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Nobody ever gives the full version of that quote:

"On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other."

Brand wasn't a naive utopian; he acutely understood the conflicts that the internet would bring about.
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I've been using Bluetooth in my car to stream music for a long time now and ive had bluetooth earbuds for the last year so im believer, i just don't believe in taking away features that dont need to be taken away.

there are still plenty of times where a headphone jack can be useful. when you run out of charge, if youre at someone elses house but then dont have any bluetooth receiver.

maybe in the future when bt headphone batteries last more than a day i might be able to get behind the idea a bit more
Also, being part of a botnet should directly impact your internet bill. I don't really see another option. It's a bit silly that nobody knows when their devices are saturating their bandwidth 24/7 because they are compromised.

That way people are then motivated to hire a professional. Also, people making devices will be motivated to not use a default "admin" password because customers will start saying "uh, this smart toaster cost me hundreds of dollars when I plugged it in."
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"Placebo interventions are often claimed to substantially improve patient-reported and observer-reported outcomes in many clinical conditions, but most reports on effects of placebos are based on studies that have not randomised patients to placebo or no treatment. Two previous versions of this review from 2001 and 2004 found that placebo interventions in general did not have clinically important effects, but that there were possible beneficial effects on patient-reported outcomes, especially pain. Since then several relevant trials have been published."

...

"We did not find that placebo interventions have important clinical effects in general. However, in certain settings placebo interventions can influence patient-reported outcomes, especially pain and nausea, though it is difficult to distinguish patient-reported effects of placebo from biased reporting. The effect on pain varied, even among trials with low risk of bias, from negligible to clinically important. Variations in the effect of placebo were partly explained by variations in how trials were conducted and how patients were informed."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20091554

This suggests the double-blind may have more to do with stopping the researchers fudging the results, than convincing the patient they're getting real treatment.
Tried so far and unable to get a connection with a key to go through with no error console to review the issue. =[
For HSTS, it’s based on the spec. There’s not supposed to be a user-accessible override for HSTS errors, which is why Chrome hides it behind that easter egg. Firefox has no override of any kind.
You may get downvoted to hell for, er, speaking the truth?

I'm afraid you're right and Miss McArdle is really nothing much more than a libertarian hack.

Case in point: Her book review fo Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-First Century". While opinions may certainly differ about the tome this is a bit rich for a book review:

I apologize in advance, because I am going to talk about a book that I have not yet read. To be clear, I intend to read Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century.” It is sitting on my (virtual) bedside with a big stack of other (digital) books that I intend to read. But it’s far down in the queue, and I’m afraid that I can’t wait to weigh in—not on the book itself, but on its topic.

Reviews a book she hasn't read and needless to say completely trashes it in the process.

I actually agree: Bloomberg really should have her fired.

I link to the Baffler article[1] since the original review is apparently only available to subscribers.

[1] https://thebaffler.com/latest/what-pikettys-conservative-cri...
I live in a San Francisco rent-controlled apartment. I only moved to San Francisco because of rent control. Otherwise I would not have been able to afford a place at all. New apartments in cities without rent control always seem to be expensive, and I couldn't afford those either. Rents on old apartments seem to be skyrocketing, too. I, for one, welcome rent control.
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You did notice that neither her link nor yours contains any data whatsoever right?

I gave two data points that strongly indicated that the effect rent control has on construction is either absent or very, very weak. You wouldn't exactly get the highest rate of construction coinciding with the strictest rent controls otherwise now would you?
I don't think you can see all that much from the first floor of one of those houses. Higher density doesn't have to be ugly. Compare this random small street in Berlin

https://goo.gl/maps/hvkzDG4u9Tp

with this random "small" street in SF

https://goo.gl/maps/dJzn86V9ers

It's even more stark when you compare larger streets. Berlin:

https://goo.gl/maps/hBg7aMA2Feu

SF:

https://goo.gl/maps/YFcVLSWHPzS2

I guess you can see why I thought the density in SF to be pretty ridiculous.

Low density wouldn't be so much of a problem, imho, if the zoning would be better. Why does a large fraction of the population have to commute downtown to the skyscrapers? Couldn't the offices be spread out a bit more? Why are supermarkets to far apart? I did a lot of walking while in SF and in many parts of the city I had the feeling that sidewalks were more decorative than meant for transportation, because there were no shops or small businesses for a kilometer or more around.
Thanks! I had no idea. I was thinking that its intended use was only limited to add color to visualizations, like a contrast.
The biggest problem I have with thunderbird is that it fails to render some html mails properly. Above all, they should fix this problem first. Instead of creating a mobile app or whatever, they should get their existing client right. As of today, the 2 things that keep me from switching fully to evolution are (1) evolution's unfriendly keyboard shortcuts that, for whatever reason, I cannot change, and (2) nostalgy.
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> authoritarian regimes in Eastern Europe

He somehow never forgets to bring this up.
The great thing about a headphone port is that if you stick something in it you won't ever hear anything over the speaker. A bluetooth headset might not be connected (anymore) and you won't notice until it starts blaring. I use it a lot when debugging applications that have sound and drive me nuts if I have to listen to the sound all day long. Apart from that I don't really miss it on newer phones but my SE remains my go-to testing phone just because things like that (also you need to dogfood the UX on smaller phones in my opinion).

Aside I have een looking into nice headphone amps for iPhones and that market seems really small. It seems that audiophiles would skip the built in DAC yes or yes if audio quality would really matter?
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I honestly find myself scratching my head every time George Soros speaks. He almost comes across as someone desperate to be taken seriously, to be viewed as a visionary, a thought leader, a prognosticator.

But what has he down to justify this? Nothing as far as I can tell. He made a bunch of money as a currency speculator, most famously breaking the British pound. Sure. Good for him. But if we're going to talk about adding value to society...
> In that sense it feels perversly exploitative and priveleged to make so much more money than practically anyone else on earth due to nothing but the physical location I was born.

Is it perverse to go swimming because you were born near a beach? Is it perverse to visit the Louvre if you are Parisian? Is it perverse to go to a good university because the universities in Elbonia aren't good?

You're not entirely wrong, but that's a very limited view on how the world works. It's not all random. We're not all rolling dice and separating into "haves" and "haven'ts".

Once upon a time: Somebody's parents moved to the coast. Somebody's predecessors funded and built the Louvre (and managed to keep priceless things safe despite war, disease, famine, etc.). Various parties spent decades (or centuries!) of history recruiting and utilizing world-class talent, raising world-class capital reserves, and building world-class facilities for their universities.
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Thunderbird is supposed to separate from Mozilla, which decided to focus almost exclusively on Firefox.

They are sharing resources at the moment, but that appears to be transitionary.
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My family came down with the flu right before I was scheduled to return from a business trip and turn around two days later to spend two weeks out of the country. We took as many precautions as possible to avoid spreading it to me (frequent hand washing, not sharing food, all of that) but I also got a preventative Tamiflu prescription. It didn't seem to be in short supply or hard to get -- I literally just described the situation over my healthcare provider's chat app and they sent a prescription to the pharmacy for me to pick up on my way home from the airport. Cost me $10.

Whether the stuff works or not is a different question. I read some of the research and meta-analyses and meta-meta-analyses and it didn't seem cut and dry. I can say I didn't get the flu, but there are many other times I didn't get the flu without taking anything.
Yes, I know. But that doesn't help at all with the lack of releases, changelogs, etc. As I said, it's a decent start.
Not an economist but B.A. Econ here. (Comp sci degree/career came later.)
The difference is the product. In the products these companies sell, especially for us, with web based software, the marginal cost of selling to one more customer is very low. An EE could design an excellent device, but the marginal cost of selling that device is still high. As are the services offered by Lawyers etc. It is the efficient scaling of products that make them so valuable. Those companies that have scaled (or have the potential to scale) their product typically have a lot of money to throw at building it. Those individuals which have the capacity to build scale-able products are in high demand and hence have high pay. My two cents anyway.
I have read most of Cal's books and they are good. His fight against social media is... I don't know, extreme. The problem to me isn't social media per se. The real problem is self-discipline/control.

Cal crusades against social media, but I don't see him crusade against video games, or watching TV for example. I think a good/better metric is total screen time.

My children are given an allowance in the form of screen time. I kind of do the same for myself and I have decent self-control. That is the key, I think... limits and control by taking responsibility for yourself and those you are charged to raise.
Except I'm not claiming that the rent controls stimulated the boom. Just that the correlation posited by Megan McArdle absent any supporting data is imagined.
I think that he thinks that his philanthropy gives him legitimacy.
It's not that rent control doesn't help some people - it's just the wrong solution.

The real solution is building more housing. (I think)
You watch YouTube. You use an app in your phone that maybe in the future is going to be allowed only for Android devices. I think my case is settled.
I don’t see the equivalence. Yes, the skill you listed take some time to acquire. But few master them to a professional level, yet still use them regularly in their jobs.

I think programming is on the same trajectory. We might not even recognize many of the tools as “programming” (they might look more like spreadsheets). But I think general up take of programming skill will increase.
And she tested that the long term justice materialized ever how? Any reference group at least?
You are right. Now thinking about that It seems to me generic Software world seems more comparable to interior designing or fancy restaurants where patrons keep spending because tastes change faster than requirements.
>I have problem believing that your conclusion is true, but you should cite at least a subset of your sources

Why? You can't search for sources? Do you request bibliography for all claims in a casual conversation?
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I don't think you can generalize 'good' like that. I only listen to podcasts and I'm very happy with these.

My datapoint of 'good' says these are 'good'
> WoT sadly often means “accept everything without checking” in practice

I'd like to see Trust on First Use used automatically, combined with automatic key generation with no prompting. PGP is probably more suited to this. While it's not perfect, it is possible to retrospectively verify a key and on success consider it perfect. A well designed UI could expose this.

Details:

1. Generate a key automatically with no prompting.

2. Sign everything outbound automatically with no prompting (if necessary use the header or rely on a multiple email handshake if you're bothered that users will see an "attachment" they won't understand).

3. Expose "identities" in the UI with information about what incoming mail corresponds to what identities, and what trust has been assigned to individual identities.

4. Permit encrypted email to be sent to identities, whether they are trusted or not.

5. Allow retrospective assignment of trust to identities.

6. Allow users to publicly "join" their identities for when autogeneration has happened in multiple places (eg. separately on webmail, my phone and my tablet).

7. Allow import and export of keys and external key agents for users who want to go all the way.
Would like to hear the experiences from people who have used this in production
Out west (the outback) is used on the east coast, but unlikely linked to the the cardinality.
I was replying to someone who claimed a .50 cal could do the job. I was pointing out that firepower wasn't the limiting factor - you could do it with something smaller, but that wouldn't matter.

The second paragraph was the main contribution; the first paragraph was a transition from the statement of the person I was replying to.
This is true. I recently applied for a job in the US and one in the UK. In the US, I got a ridiculously good salary offer. The UK job's compensation was maybe half what the US job offered. My cost of living is also lower than the folks in London, so it's just perverse no matter how you slice it.

I honestly don't think it will last, though. Economically, it just doesn't make sense. My recommendation to any of my fellow US developers: save as much as you can while the money is good.
I have always compared Facebook's attention engineering to fast food companies making their food increasingly more addicting. Just as I stopped eating most junk food after college, I similarly came to a point where I would rather consume more quality information for my brain's diet than what Facebook serves up.
I just put all that stuff into a drawer in the launcher called 'zzzzzzzzz'. I never see it and never think about it.
Sennheiser hd25 are £130...You'd be hard pressed to find better cans for any price.
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I'm really happy that there's increasing efforts to help fund the people who write the OSS we depend on. I was really happy looking at Evan You (the creator of VueJS) being able to reach his patreon goal, but I really wish some of the massive companies making use of Hapi would help with Eran Hammer's patreon goal: https://www.patreon.com/eranhammer

It bewilders me how companies make so much money and depend on something like Hapi for its "enterprise" quality but won't give a little bit back to the person who developed their open source software for free. I hope github considers adding some kind of integration with patreon and other platforms to help bring more attention to maintainer's funding drives.
I'm rather bothered that I know nothing about Soros except a bunch of vague, negative feelings about him that have pop-culturally osmosed to me through constant usage of his name in 4channish/the_donaldish media. He's some kind of evil mastermind destroying civilisation with his vast wealth.

I know this is almost certainly not true, but I'm so bothered that this is my immediate thought. I feel like the alt-right has succeeded in partially hijacking some of my brain.

Mayb some of you will think I'm some kind of easily-manipulated idiot and that you would never fall prey to similar thought processes. That we're all too smart to really believe Facebook and that "critical thinking" is all we need. That the things Soros is talking about in this article could never happen to us. I in turn think that this kind of intellectual arrogance is a bit dangerous and precisely leads to the kind of manipulation that social media can have on us.
> What concerns me is that the amount of energy that goes into getting all that stuff into my home seems to have substantially increased, and, will continue to increase as more businesses incorporate low cost or free delivery.
>
> I keep contemplating the extremes: 149 items acquired in one trip the way my mom used to operate, vs.149 items delivered to my home one at a time over a 2 week period. What are the trade-offs?

Energy-wise, you present a fallacy that all those deliveries serve just your home.

50 houses getting deliveries every day from the same truck for 2 weeks = 14 trips. Those 50 houses all going to the store once every 2 weeks = 50 trips. Not to mention all the land wasted for building parking around said store.
As a thought experiment, imagine that it was an option. How would your company instruct the recruiter? Working through that problem is harder than harvesting internet tips and anecdotes. It requires understanding the business case and evaluating it in business terms. The possibility that your company isn't ready to hire interns is not ruled out by your descirption (it isn't proved either).
Berlin is half as population dense as SF, and has more surface area to spread out. SF is stuck in a single 49 mi^2 peninsula. That's not to say issues can't be solved in a variety of ways, it just doesn't seem like Berlin is a good point of comparison.

https://www.google.de/maps/@52.5351488,13.4089075,266a,35y,2...

This sort of layout in Berlin is something common in Europe that I kinda of wish existed in US cities. (Barcelona is similar too?)
Not a book, but you might like Dirty Money series on Netflix.
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This is something I have a hard time understanding because I don't get how social media appeals to people to the point that they become addicted to it. I enjoy getting on once, maybe twice, a day to look at a few things. It just doesn't do that much for me, especially in the state it has evolved into. But if something unproductive is really sapping time and attention from masses of people, that seems like a problem.
many countries have stringent ID requirements behind them.

I wonder how many of those allow roaming using SIMs from countries that have no such requirements. All of that seems so much like security theater.
Scheme is what I use when I want coding to be fun (with guile being my implementation of choice).

Other languages have gotten nice repl environments in the last year, but the integration with the language is never as good as lisp repls.
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Now I wonder if we could fix that by taxing only the difference.

And we could call it Value Added Tax!
In my experience, while there is a new library/framework/language every day, most of them aren't introducing brand new concepts that the developer has to worry about. A lot of the patterns they implement are also common in other language/frameworks. Nothing against React, but every other day someone posts a new concept that is very similar to a pattern that has existed for years.

Edit: I should note, on the last sentence, this may be done by a veteran developer who knows better but is trying to introduce the concept in a new light. It could also just be a developer figuring out a common pattern on their own. I've heard the actor model pattern was developed by several different people at the same time who were unaware of each others work. I'm not saying it's a bad thing.
Any major differences related to SQLPro Studio? https://www.sqlprostudio.com (apart from access to some systems, and price, but since I consume it via Setapp...).

And so: Plans to make it available on Setapp?
Thank you for doing this.

Sidenote: either HN killed your backend or I did with a recursive CTE. If so: sorry :)
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RSS reader (self-hosted CommaFeed), quick glance at comments when a headline catches my eye, then opening the article or not, most likely in a new tab to check out later. With those two big filters, the amount of stuff that's actually interesting to me seems manageable.
>Which implies encryption (on that connection) being not secure. Which is wrong.

No it is not wrong, even your confusingly worded sentence there is still fully correct.

Security (or encryption, or any other synonym you can come up with here) is made up of 3 (well technically 4) parts:

* confidentiality

* integrity

* authenticity

* (and technically non-repudiation, but that doesn't really apply here)

self-signed HTTPS certificates only provides 2 of the 3 (confidentiality and integrity) and it's that last one that is most important (authenticity), because without it you don't know who you are talking to. It could be your website, or it could be some asshole down the street pretending to be your website, you have literally no idea.

You say it's misleading, but it is you that is misreading and misunderstanding the concepts. Encryption without authentication is like encryption without a password. Utterly pointless.
One of the things that I don't like about TCP is that it really goes out of its way to emulate a stream of data over a wire. This then leads to things like Nagle's algorithm that deliberately slow it down.

This is problematic when doing things like HTTP, or any of the infinite RPC schemes that come into popularity every few years. (REST, Thrift, Protocol Buffers, ect.) As a programmer, we're trying to send a request of known length and get a response where the server knows the length. As TCP makes this looks like a wire stream, it means that the protocol implementer needs to disable Nagle and implement logic that figures out where the requests begin and end; even though most likely these boundaries are the packet boundaries.

Think of it this way: An HTTP GET request may fit into one or two IP packets; but the nature of TCP streams means that the server's HTTP API needs to find the \n\n to know when the request headers end. Instead, the stream API itself should just be able to say, "here's a packet of 300 bytes!" Furthermore, if the client didn't disable Nagle, its TCP library will deliberately delay sending the header for 200 ms.

The reality of the TCP API is that it's great for long streams of data. It just isn't optimized for half of its use case.