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It used to be Aliens from Space did this.. Now I guess that the Humans on earth have become the ones who do this. The real reason is to protect us from the known and unknown genetic mutations and Pysonic abilities that these people have. Without the active dampening by the implants these people could cause havoc - they are first discovered in Gymnasiums where they cause random equipment failure and these are also the people who are very sensitive to wifi radio waves. This is Alien technology we are talking about not some Teapot twirling in the outer orbits of our planet they have stealth technologies and are able to keep us in check b He should have been more Charles Fort with his writing.
Are you open to remote employees?
Slowloris is HTTP-based, right? In this case I'm not sure they didn't even have to go up to that layer 7, it seems they had some generous time-outs for TCP and SSL idle (or incomplete) sessions
I've structured my life like this. Remote employer in a time zone 10 hours away, I get months long tasks I simply update boss on progress and am left to focus so deep my health suffers because I naturally obsess over my work, which I love. And working from home, my wife also works from home (freelance film producer), so we just immerse ourselves, have meals together, but otherwise we both obsess over our work. No commuting makes this very enjoyable.
I had high hopes for Sonic as well, but it seems they can't get access to a lot of markets....one can still hope...
> You don’t need to understand what a “comonad” is to use jQuery, and you shouldn’t necessarily need to comprehend functional composition to handle state management.

Is there a point to spreading this piece of sage FUD?

It should not be surprising that pure functions + immutable state results in fewer errors.

The "pattern" Redux asks you to use prevents you from shooting your leg off. If you've written a sizeable application that uses global, mutable state the benefits of Redux shouldn't be surprising.

My only gripe with this eco-system is that it constantly comes up with new names and concepts for things that already exist in the FP world. I agree that the math jargon is off-putting but so is having a dozen words for the same concept. I think the latter is worse.

The library described in the article feels less like an abstraction and more like a shuffling around of syntax. Useful but misleading with a title like, Redesigning Redux.

Update: s/grip/gripe
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Why not use Beaker[0] and achieve the same thing, but on linux and windows too?

It has a great community too

[0](http://beakerbrowser.com/)
I need to leave my mac running (or install IPFS on a VPS) so that if anyone wants to read my personal site there is a source online that can provide the content right?
I understand that it isn't an easy road but nothing is.

Gardening or photography is a hobby you can start yourself with almost no cost and health isn't a real barrier. If there is no club, you could start one. Or maybe join the mall walking club which may also help with your physical health. There is something out there for you. You're worth it so put forth the effort. The return will surprise you.
> The best part is when he doesn’t blindly include the Emscripten standard lib but instead checks what the built object is actually importing, and just implements those ten functions.

I agree that is the best part. I wonder how it would have looked if they took the direct-clang-wasm route w/out emscripten.
> If I wanted to be social I wouldn't even know where to start.

Even if you aren't religious, churches are a great way to meet new people. We have a few atheists who come to our church activities just for the social aspect of it and we are glad to have them.
That's a really good question.
This is how SDL2 works for Cocoa it also is written in pure-C in some areas where there would normally be Mach files
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With Nitrogen what's going on is that there's a tiny bacterium using some seriously advanced chemistry to attach Nitrogen gas (ubiquitous in our air) to Hydrogen (from water which is also ubiquitous) to make ammonia‡, which can then easily be used to make organic molecules. Plants which have a symbiotic relationship with these bacteria are readily available and can be grown to "fix" nitrogen into your soil.

‡ What's advanced here is not spending a ludicrous amount of energy, we can fix nitrogen, but we use a factory with high temperature and pressure to make the conversion work, the bacterium does it happily inside a peanut plant.
Why worry about people affording it? TOTP hardware keys are super cheap, just give them out to people without phones at the local BMV. There are some that are credit card sized and one battery lasts 5+ years.

Alternatively there are a number of desktop based 2FA clients:

- Authy
- GAuth
- JAuth
- WinAuth
I don't know about the nutritional value, but I've heard that the mineral composition of soil can directly affect the flavor of fermented grape juice. This may require some personal research on the matter...
>rate for, like, food, service, and atmosphere separately

Which is what Zagat was like initially.
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I once bought some organic heirloom variety tomatoes shipped from Mexico. I was surprised to find that they were disgusting, flavorless and spongy. I've grown the same varieties myself in rich yard soil, and they were flavorful and delicious. I can only imagine that the imported tomatoes were grown in depleted soil using less than sustainable methods.

I really wish big ag people would wake the frick up and realize that the benefits of sustainable polyculture go way way way beyond sometimes-higher yields. Permaculture methods strengthen the diverse ecologies that enrich soil in the first place.
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The author points out that the damage was extensive, giving numbers of deaths, rates of cancer among survivors, etc. but the goal of the article wasn't to talk about how much people suffer from nuclear weapons. The point of the article was to discuss the long term effects of a nuclear weapon, so the author focused on the growth of plant life in the area, and the health effects on children born from survivors.

We can discuss nuclear results without having to point out with every breath that we shouldn't blow up cities with nuclear weapons. The individual pain experienced by someone who was in the nuclear bomb has little to do with the possible propagation of side effects through generations.
Our take right now is that The Infatuation will focus on subjective takes with our reviews and guides and Zagat will be more data driven from the community. That being said, we're going to have to be pragmatic through this.

Would love to hear some of the feedback you've heard about review sites in general.
One thing to remember is people who get treated and are managing well are less likely voicing their opinions and just going about their lives.
Related listening from WBUR's On Point:

http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2018/01/23/the-loneliness-epidem...

Vivek Murthy, former surgeon general, answering to "Why is it important to use that word (epidemic)?"

> We have used the word 'epidemic' to refer to infectious diseases that have spread in populations, but what we see with loneliness is that it is impacting far more people than many of the infectious diseases that we have worried about in the past that we have termed epidemics. So, you know, this is an epidemic just by virtue of the sheer number of people that this is impacting and how significantly it has spread in the population.

This one is a little older but also relevant: http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/03/23/men-middle-age-friend...
> Google makes no money if they can't show ads to people

I'm really, really hoping that changes drastically in the next decade. It would be really nice if Google started making the majority of their money from compute cloud offerings (a little out there, but that sector is growing much faster than their general business). I think it's essential if Google's ever going to gain some independence from the perverse incentives they've set themselves up for, and I think that's essential for Google (and society in general) as we move forward.

I'm not sure what to do with Facebook. I don't see people paying for that. Then again, with the amount of time people spend glued to Facebook, they could probably make a tidy business offloading general computing tasks to their users through JS. The concept has been brought up before, generally in the discussion of blockchain mining through websites, but at Facebook's scale and usage it's an entirely different story. I imagine Facebook could have the largest weather supercomputer in the world (by many factors) next week if they really wanted to.

I wonder if Facebook has a department whose job it is to look into developing more parallelizable algorithms for common workloads...
Thanks! I did a little bit more reading on the subject. It seems like P and K are the two main minerals provided by fertilizer, but there's also zinc, copper, iron, manganese, and, oddly, molybdenum. And some plants apparently also deplete other elements, like sugar beets use a lot of boron.

I wonder about the environmental tradeoffs between using crop rotation vs. fertilizer for some of the micronutrients. On the one hand, there's an environmental cost to creating fertilizer, there's dangers of over-fertilizing, runoff, etc. But a crop rotation system means some fields will have to lie barren, or with less valuable crops, and potentially with lower yields, which means you need more farmland to grow the same amount of food, which means clearing more forests. Of course, I'm not even a novice in this subject, I'm sure there's a lot I'm missing.
Yelp's reviews are probably real, but Yelp also throws out a lot of real reviews, and they do this in a way that will skew the star rating up or down depending on whether the business purchases Yelp ads.

Yelp is actually still great because they have the only good database of what businesses are open at what times.
Yes, agriculture is a massive impact, but as we get better at farming we require less land (at least in the US, I'm not very familiar with other countries.)

From the 1920s to the 1970s, forests on the Eastern seaboard had actually been rebounding due to less intense agricultural use:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/us-eastern-forest...

But then since the 1970s they have begun shrinking again as suburban sprawl took over.
I love Kotlin, but JavaScript/node/typescript already gives a lot of the back end hacker buzz.

Kotlin works great for large projects, because of the way components go together. It would be nice to see it in a full web framework.
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"Plus Yelp has a bad history of extorting money from businesses by controlling which of their reviews show up."

No, they don't. This is a rumor that is often repeated, but is never backed with evidence that goes beyond hearsay.

Also, I worked at Yelp, on the systems in question, and I can tell you that it's false.
Hmm, that seems like an odd way to represent how much recess time kids have. I'm not familiar with elementary schools, but I'd guess that class periods are somewhere between 30 minutes and an hour. The average kid is getting less than 30 minutes of recess time which seems to indicate that this average takes into account kids who don't get recess time at all.

If recess periods for schools that have it are an hour long, then less than half of the kids actually have recess. Anyway, what a frustratingly useless statistic since I didn't know how they got it.
Thunk is not about storing async state in the datastore, it's more akin to multithreading in my opinion.

In backend, you might spin up a thread to do expensive operation like API access, and that thread has it's own database connection, to read and persist data.

With thunk, you dispatch a thunk-ed action to do expensive operation like fetching data from backend, and that action has it's own access to redux in form of `dispatch` / `getState` arguments.

In the end, my component calls `fetchData` function upon mounting. And the logic dealing with making multiple requests due to paging, or re-trying on errors then lives its own life inside a thunk action, independent from the component that spawned it.
They're all ATA or SATA. If anything, the looming shortage for those is like 20 years away, so...
I'm exploring ClojureScript on both client (browser) and server (node).

Or perhaps, some day, https://github.com/clojerl/clojerl.
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>I also think income inequality might lead to more loneliness.

I'd say poverty just amplifies the feeling of loneliness. Japan has the same problem of loneliness [0] and they have a pretty good Gini coefficient compared to the rest of the OECD.[1]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/world/asia/japan-lonely-d...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...
> async code is business logic or some other non-view-layer thing that doesn't really belong in a component.

In many React applications, components are separated into independent "controller"-layers and "view"-layers (containers and components are nomenclature I see occasionally, but the important takeaway is that both inherit from the React component class). Business logic has no place in your view components, of course, but is quite appropriate in your controller components. I don't think component implies view layer here. Even redux actions, when used, are appropriately called from the controller layer and not the view layer. Redux doesn't change anything about logical separation of concerns.

When the Flux pattern was originally introduced, it was driven home that it should not be used for everything. redux-thunk seems to encourage that you use it for everything. What do you use when global state is not necessary (or wanted)?
> Asynchronous actions feel, to me, that they belong at the component layer where niceties such as spinners are being rendered, and then the backing store is updated with the results of the triggered action.

This is exactly how thunks work, you just fire them from your component as a Redux action. I use thunks primarily for when an action needs to get data from an API and insert it into the store (e.g. on login).

Inverting the question, why would I want my presentational components to do a bunch of extra work beyond presenting? Calling an API is not presentational.
I neither agree nor disagree with the statement that the research is conclusive, but Brené Brown[1] seems to have become the public face of research on vulnerability.

Her research seems to be mostly qualitative rather than quantitative.

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability
There are still meetups, adult classes, and volunteer work.

If you are at all bent that way I recommend the latter. Even if you don’t hit it off with anyone the positive energy is good for lifting your mood and improving your outlook.
> is that they're more expensive for the party hiring their services

Eh, your explanation doesn't make much sense.

You are saying they're more expensive but you are probably just looking at the employee vs contractor take per hour.

Employees need unemployment insurance paid to the state, contractor does not.

Employees need health care, contractor does not.

Employees expect raises, contractors?

Hard to lower employee wages, with contractors it's just a negotiation at end of contract terms.
Ha, reminds me of the Penn & Teller Bullshit episode where they were asking people to sign a petition to ban Dihydrogen Monoxide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi3erdgVVTw
A hack against your password manager isn't going to be targeted at you as an individual. It will happen to one of the major companies who develop the software. The security of the product is only as good as the weakest link at the company.

Where is their source control stored - GitHub? How strong are the passwords of the developers (and managers, etc.) who have access? Do they use two-factor auth? How easy is it to social engineer one's way in, and add a commit to the app so that the next release decrypts all credentials and sends them to the hacker's remote endpoint? It's probably 3-5 lines of code to sneak in. The possibility of a "disgruntled/ambitious employee" exists, too.

There's also the browser extensions. I know web extensions are sandboxed, but does that include preventing a malicious extension from capturing the keystrokes from your password manager's master password text box? Each of these companies also has a website UI where you can view/manage your passwords; they load data into local storage - thus not being decrypted on the server side - but these are still vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks, etc.

I think it's inevitable that one of the major password managers will wind up being compromised. Such an event would be catastrophic.
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Fantastic. The web falling into the AmaGooBookSoft silos has been convenient, but it hasn't been good for censorship or personal sovereignty. Making it push-button easy to publish to IPFS a great way to return editorial control and ownership to individuals, without the downsides of needing to run and maintain servers.

I hope Hearth or someone like them expands beyond websites to self-publishing of store front ends, crypto payment, social feeds, real time video, and all the other services we expect AmaGooSoftBook to provide today. And to integrate Tor as necessary.
Haven't messed with the depth sensor on an iPhone yet, but you could do it with Kinects and other depth cams like the Intel Realsense series.

In my experiments with those, the main drawback was ergonomics (device of varying size depending on the sensor, connected to a computer via at least one cable as you moved it around the thing you were scanning).

On a phone or other standalone/self-contained bit of hardware, I'd imagine it makes things easier.
Perhaps we can study the Russian Oligarchy and learn more about that space.
You said you’ve never seen anyone call them the next Theranos or vaporware. You then proceed to link me to a bunch of neutral stories in which invariably someone does call them that and even after I gave you links supporting that notion. And here’s the thing, the skeptics have been forced to change their tune for the most part ever since the product was revealed in December. Of course no one will ever acknowledge that. No no, they always thought it was real... smh.
So - Zagat and the Infatuation have a reputation for quality over quantity, and function more as "restaurant guides" than "review services", such as Yelp (fwiw, Yelp sucks).

I'd wager that Google doesn't have a platform like this in its corporate strategy. What other high (-er) quality, curated content does Google provide? I suppose a case could be made for its SEO algorithms (if you call that curating), but I feel that has more applications for its existing review service than something like Zagat.
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There is a fundamental truth that no one seems to accept.
But it is the truth, and the majority of the planet's ignorance of this fact makes it no less true.
(I am not arguing about what is legal or not, or proposing any illegal behavior, rather just observing that many things legal in the past were absurd/ wrong or still are in certain places on the planet - eg - women not being allowed to drive in certain countries. ie. I repeat, I am not arguing about what is legal or not, I am arguing about the disconnect between reality and the law).
The hard truth:
There is no such thing as privacy - it was just not so apparent until now. I can know whatever I want, you cannot stop me from knowing the color of your shirt, your bank pin, or seeing pictures of you naked if they exist. I am free to know whatever I want, and so is everyone else.
When everyone understands that this is in fact the case, then the world will be a better place.
There are lots of interesting topics and conversations that arise from this (sometimes people call them counter arguments, or try and tell me that what I am calling for is wrong). I am not calling for anything, and I understand the ramifications. But most importantly, I am not talking about how I want to world to operate. I am observing how the world DOES operate. Einstein did not invent relativity (I am not comparing my (probably far far lower) IQ to that of Eintein's like you will deflect to as I use this analogy to get my point across). Einstein merely observed what was there for anyone to observe, and his observation made the world's societies of people a better place (because humanity increased it's understanding of existence).
I repeat privacy is a fallacy. I can and will know whatever I want to know. So will others. Currently people in power have an unfair advantage because they can know anything about anyone and the rest of us go to jail if we also know it. The way to level the playing field is to realize this fact, remove the laws (in theory, that is my proposal, but I don't know how), realize everyone has a naked version, has been bad, can be taken out of context. In the end, the importance of context will return and the novelty of nudity (and all other things (location that abductors can find you, etc) and intimate knowledge will reduce. But we will all be better off because the difference between the person who knows your bank pin and the person who steals your money will be clearly understood.
Currently this is not the case.
My observation is correct. Although you will not agree, and be played as a sucker, continuing to fight for privacy, being ashamed of your past while making yourself more and more at the mercy of the bullies (I mean governments and information curators like wikipedia, fb, twit,goog - they are nothing more than storers of user generated content) that make laws and use them against you.
Another observation that you will dislike me for, but that I ask you to, at the least, just meditate on, repeating in your head a few times, before dismissing it:
Laws are a cheap substitute for understanding.