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Honestly, I think this is more a problem of perception than anything else. For one thing, loss aversion makes us think we'll miss things way more than we'll do (see also: FOMO). Losing contact with people mostly involves not thinking about them. If you don't think about them, you don't miss them either. Friends come and go in life, it's natural. And if you did miss them, you'd put in work to keep in touch through other means.

I know because I have a circle of close friends that I only see once or twice a year, but stay in touch with through email. Guess what: it works. And if you migrate, you just email your friends about it.

Similarly, although I don't know if this is generally possible in every country, but I have diligently carried over my first mobile phone number from carrier to carrier. When I moved abroad to Sweden for a few years, I switched to the absolute cheapest minimal carrier to essentially "invest" in keeping that phone identity. This means that people who met me as far back as the late nineties can still reach me on it. Friends that I have made later even know they can rely on this, that this is my "policy". I'm about to leave Sweden for Germany. Still keeping that Dutch phone number. In fact, I'm leaving it with all of my friends here, and use it for all the messaging apps that rely on phone numbers.

And finally, just claim your own bit of internet and get a website. Your friends can search for you.
Very surprised to find that this was not already the case.

In general I think you should assume that all communication on a work provided tool are not private.

Private conversations belong on whatsapp / signal.
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Travis Kalanick resigned because his mother had recently died. The media frenzy was just noise.
This seems like a matter of the legislature reining in law-enforcement whose interpretations have become overly broad, something legislatures (and Congress) also sometimes does to the judicial system.

I agree that it can be cast in an awkward light but it's not uncommon.
I've never even heard of someone doing this. I know people sometimes want samples of their code from past jobs to show future employers, but even that I would explicitly ask about when leaving, and I certainly wouldn't ask for the entire codebase on anything large or meaningful.

Hell... I don't think I'd even want a copy in most cases, it seems like it'd open me up to legal and privacy risks without any actual benefit.
I feel like we don't have enough free-range parenting, even if silly new laws seem to support it. Not nearly enough parents let their kids walk to school where I live. (But I'll be careful to admit this view may be much more upper-middle class centric than for poorer families.)

My parents took me and my siblings to Mexico when I was a kid, I was the oldest at 7 years old. My brother and sister were 6 and 4. We'd go walking for miles on our own. In retrospect it seems amazing that nothing serious happened to us, though once my brother decided to pet a horse from behind and got kicked.

This article also reminds me of a story comedian Molly Shannon tells about sneaking onto an airplane with her friend when they were 13 and flying to New York City to spend the day.

It seems like nobody does this kind of stuff anymore, parents are much more on top of it than 30 years ago.
Yes. I don't see a large scenario where a company isn't already using G-Suite or Office 365 and the higher tiers include all the compliance and management features. Usually if they need more customization then they use OneLogin or Okta on top, or build their own system.
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You're falling into the trap of assuming that the market is perfect, and that there's someone wanting to take over the stores.

Face it, the only reason they were in trouble, and the only reason this bankruptcy is happening, is because of the parasitic capital firms involved.
Hey, don't underestimate it. Protestant Europe got a big literacy boost from the Gutenberg Bible.

And if you dig around the writings around the time that radio and (later) TV got started, you'll see plenty of hopeful plans for universal education.

But after the transient is over, the steady state is kind of underwhelming. People are very resistant to instruction that doesn't suit them, and I really can't blame that.
Terrorism is untargeted violence against civil population, with the aim to instill fear and influence policy. Destruction of a military or military-related object by a warring country is not terrorism, it is an act of war. In war, objects that can have military significance - bridges, roads, factories, warehouses, etc. - are routinely attacked. This has nothing to do with terrorism. Note that Israel and Syria is in the state of war since 1948, when Syria was one of the states that tried to destroy the nascent Jewish state. Unlike some other Arab countries, Syria never made peace with Israel and never really wanted to.
Some other examples: https://twitter.com/alteredq/status/976497616870629376
Laws do describe what is forbidden. Utah legislators noticed that in some states with language similar to Utah's laws on what is prohibited, the laws were applied or interpreted in ways that don't match what they wanted for Utah, and passed a law correcting Utah's existing prohibitions to clearly and explicitly prevent similar application in Utah.
Wow - when I was 10, growing up in Burnaby (suburb of Vancouver, and uses the same transit system), we learned to use transit in school on a special field trip designed to teach us to take the bus and Skytrain.

After that I took it to Metrotown to do my Christmas shopping - felt very responsible and grown up. It was definitely a good thing, and not at all unsafe.

Heck, today it'd be even safer since most parents give kids cell phones!

- edited to clarify Burnaby's context to Vancouver
You're missing the point. You don't actively monitor it, you record it so that later you can go back and review those conversations in the event you are required to by law. I don't know where you've worked, but this standard in any sizable company, or any involved in particular industries, and is not that difficult to arrange. There are specific legal requirements to keep records of certain types around for 2, 5, 10+ years, whether it's email, chat, file servers, etc. And yes, that includes Slack.

Why do you think Slack is any different than the systems that we have in place already? What makes Slack any different from email? Answer: nothing.

And if Slack didn't do this, they'd eventually find themselves filtered out of nearly every corporate network due to the inherent legal risk.
An employee's use of a company-provided communication channel like Slack isn't covered by GDPR, but the company is liable for the content that's stored in their Slack account. Under GDPR, I, as a customer of Company X, have a right to know about and request a copy of any data stored about me by that company, which includes Slack conversations, in both open and "private" channels. GDPR also applies retroactively, so the old compliance export process wouldn't cover it.
I suspect that if they allow admins to download DMs, they also probably soft-delete messages, so deleted messages would still show up in the exports. Can anyone confirm?
True. I have misread "this is illegal in Europe" as "anywhere in Europe" rather than "in Europe there exist such jurisdictions".
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> I agree with what you're trying to say, but not with this statement in particular. I think it is possible to create a lovely game that unfortunately ropes in an addict as a side effect, but that isn't what the industry is about right now.

I don't think you're actually disagreeing. Taking advantage, as I put it, implies intent. To incidentally benefit from the consequences of an unfortunate side effect is not equivalent to taking advantage of the effect.

> Accordingly, I'd say it isn't justifiable to build intentionally exploitative addictive systems just because some people can moderate their designed negative effects.

This is the same statement in different words. "Exploit" is probably a more direct word to characterize the sentiment.
As a counterpoint to the hysteria expressed in most of these comments, a few years ago I was watching a youtube series by "Rinoa Super Genius" where a similar project was undertaken to create an e-bike battery from disassembled laptop batteries.

The videos are done by an interested amateur with basically a pocket knife and a large soldering iron. I'd highly recommend it if you want practical and confidence building knowledge on the actual behavior and safety of batteries, rather than this comment section which is filled with outrage and "experts" referencing their credentials and years of experience.

I'm an experimenter not an entrepreneur so I'll never claim I can produce battery packs in my basement safe enough to sell to grandma, but I've had no problem ripping apart broken electronics, charging old cells with a DIY dc power supply, and using cells in all kinds of 'dangerous' manners.

Personally I think chance of injury is far higher with dozens of other technologies used every day by non professionals: chainsaws, cars, and many other types of motorized or heavy equipment.
It’s sad to me that the 24h news cycle that depends on selling fear causes people to misestimate the dangers in the world. My sister doesn’t allow her teenage children to take the bus in a wealthy suburb for fear of something happening to them, yet both she and I took buses around SF and the bay starting at age 10 without cellphones. Statistics show that things are _less_ dangerous now than when we were kids — but she’s been made paranoid via attention grabbing media.
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It is, but we were talking about blockchain currencies.
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This isn't exactly true. Employees do have a higher right of privacy even when using company resources than they do in the US, but monitoring is allowed within certain parameters, and that can include searching email or other "private" storage spaces.

Companies must still be able to comply with eDiscovery and data preservation requests from various police agencies (such as Økokrim), and these may be performed without informing individuals that it is happening.
Besides Google’s search I can’t think of any FAANG service/product that would be indispensable for the average Joe, being the only service that has no real competition. For all the others, people would replace them relatively easy. Could you provide some examples?

People need Microsoft Windows to operate their businesses and do their jobs, Apple phones and Netflix subscriptions are much easier to replace.
I've been running the "Data Selfie" plug-in on Firefox for a bit over a week now. It's pretty interesting. Right now it says:

"You're a laid back, liberal female who doesn't eat out frequently and doesn't prefer style when buying clothes and is less satisfied in life than most".

It also says:

Not likely to like outdoor activities
Not likely to consider starting a business in next few years

I am a male who has been self employed most of my life, and a moderator on one of the busiest "Backpacking Forums" here in the US. So it's got that wrong, but it's true I have very little interest in "clothes style" and don't eat out much.

The "female" part is especially interesting because I'm very much a straight male, but I was a single parent with a 1 year daughter 30 years ago and I did make a very conscious effort to be a "mom" to her. That required I learn some very feminine traits like "kissing boo boos" and nurturing with hugs and kisses and lullabies. I learned how to do these things by closely observing real moms, and asking them for help, or getting my ass chewed by them when I was "doing it wrong".

At the time friends and family were fairly astounded the first few times they saw me go instantly into "Mom" mode when my daughter required my attention.

And, I haven't posted anything, or made any comments about either food or clothes. I can only assume it's my lack of doing that which prompts the conclusions regarding it but I was honestly unaware that others must do that enough to make my not doing it somewhat remarkable.

So, in that very short time period (9 hours on FB) the plugin has made some pretty insightful conclusions and missed the mark on some as well. For example, I've been a hiker almost since I could walk and almost all of my hiking over the past 25 years has been off trail "bushwhacking" into Wilderness areas and most of that has been solo. But, I rarely ever mention my hikes or my work on FB, so again, it would seem to be the lack of those that prompts the algorithm's conclusions.

(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dataselfie/)
No. Different EU countries have different laws and many different gray areas.

Intercepting messages on a medium that is clearly meant to be private is usually illegal.
They seem to be rising because reporting of the events and public awareness of them are rising. They are actually declining, according to what I have seen.

To determine the rate in previous years, researchers have had to comb through hundreds of local papers, and verify with local police reports, to find past incidents of criminal use of guns in schools. Nowadays, those are more likely to make national news, and also be reported in aggregate by the state police.

To reiterate, gun violence in the US has apparently been in decline for decades--just like other kinds of violence. Now that awareness of gun violence is rising, we have a real chance at driving it into the ground and keeping it there, even without mass disarmament. Between genuine enforcement of existing laws--rather than the salutary neglect of those laws promoted at the enforcement end by gun-oriented lobbyists--and suicide prevention efforts, I think we are approaching a time when an acceptable compromise is possible that would put our rates of violent crime within a reasonable distance of more disarmed societies.

But as recently demonstrated in Austin, availability of guns is not the ultimate problem. The problem is that defense-in-depth is hard. A determined attacker can always cause some damage, with whatever tools he may have at his disposal. It is very difficult to recognize a threat and then stop it before it is realized.
You can buy 'super-powerbanks' for a few hundred dollars. Depending on the voltage and power requirement of the DSL modem you could probably run it, and your phone, right from there.
Yeah, I'll look at increasing prices. Thanks.

We're basically banking on medium-size businesses finding it more convenient to use a hosted service, especially when it offers the same or a higher level of security.
How would you query such structure to retrieve elements in-order?
I love your comment, but do you mean 50 ft. or do you really mean yards?

Not many people have a yard the size of half a football field, and even if they did, it would probably put the danger close to a neighbors house.

So seriously, what would a reasonably safe distance be? Should this be avoided if you don't live in a really rural area with a giant property?
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> most of these I have seen have the charge protection tabs on the top.

That depends on the cell.

Some cells have charge protection. Others don't. The 18650 cell is standardized only in size-and-shape. The actual protection, chemicals, and other specifications are completely different from cell to cell.

Heck, some 18650s have 3.2V nominal voltage, while others have 3.7V.

IIRC, charge protection causes a voltage drop. So some applications prefer to use unprotected cells (with the overall device implementing charge protection elsewhere). For example, Laptops probably have ONE charge-protection circuit somewhere in their construction, rather than 6-charge protection circuits (each cell). This simple fix will cause 1/6th the voltage drop compared to 6x individual charge protection circuits.
Your username must be ironic, because that was very well stated, and not something I expect from an idiot on the net.
The root word is 'terror'. If terror (mass fear, intimidation, panic) was the intent, I would agree.
I think that part's easy to understand. The tougher part is why one would put that communication in text, enter it into a company-provided system, and then be offended / dumbfounded when it's accessed by one's superiors at that company.

We all get stressed sometimes, but we don't all do that.
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I'm not japanese so I don't know. But I know that human beings are intensely social creatures and being alone, even if in self exile must be painful. The pain they have must be less than the pain they feel being around others. Some would probably consider going to other lands but sounds like they don't have money for the option. The $25 million the japanese government needs for them sounds like a really small number for nearly half a million of them..

I do well in the states but I think I could relate to what they did in Japan since Japan places such huge amounts of value on honor and self success. It sounds like a double edge sword. It's good to have a society that values success but leaving about half a percent of the population as shut ins doesn't seem right.
for Facebook to really die, the users will need to move to something else.

They need to move toward Snapchat in droves or another social media alternative.

MySpace died because of Facebook.

Digg died because of Reddit.

AOL died because of ATT, Verizon, Comcast, TWC/Charter, etc..
One rogue state with undeclared nuclear weapons bombing another rogue state to prevent them building undeclared nuclear weapons...all kept secret for 10 years...Israeli intelligence gathering has amazing penetration and sophistication...
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I'd love to see just one case where someone flew that line past a judge.
On the same computer (FX8370E, 16GiB DDR3, no SSD, RX580 gpu), Kubuntu 17.10 rans far fast that Windows 10.

For example, time from boot to allow do something like browsing a web page. I don't did a precise measurement of time, but on Windows 10 I need to wait like 10 fucking minutes to allow to do something! And the hard disk doing a lot of horrible noises, so Windows must doing something. On linux, would take like a single minute or two, and I don't noticed any noticeable hard disk activity.

I don't know that is messed with Windows (probably I messed something on Windows), but I really hate this.
It's not the original laws as written - they were fine for many generations. It's the modern interpretation of those same laws that often gets out of hand. Often it's changes in regulations, or court rulings related to those laws.

In this case, it was gradual shift in the perception of 'neglect' by CPS, helicopter parents, or overly concerned citizens who think every child is in mortal danger if they're not within 10 feet of a responsible adult.
It's not the reporting that's the problem, it's the overzealous prosecution of families that end up in government's crosshairs. I expect the rate of reporting won't change, but the abuses by local agencies will be abated somewhat.
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Bad Nash Equilibria. I'm not always a big Yudkowski fan but his recent book/pamplet Inadequate Equilibria explains it pretty well: https://equilibriabook.com/
Just goes to show how all this tech can be used against you. Sure this time it was used to catch a serial bomber, but it could also be just as easily used to catch a serial protester.
It's not erroneous, terms evolve. There's no formal definition of terrorism, so we're just talking about how it's used in common conversation and media. Maybe it's just me, but in modern usage I've only ever seen references to non-governmental terrorism and "state sponsored terrorism", which is different than a direct government action. When a government does it it's just modern warfare.
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Generally speaking it’s easy to argue that employees have no expectation of privacy on the work network for the following reasons:

1. Regulation in most countries requires it to be this way, we’ll most countries any of us is likely to work in. Which is to say: The Law Hath Spoken, which is to say: The People Hath Decided.

2. The employer should have spelled this out to you at time of hire, and had you sign a document to verify you understand.

The problem here isn’t that the direct messages take place in the workplace, it’s that they take place on infrastructure owned by the workplace.
Before this change, would the company have been liable for harassing DMs on Slack, an unaffiliated service where they previously were not able to read peoples DMs?
Checked it just now. Broke for me.
Then Slack should (and indeed, does) have special processes for handing over private conversations when served with a warrant, subpoena, court order, etc. "The FBI should be able to do it with probably cause" and "your employer should be able to do it whenever they feel like" are radically different.

And I don't disagree that the company owns it and should have the right to do whatever they want with the things they own. But the employees should also have the right to think that's shitty, and companies should have the ability to demonstrate their lack of shittiness to their employees by configuring their environment in such a way that a higher barrier exists to snooping. This change doesn't actually make a new thing possible; Slack had a "compliance mode" before that companies could opt into, but it wasn't the default, and users were notified if it was enabled. This change just limits companies abilities not to have snoop mode turned on.
I appreicate your thorough response and giving me all these resources to dig through.

I think that in the past you had to be a very intelligent machiavellian-type dude to stay in power and it was a constant struggle. You probably had to be a very good at reading people and understanding their psyche. But there are only so many such guys and they can only manipulate so many people.

I think technology has given people with power and money the ability to automate influence on a much larger scale for cheap. Not that technology is bad. Technology makes hard problems easier. It can make all those things that a smart person had to constantly work on repeatable and consistent. When i think of data mining the last thing on my mind is product ads. I think gerrymandering. I tip my hat to the evil genius that figured out how to draw districts like that. I bet you could get most of that data from people's facebook. Even without that though, using other data you could get. And even if you dont have any digital data available, you can probably be classified based on a few facts. And......your vote is null now.

What I struggle with is the fact that now influence is global and widespread and I can't for the life of me figure out how that gets reigned in. It's kinda mindblowing.
That a law like this is even necessary seems absurd to me. A child learns by doing, by making mistakes by itself. By being curious about the world. By feeling the consequences of ones actions. Of course parenting is needed, but much less restrictive as it apparently is. My parents sent me to the UK when I was 12. i knew no-one. Yes, there was a school and a host family that fulfilled my basic needs, but I had to become selfconscious and responsible. I would never want to miss that. Your parents won't always be here and the earlier you learn to get on by yourself, the better. A child must develop a sense of self dependency IMO.

Disclaimer: I'm from Europe.