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I think people should back down slightly from full "no gods no masters" decentralisation, where everyone runs their own castle, and look to user-run mutual ownership structures.

This is going to involve money changing hands. Users are going to have to pay enough that the people running the system get comfortable professional salaries - not unicorn money and not in SV, but it has to be competitive. Relying for the long term on altruism will only take you so far.

In return, the users should get a genuine say in the policies of the system. This involves building not just a system but a community.

Perhaps the closest to this model that's currently successful is Mastodon.
Here's the book of rules used to make decisions.

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/decision-makers-gu...

Have a look around it. Especially, have a look at the page counts.
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I thinks that's a misinterpretation of Darwinism. The strong don't survive. The surviving ones survive. That's the whole point. Darwinism isn't an optimisation algorithm. A set of circumstances that were favourable for survival with a particular trait may not necessarily be favourable in the future. At any given point, though, the ones that survived are the ones that you can see, so it appears as though they were "selected". This theory is nicer than Lamarckism because it literally needs no mechanism. In order to accept Lamarckism you need to show that species change due to environmental pressures. That's more difficult.
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On non-tech setups, such systems are called ERP systems. The its a mature multi-billion dollar market with hundreds of entrenched players. The moment an application like Asana tries to cross that threshold, they get compared to the ERP products that are designed to handle specific workflow.

ERP products lack flexibility and generally have very poor user experience (since the buyers are not the users). I think there is a separate place for both these products and it depends on the organization when the switch from one domain to another.
You can also opt-out of segment leaderboards. With some work you can lock out your account so only your friends can see your routes, photos and stuff. Everything is well explained on Strava support webpage in section called "Privacy Settings".
Well in this specific case the fundamental problem is rather the fact that you need to store the quite large amount of data which is quite expensive. Adding blockchain on top just makes it even more expensive but doesn't offer any advantage.
> I have yet to meet one person who uses that side of windows 10.

I was going to say, "I do!", but then I realized that no, actually, I don't. I mean, I have a Win10 tablet PC which I often use in tablet mode, and I appreciate the Windows 10 UX. But what I most appreciate about that UX is... how well it works with regular Windows applications!

Because it turns out UWP/metro is just too dumb an interface. It's Android/iOS-level dumb (just with less apps). I'm split about Microsoft right now. On the one hand, I just don't understand why they're on the "dumb down everything" bandwagon. On the other hand, as long as they still support normal Windows interface and applications, I want to support them and wish them best, because Windows 10 is literally, honest-to-God, the best system for tablets that currently exists. Period. I don't want to have to move back to Android.
Grandiose visions and inspiring words doesn't change the fact that users don't care how the backend is implemented.
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Yeah, it's quite a shame because I've always found the Google made phones to be the best. I had the Nexus 5 for 3+ years, and never had a problem with it. I think when it comes time to replace the Pixel I will have to look at other Android phones.
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so a few things about this list:
a) I created it because most of the roundups I've seen suck in my opinion. They mainly list obvious choices only. Safe.
b) In my mind this will always be a work in progress so 100% there are blogs out there that I've never heard of - let me know what is missing!
c) I'm considering moving this over to a site of its own if you all think that this is a good resource for the community worth maintaining - let me know what you think.
> Mullings, your legal advisor, tells you it might not feel like it, but you're one of the lucky ones. At least because this was a housing case you had legal representation. If you hadn't, you would have been steamrollered.

Primarily as a result of cuts to the legal aid system[1]. Design a benefits system that's incredibly complex and all too easy to fall foul of, and then deny any kind of legal assistance in the inevitable appeal. I hope Iain Duncan Smith and his colleagues are one day able to reflect on what they've created.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/legal-aid-cuts...
I really appreciate your concern. I just updated the readme to point the more essential aspects out, there was obviously too much marketing bla bla in it, I see that now. Have a great day!

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At this point this tool is just a compilation of my personal environment scripts to symlink from a global scope to project, local scoped dependencies.
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A personal bugbear for me too. The writer's story is theirs, and I wish they'd stop trying to tell me it's mine too. I typically assume that they're right, that I know what's going to happen, and stop reading.

I don't know which is worse, though: this, or history programmes narrated in the present tense.
Come on, this doesn't trigger your weasel words detector?

>An ‘experiment’ that does not capture any data is not an experiment at all.

>In retrospect, not capturing data was a strong indicator that this was not a good SHIELD study candidate, so we’re making sure we’re going to specifically evaluate future studies

So a commercial add on that _does_ collect data is ok?
I can see why you'd say that, but in terms of usage you'll give yourself at odds with the uk parliament and legal system. [0]

In fact the uk constitution predates most of the neat written ones.

[0] www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit/whatis/uk-constitution
It does not, nor will it count towards challenges, so if you’re into that (which I am so I can’t really fault anyone else) you are incentivised to be public
> No need to burden the rest of the community with it.

yeah, the problem is when IBM goes with big checks to national standard bodies and complains "muuuuhh we won't be able to assure that the systems we sold you in 1970 will still work in 20 years if the C++ standard removes support for EBCDIC" and then these standard bodies write strongly-worded letters to the ISO commitee: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2009/n291...
It was much more recent than that. Content Aware Fill was introduced in Photoshop CS5 which was released in 2010. Perhaps you were thinking of the Spot Healing Brush of Photoshop which is somewhat similar but much more manual and limited.
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There are discrepancies between the HTML and pdf version.

Eg. In the first line in 'References'

HTML: "When looking for resources on the web, search for “matrix calculus” not “vector calculus.” "

Latex/pdf: "When looking for resources on the web, search for “elements” not “elements” "
> I think many heavily used pieces of software can benefit from a BDFL-like decision maker instead, especially if the alternative is software specifically designed to use me as a guinea pig surreptitiously. I feel like, in the race for adoption, we suffer a form of the tyranny of the majority with software.

I’ve recently been feeling the same but couldn’t articulate it as well as you have.

This is one thing that the biggest open source projects seem to get wrong more often than right (trying to be all things to all people, all of the time). Management by consensus usually yields mediocre results in the commercial space, too. The BDFL model is a great compromise. Everyone gets a say, but not the final say, and there’s a consistent vision driving the project.

When projects get very popular, it’s hard to say “no” and keep that vision focussed. This seems to come more naturally to proprietary projects, at times resulting in a better overall experience for the narrower subset of users served.
Given the bureaucratic complexity of welfare and social support in most countries there might be a solution to a problem nobody wants to see.

Welfare support has long time ago reached the level where it's difficult if not impossible for a normal, working, and still mentally capable person to understand everything and their caveats — not to mention someone who has first had hard luck, is then subsequently out of energy, and is finally subjected to the experience of being a cog in the very machine that is the bureaucracy.

From programmer's point of view the obvious solution is encapsulation.

Let's keep the private parts to the implementation and only offer a reasonable public interface. That means a dedicated social worker who knows both the rules and knows you.

An outsider can't be expected to chug along with the ever-mutating directives, laws, guidances, and rules that are part of the bureaucracy's own operation and related legislation. Let the bureau have people who take human descriptions of one's life and work out the best plan out of available benefits. The insiders have the knowledge of what works together and how to make the system work.

This would also be more efficient: failed applications, missing actions, mismatched assumptions, eviction orders, court cases, etc do all cost the bureau some time and money already in the current system. If there was an inside person who could rule out the impossible branches right away and check eligibility on the applicant's first or second visit, everyone would save time.
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It may even be just one guy.

https://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/health/drug-firms-shipped...

"In 2015, more than 40 percent of the oxycodone prescriptions filled by Westside Pharmacy in Oceana were coming from the Virginia doctor, according to the committee’s letter. The following year, the Virginia Board of Medicine suspended the doctor’s license, finding his practice posed a “substantial danger to public health and safety.”"

Possibly the person named here: https://pilotonline.com/news/local/health/article_7b369428-0...
How is the integration of Pocket in any way similar to the Mr. Robot scenario? You just pointed to a recent article where they are explaining exactly the what/why/how details of this integration. There is nothing surprising or being hidden about this integration, and it's been a long time coming if you have paid attention to the beta/nightly/dev channels.
Where drugs are prescription-only, the hand doing the distribution is extremely visible and has a signature.

See my other comment, but it appears that there are a small number of doctors "robosigning" prescriptions, almost certainly in the knowledge that the drugs will be resold into the black market.
To me personally it is not about negativity (or criticizing their software) but financial realism.

With their amount of paying customers, there is no way they can justify their valuation. I would love to understand the raise from their perspective, and the investors'. Is it to stay afloat? Is it in hopes of boosting valuation for a medium-term acquisition? Why $75M more when their revenue is a sliver of that?
There is even a research paper related to this phenomenon. Microsoft Research researched Nigerian scam e-mails. Turns out intentionally dumb messaging does help in filtering out targets that might be too smart to fall for the scam. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-...
I don't think you can expect drug addicts (yes, even on legal drugs, at this level of consumption you are an addict) to take decisions like this.
I think that's spot on. I coded quite a lot of C++ in the early 2000s. Now I'm considering to jump onboard again. C++11 and successors are almost a different language.

More importantly, for my niche I don't see anything that can readily replace C++. Rust has very little support for scientific computing. Julia is great, and will replace my high level statistical inference code, but it's not designed to let me design low-level close-to-the-metal data structures. Scala has memory issues, which will be hopefully less problematic once value types are implemented in the JVM. OCaml and F# look interesting, I haven't evaluated these carefully.
For me, this whole fiasco was the last straw: Quantum had already broken the plugins I use for vertical tabs, and then I found that the only reason Quantum was introduced was to allow this Looking Glass plugin to collect telemetry from the whole of the browser window, not just the pages being rendered. Like yourself, I've been a Firefox user since the Phoenix days, but this was a step too far.

I switched to Vivaldi, which is a Chromium with high levels of customization, including a vertical tab bar.
Maybe their purpose isn't too be efficient. If everyone automatically got all the benefits they were entitled to it works surely be a lot more expensive.
From a certain perspective I agree, and though I am a free market capitalist to my core, the free market doesn't preclude an organization behaving in a communist fashion; the free market simply doesn't require it. I very much encourage things like this.
Will someone please convince me that this isn't a case of "everything looks like a nail"?
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> Even Thatcher was a fan of Attlee

We don't hold that against him, though.
The argument is that picking the most efficient solution regardless of where it is sourced from is actually the best way to increase the welfare of your local {economy,state,nation}. Trying to artificially prop up the local economy seems attractive in the short term, but ultimately leads to inefficiency and exactly the excesses the NYT post above cites in the context of metro construction.

For a longer argument, see Adam Smith, "The Wealth of Nations" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations).
I agree that Christians (cue #NotAllChristians) have something that could be called a "victimization fetish". I agree that many couple the Holocaust of the Jews with anything they see as a diminishing of their faith, including equating the removal of special privileges that Christianity has had over other faiths with the Holocaust. I'm willing to call this a victimization-by-proxy.

What I disagree with is that your example, as originally described, shows evidence of a victimization fetish-by-proxy towards Jews.

Most of what you wrote just now also fits into a Christian Zionism interpretation.

The 'special status' of Jews in the US is of course partially to do with the Holocaust and Zionism, as well as a response to the disgraceful way the US dealt with Jews who tried to escape by immigrating to the US.

But I think we should also interpret it as an attempt to unify disparate branches of Christian faith under the banner of so-called "shared Judeo-Christian values". It's a way to brush doctrinaire differences under the table.

When people claim that "Merry Christmas" is part of our Judeo-Christian values then I can't help but think they are including "Judeo" as a fig leaf.

Given that you know the context, and since what you described is a friend-of-a-friend account, where you don't recall the specifics, I think you can understand why I don't agree with the conclusion you drew from the recollection you gave, even if I can agree with your overall thesis.
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It takes more rocket to launch into LEO than it does to get a ballistic trajectory to your nearest enemy. Your average ICBM doesn't have the oomph to do it. If it did, then it could target any point on the planet, and we are fairly sure the North Korea ICBMs can't do that. Yet.

Also, once you have got your pellets into LEO, you need a way to spread them with a variety of relative velocity. A satellite-satellite collision or a rocket explosion does this very well - the models give the individual fragments 1km/s relative outward velocity from the incident, so you basically need to make a nail bomb. Some of the fragments will be blown in the backwards direction, and may re-enter the atmosphere on the first orbit. Interestingly, because reasons, fragments that are blown upwards and downwards may also re-enter on the first orbit too.
Vivalidi is proprietary though. Switching to that seems like a huge step back to me.
Idea for political trolling: just once, sell the other country a jet or whatever without a single bug, and laugh as they desperately tear it apart, trying to uncover something.
And LOE still has some atmospheric drag, which means that debris will eventually fall to Earth. So that would be more of a "space age hiatus". By the way, we already have some ideas on how to deal with debris [0], so in the event of an actual Kessler Syndrome we could try them out.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_broom
The AU seems likely to be a in better spot, in part because it is built on regional "pillars" and a lot of separate organizations, so even if the AU itself for some reason were to fail, it is already having massive impact. E.g. ECOWAS covers 15 countries and ~350 million in West Africa. SADC covers 16 states in Southern Africa etc. COMESA acts as a superset of SADC and EAC, providing a free trade area covering 400m+ people in Southern and Eastern Africa, and so on.

A number of monetary unions have started coalescing the currencies of he continent, as well, so even if the progress towards a single African currency were to fail, that too is still having an impact.
It's true that a range of stakeholders care about different things, but the solution is to demo the project regularly to verify it fit's basic needs and covers everyone's pet issue.

Gov software projects are on a pass fail scale, and people have minimal expectations despite what they may hope to see. The waterfall approach of gather a bunch of details > build something is more about budget than a black and white must meet 100% of every specific req.
They posted their data as public so they could be found and identified anyway. Heatmap just speeds up the process by letting us know where to search.
> Probably because then you can fairly easily create a tax evasion scheme where you never pay yourself a salary and just keep borrowing money at zero interest and payment due long about five years after the sun explodes...

It's legal here in the US, but there are rules around minimum interest charges. I dealt with this during a partner buyout - the payment schedule HAD to have interest involved or else it was considered a fishy loan.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/7872
Pocket integration was in 2015 (acquisition was in Feb 2017 [1] as linked in this article as well) so not last year, but the Cliqz debacle was last year. Assuming Looking Glass is the most recent one I'm not sure about #3. Describing Pocket as being #3 within a year is dishonest IMO.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/02/27/mozilla-acquires-po...
It was an ad for a TV-show. I wouldn't really like if deceptively concealed ad's were bundled as part of Firefox proper either.
In LEO it's not about orbital slots - it's about frequency bands.

Claims on frequency bands in orbit are governed by the ITU; because of its international nature, there aren't agreed-upon policies for frequency assignments, so instead the rules are simple and competitive. The first entity to get a satellite in orbit using a specific frequency band gets the exclusive rights to that band, so there's a lot of pressure to get a symbolic bird up early to stake your claim.
I like to say that Poland has two official religions:

* Catholicism
* History of Poland

As a Pole, I'm dismayed that history is taught as something to treasure, not something to contemplate, discuss and take insight from. History is just not treated as something to learn from. Criticism of Polish history is widely considered offensive. The standard tactic for handling ugly actions performed by Poles is denial. Just don't acknowledge them. If that's not possible, play them down.

This is the direction recent act about "Polish death camps" is heading in. It will outlaw saying Poles were originators of any WW2 war crimes. This is ridiculous. Yes, several million of Poles were killed in WW2. But there are black sheep in any society, and certainly there are in an oppressed one. When you harm a group of people, some of them will invariably hit back. How often do you hear that widely admired Józef Piłsudski was a terrorist and a train robber in his early years ? That Polish resistance conducted assassinations and bombings, not just on soldiers but also on civilians they determined to be collaborators ? Kazimierz Wielki (Casimir the Great), praised for development of Poland under his rule, was a cynical womanizer.

Even a single person can be both good and bad. By whitewashing Polish history, Poland shoots itself in the foot. You shouldn't expect to get correct output if you provide incomplete input. Poland has aspirations to be a regional power and to form an alliance of countries under its leadership. It's not going to happen as long as Poles refuse to remember their wrongdoings towards other nations and groups. Poles will just continue to wonder why most neighboring nations don't like them. You need to remember your mistakes to avoid them in the future and/or to apologize for them, if only in a symbolic manner. Look at what Germany is doing. Yes, Germans supported terrible genocide under Hitler, but they're now doing a lot to prevent that from happening in the future. And Germany is doing really well as far as diplomacy goes.

The eye-opening moment for me was when I was preparing for final exams. We had extra history lessons, and our teacher would force us to think. She would tell us what happened, and asked us why did king X or pope Y do that. Or she would divide us into two groups, like Spartans and Athenians, give us source text and ask to prepare a speech arguing our city-state is better (contemporary Greeks considered Sparta to be a realized utopia).
You could actually get a payload into LEO with an ICBM, as long as it was lighter than your average nuclear warhead (or for MIRVed missiles, lighter than your warheads plus bus).
I feel like embedded development should just avoid c++ and go with a managed languages. I was hopeful abut go, but they kinda wrecked it for embedded.

The thing with embedded is you have two cases, hard real time and just don't care.
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>and then I found that the only reason Quantum was introduced was to allow this Looking Glass plugin to collect telemetry from the whole of the browser window, not just the pages being rendered.

What.

I'd really love to know how you came to this conclusion.
OTOH this may be also seen as evidence that China treats African countries as serious partners - if they didn't, they wouldn't bother with spying.
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My issue with the Pocket integration is that it's non-removeable - you get it whether you want it or not, and even if you remove the button from the toolbar, the code is still there within Firefox. You can't remove it like a plugin. To me, it adds another security problem that can only be fixed with an update of the whole browser, and you don't have the option not to have it.

But as I said, Mozilla were very up-front with the plans. They weren't with Looking Glass.