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> obvious underage sex trafficking on their platforms.

Where and how does this happen? Do you have data? Can you cite a single instance of a pedophile ring was using open platforms in an "obvious" fashion to promote their product - as opposed to darknet/secret forums that don't care about SESTA? In the unlikely cases where it does happen, how do you think the majority of sex-service consumers would react to being offered underage sex?

This seems to be a classic example of using a fringe issue - online pedophiles - to justify a major encroachment against civil liberties. In this case driven by a puritanical position that in fact wants to declare war against all forms of prostitution.

With the only practical effect of waging war against the prostitutes themselves by denying them access to online platforms and pushing them straight into the hands of organized human trafficking rings. The consumers will not stop demanding sex services and they will get them somehow.

Here what sexworkers themselves have to say about it:
http://www.new.swopusa.org/2018/03/02/house-passing-of-misle...
Would be interesting to see Azure in this table now that their managed postgres is GA. I've had a "mixed experience" using it during preview, both from performance and troubleshooting perspectives.
Providing for your family is a perfectly respectable 'mission' in life as far as many people are concerned. Pursuing grand ambitions can take a heavy toll on a family, and it's perfectly sane to choose a more well-travelled path if that's what you value.
Microsoft Access used to be the real test. By the time they've added a UI and started to get frustrated with one user at a time it's time for a CRUD app and a database
Is HashiCorp’s Nomad in a similar position at this point? I really enjoy it’s (relative) simplicity.
Effective Altruism. I discovered the charity GiveDirectly some years ago from the NPR podcast Planet Money episode that featured them. GiveDirectly is one of many charities adopting evidence based outreach, and now I follow GiveWell and it's recommendations as well. The central question of Effective Altruism is given limited resources, how can we do the most good?
It is unfortunate that the US seems to not be serious about rights not already in the Constitution. In international agreements, it seems to sign but not ratify them.

(1) https://www.newstatesman.com/north-america/2013/10/why-us-so...
(2) https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/10/e...
(3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_treaties_unsigned_or_u...

In addition, the current political climate seems to want to remove some protections already in the constitution and I would think other countries would be hesitant to enter agreements such as these with the US, considering things like backing out of trade agreements and the Paris climate agreement.
It's funny how when you start tracing clock making you end up reliving pretty much all of the industrial revolution.

Those people were really artists improving their products and their tools at every step and their heritage is still alive today.

The watchmaking/clockmaking industry trained a whole generation of precision machinists which led to a revolution in mechanics, toys, calculating machines and ultimately set the stage for worldwide navigation and the industrial revolution.
As much as they use 'secure' in their README, I don't see any real evidence of that in their code.

When I'm looking for formally methods, a package.json is a bad sign.
I encountered situations in corporate environment where a couple of questions with an answer selected from predefined list (radiobuttons/dropdown) were made in Excel... of course completely broken without the latest office on windows and outside of the intranet...
Same. And I hold grudges. Lyft and Spotify used to require Facebook logins, and even though they have since removed the requirement, I still feel negatively towards them for it and don’t use them to this day.
Governance fits into the space where people don't want to self-manage. The average neighborhood doesn't want to bother spending the time or effort to vet possible service providers, let alone a pigeon feeder. They're paying dues precisely for the privilege of letting other people decide.

They don't always agree, but that's what the monthly meetings are for. Eventually everyone agrees on the scope of governance.
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While it is true that Sweden was economically liberal when it grew rich, liberalism is not enough -- you also need stability, an educated high-IQ population and high trust/low corruption.

The mass immigration (and the word 'mass' is really an understatement) of people with much less education and non-Western culture/values is destroying those other factors, not to mention the fact that they overwhelmingly vote socialist to increase welfare payments.

While Sweden's economy has seen some growth (but really not that much per capita) due to limited liberalization, a floating currency and most of all a huge increase in household debt to pay for soaring house prices caused by population growth (also due to immigration) and extremely low interest rates, the chickens will eventually come home to roost.

Sweden really has no future.
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40% email

30% Google

30% Facebook

Google might be a little under represented due to a bug (was fixed within a couple days) that prevented some Android users from using it to create an account.
https://www.amazon.de/Bauen-erleben-begreifen-Technikgeschic... has a chapter where you‘re building several types of real, working clock movements. Very imprecise, of course, but still.
> Oh yeah the $14/hr employee is just gonna quit, because they can afford to go without income for the next few weeks while looking for a new one.

So spend a few weeks looking for a new job and then quit.

More importantly, you don't actually have to quit, you only have to make the credible threat of quitting. Then you get the raise because it's cheaper than finding and training a replacement.
It's a never ending thing!

You could start by sort of reverse engineering movements (disassemble and reassemble).

Start to build your own tooling.

Then make a copy of the bridges and baseplate.

Try to change the geometry of the bridges and baseplate, keeping the same moving parts.

Then build your own moving parts.

Start from massive clocks to "table clocks" to marine clocks to wristwatches movements.

And it could be very expensive, wood clocks are cheaper, less time consuming. There is great stuff and ideas online.
For example, see the timer from Ugears there is mind-blowing tricks hidden in this model.
There's an evil with social login in that you give up the knowledge of your social (presumably personal) network to random 3rd parties. That's even worse than email address.

With password managers being essentially mandatory now, it's not too hard to create a new email/password based account for every new site.

But recently I realized that I don't use my FB for anything. I have zero friends, don't allow friend requests and am unsearchable AFAIK. So now I am going to start using that account for social login, that way I don't have to bother with email/password.
> I personally think people will move on from this like nothing ever happened (which is sad)

Does that include you?

You could add the usual email login, or go further and prevent new Facebook logins, or remove it completely.
A service requiring a telephone number for registration verification cannot deliver on security. Spoofing 2FA is a thing. Trawling contact lists creates implication where a bad agent is one.

This is how it seems, I may be wrong.

Anonymous unfederated secure communication via email or other methods... PGP/GPG remains unfriendly.
Cal's book is great - but for me, my gut cynical reaction was to wonder if even a successful 'mission' wasn't a false sand-castle that disappears when I die.

Two books make note of this: Ecclesiastes would call a mission mere striving after wind and Becker's Denial of Death that would call mission a an immortality project doomed to irrelevance.

As others here have noted - Ecclesiastes would agree that enjoying the immediate pleasures of food, work, mirth while in the company of friends and family is a gift.

But Cal is also correct, that without a mission you wander aimlessly. That's what makes it hard - I know it doesn't matter and yet it does matter greatly to those around me who need me to be a strong, good, and competent person.

My only bit of small advice: perhaps a mission something that gives you the ability and desire to help other people could give you a direction that has enough meaning to make it worthwhile.
If you enjoy Microsoft lock-in, sure.
I'm glad the good people at Pro Publica thought this was such an important issue and made that enormous effort to pull together actual data. That is an example of reporters doing their jobs. Over the past couple years on HN, it has been a rough slog to get this issue acknowledged by a lot of people. I've seen comments that would raise this issue aggressively downvoted, or at least pushed back against, hard. I'm not sure what it is exactly--- perhaps we as Americans desperately need to believe in meritocracy-- it is almost spiritual how much we seem to need that as a community. In fact, we are so in love with the idea that job awards, promotions, and continued employment in tech are meritocratic, we will just ignore data to "clap harder" in an attempt to make it so. So, now here is the data, thank goodness. No one can really say it is anecdotal any longer. And logfromblammo is correct- we all need to come together on this one. The labor laws respond to collective action-- that is how we got many of them in the first place. If we really need meritocracy so badly (and I think we do need to find a way to reward skill more accurately, or people get demoralized and that leads to even bigger problems, as it is right now...) we need to push hard for 1. actually blind interview practices (there is so much proof that this works to include marginalized groups- take a look at the screened auditions in major orchestras) 2. removing the ability of companies to "legislate" away labor protections from their employment contracts. 3. figure out how to act as a collective force to protect fair labor laws. Since we are a community of people who deftly wield software, I don't see that collective action should be much of a problem here. Ideas like the collecting of data (Pro Publica) and The Pursuance Project (Barrett Brown's organizing and collective action tool) could provide an idea of the way forward. But logfromblammo is right: we all need to wake up! first.
You can control whether you respond to someone being offended. There’s a very long tail for offense and companies (and individuals) can work to recognize that responding to someone feeling offended (or claiming to) should be rare. Although it’s hard to differentiate when 100 people tweeting #imoffended is just 100 people or 100 people part of 1 million.
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I suspect the majority are unqualified references, i.e. 'markbnj/unbound' that rely on docker using the hub as a default repository.
Does that assume that all of the components (browser and server) support 1.2 as well? In a theoretical future state if I disable 1.2 on my browser doesn't that mean I won't trust a MITM box.
Did banks and other network operators who require monitoring their traffic just deem the MITM proxies too expensive or complex, or what was the reason for their protest?
Talking to VCs will do this to a person. I dont know why they can't just speak normal English, but spewing marketese seems to be a rite of passage.
"Free?"

The personal income tax rate averaged 60.45% in Denmark from 1995-2018.

Those are some of the most expensive "free" hospitals and universities I've ever heard of.
To have a massive positive impact on the world.
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Agreed. That sounds like what Hollywood wants you to think of Hollywood.
I really like this project. Not only did the radio audio have great quality, the way that the snippets are arranged makes a very good gui.
Since I missed on missing it, was there any particular feature that's not in other rss readers?

I have only user rss via gwene over nntp, if that went away, i'd miss it bunches.
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I used a fundraising tool recently with this kind of passwordless workflow. It's a tool that you only use once a year for about 30 days, and your authenticated session can last about that long. Which means you do the process once on each computer you use, and then you never have to remember the password the next year. It's great.
Reads well as a pitch for tech literacy, which I wholeheartedly support!
An easy way to improve predictive accuracy in deep learning.
Just yesterday I offered "So Good They Can't Ignore You" to someone about to start their professional career. Mostly as a counterweight to the mainstream advice.

I recommend watching Bret Victor's "Inventing on Principle" [0] for a very interesting variant on the theme of "your mission in life & work".

[0] https://vimeo.com/36579366
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For a) Sure, that changed the "dream job"... but come on, it seems he didn't think that a simple mistake could raise such a stir. And it seems a misguided like would generally be something reprimanded instead of it losing your job. This situation was weirdly blown out of proportion for numerous reasons, which weren't his fault. As far as we know, everything leading up to that moment could have seemed reasonable enough to the man.

for b: That's nearly twice the minimum wage. It isn't manual labour, you aren't doing collections, and they likely offer decent health insurance for call center employees on top of a couple weeks vacation and a little bit of flexibility. Sure, there are going to be stressful nights, but others will be full of other sorts of people. Who is to say that can't be someone's dream job?
True and clocks and watches are still the most precise mechanical tool/instrument.
swipe_workspace -- A program that can use the touchpad to switch workspaces.
A program that can use the two finger on touchpad to switch workspaces. It just test on Linux Mint 18.1 Cinnamon 64-bit.

github: https://github.com/CuberL/swipe-workspace
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Very different from slavic Russia back then though, having previously changed hands from swedish to russian empire.
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When it was up and running they would just pop in live. It's easy to miss but the cool thing about this is that it's essentially doing multi-channel recording so you don't miss anything within the bandwidth of the receiver. They would just pop in serially and you would catch up during the dead air.

For a little side project she did a fantastic job (very good write-ups of the trials and tribulations in her blog as well).
They are the easiest way, by far, to control the masses. It is no surprise they are exploiting it, imo.
To someone religiously devoted it's not an impractical diversion but something deeply practical. It seems to me in some sense more akin to traveling to a renowned hospital -- you might take in some sights while you are there, but diversion isn't the point.
Thanks! I changed the scoring system slightly, and added an explanation.
> Sweden really has no future.

Bold claims are like low percentage shots.

A developed country, full of highly educated people, in a peaceful part of the world, should be able to self-correct to some degree. It might, relatively to the rest of the world, not be in as good a state as before, but saying “it has no future” is stretching things quite far, IMO.
The person that invents the CRM spreadsheet is better off. However, that spreadsheet is usually harder to share with the rest of the company. If the spreadsheet has more than 1 user than it might be worth a SaaS.
You can leave your government (in most places), but it involves not then sixty seconds of moving your fingers.
They probably should've started with a Wirth-style language plus Design-by-Contract and static analysis. That would knock out tons of stuff at compile and runtime. If looking for mature language, the best one for predictability is SPARK Ada hands down. It was designed for easy analysis in automated provers. It's automation level is a lot higher than it used to be. Folks wanting provable programs should either be considering using it or prototyping their programs in it with semantics-preserving translation to the blockchain language/VM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)

https://www.amazon.com/Building-High-Integrity-Applications-...

Note: The book is designed for people without formal methods background. I can't say how easy or not it will be since I just got it. :)

Are we there yet? 20 Years of Industrial Theorem Proving with SPARK

https://proteancode.com/keynote.pdf

IRONSIDES DNS illustrates it can handle bigger problems

http://ironsides.martincarlisle.com

Frama-C and SPARK both build on Why3 platform with its intermediate language WhyML. Work built on any of these three can usually be ported to the others. So, I'll drop a recent example in Frama-C that's really math heavy with a style amenable to high automation.

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01681134/document
I live in a country (Italy) that has been crushed and whatever mission I might’ve ever had or sense of accomplishment I might’ve ever earned has been superseded by a never-ending sense of dread and struggle to not drown in a decaying world.

I have very little time for glib self-improvement or self-coaching. I’m starting to wonder what purpose all of this could possibly serve (”none at all”, comes my self-reply).
One company I would like to nominate as naughty is Newegg. I hadn't ordered from them in years, and asked to delete or disable my account. They can keep their old invoices in the system if they want for legal reasons but I didn't want to log on anymore -- other sellers have processed that request for me.

They repeatedly said "No, we will not disable your account."

And they keep the last address you ordered from in an uneditable field visible on the website, so you can't scramble it with fake address data. I haven't seen any other retailer do that.
Always a good approach, but also recognize that not every duct tape solution is worth productizing.
500 of anything is actually a lot for anything fertility related.

Consider that despite all the media attention surrounding women with careers freezing their eggs, statistically the percent of women who actually do this rounds down to 0%. In total less than 5,000 babies worldwide have been born this way, as compared with the 135M babies born each year.

Similarly, despite all the hype around banking cord blood, the actual number of families who do this is less than 1%. Most of those only do it because they got grants to do it for free due to some medical condition. And the number of times cord blood has actually been used to even attempt to treat some illness is less than 500 times total worldwide.
Thanks for pointing this out, will take a look!
Nice project.

BTW, isn't posting captures of radio transmission online illegeal, because it qualiifes as "rebroadcasting" under the FCC regulations?
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> Of course Sweden in 2000 is richer than Sweden in 1800. But it doesn't make any sense to compare things like that.

It's definitely possible to get poorer as time progresses, rather than richer. Venezuela is a recent example.
The short version has a simple but fundamental error in the use of limits, and so as long as the author claims that this contains the essence of his argument, there seems little point in wading through the full work, especially as it is written in an extremely discursive manner, to put it charitably.
Right now it's to find my mission. There are so many things I care about and want to improve in the world. But funding the intersection of those causes and my skill set still feels elusive.
> step back from identarianism and recognize that members of both genders are disproportionately afflicted ... it would be more constructive to put aside this 'which gender is a greater victim' competition

(Aside: ALL genders. Just wanted to get that out of the way :D)

Yes! Gender politics is a double edged sword in that way: in attempting to point out inequity it's easy to unintentionally reinforce gender dynamics even more (through defensiveness, raising the stakes, etc). To be clear, I see Bumble pointing out inequity, but not so much dismantling notions about gender, which I think is where most conversations about this stuff fall short. What I find is that the people who most vehemently disagree (and most thoughtfully oppose) my point of view on this often are gesturing at the same point on the horizon as I am: a future where gender just doesn't play as much of a role. But to get there we have to train ourselves to see all these "maladies," as you say.

> Inherent in that comment is the supposition that there is something toxic about masculinity itself.

Not quite. There is something toxic about certain traditionally masculine behaviors. That's why I was careful to use the as it's practiced in corporate culture language. Of course there are toxic feminine behaviors as well: IIRC former Uber engineer Susan Fowler's HR rep (a woman IIRC) gaslighted her, saying something like "the common thread here is you."

> you imply that Tinder is a part of [a gendered power structure]

Dude, the entire culture is entangled with a gendered power structure! But re: dating apps, I pretty specifically called out what's gendered about that experience i.e. an imabalance of abusive behavior.

> *don't gas light anyone who recognizes [a women run company] as a form of tribalism.

Not saying anyone's crazy to think that women-run is a kind of tribalism, I'm actually advocating for "stepping back from identarianism" as you say. People (esp. men in my experience) seem quick to defend against any kind of gendered accusation or even relatively benign discussion around gender, even if they don't personally have any skin in the game. It's as if the very topic presents an existential threat.
Just leaving everything better than I found it.

Making life a bit easier for my family.

Making life a bit easier for my co-workers.

Making life a bit easier for my friends.

Making life a bit easier for the strangers at the grocery store.

Making an impact on the environment where I can.

Just leave the world a little better than you found it.
Revealing something about you reveals something about everyone around you too. Facebook happens to have the means to correlate all this information, and use it to its advantage.

It's not just looking at what others broadcast. Facebook keeps track of your likes, your navigation patterns, and let others access that. So not only do they know what your friend broadcast, they know who is watching, when, how frequently.

Finally, there's the social pressure. I have been a victim 2 years back: forced to subscribed to Facebook because my orchestra were using it to communicate loads of important information (I have since deleted that account). By watching your friend's broadcast on Facebook, you contribute to, or at least fail to counter, that social pressure.

That said, I reckon you're probably a victim that social pressure as well. I won't throw the first stone.
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What problems do you think job seekers have nowadays? What's your experience of finding a new job, or with recruiting new employees?