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>Currently, shipping is extremely cheap, subsidized by Amazon, the government, and more recently, the individuals who due to lack of opportunities live with subsistence wages.

In what ways are shipping subsidized by Amazon and the government?
Regardless of how you try to rephrase it, the fact remains the same: the technology doesn't work well enough.
I’m using Bitwarden on budgie / Firefox. Works great.
Why can't we agree to just do what Musk says about carbon: tax goods which create negative externalities for society?

You could even do it this way: write the law such that an institution, whose job is to eliminate these externalities, is created, and then funded only with taxes on said products.

There's two competing special interest groups to keep each in check so in theory it's even a institution which shouldn't have too much bureaucratic inertia.

There are economists who endorse the idea, it's called a Pigouvian tax--the most notable economist is Mankiw.
Accusing China of destroying the environment feels like throwing stones in a glass house when Trump has abandoned the paris agreement and denies human involvement in global warming.
In many counties, Sheriff is an elected position.
Sounds familiar.

Currently I'm trying to meet deadlines at my full-time job (freelance, which is ok, but feels like I'm not moving anywhere with it),
while during weekends working on part-time project in area, which looks more interesting-promising than current full-time.
Bills coming too often to quit full-time job in my case, also not ready to add serious risks.

When I first time left office job and moved into freelance, it was more like moving into something new, rather than running away from current. Risk was rewarded, but time should be right for this.

Really important to find how to make money doing things you are enjoying, so you can make progress there even after long day at boring-job-for-bills.
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Well, truth. If the password were ejected from let's say "the random" website and you use the same one for all other ones you are kinda "pwned".
This is certainly true. In fact, I would go so far as to say we (those born or raised in the US) are conditioned from a young age to become dependent on our consumer economy in order to lock us into a system where we have to accept this sort of behavior or go to extremes to reject it becoming an outcast or "wierdo".

This leads to the development of an ineffective coping mechanism where one learns to identify scams they have seen in the past and find a defense for it. This is like leaving a firewall wide open and only closing a specific port after an attack has occurred on that port. More precisely this is a reactive approach to defense.

A comprehensive approach to systematically develop effective safeguards in the US probably won't happen, ever. The people who want these safeguards are too busy with their day-to-day lives to dedicate any considerable amount of time to achieving it, meanwhile the people don't want anything to change have the time, money and influence to fight any attempt at reform. Meanwhile value is being extracted from the consumer which leads to a never-ending cycle.

This is getting a little scary with the shift to rent-seeking behavior. This is true from even the more established, trustworthy businesses (think Microsoft). A monthly subscription is not so bad, but when this becomes the normal way to buy things from the big names it legitimatizes the practice so a scammer can get their hands into your pocket forever.
Its less cheap (in energy and environmental impact) if people have to run around and empty receptacles multiple times a day to keep up with the water bottles.

Remember, everything we do has multiple consequences.
> Which leads me to another question that has bothered me since way back in the day: Why are bartenders tipped so richly simply for pouring a drink?

This and delivery from a shop you order often from are the only form of tipping that makes any sort of sense whatsoever to me (at least common forms of tipping).

It's bribery so you get good service the next time. At a busy bar it's worth every dime to tip 100% that first drink and then a dollar or two after that. You will jump the 10 deep line at the bar no problem.

Same goes for food delivery - get to know the couple drivers at the local Thai place and be known as a great tipper - you'll get service above and beyond.

Any other tipping seems like it's utterly pointless as a consumer. Why tip after the fact - typically at 15-20% for merely acceptable service. Even if I'm a heavy tipper, the server has zero way to know it so I get just as good of service as anyone else.
Plastic is sometimes useful to preserve fresh food to some degree. Without plastic many goods wouldn’t be viable. Would be nice though if at least the necessary plastic was highly recycleable, as well as cost efficient etc.
As rich children slim down, poor ones are getting fatter
at work we ( are forced to ) use cisco webex.
But i would _not_ recommend it, too brittle, crashes a lot ( sometimes it´s the sound, sometimes it´s the video, sometimes it´s something else... ).
Some IT companies in India check your bags "for security purposes" while coming in/going out, or both. Yes, very disrespectful and insulting, but no one revolts so it's been going on (while their HRs will give powerpoint presentations on how trust is "one of the pillars" of their company). Most of them have a (probably made-up) story of how it was not the case before but someone broke their trust by stealing code in a hard disk etc., but no one has actually seen that happening in-person.

Our software product company (headquartered in US) had the same policy in its Indian offices, and I (being a relatively new employee) last year pointed out in our surveys how hypocritical it is of the company to expect trust from the employees but not do the same in return. Fortunately they stopped doing it after that.
Brits who hate London are nearly twice as likely to oppose multiculturalism
So basically, kitesurfing on a thread. Cool. I've seen flying spiders many times in Poland, and it was fun to watch. Especially because it's not a common knowledge they could do that.
I'm getting quite tired already of subscription pricing. Over time, we pay extreme amounts of money for updates and new features that used to be free of charge.
Depends on the activity and what i'm storing, like if i want to be safe i use more than 1 for sure , but sometimes i only use 1 for some projects since i don't really like having alot of hosting providers in my hand
Hey, there were whole books, like this one from 1992: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash

I think Neal Stephenson's opening was that the two big items in the economy were software and pizza delivery ...
Their FR is not ready for Law Enforcement, because it is weak, poorly designed, and overly expensive. They are smucks trying to capitalize on Amazon's name with generic, low quality FR. Anyone that understands FR knows to go to the NIST web site and use the companies competing to be the best for government contracts. Their algorithm stats are all tested and the results published at NIST.
Pundits who amplify the current bullish buzzwords will never be punished, which is why they do it.
Waxed, wrapped in plastic for advertising and packaged in a plastic net. Progress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babybel
To report it to the IRS so the IRS knows where to send the tax bill.
I'd understand if it's actually something that is locally made but it's pretty annoying when a place like Brazil charges 100% markup tax on something like a video game console, video card, or what not.

It surely makes it difficult for locals to afford computers.
Nope. Nowhere close to "high-security facility".
I work in a medium-sized IT services company.
Just because it doesn't completely solve everything, that doesn't mean it isn't a step in the right direction.
I wouldn't say it's standard but it doesn't surprise me. People who work late, have too much on their plate (pun), would probably not shy away from using a single use plate. I know I've done it myself (shame on me) but hey, I'm trying now!
The only way I can think this would happen is if you clicked a URL from within 1Password, which would visit the site and then auto fill. Otherwise you have to press a hot key. That is literally how it has been for years with the only option to change being whether or not it tries to submit the login automatically after filling.
How the Internet of Things Gaining Fast Momentum Through Mobile Apps?
Tell HN: Facebook is quietly reducing API rate limits drastically
There have been hundreds of developers complaining in an issue filed a month ago about drastically reduced rate limits: https://developers.facebook.com/support/bugs/169774397034403/

So far, Facebook has not done anything to resolve it or reassure people they are looking at it.
This doesn't explain why one would ever want to return a pointer to a local variable.
There's been more than a few times where I'm working on a smaller project and start looking at ORM's, the time it would take to learn the ins and outs and getting it set up, and then just write a few SQL statements instead and call it done.
I agree in general with the spirit of the article, at least as I understood it: facial recognition can empower oppression and lead to even more doubtful convictions, for example it could erroneously supply additional rationale to suspect or convict a person, reinforce biases, etc.

However, I do not get the "companies unite against selling X to government" approach. It is, to me, both misguided (restricting gov't from buying something private companies can buy will simply lead to relabeling or minor redesigns of the same technology) and naive (to work, it needs a very broad agreement which IMO will not get enough traction).

An approach that could work better is to inform, not restrict: make sure that all imagery and videos used or considered for use police are public unless there is a short term, limited exception. And make police wear cameras whenever they wear uniforms and make those video streams public, too (maybe with a few hour lag in case there is a tactical need). My 2c.
Yep, that’s not bad and I think non alcoholic beer like drinks is a great idea (I am not a big fan of anything else than beer, hot tea and water; tea and water on workdays tends to get boring).

But non-alcoholic beer and calling it anti-hangover is just not very interesting at all. There are 1000s of alcohol free or low alcohol beers which do not give you a hangover (ofcourse, if you drink insane amounts of anything you will get ill), so why is this interesting?
Spain’s socialist government reveres policy and refuses ‘migrant’ ship
Ethereum Oracle Services – Getting Data into Your DApp
Thank you! I'll evaluate it
This is the link to the issue posted on facebook earlier this month: https://developers.facebook.com/support/bugs/169774397034403...

Over 100 developers are facing this issue so its not a standalone issue
Apparently the miracle of Handwave Engineering only applies to fusion. :)
Verilog 6502 (2016)
This comes up a lot. While it works as an explanation for the US, it's an international issue; it's not one of those things where the US does it differently without realising.

What happens is usually a mix of factors. Drugs aren't purely harmless, you can certainly find a few people who've been harmed directly and a larger group of people whose use is problematic. This creates a demand for Something To Be done.

This falls down on comparisons with alcohol and tobacco - both of which are widely legal and have their own temperance movements, but haven't quite succeeded in a total ban yet. America (and a few other places) actually did have a War On Booze, they just gave up because it's too socially normalised. Only the more extreme Islamic countries manage official temperance, and even there it's widely violated.
The news about a plastic bag being found at the bottom of the mariana trench was the trigger for me. We got a bunch of multiuse bags from publix and stopped using plastic bags cold turkey.
Most hotels in India, and also nearly every large company, x-rays and checks bags before you are permitted to enter.

Of course, It's pure security theatre.
Beamed propulsion would be far better for interstellar travel.
Documented behaviour is a little different to "effectively broken". The difference between strncpy and strlcpy is that strlcpy will NUL terminate the last byte for you always. There is nothing stopping you from doing the same thing yourself when you use strncpy. If you care enough, write your own strlcpy - it's only one extra line.
The "jury of their co-workers" is a scary farce that begins with the continuous 360 feedback that is built into their current employee performance model. I have read that this is integrated into the WorkDay HR software platform, which is used for timesheets and everything else.

You might have a disagreement with a co-worker, and next thing you know, you are getting live feedback, behind your back. And then after that... you are begging to not get fired. Someday, the jury and appeal process might get automated through WorkDay as well. Sounds fun!

Bezos is an investor in WorkDay and Amazon uses this 360 feature. Other companies use it too. See also: https://blog.impraise.com/360-feedback/the-amazon-controvers...
That's not how it works.

Anyone can put in a claim on the property (most commonly the person that it was seized from) and argue in front of a court (with a lawyer) that they are the rightful owner.
WPA3 feature roundup
Reminds me of the "Toy Yoda" lawsuit back in 2002 when a lady thought she won a Toyota but instead got a yoda toy.
What's also sad is some idiot went there from that link and left an abusive comment on his memorial website referencing Hacker News. Pretty pathetic, whoever did that.
Starting with the GBA games, Fire Emblem's hit and critical chances take the average of two random numbers. So what shows as a 90% hit rate is actually 98% (that is, (2d100)/2 <= 90).

I think this is a pretty neat trick; it's more in line with what people feel like probabilities should be than the reality of those probabilities. It also subtly biases in the player's favor, since in Fire Emblem the heroes usually have high accuracy while enemies more often go for high damage and low accuracy.
Yes, it is, and I thought so too from the info available online - but the reality is rather different. I had a hard line of £10k to spend on exploring immigration exploration there including paying a lawyer - and when that money was gone with no progress, I cut my losses.

As to where instead, others have suggested Portugal, Romania, Poland - Portugal is nice, but get talking to locals and there’s a problem with corruption around business ownership and ensuing audits, etc., Romania has a really big corruption problem, and there’s not much happening outside of Cluj and Bucharest, and Poland has the same kind of politics that I’m hoping to leave behind in the UK. Natural beauty and quality of life were big pluses for NZ.

I’ve also explored Latin America to little avail (the ground situation is rather different to the paper one - huge black markets in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, brewing social unrest), and am now looking seriously at Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania- although again, all three are hardening their stance against non-EU migrants, which I will be come March next, and have similar nationalist movements to elsewhere.
Yes, unfortunately you'd be losing email. Port 465 has been deprecated a while back (1997).

I guess that's the problem - there is no practical way to disable plaintext email from the start. You may always need to accept the connection, see if the client will STARTTLS, disconnect if they do not and hope they don't re-try and keep hammering your servers with the same message, the error message "hey, i'm not accepting plaintext" will most likely get ignored.
Mall operator, really? They're renting space in the mall out, that's it.
Some of these presentations can be a good "deal" if you can resist the sales pressure, the sales staff takes your declination in good humor, and they actually give something of real value as a lure. If not, well the best case scenario is you've wasted an afternoon being yelled at and walked away with a useless "prize".
I've had my bank call me at work because I forgot to pay my credit card off the day after it was due. No callerid info, just a number. The woman on the phone didn't say who she was, who she was calling from, she just immediately asked me if this was blahblah. My work has been the subject of a bunch of scammers calling about financial services lately so I wasn't too keen on saying who I was. I kept asking her who she was calling from and she just kept asking me who I was. Finally she said she was from my bank. I told her I'd call her back. Called up my bank and had to wait through several people for someone to tell me what was up. Not only does there need to be some etiquette when cold calling someone (like using callerid and stating upfront who you are and who you are calling from!) but callerid need an update so you can't spoof it so we can trust it again.
This seems like an easy problem to solve.

Make the winner fill out the tax forms and send them directly to the IRS. The IRS informs the promotion they've received the tax forms, and verifies names, addresses, amount match. The promotion releases the prize to the winner.
...which runs on top of React Native (not that that necessarily makes it a bad choice).
>bursting crypto bubble

I've been looking for lateral career moves in my industry for a while now, and I'll be damned if every "exciting new company" in information security isn't a blockchain company. And not a single one of them can tell you what they're doing with the blockchain to help with security, they can only tell you how much money they're making.
The author rightly objects to hiring interns based on their race or professed sexual orientation:

"This time around, however, the LLVM foundation decided to pay for an internship themselves, and agreed a partnership with an organization called Outreachy. This collaboration saw LLVM adopt interesting new eligibility criteria. Outreachy’s rules state that an applicant must “meet one of the following criteria”:

You live any where in the world and you identify as a woman (cis or trans), trans man, or genderqueer person (including genderfluid or genderfree).
You live in the United States or you are a U.S. national or permanent resident living aboard, AND you are a person of any gender who is Black/African American, Hispanic/Latin@ [sic], Native American/American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander"
That seems a little excessive? I hope he sees judicial consequences for his behavior.
Texas: Houston’s MULTIPLE honor-murders go to trial in death penalty case
Do you experience any of those things you said? I don't think trade war is hurtful unilaterally anyway, and innocent people also suffer. Care to explain why?
Here in Portugal the bags at the supermarket dropped a lot after a similar law, but the black garbage bags increased by 40%, since the supermarket bags were typically re-used for garbage disposal.
Yep you are right, i rounded too much, mvc is from 2009 :
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/734892/asp-net-mvc-is-no...
But the bulk of it started a bit later with the whole .net ecosystem.

I agree with all you said, but i'm referring to the previous comment where ms has been all but asleep in the last 10 years :D
Anyway talking about language and dev-environment are two completly different conversations, and i'm not wrong saying that Java as language stagnated far too long. I never said the .net eco system thrived meanwhile :D
The author is from Italy and it's early afternoon here in western Europe
Is it so? I haven't heard of it. I recently ordered a set of knives and they came wrapped in a plastic cover (black) and wrapped with a cardboard box. But the knives themselves are packed in plastic and cardboard boxes.

If I'd gone to a store, I could have picked them up by hand and avoided the plastic covering required for transport.

E-commerce generates additional non-biodegradable waste and that is a problem that has to be solved considering the rapid rise of online shopping.
BitWarden works fine. I'm using Linux/Firefox as well, the rest of the time is on Windows/Chrome. It's 100% open source: https://bitwarden.com/
And US per capita CO2 emission is 2 times that of China
A better analogy is an FFL knowingly selling firearms to cartel members, which is already illegal.
Thanks for the reply. Who have you had most success with? I'm trying to decide who to go with on a new project.
Thanks for the answer! I also would love to see more experiences presented about Julia in the wild. D and Nim are both on my list too and I will definitely consider them in a more objective comparison.

Rust does "feel" like a lot of overhead in order to avoid the GC. Can you comment on / know how I can check whether the GC in Julia is going to cause an issue for me?
There's beginners and there's beginners though. Why not include a CLI basics tutorial too? An addendum covering just what the CLI is composing for you so you know how to use separate components would be a better use of time.

If you use some of the simple scaffolds it's fair obvious but the default and complex ones you're at the mersey of their github README, which as a newbie can be very thick.

Tutorials should set you up to get the most done in the least amount of effort with the fewest tripwires setup.