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The author incorrectly speculates that the title of the magazine -- Jacobite -- is a play on Jacobin:

Jacobite – which is apparently still a real magazine and not a one-off gag making fun of Jacobin – summarizes their article Under-Theorizing Government as “You’ll never hear the terms ‘principal-agent problem,’ ‘rent-seeking,’ or ‘aligning incentives’ from socialists. That’s because they expect ideology to solve all practical considerations of governance.”

Jacobite has nothing to do with Jacobin. Jacobitism (/ˈdʒækəbaɪˌtɪzm/ JAK-ə-by-tiz-əm;[1][2] Scottish Gaelic: Seumasachas [ˈʃeːməs̪əxəs̪], Irish: Seacaibíteachas, Séamusachas) was a political movement in Great Britain and Ireland that aimed to restore the Roman Catholic Stuart King James II of England and Ireland (as James VII in Scotland) and his heirs to the thrones of England, Scotland, France and Ireland. The movement took its name from Jacobus, the Renaissance Latin form of Iacomus, which in turn comes from the original Latin form of James, "Iacobus." Adherents rebelled against the British government on several occasions between 1688 and 1746.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobitism

The Jacobins on the other hand were a French political movement/party:

The Society of the Friends of the Constitution (French: Société des amis de la Constitution), after 1792 renamed Society of the Jacobins, Friends of Freedom and Equality (Société des Jacobins, amis de la liberté et de l'égalité), commonly known as the Jacobin Club (Club des Jacobins) or simply the Jacobins (English: /ˈdʒæ.kə.bɪnz/; French: [ʒa.kɔ.bɛ̃]), was the most influential political club during the French Revolution. Initially founded in 1789 by anti-Royalist deputies from Brittany, the Club grew into a nationwide republican movement, with a membership estimated at a half million or more.[1] The Jacobin Club was heterogeneous and included both prominent parliamentary factions of the early 1790s, the Mountain and the Girondins.

In 1792–93, the Girondins were more prominent in leading France, the period when war was declared on Austria and Prussia, the monarchy was overthrown and the Republic created.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobin
> I haven't felt "positive reinforcement" or "dopamine hits" for quite some time on Facebook.

A 'feed' does not have to be overtly social to have addictive potential.

Suppose you visit a news site, not a social one, no likes, hearts or any feedback from other users.

The stories appear in a feed that you can refresh. 80% of the stories are of no interest to you, but 20% are great.

You can't predict when an interesting story will appear.

This configuration is enough to create "positive reinforcement" and the unpredictability can foster addictive behaviour.

When you encounter an article you like, it's a bit like sifting through sand and finding a gold nugget, you get a dopamine hit for that.

The fact that the nuggets only come up randomly and are hard to predict
is called an "intermittent reinforcement schedule" and is known to elicit a high rate of response from the subject.
The NME article [0] referenced by Wikipedia makes it sound like the band was aware of the project before the concert:

> The group allowed a show in Prague in August last year to be filmed from a variety of angles throughout, and then provided soundboard masters for the film’s soundtrack.

[0] http://www.nme.com/news/music/radiohead-317-1302641
Ok, fine. They still have to inherit that money. But as they grow up, the rich baby will have access to better nutrition, better education, a less stressful environment, etc compared to the poor baby. That's without considering fetal health/nutrition. There are many known factors that can affect a child's health, growth, and intelligence, and therefore success.

I don't think the distinction of "babies have $0" is relevant when considering all the other potential advantages. What are you getting at with that claim? I don't think it's particularly clear, judging by the other replies.
There is the issue of the TLS connection of images fetched in the app (other things too?) being tied to a domain without a valid cert. In other words, you could MITM the TLS session between the wifi user and the Tindr servers for AT LEAST photos within the app, perhaps more (authentication? other app behavior?).

Because the app isn't strictly enforcing the validation of the cert of the photos domain it's trying to reach to pull photos, your MITM server is free to serve to the app as if it was the server on the Internet.
It can be short for either. Don't be a language prescriptivist, it's a fight you can't win.
> I can't remember the last Amazon package I got that wasn't on of their contract, on-demand drivers.

At the moment, there are 10 Amazon packages not yet delivered to my house - 4 haven't updated the computer with their shipping information, 2 UPS, 1 USPS, 2 AMZL US, and 1 from a Foreign Post.

> Amazon already gives them packages and the optimal route

Optimized not Optimal route.
>Heck, I've gone to concerts before just to make fun of the band and its fans with my friends

What.
That reminds me of the TED talk [0] Luis von Ahn did when he announced duolingo.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ht4qiDRZE8
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E*Trade and other online brokers are the "rich," with their silly fees and ridiculous limits on when you can take your money out.

Robinhood, by not having fees, takes the stock market from the rich and opens it up to everyone else. IMO it's a great name.
In Economics, investment has a different meaning from the common use. I think that's the reason of the misunderstanding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investment_(macroeconomics)
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Tesla & smart energy meters. Don't they both do this?
- DevTips (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyIe-61Y8C4_o-zZCtO4ETQ) for HTML and CSS. Some pretty things and a well-documented process (errors and all)

- CodingTrain (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvjgXvBlbQiydffZU7m1_aw) for JS is good. You know how you sometimes come across a video of a teacher, and go "man, I wish I had teachers like this when I was in school"? Well, this guy is like that - really enthusiastic and great to watch.

- Avelx (https://www.youtube.com/user/avelx) is another great channel! He explains JS and programming concepts very, very well.

Then, for some more advanced stuff (frameworks, libraries, etc) there's:

- LeanWebCode (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHRp19HU7Y2LwfI0Ai6WAGQ)

- Kirupa Chinnathambi (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZCQ3LXtU3IUzMBQBqN69KQ)

- Traversy Media (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC29ju8bIPH5as8OGnQzwJyA)

- TheNewBoston (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJbPGzawDH1njbqV-D5HqKw)

- Finally, I want to mention Steve Griffith for some lesser known JS methods and examples of great code
(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTBGXCJHORQjivtgtMsmkAQ)
Fair enough :^)
The article points out that ex-executives of these companies say that the services were designed to capture people's attention and act like a drug, and that they now disagree with it. The implication of this (and to answer the title, I guess) is that current executives know this and "don't get high on their own supply".

Whether that's the actual case or not is the question, and we could compare other executives of technological but non social media companies to see the level of how much of their own dog food they eat. There's a further question which is whether eating ones own dog food is a good measure.
CNN bought a brand and not a product. In fact the only “product” the company had (beme) was shut down at acquisition. Seems like they simply never managed to translate some smart enthusiastic people into a viable product.

Sad, but seemed like a predictable outcome. Neistat is great, but never saw how his approach would succeed inside a large corporate operation or how he could monetize the “brand” beyond his very successful YouTube following.
I'm disappointed in Robinhood. They've done great work making equity investment approachable to people who are traditionally alienated by it. Their mission, "[...] to democratize the American financial system." caries fantastic social value and generates a lot of good will for them.

Entering cryptocurrencies IMO runs counter to that mission. It's a cash grab which will expose their users to poorly-understood risks and will likely not put anyone on a more stable financial footing.
That is an investment! Just a bad one. :P
As a short person. This is something I've done at almost every concert or show I've gone to. I'm there to enjoy the music. Usually will snap a couple pics so I can at least see the stage for a moment instead of heads and shoulders.
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There was a tool at Google called 'percent' that you could run that would tell you what percent of the employees had joined Google after you (some measure of gravitas was associated with people who had been there 'a long time'). It was not surprising that Google hired a lot of people, there were like 50 people in my 'noogler' class. But the number of people reported as working at Google did not go up at a similar rate. When you did the math it was pretty clear there are many people who spend a relatively short amount of time there.

As a result I'm a bit surprised that there aren't even more of these stories. At lunch one day the topic came up and we joked it would be interesting if engineers could earn medals (similar to the ones in the military) for each company they worked for. It would make for an interesting fashion accessory.
Here are some better articles about Somalia in the same vein as this one, which is sub-par.

[0] https://mises.org/library/stateless-somalia-and-loving-it

[1] https://mises.org/library/anarchy-somalia

[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-12278628
For me, it was easy. In 2015, we really wanted to move back to our east coast flyover-city home from the Bay Area. Google would not let me work remotely, but Netflix would. So it was a no-brainer.

It turned out to be a great move. In my experience, just about everything is better about Netflix as compared to Google: impact, pay, freedom, culture. The only thing that's worse is that I really miss the on-campus food at Google. And TGIF, eng-misc, etc.
RiseML provides a higher-level abstraction than Kubeflow that is more similar to Google Cloud ML. I would love to get your feedback on our solution: https://riseml.com

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What Windows browser would you suggest instead? Chrome is made by a literal advertising company and Edge seems nice but relatively feature-poor.
> less manipulation

> If it goes in a funk, the government will think of ways to prop it back up

I don't disagree with the second statement. I guess what you're saying is that there is manipulation (talking about government intervention in this case) but overwhelmingly in the "right" direction?
The article says that it looks like profile images can be downloaded insecurely. So now you can snoop on what people are looking at. And liking. Opportunities for blackmail, doxxing, griefing, etc., abound.

Also, attacks don't have to exist in a vacuum. As part of a larger suite of attacks, it appears to be a useful tool that can help build up a profile of somebody.

The answer when it comes to hacking is almost never "why". Rather, it's usually "why not".
Use "!g" to have DDG send the query to google. You get the results you want without the tracking.
> The extremely boring answer to our transportation problems is to properly fund public transportation. We've known the solution for ages, but it's kept down by the wealthy class who don't want to pay for public works that would benefit everyone.

I'd say the middle class are the real problem.

You see, the primary reason why transit costs so much in taxes is because few people ride it. Few people ride it because driving is heavily subsidized. Since transit is a step-fixed cost business, the marginal cost of a new rider is nearly zero. A bus running at 20% capacity might be 50% subsidized, but a bus running at 80% capacity might be making a 30% profit.

If the cost drivers incurred matched the costs they impose on society, driving would be extremely expensive in comparison, and drivers would flock to transit in droves, completely changing the necessity for subsidizing transit...either reducing it, eliminating it, or even making it wildly profitable as the streetcar barons found out before driving was subsidized.

However, if you propose raising gas taxes so that driving actually covers its costs, the concern trolls come out of the woodwork about taxes hurting the working poor, no doubt completely unconcerned about how much their comfortable middle class household would have to pay.

But here's a proposal: raise the gas tax, but refund the increase in costs on a means-tested basis. Poof, there goes the concern trolling, but the middle class is still on the hook and they really don't like it, because it might mean that they have to make different decisions about their lifestyle and location and habits.
I think you misreprepresent history. The people calling themselves "libertarian socialists" in the early part of the 20th century were not "on the other side of the aisle" exactly, they were almost all anti-capitalist. And if you're talking about the literal U.S. major political parties, there was not the "Republicans==conservative/right and Democrats==liberal/left" association then, what literal congressional "side of the aisle" did not have the left/right liberal/conservative association it does now, party politics were different. And "libertarian" didn't mean then what it does now in the U.S. either.

But yes, a variety of politics are possible, not just two, and Heinlein certainly had his own odd one, agreed.

In Starship Troopers, of course, everyone gets a kind of UBI I think, but only those who serve in the military have the political franchise. That was a fairly early work of his, and he definitely kept getting weirder from there.
I agree that margin trading on Cryptocurrencies is extremely risky and not fully understood by the majority of people doing it. I am very anxious to see what will happen in the long term since so many people hopped on the bandwagon in the past 2 months and I believe a quite large portion of them went into credit card debt to do it. I have been telling people I know personally that I thought Coinbase allowing the use of credit cards to purchase was asinine, and I am curious to see what will happen.

Capitol One is now blocking all coinbase transactions, and Chase is now running them as cash advances, so the credit card companies are aware. I think there may be a large amount of CC defaults due to cryptocurrency "investors" realizing they are in over their heads in the coming months.
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Wasn’t for mine, and she was 75, not 93.
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I actually thought it was referring to TRON the cryptocurrency before reading the whole comment so there's that.
I imagine a device, it could likely run android let's say. That runs "apps" which are really servers - such as philips hues. You interface via your phone/pc?

Consumes would be presented with a QR code on the packaging, and it would take them to the "appstore" for the device
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About these people who "use their phones to have human experiences and connect to others that aren’t physically present". How is the sender anything more than a human tripod for a webcam that happens to be in a concert? Nothing is being shared because nothing is being experienced in the first place. If anything, the camera is doing the experiencing.

By bypassing our minds and instead offloading experiences directly to the digital middleman we reduce our powers of memory and lose respect for ourselves as witnesses; we begin to feel that only what is digital is real.

Can you not see that we become less human by separating ourselves from the intimacy of experience? We demote ourselves to mediators evaporating reality to the cloud.

What musician wants to perform to a crowd of cloud-zombies? That's equivalent to a crowd of no one. And they really don't care about the experiences of those who "aren't physically present"; that's what recorded albums are for.
I find it really depends on the venue and the audience. If you are playing to an audience of mostly musicians and music appreciation types, the cell phones are hardly seen.

It's the general crowd who isn't really there for the music that are the types to record an entire show. I veer towards snobbery saying it like that, obviously, but it's like seeing two people at an art gallery. The one snapping pics of everything and running to the next piece isn't really there for the art.

It's a tough balance since they are paying for whatever experience defines the experience for them.
Malnutrition and hunger in the world are not "last mile food delivery" problems, and hence can't be solved by last mile food delivery solutions such as UberEats or whatever Grab calls its service.

People who are dying of hunger aren't dying because food is available 2 miles away from them and they can afford it but don't want to go get it.

If you are going to invoke Maslow's hierarchy, consider that getting food at the click of a button is WAAAAY high in the pyramid.
I had a glimmer of hope when I saw this headline.

"Oooh, I hope, they're going to move Pocket out to an optional extension!"

If only.
Weak legal arguments aside, if Google allows criminals or even just bad drivers/passengers to use the app then people are going to lose their trust in it and stop using it.
I would've refrained from sharing if you hadn't mention project Fi. Me calling in to get my Nexus 5x fixed was such a piss poor experience that I would never consider them for mobile service again.
The most surprising thing about this to me is how long it took to have a new cycle about it.

Firesheep was a 2010 invention. Once that happened, anyone could chill in a coffeeshop and watch the http traffic whizz by.

... as much as we want to excoriate Tinder, it's been reasonable for most of their users to have 'i dgaf' as their threat model.
But then this [1] from the organiser of it all suggests otherwise to me:

> And for a final and unhoped-for touch, Radiohead themselves accept to join this project by providing their audio mixes.

[1] http://radiohead-prague.nataly.fr/Thanks.html
I'd rather he go to work wherever he wants to for whatever reasons, but stop blogging about it.

It's clear that the internet is signal boosting his opinions far more then they deserve to be.
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I think I say this about every time, because I see it as the major flaw in almost every approach to this problem. I say this from the perspective of having used a wide range of TS databases, but mostly KDB, Oracle, and prop solutions with Cassandra and Mongo products thrown in.

There are two big problems with relational SQL databases: the storage and the query language. The two aren't separate concerns. While projects like this might fix the storage issue, they will never be simple or fast without also changing the query language too.

SQL doesn't fit the column/array paradigm well. There are extensions that attempt to close the gap, but they are slow and complex compared to just fixing the query language. Operations like windowed queries and aggregates can be painfully slow because of the mismatch between SQL and the ordered data.

I would absolutely love to work on a product that attempts to fix the query issue at the same time as working on the storage and interface issues. You don't need an obscure APL-like language, just something that promotes using the properties inherent in time series to the front.

Also, it is a bit weird to say you are not trying to compete with the likes of KDB then go on to say how good you are at its core competencies. As always, eagerly awaiting the TPC-D benchmarks and comparisons to the heavy hitting time series dbs out there, not the easily crushed FOSS products (except for maybe AeroSpike that I wish I had more experience with).
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>I buy bitcoin, it changes in value, I cash out, I now have a different amount of money than I put in. How is that not an investment?

This sentence explains everything about the world we now live in.
Beme was dumb to begin with. Took a powerhouse of a personality to get it anywhere. Hard truth :\
I think it's more like 40+ years, ever since the HOV lane went in.
>Taking a photo to commemorate a once-in-a-lifetime experience, recording video to show friends

Not okay at the expense of others. Professional photographers and videographers are likely recording the event for you.

>checking the time because you can't stay until the very end

Plan better or buy a watch

>checking the babysitter hasn't called to say the kids are in hospital

What are you going to do other than worry if you go to the hospital? What do you think people did before cell phones? It's OKAY to disconnect for a bit.
Scary. They'll need to be very careful to get this right.

But if they manage to get it right it might be a better deal than relying on revenue from Google?
To follow up, look at percentage of contributions to CourListener from just one individual vs. other volunteers:

https://github.com/freelawproject/courtlistener/graphs/contr...

"The community will keep it running for free" sounds great until you've actually tried managing that community.
G+ anyone?

Managed by an ex-MSer, and wormed its way into every damn part of Google for a time.

After he left Google, i swear someone in the company management accused him of being a "cookie-licker" in an interview.
Then he should have said just that instead of bitching about Google's lack of innovation.
Guessing not a full time engineer or some kind of niche talent? Never heard of anyone going remote or even being a possibility. Its written into the culture and all job postings.
A (presumably controversial) way to use React is to use only props never state, manage state in your own variables (possibly in a separate "controller" class) and call forceUpdate() when you have changed those variables such that the render would change.

This gives me flexibility to structure the code how I want. You can have the separate "controller" classes deal with operations (like API requests) and the "react class" mostly deals with display - it delegates actions to the controller and retrieves data from the controller. This can promote code reuse, notably certain components can share the controller class (not instance) when you have similar logic.

As a more general principle, I like react just fine as a way to express the DOM in a functional way and for its magic of figuring out just what parts of the actual DOM must be updated; but I don't really care about how React wants me to write code in other aspects, like where and how I should manage my data.
Google could be more focused, but for that, you have to say NO to a lot of things and perhaps Google feels like this would create frustration among its most creative talents, so they're willing to ship multiple duplicates of the same thing to give them a sense of freedom to keep them motivated to work there.

The result of this is multiple messaging apps, multiple framework, etc...