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I don't really have a mission statement. Maybe I should, I don't know. But there are a few things that strongly interest me and long have. They probably look diverse and scattered to other people, but not to me. Yet, I don't know how to readily sum it up in a nutshell.

Perhaps it could be summed up as a desire to inject health and stability into the existing system by focusing on some humanocentric first principles. To me, that stability needs to be rooted in flexibility, not rigidity. I think most people see stability and rigidity as going together and that's part of the problem.

The world is in a state of flux. We have 7 billion people and unprecedented globalization and unprecedented tech. The tendency here is to run roughshod over people. The result is scary destabilization that has even millionaires acting as preppers because they fear the world coming apart at the seams and see no real means to stop it.

Jobs are moving to big cities and/or being replaced with gig work. Towns and rural areas are experiencing duress due to the lack of earning opportunities. Big cities are experiencing duress because they aren't affordable. Housing prices have spun crazily out of control. There is a huge lack of affordable housing nationwide in the US.

People have become prisoners of and slaves to the system. We seem to have forgotten that business should serve people, not the other way around.

I am interested in promulgating mostly market based solutions to some of the social ills of our era. I think that framing business as an evil force and charity (such as UBI) as the only hope of an antidote is part of the problem.

Business can be designed to serve basic human needs while turning a profit. It doesn't have to be pursued on a model of making a few people filthy rich while bleeding the masses or screwing them over. You have to make a conscious decision to design it in a healthy, sustainable fashion. It doesn't just happen. But it can happen.
True, but Jews are an even more extreme of a culture valuing education and work. And it seems to work for them.
As with most thing, it depends, right? For one, you’d have to actually implement a read-only version of your application, including creating an understandable user experience for that scenario. That’s an additional task per feature, though, as opposed to an additional task per migration as described by the article.

Additionally, that could cause a lot of headaches for your users if you’re continuously deploying. Then again, I kind of question what you’re doing if you’re constantly running DB migrations for a user application.
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Sorry, I failed to see the relevance, apropos Cambridge Analytica.
Art also.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/arts/design/art-proves-at...
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About an 50-60 each way. Usually tech podcasts (Linux Unplugged, Late Night Linux, BSDNow, etc.).
That something incorrectly oft-repeated can take on a veracity all its own is a wonderful aspect of the English language, but it doesn't make things any less twitch-inducing and, bluntly, incorrect.

Besides, I wanted to make a somewhat self-deprecating comment, rather than - as you have here - regurgitate some half-arsed passive aggressive form.
But the radiation mostly comes in form of electrons, protons or nucleii of heavier elements, not neutrons or gamma/xray. A really thin sheet of metal would reliably stop that.

I think the effect of the direct radiation would indeed be blocked by the typical roof and walls. The part where the prepper has an advantage is dealing with the indirect effects -- such bombardment would (temporarily) collapse the geomagnetic field and fill the uppermost reaches of atmosphere with dust. That would cause massive effects on the climate.
I’d be less strident if the government was required to return all seized property and pay all legal fees and damages in cases it lost, so at least we can attempt to make the citizen whole again.
He's really good at cultivating a cowboy zero F given shoot from the hip and always wins image. While in reality all his moves seem to be quite calculated.

This public move of deleting them probably generated more PR than the actual pages in question...
> and a certain level of crime must be tolerated so keep our freedom.

Children were being kidnapped. They were being forced to take drugs. They were then being raped. The rapists paid the abductors cash.

The kidnappers openly advertised children for rape in Backpage.

Once some of those children escaped they saw that their images, of them being raped, were still used to sell sex in Backpage.

They contacted Backpage and asked for i) those images to be taken down and ii) for Backpage to stop selling advertising to people who kidnap children and rape them.

Backpage refused. Backpage forced these children to go all the way to the highest courts in the US, because Backpage wanted to defend their "first amendment right" to advertise a service - kidnapped drugged children for paedophiles to rape.

When Backpage lost some of the court cases they put in filters so the advertisers couldn't be quite so blatant. But Backpage also told the advertisers how to evade those filters. "Use words like 'Amber Alert'" they said. Here's what Amber Alert means: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMBER_Alert

> certain level of crime must be tolerated so keep our freedom.

Do you still think this?
That didn’t help Kwon.
Yes about mail lists. It seems Research Software Engineers these days can't cope with periodic bursts of tens of messages a day on a list. Moving to Slack left behind sme long experience coping with hundreds a day for maintenance/support.

Anyhow, Gnus can render "html" articles; `mm-text-heml-renderer' defaults to the built-in `shr' in Emacs 24.
There were some kids their parents tried to push them into our gifted class (as a tutoring center, we had regular classes too), and they got borderline scores, so we let them in. They could not follow after a while. I would say they did alright in later schooling but not to the same level of academic success as those in gifted classes.

There are few Academic Olympiad gold medalists from the city. In fact, I only know of these two who were my own students so far and another bronze medalist many years previously. (From his later scholarship--he is now a math professor--I think he would have earned a gold medal had he have gifted education back then.)

That said, it was not a controlled experiment so you can think of it as a case study but not gold-standard randomized controlled trial.

The test was a set of challenge-style math problems for primary kids. Solving them would require more creativity and facility with thought than regular math problems.
Off topic, but I'd be interested in checking out your distributed search project if it's public.
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> Lviv remains hostile to Jews

I'm not sure how that relates to the OP since the article is on a Polish website. "Remains hostile" seems to suggest it was hostile before WWII. Remember, Lviv today is largely Ukrainian (as was Bandera). Most Poles, Jew or gentile, were either expelled after or killed during the war.
It is interesting how it is ok for a country to jail people whose conduct it disapproves of, yet for any non-government entity it isn't. /s
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Perhaps that experience is more than 20 years old. Denmark started to implement a thorough labour market reform in 1990's and coined the term "flexicurity", to denote a system where hiring and firing are extremely simple, but employees have good unemployment benefits and receive active guidance by authorities for re-employment. This has been created since then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexicurity
“This is not a continuation. This is an usurpation.”

Fine, call it usurpation already.

Older pagan habits survived in later pagan habits. Pagan habits survived in catholicism. And catholic habits survived in Lutheranism.

And now this whole package, this sponge of history, is just being abandoned.

“You wrote "Of the 2 choices you present me with: as an artwork in a hipster lounge." We are making the assumption that the congregation can no longer support the physical building. What other option you would prefer?”

As an artwork in another church or in a museum or something like that? Where are you going with this?

“You wrote "If you use numbers in the same way as me ..." I understand the comment now is meant as sarcasm.”

No, this was actually not sarcasm. You pick numerous events from all over Christianity’s history. When I pick something, you complain it’s not “current”. Wtf? And now you complain that it’s “tit-for-tat” picking. 2 weights I call it.

“I do not get from your writings that your statements about history are made with a certainty which is not justified.”
“your statements about history appear do not appear to come from a strong understanding of that history.”

One thing that oozes from all your writing is that you seem to think you’re lecturing me on stuff I don’t know or that I deny or something.

Aside from a potentially interesting tip on literacy in antiquity, you gave me nothing new.

“My question again is, so what? Cultures change.”

Ok, back on topic.

Yes, culture change.

I care because unlike you, I think the christian habits of our grandparents were interesting, positive and linked us to history. Loosing that is not good, even if you don’t believe in God.

“ (…) Christians stomping out older religions”

No, not stomping out. Usurping them, to use your latest choice of words.

“Yes, "hipster" is a derogatory term. Why else did you qualify it as "hipster lounge" instead of simply "lounge”?”

Sorry, I just wanted to be cool and hang out with you modern kids (<- sarcasm, to be clear)

Heads up: I probably won’t read your reply, as we’re going round and round and round.
"The fundamental premises of the school are simple: that all people are curious by nature; that the most efficient, long-lasting, and profound learning takes place when started and pursued by the learner"

No doubt about that. They'll obsess over whatever they enjoy. And the following line that "all people are creative if they are allowed to develop their unique talents" implies that your average person's creative ouput is important or even worthwhile to society.
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Seems perfectly in line with restrictions on other dual use technologies, such as biological pathogens, nuclear fuels, etc.
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So the GDPR then...
The standard explanation: Sweden built a good social welfare system.
IME, Jugaard is a rare skill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad
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I'm developing software and I don't Google any more
A strange sort of non-denial denial.
Maybe I structure my deposits because I don’t feel safe carrying $10,000+ to the bank. So five times a week I’m depositing $5k in the bank, until the DA seizes my businesses working capital to put me out of business and you on the jury vote to convict me because my behavior was “repeated”?
Is it possible to save a rainforest by listening to it?
The RTG powering it only produces 100w of power, so it’s not moving fast and most of that power each day is probably used on the science payloads.
Cambridge Analytica conducted research for Leave.EU, one of the biggest pro-Brexit campaign groups, and are under investigation by the Electoral Commission for their role in the EU referendum.
news reports and reported public opinion seem to have shifted rapidly. but lots of people have been very vocal about how this is bad for a long time.
It’ll be handled the same way it is now. The services you access through the satellites will be the same as they are now, and regulated by the same laws.

Unless you plan to launch all of your servers into space as well, a new physical layer does t make any difference.
> Cook making these statements in China might raise some eyebrows, as Apple recently handed over control of Chinese iCloud accounts to China-based data servers to comply with local law. The company’s iPhones continue to offer strong encryption in China, but the concern is that iCloud backups could be more susceptible to government snooping.

Is there a viable alternative? I don't mean this rhetorically — I'm actually curious. If Apple didn't comply, they wouldn't be allowed to sell their products in China. And even if Apple pulled out of China, there are enough competitors that the gap would be filled by another company that is willing to comply with the government's request. The citizens simply aren't able to (legally) obtain products that guarantee them privacy from the government.

Plus, as far as I know, Chinese citizens are aware of these sorts of requirements that the government puts on their data. So if the citizens know that Apple has complied with these requests — and if any other company would also have to comply anyway — then are they really any worse off? Apple isn't going to be able to convince the Chinese government to suddenly acknowledge that true privacy is worthwhile.

Disclaimer: I am not super knowledgeable about the issue at hand. These are just my thoughts based on what little I do know. I'd be happy to learn additional info/alternative viewpoints!
This isn’t true when the prosecution can bankrupt the defendant by seizing their businesses working capital even before the trial.
Thanks for the reply!

"The point is definitely not about prepared presentation" - to me this doesn't ring true at all, but I am sure it depends on the person who is getting interviewed. When I'm asked about times I've argued with my manager nothing really stands out but I'm sure that's not an acceptable answer either. Of course there are disagreements but they have never resolved to any serious argument or escalated to involving HR and even if they had I think it would be prudent to avoid talking about them. So I end up having to make up BS about something but now I'm the territory of exaggerating some minor disagreement and what I learned from it and it ends up sounding insincere. So the only way to avoid it is to prepare something for a lot of situations and to some extent rehearse before the interview. I've never had any significant interpersonal issues and I've been in the industry for six years. Most of the questions just leave me in a confused mumbling state as to me they sound a little ridiculous but at the same time I'm not allowed to just say, "no I've never had that as a problem".
Do as little as possible... e.g. sleep, eat, drink with friends, read books and watch tv...
There's a lot of clj libraries for which this is true despite > 1 year since last maintenance. With such a fast changing underlying target, though, I'd be wary
> What bugged me about the (X) environment when I was there? What would I change?

I recently started as lead dev at a small company experiencing some real growing pains. The CEO wisely had me spend a couple days my first week going around talking to team leads. It was very productive.

I started with almost the exact same question Rachel suggests here. My version:

> What's currently frustrating you?

I deliberately left it open-ended and found many of the non-technical answers worth passing along to management. "Let the fools have their tartar sauce!":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X25rP4rTw3A

The other question I came up after my first couple meetings. I called it the Magic Lamp question:

> If, as the magic genie of this company I could grant you three wishes, what would they be?

By day two, these were the only questions I needed to ask. Following up with the CEO, we came away with a very clear vision of what our development priorities needed to be. Most of it aligned with what I already sensed coming in, but there were still some useful surprises for us both.

(And, yes, found a few clever spreadsheets functioning as de-facto business applications.)
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> Interesting that there is no mention of this in the article.

Seems like you're suggesting malice. Frankly, I thought the article was poorly written and chaotic, omitting things I would have included.

Also, not just Jews were targeted by the Germans:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Lw%C3%B3w_professo...
Trump's election should really have been the last nail in the coffin on this kind of stuff, at least in the US. Either you hate him (and thus don't want him or anyone like him in the future to have this kind of access), or you love him and don't want anyone who hates him to ever gain this kind of access. A polarizing political figure should erode trust in unrestrained state power unless you believe he's the last President ever.
Because f(n) = log(n) eventually grows arbitrarily slower then f(n) = n, no matter what the base of that logarithm is, you can generalize that to arbitrary number base b > 2 and arbitrary powers p > 2, and show that any starting number will eventually reach a cycle.

Now, one can ask question such as:

- for which (number base, power) pairs is that cycle unique?

- for which (number base, power) pairs is that cycle shortest? (For example, 153 = 1³ + 5³ + 3³, so if (base 10, power 3) has only one such cycle, it has length 1. Similarly, 4150 = 4^⁵ + 1^⁵ + 5^⁵ + 0^⁵ could be the unique cycle of length 1 for base 10, power 5.

- what does the function f(base, power) look like?
Ok - first thought I had was a big model castle made out of pennies
Actually, it does answer your question, because neurogenetics is defined as the study of "the role of genetics in the development and function of the nervous system" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurogenetics), and that includes diseases like multiple sclerosis. The fact that you do not appear know this again suggests to me that you know little about this field in general. It is entirely possible that genetic differences can explain a small but statistically significant portion of the variation in intelligence from person to person, without necessarily being the strongest overall determinant of that trait. That is precisely David's point.

I am sure you will now feel moved to write some pithy response, as that appears to occupy a large part of your time on this site, and probably complain that me pointing out that you do not know what you are talking about on this subject constitutes a personal attack. (It does not.) Consider this my final word on the matter.
Ultimately, this is a company founded by Bannon, who’s nearly as good at hiring The Best People (TM) as Trump is (see Milo, for instance). These are not the world’s smartest people. Even if they did decide to indulge in a bit of illegal destruction of evidence, there is every chance they would fuck it up.

And destruction of evidence is probably not as common as people think in these cases; it’s a huge risk.
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I’ve not used it in production yet but it looks like a good excel replacement for database type info. The UI is very slick.

I tried smartsheets but it’s more calc centric. Asana is great if you are task centric.
https://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/977273903658696704 Some comments
Yeah, you’re telling us the tariffs won’t work and people don’t agree with them. How about we back up and discuss the degree to which China is or is not being fair in trade.

Elon Musk, for example, wants certain tariffs because China has a 25% tariff:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/08/elon-musk-sides-with-trump-o...
there's nothing "gifted" about going to medical school in a top university or winning a math competition
The only legitimate use is setting it to another number that you own. It would be relatively easy for telecoms to allow this but block all other falsification of caller ID.
> You don't need

It's very easy to criticize something by saying you don't need it. There are very few things in life that you absolutely need.

Yet there are things that add convenience, greater efficiency, etc, and people will pay for them.
This doesn't really work if you have multiple systems you want to access your mail from. There's no way to keep those systems in sync with each other, some folks fake it with dropbox-like services, but that's honestly not much different than just pulling over imap each time you open the mta...
Nomad was my choice for queue centric workloads, but it doesn't seem to fit the webserver / long living services as good as Kubernetes. I'm not sure, but I would think you could run Nomad and Kubernetes on the same servers, sharing the Docker runtime.
What scares me is the whole world runs on Excel. Name a data-intensive critical industry: deep-sea oil drilling? Power grid management? International finance? All powered by Excel at critical junctures.
But I thought hackernews told me Trump was evil reincarnated and Hillary was the second coming?
Fwiw, the IP trade case seems absolutely valid.

Either China can abide by international laws and actually enforce IP prosecution on strategic domestic companies, or they don't deserve to play at the free trade table.

The "Well, we know the Chinese government is unfairly tilting the domestic economic market in favor of local companies, but if we give them a seat at the table then eventually they'll change" is never going to be realized when they're treated with kid gloves by everyone who wants access to their market.

And now that China has a number of internationally competive industries, it seems like as good of a time as any to press harder.

For all the bullshit that made it's way into the TPP, it was strategically a good idea. Multilateral tariffs are the only real pressure that an economy as big as China's will feel.
> Given that approx. 140 mio people in Bangladesh borrowed micro loans from him he must have had some influence on it.

That's a little far fetched. I am one of the 140 mil and I do not recall borrowing from him (or anyone I know). As novel as the idea of micro financing is, realistically it has little impact on poverty reduction in Bangladesh, the RMG and manpower export sector has more stake in the claim.

The sanitation revolution can be attributed to Sir Fazle Hasan Abed[0], the founder of BRAC[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazle_Hasan_Abed
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRAC_(organization)
As you can see from the code in my post, the script runs, but the server responds with a 403 error. That looks more like the JS is doing the wrong request in FF. The problem seems to be the referrer. For comparison:

Referrer in FF:

https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4/spreadsheets/1A3xz8NFWjebuMbGWvy2yUBKcnAmuZSs5JmKq9-JDss8/values/Email?key=AIzaSyCxiboNdLE5nSch2pdwI3blsfvfyss3Y0M

Referrer in Chromium:

https://secured.fyi/

Btw. I tried deactivating any Addons which might interfere with the requests but it didn't change anything. So probably all users with a modern Firefox will have an empty table.
Oh please. The purpose of copyright law may once have been to protect the public domain, but it hasn't been that for decades, especially since it has constantly been expanded and focused only on protecting profits.

The purpose of copyright law is to protect the profits of greedy companies. This court should know better. Do they not consider recent changes to the law? And how can law have a purpose other than what it actually achieves? No one could possibly read the minds of legislators or the founding fathers on this issue. The purpose of the law cannot be something it never achieves anymore. Of course, going by legal definitions of "reasonable" it's not surprising they reach such an unreasonable, illogical decision. And people wonder why lawyers and judges are so despised with this type of illogical thinking.
> OpenKeychain is currently the best way to manage PGP keys on any platform.

How is it the best on any platform? I thought it only existed on Android?