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Sole developer, devops, and all the other I/T hats for a startup. Amazingly when I dipped out for a 2 week vacation in Thailand I wasn't bugged once. I informed them I would only have chromebook so I could only SSH into a server, very limited as to what I could do. I also ensured that nothing was released for 2 weeks prior to me leaving. The only exceptions were critical bugs.

I was amazed that I wasn't bothered once. The no release thing leading up to the vacation was a huge saver I think. Thats not to say I haven't been fucked by this company. I worked all day December 30th (Saturday I think) and a half day on NYE this year. But in general things I've put in like only doing releases on Tuesday to keep them far away from the weekend and only doing system patches once per month outside of super critical things (Meltdown and Spectre) have saved me. Again though I still get fucked on occasion.

But I mostly fuck myself into working either because I feel pressured by the sheer weight of ever building tasks and bugs or because there is something fun I want to try in our application, generally performance optimizations make me happy and give me a sense of accomplishment. I can be found doing those some early Saturday mornings before getting on with my day.
I don't have a specific text offhand that addresses this directly, but Gregory Clark's A Farewell to Alms addresses this general point. It's part of a series of related works, edited by Joel Mokyr, including last year's The Rise and Fall of American Growth, by Robert Gordon.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/farewell-to-alms-a-brief-econ...

https://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/series/title/the-prince...

Whilst preindustrial societies did see variable subsistence, the floor tended to be higher than today (Clark's introduction, available online, notes that the poorest people who've ever lived, live now, and in great numbers), and cycles tended to be long-term -- decades or centuries, not years. Whilst life expectancy at birth was low, from age of majority it was generally far less abbreviated. Disease was far more prevalent in cities (London was a net population sink well into the 19h century), and major instances of famine and plague something experienced perhaps only by occasional generations within an area, though wth mortality rates from 10-90% (far more typically in the 10-30% range).

You're familiar with Laurie Garrett's wwork on healthxare, and the fact that 85% of mortality decline since 1850 materially predates modern medical practice, including antibiotics, vaccines, and organ transsplants. The
Conquest of Pestilence in New York City chart highlights this:

https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/wp-content/uplo...
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rpearl never claimed that it wasn't limiting free choice. rpearl claimed the intention wasn't to limit free choice.

Intent and actual outcome are two completely different things.
But it shares all the metadata with Facebook which sucks. Threema and Signal are better in that respect and you loose almost no features.
> What do you see changing?

The amount of people being removed from mainstream sites and looking for alternatives. At the very least these growing numbers will solve b and may have a significant impact on a and c as well.
The path of progress often involves regulation after consequences, unanticipated or otherwise, make it clear that it's necessary.

I am quite uncomfortable with this, personally, because I'd prefer it if people were allowed to choose for themselves. But in some cases, cigarettes being a good example, regulation does seem to be worth the trade-off, and it most definitely seems to be effective.

This particular issue I find complicated enough that I don't have a strong opinion on the way forward. But I strongly disagree with your claim that 1) regulating things doesn't change things, and 2) calls for regulation are misguided. The broader privacy issues are real, very serious, and have been neglected as a 'mainstream' discussion for way too long.
What non-profits?
Defense, transportation infrastructure, and scientific research are just a few other areas were the rules fall apart.

There are many more. Maybe there aren't any near univeral rules and we should look at thinks on a case by case basis.
> When my data ends up at a third party, especially without my knowledge, I'm much more concerned about it being sold and or shared further.

That or stolen thanks to negligent data handling practices. Or maybe both (e.g. Equifax).
Your post came as a surprise. It seems like they've been under-regulated. http://www.dw.com/en/germany-introduces-unpopular-prostituti...
Well done.

Perhaps a middle ground is having a dedicated work phone, and then turning that off when you are not on the clock and not rostered to be on call.
No, not really. I'm personally an iPhone user, but my wife has a really nice Android phone. I like top tier phones even though they're more expensive. That said, I didn't want to spend so much (or wait) for an iPhone X, so I updated my iPhone 6 to an iPhone 8.
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Possibly, but this is so broadly written that it reaches far beyond sex workers to the executives of massive enterprises - who usually are listened to. It essentially says that if you own any website and don't do enough to prevent prostitution from occurring through it, you go to prison for 10 years if there were 1-4 prostitutes on the site, and 25 years if there were 5 or more prostitutes on the site. Additionally, people "injured" by the offense can seek civil damages and attorneys fees. That presumably includes the sex workers themselves, if they claim they were forced to be on there by someone else.

Executives at Tinder, POF, Match.com, etc. should be shaking in their boots right now. Even Facebook and other social networks could have civil and criminal exposure under this law.
Also remember: virtually none of us have been in that situation, or know the context, so any kind of judgement about it is ridiculous.
But if people are content to swat away a problem until they can't see it anymore, despite that the ignored causes continues to generate more misery, then it's hard to be sympathetic to that defensible position. Especially since a lot of people just lost access to romantic venues because a minority of users make a living through sex.
I too tried Wire and was really hoping it'd be good.

It was just OK instead. I haven't seen lost messages, but I've seen them taking several minutes to go through with both clients online and on the same LAN. The UI was not quite there yet too. Routine basic operations required extra taps, it felt less snappy and responsive than you'd expect it to be. So, yeah, it can be used in a pinch, but it's not yet ready as a drop-in replacement for Telegram.
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It really can’t be understated how important good UI+UX are when it comes to driving adoption of an IM app. Security/privacy is great but most people aren’t willing to use an app that’s heavy or has rough edges or is frustrating in any way.

Think of it this way: not everybody can wrap their heads around computer security and privacy on the internet, but almost everyone can tell when an app isn’t pleasant to use or has gaping holes in its feature set.

In short, if any E2EE messenger is going to come to dominate IM, its developers are going to invest just as much time and effort into its UI + UX as they do its encryption — you can’t ignore the former and wonder why the masses aren’t interested.
I recall this is Because their definition is far broader - if it was applied to other countries the number of rapes would increase
This is a ridiculous statement.
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But how many of those white collar jobs were around in the past, compared to toiling on farms and stuff?
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The trick is not to get all panicky and think "what if they see me looking at them deliberately?!" Would you really need to tiptoe around a turtle? You don't have to treat a retarded [1] person as if they aren't impaired. Just don't be condescending. Treat them nicely, knowing that they aren't going to sleuth every cue you unconsciously emit, because well..retarded people don't make the best true detectives. Healthy folk don't either. Ever smoke cannabis and get the feeling everyone is looking at you and judging you..? But then you realize that feeling is totally irrational -- that most people are oblivious to just about everything -- people are oblivious in public. Just be a nice person and smile or wave back...everyone understands good will, love, and happiness.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_of_the_United_States
You did a BS and a Masters and most of what you learned was familiar to you from hobby programming? Maybe you should have taken harder classes.
You slow down anyways, because it will almost always improve the situation and reduce your liability. Secondly, if the vision is so bad that it can't identify objects in its lane or predict vectors, it's not ready for the real world.
I'd really like to see something like this take off... It just seems like the ethically right thing for social media to be decentralized and open source, so we truly own the data and not sell out our privacy for the simple right to reliably and easily have access to people online.

Something I've been thinking a lot about recently: why does HN not have an instance in Mastodon or Diaspora? Clearly a lot here detest traditional social media but like talking to each other, and could even contribute to the open source projects, so it seems like a neat way to bootstrap a lot of people to join such a thing (ive tried Diaspora pods but it seems pretty...empty. Stupid network effects). In fact I am thinking of setting up an unnoficial HN Diaspora* pod, but I'm just one guy...
Fetch API still cannot handle progress events, unfortunately, so it is not yet a backwards compatible replacement.
> willful contempt for safety

To play Kalanick's adversary, he might be arguing for more real-world data collection. Tesla famously equipped most of their cars with more sensors than were required at the time of delivery, using the data to drive development of the Autopilot function that was later added to the cars.
It shares your full _contacts_ with Facebook.

This doesn't just "suck", it's completely unacceptable.
Only the cheapest (and TT) Audi models are based on MQB. From A4 up it’s MLB – the luxury variant. Also, for the new cars Audi will share the tech not with the cheaper makes, but upwards: with Porsche, Bentley, Lamborghini and so on. It already happened with Q7/Q8/Urus/Betayga.

It’s also not exactly true that the driving characteristics are the same across the board.
Usually Seats are on the sporty side with stiff ride and precise handling, Skoda is softer, and VWs are in between. Same chassis, different setup. It’s not FWD vs RWD magnitude of difference, but it’s there.
The same goes for Audi: Q7 is not the same as Urus.

But yeah, the unification is bad from the car enthusiasts POV. The Ateca not only has the same chassis, but the whole body (bar the front fascia) and even the colors palette is straight from Skoda.

Another worrying thing is that apparently someone in Wolfsburg noticed that Skoda sells better than VW, despite the cheap plastic interiors, and now the new VW cars (T-Roc, Tiguan) also don’t have the premium quality that had been reserved for the mother brand. Could be an aftermath of the dieselgate as well.
Just came on to say this, but also there essful have to be explicit consent to take the data outside of the EU
From my experience living in Korea and the fact that Korea has one of the lowest productivity of all oecd countries, it is half-half.

A lot of the time is actually not "hard-working" but rather drizzling some work.

This is partly because you know it is expected that you stay long hours (and so you stay long hours without being explicitly asked) so you might as well just do your work slowly.

Also it is partly that nobody can work concentrated for such long hours.
And a lot of time is wasted by people not asking when they are stuck with any kind of problem / task (losing ones face / looking incompetent problem).
Maybe I read algorithm books for fun and finished all of my college math by 9th grade. But thanks!
Please change the title to have the year in it. This is from 2013.
So far in 2018 I have had one ~1300-1500 calorie meal per day for all except maybe ten days (where I have gone out for drinks or have extra food late in the evening with friends).

The strangest thing so far is how much my body has adapted to this - I skip breakfast and lunch every day, yet don't feel particularly restricted (save socially), hungry, or weak.

I am just one person, but I now intuitively feel that whatever passes for a "reduced-calorie diet" these days is what used to pass for normal. It feels normal, at least.
How were the first few days though?
"they need to meet people online too"

You don't need to convince me. I see the value of online dating.
Just wanted to say kudos! That's awesome that you did all this. Should relay this to the gimp people some how.
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It seems some of the men living in Sweden are among the planets worst sexual predators, to word it carefully.

Sweden is pushing new legislation that will increase the number of rapes even more. It will be a law of consent and will shift the burden of proof from the victim to the rapist. Unless the rapist can prove consent, he will be sentenced for rape by negligence. Under the new law, having sex with a traffic victim prostitute can be considered "rape", and the burden of proof will be on the john to prove that it is not a traffic victim.
(1,2,3)

I live next door, in Norway. Here we talk of the "Swedish condition".

(1) http://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2017/12/en-ny-sexu...
(2) http://www.gp.se/nyheter/sverige/h%C3%A4r-%C3%A4r-f%C3%B6rsl...
(3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Sweden
If they wanted to help victims of sex trafficking, they'd stop arresting and deporting them when they're found. That's the whole reason they can't just go to the police or run away or ask for help from their clients. They don't want to be sent back to where they came from with no money.
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You'd also need to account for disengagements. Some portion of all disengagements were likely to avoid accidents.
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Talk about the weather, talk about current events, talk about video games, normal stuff..? People don't want to be reminded of the curse they've been afflicted with, especially if it isn't going to help change it. This goes for anyone who has a handicap. The handicap is always on a scale of 1 to 10 where at 1, it doesn't define the person, and at 10, their whole lifestyle is constrained. But nomatter what, no one on that scale wants to be reminded of a curse that is so vicious it affects so much of their life. Treat them as a person first, and maybe if you get to know them, then you can ask about the affliction.
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I have seen some pretty stupid replies in my time, but a reply espousing the idea that someone who doesn't get the actual analogy will have a pet list of "pretty stupid analogies" is going to take some beating.
Tough. I stopped eating breakfast (for the most part) a couple years ago, so this time it was just skipping lunch and eating an early dinner. Still, it took less than a week for this to become normal for me, and it has not been difficult to maintain (except socially).
How much weight have you lost? Were you somehow obese? Were you fit? Have you lost muscle mass?

Sorry if I'm getting too personal, genuinely interested.
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Why is everyone considering it a forgone conclusion that self driving cars will quickly become much, much safer than human driven cars? Yes, lots of people die every year in human driven car accidents. But it is equally true that our most sophisticated AI/ML can only really operate within very narrowly defined parameters (at least when compared to the huge sets of uncertain parameters humans deal with every day in the real world). Driving is perhaps one of the most unpredictable activities we can engage in, anecdotally supported by my daily commute. What if our self driving software never becomes good enough? How many more deaths are we willing to go through to find out?
If you push legitimate activities away from legitimate sites, you run the risk that normal users will be driving towards sketchy services, and either accidentally uses a service that crosses a line or discovers illicit activity is ongoing and decides to partake.
>The job was torture, quitting was scary and bumpy, but looking back it was an excellent decision.

Can you share your story? How did you make it?
Your assertion is that profit motive leads to greater efficiency than any of the motives that drive government agencies.

Just because you state it doesn't make it so.

If you're honest with yourself, I think you can come up with some problems where a public agency would be more efficient/effective than a private company.
Where 'win' means they cut quality to shit, sell off assets, fire a bunch of people and hire the cheapest contractors to do the work, everyone good leaves, and the company reputation is forever ruined, ... but Bain comes out ahead. And 'loss' means, well, pretty much the same thing.
> This is key. I strongly believe that legalization is the only answer to the problem

I agree, but It's not a complete solution. Where I live brothels are legal, there is one 5 minutes from my house yet there are still street workers. The street workers are generally suffering from homelessness, mental health issues, drugs or all three. Legal brothels take care of much of the demand side, but they don't do much for people pushed into selling themselves.
Sofia Hagen would like a word with the author of this article.

https://twitter.com/SofieHagen/status/968841936906981376?s=1...
Plus the month-long paid summer vacations!

EDIT: To be more precise: typically ~20 days in the summer and additional ~5-15 days in the winter. Averages by country, Sweden 26 days: https://www.europeandataportal.eu/en/highlights/which-countr...

34 days (minimum?) when you include the 16 paid public holidays such as Christmas, New Year, Easter, Midsummer: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-with-the-most-...
In what way?

I've been using signal for a while and I have successfully converted all my family and friends to using it. That includes a 70+ year old mother and father.

There have been no issues in using it's function from sending messages to video chat and everything in between.
If you can’t see the problem with criticising someone’s position on the basis that they’re not allowed to criticise other people’s positions there’s no helping you.
Of course I know about limitations, I stopped using vinyl over 20 years ago.
The OP was wondering why vinyl and CD sound different and besides the obvious media limitations I added that even a perfectly new record that doesn't crackle will produce noise because of friction.
I also pointed out that today CDs don't come from the same master (1) used for vinyl. Sometimes they're also remixed (2) then compressed and limited (sigh). This may suggest that modern CD sound worse than vinyl while it should be the other way around, but greedy producers force their engineers to ruin the sound to make music louder. FWIW, I am one of hose Rush fans who stopped buying their CDs when Vapor Trails came out. I don't even have the mp3s of that awful sounding crap:(

1. stereo master tape, not the record press
2. from the same multitrack tape (often transferred onto digital) and sometimes with other audio added.
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The staring part was about (not) preventing your kids from staring, not yourself.

EDIT: I do get what you're saying; people with cerebral palsy, for example, are often assumed to suffer from intellectual disability, which is often not true. That said, I don't think this particular article did that.
(2013)

Discussion at the time (over 100 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5786720
Apple started in the music business from scratch with a host computer dependent device as well - execution seems to make all the difference. Of course, today no-one would accept such a device, but back then it was the norm. I think the difference is that Amazon was already in a prime position to grab the digital book market, while for music there was no company in such a position.
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I'm curious, is there any Norwegian commentary on Sweden in English?
I have a few questions to put this in context:
How often do you work out and at what intensity?
Do you have a desk job?
How many hours do you sleep per day?
I’m pretty sure it’s an acronym for Open CLI Framework.
I have lost ~10lbs, but I was not overweight (on the high side of normal BMI, but I also lift weights). My muscle mass seems unaffected (or even slightly greater) - these days at the gym I only aim to maintain what I have, and my lifts have even improved slightly.
I have a similar diet.

In the morning, I drink a slimfast. The high protein helps keep my hunger quenched. I'll eat a small bar for lunch. Then, I'll have a normal dinner.

Also, I've cut out all soda and sugar from my diet.

I've lost almost 50 pounds so far.

I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, and since changing my diet and losing weight, by blood sugar is that of a normal healthy person.

Being diagnosed has blessed me with the motivation to not just "go on a diet", but to change my life.