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Cultures change, governments change. The United States has different values, and cultures, and government history; but they are two sides of the same coin.

The mythology of the meritocracy of the great "American Republic" is pretty hard to defend in a post 9/11 world. Listening to Republicans glow about Donald and hide his flaws is like listening to Kemalists glow about Ataturk or AKP-supporters rave about Tayipp.

Here is what I see as the very striking similarities which are already equal or rapidly equalizing:

- Single-man rule. (In both systems decrees are almost limitless and have replaced the legislation process. In the US it's DNC/NRA^WGOP, in Turkey it's the coalition of CHP&&CHP&&IYI vs the AKP&&MHP coalition. When representatives always vote down party lines, then you really have single man rule.
- Active war against the press. America is just a few years behind this, and this article itself is a sign that Trump is emulating Putin and Erdogan. This isn't just a Trump thing, Obama's administration did the same, but just more quietly
- Religion being respected and advocated by the government
- Constant pro-war/support our troops rhetoric
- Rapidly increasing display of flags and patriotic slogans
- Unwarranted search and seizure
- Endless state of emergency (you call it the PATRIOT act)
- Violent crackdowns on protestors, supporting nationalists who attack/murder said protestors. Compare the AKP patriots in the Gezi protests to Trump's "Very fine, very nice people" in Charleston

Really, you won't notice it until you're too late, and if you support the ruling power, then you probably will never notice it, especially if you profit from it.

The only real difference I see is that Tayipp wants conservative Islam to be the primary value of the "republic", and Trump wants it to be business (but is happy to give almost unlimited power to Evangelicals).

Different authoritarian styles, but still authoritarian. Any semblance of democracy ended the day the PATRIOT act was signed.
Ah, I completely misunderstood what the author was doing there.
> this man was arrested and charged with a vague terrorism thing

Incorrect. He was charged with illegal possession of a firearm, that's a specific and not vague thing. He was denied bail as a potential threat based on him expressing sympathy for copkillers.
It doesn’t need to be at an entire company level. Where I work, some teams are mostly co-located, others are more distributed, some are pretty much fully remote. And things can shift over time.
You have a call received on your monthly bill from a number and the owner of that number does not have the call on their bill.
I believe he’s talking about EPROM: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPROM

(I’m a software guy though, so this is all outside my area.)
> Now I just need a Monero hardware wallet

I'm going to go out on a limb and predict you will never, ever be able to buy anything physical with Monero. Especially something over $10k or shipped over international lines.

edit: if you are claiming I am wrong, let's see a URL with a physical product available with payment in Monero
The path to hell is paved with good intentions.
Do you really need a website feedback tool?
Ah Content-Type I suspect... Thanks!

Here's a temp until I get the site fixed:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xwxlmltzi02ropa/StickShiftTrial.ms...
U.S. census data tells the story. The population in most of Kansas’s rural counties peaked 50 years ago or earlier.

In that 110 years ago was "earlier", that's true. But why not say that, unless the purpose is to mislead?
I've bought, read, given "Finite and Infinite Games" several times. I actually remember the day I bought it (first copy), nearly 20 years ago!
The actual productivity improvements are things like

* distributed version control,

* open source culture and infrastructure (GitHub, GPL and Apache licenses...),

* dependency management and build tools (pull in many man years of effort into your project with a single declaration),

* HTTP and REST APIs (accidentally taught developers the importance of idempotency, statelessness, uniform interfaces, etc.),

* cloud infrastructure (no more need to purchase, install, configure, and secure expensive workstations before starting your project and business).

As for programming languages, there have been very few actual productivity gains since the standardization of Common Lisp.
I think it's essential to realize people have different ways to behave and that's fine. That said, MBT has a lot of negative things about it.

While the wikipedia page of MBT succeeds in hiding the critique to the end it's luckily there [1]. 'Psychometric specialist Robert Hogan wrote: "Most personality psychologists regard the MBTI as little more than an elaborate Chinese fortune cookie"'

Katherine Briggs and Isabel Meyers (a mother and daughter) should be considered as literary authors at most rather than psychologists [2][3]. Katherine apparently had a lot of ideas about personalities in general and she wrote them down. But it's not like she did massive field work or performed anything that could be recognized as credible research.

Luckily some enterprising consultants recognized her work was easy to sell. The rest is marketing...

People find comfort in lot of things. I don't mind people turning to charlatans like horoscope readers if they know what they are getting into.

MBT is entertaining fiction that is marketed by profiteering consultants as an actual psychometric tool. Fiction can be valuable in understanding the world but it is not a scientific instrument. The fact that it is marketed as such makes it very distasteful.

The only well respected psychometric model that has not failed in one way or another that I'm aware of is the five-factor model [0].

The main problem with MBT is when people think they can use it in some structured manner. The marketing around is so solid it succeeds in fooling some people into actually employing MBT consultants. People in actual workplaces have suggested forming teams based on a balancing made through MBT analyzes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Cook_Briggs

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Briggs_Myers
I do not perceive corporations as evil or not; I look at how their interests intersect with mine and select the most comfortable fit.

Google makes money by knowing everything they can figure out about me, and they're not especially forthcoming about what they know (or worse, what they think they know). Weirdly, I actually sort of trust them at some level, so if they offered me an option to pay up for a guarantee they won't track me or sell my information to the highest bidder, I would be more interested in their services.

Apple is unapologetically interested in getting the largest capital investment from me while being sufficiently committed to keeping my stuff private that the FBI periodically tries to use law to force them to provide a backdoor. At this time I feel that my data is safer with them than any other viable provider. Also, please note the gov't does not seem too concerned about Android devices. That tells me what I need to know, even if the constant security holes and utter lack of updates for devices more than a year old weren't obvious enough (I've had a bunch of Android phones, I'm not an Apple fanboy)

You are absolutely welcome to trust whichever corporation makes you most comfortable, no quibbles from me :). It's still a mostly free country.
That's cool. I probably shouldn't have said useful and instead said interesting. My interest in these kind of operations is to learn lower level theory, not to produce production grade bit counting/twiddling code. In that sense, the operation is interesting (to me).
A pretty cool viral rap video was shot there last year !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvjQTA81MhY

Enjoy !
Perhaps on a similar vein, I recommend Montaignes Essays, even though it is not fiction, he lets you peek into his deepest thoughts, is a masterful lesson in understanding one's own self and other people.
And Dr Oz panned for railing against GMO and favoring organic food...

And to the commenters saying "there is no evidence that GMO foods are harmful" or "non-USDA organic food is causing harm", you have to wonder at where does the burden of proof really lie in case of things that I am ingesting?
I know what EPROM is. I just did not realize that under the hood these devices were still UV erasable, especially not for those particular bits. This makes me wonder if you could not apply the same techniques against a large number of ECUs from that era. I'd be very interested in rooting around in those.
Dog rescuers, flush with donations, buy animals from breeders they scorn
Unfortunately for e-scooters and other novel vehicles, the government agency in the Netherlands that handles vehicle certification (RDW) is notoriously bureaucratic. By default any new type of vehicle is forbidden to use on public roads until they certified it. On several occasions, e-scooter owners had their vehicle impounded and in one case even scrapped. Which is a real shame, as the infrastructure is perfect.
Cigarette taxes north of $30/pack cause smuggling? I'm shocked to find gambling in this establishment!
Frankie Muniz on His Intense Struggle with Memory Loss
I like the principles in the book, but it could have been edited down to about a 1/3rd the length. It reads like transcriptions of his lectures, rather than something intended to be prose.
The Idiot is one of my favorite books of all time. Reading it in high school was definitely a formative experience. It was my first introduction to many existential concepts; particularly the parts about the painting by Hans Holbein the Younger.
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Aside from drug dealers there are few superprecocial businesses. The only reliable way to form such a business is to provide something everyone needs and nobody has, like water in the desert.
As daemin says, no, I am used to working with people that find basic bit field manipulation easy to work with[1], so there isn't any confusion.

Plus there are performance concerns. I remember one graduate introducing a c++ bit field class and tried to replace some core functionality with it and killed performance. Developers prefer to debug non optimized builds, and non optimized builds can end up running slow when you replace simple one liners with classes and inline methods that don't get optimized in debug builds.

[1]I hope this doesn't sound aggressive as it really isn't intended to. It is just everyone is so used to seeing bitwise operations it is as straight forwards as reading "set the third bit" or "toggle the last bit" when we see the C code.
I think this is a very short sighted prediction. You could have said this about bitcoin in 2010, and you would have been wrong then too.
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It's probably because a lot of Google folks are on here - protecting their brand. Unfortunately that part isn't transparent, but its hopefully a minor issue.
Please don't troll and name-call, we all come to this forum for open and productive debate.
Well, I will not subscribe to the new yourkers for just an article, but my anwser wold be hell no. Intervencion of govern in the free market.... maybe.
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Setup default ring tone to silence.
Setup a ringtone for your phone book contacts to something else. Done.
Trevor Healy: https://www.instagram.com/healyguitars/
Also positively surprised to see this here. Beautiful work.

Since it’s HN, may a suggest to ones with the required skill: I think a lot of us would pay a crazy amount of money for a handcrafted, custom built to please all of one’s idiosyncrasys, keyboard. Computer keyboard I mean.
> A robocall doesn’t look any more shady than a normal call from a receiving carrier’s perspective; whatever solution they come up with will have tons of false positives.

Doesn't that undermine a major premise of the OP's post? That one should assume corruption, because it's technically easy to filter robo calls and carriers don't do it only because they love the sweet, sweet, robo call inter-exchange fees?

It sounds like filtering robo calls would require cooperation not only among telcos, but also with the VoIP providers that originate these calls.
Not the say that I agree with either of those movements, but there's a big difference in terms of threat between advocating defense of constitutional rights and advocating militant overthrow of the United States government and the capitalist system (to be replaced with a black ethno-nationalist state). The latter is what the groups that Balogun is a member/leader of says it is preparing for (and has already carried out in some cases, see the article).
I only skimmed the article, but whenever I read such material I feel these techniques are suited for jobs banking on charisma instead of knowledge and skill based ones.

I am a software engineer. I haven't held too many jobs, and have attended very few interviews. As an interviewee, I always gauged the enthusiasm of the interviewer before 'unleashing my talent'. I have had my share of insipid interviews where the focus was on API specifics instead of ideas and larger pictures. I politely excused myself out of the building mid interview when I realized they needed just a code monkey, albeit with experience. Seizing control would have been a total waste.

I have also conducted my share of interviews. The biggest turn off for me is when candidates try too hard to impress, either by listing out insignificant contributions to FOSS they have made, especially when not asked, or wearing their supposed geekiness on their sleeves. The worst are the self declared nerds and geeks, who speak, look and act in a way that covers all the stereotypes floating on the web. Its worse when, out of turn, they bring up a cool thing they 'hacked'.

Generally, going beyond job interviews, I think the need for being alpha is ridiculously amusing. I am no psychologist, but it smacks of overcompensation and utter lack of self confidence. I avoid such people in life.
That one bugs me a lot. I get a credit card call every day from a different number that's close to my phone number.

I wish credit card issuers would end their affiliate programs.

If they don't want to end the programs, they could at least clean them up. If I answer one of the Rachel calls and take them up on their offer for a different card, the credit card company should be able to track who referred me to them and close their account. But the incentives are all wrong.
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Most recently How Not to be a Boy, by Robert Webb (of Mitchell and Webb, Peep Show fame). An autobiography of his childhood and early career, but also observed through the lens of how masculinity's cultural demands damage men, and those around them. All written by someone who's very funny.

He summarises the first few chapters in a brief video, so you have an idea what you're in for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ujt4We82Jk
"The fall" and "The stranger" from Albert Camus, arguably the most accessible cornerstones of Existential philosophy, and they really make you think about your position in this world and as a person. The play "no exit" by Sartre is also very interesting, and works well as the audio version by Partially Examined Life (a philosophy podcast).
The kind of business where a reputation for respecting privacy and protecting user data would be really helpful.
I want callers that aren't in my contacts list to get a busy signal. I don't want voicemails from them.
> The channel width of face-to-face communication is higher than that of any other method.

Research to that effect? I know some people have that, I know I do not. So this absolute statement is already 1 datapoint (me) off. And I know others (who I mentor) who absorb mentoring far better via remote methods. When someone mentors me, I like to chew the information over, research it etc. This goes for most communication for work related matters; I absorb far less if it is told to me face to face than when I read it and have time to thoroughly understand it all.

I agree somewhat with the rest but that again can be done remotely: we develop almost everything while in chat; this acidental transfer is even far better than face to face imho. In chat someone says something like ‘I refactor this to that by hitting ctrl-something’ ; all people see it, not only the accidental junior next to you but all of them. And later this can be searched by others while the verbal incidental comms is gone forever.

I definitely see the need for face to face meetings, but far less than some people here do. And it would be good to have more research done into this matter: I simply do not see many programmers (and I managed 100s over my professional life) being productive in the setting you suggest. Looking and feeling busy yes (so for the bums on seats type of manager), but productive as in just getting stuff done, in my experience no. But that is anecdotal, like your view, so real research and numbers would be good.
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In my career I have never had to know any binary number. I am on the application side of things though and try to void working with infrastructure at all so don't know about them
> It was not by choice :)

Kids or WFH? :P
I don't think the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) report necessarily rescinds the report from IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer)?

The Guardian ran an interesting article when the IARC report came out exploring how two reasonable groups looking at the same data could both come to different conclusions: https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2015/m...
A great caller ID app is Hiya. It will show in the Home screen during ring whether a call is suspected spam, spoofing, or fraud.
It does come with Ubuntu, IIRC. But its a zombie product, as there isn't a team actively developing it.

I am looking for an active fork.
What's with the FUD?
https://www.reddit.com/r/moneromarket/
Seizing the means of the people to rebel is the real tyranny
Make sure you securely generate your private keys with true hardware randomness.
The only truly problematic thing from those you listed is severe injury, and I would add it is the less common.
Being functional doesn't mean interaction with the outside world is going to lose its difficulty. Stdout being buffered basically means you have to sort out how to get consistent output just like in most other languages.

Even if you do as you say, you can still bypass it by writing to stdout directly outside of your stable buffering mechanism. But at that point the language isn't to be blamed here.
Simple answer: No.

More nuanced answer: not exactly. Not Capitalism per-se anyway. But clearly you can see an unhealthy degree of commingling of big government and big business, in a way that is damaging to society at large. But to my mind:

a. that's corruption, not capitalism

b. that's an argument against big government, not an argument against capitalism
If we get rid of the cars, there's plenty of room.
"i Malavoglia" from Giovanni Verga
No tradition can survive beyond the lifespan of a man, unless it is passed down to the children.

The ones who voted in 2016 are not children of the revolution. They aren't even children of the children of the revolution. They grew up saying the Pledge of Allegiance every day in school, and standing for the national anthem before every sporting event.

It isn't the same authoritarian cultural tradition, but America is very authoritarian at the median. It thankfully retains a long, fat, and largely disorganized tail pointing towards libertarian, that moderates the laws and policies that are able to be enacted.

Even now, some people clamor for censorship, establishment of religion, restrictions on the press, gun control, expanded police powers, punishments without due process, abolition of the electoral college, for-profit prison labor, etc. There isn't a right crucial to liberty that some number of Americans isn't shouting to repeal and abolish. But they don't have the votes. Not yet.

More voters are being born every day, and they are being taught to believe in certain things, so they will vote their beliefs when they grow to voting age. It can happen here. It can all fall apart within a single generation.
> any criminal who wants to present a fake bank login screen also has to know the secret image as well

This mechanism is theatre:

1. User enters ID into fake bank website.

2. Fake bank website enters said ID into real bank website.

3. Real bank website shows fake bank website your "secret" image.

4. Fake bank website shows you your "secret image".
Worse than that, international telecommunications are governed by treaties and the ITU. There is much bureaucracy in the way of a fix.
Have you used them? Bicycles and buses aren't a great combination. Passing and being passed is not so pleasant. I think bus/bike lanes were put together for lack of space, and not because it's a natiral or fabulous solution.
Sorry for not being clear. For the Chrome implementation of the secret image, I was thinking that the user would store it locally inside of Google Chrome configuration. E.g. in "chrome://settings" or "chrome://flags", the user sets the secret image (e.g. a photo of their cat or whatever.)
Thanks anyway. :)
I cycle to work and drive and think electric scooters and their ilk are great - as long as they are not ridden on the pavement endangering pedestrians, and as long as they are well lit at night.

However I disagree with this part of the article:

> If you're in the business of making cars, PMDs should top your list of existential worries. ... PMDs replace cars at a fraction of the cost.

For most people (in my opinion) A PMD will supplement the car, not replace it. I cycle a lot. I don;t use my bike for moderate size shopping trips, or when I'm ferrying the kids around, or going on longer family trips.
You could have said this about dogecoin in 2013 and be entirely correct. Just because Bitcoin took off doesn’t mean another one will.
Why do voicemail systems even notify me of a 3 second silent message? Just delete them.
My own opinion: this fund has a LOT of debt. At current microscopic interest rates, that is not much of a deal, but it will very well be once interest rates will go up.

They need to make returns quickly to not to sink in interest. This should be mandating their line of action from now.

1. They will be downsizing, and offloading assets.

2. It looks very likely that this is just a gigantic LBO vessel for Son and Saudis

3. And it will be following a standard LBO play - buy, cut out tasty parts, sell to pay interests.
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If you have 10 problems to fix, the effort spent fixing the first 9 of them isn't "useless" as you say, just because you haven't fixed the 10th one yet. And they couldn't fix all of the issues by blindly proxying all IO through the main Firefox process, either, because that wouldn't fix the problem. It has to be able to _selectively_ proxy IO through the main process, and that takes time and effort to implement.
Decentralized search please too.
After vacuuming up a bunch of purple urchins, would it be possible to alter their DNA to be more like that of red urchins? Then release those genetically modified urchins back into the ocean to pass their “red-shifted” traits into the greater purple urchin population.

I realize there are plenty of ethical issues surrounding an attempt at genetically modifying an entire species. Perhaps doing so would be irresponsible? It’s not my area of expertise.