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>But rich people largely advocate against policies that favor poor people, like generous welfare and equitable taxation. Rich people advocate for policies that protect their status and the value of their properties and investments.

Do you suppose it's possible for you to advocate for a specific amount of welfare that you feel is "generous" without attempting to villainize the very people you hope to pay for it?

>They advocate against redistributive inheritance taxes, so that their own children continue to have enormous advantages over anyone else.

First, one of the major motivations of achieving success in life is so that your children will be better off. So all you've established is that rich people are good parents. Secondly, you're still just upset that someone has a lot, rather than focusing on a specific problem that some group of poor people has. You're just hating the rich rather than showing an interest in helping the poor. Third, fortunes generally disappear after 3 generations, so it's not as if huge dynasties are being created that last forever. If you're rich, your grandkids get to go to a nice private school. That's pretty much it.

>They advocate policies that guarantee they can continue to extract wealth from rents rather than productive avtivities, dragging down the economic well being of all.

Yes, things like regulatory capture are a problem. I will hold up a sign and protest it alongside you. But do you see you you're STILL pointing to the "rich" rather than "bad policy?"

>And the rich are more likely to cheat on their taxes, try to bribe officials, or flat out disregard the law.

I've never met a person who worked for tips that didn't cheat on their taxes, have you? But more importantly, we're back at the same place. Rather than advocating for or against a specific policy, you're just slinging mud. You care more about saying mean things about rich people than you do about issues the poor might be facing.
> Split into what?

Here’s an easy start: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp.
Kids have that insidious tendency to grow up, and to sometimes make their ideas become real.
> I keep hearing this suggestion and it makes no sense. Split into what?

Instagram, WhatsApp, and multiple competing Facebook copies (say Facebook Red, Facebook Green, and Facebook Orange) with a mandate to interoperate with each other and with other networks. Existing accounts are divided randomly and evenly between the copies.
Yeah, seems a little strange to ask a question like that after the court already ruled in their favor. Whether you like it or not, clearly they did have a case.
We really need to fix our patent system on the software side.

While this might be true, it's worth noting that this is a copyright case and not a patent case.
Yes, there are a lot of lighter image editing options out there, and most of them are even free. But at least my understanding is that GIMP is still predominantly used by amateurs. I didn't say it's the only option, it's one of the more powerful image editing options for amateurs.
So performance tools are fine, as long as they are hard to find (=not user-facing)? And the percentage of users that would want them has to live with worse access to them to not scare the others with an extra menu entry?
I think this critique of him is fair. I would have less of a problem with the SJW-types if they showed any interest in combating the more extreme/hostile elements in their own side. I should expect the same from the right, and though Peterson does mention his opposition to the alt-right from time to time, he could do with a fair bit more of it.
V8 has little to do with Oracle, fundamentally. V8 came about because they wanted a higher performance JS VM for their browser; the JVM was never in contention there.
Bintray is having major outages today. That explains the 502
But isn't that the point? That Google uses the Java infrastructure, but when it comes down to licensing, it isn't Java anymore? Google made a business decision to not buy a license and time will tell if that was a good decision or not.
Good hiring and training practices prevent people from invoking the debugger on live prod machines
You're correct in that FB has made these changes in the past that have hurt publishers, but the degree and severity of this last update is unprecedented. Media companies that had $100MM+ valuations months ago have shuttered over night: https://digiday.com/media/live-algorithm-die-algorithm-littl.... Unless you're close to someone in the industry, you wouldn't realize the severity of the situation. I personally know of two separate companies that lost 80% of their traffic overnight and had to shutdown almost immediately. There are much larger companies, with significant VC and private equity backing that are able to stay afloat through this, but they're definitely feeling the impact. This is across the board to all traditional media companies as well, and a lot of people with significant influence and money are not happy.
The "stolen IP" is the API definitions, nothing more.

rtype foobar(type baz);

That's worth $8B to the appeals court, apparently.
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And why do 12-14% live under the poverty line? https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/faq/what-current-poverty-rate-un...

There were articles a few years ago where people had to work two or three jobs just to make ends meet - if at all. Nowadays they still do, but the jobs no longer exist and they're being replaced with gigs. At least the jobs had some guarantee of number of hours people could work.

And I mean look at me - I'm already claiming the previous shitty situation of 16 hour work days was better! It really isn't. A 40 hour work week should be possible and enough to live above the poverty line for everyone. Preferably put them comfortably in the middle class.
How a Tiny Latvian Bank Became a Haven for the World’s Dirty Money
SO I just checked the Parsemus foundation website and this is their first line describing Vasalgel:

> VasalgelTM is a long-acting, nonhormonal contraceptive with a significant advantage over vasectomy: it is likely to be more reversible.

"It is likely to be more" does not sound very reassuring.
I think market cap of Google was close to 200B the deal was valued something like 7.5.
> Why do you think the LIDAR did not work? The LIDAR might have worked just fine but what the system taking the output of the sensor did with the data is the question.

Very true. I don't know either way.
They tried that in Austin. I think they had a year to grow market without Uber or Lyft, and once the ridesharing companies came back, the companies were decimated.
My export from Facebook is 5.5GB - for large zipfiles like mine, the UI doesn't do anything when you drop the file onto the event listener.
Oh god, I hate this. Scrolling the page should not be an irreversible action. That's crazy.
Yeah, “stealing” an API and open source, building a successful mobile UI platform (unlike personal/embedded java and Sun’s own failed attempts at fragmentation) and contributing it free back to open source where it has been used as a base OS for thousands of new products from TVs to drones.
Then you know it is most likely a NFS/CIFS issue or hard disk failure.

Downside is you need to log in with a new shell and tread lightly because it's easy for anything to get stuck in that state. Checking the syslog for NFS errors is a good place to start, or inspecting the fstab to see what is supposed to be mounted.
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On the other hand, Java was on a decline before Android, and since then it's more popular than ever. Just think how many new developers have had to "learn Java" just so they can build Android apps.

I understand the fragmentation issue, but I think it's a minor one and the net benefit for the Java ecosystem was much larger.

Also, Oracle is simply in the wrong trying to copyright APIs, and it has gotten a lot of hate from developers over that + all the other things they've done to Sun's previous projects that also made developers hate them.

With its developer-hostile attitude, is it any wonder developers are no longer interested in having anything to do with Oracle?

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/oracles-lack-of-develop...

Like what is this nonsense from the article:

> Oracle said its APIs are freely available to those who want to build applications for computers and mobile devices, but draws the line at anyone who wants to use them for a competing platform or to embed them in an electronic device.
Not just today, we could've decades ago.
Waymo Orders Up to 20,000 Jaguar SUVs for Driverless Fleet
The CEO tweets that people he disagress with are "incompetent". Of course new leasership hasn't changed Uber, they hired selfish, hateful, spiteful people as leaders again.
I'm reading an abridged version of the Rihla right now and just finished the section on Syria. One interesting point is the system of "waqf" or charitable foundations, that apparently encompassed every aspect of society. He relates a story where he saw a servant boy in Damascus carrying a delicate Chinese plate down the street. He accidentally dropped the plate on the ground and it broke. A passerby told him to take the pieces to the "Charitable Foundation for Utensils" and they would give him the money to buy an equivalent plate. Ibn Battuta goes on to praise the person who set up this foundation, without knowing their identity, since if the boy had gone back home with the broken plate, he would have been scolded or whipped. It seems the sole purpose of the charity was to prevent these sorts of small mistakes from spoiling relations between people. I don't know why, but I just find this remarkable.

The way that Ibn Battuta adeptly navigates tricky social situations in faraway lands is notable as well. At one point he is pressured into being part of a mourning ritual which clearly offends him, but afterwards, still manages to secure a private meeting with the local governor, in which he advises him not to drink alcohol. He is thanked by the governor for this advice and the townspeople as well.
> So women will use BC in both phases because it's the path of least resistance.

I could see it from womens point of view as you can't always trust the other party (someone you just met) that they are indeed "on the gel", and you are the one getting pregnant if it's not the case.

This might be the big/determinant factor, but apart from that it's definitely not "least resistance" when factoring in side effects. It's tradition, but it doesn't have to be.

Condoms for STDs will always have a place, I agree.
Competitors (obvious and non-obvious) are going to capitalize on FB's incidents.

Business world is not technical.
...playing Devil's Advocate, as GP said, it's common practice when testing any self driving tech to disable these features on the cars in question so your automated system isn't fighting with another set of automated systems trying to control the same vehicle. That sounds far more unsafe and unpredictable than just disabling the built in ones.

Personally I think it's naive and unreasonable to think we're going to get totally safe and rock solid self-driving tech without at least a few coffins worth of people who gave their lives to show us how it could go wrong. There isn't one safety system in existence that wasn't built on top of a pile of corpses.
I think a voting guide would be more useful in a situation like this that explains the issues at stake on the ballot. If more people used a voting guide instead of the news, I doubt Brexit would have gone through.
Privacy Badger is attempting to prevent Facebook from tracking you by blocking URLs known to load tracking code or pixel trackers etc.

This extension isolates your Facebook login cookies while you're browsing on non-Facebook websites, hence making it harder for those tracking techniques to identify you.
Multi-account containers are great. The only issue I’ve encountered is opening links outside of your container (e.g. a link to a website that you are logged in outside the container will mean you are logged out). Just need to train my muscle memory to “right click > open in container...” rather than just clicking!
Would you be so kind pointing me to these resources you have?
The point was that they lived thousands of years apart.
This is such a poorly done react app, you can not take this as the current state of react. If you've never seen a mature react app, and have at best checked out a few blogs that try to compare it to other frameworks, then you have not been exposed to nearly enough to make a real decision and are throwing around empty opinions.
In a way, but with even less job guarantees; temp jobs (as far as I remember them from summer jobs) were full days at least, often even full seasons if you wanted it. Gig economy is entirely dependent on demand for e.g. rides, and pay is not based on an hourly rate but on however much competition you have at any given time. Also temp jobs give worker rights, insurances, health and safety regulations, etc; gig economy does not, risks are entirely for the driver.

I mean what does Uber etc do when a driver gets into an accident during a ride? Outside of a ride? If it was a taxi company, insurance would kick in and there'd be no problem. In the gig economy, the risk is entirely for the driver.
Hardly unique to Cisco. Every major tech company, yes even Apple, operate they try to sustain their existence beyond their initial success.
The worst decision Google ever made (2011)

http://www.zdnet.com/article/the-worst-decision-google-ever-...
I think the case was basically lost as soon as the court ruled that APIs are copyrightable. I still disagree with that decision, but once you've already arrived at that point then I think it's pretty hard to argue that Google's use of those APIs was fair use.
Interestingly despite years of negative pieces on Uber from journalists who have never liked Uber, its net favorability is still very close to Apple's:

https://www.axios.com/exclusive-poll-facebook-favorability-p...
I want to keep writing code in JavaScript.
Having worked at Lockheed, that is most certainly not how they think. The bottom line is pretty much all that matters and the self-investment even more striking for a government contractor.
That simply isn't what the acronym LED means. It's equivalent to using WMD to mean 'weapons of mass disruption'.
> the author seems to call out specific individuals, by name, to their team leads, based on where they were ssh'd in, instead of bringing up the issue with that person first and asking for the logic of why they were on the box doing the thing (sounds like a lot of assumptions combined with finger pointing)

I'm not sure why you would assume that. She specifically says "The next thing I'd do is to go get in touch with that person."

Perhaps you're keying off "I've been able to track down some well-meaning but ultimately flawed attempts at fixing things that then blew up and became something much bigger. The folks who I pinged about it were amazed that I somehow had managed to "guess" that a specific member of their team had been poking at a specific box"? But keep in mind, that's specifically events that became a large issue. Is it not appropriate to notify management as to the cause of the issue? Either it's a first time mistake or not something the person may necessarily have known to look out for, in which case management should be lenient, or it's the latest in a string of events and management should possible take some other action.

If nothing else, it allows management for that other team to say "hey, we don't need to be messing with this aspect of the server. Either contact the team whose responsibility it is and get them to do the work, or get them to sign off on it first."
> Vasalgel would cost less than your typical $800 IUD.

> [I]f the average person hits puberty at 13, and doesn't want to have a kid until they're in their mid-30s, that's more than 20 years worth of contraception from which pharmaceutical companies can profit.

So there's the answer.

Also - why isn't the US govt. helping to fund something like this? It seems like low-hanging fruit in terms of public health.
This is a really good point, thank you for articulating it so well.

Since you're from the generation before my own (close to two generations, I guess), I'm curious for your take on this: do you find Facebook interaction to truly feel authentic (not the right term, but I can' think of a better one)? I find that it is too often a passive exchange: you friend somebody you used to know, you might exchange a few messages if you were very close friends in the past, and then their posts are largely lost in the noise of the Feed. And if they don't post, they might as well not even be your friend.

If you really want to get in touch with those people, today you can always search for their LinkedIn or send them an email or just ask a friend who might still be in touch to share their contact information... right? At least then they'll know you truly care, instead of just clicking a button at the behest of a Facebook suggestion algorithm. Personally I feel like friendships ought to be active relationships, so Facebook "friends" usually aren't anything more than acquaintances. But then again, I'm young, unmarried, and living in a major US city, so my perspective might be a little different from somebody who has a spouse, children, and a mortgage in suburban America :) ... or anybody else in the US, for that matter.
This is medical speak, can't say "100% reversible" if it isn't exactly "100% reversible".
That makes sense. I’ve bren dabbling in GUI apps with C# and I see some of that though I don’t quite understand it all yet.
If you are mixing logic in react components then you are doing something completely wrong.
React serves its purpose marvellously well in big projects.
Seeing as every Uber and Lyft ride was (and still is?) subsidized by investor money, Cab vs App was never a fair competition.

Replacing one problematic system with another that rearranges and changes what the problems are isn't always a net win.

Assuming that any capitalist enterprise's goals will align with and optimize for the long term general health of society is frankly ludicrous.
I think if we get a universal basic income, all prices will just increase to compensate. I don't believe it'll be possible. It would need to be at or above minimum wage. It would have to be adjusted to location, so someone in SF would make $100K / year off basic income. And that in turn would cause fraud, e.g. registering you're living in SF while living somewhere cheap.

It's some weird Star Trek utopic vision, but I don't see it working. Not at scale. Especially not in the US, because to make it work you need tax money, and the US is tax-averse.
Look, let's be honest. It falls to women because they have the most to lose. They are the ones who get pregnant. Of course men should be responsible. But the biological reality is what it is.
That's very possible. The hard question is "then what?"

If you remove the market economy and ability for people to make money, take initiative and be rewarded for it, and go instead to a pure socialist model/goal, that goes so much against so many human instincts, that it will be hard to have people buying into it. As history shows. And it won't remove AI.

What new system do we propose, or how do we modify the current one, in a globalized, AI-powered world?
You wouldn't actually be raising taxation to those levels, because you're immediately returning much of the money. If you apply a $32k tax and a $30k refund on the tax statement, you only raised the tax $2k effectively (for that person).
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They have to be very careful about what they say in public, because they are trying to get FDA approval, and the FDA is (for good reason) twitchy about medical product manufacturers saying things that haven't been proven out through a strict testing process.

Right now, since they have a limited budget, they're just focusing on doing the studies they need to do to get approval for marketing it as a non-reversible contraceptive. Getting approval to market it as being reversible will come later.

IIRC, all of this is explained on their website, possibly in the FAQ.

Edit:

Yeah, more or less. From the FAQ --

"The idea is to develop a fully reversible long-acting male contraceptive, and recently-completed rabbit studies showed rapid restoration of sperm flow. This was accomplished by flushing the Vasalgel from the vas deferens with an injection of sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) solution. Additional reversibility studies must be completed before Vasalgel can be marketed as a reversible male contraceptive."
V8 is a great scripting engine on its own. I've been using it to allow some runtime scripting in my C++ App, which also makes things a lot easier to debug. It's always nice to see improvements to it, especially since I'm considering to do some core features, such as the rendering pipeline, through js bindings instead of C++. Would make it easier to quickly prototype, test and benchmark different OpenGL calls, shaders, etc.

JS has also become nice to work with since ES6. Incredibly easy to set up a working environment, amazing debugging capabilities, you can just change a few lines and instantly get to see your result by pressing F5, etc.
The only really big downside is that static typing is missing, but right now I'd rather not have static typing than go through the additional hoops of setting up transpiler builds. I'd probably switch to typescript if it was natively supported by browsers and V8, but JS is just fine till then.
That covers only part of the scandal, which IMHO has at least two parts:

1) Facebook data was widely shared to all kinds of 3rd parties.

2) Facebook data can be used to manipulate individuals and inappropriately influence the political process.

Even if Facebook fixes #1, #2 is still a problem (either by Facebook itself, or those using its platform).
I have been here twice. The contrast between two seas is amazing. And there is just one road separating them both. Amazing!
Sorry, I should have specified “in the United States”.
In a study on rabbits, all seven were successfully reversed after 14 months.

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-04/pf-sro033117...
Tried, and failed miserably.

They don't care.
Krita is great, but maybe more for drawing.

I think Pinta is a really good software for artists.
There are times when it has to happen. It certainly shouldn't be an every day occurrence, but even in the best environments, there are times when SHTF only under a production workload, and you need an understanding of why yesterday.
Coming from a similar evangelical background to the person above, I can say that the community is very different than that of a club or sports league. I'm not diminishing the community that you can get out of it - even seemingly-trivial associations can become profound. Some of the strongest connections I've had with people have been with co-workers.

But a community centered around a particular framework, with a particular set of goals that extend beyond even the lifespan of the people involved, combined with an outlet for collective grief/ecstasy. It's hard to describe if you haven't grown up in it, but it's different from any other community I've experienced.
Is this whataboutism? It reads like "its worse than you thought"ism.

If the author is calling for regulation of the category that includes facebook, how is he distracting and diverting attention from facebook?
WebEx is such an abomination of software I will never use it again.
The burden is largely on women because they suffer the larger (and more immediate) share of the consequences. How many women who don't want those consequences would trust a casual hookup who assured them that they are sterile, to the point where they'll not use their own birth control?

Ideally, both parties will use birth control.
We'll die from starvation and exposure because we can't afford a home anymore, but at least we reduced traffic deaths and generated a lot of money for our shareholders in the process ¯\_(ツ)_/¯