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> People are more important than profits.

I think people's take on that depends on (a) whose lives, (b) how much profit, and (c) to whom they may or may not be more important.
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I've started watching Raymond Hettinger's talks lately. He's a core dev on Python. I love them, the guy is charismatic, very smart and his Python knowledge constantly impresses me.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRVdut2KPAguz3xcd22i_...

My favourite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zinZmE3Ogk
Reminded me of college, when we had to write several pages of assembly code (that was 6 years ago). Fun exercise, not so much when your grade depends on it.
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I did the same thing on whatever Mac I had at the time. (It was the pre-Jobs-comeback era when Apple was slowly running the Mac into the ground...kind of like now.) It really opened my eyes as to how fast the Mac hardware could be and how slow the Mac OS was.
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Or we could talk about the real underlying cause of the one issue you are referencing (cost of housing) - vastly more people moving to the Bay Area than there are houses available. Since it doesn't matter how fast we can actually build homes as we will never catch up to the current demand, we should implement a new resident tax. Let's say everyone who has not been a Bay Area resident for at least 10 years contributes a little to alleviate the problems they are helping to exacerbate.
If you are just visiting, the Great Firewall is not really a problem, as foreign SIM cards route directly to the internet. Just make sure you have a reasonable international plan with your carrier before you go.
I can finally fulfill my dream of writing cross-platform C++ by transpiling for the JVM. It's just too bad I have to convert from LLVM to JS to Python first. And then I could convert back to C++ and start over again...

Neat visualization! I wonder how large it could get if people could add their own nodes and edges.
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Perhaps I worded it wrong. I make liberal use of catch-all addresses but everything lands in -- and responses are sent from -- Gmail accounts. It's not so much a mail server I need but something which will accept and forward emails based on the forwarding rules I set up.
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> Even if the only outcome (as it seems to be) is getting rid of a dictator, that seems like a good thing.

It also empowered radicals and created perfect conditions for them to thrive. By radicals I mean terrorists, proponents of Islamic state and such. Guns and ammunition ended in their hands that would not ended there.

Regardless of results, calling it merely misguided honest mistake in search of democracy building is naive or a lie. The war was not motivated by altruism and so called mistakes were simply lies. There us such thing as too much of benefit of doubt.

That does not mean other countries leaders are less cynical or more altrustic through, merely they have less power.
Would it be reasonable to tax meeting up in person? If not, how is this different?
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You posted something inaccurate and chasing offered a correction. Instead of e-pretending to miss the point, accept the correction as you did with ramblerman.
Because social media is simply one of the vast amount of websites on the internet, it's unfair to tax it alone. Either you tax the whole internet comsumption (e.g. every 5GB or something like that) or you don't.

Imagine taxes specific to laundering machines that only apply when washing underwear, but not for any other clothes, it makes no sense.

Also, the govt. snooping on what people access / banning use of VPNs raises privacy concerns (and even censorship ones).
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I have a few theories.

- Snow Leopard was the last $99 upgrade, and I think people like to convince themselves purchases were worth it. That effect is entirely lost with free OS upgrades, I'm free to disparage them without feeling like an idiot for buying it.

- Many people in enterprise & education stuck with SL for longer than they usually would have on the server, because it was the last OSX with an actual server release. This ends up with a "people who know what they're talking about are sticking with SL" narrative that gets propagated sans the understanding of _why_ they kept it around.

- SL was the last release on physical media, which upsets the "they're turning my mac into a phone" narrative.

Interestingly, when Snow Leopard was current, everyone held 10.4 Tiger up as the canonical release in much the same way they later did SL. Snow Leopard wasn't cool until it was already dead. Part of me suspects later releases haven't been able to take this mantle simply because they don't stick around long enough to make a name for themselves. (Although Sierra is starting to get there, thanks to a crowd of people who are too scared of APFS to upgrade to High Sierra).
> that would require that it be able to derive such a fact from a core understanding of what addition and division mean

Yes, and that's the part that's not possible in general, only for specific cases. For example, you can prove that:

f(P: int -> boolean, x: int) => P(x) ? f(x + 1) : halt

will halt for any x IFF there are an infinite number of integers that have the property P, so f will halt if P is "is an even integer" because there are an infinite number of even integers (which, obviously, you can also prove).

And with that in mind, you might want to go take another look at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17465542
The individual users own the content they create. The Reddit TOS gives Reddit a broad license to use it but the content itself is owned by the users.
I mean, the reason all of these vegetables are grown in California is basically because it is already a controlled environment. It's sunny all the time, and it doesn't get much rain, so you are just irrigating at the optimal time for the crop in question.
There are definitely networks in our brain that classify what we're seeing. An uneducated guess, though, is that the networks in our brains have many, many intermediate representations and don't go directly from image -> words, but rather go to abstract classifiers that can go back to words.
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> The entire point of Privacy Shield, like Safe Harbor before it

Exactly, I didn't mean that Privacy Shield is the problem, but that it is trying to address that problem, but I can see that I expressed myself ambiguously.

> The logical conclusion if all such schemes are struck down is that exporting any personal data to the US for any reason will become illegal

But that's good! Not in the sense that we should wish for that outcome, but in the sense that the US should offer real assurances to us that allow us to enter such an agreement..
Think its this: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-northrop-employee-2018...

But CA state law protects employees from retaliation based on their political ideology. So there is nothing they can do.
Job growth is a good thing only if it benefits the people who live in a place before said growth occurs. Otherwise, you're incentivized to just keep shifting high-paid populations around and calling it success.
Reminds me of pre-revolution Tunisia. Maybe that's the actual solution.
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I'm not that patient...

That first visit ended with my berating the staffer for being useless and working for a shitty company.

I was not proud of that moment, but what I said was not untrue.

They really had me in their grips... if I just stopped paying without formally ending the contract with the agreed upon "cancellation appointment" (that I apparently agreed to in the original contract) then they would have dinged my credit score for not paying my bills on time essentially.
Because tax, in general is absurd. You're literally taking people's money under the threat of force. Just because it is done quite universally does not justify the practice.

More specifically, taxes are abused near universally. From the sugar taxes in Seattle (unless you are Starbucks), or forced Union dues that fund political campaigns, the practice is abused. Meanwhile necessary services like police, firefighters, and rescue workers are always under underfunded, even though that's why we think we're paying them.
How about a thought experiment, assuming you had multiple domains, obfsproxy and Let's Encrypt going how are they going to be able to tell if everything is over 443?
The people that tend to think America is awful in my experience overwhelmingly tend to be American. Most non-Americans seem to have good things to say.
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Its Δ value comes entirely from water-saving, but water-saving on traditional horizontal farming is likely to yield larger food benefits than vertical farming. See, e.g. http://waterbit.com. (Disclosure: I am an investor.)

The big thing is that most farms could both use less water and concomitantly yield more crop. It's good to make plants work for it. And IME yields better tasting food, too.
Doesn't SpaceX have some of their new suits they could lend to the rescue? Or do the suits not have integrated oxygen sources?
>I have no issue with my search data/post viewing history providing me better results or better ads. The real damaging data to people and society at large is a different set of data.

Hmm, I disagree. It seems to me that both sources of data are dangerous. Yes, showing "You have 10 likes" is bad for users as social media companies iterate their way towards addiction but your search data is a toxic asset beyond just showing ads. Let's say google leaked everyone's search history tomorrow. How many marriages are going to be ruined? How many politicians are going to resign? How many future politicians will decide to never run? How many firings and never-hirings will there be based on that history?

People should be able to live normal lives without being surveilled - by governments or corporations.
At the time that it was in the market, a "64-bit address space" wasn't the default. There's way more to it than the size of off_t, as it permeates the entire on disk filesystem structure.

For instance, the BSDs didn't have 64-bit block offsets until UFS2 which wasn't a default until FreeBSD 5 in 2003. In other systems, HFS didn't have 64-bit file lengths until HFS+ in 1998. NTFS started as full 64-bit, but you couldn't really get that on a consumer system until WinXP (maybe Win2000 for the prosumer market).
If you take the stance that social media is ultimately a bad thing for society, then a tax actually seems like a good solution.

After all, San Francisco decided that soda is a bad thing and implemented a soda tax. What's the difference?
But leaving the EU will solve none of Italy's problems. Immigration pressure will continue (without any Frontex help) and likely rise with actually closed borders in the north, funding for poorer regions via EU programmes be removed, working labour markets in the north will be closed off to Italian immigrants, tourism will suffer etc etc.

At least the UK could argue that it may get better trade deals, but what's in it for Italy?
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>I don't care if I'm paying "double" because that "half price" is accounting for crap like this.

That's exactly how they got me iirc.

I could have paid a few dollars more per month to be pay as you go... but I was "gonna do this" and I was going to "stick to my gym habits" and keep at this for years so why not sign my life away???

Lesson learned.

I now happily badmouth Goodlife Fitness whenever I get a chance like this.
I guess I'm far more interested in the converse. My grandmother keeps a more or less kosher house, cooking according to some pretty narrow rules. Over the years has only assimilated a few other ethnic cuisines into her palate.

The divide that I have noticed most strongly is that she seems to have split society into barbaric, rice-eating cultures, and the noble wheat/potato eaters. I'm pretty sure she doesn't even know how rice is cooked. She would never say it like this, but her aversion to cuisine does happen to correlate with groups that she will make casually racist comments about. The most prominent example being the Japanese, with Mexico being a close second.

I've been wondering for a while how closely correlated racism and food-racism are. Are picky eaters more likely to be xenophobes? Certainly I cannot imagine myself ever saying anything negative about Thailand or Ethiopia, but I don't feel anything like that empathy for China, or people who consume ketchup.
I understand why you feel that way. People are moving here so fast! They're changing everything, and there's no way we could ever keep up with how large the hordes of new migrants are.

However, I think it might actually be possible to build homes rapidly enough to meet demand. We should at least try, and if we fail we'll have a lot of new housing. That's a nice prize no matter the outcome. What's convenient about this approach is that if we get rid of the political obstacles to construction, we almost certainly can build enough housing!

Failing that, how about we tax people who have helped perpetuate this state of affairs and benefit the most to help address the problem? How about a "created this mess" tax on everyone who has been in the Bay for ten years or more? Maybe they can contribute a little to solving the problem they created, rather than inflicting pain on other people and shouting "STOP HITTING YOURSELF!".

No, that's not a serious proposal. It makes more sense than slapping people with taxes for the privilege of moving to one of the most expensive places in the world, but that is not a high bar.
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That's the man trying to keep you down. You should have made it a point in every subsequent meeting with that lawyer to ask about the progress on getting you that Quad Pump AGP Port.
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> I'm not sure why this tax should be labelled as absurd

It's not the tax per se so much as how it's being levied and enforced. Social media should be subject to a sales tax, levied on the provider. This is being structured as a use tax, levied on users. Use taxes are notoriously difficult to enforce, and digital goods make that harder.
> A farmer with, say, 3 acres of land usually grows only 2-3 crops at a time. With Farmizen, the company claims, he can grow up to 20 crops using natural methods. This also improves the quality of the soil. Multiple crops also help from the risk management perspective. If there are 30 crops growing on a farm and three fail, the rest compensate for the loss.

While heterogeneous plantings can reduce herbivore pressure, I feel like this could result in higher soil pest load by removing the opportunity for crop rotation. For instance, with some crops it's important to not plant them in any given area for more than a couple years in a row, otherwise the infectious nematode population (or whatever) builds up in the soil. Intercropping with a solid field of brassicas can help break up the pest population cycles.

But maybe this would work if they keep rotatating where the Farmizen plots are.

In any case, an interesting twist on Community Supported Agriculture.
The research problem you're thinking of is known as "The Secretary Problem" and Wikipedia has pretty comprehensive coverage on it (spoiler: it's N/e). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
Taxing TV and phone is like taxing internet connectivity. While a bit odd, this is perfectly fine. The reason for this is that it does not discriminate content, but only care about the utility itself.

Taxing social media is like taxing you for saying or hearing a specific word or sentence on the phone, or every time a certain show is broadcast on the TV.

This is absurd, and a violation of free speech, as it discriminates content. It is an attempt to control information exchange by discouraging it. The ulterior motive is usually manipulation of the citizens to keep them in line in absurd regimes, and/or to avoid the outside becoming aware of their internal issues.

Separately, these idiocies implemented by people that do not understand how the internet works undermines fundamental security aspects by being incompatible with proper cryptographic security measures. You cannot, for example, serve a portal instead of a properly configured HTTPS site without your browser noticing, so HTTPS needs to be blocked first.
Oh god. Of course he does.

Stay out of this Musk. There's lives at stake here and nobody needs your brainworm riddled opinions.
> analyzing how much data flows in which direction and when

Encapsulated TCP SYN packets, for example, smaller than any HTTP request inside TLS would be.

Want to beat that by padding? Everything always being the same size is an anomaly too.
I've done that for a living; I don't care to repeat it, I like my "interactive terminal".
> You're literally taking people's money under the threat of force

Money that would have no meaning, earned for work which would largely be impossible, without said threat of force.
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If selected do you think it is worth going to? Also, do you guys have experience with previous bootcamps - if so - how were they in content and networking opportunities?
Voat's been having some downtimes but otherwise it's alright. You'll need to to pick and chose which subs you subscribe to to avoid the more abrasive elements. Subs like /v/justgrowit are pretty good and I'm trying to make /v/radioastronomy good.

You gotta be the change you want to see.
> Of course I understand that it’s a strategy for getting away with shipping poor software

That's just an excuse you're using to justify your frustration about having a freedom taken away because of bad actors.

> however, as a responsible and experienced user I should be able to disable this. and even then, it’s completely wrong to be force an upgrade when the computer is in use

How do you propose we sort out the irresponsible users and keep them from disabling this feature after watching some youtube video on how to boost system performance?

> (oh yeah I can pay for the privilege by paying for the pro version)

Not with Pro you can't. Only with Enterprise and it only exists there because the assumption exists that the organization will force updates at it's own rate.
I, uh, appreciate your "benefit of the doubt", but I should set the record straight: I very consciously put that file in there. GitHub did not suggest it, I chose to do it (and you can even see--brace yourself--that the build scripts copy it into each package when it builds them!).

While, if we're being honest, the impact of a code of conduct on even a large project is fairly small--it can be ignored just as easily as anything else--it's really good at outing people who think complaints of "virtue signaling" matter as much as a fart in a thunderstorm. I don't want to work with people who act that way and if having a code of conduct in there is a sufficient "you are unwelcome if you cannot act decently" sign, then by god I'll conduct those codes.
You really wish for a paranthesis counting pen when you have to write pages and pages of LISP (I think it was Common Lisp in our case) on paper for an exam.
Reddit search was incomplete but powerful, and a major factor in my choosing the platform over alternative, particularly Ello (no effective search) or G+ (none until earlier this year).

Most key: searching for my own posts.

Other factors: CSS, markdown. Notifs are middlin'. Fostering conversation: utterly broken.

Nuking my sub's CSS in the new version is among unpardonable offenses.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/wiki/faq#wiki_so.2C_red...

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/20yhxc/reddit_...

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/8rq08y/i_wont_...

Reddit are burning massively through goodwill.
Yeah Comcast refused to cancel online about 5 times in a row despite me repeatedly citing their ToS which explicitly says you can cancel by e-mail in section 9b. The parrots on the other end kept repeating that they needed to verify my identity (Ehm, stopping payments should be sufficient verification, thanks.)

I've long deprecated phone calls as a method for businesses to reach me. I don't know why businesses don't get it already.

I got my way after about 7 e-mails with Comcast. Still saved time at ~1 minute per e-mail.

Can Google Assistant please stop working on the haircut reservation systems and make "automatically fight with customer service departments" the priority feature?
We often take for granted how lucky we are here in the US that many people from different cultures come here and sell their food in restaurants, food trucks, bars etc.
Your dissent is quickly being crushed into oblivion.
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My being a dick head doesn't not preclude you from being one. It's not a title.
As an Asian, I have been to 10+ cities each in the US and Western Europe, and have spent considerable amount of time on both continents. While being a data point of one, here are my observations:

- Residents of European cities were less welcoming to foreigners like me. (Maybe due to language issues? I speak accented German, a bit of Spanish and English, which can explain why Parisians were rude).

- Immigration to USA, along with path to its citizenship, was a hard but straightforward process (6-7 years once you get H1B). In Europe, I found that UK and Switzerland has a simpler process, but other countries (eg. France) make it very hard to be their citizen.

- Stereotypes abound on both sides of Atlantic (eg. "socialist countries stuck with horrible economies", "rednecks, puritans, prudes, ignorant" as your comment says), which seem highly exaggerated.

- both US and Western Europe offered a far better quality of life compared to my home country. And such debates (USA vs Western Europe) seem farcical from that perspective, or "first world problems" as they say.
Or they use this social media tax as disguise to enforce internet censorship
Now, sure. But don’t tell Teddy Roosevelt. Or Lincoln. And there’s a bunch of air traffic controllers who might disagree with you about Reagan.