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One of the questions is: "describe your social network in 50 characters or less."

"Facebook but decentralised" is already 26 characters so that seems like a bit of a tight limit. I suppose it'll help find people who have any marketing nouse, which is the actual challenge for a project like this, not technology.
Ah, well that would explain why they're trying to catch up then! Looks like a big crop of new sprouts is being fertilized. I count 18 NRC applications for new reactors.

https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/col/new-reactor-ma...
Some have argued, however, that this commingling is caused by the forces of capitalism. Once you have large profits, it makes sense to direct some of them towards altering the laws in your favor. Simultaneously, capitalism seems to encourage the kind of concentration of wealth that will always ensure some capitalists have large profits relative to the norm of society. So in many ways this commingling ends up being inevitable.
There is a documentary on HBO about this effort called "Silicon Valley". It is in the 5th season.

The basic challenge is that smart people keep making really poor choices which are very funny but also counter productive.
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I've been finding more & more in new hires that what they know coming in sometimes isn't as important as their willingness to continue learning. If they admit they don't know how to answer a question but are willing to give it a try, that's usually a good sign.
I mean the very first corporations weren't even little kingdoms, they were big ones like the east India trading company, which operated as quasi sovereign states. And they still operate that way, just on a smaller scale. If you think we are currently living in an age of democracy right now you're crazy or just not paying attention.
Manhattan is not a city, it's the smallest borough of a city.
Why do you say that's not capitalism? I'm no expert but a lot of the socialists I've talked to see capitalism as privatization of gains. Socialized losses are just the other side of that equation. Coercion of elected officials is corruption and it happens in both capitalism and socialism.

Edit: Downvotes but no answer to the question?
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This is a bit similar to claiming that communism is great, because all the times when it was tried and there were problems weren't real communism.

If capitalism tends to inevitably lead to corruption of government and the undermining of democracy etc in the long run, then that's an interesting critique, which can't just be swatted away with "yes but the result isn't capitalism".
The flash in new devices is still erasable with UV (sometimes) but you’ll notice every single chip shown in the video, is a dip package, quite old school.

More modern chips just have metal layers over the flash. You can decap and have a layer of transistors or a layer of metal or some other impediment to the UV light.

Well this guy may have figured out another way to decap chips, this is not a (great) way to hack chips anymore.
I don’t think that’s necessarily true. Government is unique because of its “social license” to govern, meaning that the vast majority of people recognize its authority to do things other people or groups cannot do (like make laws, imprison people, or collect taxes). Corporations don’t have that social license, which is why they need to cozy up with government to take advantage of that unique authority.
Sounds like a "No True Capitalism" defense to me.

Capitalism, like all other systems, can't exist in a vacuum. You must consider the human factor and the likelihoods it will produce.
If you feel that strongly, stop using them. I stopped using Facebook a year ago, and now my most social sites are YouTube and reddit. Neither are as toxic for me as Facebook was. You won’t save others, but it’s easy to save yourself.
working from home for about ten years, as happy as ever (though I don't mind offices either, provided there's flexibility).

I didn't even have a proper chair and desk until some time ago, worked from bed, couch, dining table, standing, kitchen counter etc. I still do from time to time, but I wouldn't advice doing it :)

I didn't have kids for most of the period (I have a 2yo and 4yo now) and they're certainly disruptive, in my case they're not home most of the time now, so it's basically: work from nice desk and chair in the living room while kids are out, move to secluded room and close door when they're not. They definitely learn not to bother you too much, but they can still be noisy, for which a nice set of earphones might help.

If for some reason your home is expected to be too noisy one day, go work in some other place.

I have not done this for a long time, but I'd advice having a scheduled daily outing (go jogging in the morning or evening), it's good for your mind and body, and slightly more important than if you were working in an office, as you don't even have a daily walking commute.

If possible, try to separate work and home, i.e. separate "office room", to avoid the feeling of being always at work.
> If you re-read everything in this subthread, you'll find a lot of argument from seasoned lispers that I can and should ignore the fact that type declarations are unsafe even at the highest safety settings because of "what implementations do."

The word "safe" in Lisp is tied to run-time checks.

"Less safe" means fewer run-time checks.

If a declaration causes a check to be inserted which signals a condition in code that otherwise would not, that isn't "unsafe"; it is something else. "Unsafe" in Common Lisp specifically means that a check didn't take place which normally would take place.

A monotonic increase in the variety of checks performed at run-time cannot be called "unsafe"; that amounts to an incorrect use of the ANSI document's defined term.

You can say that adding declarations to a program is "risky": it creates the risk that conditions will be signaled.

Those extra behaviors are in fact allowed because the program has violated a declaration, which is undefined behavior. That is a very general statement in the standard which is not expected to have malicious interpretations. Declarations are part of the program and can change its behavior; it is not spelled out in detail how, but the optimization parameters like safety and speed have obvious interpretations.

If a declaration is processed for safe code, and a behavior is added other than a diagnostic behavior, that could be characterized as malicious. For instance, supposed the program abruptly stops, without any diagnostic, so that it is not known why. That would not be acceptable. It would not be acceptable for a variable to be mysteriously altered, and for computation to continue, so that a problem occurs later which is nigh impossible to trace back to the violated declaration.

If you think the implementors are malicious, use something else. Malice could be perpetrated in almost any area of an implementation.

Think about it. Suppose you're hoping to use declarations to speed up code. You add the declarations and keep the code safe at first. If declarations are completely ignored, you're not getting any help! The code is working exactly as before and then when you drop safety and add speed, it fails. It fails not in nice ways, but catastrophically, due to reasons that could have been caught had the declarations been processed in safe mode.
If you are touching sensitive systems, like military infrastructure, nuclear power plant, law enforcement, banks, it's not uncommon at all.

In some cases, mostly governmental stuff, you can be personally liable if you misplace accidentally documents or other sensitive pieces of information (like a spending a few years in prison).
A good book that demonstrates how hyper-capitalism is inconsistent with Democratic rule is The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein.
That's like saying the massive amount of written content is the biggest threat to search engines.

No, search engines are the solution to massive amounts of content.

Greed isn't the biggest threat to democracy. Democracy (or any other form of government) is the solution to whatever set of behaviors are undesirable in the ungoverned.
On Twitter [0] they're claiming that it wasn't disabled, and that it working only on a set list of hosts is intended behavior.

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Amazon has the preface and first chapter in the "look inside" link above the picture of it https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Step-Become-Person-Others/..., which develops what I wrote here more.

The movie Most Likely To Succeed http://www.mltsfilm.org is about project-based learning. The books and articles by the guys behind it, Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith, are on active education and I found valuable.

Here's a post of mine with a video of Ted and the movie director: http://joshuaspodek.com/another-problem-with-traditional-edu... and links to relevant posts of mine.
I'm not sure I understand the question. The first one about detecting if x is odd or even is usually what the compiler will optimize the more common (x%2) == 0 to.

Other than that, these are things that you have to do yourself. You can't call compiler.setMySeventhBit();

If you need to be able to flip and check bits, you have to do it yourself.
I fail to see how you can come to that conclusion.

In the Netherlands, segways are treated like mopeds (and these electrical scooters are quite similar to segways). Which means that you do need moped liability insurance and you cannot use the sidewalk.

If you get involved in an accident with either a pedestrian or a bicycle, then because you are using a motorised vehicle, you are assumed to be liable for the damage even if it is not your fault.
A tangent, how is Münchhausen actually pronounced ? Curious to know.
> But this month, a judge rejected the charge, saying the firearms law did not apply.
Just don't read the Youtube comments.
Corruption is just the free market between those who have power but (relatively) no wealth, and those who have wealth but (relatively) no power. It's treating power and influence as just another asset that can be purchased (with wealth).
If only callerID spoofing was not possible... I think that it would solve most spam call problems because it would be easier to make them accountable.
According to many economists, yes.

Capitalism does not appear to have a stable mode with a low Gini coefficient. Power that derives from wealth becomes concentrated, which is clearly anti-democratic.

Democracy is only viable as a decision-making process in societies where everyone is more or less equal. When people gain power at the expense of others, the result is that the system may remain nominally democratic, but becomes more and more of a plutocracy.

In Marx's view, the abuse of the 99% by the 1% would inevitably lead to revolution, violent or otherwise. He then tried to come up with a method of economic organization that could be fair and stable after that revolution. It's not clear that this method has ever worked on a scale larger than a kibbutz or cooperative, but it's also clear that most families are run as communes, though this is rarely discussed.

Somewhere in the trek from startup partnership to corporation there is a shift from commune-like organization to dictatorial/plutocratic organization. I don't know if anyone has done an organized study.
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Australia tax things like cigarettes massively. I think any black market tobacco is because of their excessive taxing
Not necessarily. Big corporations actually depend on the State for their very existence, and leverage corruption, regulatory capture, etc., to grow larger and more powerful than they would naturally.
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The end of your comment sounds exactly like the guys who defend communism arguing that it’s never really been tried. I think this is capitalism but that that recognition leads to the understanding that it comes in more and less healthy varieties. The U.S. version has oscillated over the years and we can see the results of the better and worse eras.

(This is similar to the way some people use “socialism” to mean something like the Cultural Revolution and completely ignore the existence of e.g. European and especially Scandinavian examples)
> now my most social sites are YouTube and reddit

So out of the fire, and into the frying pan.
While I like duo, this video is a little misleading in the all of the chips shown a DIP package. Let’s see the same UV erase tried on WLCSP BGA parts.

This is a pretty old technique. Almost every modern produce chip has mitigations for UV erasing.
> How is this any different from people who argue "That's corruption, not socialism"?

It’s not at all different. In fact, state socialism and state capitalism are extremely similar systems.
Been 100% WFH(office is 2000 miles away) for over a year now.

Have a separate room for the office. That being said, it's adjacent to the kitchen and has no doors, so there's still traffic.

I don't think kids are a non-starter for WFH. Have one ten year-old kid. I think it's about setting and enforcing expectations in terms of "work-time" vs. "home-time".

Of course, if your family doesn't respect or support you in that, you're going to have problems no matter what. Everyone(kids, spouse) needs to be involved in an honest discussion where expectations are set.

Architectural nice-to-haves:

* Doors on the office.

* Multiple floors, with the recreation room on a different floor.

* Plenty of windows for natural light

As far as equipment/hardware:

* Adjustable standing desk(love my Jarvis Bamboo)

* Good chair. I mean a good chair. Herman Miller Aeron for me.

* Dual monitors mounted on arms. Amazon Warehouse has consistent deals on Dell 27 in monitors.

* I use a MBP, so I've got a vertical stand and Pluggable TB dock.

* Logitech MX Master

* KBC Poker II

* Comfy, decent headphones

What's been huge for me is the ergonomic stuff(chair/desk). It's a big expense up front, but believe me, it's worth it if you're going to spending 8-10 hours a day there. Plus it's tax deductible. Do yourself a favor a splurge there.

Overall, WFH has been a huge productivity boost to me. I make sure my employer sees the benefits of my productivity as well, and I work very hard to ensure they have no reason to be displeased with my output.
I think that to be at all fair we should treat the side-effects of capitalism as capitalism, just as we treat the side-effects of communism as communism.

When we see that communist regimes have famines and vast imprisonments and corrupt party leaders stealing from the people, we correctly identify that as one of the realities of communism which stems from the impossibility of making communism work within the confines of human nature.

When it's the inevitable effects of capitalism, we deny it. We say, "Oh no, that's not pure capitalism, they aren't practicing real capitalism, they're corrupt." It IS an effect of capitalism in every case. Where else is this coming from? Powerful entities in capitalist societies capture regulatory bodies and political figures and force them to enact policies which are harmful to common people yet benefit their bottom line.

It's intellectually dishonest to say that all of a sudden it isn't capitalism so capitalist ideology isn't at fault. We have been driven by capitalist ideology every step of the way up to this, but the instant something bad happens then the definitions suddenly change and capitalism is insulated from harm.

Let's not be in denial and say that yes, capitalism per-se is to blame. There comes a point when capitalism is bad for free society and democracy. Does that mean that we have to enact the exact opposite? No. Let's not have a false dichotomy. We need to realize that pure capitalist ideology doesn't work due to human nature in exactly the same way that pure communist ideology doesn't work. We need a strong and effective system to suppress certain parts of the capitalist ideology or we will perish.
this model says mitochondria are clustered around the nucleus which is not what i see in the microscope
Along that logic could we say that absolute private property rights nor the complete absence of exclusive use of capital goods is good for democracy, but that there is a whole range in between?

It's not immediately obvious to me that either is true in terms of producing viable societies, but as these are the primary axes which determine how a society is going to function, it seems they ought to both be or neither be.
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With a sharp 'u' and the au like ou in the English word 'loud'.
So that they understand how a network mask works? I'm assuming if you're working on the web you ought to know something about networks, right?
If capitalism tends to inevitably lead to corruption of government

That's a pretty big if.
Working from home for past 10 years. Major thing is having dedicated room with doors that close (really important now that I have two little kids (2 months and 2 years). Older kid know that when the door are closed she can't go inside and should not knock or yell at me. I am at my office just during office hours, after the workday is over I don't go inside this room.

Other than that just boring stuff: good chair, split keyboard (MS Sculpt), gaming mouse (Logitech G603) and single 27" monitor (HP Envy). I also have a nice sofa where I can lay and read if I want to.
Decentralised social networks are a bad idea. Communication tools need to be inclusive and open to everyone, especially laypeople. Decentralised tools and blockchain turn off non-techies, and are overkill for the social networking problem.
They use their own auth/storage systems. Browserstack is simply giving a tiny amount of the money they raised to build their own platform.

If I was browser stack I'd be offering a lot more than $1 million considering how important this is to their platform.
I use this and consider the lack of notifications a positive.
Uh, no it's not. You start with a statement then you go about trying to analyze it....? Ok.
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One thing: if you have trouble "enforcing boundaries" (the psyc kind) then take steps to insert some kind of physical interposing barrier between you and your potential boundary-invaders. I've always had a separate building from the house to work in and find that invaluable. Outbuilding, heated shed, that sort of thing. In the past few years I've used an office 10 miles from my house (but close to my kids' school) that has no other people in it. Not sure if that still counts as WFH though.. Basically other people have to go out into the rain, or get in their car to interrupt you..

You definitely want to reduce cognitive load : avoid having to walk past the unfolded laundry or your distraction du jour, to get coffee, snacks -- have those things in your office space.

I find music very helpful for concentration. I switch between speakers and headphones during the day. Not sure why really but the change seems to keep concentration going. Invest in some decent sound equipment.

I have found that the right headset make a big difference for participating in conference calls (or whatever we're calling them now "formerly known as hangout?"). I settled on a Sennheiser model : PC-36 that has integrated USB so avoids the crappy analog ports on the PC. Bluetooth probably works nicely now but I've become so used to the PC-36 and I have three pairs of them.

You need a reasonably decent connection to avoid voice call frustrations. Doesn't need to be super-fast, but good QoS (low packet loss, jitter). The easiest way to achieve that in a home setting is probably to just get the fastest connection available from your fastest ISP. Consider deploying your own router that can enforce traffic prioritization so your kids' Netflix traffic doesn't delay your VoIP packets. We mostly use Skype for voice, which works ok, or Google. For PSTN interface I'm using Vitelity.net and Panasonic SIP phones or the Bria desktop and mobile apps. Google Voice might be an easier option for those who don't like debugging SIP and RTP protocols ;)

I've never been too picky about chairs and desk height and all that. I do like specific keyboards (Cherry Red) and lighting (fairly dim, diffuse, and balanced such that the screen is slightly brighter than the background).
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This blockstack architecture is pretty interesting, but I wish it didn't have a Token attached: https://blockstack.org/whitepaper.pdf

Anyone know of a similar decentralized DNS platform and allows users to 'own' their personal data without an attached ICO?
Nice to see this happen! In a similar vein, in Guix we've been discussing ways to run any installed program in its own namespaces, with only the appropriate resources mapped into them: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2018-01/msg0005... .

User namespaces slowly but surely help retrofit the "principle of least privilege" to GNU/Linux, and that is good.
This. People supporting capitalism alway seem to argue that any abuses of power and corruption are exceptions. The system is built on competition so without strong regulation it seems inevitable that people will take shortcuts to win.
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Some have argued, however, that this commingling is caused by the forces of capitalism

True, but personally I remain unconvinced by those arguments. It gets complicated though, because a lot of people (implicitly or explicitly) equate "capitalism" and "corporations". But in reality, capitalism doesn't require corporations and corporations require the State. A capitalist economy without corporations (which break the link between actions and liability for the consequences of those actions) would very likely be a much different thing.
Ah, I see. Very good point, thank you!
No. You're confusing the free market economy (a mechanism) vs. capitalism (a political economical system). Competition leads inevitably to monopoly as the best and the winners prevail and entrench in political power, that's the central contradiction built into capitalism. You can't separate one from the other if you want capitalism. This is the classical Marxist critique.
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I did stop using them, years ago. YouTube I tolerate because I disable comments. Reddit is a cesspool.
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It's not even just capitalism. Human behavior itself can be a threat to democracy.

Honestly, I don't know what the author is talking about when they say "free market" in the present tense. The U.S. economy and the global economy aren't even close to being a free market.
Eh well, synaptic controls like buttons and levers look better in my opinion anyways. I really don't know why there's so much initial hype. "Wow!! This onboard touchscreen allows me to do things I don't know how to access, and without any feedback whatsoever!" ??? The design is usually really bad too, in terms of aesthetics.