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> eBay protects the buyer and will almost always rule in the buyers favour.

Exactly so. I've done a bit of buying and selling acoustic guitars, and would now only do "buyer collects".

I do this because several acquaintances have been scammed, mostly with the buyer claiming that the guitar wasn't in the case when it arrived. In each case, eBay has sided with the buyer.

So I've now given up eBay and found a local auction house that does regular musical instrument auctions... much less chance of being scammed there!
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Sure, those are the left wing talking points. You could just as easily say the right wing ones:

- Historically low religious belief and church attendance.

- Low rates of marriage, high rates of divorce.

- High incidence and tolerance of deviant sexuality, low respect for tradition and traditional gender roles.

- Decline of corporal punishment in parenting and education, erosion of fear and respect for authorities and institutions in general.

- Influx of outsiders destroying social trust and cohesion.

- Lack of personal responsibility.

Point is, it's easy to give a laundry list of societal trends which could conceivably affect people's mood, sense of purpose, sense of belonging, etc. But just offering the ones that happen to be your party's platform is not good-faith participation in an effort to actually understand or fix this particular problem. It's just using it as a venue to repeat your ideology.
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The big AAA titles have grown to insanely complex multi 100$ million projects, so at least in that way the stakes are higher.

Some good games that would deserve awards just don't get the media attention also.
To test this, I just now acquired a Let's Encrypt cert using `certbot certonly` while tailing the logs. I received only a single request, from 64.78.149.164. The cert was issued. They did not appear to take a second measurement.
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> I have personally gone through and fixed hundreds of these runtime failures.

An interesting question here would be how many of those hundreds of failures were actual bugs and how many were just were just side effect of changing "dynamic is both top and bottom" rule.

So far I have not encountered a single actual issue when migrating users' code to Dart 2 - I encountered "unsoundly" typed code, but it actually worked and did not contain bugs.
Many times it comes down to personal approach too. Believe me, I have zero patience for corporate environments and I'm not afraid to rock the boat because I've been fortunate to never have to care about losing a job. It's a great position to be in. I've just seen so many agencies and clients use cowboy programmers and not adhere to best practices that I've had to help them through that process and sell the best practices.

Glad you're doing well and def. w health you can't move fast and go cowboy because the stakes are higher. We have clients in the health space too and the speed kind of annoys me but I've gotten used to it. But we still have clients that have used bad devs and ftp code so I see the gamut.

Personally I like the in between. Not cowboy but not corporate.
It's fairly routine, but by the standards of, say, the LSAT or GRE, it's hardly signposted at all. I kinda understated my point in the original post by not making it clear we're not talking about discoveries of breathtaking originality; more "do your first independent work" at the honors or 'new senior dev' level.
A lot of big journeys start with a question.

There is no reason to believe he/she can't learn everything they need, build the contacts and raise the money. And also maybe the OP is asking to increase their knowledge without actually doing it, which is a fine thing to do, and is why people read sites like Wikipedia and HN.
A billion years is a very long time if you wait in a railway station. But in milliseconds, for instance, as powers of 10 is a blink of an eye compared to the magnitude of the search space of configurations of a single protein.
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I want to understand this argument better. Are you claiming that any "structured low entropy process that dissipates energy" is alive? How are you defining life?
That's a new thing. Silicon Valley was built on defense money after WWII. The microcomputer and BBS world there was very connected to utopian and pacifist ideals, which is where a lot of the anti-military ethos present today comes from. That was later, though.
Yes, though depending on the part we are talking about it can take up to a couple of years. The mission has been designed to avoid creating small untrackable debris and everything is below the ISS.

Fun fact, as all the missions deployed from the ISS, the RemoveDebris satellite is already classified as a debris in the NORAD satellite catalogue.
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For example, most likely Dart or NaCL would have had another outcome.
It’s not that bad. I sell a lot of stuff and have had no problems with scammers other than a couple of people doing a buy it now and then wanting stuff shipped to Lagos etc and payment via money order. You just cancel the sale and relist then.

The real risks are couriers in my experience.

eBay success:

1. Avoid GSP

2. Sell only inside your region

3. Mark and photograph everything sold and keep the serial numbers.

4. If there’s any risk of something packing up, sell it spares or repair. Doesn’t affect the final value.

5. If someone pulls one just cancel the sale and move on.

6. If someone picks up from you take a signature.

7. If you do a buy it now, tick the immediate payment box.
Zimbardo is a disgrace. There are legitimate results in the field of psychology, but the Stanford Prison Experiment is not one of them. All it ever proved was that Zimbardo's ethics was highly compromised.

In the final paragraph, he claims to be "promoting what is best in human nature. That in [sic] my current life mission." In reality the only thing he's ever been good at promoting is himself. And I know this is trivial and stupid, but he couldn't even avoid a typo in the last line of his rebuttal? Come on.
> There's also a question of whether it helps anyone else. Our world is facing immense challenges. Many of the things cans we've been kicking down the road for these past decades are going to pile up on the generation to come. Their generation needs people slaving away in labs or in front of computers. That need might be existential. Your kids shouldn't get a pass on that just because they are privileged and their parents were well-off enough that they could be comfortable without necessarily striving.

IMHO that's overfitting, what worked for our parent might or might not work for us. I believe cultivating the right mindset, having the children think for themselves instead of forcing them to follow our footsteps, is the best way to prepare them for the uncertainty of the future.

Disclaimer: I'm Asian, but not in America.
> uncontrolled immigration from poor countries bringing crime and causing social distrust.

That's bullshit, sorry. Given same demographics, refugees bring about the same levels of crime as "native Germans" do (e.g. https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2016-06/bunde...). The "rise" that is sometimes perceived is largely based on the fact that young, poor-ish males tend to be the social group with the most crime issues.

As for "social distrust", you are certainly correct in the symptom, but not the cause. The cause is not "uncontrolled immigration", but politicians having totally screwed up social security systems and protection laws. For example, fair and equal minimum wage laws and especially actual enforcement of these would prevent the common notion of "the migrants are taking away our jobs because they're cheaper".

> Laws that give sociopaths the ability to bring functioning human being in courts for stupid reasons and win, making people not trusting their neighbors.

Laws usually have a reason why they got enacted. Yeah, it's sometimes a mess (especially when it comes to HOAs, per countless debates here and on reddit), but in general, stuff is pretty okay.

> Divorce laws that destroy families.

Care to explain how, other than (in the US!) everything being on the public record and snatched up on the Internet for everyone to see?

> Anti-family propaganda that pushes people to destroy their family at the first difficulties.

What? And even if that were true: sorry, but a family/environment where there is constant arguing between the parents is not healthy for the kids!
I'd love to see more interest in experimenting with alternative economic models. I could also come up with at least one. I'm not sure how this is ever going to happen though, given the politics of the world we live in now.
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hmm...then wouldn't the companies just create spin-off companies which they own. Or instead just submit the patent in the name of the employee who invented it, but have a contract with the employee to license the patent to the company.
Perhaps life is easy to start, but is also easily out-competed by non-living self-replicating organisms.
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From ancient greece to medieval times much further education was focused on the trivium. These were considered the thinking skills;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivium

These are good areas to pursue IMO.

I've always enjoyed conversation with people that look at the world from a different perspective. Its interesting to gain some of their perspective and it also helps me look at the world from different angles.
Giving some plausible reason to have hope is a good place to start.

"It always works out" seems to be enough for many people (typically, those for whom it has worked out), but for those who know that, actually, no, it doesn't "always work out", an actually plausible reason is often required. And for others, even that isn't enough.
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The effect the experiment attempts to demonstrate can be true while the prison experiment itself can be complete sham.
Why not expect new physics we simply don't have the tools to see yet? Maybe something that only shows itself at very high energy or interacts only with neutrinos or antimatter or some exotic matter that isn't produced with fusion or supernovas.

What about beings that operate at very different time scales? What if there is some encoding scheme that blows our information theory out of the water so communication just looks like white noise?

What if evolution converges to a single shared consciousness or fierce independence and communication just stops being interesting after a certain stage? Or if non-interference is the very well enforced law of our corner of the galaxy?

I think it's hubris to think that we know the answers to all of the questions for physics or at least we know what we don't know. My assumption is that there are questions/problems/phenomena that we don't even have the context yet to imagine.
We "kubectl run" the migration in CI as a simple bare pod. It will shutdown itself after migrations are done.

For getting the resource configuration, we render the "helm template", take out the workload's podspec and supply additional parameters to invoke the migration.
is english a second language for you? 'orthogonal' is frequently used to indicate two things are not directly related or dependent.

> You folks should read the urban meaning of orthogonal

nope, nope, nope. that site's a hive of scum and villainy, and a massive number of entries are just random nonsense.

i'd rather go to wiktionary[0], which includes:

"Of two or more problems or subjects, independent of or irrelevant to each other."

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orthogonal
Overcoming Intuition in Programming (2016)
Not as much fun, but you can request them for a static IP for no extra charge, and the requirement to periodically login will go away. At least, that used to be the case until I moved away from Hathway in Bangalore (about 2 years ago).
Kids aren't martyrs blowing theirselves up to commit murder for some to them imcomphrehisble “greater good” but kids do do what they’re told by sick fuck adults.

Your own refusal to address the primary assertion of my post concedes your agreement.
Exactly. He only knows about the advantages of persistence layers, i.e. serializing objects. But he doesn't talk about the problems of serializing pointers (refs), or even graphs (pointers upwards or to siblings).

A relational structure avoids that, and so you avoid this mess. A OO store or Graph DB can handle that but is an order of magnitude slower because it has to serialize pointers, usually by checking against internal hashes or converting to arrays. Such a store is very nice to use for noobs, but once you understand the complexity of writing to such a store, you happily fall back to design a simpler scheme, which is optimized for fast reading and writing.
Probably because Frankfurt is super expensive.

I interviewed for two jobs there and then gave up on Frankfurt.

Management still does not realize or don't want to acknowledge how expensive this city is.

If I would keep going to interviews you can bet your ass my first question would be about money. Because after the answer I know if you are living in reality or living in a dream world and we can end it there.
What is the order of magnitude of X?
I agree with some of your criticism, but also criticize how you have thrown out some off-the-cuff beliefs that I would suggest are not true or irrelevant (not all of them though) and wish I could help participate in further research and collaborative analysis.

For instance, you have pointed out several things that are "bad", but haven't necessarily changed or are better overall than they have ever been (hate for meaningless jobs, parental leave, working too much) but you are sometimes comparing current US against other countries, not looking at the fact that these are still on generally positive trends historically.

Some things that might be less-or-irrelevant include:
-Inequality: Yes this is true, but the poorest people are better off and there are fewer of them than there have been historically. Many people considered poor these days have cell phones, can afford nutritious meals (even if they don't eat them) and have access to welfare and disability that wasn't available 100 years ago.
-Leisure time: On average, people are spending 20+ less hours a week working than they did 100 years ago, and spend far less time doing household chores.

While there is certainly cause for concern and much more progress to be made, overall things are on a positive trend, and most of your arguments only compare against other countries at the current time -- I don't get a sense that this is a major cause of suicide increases.

I also would like to learn more about how the statistics were derived. Are they using the same definition of suicide? Are there other factors? For instance, if someone overdoses on opiates and dies from it, is that considered suicide according to these statistics?

I'm not flat-out disagreeing with you, but rather I would like to better understand which factors are most influential and also what exactly it is they are reporting -- the source material didn't seem to specify whether they were reporting % increases as an absolute number or number of suicides per 100k people, etc.

Steven Pinker's newest book, Enlightenment Now, touches on this topic, and explores statistics and some considerations for what may or may not be influential factors for recent trends in suicide, as well as pretty much every bullet point you provided.
Ha, yes that would have been much simpler :)
While Babylon 5 is certainly ambitious, and it has some great moments it was always pretty uneven.
I am this person - the one who will politely decline your offer and close the door.

I have no interest in meeting my neighbors. Having them come over unannounced would literally ruin my day.

It's not about you. It's about me wanting to choose when, where, and who to socially interact with.
Exactly. The 'L' term at the end (length of time advanced civilization is transmitting detectable signals) may be a very small window for most civilizations.

Energy is precious. If you have the technology to put the signal where you want it to be, why would you spew it all over the universe?
It’s also probably explained by the increase in single motherhood [1]. I suspect since women no longer need men for financial sustenance they can pick any father they want and raise the child alone if need be. Since attractiveness in men is pareto distributed it probably translates to single mothers and throwaway men.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/12/18/the-u...
They specifically had info only my accountant had and I wasn't disclosing it to anyone outside closest family. They also contacted me within 10 minutes of each other which made it even more unusual. I guess somewhere in some system some of my info appeared and triggered both of them.
OT: What eBay is really good at:

If you want to buy a notebook with a US keyboard (which some devs prefer) and when it's hard to get them in your home country.

eBay.com offers a Global Shipping Program where the US seller just send their stuff to this shipping program and eBay takes care of everything else. Even customs will be paid by eBay and the buyer just pays once and benefits from fast processing. It's a buttersmooth way of international shipping.

I got my last notebook within just one week and it was still cheaper than the local version in my home country. I know that some notebooks offer US keyboards in any country (ThinkPads and Macbooks) but then you usually wait also min 1-2 weeks because they are custom builds or they come directly from China.

Don't know of any other entity than eBay offering this.
Despite a lack of physical evidence, I'm starting to believe there may be more dimensions to the human experience than wealth and material condition.
I remember a sex educator or psychologist or so on TV talking about the new sex scene with tinder and more openess to have random sex.

And that it changed from 10 women having sex with 8 men to 8 women having sex with the two best looking and most famous guys.

Aka more selective.
As a guy who rode a motorcycle from Central Europe through Central Asia to Mongolia, the last part largely off-road, I wholeheartedly agree.

Simplicity is key. As a traveler, if your "wheel 4.0" has a software bug or breaks down in the middle of the desert, it is inconvenient enough.

I can only imagine the consequences this would have in a war scenario.
The most important thing to reduce suicide rates is to reduce access to means and methods. This is impossible in the US because it means gun owners have to store their weapons in locked cabinets, with the ammunition in a separate place. Or, better, that fewer people own guns.

Some thing that might be possible is to provide training to police so that they don't kill people who are mentally distressed.

It's a bit worrying that this article doesn't mention any definitions or differences in counting over years.
It will be just another target for the Java ecosystem, Go ecosystem, .NET ecosystem, Haskell ecosystem, OCaml ecosystem, C ecosystem, C++ ecosystem, ...

All united by WASM bytecode.
It seems to me that running Kubernetes as a service on DC/OS might be a decent path to take. Mesosphere seem to be pushing this pretty hard, too.

What did you think of DC/OS as a base platform? From an ops perspective, I’m finding a lot to like at least conceptually. Especially the idea of managing one “kind” of cluster that then manages many additional kinds for you. But I have yet to actually use it.
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But if you need to have the malicious DNS server connected as a requirement, aren't you already owned? The DNS server can tell you the bank's hostname is a malicious IP, and then you can both steal credentials, or MITM.
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Doesn't help that half of the user panel hasn't been updated since the 90's/early 2000's.
Some pages look relatively modern then some just look awful.
I cannot tell much about how to become a root CA, but this classic contains everything about how not to become a root CA: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647959
life forms are just collections of atoms from a few elements. these elements exist all over the universe, no reason to think they would not have somehow combined to form life forms else where. I personally don't like the attitude of thinking we are alone in the universe.
Not sure why you give credit to politicians. Politicians are not smart enough to engineer this.

This is completely the genius of capitalism. The reality is there are millions of people out there who cannot meaningfully contribute to the modern global economy. You can see this very clearly in the rapidly declining labor force [1]. All of this excess labor has to go. We need to get rid these people as fast as possible because they are literally a huge drag (on growth) and they are making us all poorer.

But how?

The free market to the rescue! No need for government thugs or complicated, expensive social engineering campaigns. The free market can precisely target this excess labor and liquidate it with just the right price signals. The results speak for themselves: suicides are up 30%, birth rates are the lowest they've been in 30 years [2] and we are finally seeing significant declines in life expectancy [3]. All of this is happening while corporate profits are soaring to new heights and the economy is actually growing! [4]

You think politicians could be this effective?

[1] https://www.kansascityfed.org/~/media/files/publicat/econrev...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44151642

[3] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/12/life-expe...

[4] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/28/corporate-profits-highest-in...
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I use eBay frequently as a seller and buyer. If I don't need it fast, and I want it cheaper, I'll use eBay.

As a seller, I have very rarely had issues with buyers. I always sell via buy it now and I usually am able to get a price comparable to what I would have gotten on Amazon. I find that Amazon is not ideal for one off, used items. eBay tends to be better.
If I were myself rich, and able to hire a dev team, I'd build a global full-proof identity system (iris scanning maybe?) to guarantee identity 1:1, and a crypto coin with guaranteed basic income built in.

Then I'd build a not-for-profit grocery chain/and other businesses, where all fiat/crypto go back evenly to users of the coin. I'd buy up homes rent them below market rent values to try and drive rents back down instead of up.

Grocery stores would sell products cheaper, and profits would be split between gbi coin holders who live in that area, and workers at the local businesses we run. Execs at all companies we build would be capped at 100x worker salary. They'd also be not-for-profit (opposed to non-profit), meaning ALL money has to be paid at end of fiscal year to improvements of business, or to wages/bonuses/charity/etc.

I don't have faith in government to be the change we need, we're going to need to think outside the box and create self-sustaining government agnostic solutions.
This is interesting but not available in India , any similar products you know as an Alternative for India?
It became unusably slow for me when I got downgraded to a spinning disk machine. It was fine on the SSD machine I had before that.
It certainly works for some stations, but not for many other (from personal experience in France), and it would be trivial for radios to change their RDS / metadata system to circumvent ad blocking.
If you think that's expensive, try living in Australia.

Air conditioning is mandatory some areas, with temperatures in Sydney peaking over 40 C (105 F) in the summer, and electricity costs 27 cents per kWh (US$0.20).
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