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Because we allow you to use the credit card without using the chip. You buy from a compromised merchant, or a merchant that isn't properly hashing it's credit cards? bam, your card is stolen. You put your card in a compromised card reader? your card is stolen. With a chip, (a smartcard credit card, like you use in Europe) this is way harder.

Yes, yes, in America, our credit cards now have chips, too... but they also have the old magstripe, and everyone buys things from the internet anyhow, so we're giving that number out to everyone.

The other side of this is that the laws in the US are heavily in the customer's favor. It's a pain in the ass, you have to complain about the charges, but it's very rare that we are actually responsible for any of the charges. (The merchant who accepted the stolen credit card is left holding that particular bag.)

Because of this? Personally, I don't worry too much about it. I figure any one of my cards might be out of commission at any point of time, and periodically I'll just call my credit card company and tell them to give me a new credit card number, just so I have a fresh one that isn't floating around all the darknet sites. I figure a credit card being compromised every five years or so is 'normal'
You should also add: speed of maintenance, fixing bugs, refactoring. But these aspects are not part of the Ruby propaganda of course (which I myself believed in for too long).
It's a blank page that says "Loading..." Is that the joke...?

edit: I started browsing around their site, and when I returned to that page via the back button, the actual comic was there.
I felt drowned in pessimism from media, culture, and family for most of my life up to that point, and this book opened up an optimistic perspective on global prosperity, health, violence, education, work, inequality, environment, etc. It makes rational arguments for this general optimism rather than hand-wavey optimism. I think it can be summarized as: "Things aren't so bad for the average human and are improving in most of the important ways. We've hit on patterns (science, markets, etc.) that seem to work, and we should continue to work at making things even better."
The article's discussion about the NYT election accuracy meter wiggling randomly (but within the error bars) is a textbook example of "vague but accurate" information, perhaps to a fault.

How do you visually represent "error bars" to someone who's not technical enough to have ever seen them? Not everyone takes college stats, math, and engineering.

Technically, wiggling within the error bars is a precise way of saying "the precise location is vague -- it's somewhere within this range", in that at any moment it is showing one precise, acceptable guess.

The most fascinating piece there was that as the error bars decreased, the range of the wiggling decreased as well.

Yeah, it doesn't convey the extend of the error bars instantaneously -- you need to stare at it over time -- but it does convey the idea of error bars.

I think the people upset about the error wiggle are either a) being pedantic that it's not visualized in the way they learned it should be visualized back in college; or b) they haven't accepted the idea that sometimes we don't have an exact precise black-and-white answer (we DO have ways to precisely quantify the degree of our uncertainty though).

All of this not to say it was the best execution... perhaps if they 'ghosted' previous needle positions like how old movie radars ghost a green blip as the thingie spins around, maybe it would have been a kind of hybrid approach where the error bars do kinda appear in the overlapping ghosting shadows but still change over time...
> It's very strange to describe Amazon (at least engineering roles) as a sweatshop considering how well compensated employees are.

Amazon employs over half a million people (https://www.statista.com/statistics/234488/number-of-amazon-...). I doubt engineers make more than 5-10%, someone has to mind the fulfillment centres, and the fully automatic robotic future is yet to arrive (https://qz.com/1039169/amazon-is-looking-to-hire-50000-peopl...).

The blue collars make up the bulk, and while the accounts of white-collar sweatshop conditions are argued about, nobody ever contradicted the accounts of blue-collar workers, and numerous complaints have been filed: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-settlement-could-pave-wa....
If humans are still dominating, AI has not arrived.
> And that's actually why people keep using Tencent product -- because all your friends are using it, your mom using it, your boss using it, so you have to. In fact, I think most of those IM's gaining their user base because of this.

Is it cultural? I use signal. Most of my contacts don't use signal. I've forced the people I talk to the most to get signal. For everyone else, I'll use WhatsApp or just text. I don't need everyone to use something for me to use that thing. In fact, the day my mum joins Snapchat will be the day I'll uninstall it for good.
I usually hate posts about top job, top tech talent, etc.

This post was a lot of great stuff. The idea of pairing talented people of different levels is crucial. A senior lead with shit backup can only do so much. The right balance I think can turn two mythical 10x devs into 100x total instead of 20x. Of course, make sure those people are also compatible, as half the 10x devs I know are loners who don't mix well and work best when left alone.
"The Beginning of Infinity" by David Deutsch
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Hope they actually steal it and implement it properly rather than completely butcher it so badly that you wouldn't want anyone to hear that this was supposedly your idea.
Why would anyone implement VoIP over TCP to then lie to TCP in order ot make it practically UDP?
>if the U.S. presidential election had gone the other way

...then we'd be too busy waging wars overseas.
This book didn’t exist until that long ago, so it doesn’t seem like a fair choice for “I wish I had read this when I was younger”.
I think there's a ton of value in people who are experts in systems and stay focused in that area, but I do see the importance of sys admins also being developers and having firsthand understanding of the developer perspective.

On the other side of the coin, it's also very important that developers (particularly senior developers) have a healthy understanding of the full pipeline that brings code from their laptop to end-users.

These two realms of software are yin and yang. How to best approach one depends on your approach to the other, and vice versa.

If developers and sys admins don't have quite a lot of overlap, the goals that each are optimizing for can diverge pretty quickly. 'DevOps' seems to have emerged out of people's recognition of this problem.

All that said, you could well be right that companies are overweighting development knowledge and underweighting the ops side. It's easy to end up with 'ops debt' that becomes crushing when developers put off dealing with it for too long.
I know where I came from — but where did all you zombies come from?
Anthem by Ayn Rand. It’s really short and a tad trite but really made me rethink things. Still the only book I have read in a single sitting.

The Art of UNIX Programming. 10 years ago me really could have used it, feel like I wasted way too much time figuring out things this would have explained. Honestly I don’t know if I had been ready to hear it though.
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Thanks, appreciate the detail :)

I very much agree with that philosophy and would consider myself a rational optimist if I had to label, hence the intrigue.

While optimism is good, I think it needs to be paired with equally important perspective. As that review points out, the general trend doesn't mean we can't go backward for long periods of time in multiple areas. That optimism needs to be paired with a push for improvement over complacency, which I think is the easy comfort optimism can give.

Sorry if this is preaching to the choir, but hopefully someone gains value out of this.

Edited because I just trailed off in the middle of a thought on my first go round.
What's bloated about it?

Let see...
- Why do I care about reading someone's life moment on an IM? WhatsApp also tried this and another reason I think it is now heading to the "dark side"
- Why do I said... Request a Didi on an IM ?
- Why would I care to use it to pay for something? I just want to message someone.
- Why do I even care about these features? I just want to message someone...
- In fact, why do I care about so much eye-killing gifs/emoji

An IM is an IM. But then I grew up in the western world, so my opinions might not apply to everyone. But I am sure as hell share someone's opinion on this.

Is it bloated? Hell yeah, can it still make a case that Chinese general population would prefer bloated single-app? Sure, but that doesn't mean I like it.
Another entry for your list: vulnerability to file descriptor exhaustion attacks. This (and the chroot issue) is why OpenBSD promotes their arc4random() interface for generating random numbers rather than /dev/random.
In Fifty Years, We'll All Be Chicks, by Adam Carolla.

I should have read fifteen years ago, but it hadn't been written yet.
We don’t have point of reference outside of Wall-e to presume a robot is conscious in any way. However a living organism like a plant may experience being.
Humanity has a Facebook problem. But it's not just Facebook at fault. Overconsumption is humanity's trait.
That depends on how much plant feed you need to consume to offset the calories and nutrition from 1kg of meat. This will, of course, depend on the plant and the meat, but I'm sure you could make some reasonable assumptions. I've never done the math, but would be interested to hear if anyone has.
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> ... Houston airport reduced complaints by moving it's baggage claim to be farther away from gates. Would you call this deception?

nah man, that's just straight up Dark Patterns -- https://darkpatterns.org

Like when your 2nd-touch emails technically and legally have an Unsubscribe link, but it's the same color as the background. Or how installing the Yahoo search toolbar was an opt-out with each java update.
Return over 10 years after fees as compared to a minimum expense index fund.

Everything that loses to that is a con (98-99% of actively managed funds). Matters little if you were ripped off with a human picking the losers, an AI or both or neither.
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. It's astonishing to get useful, relevant advice on how to conduct yourself across two millenia. I recommend the translation by Gregory Hays, which removes the academic feel of other translations, and so makes them relevant and, at least in my case, actionable.
User behaviour Websites and apps are designed for compulsion, even addiction
Tell that to the Catholic church.
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Let play through some scenarios. If you opt out, then there is not credit for you, so there would be no chance of a loan. Which is probably ok for people that decide against credit, but not for those that don't have enough savings stashed away where they need credit (car loan, home mortgage, etc).

Now if it is opt in, well then you have the issue of free speech. If someone takes out a loan and doesn't pay it back, why wouldn't the institution lending the money have a right to tell others about that (through a third party)?

If this isn't the case, where we have opt in by default, and it destroys the credit industry, that may also not necessarily be a bad thing. Because a lot of necessary items (housing, car ownership [for certain geographical regions], college) would fall in price to be more affordable if people couldn't get loans for them.

Of course, the real issue that most people have with credit reporting agencies is the fairness of a credit score or credit report, in that it may not actually reflect the risk of a given loan. This is an area where I feel they can and should do better. After all, if a lender is turning away customers that they shouldn't, then they are leaving quite a lot of business untapped. What would be better is if credit items were categorized based on credit type and circumstances.

For example, if you fall behind on sudden medical bills, but keep up on your mortgage and car payment, well that shouldn't affect your ability to buy a house or car on credit. In fact, if I was a car dealer I'd be happy to extend someone credit that treated their car payment as more important.

Or, if credit cards fell behind during an unemployment stretch. In that case if your credit report shows that payments pick up again as soon as you are back on your feet, then if I was a credit card issuer, I would lower interest rates during unemployment and only bring them back up a month or two after you got a job. And as long as the record shows that someone is employable (was only out of work during times of a down economy, but otherwise could hold down a job and make regular payments while working), I would think that they would be a good credit risk.

Another situation -- lets say you are a cosigner on a loan, and the person you cosigned for fell behind on payments, and you refused to pick up the payments. Well, that should only affect your ability to cosign in the future, but not anything else (assuming all other lines of credit are showing good).

So this is where I think that the market is ripe for disruption, in using extended information to bring in credit customers that are otherwise left behind by the current situation. But this requires much more tracking details
"These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots!"
In my opinion the goal of a thread like this isn't to share missed opportunities but to highlight potential opportunities for readers today.
Erm, no. Speaking as someone who was raised on ideas like this.

This is convenient for others, but not for you. They will take advantage of you if you think like that and you not be seen as leadership material.

Either challenge it, leave or find a way to prevent that next time. If you truly have no choice but to put up, then you have no choice. But don't be naive doormat.
you can install mame/gnome arcade on linux and definitely create a dangerous distraction. I've wasted some time on centipede, burger time and even snacks'n jaxson
I dislike references because:

1. People can lie in support of their friends, or be bad judges of ability. A project manager might vouch that this guy is godlike when the reality is that they've just been working late whenever the boss is around and hacks everything together clumsily.

2. Some people don't want their best employees to leave, so they won't want to give a strong recommendation to someone, especially if that person is currently employed.

3. Whatever circumstances that causes one to leave a job might not put them on the best terms.

I feel that recommendations are sometimes like asking someone's ex about their character.
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I have read about this long ago. This was in the context not of ignoring don't-care data, but using premature ACKs as a way of garnering more bandwidth.

The idea is to send ACKs ahead of time to provoke the sender into transmitting faster, defeating some of the congestion control mechanisms in TCP.

The network has to be reliable to make it work (the pipe has to buffer all the excess spew), and the sending stack has to ignore situations when it gets a premature ACK, ahead of the sequence number it has actually sent.
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I think 'person swapping' would be best done end-to-end. No need to go through something like this.
Bonus points if you trigger the "Human VonNotachatbot is currently typing..." indicator during the artificial delay period.
As a software engineer who decided to learn about biotech with absolutely no background, here is how I started:

- Organic Chemistry course on itunes U (don't remember which one, just first 4-5 lessons)

- Introduction to Genetics: A Molecular Approach by Terry Brown

- Virology course on iTunes U, by Vincent Racaniello - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/w3310-virology-videocast...

- Molecular biology of the cell book ( https://www.amazon.com/Molecular-Biology-Cell-Bruce-Alberts/... )

After going through that (took ~3 months full time), I went for a month to the Bay Area, went to Biocurious hackerspace, to get some practical experience, and within a month I did stuff like ordering custom dna online, and putting it into bacteria :)

All the above was sufficient to understand basics of whatever I'm reading now about biotech, and gain extra knowledge when necessary.

Some notes:
- Virology may seem a weird addition, but the course by Racaniello is super-fun, and if you understand how viruses work, you will understand how everything else works
- If, like me, you were afraid of Chemistry and Biology in high school, don't worry. Organic Chemistry deals just with just four basic elements, and Molecular Biology is really not much different from mechanics - not that much to remember, and a lot to understand.
- Even if you complete just 3-4 first chapters of all the above, you will get nice foundations for understanding biotech.
- There are bio hackerspaces in major cities in US (not so much in EU - regulations)
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Disclaimers: I'm not principally a UI/UX designer, though I (re)write a hell of a lot of CSS because so much of it completely sucks.

Tables overload what should be a data-definition element with layout semantics. And, yes, there's an argument that might be made, I suppose, that Grid (which I'm only just learning of from this video) might recreate some of the sins of table-based layouts. Especially of "pixel-perfect" layouts.

And, yes, I can see clients or frameworks which, say, assign a grid to Every. Damned. Paragraph. In. A. Page.

You cannot out-wit stupid, it's far too smart for that.

But the positive here is that you're getting the gridding of tables with the flexibility of semantic positioning. And that could be useful.

And unless you're dealing with a truly supergenius-level idiot, you might be able to deal with broken Grid layout by just dropping the Grid-based CSS entirely. Tools such as Reader Mode or Pocket (or similar) should have an easier time parsing this sort of thing.

Though really, if you want to fix HTML truly, insisting on standards-compliant formatting and imposing a penalty (Web search still seems to be the gatekeeper role here) on Really Bad Design might address some of that.

Though there's a horribly large amount of Very Bad Structural Page Design. Including much of it from, oh, just to select a publisher at random: Google.
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins

How To Win Friends And Influence People - Dale Carnegie

The Game - Neil Strauss

The Four Steps To The Epiphany - Steve Blank

... among others.
At my day job we've seen load times for pages > 5 seconds in rails. There's no way to do it faster because the data has to be dynamically generated and loaded, and that's the bottleneck.

It's not uncommon to see this in rails applications — GitLab had the same issues.
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> that's exaggeratedly simple

it's simple, but I don't think that it's exaggerated. If anything I think it just speaks to the hidden power and complexity that can arise from following simple rule-sets.

Although not typically used to describe such (internal) behavior, the text-book definition of 'stimulus' is just "a thing or event that evokes a specific functional reaction in an organ or tissue." -- If one were to consider that definition, 'stimulus' would also include everything your brain does; along with introspection, prediction, and everything we include as 'consciousness', and not just external forces that evoke an internal response (like sound,smell, light, touch, taste, etc.).
> If you opt out, then there is not credit for you, so there would be no chance of a loan.

That’s blatantly false. People have been able to get loans for literally thousands of years before credit bureaus existed, and you can do it today as well. The industry term is ‘manual underwriting’ and plenty of people and businesses have loans issued that way.
Do you find that any of your vegetarian friends, of which you appear to have several, find any of your "jokes" to be "funny"? Asking for a friend.
>if the U.S. presidential election had gone the other way (however you feel about that), we might currently have an effective CFPB that was on its way to forcing these companies to perform freezes

What on earth gives you the impression that either party cares about personal data privacy or free credit freezes? They’re both happy as long as the debt-driven economy continues to roll...
Curious. Why gzip and not xz?
Hmm, I am not sure how would I live with the thought that every single step in nature I do brutally kills/damages conscious beings. Fun! Theodicy would suddenly seem a small problem...
Why does someone that pay gor his own private care does not have the option to not pay public care. That is the "do it or prison" aspect.
Western civilization is based on merit and it is based on being very competitive. (It's true in your mates, your social standing, your financial situation, etc) That's the reason for the improvement books.
Proposed socket-level API: allow llseek on the descriptor, in the forward direction only.
I read it earlier in life, and I don't think I got as much out of it as if I'd read it later.
> according to this article many interpreted the movement as the needle reflecting actual changes in data.

I said more in another comment elsewhere in the thread, but I think outside of stem fields, things often need to be precise and black-or-white... the idea of quantifying the degree of uncertainty ("error bars") is foreign. That's one of the ideas I would try to give the rest of the world.
Wish I read earlier:

The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield

Musashi, by Eiji Yoshikawa
There are browser extensions that make them virtually "no energy". Haven't used them in a long time so I can't speak for the current experience.

I would very much dispute the "very close" claim. I find they're very close or the cheapest for fairly pricey items. For not-so-common items, or for regular supplies, they are often not even close.

I bought a steamer rack from them for over $15. It's a very popular item, made from a well known brand and with over 1000 reviews. Just last week I was in a local grocery store and found a very similar steamer for less than $7. Looking at similar steamers in Amazon, they are all above $10 if I order Prime. I do see one which is about $8, but I have to specially select the non-default non-Prime option for that listing. On a search result, it shows up as $11, not $8. Note that I am not a Prime member, yet those are the prices I see when I search.

If you do a lot of "regular" shopping, those deltas really add up.
You haven't seen an italian town.

Cars make sharp turns and get into tight spaces on unmarked, uneven surfaces, with pedestrians walking everywhere around the car.

That's what a self-driving car needs to support. All road rules out of the window, tiny roads you canbarely navigate, and due to a festival everything is redirected around and all your maps are useless, you're told to drive a short bit through a park because there's a parade on the road, the only way to tell where you can and can't drive being a nonstandard sign and a police officer telling you.

This is a real life use case of driving, as given in many European towns. For additional difficulty, do a small Weihnachtsmarkt in a rural place, where you'll have the same, but with so much snow you can barely see anything.