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Yeah, my (effective) mother in law had this issue with her father and his (second) wife.

He died without a legal will (what he did write was hand written, holes so large you could drive a truck through, and un-witnessed). Though the estate was modest (maybe $400K in home, vehicles, stocks) and could easily have been divided pretty equitably with the second wife (who was pretty recently married to him), the two of them's inability to get along, and always think that the other was plotting against them...

lead to long drown out probate court challenges, and in the end they walked away with less than $100K between them, burning the rest in the process.
Easy, that is how we used to program in the old days on systems where the language runtime was the OS.
But if you definitely want a better chance for civil liberties, voting for R's will hurt you worse than if you vote for D's

I suppose that depends which civil liberties are more important to you. You'll find that Democrats are pretty awful if you value your right to self-defense, or if you don't think the government should be able to use eminent domain to take your property and give it to a wealthy supporter.

Some of the details may be different, but they're both different sides of the same coin. I don't see that one side is significantly better than the other overall.
It’s still not quite clear to me what new things WASM introduces to using different languages. Weren’t we already able to transpile any language to JS?
There's a lot. But to sum up a few:

- The overwhelming political nature of everything here. It is "free-market is the solution to everything or you're a socialist" mentality. The Moore race is a good example of this. The only thing worse than a Dem is a pedo. I'm moderate right, for reference. (maybe some of this is just the political climate of the times)

- Bible belt and churches around every corner. Religion is much more common place, and I definitely get weird looks if I mention that I don't go to church.

- Everyone is big. I mean the obesity thing here is common and I'm shocked at the amount of fast food and all meat diets people do. This can lead to some bland food, though there is also some really good food. Great BBQ here.

- There is much more casual racism here (I'm white, but it is enough that I notice it when I'm not looking for it). Lots of confederate war flags and for some reason people keep telling me that the civil war had nothing to do with slaves. I don't know why people keep bringing that up in discussions that it isn't related to. These things also pop up in the frequent political discussions that I can't seem to avoid.

- Finding friends is hard. Part of this is just moving to a new area, part of it is cultural differences. I expect this to be a challenge for anyone that is moving not into a big area or into a job/school that you have a lot of peers. You'd be surprised how many friends you have because you sit next to them for hours a day.

- Everyone is extremely nice. This isn't really a bad thing, but it is surprising. People will go out of their way to help you.

And there are just cultural norms and vernacular that are strange to me. I'm also in a small town, so that definitely plays a factor. But it isn't a hick town either. I can't escape the feeling that I'm a foreigner. And I think that feeling of being a foreigner is off-putting for a lot of people.
The conspiracy, if you want to see it that way, is not about selling you the devices but in dividing the spectrum differently so they have space for more stations to sell.

An FM station uses some specified amount of spectrum and the government can sell that space for the amount of money one station is willing to pay. If you can change the system so more stations fit in the same amount of spectrum, they get the amount all these stations together are willing to pay. So they get more money with DAB. And it looks modern with more features to boot!

You can just solder an FM radio yourself from generic components and some wire while a DAB radio requires a processor, which is obviously going to be more expensive. I think all of the patents expired though so I don't think someone is becoming rich by licensing the technology. At least the patents on the audio codec have expired.
To be fair to universities, at the same time that happened, states have been decreasing funding. Also, topheavy administration is everywhere, not just education, part of the unnecessary MBA-ification of everything. And there would be no demand for loans if corporations weren't trying to offload all their employee financial responsibilities in every way possible: just as companies are reclassifying everyone as consultants and freelancers, and decreasing everything to part-time, they stopped seeing themselves as providing career training to anyone, expecting people to do that themselves at universities and through unpaid internships.

So I wouldn't blame much on US backed government loans. The US government could offer free loans for people wanting to get Justin Bieber tattoos, and it would increase tattooing I'm sure, but wouldn't cause a generational economic crisis.
Does deciding not to bear children solve this problem?
> When my wife (a CPA) interviews, they know that she knows a whole bunch of stuff, by virtue of being able to go the accreditation board. So when she interviews, it tends to be a super mile high sanity check (have you done accounts receivable/payable before, yes? no? If no that's ok too...)

All the accreditation board knows is that she knew enough at one time to pass the tests. It says nothing about whether she still knows that stuff today.

It's the same thing with a PE license. In fact, with a PE the advice is to take the test as soon after graduation as you are able, because the further out of school you are the harder it is to pass. So, it says you knew that stuff once. It cannot be used as a measure of current competency.
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Except many of the illegal growers diverting water to their crops illicitly. Not as big an issue now but during our drought...
What about little pest-tracking laser turrets?
20 years? You're off by 19 years and 11 months. Waymo's public pilot is scheduled to remove the test drivers in February.

It remains to be seen whether GM can hit their targets, but they're coming along pretty well. If you're a man of your word there's a good chance you'll end up eating crow.
This industry hates credentials because it doesn't trust credentials. Which makes it ironic when it's members come here and say other disciplines don't have the same issues as soon us because credentials.
We face something similar in Goa,India which was a Portuguese colony. My grandfather used to speak a version of Konkani blended with Portuguese.
A professional first responder is going to look in the back seat regardless. A first-on-scene good samaritan might not.

On the other hand, I've had 3 babies and never put up such a sign, despite feeling very protective of them, so my intuition may be signalling some other reason why such signs are useless.
Well, Fuchsia has more C++, Rust, Go and Dart code than C.
Right.

The authority is not fine-grained enough because grants of authority are not dynamic (meaning they happen up front when the app is installed, not while the user is using the app). If the grants were dynamic, the context is clear to the user, who can therefore 1. understand what the grant is for 2. make an informed decision 3. use UI patterns like "powerbox" in which there is no "security UI", just UI that would be needed anyway. When that is true, finer-grained can be easier for the user, not harder.

Of course there is more to it, e.g. kentonv's important point re substitutability. Some otherwise capable programmers don't seem to understand that point even in the domain of programming (as opposed to UI).
Also, not funny.
From my experience, having some sort of a support structure to move into greatly lessens some of the problems. One of the biggest challenges in moving is finding that new support structure. And I guess this also is highly dependent on how social you are to begin with.
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None of those are a problem if you're talking about building a canal. From my previous experience, 80% to 90% of the cost of building a fiber network is construction, especially digging ditches, hanging poles, etc. Materials account for the remaining 10%-20%. RoW costs are not included.

IIRC, the materials cost for building long haul fiber is a couple dollar per meter or less, especially in China.

If you're already building a massive structure like a canal, embedding conduits into the infrastructure is a tiny marginal cost. And Fiber maintenance is very, very low in protected environments (such as the electric-fence protected canal).

Not only that, you could easily build two conduits, one on each side of the canal, creating route diversity.

So for laying hundreds of miles (let's say 1000km) of fiber where construction is already happening, the total cost would be a few million USD.
My usual reply is that I am compelled to write notes in email, on wikis, in docstrings, etc. This is because I work for various companies at different points in time, work on open source projects, serve on a standards committee, etc. All of these groups have different tools.

For a while I used OneNote heavily even though it is by no means optimized for writing technical notes (formatting source code is much harder than it should be; stupid Microsoft killed OneNote by obnoxious marketing methods such as stuffing multiple links for it on the task bar, defaulting by sending anything you print into OneNote, etc. They never thought that devs are an important market.)

For me the good thing about OneNote is that the full-text search actually works. Really, I'm not kidding. I have no trouble finding things in OneNote and that is worth a lot.

For some reason everybody wants to write a new notetaking application, but the problem is the proliferation of applications. One team is into Slack, another uses Discord, so I have about 10 electron apps that are all almost exactly the same size.

The answer is something that can go into all of these spaces and make things findable first, and portable second.

Nobody seems to want to do it, but everybody seems to want to learn Electron.
> which we have no control over

The UK has the authority, just not the competence to use that authority. This is Westminster’s fault, not the EU’s.

> People who immigrate to the UK from the EU, or have family who did, vote very differently from native Brits

They’re not allowed to vote in general elections (or the Referendum) unless they’re Irish (or have multiple nationalities and the other is British, Irish, or Commonwealth): http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/faq/voting-and-registr...

> It's almost like open borders isn't good for national security. Who'd of thought.

Poor argument. In feudal times, you needed your Lord’s permission to leave your village — if that was still true, virtually every terrorist attack from the time of the IRA (the original) onwards would have been impossible.
If we don’t have more children, we have population decline which comes with huge negatives. The economy contracts. Social Security implodes, etc.

New generations innovate, and they take care of the aging.

Having kids is actually a huge sacrifice on the part of the parents that ultimate benefits society as a whole.
Might help if you link your app `Elements` somewhere in your blog!
84 hours a week, 2 weeks out of 4.
We are talking about an entry level position with the understanding the candidate's skill set are not truly refined yet in the real world.
If that were true, male lions (and bears, and others) wouldn't kill off the offspring of their mate that aren't there own, instead, electing to simply mate and move on to the next one
Nope. I'll agree to whatever your terms of service are, allow access to my data, let you target ads to me, etc. but I'm not getting out my wallet.
No, they gave them credit for the money on their accounts, they didn't physically print any more money than they did normally.
Well then the cops will be told to shoot them.
> fewer officers, lower pay...

There are two ways to "improve" the crime statistics. Having really a lower crime ratio is one. Stopping to count smaller crimes, discouraging people to denounce or hiding cases under the carpet instead to report it to your boss or the press is another. I'm not saying that is the case here, but this can happen.
It's just an argument in favor of a private sector solution. ;)

War with our government is rather hyperbolic. Only nation-states can go to war—citizens are just traitors and terrorists.

- The rule of law is only as good as the people's ability to hold each other accountable. Secret rulings and operations violate that contract.

- Nobody's talking about doing anything criminal. Law enforcement operated just fine before encryption, and they'll keep us safe even when everyone has secure private communications (again).

As for voting,
- As a politician, voting for "security" over privacy bothers a few constituents and just annoys the rest. Voting the other way has a non-zero chance to ending your career when the next terrorist attack happens.

- The national security agencies (and contractors) have a strong incentive to acquire power (funding/authority), which increases their ability to seek more power. The privacy charities seek to remove that power, which does not increase their ability to seek more power. In a fight between a self-reinforcing loop and a self-balancing one, I expect the former to win.

- J Edgar Hoover wasn't a unique phenomenon. Power corrupts.

But really, if everyone had unsearchable data, what's the worst that could happen (that couldn't already)?
HTTP 1.1 servers need the host name in the request, so that a single IP can host multiple domains that resolve to it. If you just go to the IP address, you get an error or a default host. It should work fine with most other protocols, though.
I agree with everything you said. The defaults are just wrong, it should not have any web server at all with a default password, that's an easy software fix.
Depends what degree they get. If you're pursuing a degree in English, Art History, Political Science, Women's Studies, etc without a clear plan for a career after your degree, that is irresponsible.

> I know many, many millennials who grew up hearing ‘Just get a college degree and you’ll be in good shape’ who did and aren’t, respectively.

Getting a useless degree because other people told you to and then blaming it on society seems like the very definition of not being personally responsible.
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Does it seem bizarre to anyone else for a company to have an internal social network?

I thought the general concessions was that on social networks, people are more likely to treat each other as jerks than when face to face.

If your company has a social network, would you engage with it? If you run a company, would you make your social network more than just an auxiliary function for management?
As I said elsewhere, I agree, the web server shouldn't be enabled with a default password.
I think people are tuned to read other people's emotions pretty well. The trick is to actually care and show empathy. Not sure a robot can effectively do that.
But you are still open to a timing attack, no?

The random noise becomes the background and unless it is a constant addition of noise (which wouldn't save any bandwidth, might as well use uncompressed stream) you could still time changes in the signal.
The better analogy is to compare a theoretical physics degree to a mech civil or electrical engineering degree.
It's nice to see some image reparation work going on for Jeff. I've been finding all of the pictures of him that are meant to evoke Voldemort quite irritating.

Aside from his decision to buy the WaPo, I think he's shown himself to be one of the few people who really understands long term bets.

So while Google keeps trying to make Android devices sell for iPhone prices, Amazon just sold me a Kindle Fire for $25 that outperforms my Nexus 7.

The impact of Bezos' infrastructure vision is likely to put Google and Apple out of business in the next few decades. He's playing a much more long-term strategy and he's not afraid to take big risks.
The community-owned options are only considered cheap and fast because they're being compared to monopoly or near-monopoly ISPs, which can get away with inflated prices and poor service because they have no competition.

And while it's true that government bureaucracies tend to drift toward inefficiency, private monopolies are very similar. Comcast is basically so bad that they're unfixable.
Looks like it's just a rough edge per this very insightful comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16136912
Do you mean a word by 8 bits? Or 16 or whatever the architecture defines as a word?

So 1000 gets flipped to 0001 ?
no one wants to hear about my journey with my disease

May I ask why you believe this? I checked Amazon, and found a few books written by people with CF. They aren't best sellers, but all of the ones I've looked at have sold at least some copies, based on the reviews. Your own story would be different, and uniquely interesting.

I realize, as I'm sure you do, that one can't pursue every possible avenue when trying to generate an income; there's only so much time in the day. So maybe writing an ebook about your experience is not the most promising thing to do, in your mind. Then it's a judgment call to decide where to put your efforts.

People are routinely dismissive, attacking and ugly

For this reason, if it were me, I'd keep that content separate and anonymous (I would have done this from the beginning, because I know how these things go). But that doesn't mean you shouldn't write it.

FWIW, earning an income is not necessarily in line with self-promotion. The vast majority of people who support themselves do so in relative obscurity.
And NixOS, a fantastic functional way to administer machines. And ready for prime time.
As a Canadian: what's bad about Canadian customs/border crossings?

Can't say I've ever had a problem, but then I'm also a citizen, which may make things different.
I've got 4 dogs and live in a rural area. You'd have to be bat shit crazy to want to mess with my stuff.

That said, it's a silly argument. If you don't secure your devices then you're gonna have a bad time. Just a fact of life, it's always been that way. Give a hacker physical access to a box and enough time and they are getting in. I do it routinely if I forgot a root password, boot knoppix, fix the root password on the boot disk, reboot.
Those were "emoticons", which used plain ASCII, and were sometimes converted to proprietary icon sets within forums/IM clients/etc.

So, entering :-) would render a smiley face sometimes.

However, it wasn't a Unicode character that retained meaning independent of the specific implementation.

Eg, :grr: might render on phpBB, but nowhere else.
Well for CPA at least, there's continuing education requirements you have to meet, which varies by state. I dunno how it works for a PE.
> On socialization, I can understand the feeling there, but for me the solution was to find social circles beyond work.

This should be the norm not the exception.

The impression that I get is that this idea of socialising at work is stronger in the US.
> I feel like I do not exist anymore, but that everything I do is for him. There are risks I can’t take now. Ideas I can’t pursue. Hobbies I won’t have time again for years. Haven’t had sex in months.

I see stuff like this posted all the time when the topic of having babies comes up.

And it's why I don't have sympathy for parents that cry about not knowing how hard it was going to be. You're making an 18-year commitment! Do your research!
My father’s death definitely triggered it in me. I felt a shift up to the top of the tree and a desire to do for my own son what my father did for me. I also have a large, mostly rural family history and the process of pregnancy and parenting has always been around me. It’s all very normalized in my world.
That sentence is obviously talking about after JPMorgan was already on board. Do you have another article that states Jo was forced into nominating JPMorgan to act as the administrator, or which one of us is having the reading comprehension fail?
Note there are documented ways to reset that password even if it's not "admin", e.g. http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/sln49505/how-to...
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> This person has made their choice. ...and they've evidently thought it through

Nothing evident about it in parent comment. You should probably re-read it, hold your platinum thoughts steady.
Clearly, the young support the aged.

The young, by definition live in a world built by their elders, benefiting from all the infrastructure and institutions they created. So it’s not nearly as one-way as you think. Any care of the elderly is merely a part payment on that debt the young owe them.
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The Board of Trustees of Social Security tells us that the program is going to completely run out of money within the next 15 years. " Is very misleading. Social Security is not a bank account, it is an insurance (you can get it at any time, and you get it simply because you paid in) where people are constantly paying in and out.

In 17 years* the Social Security system will probably have to cut benefits by 23% unless we either raise the retirement rate or raise the maximum salary at which you have to pay social security tax. The latter is a pretty painless thing to the average tax payer, who already has all their salary subject to social security tax.

The social security system was in much greater danger in the Reagan era, when they decided to make benefits taxable, which was ultimately a progressive way to reduce benefits.

*http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/13/news/economy/social-security...
Only just caught this.

It was a joke; highlighting that comparing anything favourably to the pile of crap that is the traditional Windows command interface (window, or interface, it really doesn't matter for the comparison) is barely worth recognition for its obviousness.

I'm glad it gave you so much amusement.
Guess "boto" was already taken.
My only advice to anyone founding a company

Learn from the mistakes of others. Your startup won't live long enough to make them all.
> I've been finding all of the pictures of him that are meant to evoke Voldemort quite irritating.

This just made me wonder if there's any media or perceptive bias against bald people in leadership positions.

It seems Steve Ballmer and Jeff Bezos for example are/were criticized disproportionately more than Elon Musk and Steve Jobs, for example, even though all of these people have plenty of reasons to be disliked.
Something I've always wondered about is whether the electrical charge of the earth is uniform across the entire surface, or of you could harvest electrical power by just running a (presumably really long) wire between two grounded spots. I guess if they don't do it the answer is probably "no", "not enough to pay for the wire", or "Where do you put the meter?"
I have no idea what it was but it wasn't civil and substantive, so please don't post like that.

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Generally people who would make good employees are already employed (assuming there is demand for their labor). Hiring unemployed people is usually targeting the bottom of the market, or finding diamonds in the rough, which is risky.