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I live in a very low cost of living area (high 80's compared to a US average of 100) and entry level developer salaries are in the mid to high $40's. Architect-level roles are going to be $100-150 depending on employer and technical management in the $150 ballpark. Not SV numbers either but unless you're in rural Iowa or Nebraska I'm not sure anyone is making $30k a year. To that point I was paid $30k a year for my very first development job but adjusted for inflation that's nearly $40k and that company ended up outsourcing all its dev work because they couldn't get anyone at that rate after I left.
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I’m not sure that “write Safe C code” really answers the question here
A crime but not a felony nor even a misdemeanor. Trespass is a tort, and I think a 'civil tort'. So unless they're doing damage I don't think they owe anything for this 'crime'.
I remember seeing an article where Aston Martin would be a perfect deal. They are doing great cars, you can see they care about quality and design beyond just the luxury segment, and they are cheap. It's valued at $7 billions [1].

I don't like the idea of Tim Cook going to BMW just because he drives and likes BMW however... I think it's a bad way to make decisions.

[1] https://www.motor1.com/news/238922/aston-martin-stock-market...
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Letting anybody in the world call you any time without any restrictions is absurd.

It should be possible to enforce a mode that requires the caller to send you a request for permission to call first (like contact request in Skype). And unless you explicitly granted such permission all calls from that number should be automatically rejected.
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It doesn't mean a shitty job but it does mean trading physical labor for an hourly wage.
Airbnb is a business. It's "aim" is to grow and make money.

Bitcoin was a political experiment before it was a technological one. You don't pivot political beliefs the way you pivot a business. The technological experiment is still ongoing, but the political experiment has failed its goals.
Is there line-of-sight from Mauna Loa? That would be a great bird's eye view, if possible. Of course, bring your telescope would apply.
I don't care about Six4Three or their motives; I care about Facebook and privacy. It might be unfair to Facebook but from the little I know about their business practices, they hardly have clean hands or deserve much sympathy.

> $250,000

That doesn't sound like much for a years-long lawsuit against a major company with deep pockets; unless they are suing for far more, there won't be much, if any, net profit even if they win. I wonder what else is going on here. Was the Pikini app a test of Facebook's privacy policy and/or ML image recognition, to see how they would respond? To make a point? The description of it sounds tailor-made for controversy. Or did activists later pick up on the case and support or fund it?
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C was always intended as a higher-level assembly, so by definition, it can't be memory-safe.
You can spend $300 on a phone when the rest is wrapped into a 2 year contract and still struggle with (or at least worry about) your $1k/mo+ rent.
Actually, that is an excellent point. I do not suggest another system.

I guess there is this strange notion that Capitalism is this "all or nothing" system, where you either get a free market with its invisible hand or nothing. This sort of "Everything else is communism" thinking.

We all know that this is not true. Capitalist societies have all sorts of schemes that are "un-capitalistic". Take public healthcare. In some ways that's a very socialist idea. At the same time, you could argue it supports the capitalist system by taking various burdens off the workforce, enabling them to spend more time generating more money than it cost to implement the socialist health care.

My theory is that concentration of wealth is incredibly dangerous to society because it gives disproportionate power to very few individuals. The control these people exert over policy, their workers, our entire culture leaves us at their whim. This results in things like Brexit and the insane clusterfuck that's the current US government and the populist right-wing uprising in Europe.

I don't care whether someone has tons of money so they can wank themselves to sleep over their financial portfolio. I do care when society as a whole, human progress, everyone's actions are filtered through the lens of a few rich people's actions and desires.

I hate this notion that the population-at-large is just a sideshow on this rich-people's playground we call earth. It is sickening. The wealth that these people amass does not trickle down and is not used for more useful things than it would be if this wealth was somehow capped and re-distributed for the benefit of society. (And believe me, I know that on the flipside this would be a breeding ground for bloated institution wasting money with their inefficiency. This would also not be a 'perfect' system by any means, but I do believe it would be better than whatever it is we are currently steering towards.)

To quickly touch on people being lifted out of poverty. I am all for it. But under what conditions? Is a Foxconn factory worker someone who was lifted out of poverty? Is a quasi-slave working on the Qatari football stadium lifted out of poverty? In exchange for what?

Is the ever-decreasing quality of life people on disability benefits in the UK, being harassed by the DWP 24/7 and stripped of all agency and freedom worth it, because they are not considered "below the red line poor"?

Would the reinvigoration of public services by capping wealth (or introducing profit sharing in companies, or 20:1 pay ratios / stock option ratios for companies) be so devastating to all of society that it would indeed be worse than the current destruction of democracy by your Murdochs, Kochs, Zuckerbergs, Bezoses, Rothchilds and whomever else super-rich acting in their own interests?
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The information of how many people in a certain age range have shopped at supermarkets in London this week is not identifiable information. So all marketing/spending info they sell is fine. Could only be problematic if it's so granular that you can infer the person.
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"Editorial control" as justification for selective access is interesting, and seems in tension with their need to remain considered a "platform" instead of a publication. (They aren't a platform; utility surplus from user participation doesn't flow to the users.)

> wrote an app to find photos of friends in bikinis [....] Facebook later pulled the rug out from under them

In this case, I think I'm just rooting for injuries.
If you prevent builtin overrides now, you'll break the API. We should start discouraging it, as Mozilla does in its MDN. Maybe some deprecationwarning is a good point to start with.

By the way, Javascript was designed in two weeks. I doubt a lot of thought went into such specific details. And the fact that the language doesn't prevent it doesn't make it a good idea - otherwise I'd claim that UB in C is a good idea.
> And finally I know, and I know that he knows, that chemical weapons would likely spur international outrage and risk dragging outside players (such as the US) into his conflict, which could turn everything upside down.

You're making the same mistake that a lot of economic analysis makes and assuming that Assad (and people, in general) will always act in their own best interest without bias or emotion clouding their judgement. This is the same reasoning that Stalin probably applied to his treaty with Hitler before WWII. Hitler invaded Russia anyways, even though bringing Russia into the war was a huge blunder for Germany.

People don't always make the right - or even rational - decision. Trying to infer the truth based on what a "rational actor" would do is utter nonsense.
I grew up with videogames. My whole life, my mais sources of entertainment were books and video games.

I find that whant attracts me to them is the control I have of my experience. Specially the pacing.

With books and game I can take a breather, explore/reread a portion and progress as fast as I want. In the television, cinema and music media I don't have that control. Therefore I don't like those media as much.

I'm also _really_ picky about the pacing in a movie. It's not that I don't like slow movies. I get antsy if they're not progressing as I think they should and when I'm presented with scenes that have no purpose.
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(I work at Amazon)

I think you could argue Walmart was primarily competing with mom and pop stores a decade ago (though really other large supermarkets at that point), but they are most certainly competing with amazon today.
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the most recent version(s) of Javascript are quite pleasurable. A lot has happened in the last 4 years.
You're right, of course, and those are good counterexamples. In fact, one of the stocks I helped cover collapsed overnight when fraud was uncovered.

But I see them as outliers who have been largely penalized (jail time, stock collapse, etc), not as indicative of the industry. The reason there was such a backlash is because the vast majority of the industry are good people, and these sorts of behaviors are shocking.

I guess I meant literally everyone I've ever known personally has been like that. When you look at the news, yeah, you do see scandals. But I maintain that the idea that the industry would collude to not make cures is wrong. And similarly with doctors and their treatment of patients, which I've also seen argued.
Here is Google privacy agreement.

https://policies.google.com/privacy/update

As you can see Google agreement in reality is more limited than Apple. Google does not collect personal data from people you interact with that have not agreed like Apple.

That was my point.

BTW, have Google WiFi and a fantastic product. Replaced our AirPort Extremes and highly recommend.

What I also love is Google provides a dashboard on everything they collect all in one place and you can remove or download if you want. I am in the US and really wish Apple would provide the same transparency as Google.

I tend to be for little government but if Apple is not going to do it on their own like Google then think government should consider forcing them to.

Headlines like

“Apple TV service will share viewing data with networks, report claims”

Read more at http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/apple-tv-service-will-sha...

Is really bothersome with Apple. I would like the ability to instead remove my data so they can not share it.

Plus still really bothers me that Apple handed over all their user data in China to the government.

"Campaign targets Apple over privacy betrayal for Chinese iCloud users"

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/03/apple-privacy...

Versus Google decided to leave China instead of giving up their users data.

I am more into the facts versus narratives and marketing.
Agreed. I can swallow these "the company owes us something" arguments for businesses so large they make up the entire employment for a city, but not cases like this.

It's unsettling that now every business has a big moral obligation to make sure employees make the best choices for themselves.
We have vancancies for site reliability engineers and Go programmers. We used to hire people without Ruby experience to work on the Ruby codebase but it took significantly longer for them to be effective so we stopped doing that.
That's true to a certain extent, but experience (19th century beginning-of-industrialization) has taught us that the floor (i.e., the equilibrium) is bad enough that we don't want that sort of circumstances. In other words, it turns out that people want to work to eat so badly that they'll put up with working 14-hour days and letting their 10 year old children work in factories that literally kill 10's of them per year.

I'm not saying gig workers' circumstances are nearly as bad as those in the 19th century, I'm just illustrating the principle. The discussion then continues at 'what is an acceptable equilibrium'. Of which certain people, unsurprisingly, find that today's is not OK.

Note that I'm not saying here which side of the discussion I side on (that's a political question not worth rehashing here I think), just pointing out the (rather obvious) argument against total market freedom in this particular market (labor).
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At conservative withdrawal rates that $120,000 a year in interest income without ever touching the principle. The median US income is less than half that. Give half the people in the US $1.5 million and they can earn more off the interest than they do at their jobs right now. And that's not touching the principle, at conservative withdrawal rates.

I'd argue that unless you live in a high COL area by choice, 1-1.5 million is all you need to live without working.
The tree swing cartoon has never been more true [1]

Large companies would benefit from dev not over-engineering simple apps and spending less time on their own tools and ticket systems, and spending more time instead on solving/automating more problems for the company.

[1] https://www.tamingdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/tree-s...
The Digital Antiquarian wrote an extensive history of the Philips CD-i https://www.filfre.net/2016/09/a-slow-motion-revolution/

In a nutshell: Philips developed CD-i, but then DVI was invented which solved the problem of decompressing . Philips' attempts to catch up with DVI then caused CD-i to be delayed time and again.

So by the early nineties there was still no practical way to take advantage of the massive storage space offered by compact disks, so Microsoft stepped in and led the effort to standardize CD-ROM and the CD-i was left behind as an odd "what could've been".

I can't say I have much sympathy for Philips after reading about the Baer patent in another article on that blog https://www.filfre.net/2017/01/a-time-of-endings-part-3-medi... . Philips behaved in a way that might be considered patent trolling today because they had a patent on basically "any videogame console" that they used against all the other players, despite not really competing in that market themselves.
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It worked fine. I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Because fraud laws have no provision about them only being applicable to USD or any specific currency, plus there's the whole debacle of whether BTC is a security or a commodity, both of which fall under their own set of regulations.
You would be surprised how often other people use that exact argument but as a statement they say full of conviction instead of a question :) That might be the source of the confusion here.
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> The US is subject to endless bashing, scrutiny, paranoia, unfair reporting, you name it. If the US does a thing, it's evil or wrong policy

I'm Chinese, and I just want to say in my experience this isn't true of Chinese media coverage of the US.

For the most part the US (and other western countries) are covered in positive, admiring terms. "This is how American educate their kids. We should emulate that" "How to make XXX-food the American way" "i was shocked how clean US cities are as" "ten most beautiful US destinations" etc etc.

American media and politicians often use the phrase "the Chinese" (also think: "the Russians"; you don't often hear "the British" "the French"). Chuck Schumer says just the other day something to the effect that we must be united in our "fight against the Chinese". It's hard for a Chinese person to read that kind of language without ... feeling a bit disheartened inside. Say what you will about Chinese media, when there is anything critical about the US the target is never "the Americans".

When you use language like "the Xs" you are speaking in tribal-war terms. Good for selling newspapers maybe. But we all know what tribalism can easily snowball into ...

It was frankly a surprise for me to find out just how much hostility there exists on the other side. I'm not necessarily talking about hostility in the sense of outright lying/fabrication in stories about China. A newspaper can choose to print all the true negative stories about blacks that come its way, and skip half of the true negative stories about whites, and still be able to claim they haven't printed a single false article about blacks. Doesn't mean it's not biased against black people. The hostility often resides at the level of what's implied rather than what's said.
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Do the subs not have internet access or comms to outside world?
I think it's true in a weak sense. If the customer is paying, that is one revenue source. If you sell data, that's a second revenue source. Adding the second revenue source might be worth it since it can increase profit. But it also adds business risk. Your customer might jump to a competitor that charges money but doesn't sell your data.

Of course, that assumes competition is effective, which requires consumers to be informed that it's even a potential issue, to care, and to be able to assess which company is better or worse.
That is incorrect.

GDPR makes no mention of EU citizens or residents.

The 2 main groups it applies to are:

1. activities of an establishment of a controller or a processor in the Union (so if the company is in the EU, ALL processing has to be GDPR compliant regardless of where the user is)

2. processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union by a controller or processor not established in the Union (if the company is not in the EU, processing of data of people in the EU - note they just have to be in the EU and not residents or citizens - so if you are from the US and on holiday in the EU and you order pizza delivery to your hotel, that personal data has to be handled in a GDPR compliant way, notwithstanding that the pizza company is probably in group 1 anyway but hopefully you get the point. And the converse of that, if you live in the EU and are on holiday in America and order pizza, that personal data does NOT need to be GDPR compliant as you are not IN the EU)

There are a few other scenarios included too.

Edit: It's worth pointing out that 1 seems to have been completed missed in almost all GDPR coverage I have seen, possibly because most of the coverage has been heavily US centric. If the company is established in the EU, it has to comply with GDPR for ALL users, not just people in the EU. This is why Facebook [1] and others changed their terms so that only EU users have a contract with Facebook Ireland, and everyone else now has a contract with Facebook Inc (US) - previously everyone had a contract with Facebook Ireland.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy-eu-exclu...
Perhaps that's why I asked if gerbilly was involved in ARPANet.
I think you've mentioned the primary reasons distributors don't consider it a concern. If snooping the the package lists to determine the update list is considered a risk / attack vector, then this is mitigated by running your own mirror with https. Any environment that's at the level where this is one of their security concerns, I would argue is at the point they should have their own mirror, for not only this reason but for the many other benefits it provides.
I can see that colocated companies would require you to fly in for interviews. Maybe some are open to grouping the interviews on the same day.
I hardly use Spotify. I just use it if I don't want to buy a whole album or if I want to check out some new band. There is an ad every 3 or 4 songs - this seems pretty reasonable for me. I don't know of any other limitations. As much as I've read most of the limitations are for people on the mobile app (didn't like it at all) or when using playlists (I don't use play lists).
I was making the assumption that the entity wants to kill the coin. Doing a 51% attack out of greed makes no sense as it'd be immediately self defeating, at least on a mainstay coin.

There are numerous different hashes with varying levels of ASIC 'resistance' - yeah it's a cat and mouse game, but hardly a major issue. The 'obvious' successor would be a matter of the unpredictable public as I'm certain numerous entities would vie to become e.g. Bitcoin 2.0. In the end the market would decide which was the winner. The great thing about it all being that the users could actually come out net winners in the end as the successors would likely not only be technical superior, but it would also be able to use the exact same ledger (as with Bitcoin cash for instance) so that you start with the same relative share in it as you did with the original.

In a way it would even be a good thing as Bitcoin itself is increasingly dated technologically, but is dominant because of its market positioning - which makes it difficult to change. If its market positioning was damaged, we could see the rise of an improved successor.
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> To play devil's advocate - somehow I drove myself to work today, and the hardware I'm running is just two moderate resolution limited field of view cameras.

This sounds like a fallacy (not sure which one). Just because you can do it does not mean a machine can. There are things that babies can do that machines can't (in 2018).
I thought TDP was a selling point of ARM for servers.

Cavium has a higher TDP (180W) than either of the Intel Xeon's listed in the article (150W, 165W).

Is this more about "performance per watt" then?

EDIT: Also makes me wonder just how much more energy efficient and/or performant Cavium would be if they moved away from TSMC 16nm fab over to Samsung 10nm fab (like Qualcomm). There's a sizeable difference between 16nm vs 10nm (assuming the fabs are using the same metrics). Qualcomm using Samsung 10nm fab is only 120W.
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1) GDPR cares only about personally identifiable data, defined in https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/ as "‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;". Nonidentifiable data or aggregated data (even if derived from private data) are fully out of scope of GDPR if they can't be de-identified.

2) "A list of credit card transactions" is the kind of data that I'd assume that Visa/MC aren't selling to anyone ever, I'd expect any data sales to be on the level of "real time subscription to how (and how much) different demographic groups are shopping in company X or in location Y", but not on the level of individual transactions or individual accounts. Group them by zip-code and hour and you're fine even for GDPR requirements; and you can provide "individual" granularity for the merchants (e.g. for stock traders who want to predict revenues) since merchants generally have no privacy protections.
Depends on how far along the company is in. If it was no code and just 3 people agreeing - you should have gotten 33% and whatever salary you're okay with. If it's pretty far along that's a bad deal.
It does, Factorio is an impressive software project anyway you look at it.