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> Can you articulate why you think it is any worse than child services putting a kid into foster care when the parents go to jail for any other crime?

I'd hope normal foster care in the US looks slightly better, and is better communicated (assuming the reports about ICE not telling parents what they are doing with their children are accurate). E.g. normally I'd expect incarcerated parents to still know about the whereabouts of their children, being allowed to communicate with them, ... unless there's strong reasons to forbid this.

While I think it's at least an interesting question if it is strictly necessary to separate families, I'd guess that if the process appeared less horrific there'd be a lot less of an outcry.

From what I've read, it also appears that the vast majority cases are first-time entries, which only is a misdemeanor in the US? While it makes some sense to "keep" people somewhere in this case (can't just let them go with a fine like you'd do for a traffic offense), it seems less than clear to me that this has to be to the same "standards" as people being jailed for serious crimes, and regular access to the children can't be possible. (And to be clear, I'd generally argue for such policies, not just in the case of immigrants)
Governments are what happen when a group of people live in a community too large and complicated to be governed by an ad-hoc group of elders talking it out. Governments are what happen when humans want to trade in an organized fashion. Governments are what happen when people don't want to be in a constant state of conflict, inter and intra group. Governments are what happen if your community wants to live by the rule of principle and consensus (law), as opposed to rule of the mighty. In other words, government is inevitable.
$1 billion sounds like a large number, but how many people was it spread across and what percentage of their portfolio was it?
About airplane mode, I'm not sure.

About the wifi-only phone, I recall an old guide from Mike Perry about configuring Android devices to use only wifi.[0] But Copperhead is gone, so ???

0) https://blog.torproject.org/mission-improbable-hardening-and...
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I am 27, I have a cushy job at a fortune 500 company, and I am miserable. I came from nothing growing up and now I make more money than I thought I ever would. I don't feel challenged anymore, but I'm not sure what to do. Everyone in my life tells me to enjoy it and take it easy. Rest and vest. If I stay at the company for 15 years I'll make so much money. None of it really speaks to me, it seems like an unfulfilling life. The reason it's been unfulfilling lately is I am able to complete my work by working 10 hours a week, which frees up all this time. I get the highest ratings possible in my reviews too, which just makes me more uneasy. I think it makes me uneasy because deep down I know I can do more and I'm not being challenged.

I'd like to be able to start my own company, but I'm honestly terrified. It just seems like such a pipe dream you know? I always hear about how many startups fail and it just makes me not even want to try. I met someone quite respectable who said he wished he never did a startup for 15 years, and instead worked at his consulting job and just invested the dividends and would be way ahead of where he is now. I just feel so stupid for even thinking about trying it because I don't really have any support and I know way smarter people have tried and failed, so how could I ever do it?
That does seem pretty unambiguous to me: if they're holding the parents for immigration offences, by law they have to separate their kids from them because they cannot imprison the kids too. I think the US media is outright making people less accurately informed on this. The most I've seen is a brief mention that "US protocol prohibits detaining children with their parents because the children are not charged with a crime, while the parents are", without explaining what this means and the fact that this is a legal settlement that the US administration cannot modify.
The racism comes from saying "We recognise human faces" and then not recognising a significant proportion of humans.
In an interesting twist, your whole idea of using a license and copyright hinges on a government, the rule of law and the enforcement of said rule of law by a government. Which is in your eyes inherently evil. The software that the license applies to is distributed via the internet, a technology funded in large parts by the government, something inherently evil.

I agree that governments by their very nature will do evil things, but governments are not a single entity with a single mind controlling them, but rather a sprawling ecosystem of individual parts where some parts diverge from the party line, just to be checked and put back into place by other parts. Sometimes those checks fail and the whole thing goes downhill fast. In the general case, however, governments as a concept have enabled a society that is better off and capable of building infrastructure and things that an each man for his own kind of organization would never have been capable of.
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It might also be that whatever social change that causes these places to phase out lead also results in lower crime over time?
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I live in a wealthy Northern European country and asbestos wasn't made completely illegal until the early 90s... Never underestimate the power of lobbying. Cleaning it all up is costing society many billions.
Careful, automatic processes can give you trouble, cancel your service or hurt your credit rating.

I recommend complying with the process, mentally account for the extra costs when you sign up, stick to defaults and avoid complexity whenever possible.

On the other hand nowadays companies do respond to complaints much better than a few decades ago if you file complaints through their websites. Taking it to social media may also result in quick and drastic measures.
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Well there's been plenty of polls, analysis and investigation since the Brexit result trying to slice and dice and determine what was behind the result and sorry but that's the picture that has emerged.

For what it's worth, I don't think it's as a result of any innate quality of the English psyche, indeed as the birthplace of liberalism and one of the most ethnically diverse populations in Europe such could hardly be the case.

My hot take is that it's emerging from most ordinary people's frustration at how the UK economy has been steered in such a way as to ensure that the benefits of globalisation go to a few while most everybody else has to deal with any negative consequences. Very telling that the core economic hubs were anti-brexit and the "forgotten" parts of the UK were pro-brexit. Scotland notwithstanding of course who would've left the UK a few years before only for the issues of staying in the EU ...
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What if Musk supplied the required capital himself?
There's no reason to believe that the result as it stands couldn't have been extrapolated across the rest of the population.
Historical figures are lucky: born before the advent of digital flash photography. EVERYONE looks great on grainy film, even better on black-and-white-film, and even better on a commissioned don't-you-dare-reproduce-my-double-chin oil painting. Having said that, I'm sure many of these great figures were able to make use of their sexy wiles: being attractive doesn't mean being classically handsome, it means having a glint in your eye and a persuasive charm.
I know plenty of working class brits who are pro EU.
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I used to be a CKEditor core dev. The codebase was 150k LOC of (mighty complex at times)JS and there were four of us working on the LTS(4.x) - we were somewhat understaffed, but not "we need a hundred devs for this" understaffed.

On the other hand last year I spent two weeks working on a project for which I was borrowed from another one - they had a total of 120k LOC(Java, TypeScript), twenty people and at least the front-end was a dumpster fire.

I guess people don't scale well.
Yes, good point. So if you care about cell towers, you can just nuke the radio, and use only VoIP via WiFi. But even that's iffy, I think, given difficulty controlling apps. And finally, even if all that works, you don't really have a "phone" anymore.
Pharmacists can legally dispense in emergencies.

Do they do it--no!

It's too bad what we have evolved into--uncaring, and hardened.

As to robots--I don't care. At least I know the robot will call doctors for refills, and get the right meds in the container.
This may have changed with android P but AFAIK you don't need root to spoof location data.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lexa.fakeg...

I personally have used this app to fool certain retail apps to check in-store prices of items.
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> Ok that's interesting, you've clearly done a lot in this space already, are you still working in this space and would you be up for a quick discussion about it?

Sure! Feel free to mail me (address in the profile).

I wouldn't say I have done a lot in this space - I am just interested in it, and try to pay attention to any new ways to structure discussions and thoughts that helps people reach agreement.

--

Your concept is very interesting, and indeed a completely different direction than what I was thinking. You seem to want to start from making free-text comments more machine-understandable, so that they can be further analyzed and grouped with similar points from other people? This seems it could mesh with what I wrote in the previous comment - I want to get a graph of ideas, and you just suggested an approach to generating that graph.
Indeed yes, but files were hosted for 14 days.
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A simple place to start is determine who the original audience is for each of the gospels. When you have an understanding of what each of the audiences is, you can then understand why certain things are written the way they are.

For example, if we look at the book of Matthew, there are very strong indicators that it was written to the Jewish believers and community. Whereas, the book of Luke is written to a Roman.

Because there are different audiences, events will be told in a different way. The reasons for and the purposes for which each event is told will depend on what will be important to the audience.

If we look at the book of John, it becomes clear that it is written to combat various heresies that were arising about the nature of Jesus Christ, who He was and why He came. The author is clearly elucidating those particular areas.

The other thing is that no two people will ever recount the same version of an event. There will be particular emphases that each will see and remember.

As an aside, I find it interesting to see what people of that time, who were not of the believers and especially those who were enemies, say about various events recounted.
Awesome. I've had the same idea but worried it wasn't feasible. Thank you for showing me there's precedent.
Honestly no. It's incredibly obvious. There is no need for a detailed explanation of why Google will never face a 1930's antitrust lawsuit. It's simply not in the realm of reality. It was barely possible in the 90s.
Sure, but it's probably not all being executed, so you don't really pay for what you don't use.

(OTOH, while you may not find yourself waiting on instructions, you'll no doubt spend all of your time waiting on data...)
> cancel your service

By the time I arrive to this stage, I’ve already got a replacement lined up and all it takes is to flick a switch.

> hurt your credit rating

From experience, the problem eventually gets resolved and they cancel any black marks on your credit report. But personally I never cared about mine anyway.
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What about oligarchs who aren’t sanctioned? What rule of law do you apply to determine oligarchs have committed some crime? Is there a certain number of tweets where you consider an oligarch sanctioned? Do you rely on an ICC ruling? A judgement from a single nation? A UN resolution? A case being brought to the ICC?

The challenge I see here is that applying an arbitrary measurement to what constitutes “ICE violates human rights” because it is so obvious will be problematic and unpredictable.

Will we get to the point where felons can’t use MSOffice? Or only certain felons?
Oligopoloy.
I would be much more concerned about people using this site for the transfer of illegal material (such as child abuse imagery). That's something literally any file sharing/image hosting site has to deal with. The 14 day limit won't make a difference as people disseminating that type of material are likely used to having to move it around frequently.
A few years ago I went to a one-day seminar with OM. It irritated the hell out of me. 90% of it was them talking about how much the 'practice' changed their lives. Then they went around the room and asked each member to talk about how excited they were to start. If you didn't, they put you on the spot and embarrassed you. I left halfway through after demanding my money back.
i think these solutions use the debug api, not sure.

xprivacy allows for spoofing all kinds of data like phonebook, calendar, even allows to not expose the clipboard.

if only gps data is relevant, this non rooted solution is of course easier to set up.
I'm not an expert in iOS or Android, but I shipped few React Native apps. Most of my debugging efforts were in webapp. In fact I don't even remember anything about debugging native layer. And I actually built few native components including integration with compass and yandex maps. Sure, it's not Ferrari, nobody outside of US has money for that kind of apps, it was just few hundred bucks for few weeks of my time, but app works on both platforms and customer was satisfied. I think that React Native is great for many apps. If you're world-level corporation with dozens of developers and want absolutely best experience, go native, I guess, you don't really care about few million bucks thrown here and there.

Also don't underestimate a possibility to update app without those pesky moderators. It's awesome, push button and all users are updated.
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GPL supporters are all about liberty, and like we all know, liberty does not give everyone freedom to do everything that they wish.
I think that’s actually a good standard. How are determinations made for what violates the UN Convention on Human Rights?
If you sign up to be in the police, or ICE, or any such governmental arm used to jail the poor and protect the rich, and are passively accepting these policies you are supporting them. As such by supporting these despicable policies those enforcing them are scum in my books, and if they are doing these things I see nothing wrong with publishing their information. Maybe now they will be as afraid as the people they persecute.
> Governments will always do evil.

> they are by nature evil.

These statements are not equivalent. It does not necessarily follow that doing a non-zero amount of evil means an institution, or type of institution, is by nature evil.

You could easily say the same thing about individuals or any grouping of people; individuals "always do evil", therefore all individuals are by their nature evil? It's true only in a trivial sense, in that humans and human-created groupings are imperfect and will do a mix of good and bad.
The biggest trick ever pulled was convincing the world that “human rights” are some kind of universal truth. To me, they are, at best, some left-wing rubbish.
> IMHO you both go off the opposite ends: No, a generic "developer" isn't badly educated if they don't know C++, but that doesn't mean C++ is some irrelevant language. It's critical for some domains of computing, and widely used.

I never said it was irrelevant, I said it wasn't the mainstream it was in the early 90s. See my post above:

> while still useful for some specific applications, C++ is not a mainstream language anymore.

So are on the same line you and I :

> a generic "developer" isn't badly educated if they don't know C++
Like Germany and prostitution?
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typically the problem with heavy metal poisoning (lead, arsenic, etc) is that the body has difficulty getting rid of it, so it accumulates.

This can also be seen in big fish such as Tuna, which eat lots of small fish (which have consumed various heavy metals) and live for many years.
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Hi Phil,

One thing you might find interesting - a small, crude experiment suggests that changing maxBlocking.erl to use process hibernation for those dormant processes could almost double the max number of processes Erlang can support.

I changed maxBlocking.erl's final few lines to read

p() ->
erlang:hibernate(?MODULE, q, []).
q() ->
receive
"hello" ->
io:format("Hello")
end.

RabbitMQ uses hibernation in many places to reduce memory usage when many resources are being managed by the server.
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> Because they give reasonable deadlines for companies to fix security bugs (~90 days), they are kept out of the loop by hardware vendors like Intel who requested 1 year to fix meltdown.

Is 90 days really a reasonable timeframe to fix something like meltdown? I agree with your whole comment in general, but hardware/microcode issues at Intel's scale are a different beast than some buffer overflow.
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A big thing to note in these political systems. People tend to emphasize your interface to the systems as 'Company thinks X about you', 'Company values your work' etc.

Companies are not living systems and in general its just people making decisions.

I've been walked over many times now, but once, after all the work, I was nominated for an award the company's annual meet. My manager, his manager and all the way up assured me that based on what I had done the award was coming my way. I was even asked to prepare a small speech to give on the stage, they even asked for a photo to put up on slide deck with a small bio.

Two days before the meet, my manager and the director called me into a meeting room to tell me that I wouldn't be getting the award, and they didn't want it to be painful surprise to me during the meet. And they had tried everything they could.

Eventually my manager told me during lunch later that big time political lobbying had gone into this, and VP making decisions had no option as he would be cornered politically on other issues, if he didn't relent to demands of rewards from other corners.

Google or any other company. Performance has nothing to do with how you get paid/rewarded in any company.
Definitely. I'll fire you an email =)... I basically want to get an understanding of what pitfalls and issues that you had exposure to.

Fundamentally however the reason I keep thinking about that graph is that I keep wanting it. I wander into a complex nested discussion online which seems interesting and just want to see it visualised. Select statements and see who's making them. Focus on a part of the discussion one step at a time. Find commonalities and differences marked up.

EDIT: I sent that email I mentioned, not sure if you've seen it =)...
Perhaps GP is an anarchist and doesn't want governments or corporations.
Non-native speaker here. Could you please elaborate?
I agree.

The sentence in question is this one:

Reporters are in discussions with the manufacturer and expect that the company will need to another set of recalls for the automaker still suffering from the emissions cheating scandal.

The tone and context of the sentence indicates this is bad news for VAG as it piles on yet more negative media attention.
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Wow! I've been looking for something like this since forever! scp really doesn't cut it for servers only accessible from other whitelisted servers.
I.e. they would trigger bad copyright takedowns that weren't legally justified, forcing companies to stop doing those.

If it's possible to trigger those intentionally, then it's likely that it's also happening accidentally, and this policy would make that stop.
Liberty involve many restrictive laws, with slavery being one of the biggest along with murder and assault. No one is suggesting that all laws must be only behavior worse than slavery or else the country does not believe in liberty.
I don't buy this sentiment one bit. In my opinion this nostalgia is almost entirely unjustified unless your primary metric of "when users mattered" is "software used less RAM and CPU". Which may not even be factually correct from a percentage of available resources perspective.

Modern day software applications are far more accessible and usable on average than those of the 90s and 00s. And that's the metric that actually matters. More people are able to do more things with software.
Possession has been sort of de-facto decriminalized in Canada for many years - police just don't enforce the law.