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'Real science' pfft..

A lot of people take the same tone when talking about Bill Nye, but the reality is he got people (including children) excited about science. I view the launch the same way.

This is a positive in my eyes, even if a lot of PR was involved.
That sucks. Posting on Glassdoor could help, unless you risk your position before you have a new one with too much identifiable information. Definitely post after.
That is the authorities business.

When someone in the street is speaking aloud, then you can't go to them and demand them to reveal their name, even if what is spoken is against the law. You can call the police and they can determine the name of the speaker. The internet is not a lawless place.
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> German child raising is very hands-off

Yes. TBH, it takes quite a lot of restraint sometimes :-)

> and devoid of any warmth.

No. Anecdotal, of course, as I can really only speak about my family and close friends.

Our parenting is full of warmth, in two ways.

1. we interact a lot with the kids: I don't usually go out in the evening, because when I come home from work, I belong to my kids. We'll build Lego, or play with cars, or fire up Spotify and dance like loonies. I also haven't watched TV in... IDK, 2 years maybe? (Nothing philosophical about it, I just have better things to do, like playing Lego)

but 2. we give warmth also in the form of trust and safety. We show them that we trust and rely on them to figure their own stuff out. This may seem standoffish, but it's the opposite: we prove to them that we trust them, but provide a safety net if they get in over their heads.
E.g. if I work around the house, I'm busy, and my sons know that now is a bad time to disturb me. On the other hand, I encourage them to steal my tools (say, a saw) and do their own "work", and teach tehm how to use the tools if they can't figure it out by themselves. I'll of course watch them from the corner of my eye, but I trust them to learn by themselves, and not to saw their heads off or ruin anything of value in the process.

> the people I met genuienly expect kids to be able to occupy their own time and the notion that they need family support apart from the material one is almost slightly weird to them.

Well, yes, I expect my children to be self-sufficient (to an age-appropriate degree). And they are happy to be, because they know they get the attention they need, just perhaps not right now (see: all my evenings, or fun weekend outings).

If you visit German friends and observe them interacting with their kids (or not), I assume there's an agreement within the family that this is a time to not disturb the parents while they entertain their guests. So you don't get to see that other side, it happens after you leave.

> From my observations, it results in people who are fantastically independent and confident, but who can also be emotionally distant to everything.

I suspect this is an American misinterpretation of social interaction (I'm guessing you're American). You see, Americans feel over-the-top to me. A meal isn't "good", it's "fantastic", a holiday isn't "pleasant", it's "amazing". There's nothing wrong with either style, of course, it's just different. So if you're used to the more exuberant American style, perhaps the German way feels cold to you, even though in reality the same sense of warmth is conveyed to those who know to interpret it.
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Enjoyed the Experian video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjrydnr_pvQ

I can't get past the irony of Experian making a tool to help people find out if their personal data is being traded without their knowledge.

Here, I translated it:

"Is your personal information already being traded on Experian?

Find out on the dark web. Right now we're offering a one-time Experian scan completely free.

Go to xyz.onion/scan to see if your information is on Experian.

Then learn how the dark web can protect your identity.

Act now to keep your personal information safe."
It gives me a different untrusted ISP and transport layer encryption between my machine and the VPN endpoint. Which, y'know, you admit to later in your comment, so you clearly know what's up, but that's not exactly a minor thing. There's a couple of parties between myself and my content, and this just eliminates the bit players. Y'know, the nerds on public wifi.

And, yeah, I could set up my own VPN on a VPS I rent. They're only $5 a month. I'd just need a couple in the USA, a couple in the UK, a couple in a few different EU countries, a couple in Australia...

The service I pay for from a VPN provider is not ultra secure. It's not even above average secure. It is, however, somewhat secure. And yeah, sometime it lumps me with "known-suspicious traffic", but that's okay: What I'm doing is completely irrelevant to that fact.
I think you're just assuming a lot - about how many coffees they'll buy and how profitable these people are.

But we don't even have to guess. Big businesses that are very careful about monitoring things like this, such as Starbucks, actively encourage laptops (with tons of power, wifi, rows of single-person desk tables) so maybe your intuition about what is profitable is just wrong? I mean you've thought about it for ten minutes and were already coming into the situation annoyed because you want to sit down and someone else was there, and Starbucks are running this business full time with I would guess people dedicated to thinking about this kind of thing.

I'm more inclined to believe their reasoning on it.
Interesting and makes sense, thanks.
When I am touring the USA, (i.e. as a tourist) and enter a cafe and it's full of people heads down, earphones in, working, I walk out. It's not a nice space to be in. Even with music in the cafe, there is not the shared music in the customers. Why would I want to share a space with people who don't want to share with me?

In the UK, it's reasonably uncommon to find people wearing earphones in cafes. Most cafes have a good selection of music. It's more common, at least around here, that those working on laptops are students doing work. Often they will meet their friends and work together.

However, there are workers in these cafes too - and their etiquette is atrocious. I often see people leave their computers at the table, and head out to do some shopping in the local shops. Often they would have loud telephone conversations or conference calls. One even came back with their own food. When the cafe staff said "sorry, you cannot eat your own food here", they replied "oh, it's okay" as if the cafe were apologising!

When I bring my laptop, I make sure I spend the same amount of time in the cafe as if I was using it as in any other way, and never over the lunch period when tables are at a premium. One drink per hour seems fair.
I suppose, although the normally I'm not would mean not hearing it so often that it becomes a well-known identifying personal tic.
To be honest the parents of the baby boomers would have been old enough to suffer through and fight the war, but wars tend to be started by the older generation who hold the political power.
Yup. That sure was fast.
PhantomJS is dead. The arrival of Puppeteer rung the death knell.
Haha ok that makes more sense. For any route for which there isn't enough demand to build a road, there certainly also isn't enough demand to build a fast rail service. This is why rich people who enjoy island and other remote locations have private planes, or in some situations fast boats.
Same question. I've heard so much about Taco Bell from pop culture/internet that I just had to try it. Went to check it out during one of my trips to the US and oh boy.. I was in for a culture shock.

I had some kind of a burrito. I don't think I have ever been served food anywhere else that was more disgusting (sorry, I don't know of a more appropriate word to use here). And I'm not picky at all! I'll eat basically anything that you can throw at me - but this.. this was something else.

To be honest, I assumed and hoped it was a one-off occurrence because I couldn't imagine anybody going there more than once in their lifetime and they couldn't possibly be in the business if they'd constantly serve that kind of fast food.
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I have a hard time believing that you will get in trouble for hiring interns and compensate them more than 500 euros. In the NL you aren't even obliged to give them any compensation and if you are compensating them you are free to do so as much as you'd wish.

Internships in the Netherlands are akin to modern slavery imo. You work full time and with luck you get a compensation of 500 euros a month,though often no compensation is more likely to be the case. You will get a maximum loan of 1100 euros a month from the government, so a lot of students have to take on a second job if they don't get any compensation at all at their internship.

National institute of neuroscience provides no compensation whatsoever, and for applied mathematics students the average compensation is around 200 euros.

Obviously not wholly related to your comment but the internship situation in the Netherlands really grinds my gears.
Dublin isn't in the UK though.
> which they are in their full right to do

They seem to be scamming the shareholders diverting money from productive investment into their self worth. It's not your problem, but it's not in their full right to do either.
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It wasn't until I (American) spent many years living in Europe that I really came to appreciate the effect that the order of foundational moral values has on the nuts and bolts behavior of a given society.

France puts equality above all else, and therefore you get "Frenchness" (we are all/should be equally French) above all else, with the accompanying discomfort with competing identities and fixation on the single correct identity.

America, as you correctly described, places freedom on top. It took me a long time to see how putting freedom on top of the stack leads to an insecure and juvenile culture.

And Germany, after the war, it put human dignity on top. This is a quiet, non-ostentatious value to organize society around, that does not advertise itself. But it is very good at quietly producing whole, confident humans.
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> ”engaging, interactive, and actionable email experiences.”

'Click here to download Thunderbird' is what my mind inserts after reading that.
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I think people also get too shy about reaching out to people they haven't been in touch with. Most people aren't going to be annoyed if you say, "Hey, long time no see. How have you been? Wondering if you know anyone who's hiring" or whatever it is you're asking for.
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It's a real bug. Do not squeeze it. Turn off the screen an put a bright light next to the side for a night. Maybe you will be lucky and the bug will go away to the light. I wasn't so lucky and the bug died between layers of my screen. Now I have line of about 5px that are black. Saw this issue on other people monitors too, especially when you are a person that likes to work in the dark, during the night with window opened. Bugs are attracted by light and warmth of the monitor and just crawls in to it.
Tactful people are boring. :)
Firefox 58 on Win 10 desktop gets a "Sorry, Desktop Only" message.
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You would like to look up which the years of baby boomers were and how old their parents must have been. They certainly did not start the war; they suffered from it. I am of the baby boomer generation, my father was 17 at the end of the war.

My parents demanded respect. That's a good thing, imho. Otherwise, I enjoyed a freedom kids nowadays can only dream of. I never felt any lack of love from my parents.
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> So, you are saying as a SaaS platform Uber's ride pricing will not affect their profitability?

No. I'm saying other factors affect their profitability, and that it's very difficult to believe that a company that weren't spending dramatically in other areas couldn't be profitable by just running the SaaS platform for a 25% cut.

The rest of your post suggests a misunderstanding of how markets work. If they're getting drivers voluntarily choosing to work for them for the rates they're paying (including in competitive markets), that rate can't be too far from the market rate.

So the only way the prices could be subsidized is if the rest of the cost of the ride can't be done in the ~25% they're charging... but of course it can. That's a huge cut for administrative costs, accepting payments, and running a SaaS app.

For someone to compete with Uber, they'll have to offer better service (which will be tough) or better prices (which will be lower). There's no reason to believe some bubble is going to pop and Uber prices will increase dramatically overnight. People have been saying this for years but I don't see how it's any more than wishful thinking.
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At the very least you need to add a VM into that mix to stop (most of) the fingerprinting. You also need a trusted VPN, all kinds of JS and privacy blockers.

And that's assuming there are no hidden backdoors in your hardware. Which will be used, if you're important enough to track.
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You could try Viscosity[0], it's a great client but has a price tag, which I feel is worth it.

[0] https://www.sparklabs.com/viscosity/
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Heads up: I'm getting a "Sorry, desktop only" message, and I'm on my 13" Macbook Air using Firefox 58.
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I gathered that in the US, traffic stops are used to also check people if they have any outstanding warrants or fines, so that officers can arrest them if need be.

Which is weird, I mean just show up at their doorstep or seize their income or something, but then, it's the US so idk.
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The investment an organization makes in helping junior developers get up to speed pays off in the longer run if the workplace isn't toxic. Ideas flow better when there is a difference in experience level in the team. Mentoring also helps experience people learn more as opposed to settling down in a comfort zone.
> good junior devs can code not only "just as fast", but probably faster too!

Pfft. I'm about as "senior" as it gets and I'm generally the fastest developer in any team I'm on. I've never met a junior dev that could hold a candle to me, and most senior devs I know are the same...we're coding monsters.
I think that Youtube was more successful in that space (for regular people at least). I base this entirely on the fact that around the time of G+, the redirect urls for all Google products started going to YT, which I took to mean that YT had a much broader cookie pool.

FWIW, I agree entirely with your point, but I think Youtube is the secret sauce that makes it work.
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This is true elsewhere too though. There have been a number of cases in NL, one involving a day care employee having raped over 80 children (some infants); after that a huge amount of male day care employees were fired. Similar story with a swimming instructor.
One thing I would like to point out is that this is rather an European thing than specifically German.

Aside from playing with fire in school many of these experiences were my own and were the norm.
A lot of those are some sort of pun or reference on the topic at hand: The crab as as a reference to Ferris/Rustaceans on the Rust book, spiders on books for "webmasters", the snake on Python Programming, etc. Others were just assigned at random (and proceeded to become indelibly associated with the language, like the perl camel).

A list of the animals, and some history:

http://www.oreilly.com/animals.csp
https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/a-short-history-of-the-oreilly...
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If you're still using GraphiQL I urge you to try out Insomnia, their GraphQL support is fantastic. The only thing I miss is auto-completion of all fields, having to type every attribute can be tedious. Also, if you need to pass headers to authenticate, Insomnia handles that gracefully, whereas with GraphiQL you need to basically install an extension (which you will then forget to disable and YouTube will act funny).

https://insomnia.rest/

Actually, another feature I miss in Insomnia would be query groups, mainly to change the access token in the header in one place for a specific environment.

edit: I just realised it's OSS as well, so whiny people like me can potentially contribute features they're missing https://github.com/getinsomnia/insomnia
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Holy shit, WebP itself is that old already…
I'm really curious about the technology you use to create the images, could you tell us about it perhaps?
You're sort of implying that "free riders" were less of a problem earlier in our history because aggressive coalitions of lower ranked members were able to force the hierarchy more in favour of egalitarianism. But that is hardly supported by the facts. Kings are an obvious counter-example. The caste system in India is another good example of a structure that were very robust (for many many many years) against any kind of aggressive revolution from below.
Yes, but these are points that are very seldom brought up at all in these contexts yet they are quite important.
Like all governments, when it wields its power for good, it can be an unstoppable force.

Like all governments, it can be prone to corruption and doing the wrong thing.

In a world of giant multinational superpowers, a giant government is the only hope for "the small guy" to get even. It might not happen all the time, but without these structures, it would never happen at all.
If I have a day when Need to Get Shit Done, I go to a cafe. That way I can't be physically bothered and I can just turn off all communication software and devices if I need to.
I usually use my mobile connection remotely, it is much faster than WIFI. Is using store provided WIFI really that commonly used?
Can't speak for everywhere in the US, but I know growing up in the 70s kids with knives and air rifles wouldn't have been an outrageous thing. Friends of mine had knives (scouting, for one), and others had air rifles. "roaming the streets" brandishing knives might not be the language I'd use to describe my friends growing up, but it wasn't uncommon. That was only 40 years ago.
Roaches are pretty harmless other than being disgusting looking.
Google's ranking algorithms are notoriously secretive due to attempts to resist SEO spamming, but the flipside is that pages can just disappear from its (publicly available) index despite still containing content relevant to your search:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16153840
Accompanying jupyter notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1e9o2NB2GDDjadptGr3r...
Wel it seems that café don't want "customers" that use their café as a workplace. You're a customer if you come in, grab a drink (with or without laptop) and leave shortly after you finish your drink.
I really, really hope someone responds to this with a big juicy, tasty, and helpful link.
> In North America any adult that is not the parent is a potential kidnapping rapist

That suspicion is there against many single dads too.
The Whiteboard is nothing more than a hazing ritual testing marathon runners on their 100-yard dash. As CTO I opted to go for two-pronged:

1) give them a take-home project in an area relating to the position they want to weed out the unqualified.

2) bring them on site and speak with them in persona along with other members of the team they will be joining.

3) Its fairly easy to tell whos a whos an impostor if you are knowledgeable yourself, but a group of engineers can identify a faker fairly quickly.

4) Always consult your team about the new hire and don't make it unilaterally or their failures will reflect on you. Even their success won't make up for it if they turn out to be a nutjob and you vouched for them.
The Netherlands is a special place in Software Hell. Where the non-suits are only a cost.

"Devs can't be cheap enough! We can't find decent devs!"
Oh believe me... Coming from the US, the summer between my first and second year, I was compensated 5k for three months of work. When I first heard what was standard in NL I was shocked. Then again, I was also paying 50k per semester for school, soooo yeah, take your pick haha. I wouldn't say slavery, more like indentured servitude. Anyways, I make it my personal goal to give our interns as much of mine and our senior devs' time as possible, as well as support after their internship is over.
Glad to see the bug is now updated/fixed, but the person you're replying to said they were already using 1.8.3. I guess you're saying their issues were caused by a different bug.
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JPEG XR always seemed like a better contender to me (I mean WebP launched without alpha channel support. How tone-deaf to developer/designer needs is that?). But it had Microsoft's name on it so it was doomed from the start.

At this point it seems like we might as well wait for the eventual "HEIF for AV1" to get the best bang-for-the-buck implementation if we're going to have to support this format in perpetuity.
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Maybe we'll have better luck with the AV1-based alternative [1] that a coalition (i.e., not Google acting unilaterally) is currently designing.

[1]: (warning, autoplaying video) https://www.cnet.com/news/google-mozilla-av1-photo-format-co...
I also have a fun one:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22ketmax%22+zip

It's hilarious because it's now gotten to the point where the only non-noise results are the ones where I'm describing how the query in question is broken.

In fact, the top result I'm seeing here is a perfectly-paraphrased oneliner - Google is describing its own brokenness! :D

(I must admit, I'm impressed to see such a perfect summary of the situation presented in a single paragraph like that. Google picked exactly the right portion of the sentence. I take it there's really nothing out there in open-source land that does anything like that, is there? :( )
> Cafe owners find it difficult to define a consistent strategy without a proven, profitable relationship model.

Revenues seems the main objective of the cafe owners in this article.

In Paris is a cafe [1] that solved this by giving out access passes if you want wifi. If you did not spend enough at the end of your session, you have to pay something extra. I was there several times having lunch and staying most of the day without having to pay extra. Really liked the place, also because this system helps to not feel guilty ;-)

[1] http://cafe-craft.com/home/
In Amsterdam (and I assume every modern city) there are places you can actually rent a "desk" for a period of time. It is like a cafe with coffee & food, but with better seating and silent. Why not go there?