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I live in Los Angeles. There are three (what I would call "average-sized") parks within 1.5 miles of the street mentioned in the article, as well as two smaller parks. At least one of them just underwent major renovation over the past six months.

I couldn't say whether public parks in Los Angeles are going away in general. I'd say "likely". But I think this article somewhat incorrectly frames how dire the situation is with respect to public parks in L.A..
While reading this article, I imagined an Eternal September writ large across the whole industry.

That may be a side-effect to Lanier's singing the same song since around that time.
Before overselling internet access was commonplace, you bought based on guaranteed physical capacity (i.e. bandwith).

Even with overselling, their network is still bound by that capacity. So they charge for both.
Somehow, AWS and cloud growth continues to accelerate
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But how many details do you include? How much ram? Length of the power cords?

It is the job of the writer to write for the audience, not include every single detail, no?
When simply including an IP address in a system log file counts as tracking a user's private information, "not [being] a jackass" is meaningless.
Easy for him to say. If you're at the bottom, you get little satisfaction or recognition for performing well, and are instead judged based on things like how much time you've spent in the office, how much code you've written, and how much your superiors like you.

Don't listen to what the guy at the top is telling you to do with your life. Ever. But do nod and smile when he says it.
Joe Lunchbucket doesn't care if it's hardware that failed or software

Unfortunately, Joe and Jane Doordash in Procurement are the ones making the big choices, and it would be nice to have them informed in detail by something other than the salesdroids that have been perpetuating the problems for decades.
Without having watched any of this stuff, my assumption is these videos are not clear enough in disclaiming any confirmed medicinal or FDA-approved effects. If the content is tantamount to advertising on the level the supplement manufacturers are prohibited from (and careful to avoid) doing themselves, it's probably appropriate for YouTube to close down the channels. Especially if these YouTubers are somehow generating income from the "product reviews".
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The "market for lemons" theory proved that used car dealerships can't exist. And yet they do. People understand that ads are just a hint and a tease, not a precise value proposition.
Nope, still more complicated than that. Single member LLCs are not partnerships by default. Multimember LLCs are partnerships by default. Either group can choose to be a yet a different category. See citation and quote in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16961968 .
I mean, that'd be why. It sounds like she/he is not invested in work, so does less of it.
If that were really true though, wouldn't a big company solve it by splitting itself apart into smaller parallel units all doing the same job as each other but with shorter hierarchies and not wasting time communicating with each other? I think economies of scale still overwhelms the chain-of-command losses you described and makes big companies more efficient overall.
The California franchise tax applies to California LLCs and to non-California LLCs that do business in California, so you don't avoid it by registering in Delaware.
The problem is, the status quo likes to label the people on the periphery who often may be on to something "a scam".
I guess he means something like this: https://networthify.com/calculator/earlyretirement?income=70...

Might work if you trust index funds, earn quite well in the first place or (plan to) live in a cheap country and you are willing to do the grind for a few years.
Can we increase compassion? Maybe a few people are lucky enough to be compassionate. The rest of us are doomed to be misanthropic jerks.
Having to communicate over larger networks incurs costs beyond just bandwidth, latency, and synchronization.

As the depth of communication increases, the message itself often gets lost, as in the venerable 'grapevine joke' where a simple message becomes garbled after passing through multiple re-transmissions.

This problem is central to businesses as they grow and must partition the growing workload into bite-sized pieces managed by ever more players. As the whole grows in size and complexity, each bite's purpose and design becomes ever more inexplicable to its owner making it more likely to fail somehow or require costly adjustments to fit into the final product/service.
This bug is almost old enough to drive.

I submitted an earlier version of it back in the early 00s and have been CC'd on the endless procedural back-and-forth ever since. Incredibly, nobody ever said "we're just not doing it."

One for the book of world records, Oldest Bug category.
How do you "compare" multimillion dollar custom IT installations, before you buy?
Ann Arbor, not incidentally, appears to be doing really well relative to comparable cities and towns in the Midwest.
If you derive a significant portion of your income from streaming video content, you should probably be using hosting sites like YouTube and Vimeo only to mirror your self-hosted content and drive traffic back to servers you control if you can.

You never know when companies like Alphabet or Facebook or Amazon or Apple will pull the rug out from beneath you and yank away that source of income, so don't stand on their rugs. If you let someone stand between you and your money, there will be someone standing between you and your money.

And as there is no way they could possibly review all uploaded videos with actual humans, much of this enforcement is done by machine detection and automated processing, and you will never get any explanation from a human, unless you are in the top 1000 accounts ranked by how much money they make for YouTube.

Not that this sort of content needs to be in video form, anyway. If I feel the need to learn about new, unregulated, or misregulated drugs, I'd prefer reading text, with as few still images as is possible to convey the needed information.
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Yes, and talks first started in 1996, and yet here we are today with massive problems because small business, and especially self-employed startups etc don't have an on-call lawyer that knows everything about EU regulation. Or anyone. They wont' have heard of this from anyone until it hit the news, only a few months ago. Is a few months enough to understand and become fully GDPR compliant? Probably not. Do you know all the EU laws currently in the works that are going to affect your website 5 years from now? Probably also not.
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IANAL, TINLA.

From my superficial understanding of this law, you may weigh different interests and make a judgement call as to what data to delete and what to keep. Other regulations may be a factor in this, but even lacking those, it could be argued that your community cannot function otherwise. You would need to document how you came to your decision and inform the requestor about it. Note that you must still try your best. For example, you may not need to keep their actual email address to keep blocking it; a salted hash should do.
Selling results, not tools - that reminds me a lot of what patio11 has said over the years. And, clearly, it's been effective. Slack is an extremely popular and common tool today. :)

But, it's been hard for me as a nerd to care about results - my specialty and personality is to deeply care about the tools and how they are excellent; results are largely less interesting. I've adapted and learned to care, but it was not natural. I think that's a critical distinction between effective sales and ineffective sales.
On the other hand, learning to type took some effort and I see many people who do not know how to properly type. The case for handwriting might have looked better if you assumed people would not all want to become typists.
It is nearly impossible to fully comply, and may actually be entirely impossible, based upon how much conflict there is between the 28 different interpretations that this will be subject to.

The people saying how easy it is don’t know what they are talking about.
The Meitiv family near DC gained some notoriety for allowing their kids to walk to the park by themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meitiv_incidents
Slightly OT, but I really want to learn golang but the amount of available resources[0] makes it quite overwhelming. I don't want to learn simple stuff but also want to go along the basics and learn good coding practice and design patterns. Any recommendations? What's your favorite resource for learning golang that helped you the most?
[0]: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Learn
Usually happens due to very high uncertainty in localization estimates.
Let's go back to 1999 and ask him the same question. Heck, even at 2009 I'd like to see the changes between those two times.
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No, they do not. Not a single one of those reduces the range of voluntary interactions. If anything, they increase the range, because now it actually is voluntary.

And it is bonkers to imply that something that requires you to actually get affirmative consent from the user is "anti consent". You know what's really anti consent? 10 page TOS listings written in 10pt font that hide what's actually being done with data deep inside.
Yes.

You then clearly have a "business need" (banning troublesome members), that clearly allows handling and storage of data. Hence "right to be deleted" does not apply any more (or more correctly, it is overruled by a more specific right)...

I work with a bank. They have a general 3 or 6 month rule for "non customers" and "ex customers" (i.e. 3-6 months after you are not a customer anymore you will be deleted by normal retention).

If you are fraudulent, the retention interval is now 10 years!
They have a full-time DPO who has spoken both to external legal council (he is a legal-trained person himself) and our local DPA.
Imagine if you were an airline that payed your mechanics absolute bottom dollars and gave them incredibly silly restrictions based on fears of non-tech people. Imagine if you made them sit in countless meetings while people with more years with the airline made decisions that the mechanics KNEW were wrong. That's how the government does IT.
> One of the bits that Jimmy Fallon does on the Tonight Show is an interviewer who asks people a question but uses nonsense words that sound "right" in the question. The most recent example was changing the question

Yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I suspect this works because the interviewees have a model of what they think Jimmy Fallon is going to ask, and when hearing a question, if they can't make out words or they sound wrong, the simplest thing is to assume you heard them wrong and think what it's likely he would have asked. To that, the answer is fairly obvious.

We've all experienced those moments when we're caught off guard when this fails. For example, you're at work and someone you're working with says something that sounds like it was wildly inappropriate, or out of character, or just doesn't follow the conversation at all, and you stop and say "excuse me? What was that?" because you think it's more likely you heard them wrong than to believe you fuzzy matched their statement "Hairy Ass?" and you were correct.
> There's a difference between "removing false/misleading videos that perpetuate a scam" and Fahrenheit 451
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Where does that leave Alex Jones, then? It's called a slippery slope for a reason.
This type of comment should really be somehow differentiated from the rest. It's about defining a common idea (within large subsets of society), that if you don't know, you can't really talk about intelligently.
I'm sure this applies to the typical Amazon worker sweating out sixteen hour days in non air conditioned warehouses for close to minimum wage and forgoing bathroom breaks because of draconian management that starts directly with Bezos. /s

Bezos is completely out of touch with the reality of work for most workers, including most Amazon workers. Maybe for CEOs this advice might make sense, but it's bad advice for most other workers, including most Amazon workers. It's simply a plug trying to get workers to give up even more of their time in exchange for nothing so the company can get more out of them. Bezos is the last person on earth, literally, who should be giving workers advice. Few people are so out of touch with the lives of regular workers as Bezos is.
There not entirely true. Google Search will answer a question with an automatically extracted excerpt from a website page. Watson did the similar with its Jeopardy system
SHA256 pretty much ensures that you have a unique hash for every value - and that's a feature you don't want for anonymization. So why not simply take the first few bytes of a SHA256, a small enough set to ensure that collisions not only might happen but will happen? I mean, that's a required feature to ensure anonymization, not just pseudonymization - if you can select a whole trail of events for ID #123 and be sure that these represent all the events for some (unknown) real user, then that by itself means that those events aren't anonymous, they're pseudonymous.

You can tweak the hash length so that whatever statistics you run out of the hashed data are meaningful (though not exact) despite the collisions, but that running a dictionary attack of plausible usernames returns an overwhelming amount of false positives.
I doubt that physical media or tape are used beyond initial load onto disk, often directly into a database, with a single IEBGENER step. Heck, that was the case 30 years ago.
They will not stop at nootropics, nor psychedelics; They will stop at nothing.
Another Azure dev checking in :)

Have you seen Application Insights Workbooks [0]? Basically you can have interactive notebooks and run analytics queries against your telemetry, generate charts, add text cells, etc. It's picking up usage for investigating outages, e.g., have a Workbook with a query that looks at your dependency calls and determine what service is failing + produce a visualization.

Workbooks don't actually execute any external actions, though. It's solely an analysis tool. Runbooks skew the other direction, they are for executing scripts (more or less).

Jupyter/python seems to fit in a nice gap where this could be bridged, especially with the level of existing python support from azure sdk + cli.

PS: a dev from Workbooks has seen Azure Notebooks, and was curious a while back about how he could integrate the functionality [1]

[0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/application-insights/...
[1]: http://blog.my-is300.com/2017/06/what-i-work-on-application-...
Unless you live in Wyoming or Nevada, you plan on raising VC money[1], or you know that you will be having substantial business operations in multiple states, you should generally incorporate an LLC in the state in which your primary business operations will take place.

[1] Most VCs require C-Corps. A few enlightened VCs will invest in LLCs, recognizing the tremendous tax benefits of the LLC form. In either case, they will require the entity be formed in Delaware due to its business law history.
Quoting from that article: These spaces are usually the product of a deal between cities and private real estate developers in which cities grant valuable zoning concessions and developers provide in return privately owned public spaces in or near their buildings.
I run an independent music label in Toronto, and our group has been considering for some time to create a semi-serialized web series but one of the big prohibiting factors in us actually getting it done is that nobody wants to use YouTube.

If we generate a serious following that is dependent on the platform we're giving up a tremendous degree of creative control and direction for our fans.

Not to mention the serious lock-down on live-streaming musical content, and copyright restrictions. If so much as five seconds of the wrong song is playing in the background, the whole episode gets pulled.

Can we do a cover of 'x'? Other people have, but will ours get pulled?

Here we have an instance where hundreds of other similar videos and channels exist, yet these three individuals were singled out.

If there was at least consistency in the censorship and copyright stuff, or a proper channel for communication, the platform would still be viable.

But, like the Apple iOS App Store, you can produce an entire project, upload it, and, if it even gets up there to start, you've basically just gotta cross your fingers and hope it stays there, because the right to pull it at any time is there.

tl;dr: at least if YouTube, Apple, etc, were consistent with censorship and offered proper channels of communication they would be much more viable platforms.
So, think this through. Why is there a market for thousands of these CDs? You have 140 perfectly good (but say four years old) PCs you paid £80 each for them from the people replacing them. You will clean them up, reformat, sell them for £200 each. It won't make you rich but it's a living and feels good. But, your buyers expect Windows. The people who sold them to you had Windows licenses, but they wiped the disk because of course they did. Microsoft offers a solution for £18. But a bloke you met at the place that sells spare parts for LaserJet printers says he can get the genuine OEM recovery CDs for half that and those would work. Bargain.

Lundgren couldn't sell Windows licenses any more than he could sell the Mona Lisa. He didn't have either. But he absolutely could sell a counterfeit product you can use "instead" of buying the license.

The argument that since the counterfeits are in fact worthless then the dollar amount for purposes of assessing severity is zero makes no sense. Of course the counterfeits are worthless. They're counterfeits. The law is pretty clear that the correct question is how much would the real thing be worth. It's not the court making that up, it's right in those sentencing guidelines.
Howard's blog and github are an amazing resource; I'm a huge fan of his demo-it package as well. Highly recommend checking it out if you ever give technical presentations or talks.
Sure, I agree with the knob analogy. I just don't think this puts that knob anywhere near too high. Quite frankly, if this industry was guided by ethics, most of these things would be things that companies are already doing.
There's no evidence that the third of Americans in this survey are the same third you claim spend unwisely. That's just your prejudice talking. You presumably don't want to face the fact almost half of the citizens of the richest country in the world aren't doing very well. It's easy to blame them. It doesn't help though.

Also, even if there was evidence that it was their own fault for spending badly, the idea that poor people should be able to ignore the psychological pressure of social status, peer envy, and plain old marketing is ridiculous. Google, Facebook, etc make billions of dollars facilitating advertising to people - they wouldn't be able to do that if it didn't work. It seems decidedly unfair and unreasonable to say poor people should be ignoring what advertisers put in front of them when no one else is judged for buying stuff.
Problem is medical claims are highly regulated in the West. So there is a likely legal liability for youtube in the US and in the UK. In fact, they might have already had pressure from regulators.
Because my git-fu is weak and I have a fast network connection and a big disk! Doing things the dumb way works fine for me :)
Efficiency is relative. The bigger an enterprise becomes, it becomes more important for you to consistently deliver in a defined timeframe and cost and have controls to prevent inconsistency, fraud and abuse. A smaller company will be more agile, but usually does so with more risk. For the markets they serve, that risk is often a competitive advantage, and things like pivoting and adapting rapidly are part of the process -- you cannot pivot and adapt without human agency.

For a huge company, consistency is key. The brake pad for a car must meet the specification. Falling below spec leads to waste, and producing over spec leads to cost and lost sales. In that context, manufacturing seeks to remove as much human agency as possible and follow the defined process.

This is similar in software. Some stereotypical cobol/java programmer in a bank/government building to spec is translating business jargon/requirements to code. The process of delivering the correct calculation in a predictable timeframe is the goal. Creativity, etc is usually a distraction best avoided, because the organization literally doesn't care about anything but delivery in the time/cost box.

Most big orgs separate operational teams from solution development and build. In some cases all operational stuff is outsourced. In these places, those non-operational teams get to be more creative, but are usually constrained by enterprise standards/solutions.
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I have it happen to me over and over again when Waze has my GPS coordinates. Its uncertainty is on the level of where I am in my house, and not which town I'm in.
They don't have a monopoly - what an absurd idea. You can just publish videos on your own site.
You're right, I left out that single member LLCs are disregarded entities because I wasn't trying to be comprehensive. I've updated the comment with more detail.
You didn't bother to read the article, this isn't about research chemicals.

And even if it was about RCs - talking about them and sharing experiences should be allowed, censorship of information only aids misuse.
I want to think that’s just consumers’ preferences shifting towards SUV and Crossover cars that necessarily have poor rear visibility. Nothing about having a good rear crumple-zone leads to restricting the size of the rear window or placement of the C-pillars.
Sure, assuming that their price model is fair and just.

Besides, who says the users of this are smart? They're just at a bar that offers that service.
That would make sense.

It would help if YouTube would say so. I'm not sure Google's usual total opacity is going to play to their favor here. As I said in another comment, I personally see no reason to trust their judgment in these matters, but if they said "Hey, we're getting regulatory pressure from X about Y and we need to remove your stuff" that would be a step in the direction of restoring my trust. (I've got other reasons I'm very unlikely to ever trust them very much overall, but I am capable of nuance, so I have no problem saying I would at least trust them more.)
I'm working on b2b software and when working with the designers at http://fairpixels.pro I've learned many things from their approach as to why (a lot of) software sucks. Personal example: I've been measuring qualitative feedback users have been giving us and passing it to them to make design updates. They (design team) would come back with me with questions about data & metrics. They were more interested in what the users DID vs what they told me. This sounds small, but has made a huge difference in the way I look at product design & development. The things users told us in a few cases, didn't match the way they were acting in the product. After some research, we found out why and managed to redesign those features and solve the problems.

The thing with most software, just like ours, is that many of us engineers don't have the deeper design knowledge to really understand how a product needs to be build from a user's perspective.
How exactly does Youtube have a monopoly on video? What's the underlying scarcity they're exploiting?