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> punishing children for their parents misdeeds? how's that even remotely justifiable?

Morally? It's not.

Pragmatically? Keeps the parents in line, just like physically threatening their family would, but without the cost of all that personal attention.
However, even in an open shop, the collective bargaining is still limiting the employer to a single vendor with respect to those it wants to hire that are engaged with the union.

Even that is another interesting thing; the idea that one of my employers, past and present, might actively seek out union members to employ, is so strange to me (and completely unworkable; I think it might even be illegal). The supply was in no way affected by the union.

In jobs I've had in the past, any benefits or agreement the union negotiates applied to all employees, regardless of union membership status, and were placed into contracts without any reference to unions at all. Collective bargaining by the union for improved conditions and pay existed; every employee benefited, union and non-union alike.

I suppose the moral of this is just that unions work very differently where you live to where I live.
That issue has been open for 7 years... what is your point? To me that only demonstrates that the project is dead.
People bet on wars via the stockmarket and various financial instruments today.

Many of the other negatives raised already exist and get more efficient through technology one way or the other.

Evil will always exist, lessening it will always be necessary. Technology is nothing more than an agnostic onlooker.
I totally agree that your forum should exist. My main question would be, what exactly are you providing as a service ti the teens? Custom software? A server? It seems to be quite cheap to just download something and run it on a server. I’d like to see a self-configuring, end-to-end encrypted decentralized thing that people can literally just run on their own machines and let servers act like dumb hubs. Something like SAFE network. Then the forum software is just a client side thing like SourceTree for git. And that can be open source and free for the teens.
I like your idea about “pushing trust to the edges”, as it were. Food for thought...

> There have been rumblings about Yelp reviews being manipulated for years. Small business reviews on blockchain don't allow for that kind of manipulation

How would a blockchain prevent a restaurant owner from paying, using some unrelated method, someone to post a good review for them?
People don't talk like that and you're misrepresenting their viewpoints.
I have yet to use chunkwm, but I have tried a few of the precursors. They were all nice, but super glitchy, especially when it comes to multiple monitors. Does any of that seem better with chunkwm?
> broken beyond usability

Were you using Nvidia? On AMD and Intel it’s been working amazing for me so far, never had any issue. Nvidia is known for disobeying the standards.
Keep an eye on that Second Amendment of yours. Odds on anyone wanting to try something like this would want to disarm you first.
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I have a 2015 rMBP from work, and I answer "yes" to 1, 3, 4, seen 5 several times with colleagues, 6, 7.

My personal rebadged Clevo running Linux is "better", as the screen never flickers and it pretty much never crashes. The Linux laptop is also more reliable at waking from sleep than the Mac.

I do like the Mac's body -- it's got a much better build quality. But it also cost twice as much for half the spec.
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I wonder, do you look at your photos on a computer afterwards or just your phone? I've found that photos I shoot with my Pixel look amazing on the device, but when I take them back to my computer (a retina laptop) the flaws become really noticeable. I'm talking about things like small amounts of motion blur or the focus not being quite perfect, or increased grain from the sensor size and ISO setting, etc., leading to an image that is just not as crisp as what I'd get on a real camera. But the flaws are easy to ignore on a small display and I suspect many people (not necessarily you) find them good enough as a result.
Yes, i did. I have also done android.
What a load of crap. Normally I feel more inclined to give thoughtful dialogue in response to critique, but this article was so ill-conceived in argument that the author had to narrowly define blockchain and it’s uses to make his point, and then went as far as to claim nobody has a real use case that only blockchain can solve. How incredibly naive, and so willing to discard any potential idea (despite actual, proven use cases). His privilege shows too — to argue that a war torn region can’t use technology. Has he seen how cellphones have become the de facto credit card in parts of Africa which are too remote for banking infrastructure? Articles like these read like NoSQL naysayers when it first broke out into the developer ecosystem. It’s easy to be a critic.
well the biggest problem basically is not X, more like systemd.
As someone born and lived in a 3rd world country for a better part of my life, I believe Blockchain solves a very real problem. That's equal participation in internet economy irrespective of someone's geographic location.

It was thanks to the internet I realized I can also contribute to the world (by creating something people want & writing about something others want to learn). However, when it came to making a living out of that there weren't many options. One of the prime motives for me to move out of Sri Lanka was it will be way easier for me to accept payments online.

PayPal is still not available in Sri Lanka, even after repeated attempts to convince Central Banks and governments [1]. Also, recently Stripe blocked a payment from one of my customers due to high risk profile. Reason? He used a US issued debit card from Nigeria. I reached out to the person, turns out he was a passionate young entrepreneur who was trying to build a really interesting business. But his geographic location becomes a resistance in a medium it shouldn't.

For me, Blockchain( and Cryptocurrencies) is a reframing of the trust model from heuristics such as geographic location to verifiable algorithms. The Internet protocols enabled us to exchange code, art & virtual goods without geographic boundaries. Then why not money?

[1] https://www.change.org/p/enable-receiving-money-to-sri-lanka...
Sure, however any warrant can get billing data from your hosting provider, or your credit card company will resolve directly to you.
> Both metros should have barrier between platforms and tracks since they know where the doors will open.

This only works for environments with one type of rolling stock only. It's not uncommon that you take a ride in a decades-old train (e.g. the oldest trains in the Munich subway hail from 1971, they are expected to run for essentially over 50 years!), switch lines at a station and end up in a train that rolled off the factory line 2 years ago. Each new train generation has, for example, different door widths, door positions, even the number of doors per wagon can change.
Everything works great for me, no problems.
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When I lived in NYC.. lived in Chelsea. Used to walk down to the WTC, to work.

Was also one of the few in the office who lived in Manhattan. Everyone else was either Long Island or Jersey. So when bad weather hit, I had no excuse.
Would usernames be included? Seems incredibly taxing to encrypt usernames too but is that what's suggested?
It's everyone, not just publishers. How many people here are preparing to ensure their web server doesn't log ip addresses before acquiring visitors' explicit permission to do so, for example?
Is there any evidence for this (e.g. response headers from a site using cURL on and off Vodafone's network)?
You've (accidentally) pointed out why cryptocurrencies will never achieve mass adoption: 99.9% of people are perfectly happy to trust that banks and the government will do the right thing most of the time.
IIRC this is exactly what is being done with the upcoming ePrivacy directive. For example I believe it will become mandatory to honour the DNT header.
Personal: Have fun, continue to learn and have new experiences.

Work: Personal goals + Enable the people I work with to excel in their roles.
+1 for Fedora. I don't have a ThinkPad, but I purchased a Latitude E7470 off Craigslist which already had Windows on it. Sliced the SSD into half and installed F25 on the other partition (Windows comes in handy sometimes). That version had minor issues regarding the headphone jack but haven't had problems since I upgraded to F26.
One might boycott a restaurant because they don't like its political activism, labor and sourcing practices, etc. This is much simpler than that. Lenovo served poisoned food. Not as a food-safety oversight, but as a matter of policy. The fact that they only did it for some menu items is irrelevant.
As someone born and lived in a 3rd world country for a better part of my life, I believe Blockchain solves a very real problem. That's equal participation in internet economy irrespective of someone's geographic location.
It was thanks to the internet I realized I can also contribute to the world (by creating something people want & writing about something others want to learn). However, when it came to making a living out of that there weren't many options. One of the prime motives for me to move out of Sri Lanka was it will be way easier for me to accept payments online.

PayPal is still not available in Sri Lanka, even after repeated attempts to convince Central Banks and governments [1]. Also, recently Stripe blocked a payment from one of my customers due to high-risk profile. Reason? He used a US issued debit card from Nigeria. I reached out to the person, turns out he was a passionate young entrepreneur who was trying to build a really interesting business. But his geographic location becomes a resistance in a medium it shouldn't.

For me, Blockchain( and Cryptocurrencies) is a reframing of the trust model from heuristics such as geographic location to verifiable algorithms. The Internet protocols enabled us to exchange code, art & virtual goods without geographic boundaries. Then why not money?

[1] https://www.change.org/p/enable-receiving-money-to-sri-lanka...
That allows an unscrupulous insurer to use a sybil attack to create insurance contracts with itself that it then pays out against emptying the smart contract pot.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but the context is bognation's proposal for data collection tiering. Instead of tiering, just adopt a GDPR-like law.

> Hell, where are the politicians who even have multiple words to say about privacy?

In the vein of Manufacturing Consent - the elites in the US are not split on the topic so there is no discussion. Larger companies, especially in SV, run on private data.
That's awesome! I had one good math teacher for my differential equations class. He had worked on rocket propulsion systems in the Navy, had a Ph.D from MIT I believe. I wasn't quite sure why he was a full time teacher at CC - maybe he just loved teaching differential equations to the masses. But he was an exception, for sure.
Those are perfectly fine objectives!

Thorough life seek working with inspiring individuals who love what they do, and eventually you'll make sense of what your inner purpose seems to be.
I can attest to that. I'm perfectly fluent reading English, yet my spoken English is so bad I just can't finish a sentence without fumbling and taking detours.

Like any language, you need to immerse yourself in it.
Going into someone else's email to read what they have to say about you is something that even a three year old knows is wrong.

If you have dealings with people like that and you're helping them don't be surprised when you find out they have used their money to open a child rape hotel somewhere in the developing world.
That's odd. I commute by njtransit, but my station is also an Amtrak station, and I often hear of massive (30-90 min) delays.
That's peculiar, to say the least. And I don't mean this in a bad way.

What are you doing to achieve your goal?
Ergo, a long history of double standards and hypocrisy.

Congresscritters on Tuesday are gonna set him on fire. Chances are that's all they do, unless setting him on fire brings about some actual political capital, and specific policies, to do something about facebook or privacy in general. But I think the critters have benefited from lax privacy laws, it's made them and their donor base wealthy and powerful, and a good deal of them will not want broad privacy protection for any number of reasons.

If their approval is around 10%, and Zuckerberg's is around 20% (estimates, but point being Zuck's is probably higher than Congress), they'll see making him look bad will at least in the short term make them look informed, sympathetic and serious. Even if they get a +1% for giving him a hard time, they'll see it as a win. It'll be a spectacle for fans of schadenfreude.
>What I don't understand is how the important leaders and influencers of the world, like Obama, or Bill Gates, or others, are not ashamed to show themselves near Zuckerberg.

Because they are just as shity as him. They just hide it better. Show me a rich person and I will show you a criminal.
> I'm wondering what's the opportunity cost that you paid by having Cal State on your CV instead of a top-ranked university. I sometimes see people who went to MIT or Stanford that I feel would not have gotten nearly as far as they have if it were Cal State. How many of your colleagues are from top universities?

Community college is different from a state college. Community colleges only do your first two years,and you transfer to another school for the rest of your Bachelors.

This is what I'm looking at now... I really want to get into a top-10 school, but I'm a washout; I had terrible high school grades and I've only been published once in the meanwhile. A top-10 university won't let me in. Hell, I talked to the people at SJSU and they told me to take two years of community college and get back to them.

It's interesting, though; I looked into it, and it's dramatically easier to get into Berkely from a community college; Berkeley has like a 15% admissions rate out of high school... and a 25% admissions rate from a California community college.

(that said, I personally agree that a top-10 college is worlds better than a middle of the pack college. My only point here is that from my research? Even without any money constraints, the most realistic path for me to a top-10 college is through a community college.

Of course, if you have a chance to go to a top-10 college, my advice to you is to borrow like hell and do it, because top-10 colleges, as far as I can tell, give you dramatically better returns if you graduate, and they don't seem to cost dramatically more than the mid-range schools.

I personally think that the utility drops off pretty fast after you get out of the really top universities. I mean,I'm not saying it's not worth going to a middle of the road school... I'm just saying that I would be a lot more careful of taking out giant loans to go to a middle of the road school than I would when going to a top-10 school.)
Yeah, I'm stuck taking the bus to the E/F, which from what I've heard are the most delayed lines in the city.

They also make for a great homeless shelter because they are one of the longer routes and never go above ground. I've had mornings where the first 4-5 cars where full of sleeping homeless people. It's almost as bad as every other street in SF.
There's an entire industry around parsing logs though. Even "big data" companies outsource their log parsing.

Requiring every website to create graphs and stats from log files is not practical, especially with websites that don't have a constant developer on it. Think blogs, recipe websites, restaurants. Google Analytics provides an insanely good value for them and it's a good thing.

It's not like pre Google Analytics we had a golden age of website stats.
While that’s probably true, does that justify his actions?
Ad hominem and strawman, a private but verified payment solution isn't all drugs, money laundering and underground illegal purchases.

Crypto is one step above cash, no fraud protection but some amount of verification. So is everyone that uses cash looking to skirt the law just because they want it private? Maybe they don't want their credit card company knowing they ate fast food for days straight.

Money is the root of all evil but it is the people not the currency that can be bad. There are real world examples and uses for crypto. Is it used for bad things? Sure. Do criminals use all types of money? Yes. Crypto is just another currency, people are still good and bad.
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It's Intel and its not the pure hraphics but the ecosystem. Wanted to enter diacretics into Emacs? The quick search bar poped up instead an accent egu in Emacs (compose key). It's that sort of things, not directly bad display. The end result was nevertheless unusable though.
Too many to list in the thread, it's the kind of thing you need to be determined to try for about a month to see for yourself. If done right it's akin to developing a superpower.
> Could I conclude that it tasted or smelled the same from all angles?

You can't 100% assume it.

But if there's no reason to think it's a trick question, and one object does smell and taste evenly, while the other object has multiple distinct smells/tastes...

You can get a pretty good idea.
Yes, you are missing their point: they meant that they'd be happy to do something that resulted in five additional QALYs, which this is likely not.
After many ours spent on several scriptable window managers I've settled on Spectacle, which is a lot less powerful, but proved to be enough for me, while being dead easy and hassle free.
In addition to all those points you nailed, I want to add watch pygmalion, the British black and white movie, or my Fair Lady, the American version.

I told that to two people. Both of them had very thick accents. 6 months after watching, they lost their accents.

The movies are inspirational and full of guidance. And they are funny.
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Also perhaps fun to note is that we're currently hacking on a Rust version of Dat. Hopefully we'll be able to bring the Dat protocol to more languages and platforms soon! https://github.com/datrs
Absolutely. I'm sort of hoping to see Python/Pandas eclipse R at some point in my career. But for now, my field is only reluctantly in R, and advising colleagues and students into Python is... non-trivial.
Does everyobe but me live in SO? This is weirdly specific.
Op may just be able to get a bluetooth keyboard for his phone and be good to go.
As a native English speaker, sometimes I'll read a word but since I've never heard that word read out loud, when somebody finally says it, my mind explodes because it sounds different to how I pronounced it in my mind.
My two cents, biased against Mac: Mac is not a reasonable choice for developers. Reasonable choice is an open source system, configured to suit your needs.

As a developer, you want to be in control of the system, not the other way around. Well, at least, with Linux, you're much more in control, and have ways to be more efficient in your work.

Regarding the constraints you mentioned:

* cost: it's often posible to find good deals online on expensive but high quality professional machines like the thinkpad x1 Carbon. Have a look at second-hand sites, auction sites. Some sell refurbished machines, under warranty, as good as new.

* performance: you may want to use a lightweight linux distribution, consuming only a few hundred Megs of RAM, and leaving more to your build system... Oh, and try to use something stable, e.g. debian rather than ubuntu. Focus on your work, not on troubleshooting regressions.
> I know the RDS team has contributed some fixes and the like to Postgres, but I’m unsure of their overall significance

Negligible.
> Note that he's propably still risking jail time over this.

I feel like most criminals are OK with that.
I would also like to know what script they're injecting from vodafone.pt
Their site mentions relative assessments of different products, not absolute claims:

"These sorts of questions can’t be answered in an automated fashion, due to theoretical obstructions ("undecidability") first identified by Alan Turing. Thus, to measure security in a practical fashion, we employ heuristics. We don’t need to find any specific vulnerabilities in order to assess how secure software is. Instead, we can observe the software’s safety features, build quality, complexity, and other heuristics. Some heuristics directly impact software security, while others might just be properties of software that are generally only found in cases where development teams know what they’re doing. As long as they correlate, it doesn’t matter."
While concern about privacy may indeed remain a niche thing, GDPR is intruding into the European public consciousness. In recent weeks I have received a number of e-mails from hotels I once stayed in, associations I am a member of, my old university, etc. to alert me to the fact that they have my personal data and under the GDPR I have rights regarding it.
> "Treat user data like names and emails as if they were credit card numbers"

Most sites' approach to credit card numbers is to not touch them with a barge pole, have a third party receive them instead and never let the business have any sight of them, so it's a bit of a stretch to expect the same treatment for a customer's name and email address.
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It should be possible to separate whales from exchanges since the ledger is public, no? The latter would seem likely to have many more transactions with many more counter-parties.

(I've been mildly interested in this question for a while, since it seems like them as got into bitcoin early ought to be whales, right? First come, first served and all.)
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This is absolutely right. One of the biggest drawbacks of reading to learn a language is that it increases your accent simply because you will start to pronounce the words the way you learned to read in your native language.

Also, it's harder to memorize information when you read it. Mimicking and speaking is the fastest way to fluency. It turns out that embarrassment or the feeling that you need to improve will help you learn.
Dell Precision 6800 here. Do not recommend.

I too experience constant erroneous thermal throttling (in Windows).

The docking station has extremely poor construction; any connectivity that travels through it flickers with the slightest mechanical provocation.

External displays don't work at all unless you disable switchable graphics and have severe compositing glitches regardless.

The official ubuntu install is so old that neither Firefox nor Chrome can install latest (without offroading dependencies), a modern ubuntu install without special drivers causes the backlight to turn on and off at 30Hz (hadn't seen that before!), and Dell's instructions for packaging drivers (can't just install them, you need to build an image) have broken in enough places to sink my best efforts.
However, science does have a monopoly on proven medicine. The scientific method is literally how we understand what and why things work.

Traditional medicine is just cultural memory from millennia of blind trial and error... medicinal dogma. Some of it works, but research and clinical trials have repeatedly shown most traditional treatments are placebo at best.