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>However, seeing yourself as a "Python developer" rather than "a developer who is good at Python" makes it look like you see every problem as something you'll solve using Python. That's bad.

If a company didn't hire me because they idiotically interpreted "I am a python developer" to mean "I would try to build a rendering engine in python" then I'd say that's probably a bullet dodged.

I'd interpret it as "I don't build rendering engines but I build other stuff for which python is a good fit", but maybe that's just me being weird.

The trope about great programmers being people who reverse binary trees in their sleep and being able to swap ecosystems at the drop of a hat needs to die. Great programmers specialise.
My server hosts only three people including myself, each one on its own domain, yet I can talk with everyone else on any other server transparently, without any issues. And even if I decide not to host this server anymore, I can easily switch to another, import my roster and still talk to the same set of people. So, answering your question: very helpful.
After reading multiple reports, I am confused if anyone really knows if it is profitable or not. Do you have a source for your claim ?

UPS and Fedex have operating margin of ~6%. They have spent 10's of billions of dollars into optimized sorting facilities and logistics. Yet, Amazon uses USPS for last mile delivery. USPS also has to deliver to non-profitable remote locations and has public unions which demand above-market salary/pensions. A less-optimized player with higher cost base offers service at lower cost than a business with 6% operating margin - simple math makes me believe they are losing money on those orders.
No, it's garbage. Individuals living in industrial societies are consuming way more than the ecosystem can support. So, either we need to get rid of people or they need to consume less. I prefer the option where they consume less. If it's not needed for a wholesome life it's "crap".

I consume as much as I can but only because the society lets me, and I'm too burdened at the moment to actively change my way of life.
So we should expect less technological inventions, less creative solutions from this generation of the Japanese? I believe high Conscientiousness combined with high levels of Neuroticism is a common/promoted personality type over there.
That’s a headline style called the “noun pile”, at which the BBC excels. This one is tame by their standards (but I agree it’s jarring to put “China” and “Man” together that way).

The Language Log describes them here:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1206

And lots more examples:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?cat=277

Choice examples:

“China Ferrari sex orgy death crash”

“Brighton photo studio jobs misery”
Open door pioneered house flipping? It’s a game that’s been around for a while.
Yes ... and the best way to make money delivering packages is to include them with the regular mail so that you're passing each house exactly once. I might also agree that the package delivery is stemming the USPS' losses but you'd have to show that it's not actually causing more losses - our little village now has three USPS trucks (there used to be one). I'm also assuming additional personnel are needed for all those extra runs and we now see USPS trucks on Sundays.
I think it is closer to your 3rd possibility.

There's also the possibility that they want to show (fake) the supposed power of this system even to their own citizens to elevate the apparent reach of the government.

Say what you want about rights, but Chinese government is ruthlessly efficient about what it wants done, and it rarely loses (except for the recent trade relations fiasco)
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Maybe they just want to show off to discourage any trouble makers (including political ones)?
or something akin to 1-pixel-attack-tattoos: put a few strategical dots on your face and be recognized as "horse" on all cameras :)
I'm thinking of the type of person who makes small-batch products and sells them, which kind of was the model for Etsy before cheap imported goods took over right around the same time the post office began subsidizing overseas carriers.

Wired uses the term "maker" interchangeably with "crafter" in the following article, which gives some of the history:

That Etsy began allowing manufacturing partners in 2013 underscored the reseller issue that has plagued the site for years. The Marketplace Integrity, Trust & Safety team—which has the unenviable task of policing sellers for adherence to Etsy rules—is unable or unwilling to weed out sellers of mass-manufactured goods.

https://www.wired.com/2015/02/etsy-not-good-for-crafters/
My suspicion of Facebook is so strong I do wonder if this is not some honeypot in itself.
This is almost certainly a silly question, but if I can't ask here, then who else will know?

Is there any methods out there which would let me fry surveillance cameras? EMP is a thing, but I have no idea of how that works. Can I fit an EMP into my pocket or do I need to drive a Truck worth of equipment? Is there some laser I could use to damage the lens or digital "eye" in the camera for good?

I am not a criminal, my life isn't that exciting, but I was wondering what tools are out there to combat surveillance cameras?
Wouldn't this move just make then move to WhatsApp and eventually beg the same question as the parent comment?
Where exactly does it say this the reason to start working on the "system" ? Also what do you mean by "work on the system" ? Reason for who to start working on the system ?
Gait recognition fails because your gait changes regularly. Something as simple as a sprain and you move very differently, but even new shoes ends up making a noticeable difference.
Features of PVS-Studio setting and running in Docker on the example of Azure
Perhaps China is advertising this to deter crime, as a potential criminal might worry about facial recognition before doing something illegal.
> There is no future with any foreseen technology that would be able to brute force that, so when it comes to AES and the like using at least 256-bit keys it can be reasonably assumed that destroying the key means the data is lost (anything legacy running off 128-bit is reasonable to watch out for though, 2^64 is potentially tractable).

But we can’t know for sure that AES or any other encryption algorithm doesn’t have some as-of-yet-unknown fatal flaw that would make it breakable in some way not necessarily even having anything to do with quantum computers?
Some kind of Orwellian world we inhabit ain't it? And here I thought those '80s dystopian/cyberpunk sci-fi films where the street hackers had random slashes of paint on their faces was just some kind of edgy tribal thing! In fact, it was as though someone had a time machine and went back and planted those ideas somehow.
Berlin also has the advantage of only becoming a large single city in the 1920s. Beforehand, there was "Berlin proper" and a number of cities nearby nearly equally large and locally equally relevant (e.g. Charlottenburg, Wilmersdorf and Spandau in the west, Köpenick in the southeast and Lichtenberg in the east). Due to there being no cars, travel between those cities was impractical on a daily basis up until the rise of mass transport. This lead to these cities setting up their own city centres with residential areas formed around those city centres.

After extension of the city of Berlin in 1921, this lead to it having many "city centres" around which life was formed in a similar way Sydney attempts to achieve now by this artificial after-the-fact split. I’m doubtful it’ll be successful.
Musk tweets late at night Tesla will be profitable and cash flow positive in Q3
When you're a business person or a researcher you want to find the big thing that's going to fund your retirement. When you're an engineer you make a career out of building thing after thing. I think this is similar to the difference between US companies and Chinese companies. In the US they want to develop a product and ride that wave for as long as possible, while in China they produce one item and quickly move on to producing the next one in a never ending cycle. This is also why US companies care so much about IP, they want to do something once and retire. One could even frame it as a form of entitlement ;-)

Having said that, I do want people who solve major problems to be reasonably compensated. I'm not sure what that looks like.
It could be, but much more people use WhatsApp in Russia, people like my parents who haven't noticed any laws against the free internet before.
They don't touch Signal or anything else as well.
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The goal of an artist is to push boundaries, overcome restrictions. Absence of limitations is the goal of pretty much everything. That's what would be called perfection. Setting artificial restrictions is a way to learn by reduction of a problem by simplification, and setting boundaries requires creativity, too, but in principle, freedom is not the enemy.

In another reading, absence of limitations would be limiting, still, which would be paradox.
It is well established that checking the box by default results in much, much higher conversion rates than leaving it unchecked. That clearly indicates that people are not really making a decision to consent when they leave it checked. That is exactly why the practice was disallowed by GDPR.
I guess I wasn’t clear enough.

I own all of those devices. I talk to my Alexa more than all those devices combined.
Or maybe a completely realistic outer skin?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY5KTVA_2ys
As someone that helped construct killing machines(Nuclear submarines in my case) in the past, I will say that I believe I share responsibility for their destruction. My life will be more peaceful when they have retired from service.
If you're in medicine, you should be more concerned with improving the human condition. I think that most doctors truly want to help others, and we obviously need support companies like drug manufacturers. But there's a huge industry built up around maximizing profits in other ways - I'm not sure how this can be reconciled.
> having three governments will be less efficient than one

But it will provide three times as many jobs for the class of people that decides on these matters.

It's hard not to be cynic about politics when institutions "self-reform" by expanding in non-obvious (and likely more expensive) ways.
Apple has, well, courage to enable some anti-tracking features by default in desktop Safari. But of course Mobile Safari is so ubiquitous they know sites must continue supporting their engine.
Trolling aside, the freedom allowed to not show all of your cards that MIT/MSD/Apache allows is better for business, and if the app is essential to their business then they will contribute fixes back upstream. An example is Juniper and their myriad contributions to FreeBSD. This allows Juniper to pull down upstream updates without it being a complete goat-rope to integrate with their own secret sauce code; if Juniper were using Linux instead of FreeBSD then anyone could demand full source code and sell knock-off solutions based on Juniper's work and the result would be less actual development of the technology (for lack of profit motive).
Oddly, I disagree. Package delivery is one of the few remaining 'low skill' professions that pay well. UPS pays their drivers exceptionally, and has very strict rules and safety standards. USPS also pays relatively well. In exchange, we consumers get service from generally trusted, uniformed individuals.
I'm afraid Amazon would create a race to the bottom, which would leave us accepting subpar service like we have in other industries(retail, fast food, etc). The employees are paid less, and the service as a whole gets worse, all in the name of 'cost-savings.' I know that's the free market for us, but it'd be nice to not lose every segment in a race to the bottom.
Not sure why the downvote. I'm just presenting BS arguments that people have for not using it. I'm fully aware it's a bad idea.
Well I already feel like that while driving. The cops aren't out there to help you, they're actively looking for wrongdoing. The problem with that is anyone who happens to fall into a targeted political group will be "wrongdoing" no matter what.

To be an intelligent person and watch these things going on is the doorway to madness.
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Strong government isn't afraid of anything, because people in a strong government change. Only the rulers who are greedy for their personal power turn themselves into living monuments and order to clean the Internet from the memes about them.
I wonder if they have any process in place to prevent Apple buying one of these and figuring out how it works.

I would guess Apple already has one. But if they’ve tried to get one, and been foiled somehow, there must be a fascinating cloak-and-dagger story there that we’ll probably never hear...
I say this not only as someone having lived in both, but as someone who has had some past professional interest tracking rents and the like: Sydney has by far been the more expensive between the two cities in terms of rental and house prices.

There may be a subjective element in being present in Melbourne while rent prices took off which makes Melbourne seem to have become more expensive, but it's not even close.

Edit: for instance, I live within walking distance of Melbourne cbd in a modern 2 bedder with 1 car space. Market rent approx $650 - $750 pw (not even including aberrations like docklands). In Sydney, you have to draw a substantially wider radius and transport time around the city centre and employment hub before you start hitting comparable properties and rates.
Some people have a phobia with the belt, and might even be legally have an exception.

Someone I know has a brother who was in an accident, was wearing seat belt, was stuck in the car as he couldn't release the belt, and was burned somewhat. He simply couldn't buckle up after that and eventually got some kind of exemption for medical reasons.
Human politicians aren't open source either.
Was a handy side-benefit, then GPS got so cheap and ubiquitous people tag their dogs and hire bikes. Now, location services are an essential civilian service.
Nah, then the surveillance state will simply make those illegal, and trigger an arrest warrant when they are unable to detect a face.

This is already happening btw, with bans on facial covering clothing (e.g. the niqab, but it's automatically extended to balaclavas and full helmets when worn off of a motorcycle) in e.g. France.
They could probably still use this "design feature" (that Signal doesn't have) to hack users who don't authenticate the people they're talking with (also authentication isn't enabled by default on WhatsApp, but it is on Signal):

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/13/whatsapp-...

If you're a user of WhatsApp, make sure you enable the two-factor authentication PIN, too, because otherwise it should be relatively trivial for your own government to gain access to your account by using your number with the local carrier's help (it's also possible to do it without the carrier's help, given how broken the security of carrier networks is). Many Telegram users were hacked this way by the government in Russia, too.
At that point why not just organize a meetup and charge admission instead of reinventing the wheel?
I also don't remember NSA or CIA raidering people's companies and putting them in jail for shares in the social media networks. So I'd prefer to give my information to them and not to the degenerate heirs of the KGB.
I believe this person is referring to the fact that Telegram uses their own encryption scheme instead of one of the more common standards.

In this scenario, while the encryption has never been broken, it is theoretically possible that the creators designed the encryption in such a way that knowing certain values would allow you to decrypt the communication.

This essentially allows the people that know the "secret" to be able to crack the communication, while the users remain under the impression that everything is private.

He's further suggesting that this "move to block telegram" is a stunt to try and promote the idea that their encryption is not currently breakable (in a bid to foster more adoption of the platform).

While there's no proof of any of this, personally I feel it's still within the range of plausibility, and raises further questions about why they would target only telegram and not other encrypted messengers ..

We don't know all of the details but it feels that there is more to this move than what is being presented.
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Melbourne transport is fantastic in the CBD, or in the inner suburbs near a train stations that services multiple lines.

Where Melbourne struggles is the services as you get out of the inner suburbs. Where the bus services can be a 10 min walk, don't run often enough which is then compounded by them running late so often it forces you to catch an earlier bus because you'll miss your train half the time. So you end up trying to catch a bus that's 20 mins earlier than what you need it to be if you could depend on it being timely. Which means you have to leave the house half an hour earlier than if you just drove to the station.

However if you drive to the station most don't have sufficient parking. So if you aren't there by 6:30-7:00 am you can't get a park.

If you're heading to the city then once you are at the station it isn't so bad. Unless you're on a line where there are no seats and can be forced to stand squished up against a bunch of people for 45 mins.

But where the REAL pain is, is Melbourne's rail system is designed solely to get people in and out of the city. There is no outer loop. Meaning if you are in an say an eastern suburb and want to get to a south eastern suburb it requires going all the way into the city then back out again of a south eastern line.

Take the trip from the eastern suburb Ringwood to the south eastern suburb Clayton. A non peak driving trip would take 30-35 minutes. A train trip, not including the time it takes to get to the train station is triple that. Even in peak times when you can get express trains and driving is congested it's still going to be faster to drive.
Free on the Amazon UK store (as of now, anyway):

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The health industry has no reason to cure patients. On the contrary, they have reasons to create new patients.

And it's across the board. I tell myself exactly that when I look at my toothbrush.

A toothbrush lasts about ~3 weeks before needing replacing. I'm sure someone in the industry will tell me that it's because it's made of unobtainium unicorn hair specially designed to make my teeth whiter and all that.

I also have a another plastic brush to clean my shotguns of all things (I do a lot of clay pigeon shooting) -- the construction is identical to a toothbrush, just perhaps a tad bigger. Doesn't have the fancy colored handle.

Now the brush I'm currently using I've been using for 3 years and the brush is still pretty much pristine, after being used to generously scrub bits of sharp, grim metal once or twice a week.

Hmmm... How does that work? Better unicorns? Well, think about it, everyone is changing toothbrush on a monthly basis, that is a huge revenue. Even reducing the lifetime of a toothbrush by 5% would increase the number of brushes sold by a huge amount.

All the while, it creates fantastic amount of plastic waste. Fancy packaging and 100% plastic, possibly not even all recyclable.
Your right to be forgotten is balanced against a business’s right to make money, and society’s right to remember. I imagine that a court would consider a whole range of factors in weighing that balance.

How much real harm was done to you? How expensive would it be for us to delete the data? What steps have we taken to protect your privacy?

I highly doubt that the courts will see it as black and white as you suggest.
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That's true. Thankfully the Russian laws allow to classify almost anything as extremism or insult against any social group, so that's not a problem.
I know a person that has papers from the doctor to show it to the police. He's morbidly obese and has a medical condition, which causes trouble breathing.
It’s the Equifax method, no?
One thing is having the technology to send a rocket to Mars, another thing to have a completely functional and self-sustaining colony, that doesn't depend on Earth supplies and that offers the possibility of a life that is not just growing potatoes and looking at rocks from the habitat's window. I suspect we're hundreds of years from the latter.
Those are / will be banned then, simple as. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_ban_on_face_covering
It's refreshing to see skepticism of both market-based and government-based solutions. Too often I feel like I am being presented with arguments which require either blind faith in the "invisible hand" or denial that inefficiency increases in the absence of competition.

> You can certainly keep a 'competitive' environment which is regulated with incentives.

This is my preferred approach as well. It's worst weakness is the potential for regulatory capture. I tend to believe that should be addressed by not giving corporations as much power as they currently enjoy in the US: enforcing constraints on participation in politics and requiring transparency, disconnecting health insurance from employment status, enabling clawback of executive bonuses, etc.
When you're generating random numbers from a physical source, how do you detect when there's some failure in the hardware or sensors that's reducing the randomness? Can you use redundancy so the probability of this is vanishingly low?
You have never heard of private military companies? They are extensively used byvthe US mostly for non combat situations. They are very effective, for profit, and much less costly than the regular army.
Metaphor? That's literally what it is now. I see no difference.
Google is always listening: Live Test (or is Cortana to blame?)
That's the geek attitude here, thinking it's a technical problem. But it's a human one, and no amount of smartness will fix it.

If you have a surveillance state, it will not "will up the game by referencing other data". It will simply make the gears illegal, and the price to pay harsh. Now you won't dare wearing them and if you do, you are guilty even if you are not a criminal, and tagging yourself as such, making it easier for the police to find you.
I almost wonder, in my more cynical moments, if "flu shots" are people just paying to get poked with a couple of cc's of saline, for all the effectiveness it seems to provide.
I've been expecting this ever since I read Robert Heinlein's "The Moon is Harsh Mistress" as a kid.

In this age of elections being influenced by social media botnets, it's simply too close to the truth.
Bitcoin price gained $1,000 in less than an hour, Experts revealed reason behind
Have you tried an AR-15?
This is the phase where capitalism turns evil. The mere act of thinking like this is a crime. I hope these people don't suffer from a degenerative disease in their old age, or they will quickly understand their folly.
Luck can't give you a billion dollar alone, simply because accumulating said money is a long and complicated process. It didn't happen overnight, and it was not a lottery. Plus there are many people with money going broke, or not having power.
Hacker News: Hack everything!

Hacking Company: We've hacked the iPhone and are selling the tech to law enforcement.

Hacker News: Evil! Sleazy!
Logically it would've been Chineseman then, but, I'm no grammar expert.
Exactly. I think people categorize themselves relative to those around them.

At the beginning of the study period, participants were asked whether they considered themselves to be morning people or evening people, or whether they felt they fell somewhere in between those two groups.
How the Wire became the greatest TV show ever made