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Being poor reminds me of PTSD honestly, though. You get caught up with wealth and status because every new decision brings you back to a past where your existence was chaotic. It's like the chaos of the past maps onto how you interpret the present. Reminders are everywhere in culture, and I think people get caught up in these games of dominance because the experience of poverty is traumatizing. Even if everything in your life is perfect and functioning optimally, there's still that fear - can't delete memories, and honestly, I think that's the primary motivator for those who hoard wealth in a completely unreasonable, counterproductive fashion. Tragedy and anger, these things push us in directions we do not have perfect control over. These things are hard to heal from, but it can be done.
I actually tend to agree. At this point, I don't think there's so much space between the US and the EU's positions on privacy issues that large corporations can't find ways to reconcile.

That said, I don't take it as a given that will always be the case. I can imagine future US companies offering services that run sufficiently afoul of current or future regulations in the EU and other jurisdictions that it makes sense to just not offer them there.
Equifax has ties with the administration and the banking system, so maybe they had help.
Let's first make the other NATO members more powerful before we keep increasing the US firepower.
None of that is affected as long as the browser lets you explicitly choose to use them, as Firefox does.
I didn't hate Solo, but it's really disappointing that Disney is throwing away a whole bunch of ridiculously good IP.

One example is the Knights of the Eternal Empire trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkgzXpKbVGE). I want to see that story. I felt more in this 5 minute trailer than I felt all throughout The Last Jedi. That can be said for pretty much all of the trailers from The Old republic.
We have App numbers separately and the latest numbers had Google owning 5 of the top 10 used in the US for both platforms, iOS and Android.

FB had 3. MS and Apple interestingly did not have a single one in the top 10.

http://www.businessinsider.com/most-used-smartphone-apps-201...
This. Document everything. Don't add new things to the discussion by continuing to talk. Say everything has to be reviewed by your lawyer. Don't answer the phone. Get everything in writing.
People who invested with a credit card have their funds locked for up to a year!

https://www.envion.org/en/news/how-to-invest-short-instructi...

"Buying EVN by credit card will result your token to end up in a locking period of 4–12 months (see envion.org/faq). This locking period is a protection for our investors needed for credit card payments."
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> But in the end, Lucasfilm jettisoned the lot. Maybe there were IP issues involved I don't know but the Timothy Zahn novels were epic.

In fairness, Disney seems to have recognized that in re-canonizing characters like Thrawn.
I was curious about TLS1.3’s attempt to encrypt SNI, and found that it is genuinely a hard problem. The best solution seemed to be to use a proxy/fronting service, but that isn’t the ideal solution.
Not a nitpick, pretty fundamental IMO. This should be repeated over and over. People forget it every day.
I'm currently in the process of reading "Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age,"[0] and I highly recommend it. I've always viewed Xerox as primarily an office printer company, and the fact that they innovated/invented many of the systems that we still use today (ethernet, layered windows on an operating system, the mouse, bitmap displays) and then failed to market these technologies, makes for a really interesting read.

[0] - https://www.amazon.com/Dealers-Lightning-Xerox-PARC-Computer...
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EA?

EDIT: Make-a-Wish seems more like a giant pr-machine. Granted it's helping some, but wasting a lot of resources that could be better allocated. I guess I am part of the movement, without ever thinking about it
LOL thanks. I believe people should be able to laugh at themselves, take this experience and improve. So next meetings are better.

Let me know if this does not work for you. I have tested with majority of calendar files I could find.

Another one would be:

- If noone brought data to support their opinion, we are going to go with mine.
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Whatsapp was never about apps and never about anything but messaging. Integrating any of the features that make money for FB would've driven users away. The only thing they brought to Whatsapp is Stories (apparently all apps need this now) but I don't know anyone who uses it on Whatsapp. It's always empty on whatsapp while people happily use it on Instagram.

I can't imagine how the Whatsapp acquisition will ever pay off. It doesn't need to because they make money with FB and Instagram but I don't see why they had to buy it..
This is the same reason Google's Arts & Culture face-matching tool wasn't available in Illinois:

http://abc7chicago.com/technology/why-googles-face-match-fea...
Yes and yes, BUT - and this is important - you must be able to identify how attending this conference aligns with the organization's goals and help achieve them. In practice then you end up going to a conference every 2-3 years.

There have been instances where we've had tight budgets and couldn't afford conference fees, lodging and travel but the company provided paid time off to attend, since payroll is built into the budget. Even then they try to pick up one of the items such as lodging (which can get quite expensive if the conference is in San Francisco - we're in the Midwest).

Is it a bad sign? Well, what other opportunities is your employer providing for professional growth?
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Is that being used for anything but spam?
I shared this mostly because of the Gibson quote enclosed, and if you don't want to read the article, here's the quote, which involves a coolhunter who can viscerally sense cool and uncool evaluating Tommy Hillfinger:

"This stuff is simulacra of simulacra of simulacra. A diluted tincture of Ralph Lauren, who had himself diluted the glory days of Brooks Brothers, who themselves had stepped on the product of Jermyn Street and Savile Row . . . . But Tommy surely is the null point, the black hole. There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul."
Thanks. Let me know or info@shb.fyi if something does not work as expected.
> Anyone can go build a crawler and scrape the web the way Google scrapes it so they can compete with Google.

I don't think that making a scraper will make you competitive with Google. If you can make a site ranking algorithm that compete's with google, on the other hand, you might have a chance
I think to prove that, Uber/Lyft need to allow drivers to negotiate prices with their passengers.

Currently, Uber EULA only allows them to lower prices. Without their freedom to negotiate prices as they see fit, IMO drivers can’t be qualified as private contractors.
I removed facebook from my home screen on android and replaced it with twitter.

It was surprisingly easy to forget about facebook. I had already basically avoided it for a month or two. The twitter icon was my reminder/mindless app to kill a few minutes. Twitter sucks too, but its different.

I'll check my facebook when I remember, maybe once a week when my wife mentions a friend posted something crazy on facebook. I'll check my notifications for events, but its mostly garbage.

My tech-spider-sense says the masses are losing interest in facebook.
> Recently used domains will be cached in will thus still work.

Except for the many domains that set very low TTLs for load balancing and cloudiness reasons.
Sounds like a great achievement! Congrats to the team!

So is this a completely separate implementation from Qt proper? Do they share some API and tooling?
"Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement that uses evidence and reason to determine the most effective ways to benefit others."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism
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What a bizarre requirement. Why should someone need 100 subscribers to do a simple action like changing their account name?

Why not limit how often you can change it, or make some other kind of limitation?
As an 18 year old the only things Facebook is used for in my circle is:

1. Facebook Events for invites
2. Facebook Marketplace
3. Facebook Groups of interests
4. The occasional profile update or "on this day" post

With the news of the new Facebook dating service, it seems that Facebook is moving away from users reading a single feed and having separate parts for all functions. For sure, it is not used to share or read anything meaningful in my circle.
> Besides some a/b testing

that AB testing has SUCKED when it comes to facebook enjoyment.

Im not sure if they were looking at minutes people spent on facebook, but that must be an awful indicator.

Whatever happened, I dont use it anymore.
What social media do you use?

What are the most common things you do on the internet?
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> took scientific plausibility seriously

Didn't Star Trek essentially pioneer the concept of technobabble?

> eschewed scientific realism in favor of hyper space or whatever

Warp travel? Subspace? Q? Accelerated human evolution into lizard people?
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Encrypted SNI is very hard. The TLS working group agreed a problem statement, seeing out what should be achieved, but they haven't found any viable way forward on achieving that.

If I'm in a city square and I want to tell Bob something, but I refuse to let anybody know that I want to communicate with Bob, it's hard to see what I can do. Bob has no way to know I'm even trying to contact him, so he can't help.
Nobody? The Chinese military industrial complex is certainly developing AI weapons and will sell them to almost any nation state around the world. They're only a few years behind on technology and catching up fast.
Honest question, just how fast is Julia anyway? Because performance is typically the main reason anyone would want to use it over alternatives. A lot of people justify Julia because, as noted in other comments, it is both high-level yet claims to be nearly as fast as C:

> "Julia is the fastest modern open-source language for data science, machine learning and scientific computing...with the speed, capacity and performance of C, C++..." [4]

That's a bold claim! And there is much evidence to the contrary. I often find that the language falls into a similar trap of many other languages where the creators are evangelists not quite sharing the whole picture. Writing fast Julia code is not always a pleasant experience as you often need to fight the easier idioms. It is marketed as fast, but really, how fast is it?

[0] http://www.zverovich.net/2016/05/13/giving-up-on-julia.html

"What’s disappointing is the striking difference between the claimed performance and the observed one. For example, a trivial hello world program in Julia runs ~27x slower than Python’s version and ~187x slower than the one in C."

[1] https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/jfp/entry...

"We can code in Julia in a way similar to Python's code. However, that code is slower than it should. One way to speed Julia is to take into account the Fortran ordering it uses by looping on j before looping on i in the second loop. We also add decorators to speed up the code."

[2] https://www.codementor.io/zhuojiadai/julia-vs-r-vs-python-st...

"...comparing R's sorting speeds to Julia's is not the complete story, even though on the surface R appears faster, and from a users' perspective, (once the data is loaded) R is still the king of speed."

Stackoverflow has quite a few user posts [3] from folks trying to get their code to perform at the advertised speed vs popular alternative languages. It's not so easy.

[3] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20613817/julia-julia-lan...

[4] https://juliacomputing.com/
> "But given that there are 3n patterns to test, finding a solution, as opposed to verifying one, requires O(3^n), i.e. it is exponential in the size of n. For small n, this is computable, even though it is exponential. But as n grows, it becomes impossible to check every possible pattern quickly."

If a strategy is a sequence of BUY-HOLD-SELL decisions, then just because there's O(3^n) strategies doesn't mean you need to evaluate them all. It seems pretty easy (if a strategy is only defined in retrospect) to define a greedy algorithm that finds the optimal strategy. (see page 16.)

The author goes on to compare this to the Knapsack problem (pg 19). The thing that makes the Knapsack question (and NP-complete problems generally) hard is that greedy algorithms don't work (as far as we know), whereas it seems like a greedy algorithm work for the problem the author has laid out.
you suggested bombing schools to "prevent future generations of insurgents". You're advocating genocide.

You were being flippant but now you're acting innocent over it which belies a fabricated ignorance that is further insulting.

Conflict and arms is a complex topic and simplifying it to "just don't kill people lol" is crass at best. Either engage with the arguments or go to a school about to be bombed in this perceived reality you've fabricated where I represent your perfect demon to squabble with.

If that wasn't clear enough: I am not fucking advocating genocide.
Was curious for the world and looks like the top 2 are the same, Google search and YouTube. But then Reddit is 6 but climbing fast.

"This is a list of the most popular websites worldwide "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_websites
In the style of a Trello board, I used https://huntr.co/ for my last couple (within a short span) job searches. It was free at the time but I donated to the dev since I felt it was worth the amount of time it saved me from tracking elsewhere.

You can customize your columns, add company info, notes, files, tasks (with scheduling), and it has a nice contact discovery feature for the companies it knows about.

The Chrome extension is nice to have. I haven't used any of the mobile apps as they didn't exist when I was using it. The dev was very responsive to the one feature request I had which he was already working on. The free plan is enough to see if it fits you or not without too much work.
I think if this sort of thing happens in a lot of places, we’re going to see how quickly that $62 billion valuation evaporates. I also predict that venture capitalists will eventually tire of subsidizing everyone’s rides much faster if Uber and Lyft drivers become bonafide employees (almost certainly the right thing considering the majority of drivers).

Of course there’s always the possibility that they’ll be able to ride things out until autonomous fleets are real, but today’s combination of ride prices with tomorrow’s increased compensation for drivers won’t be sustainable for long.

That said, I’ve been participating in a beta of another TNC that uses bonafide employees as drivers. The most interesting thing to me in that service is how much less scarily aggressive the drivers are. It’s almost as if paying them a wage makes them less stressed...
>And sometimes the best way to save lives of your people is to bomb other people.

Sometimes, yes.

But those "preventative" bombings in recent decades are the very reason those people want to kill those in other countries. They directly say that they're attacking the west as retaliation, but the vast majority of people plug their ears, dismiss them as absolutely crazy and irrational, and say we'll never understand their motives. Maybe if a few weddings weren't bombed there'd be a few less terrorist attacks around the world.

Terrorist orgs like Al Qaeda and ISIS are relatively recent organizations. They didn't evolve in a bubble. They evolved in a place struggling with the damage of foreign intervention. To many people there, it's irrational not to support the group that opposes the what seems to be (and when looked at objectively) nonsensical intervention between two outside forces. The shit stirring there started as an attempt to push out Soviet influence. The mess in Syria continuing because Russia wants a sphere of influence and the west can't have that.

The tendency of dismissing enemies as irrational is the problem here. Groups don't grow so large with a complete lack of rationality. They have just enough that they persuade a considerable number of people, but they eventually go off the rails.
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Are these events open or friends only?

I ask because open invite eventing sucks. (I imagine organizing friends only events do too, but I wouldn't know, because we empty nesters no longer socialize like that.)

My primary volunteer gig has been experimenting with using both facebook and meetup to publish meetings, GOTV (phone banking, signature gathering), important calendar dates (eg elections).

Both kinda suck. Most of our members still get looped in via our email blasts.

But I don't really know what would be better. Looking for ideas.

(I do have ideas. But hoping to avoid making my own solution.)
Yes.

https://developer.arm.com/products/software-development-tool...
Everything is trilogies, and trilogies of trilogies. Star Wars has become Dragonlance. (I guess that’s not the worst thing to be -- I loved Dragonlance until I found better books!)
In this particular case the conference was right next to my work place, it had some tracks that were very related to what i'm working on.

The only cost to my employer would have been three days I don't show up at the office. No travel or housing expense.
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Language implementation-wise, can anyone explain why/how Julia is able to get close to C-level performance? Is it doing some extra steps under the hood (JIT compilation?) that Python and R aren't doing?
Regarding [0], startup time is a commonly acknowledged issue which affects the 'hello world' benchmark. (Can you even call it a benchmark? Maybe if startup time is what you're comparing then it makes sense, other wise I don't agree.)

I used to call Fortran code from Python for a particularly complex function (Mittag-Leffler function) from Python, I then rewrote everything in Julia and it runs approx 10-20x faster. So there you go, I'm a primary source.

Edit: just for clarity: The Mittag-Leffler function itself runs just ever so slightly faster in Julia than Fortran-called-from-Python (due to the probably inefficient way I was sending and receiving the data to/from a Python subprocess, which itself is an example of the difficulty of combining two languages). It is the program as a whole which runs 10-20x faster.
Then you need to test who in your network has been compromised by fake reviews.

Its turtles all the way down.
It's not clear why they see this as a nascent movement. My impression of the Gates Foundation is that it uses the funds it donates in a highly analytical fashion to maximize the 'net positive gain' in the welfare of humanity. First example that comes to mind is their commitment to eradicating polio.

This analytical approch been their M.O. for 20 years.
So you don't agree with the Freakanomics theory that it is a result of Roe Vs Wade?
That is rather interesting, since Tesla is famous for wanting to turn the whole assembly line into a giant robot, but Toyota is still in a cycle of being very open to using more people. There's plenty about this in the automotive and business press, the following isn't a great example.

https://qz.com/196200/toyota-is-becoming-more-efficient-by-r...
Now I kind of want to try my hand at implementing this. I imagine an implementation would add a buffer-local variable holding the position of the point as of the last non-scrolling operation. This would be updated in post-command-hook, but only if the last command was not a scrolling command (which would probably have to be defined as a list of "blacklisted" commands that shouldn't change the point). This hook would also hide the cursor if the desired position of the point is off-screen and show it otherwise. Finally, a pre-command-hook would set the real point to the saved position unless the command about to be executed is a scrolling command or a mouse interaction (which should move the point to somewhere on-screen).
>Same reasons Amazon has to collect sales tax in states they're not necessarily headquartered in.

The current law is that they need to have some sort of physical nexus in a state such as an office or a distribution center. Which Amazon probably has in most states at this point and, in any case, they've agreed to collect sales tax in most if not all states. That said, the relevant Supreme Court decision (Quill) [ADDED: that doesn't require collection absent a physical nexus] is being revisited because of another case this term and the betting money seems to be on it being partially or completely overturned.
I’m building Rewardful, a way to setup affiliate programs with Stripe.

https://www.getrewardful.com/

I debated what stack to use. I thought maybe I should use this as an opportunity to go deep into Node + React or Vue, or maybe Laravel.

Ultimately I decided to stick to what I know best — my end goal is to build a business, not experiment.

In the end this turned out to be a good decision because WOW are there a lot of moving parts to doing affiliate software correctly & robustly. It would’ve probably doubled development time if I had simultaneously been mastering a new stack.

The app is built in boring old Rails & Bootstrap. But not a single customer has mentioned the tech - they only care that Rewardful solves their problem. This experience has been a good reminder about what matters!
Thank you, I think I will do that next time, and note since the start that community & engagement is important for me.
> who value things differently

Can you try to formulate those values?

> I would add that the Make-A-Wish foundation has a very significant quality of life impact on the kids AND their support network

But given the costs per instance that impact is only on a small fraction of all cases. A smaller impact for everyone or one that only materializes in the future would likely generate more utility if you add them up.
In the UK low winter PV production is something like 5% of summer peak production.

That means you would need to 20x overprovision solar in winter, plus you have a massive problem that you have 20x overgeneration in summer months (what do you do with all that energy?).

Battery storage doesn't help with this, as you'd need an absolutely enormous amount of storage to net off summer production with winter usage, and the batteries would basically be full for months then ran down in winter, to never be charged again until summer, so probably one cycle a year.

UK has good wind resource and does generate a lot through that, but it also tends to be less on very cold winter days (when power requirement is at its peak).

Overall I think the best option right now for the UK is something like 50% PV/wind, 25% nuclear baseload and the rest natural gas peaking plants. Even this would be very expensive, the peaking plants will be turned on and off a lot (high maintenance costs) and sitting idle probably throughout the entire summer.