password is over 20 characters, but some websites restrict to less than that or don't accept the special character that I use.
I'm curious how often people share e-mail addresses. I used to see it a lot for people who used their ISP's mail system. Most people who are even slightly tech oriented have gmail, hotmail, etc these days, but now I can't help but wonder how many people just stick with the default ISP e-mail.
With a liitle more polishing over this combination, I can see the future: thinnest ultrabook with desktop grade performance and experience; packing a monstrous 4C8T top tier CPU and a high end graphics chipset in an ultrabook is definitely great for everyone. Would have been better if a Ryzen CPU is on the run for me.

This is going to be the future, no, It should have had been!
We aren’t really arguing about that though. When people exclame that OOP is dead, they use Java/C++ as their strawmen, but that doesn’t mean objects are intrinsically flawed or really dead. It’s like declaring you hate FP because Haskell isn’t to your liking.

My original comment was that ECS is just another kind of object system. It has objects, it conforms to ontological object thinking, why would that not be OOP? Just because it isn’t Java/C++? Or would you argue that OOD and OOP are separate things?
I think it helps to reframe the problem this way:

If people somehow magically stopped dying of old age tomorrow, would we choose to solve the resource problems that caused by re-implementing anything similar to death as it exists now? Say, for example, by executing everyone at the age of 75?

I think we'd be much more likely to prefer an alternative solution, such as restricting birth rates.
Cool little game! Loving the art and the morbid story. It was tough as nails

One nitpick: sometimes the game would seem to get unresponsive if I clicked the little hint door (it'd get stuck halfway open). Only spamclicking around for a while got me out of it
Are you calling these people children, or suggesting that children eat up emergency funds? I suspect the latter.
The linked study tries to assess the number of chronic pain prescriptions and comes up with 1%, which is where they get the claim that 20% indicates addiction.

That said, the methodology for this (checking how many scripts are for long-lasting, high-dose opioids) looks dubious at best, and misses non-chronic, recurring illnesses that might lead to multiple prescriptions.
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That sounds like a pretty cool idea.

After 30 years if it's not generating $1B a year you let it go. That would make most creations pretty cheap to keep for the first 15 years, corporation level expensive from 15 years to 25 years and global phenomenon level only after 30 years.

If that sounds too aggressive maybe double it only every 2 years.
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Really loving the art style. I'm also impressed with the code quality. Way above what I would expect a 12 year old would be capable of. I've seen college students that would struggle with something like this. Keep it up, kid!
I especially like the applications in cheap and compact 3D sensing and brain neural interfaces. Very exciting!
Yes, I knew you could do rowhammer on arm too where clflush does not exit. So rowhammer is not the correct example.
Yet at some point it was believed that it was necessary on x86 for the attack to work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer#Exploits

I just made a bet that I could guess something out of ISA only.
Going macro to describe what may be the issue. I'm just doing a guess work here.

I was not implying Intel has the same implementation as AMD, nor I was making a case for "this is like rowhammer"
This is why we can have nice things like openRA.
Media companies have cast IP as such, but it really didn't start that way. IP started as a way to encourage creation, and it acknowledged as artificial.
I would say both Disney and Trump have a political view that the best thing for America is making rich people richer at the cost of everyone else.

So... same side?
Your analogy makes no sense. America isn't a person, doesn't have a limited working life, and isn't going to "retire".

The solution to an inefficient federal bureaucracy and a large national debt isn't to cut economically irrelevant spending in those areas where the US enjoys an actual advantage over other countries. It's to improve the bureaucracy and balance spending in meaningful ways.

Unfortunately, any sane attempt at improvement is blocked by "small government" Republicans, who deliberately impede evolutionary improvements in government functioning in the hope that, by forestalling them, they can hasten some future libertarian revolution, wherein it becomes politically possible to eliminate all social programmes altogether.

In order to maintain their false image as being in favor of fiscal constraint, these same Republicans attack easy targets like NASA. At the same time, they protect insanely profligate projects like the F-35 fighter, which provide essentially socialist redistribution to defence contractors in their own districts. In your flawed comparison, it'd be like someone complaining about his children's spend on candy, while buying a dozen broken Ferraris every day.
Reading the comments, it seems like sometimes animation or illustration just shouldn't be too good, otherwise the message is ruined.
Is it really that bad? A sustainable corporate sponsor is likely better than a fickle community. Think about how many corporations also sponsor or own weird side ventures that may or may not actually produce profit, but are there for prestige, status, or just good of the world.

Check out http://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-the-michelin-guide...
Under his proposal after 45 years they would be paying the entire US GDP.

Global GDP before the 50 year mark.
It is worse, consider officialdom in China where any highish official can be brought down for corruption at anytime. So if you are clean, you won’t get promoted, because your higher ups and peers can’t control you with that axe over your head.

So ya, you can take a stand, but you aren’t going to go far enough in your career for the stand to make much of a difference, cynicism or not.
Thought of the same thing. The writer of the Guardian article is actually the journalist the podcasters consulted with in part 2.
While I'm not saying that is a lie, anyone can claim anything.

I can claim piracy in China costs me 18 billion dollars.
Sorry, I did by no means intend to bash H1B visa holders. I agree that it's only a small portion in one particular industry that's causing that perception. That makes it even more important though to not constraint H1B holder's choices artificially.
I actually ctrl+f for xkcd[0] to see if someone jumped the gun on posting the cartoon.

Something like that for a base password and then for each website mutate it a bit. Other people in the thread described methods they use.

I also use lastpass(paid personal), keepass+chromepass(work). Where I normally save the base password(and added mutations) yearly to change the base; or save the mutated password as I use it more for convenience.

I do not save certain financial and banking related sites.

And recently actually had a bit of a panic attack as I forgot my master password for a hour or so. Realised I need a fail save if I forget it again. Something like telling a close friend or sticky note to the monitor.

Still deciding, any suggestions would be appreciated?

[0]: https://www.xkcd.com/936
I don't think they "deserve" it. I do think we'd be wise to incentivise IP creation though, which the credit and protection of IP creation does. Though I'm not a fan of the current lengthy timespan.
Very cool! It would be awesome if it had a mode that used the unicode box-drawing characters too [0]. It can get a little tedious copy and pasting them and drawing things manually.

- [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character
I have been working on-and-(mostly-)off on something like this for a while: https://github.com/scoates/celobox

Wish I had more time to spend on it.
> improve Fair Trade on the consumer or producer side?

If you live in the UK, a simple no-effort thing you can do is buy fairtrade food and drink at the supermarket. These goods have the Fairtrade foundation logo (http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/).

Some of the cheaper supermarkets (e.g. Lidl, Aldi) tend to have the least number of fairtrade goods. But other supermarkets have a much wider range of fairtrade items and source fairtrade goods for their own label brands.

Sometimes, the fairtrade price of a good is only a little more expensive than items without the fairtrade logo (e.g. bananas).

The fairtrade scheme has faced criticism but I still think it's worthwhile supporting the scheme by choosing fairtrade goods when you can.
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Instagram bragging is so incredibly cliche at this point that it actually makes me sad for those who engage in or with it. It's like a race to see who can appear more desperate for the approval of strangers.
Funnily enough, by at least one scientific definition of wet, water is very, very not wet. Water has an extremely low wettability, and in fact will even wet most other liquids.

I always find that phrase when used as an example of common sense funny in that regard.
How many billions of dollars does "pressure" mean?
My brain.
I never claimed it was more secure than a password manager. Just 'surprisingly' secure. You get something easy to remember with a lot of entropy that's difficult even for someone targeting you to exploit and which mitigates against the more common attack of cracking passwords en-masse from a leak and retrying them.

Yes, it has its own attack vectors, but they don't include things like ads stealing your info from your password manager [0] and apps stealing your passwords from your clipboard [1], both of which are legitimate reasons why you might want an alternative to a password manager.

"home-grown solution" has very negative connotations in infosec and rightfully so. I don't like seeing it in these kind of contexts as it blurs an important distinction between "Don't write your own random number generator if you're creating an app like Signal" (don't do it) vs "Find a solution to deal something as shitty as passwords in a way that works for you" (do it).

Your recommended method might also suit some people better (e.g. people who already carry a notebook around everywhere and guard it carefully).

There are no silver bullets out there. Work out what your needs are and then find a reasonable solution. It might be a password manager. It might not be.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/30/16829804/browser-passwor...

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/11/using...
edited: Some grammatical errors.

Great read, and full of issues that are discussed on HN everyday. Also, not a new topic, the call centers have been on the decline for long, and for good reasons.

> -today, young people from agricultural castes want to work in offices and not farms. I wondered what other options were open to them.

> Poojary read it out to me in his best American accent, which he had perfected by the end of his first week. He insisted that I play along as the unwitting American.

I'm South Indian, I didn't grow up there, but I can vouch for the condescending tone of Snigdha (the author of this piece).
It's very much like how a condescending North Indian talks about a South Indian. And she's the 'educated' North Indian here talking to an 'un-educated' one.
The condescension is palpable, and present throughout the piece. I have not read her other 2 pieces, but they're on similar topics, and I expect a similar tone. I'm not sure if it is a reflection of her distaste for the people in these highly questionable occupations, or just sprinkles of editorial hate.

> “America is full of old people who live alone. They have no one to turn to if anything goes wrong.”

I've heard many arguments about how its a cultural thing, old people in the west (more weighted towards N-America) are treated as a burden. A burden on the economy, a social burden (damn those annoying grandpa's and grandma's). Isn't that why the 401k and MediCare/MedicAid exist? (excluding the set of population that doesn't qualify for them) to pay them(selves) back for their 40+ years of service? I'd like to hear some fresh arguments/data on why they are treated as such. I'd be grateful to anyone who points me to more reading material on this topic.

> “It’s very easy to scam Americans. They are very gullible.”

It just becomes easier to exploit the opposite side if you just demean them a little. Americans are fat and stupid, the British choose to chew their crap food with their crap teeth, and don't get me started with those vodkaholic Russians. Why don't we go a bit further, dehumanise them, then you're off to war aren't you. I'm just pointing out the micro scale from which these sentiments can snowball, nothing more.
This works, but doesn't scale.

The problem is, the login form doesn't remind that a) a special character was required and b) what characters that particular site thinks are "special".
I assume the system would require copyright to be tracked somewhere so that payments for extension can be made. That place could be used to track. For our stuff for which you know a extension would have had to be filed, absence in the register should be all you need.
It still boils down to cost. Recruitment and retention costs money. There are plenty of companies out there whose sole business is managing a rolodex of freelancers and sponsoring visas where necessary. They wouldn't exist if companies wanted to do this themselves.
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What CAN you do?

Take a politician down, and a new one takes its place.

If you protest, they put the police to attack protesters. If people get together to fund a campaign to change things, big corporations get 10000x more money on a bigger campaign.

What do you suggest people do?
Good point. I imagine most smaller companies are specifically looking for people who can build things in a self-directed environment using the latest tech. Maybe it's only the larger, older orgs that care about legacy code wrangling.

In my limited (n=1) experience with startups, I'd say they take a very different approach to recruiting and should be "courted" by the applicant in a slightly different way. Relevant experience becomes more important. IMO, startups particularly care about:

1. Can the applicant hit the ground running? Startups don't want to hire people that need training, because they want them to be productive ASAP. Startup teams have very little slack, so individual productivity is more important. For example, I started working at a large company and had 3 months training before I touched any code. Then I went to a startup and pushed a bugfix to production my first day. The expectation is quite different. My recommendation would be to work on some side projects that use common startup tech stacks (Ruby, Node, Python, etc.) so they know you're familiar with more than just Java or whatever, and emphasize how you're a quick learner that adapts easily to different situations.

2. Does the applicant offer a specialization we need? Startups are always looking to increase the quality and range of their technical skillset. If you have a relevant specialization that their engineering team is lacking, like DB admin, security, hiring, management, distributed systems, AWS, etc., the startup will be much more inclined to hire you. Recommendation here would be to try to dig into some topics and gain expertise in your current company that can carry over. Alternatively, something like getting an AWS certification, publishing blog posts about relevant topics, etc.

3. Is the applicant a culture fit? For example, usually startup employees should be internally motivated, autonomous, good communicators that enjoy programming and think of development as a vocation instead of a chore. You shouldn't have to be exactly the same as everyone else, just show that you're likeable, flexible, and can do good work without a manager.

(edited: Added some additional clarifying points).
There's also keychain https://github.com/levaidaniel/kc
Open it with a master password, copy passwords from it or save new entries. You can have the single file database in a shared service like Dropbox and use it from any computer.
> I will note not every society has needed to use so many pain relievers.

People are rightly pointing out that most societies didn't have the option, but I think you have a point even so.

My objection would be that other societies don't seem to have avoided painkillers by embracing pain; they seem to have actually felt less of it. Average health in the US is not good. Chronic ailments like inflammation, joint damage, and RSI are quite common, and even ostensibly healthy people are quite likely to report frequent pain or pain at work.

So I think it's true that our reliance on painkillers is an error in how we relate to pain, but I disagree that the answer is accepting pain. Rather, the mistake is in using painkillers as a way to mask issues with overall health. Fixing that is hardly easy, and I don't think opposing painkillers is the way to make it happen, but it is important.
I am working towards a two-tiered system. First tier is kept on a physical PasswordCard and muscle memory, and cycled annually. This is for the sensitive passwords. Second tier is handled entirely with a password manager. The password manager generates, stores, and fills them in for me. These are not sensitive and cycled/recycled as needed. I still have this nebulous "third tier" of leftover passwords that haven't migrated on the new system, where I basically use variations of the same two semi-secure passwords. I hope to eventually get rid of this tier.
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Even in the US you see this. There was a light rail line[1] that ran west from Washington DC connecting several small farming communities in the early 1900s. It was dismantled and turned into a bike trail and now we are spending billions of dollars[2] to build a Metro expansion parallel to the old rail line.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_and_Old_Dominion_Ra...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2016/02/1...
> What's your solution for annoying sites that require changing your password every 3-12 months, and not reusing previous passwords? If eHunterG8 becomes eHunterG9 and then eHunterG10, how do you remember the number you are up to?

Good question. I just start with 2 (yes, that's weird) and then increment every time or choose the symbol so I eventually exhaust. This is the same question for unique password per different types/groups of websites. The good thing is more websites have abandoned the annoying security question/answer when it comes to forgot password/forgot username. Just straight to SMS/email. For example I cannot remember my cable provider's online account password. The policy is just ridiculous, so I use "forgot password" every single time. Email only, quick and simple.

Please for everyone reading this - please abandon security questions as a requirement and stop being so hard on password requirement such as limiting the length (Twilio I am looking at you, yes). Just ask for a long password and give hints to users how to choose a good password. While the argument for complex password is to increase the search entropy, let's spend more time on securing your server and mitigating common attacks. Users will probably just append a number. So "myAwesomePassword$" is easy to try once "myAwesomePassword" is compromised from another service. Educate your users.

Let user be responsible; I have my "secure" complex rules for password, let me be in control, I don't want to bend to meet your requirement.

Another alternative is always ask for a one-time password (but a lot of users will find that very inconvenience). Choose one.
Not true. You have to restart the process but can retain the same priority date. Your place in the queue is never lost.
Let me be 100% clear...we do not agree.

In the context of the concept of The Fourth Estate there is no choice. A _journalist's_ obligation is to seek The Truth and info the masses. Period.

The fact that there's excessive noise is no excuse for journalists giving up their standards and joining the noise - at which point they are no longer journalists.

Cost is not the issue. Availability and "brand reputation" is. Fox News can pass itself off as "news" because CNN and MSNBC are just as substanceless. What well know entity can we point to and say "now _that_ is journalism"?

Blaming the public for the lazy media is well...um...lazy. And clear indication of a lack of understanding if the responsibilities that come along with the right of a free press. The press has shunned their responsibilities. But that's the public's fault? Um...no!
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> Because the Apollo Program happened during Bretton Woods

We are still under the Bretton Woods system, more or less. Almost 2/3rds of foreign currency reserves held by central banks are held in U.S. dollars [1]. If anything, real interest rates are lower today than they were in the 1960s.

[1] http://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2017/03/31/pr17108-IMF-R...
I'm not sure any blockchain scales "well," so it's like comparing turtle speeds. Likely they'll all be moving to lightening network for scalability, so it's a waste of time comparing them. The factors that are interesting for blockchains are immutability, fungibility and censorship resistance, and due to privacy, Monero wins 2/3. As for network security, that can change as more people appreciate how privacy influences cashlike properties--though I think Bitcoin will end up being a sort of digital gold going forward, which isn't a bad market to contral as far as price evaluation.
>This is not how companies normally do their thing. I’ve been listening to Adam Smith’s 1776 classic on the Wealth of Nations, and just passed through the chapter on how the market is set by masters trying to get away with paying the least possible, and workers trying to press for the maximum possible. An antagonistic struggle, surely.

Sounds exactly like Jeff Bezos, who owns part of Basecamp.
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