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I had trouble in high school. I fell behind because I did not have glasses, and I didn't find the material motivating enough, and because things were kind of tumultuous at home, and so on. By the time my dad caught on, I was 3 months behind in Physics.

So he sat me down after work, and we went through the material together. It took less than a week for me to catch up.

It makes me wonder what a kid could accomplish with a little bit of individual attention. I am not the dumbest person in the world, but I am also far from the smartest. Compared to the rest of the class, I was probably about average.
Tolls is on its way out as well. Most people I know would say the bell rings. Perhaps a few would say it peals.
> but Apple isn't losing sales because the rest of the phone's tech is that good.

Correction: Apple isn't losing sales because people will literally buy a bag of shit for $1000 if it is branded apple. Name me 5 areas where the tech in iPhone is superior to Samsung's flagship.
I predicted the same thing about 10 years ago. I believe we'll both be right, eventually. But I'm afraid that your 5 year estimate is too optimistic.
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Just awesome...
Good thing the EU exists as a human rights and consumer watchdog, even if some may argue the protectionist angle, as the US is sure to do f all about it.
Puzzled why it came across as big vs small cos. Who's been the smaller competitive company out of Europe to take on incumbents? Skype? Dailymotion? Spotify? Blablacar? Seznam.cz? That's... it? Seems a bit underwhelming for 1/2 billion highly educated rich people with fast internet, no?
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Anywhere from $2-25k. But most don't give a price upfront and I just send it to my spam folder.
This, if done maliciously, is a valid DOS attack vector known as Slowloris/SlowPost attacks.

I know it’s easier said than done, but there should be active mitigation in place, rather than only monitoring.
Good point, but would investors now stand to benefit over all from expediting the development of electric vehicles, solar and space transportation?
Same hour at israel: newspapers are all about government corruption. Had that happened in Turkey the newspapers wouldn't be existing anymore.
The history of US fascinates me as a foreigner. How it went from a totally unknown land to a super power within few centuries.
The article quotes an expert who disagrees:

> Dr. Allen Frances, professor emeritus at Duke University School of Medicine, the former chairman of its psychiatry department, and the chairman of the DSM-IV (1994) task force, feels the problem is not corruption but the slow creep of misinformation. "I know the people. They're not doing it for the drug companies—they really believe what they're doing is right. They really believe ADHD is underdiagnosed, and they want to help people who should be getting medication. I just think they're dead wrong."
So what should we do, burn out his synapses with mycotoxin?

The history of this business is written by IP thieves who, once they get big, turn around and lobby Congress for tougher IP laws, to criminalize the very methods they used to get big in the first place, so that the next gang of thieves will not be able to steal so effectively.

What Carmack did is not egregiously unethical for this business. If anything he embodied the hacker spirit of "fuck the rules". It's on dubious ethical ground and certainly not the cautious approach used by Stallman, who colors assiduously within the lines so no one could ever accuse him of anything untoward. But again, look at the history of this business.
+1 agree
Honestly asking... Does anyone ever click yes?
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The stereotype of "boys will be boys" in the sense of "boys are all hyper competitive insensitive alpha jerks" might just hurt boys in situations like these.
Whataboutism, my favourite.
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Minimalistic restrictions work if you also help to ensure a working marketplace with healthy and robust competition. When few players dominate the marketplace, even if they are not technically "monopolies," the market is dysfunctional.
Not sure about this one, but in other studies they’ve used drugs like methylphenidate.
What would you say is the best alternative?
Google suck at doing anything that do not support "push to prod" antics.

The company at its core is a child of the web, and thus it struggles to manage anything that can't have a change/fix/AB-test pushed out on a whim.
the thing that bugs me about that is that its using volume to illustrate a fact about area. Now of course it's legitimate assuming all the rectangular prisms have the same depth but it still feels a bit like some sleight of hand is taking place.
Sometimes you don't have cookies? Like with mobile apps. With JWT you can also have uniform auth across mobile and web apps, and when done right is a beautiful thing™.

Also cross domain/app data signing.
The taxi sector in Amsterdam is very much like the mafia, so this isn't really surprising. Taxi drivers in Amsterdam are known for intimidating competitors and extorting tourists. See for instance: http://www.at5.nl/artikelen/155696/taximaffia
I think the time you are referring to was at least a few news cycles after the start of Google fiber.

I think it genuinely was received as the Cool New Thing for a while. Then the cities applied to be Google fiber cities. Then fiber rolled out to some cities. At some point competitors responded by upgrading their service. And then with some retrospection, we collectively looked back at that series of events and said "ah, this must have been Google's plan all along."

I honestly don't doubt that Google's initial plan was insanely ambitious. And that what transpired, while falling far short of the original vision, nevertheless did advance their interests. But my recollection of the events as they unfolded in real time wasn't that this was their plan from the start, or that people felt that way, until a few news cycles passed and it was clear that it spurred other internet providers to action.

But I do agree with you that it definitely did become the prevailing wisdom, eventually.
Am I right then that to get super fast wireless everywhere we need lots of fibre to back-haul it? That's my understanding. All the 4G super fast masts springing up are all piping that hot traffic down fibre to the next hop.
Let's just stick to the facts related to the argument. The article was not about comparing girls to boys except a small side-note about diagnosis ratios and the increasing expectation that children sit quietly at school. Your comment is a non-sequitur about boys being undesirable, which is not relevant to this particular discussion.
Ah, right, Bitcoin exchanges in USA, and elsewhere, harbour personal identifiable information. Bitcoin doesn't impose it, but it's a practical requirement in some jurisdictions.

(KYC = know your customers)
Possibly transparent 4×2×1 bricks for time spent doing bugger all (or just taking a longer break after some taxing task or stressful situation).

I think Lego Friends may have some suitable bricks for the usual Friday afternoon (down)time spent with colleagues watching someone launch an electric car into orbit or some other definitely not work-related activity. :)
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According the University of Texas Energy Institute[1], the federal financial support in the USA for generation of energy is estimated to be (2019 numbers):

Oil & Gas $0.95/MWh
Coal $1.07/MWh
Nuclear $1.74/MWh

Wind $15.15/MWh
Solar $42.51/MWh
Other RE $22.85/MWh

A lot goes into the calculation of these numbers, for more detail see the referenced white paper.

[1] /Federal Financial Support for Electricity Generation Technologies/, https://energy.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/UTAustin_FCe_S...
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"Bow toward your sitebuilding masters."
I think some people still don't realize quite how expensive it is to truly build out a national Telecom network. I remember when Clearwire raised ~$7 billion [1] and still wasn't in many markets and rural areas, ultimately selling to Sprint for pennies on the dollar. The infrastructure costs are staggering, and even a rich company like Google can't just dip their toes in hoping to succeed.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/clearwire#section-fu...
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Ah yes, the good old social structure that is sustained by people being "absolute legends".
Most of the questions should not be answered, in my opinion - if the document got into the hands of a bad-actor it could be abused. I'll recommend they liberally use the N/A option and try and have a discussion with the customer security team.
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USA seems to run on spectacle.

Europe, if one can even process such a mix of cultures as a single entity, seems to abhor spectacle.
I use to think why have sick leave at all and just give everyone a PTO bucket. Instead of having 10 sick days and 10 vacation days, split it and give everyone 15 days PTO. It would give people more flexibility and management would have to worry about if someone was really sick.

But then there are still issues...

1. People come in sick to save their PTO and spread what they have if it's contagious.

2. It works well for most salaried employees. We can work from home, claim we are working even if we aren't being productive and catch up over the weekend or when we feel better (I don't see an ethical problem with that.) A lot of hourly jobs can't time or place shift like that.

3. Salaried employees, usually don't have to call in sick for a sick child (we work from home), or for doctors appointments. We can usually make our time up.
As much as I don't like the iPhone Notch and all that, the video in the article was quite cool, appeared very performant and a great programming showcase. So kudos to the Dev for making this.
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There are some fundamental differences though. Correct me if I am wrong but Quran is considered final the way as it is, any attempt to rewrite is illegitimate. Whereas New Testament is considered as valid as the Old testament in many streams.

The punishment for apostasy are also quite different across abrahamic religions. You can't argue for abolishing death penalty for apostates and yet, be considered adhering to Islam's core tenets.

These two things, among others, pose unique challenges for reforms in Islam.
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I did not edit my original comments where I clearly said “leads to”. If you think that meant an accusation, then that’s your right of course, but it isn’t correct to then say I was using similar language to back out of it.
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From the comments on the page: "Well I am a developer too and i respect and understand the joy and excitement of writing amazing code that can create wonderful experiences for people and adds real value to the hardware. But today most developers are like copy paste baboons who love stealing code and ideas."
And I suspect that getting into a business where you have mange the installation and physical plant and also provide real customer service isn't one where Google has or wants to get involved.
For the curious, this is a typical show on Adnan Oktar's TV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYOlCxMXksc
> It really is a depressing, wasteful cycle.

I do agree with this, but I believe we can make it at least not-as-bad.

I recently started a new blog & evaluated a load of options, Medium was one. I quickly decided it had become a cesspool of attention engineering and social widgets, and ultimately settled on self-hosting, with no banner adds or social rubbish.

Can the average public do this? I’d argue it’s not trivial nor inexpensive currently, but maybe that’s worth fixing? Encourage people to move off centralized platforms for sharing content, and maintain control.
I have fiber internet at home (US) and while I'm generally happy with it, the thing I'm most happy about it is I'm no longer giving Time Warner Cable / Spectrum any of my money. In terms of speed, yes it's fast (1gb up/down) but let's be honest, there are very few things that can make use of that bandwidth. As a test I just downloaded an Ubuntu ISO at 40 megabytes/sec (320 megabits/sec.) While it's nice, if I had to wait 4 minutes instead of 1.5 minutes with my old service, it's not really changing my world/life.
That's great ! They created a similar service in france : https://observatoire.francethd.fr/
One of the CCC conferences had the motto “Who do you trust?”

They had a FAQ entry acknowledging that’s should technically be “whom”, but of 100+ complaints they got, all but one had come from Germans.
"many disagree with how the government spends tax money"

I suppose that's as good definition of democracy as any.

The whole purpose of democratic governance is to deal with a political situation where most people disagree.
I don't think it's the article authors that implement the website.
I would say "only", but it is damned harder if one do not already have some fixed installation one can exploit.

In Norway the fastest growing deployments of fiber is done by regional power companies in cooperation with a services provider (data, VOIP, IPTV etc). This because the power companies already have poles and pipes that they can run the fiber along.
Just go to a newspaper shop in Turkey and you will immediately see that you are wrong.
What does the existence of mentioned companies have to do with the quality of life in a country? For their employees, maybe, but I don't think FB/GOOG/MSFT employ most of the US population?
I see the title as "In the court of common usage, an old pronoun is losing its case". This is the correct possessive neutral pronoun. Has the title been changed? My wife is an English teacher (and strict grammarian) and it's pretty universal that her students have already learned its/it's, their/there/they're and your/you're by the time they reach 9th grade.
All wireless internet connections meet copper and fiber eventually.

Wireless is fairly useful to provide basic coverage to a huge area at relatively low cost. The quality is lacking though. Low Cost, Coverage and Quality, pick two.
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thanks, that’s a very reasonable response & I’m going to take a look at the film you recommend
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But hydrogen bombs, developed years later, are far worse. Check out the size of the radioactive fallout cloud in the graphic halfway through this article ( https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/known-unknowns-th... ). People would be dying from acute exposure as far as 100 miles away from the radioactive fallout
Thou hast a wicked sense of humor in thine heart.
I'm genuinely surprised that in this thread we're not seeing the usual idea that this is just the oppressive EU trying to exploit poor American companies.

Is it because the article relates to evil Facebook and not Google?
It is interesting that this argument is reflexively brought up every time someone mentions infrastructure.

It is not the absolute size that matters, it is density and clustering degrees. And there are some sparsely populated countries in Europe that manage to build infrastructure just fine.

Population density:

USA: 35.0/km² (90.6/sq mi)
Norway: 15.8/km² (40.9/sq mi)
#1 clearly, or perhaps switched off below 10K feet MSL.

Try #2 and you find yourself unemployed as a captain. Try it as an airline and you find yourself without passengers and shortly, without an airline.

Airlines and aviation authorities balance safety, cost, and convenience all the time. ETOPS is a good example of that balance evolving. ETOPS-240 would have been unthinkable at the start of the jet age.
And because Apple has the media/design world by the balls thanks to ingrained habits, they have blinders on for the rest of the tech world.
Yes, I'm aware of this (and thankfully have never been stupid enough to entrust my address book to any such service), but what I'm really looking forward to is how Facebook and their ilk will be dealing with shadow profiles in relation with the GDPR.

Since I'm not a member of their service there's no valid reason for them to maintain personally identifiable data about me. Let alone that they never asked for my permission and that I never, ever consented to their gobling up of my data and that of other non-members.

At least according to my understanding this is a very clear violation of the GDPR, which - if the courts agree - could cost them dearly.

I wonder how Facebook intends to deal with that. If I interprete the directive correctly they are obliged to delete all such data since storing, mainting and proecssing it clearly violates the law.

Interesting times...
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Indeed, I wrote a bit about that here https://drewverlee.github.io/tags-output/Design%20Pattern/.
According to my Trakt.tv account I've spent 58 days, 3 hours, 49 mins watching 760 movies and 110 days, 17 hours, 34 mins watching 4,521 television episodes.

I am completely okay with this.
Quality of life, of course not. But Europe taking over the world with startups and new tech? ...um I'd love it if it was the case, but it's just not.
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I'd go with "you can't centrally plan health within a system of Western Capitalism".

Look at the trains in the UK - government was running one major line at a large profit, but they prop up the system as a whole with tax monies, why? It certainly seems like trains (maybe transport) could be centrally planned if you define the limits of the sector carefully.
> You know, I am a pretty staunch supporter of minimalistic restrictions on corporate behavior, putting faith instead in markets.

Why don't you put your faith in data? If you're a engineer that's presumably what you're already doing in every other respect of your life. It doesn't seem to me that starting out already having decided on what the best approach is will lead to the best decisions.
"facts" with zero sources and an argument which could easily be dismissed/interpreted as stereotypical US centric argument.
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Should have spent that time "traveling to foreign countries" instead, to really jack up the progress of global warming.
Am I to conclude you would be against a war against slavery then? Or that there is no good or evil; me and then are the same because, well, we're both fighting each other?
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I can see no mystery there: avoiding a consistent political stance actually sounds like a definition of a populist movement.
LLU makes more sense but I cant see this happening for at least the next 8 years or so.
Great subheadline.

Total sidebar, but has any frequent reader of The Economist not been irked by the recent removal of the comment section? It remained one of the few places with a healthy signal-to-noise ratio and frequently the comments provided more insight than the articles they sat below (The Economist is wont to prescriptions as much as descriptions which helps to create debate).

Such a shame.
NYT names this guy as "a satellite television preacher named Adnan Oktar." . I have hard time contemplating what's happening in this show.
What would I see there? Newspapers reporting on Turkish government corruption or newspapers reporting on Israeli government corruption?
> You're correct but mainly because I wasn't paying attention and phrased it as a question. Written instead as a statement, it's a valid counter argument because it's criticizing the parent comment's ridicule of a different instance of criticism.

I doubt a statement expressing dissatisfaction is a valid legal argument responding to a legal ruling. Clearly the term argument in this context is for a legal argument not a colloquial use of the term, since a legal appeal is what is being discussed.

When people get traffic tickets, the judge won't let them off for saying, "But, your honor, the police officer didn't pull over any of the other speeders around me."
Absolutely. Though, when people say cookies vs JWT, what they mean is:

Cookies: a simple session ID, a random number, stored in a cookie.

JWT: a JSON object stored in local storage that specifies authorization of some user that is authenticated by public key cryptography. JWTs can be configured in many ways, but this is what people usually mean because they want their sessions to be "stateless."

Way way more often than not, the "cookie" solution is better because it's far simpler. JWTs come with a tremendous amount of complexity with few benefits.
That's kind of like saying taking a pay cut or working part time is tax avoidance. "Normal people" can also avoid taxes by giving their income to charity if they want.

From reading your posts it seems like you jumped to a conclusion without understanding the situation.
Surely you mean 'I shall continue using whom...'
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My grandpa was there for this. He was a Dutch Soldier captured by the Japanese held as a prisoner of war. They had him doing hard labor underground in a coal mine in Hiroshima. When the bomb dropped, everyone in the mine evacuated, believing there was an earthquake happening. Even though he fought gruesome battles, even though he faced tortures / brutalities under the Japanese, it was the melting faces at Hiroshima that consistently haunted him during in his dreams.

Later they moved the POW labor to Nagasaki. They were kept on the outskirts of the city so were safe but still witnessed the second blast. When it happened, the house they were in collaped on him.

He had fought the Boer War for the Dutch. Even captured the regiment that Churchil was with, but luckily released them.

Later in WW2, he fought to protect the Dutch colony in Indonesia from the Japanese - but lost, e.g. the nuclear experiences in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

As far as health effects go, he seem to have suffered effects of radiation and also black lung from all of the coal mining. He died in the late 80s and the story in my family goes like this:

Some government scientists showed up at the house to ask his wife if they could autopsy him for research. Later, when the results were given to my family, we found out that all of his bones were slightly blue-tinted and curved. It is not suspected that this strange effect on his skeleton was caused by the radiation exposure, and that the mysterious pain he constantly experienced was a result of this odd deformation.
So if a court in country X finds the fact that tracking non FB users is illegal the Americans should side with the criminal because X!=USA, Google and FB are the biggest companies that do this illegal things so it is so obvious that citizens and organization with sue this big companies and not some obscure forum in country X(if there is such small company that can even track users outside it's own website)

Also give me examples of EU companies that track users on most of the internet.
A video of Udi Dahan explaining CQRS. This changed the way I viewed programming in just about every way. There are others such as Greg Young and Rinat Abdullin, but that one video was the first to make it clear there are other ways to approach the business apps I worked on.
https://vimeo.com/8944337