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I'm not familiar with directly, but if you're more familiar with comp-sci: based on my understanding of Curry-Howard correspondence, I would think it's the logic equivalent of the halting problem. I could be way off-base though, I'd appreciate a mathematician chiming in on whether my intuition is accurate here.
> and have much better security than other "secure" emails, like Fastmail

Can you elaborate?
Tech multinationals are almost by definition 24/7 operations.

The UK for an American tech company is a large stable country within 1-2 hours of the timezone of the largest single market in the world and has a shared language and culture.

If you want to sell into Europe then Britain made sense...until the fuckwits voted for leave (yeah I'm bitter, they fucked over everyone my age and under).
> They aren't using OS/2 to browse the WWW. They are using Mozilla Firefox to browse the WWW

But I think the point of the article is to gather funding to build a new browser for the future (1.5-2 years away) when their Firefox support ends?
So don’t hire an EU contractor.
I bet it would be a different story if you took the direction of movement of the score.

Honestly I was thinking about the presidential politics rather than regional. Indonesia is a large and diverse country. Similar population to the USA and arguably more diverse.
A lot of countries are happy to accept immigrants from other civilized countries. If some are not, that's their choice, I will look into those who are open to accepting me.
We can have freedom of movement without tons of other regulations.
I can for example move to Thailand as many of my friends did even though Thailand isn't in any way of form part of centralized EU government. They will just be happy if I live, pay taxes and spend money there.
There are laws that need to be set at global level but set of those is way smaller than EU legislature operates on.
What? I never said they were mutually exclusive? Far from a conflict, what you're describing is exactly the network effect: it both became large because it was superior, and it's size/growth contributed to it's superiority. This is the flywheel that is the network effect.
So if someone calls you and you're using speakerphone and they say something bad you should be arrested?
This is not feasible for the majority of users.

I follow ~360 YT channels, I desire them very much and they are not uploading it anywhere else.
Except you would't need to, they have local offices.
ECS is simple to get started, but does not have a vast array of features that are necessary to run a service reliably at scale. It is possible to add many of these to ECS, but it’s left as an exercise to the reader to write up various API’s, cloudwatch, Lambda, etc.

I can provide more specific details if there’s questions.
I am thinking about moving from US to London. So, I am curious to know why you prefer UK to US despite the salary gap.

Also, do you know how does their healthcare compare?
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Does anyone know if (and how) you can check which MEPs voted for and against it? Does that data get published somewhere?
That starts to rule out a lot of English speaking countries, including probably the UK.

I mean, in the UK alone you'd need to evaluate what, if anything, separates the modern British morals from the morals of the British Empire which was not a very nice organisation [1]. They technically didn't overthrow and bully, but that was because they conquered and colonised. I don't think the lineage of government institutions has changed that drastically.

The modern anglosphere (UK, Australia, US, New Zealand, Canada) are all part of the spying-on-everyone gig.

The social security system and environmental comments I'll grant you; but the reason for that is (ironically, given your comment) that people don't want to contribute taxes for it. Work life balance I have no comment.

[1] EDIT The stereotype I picked up was that a good foundation of modern British wealth was a bunch of things they 'found unattended' overseas. I gather the Indians still claim that some parts of British royal jewelry were stolen from them and should be returned with an apology.
That only helps if the spy equipment needs more than power from the USB port. It doesn't need a data connection if it's picking up RF noise from the laptop and audio from people to transmit to nearby agents.

It was done in the '80s with much less advanced technology: http://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/selectric/
Except that the superiority, at this point, has nothing to do with the product itself. It is primarily—possibly solely—due to who else uses it.

That is not something that WhatsApp chose, or designed, except in that they hoped that everyone would be using it.

This is not a free market, where the product in question is something that one simply purchases and continues to purchase, and can switch to any other product freely. The products in this space are, to some extent, non-interchangeable (Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp may all offer online communication with other users, but if the users you want to contact are only on one of them, that is the only one that is useful to you), and there is a significant barrier to exit.

So a product that no one would have willingly chosen to start using may still end up being used long after it is, objectively, inferior to every other offering in that product category—so long as the people using it still need to communicate with each other, and cannot easily coordinate a mass exodus to a different product.
You'd have to implement proper versioning for one, which takes nonzero effort. Furthermore people being people, they'll complain about breaking changes regardless.
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As has been mentioned, this is a common (albeit incorrect) use/understanding of what Command and Control actually is.

I wrote an article some time ago to reframe this in a business context: https://adamdrake.com/command-and-control.html

In short, when all startups are complaining that people don't show initiative/don't have alignment/etc. what they're really saying is that they have inadequate Command and Control!

These approaches and processes for keeping people working together with unity of purpose towards a series of objectives have been refined over thousands of years and under the most difficult circumstances. Ignore them at your (and your team's) peril.
Interesting how The Guardian are choosing to report this: "YouTube and Facebook could escape billions in copyright payouts after EU vote" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/05/youtube-c...
Yes, I would have to detach the browser window, move it to the other screen (which is inconvenient because it has to go through a third screen), drop it, fullscreen it, press play, and when it's done close the window.

Much more involved than a single click that never even has to open a new tab.
Telecoms monopolies are usually required to provide fair access to competitors. BT in the UK provides a number of services to resellers and limited site access to exchanges to and cabinets. But that open access only has to be fair by law, not free. BT gets showered in cash, both to maintain the infrastructure and also provide physical access. KPN will too.

Running Whatsapp isn't free. Their servers hold messages, handle authentication, developers need salaries. Third parties should have to contribute to this too. WhatsApp should get to charge for access to their infrastructure, Just like BT/KPN/etc.

But now you're in a situation where competitors either pony up and swallow the cost themselves —as WhatsApp does— or we also force WhatsApp to not undercut its wholesale price, to make it less tempting. Price restrictions are common in attempts to overturn physical monopolies.

Open access is a lofty goal but it also cements that protocol, those phone lines, that water pipe as the provider for that type service. It can also arrest the development of the base infrastructure, as well as putting people off developing their own alternatives.

Or... We get a bit more revolutionary about things like this. If somebody makes something that becomes fundamental to society, society buys it outright. [Inter]nationalise services (and drugs, and patents, etc). In this case, buy WhatsApp, federate the service (allow people to run their own nodes) and fix the addressing so it's like email. I'm sure somebody can make cases for and against that.
That python + good reads + library script is a great idea!

I'll second using local libraries. They are really a terrific resource. Between hard copies, ebooks, digital copies, and inter-library loans, it's really rare I can't get my hands on a book I want.
Even on a selfish level, the extra 2-3 weeks of PTO in UK is easily more important than the extra compensation in the US. What's the point of having more money if you are stuck in an office for more of the year and can only spend it on material goods? As you say, for women the difference in maternity leave is laughable.
I would believe the highest NET salary (the only kind that matters) of all is clearly in either Switzerland or Singapore, where you have a total tax rate of roughly 10 % at a 150k salary. The absolute salary is the same or higher than in SF, USA, but you can keep 90 %. Additionally, foreign income is taxed 0 %. Capital gains are taxed 0 %. It's hilarious to see that American's (especially the ones from SF) believe they earn the most. Yes, they are at the upper end if you consider "absolute gross salary", but at the tiny lower end for "net, after-tax salary" and "investment income".

As for stock options, your employers typically give you stock options, great bonuses and a 401k-like plan, e.g.: You can invest 5 % of your salary and we (the company) will 4x this. So this is a little like 4x free return on 5% of your salary if you max out.
That is the main reason I download stuff from youtube. I am an academic and I've had more than one video I used in a class or wanted to use for research disappear. So now I download copies of all videos that I think I might use in a class or for research.
What do you mean by "arbitrarily long"? There's this related procedure for N cake eaters, which is straightforward:

1. Arbitrarily choose an order

2. Repeat while not everyone has a slice:

a. First person without a slice cuts a slice

b. Each other person, in order, who's without a slice may either take the slice or pass it

c. If everyone else has passed, the cutter must take that slice

It's quadratic time -- worst case you go fully around the (remaining) circle for every slice -- but that's still not a very big number even for four or five political parties. How many parties are there actually going to be?

(I'm not exactly sure how this maps to the article's scheme, either; the point is that I'm not sure it's all that complex.)
The only reason I'm not using discord is exactly because they have no native client but this electron crap
Perhaps this will help you understand why the somewhat obscure and guarded legal language in the proposal is interpreted the way it is: https://juliareda.eu/2018/06/article-11-13-vote/

The upshot (wrt upload filters) is that the proposal makes platforms directly liable for the actions of their users. This follows from the text in the proposal where hosting user content is defined as an act of communication to the public.
What I will like to really know is people thoughts on what they think people 20-30 & 30-40 should do
Don't get me wrong, I'd much rather be a five eyes member than not - but I think it's naive to think any of the member states are innocent of the majority of these statements.
Crying in pain is not far off.
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I used to joke around with my brother that it'd be funny for the cutter to intentionally cut the cake like 9/10 to 1/10 then get outraged when the chooser took the bigger piece. But, you're absolutely right - choosing is better.
House prices have been skyrocketing for ages already and it's helped by the fact that Cambridge is within commuting distance of London. There's no way your average senior dev could afford to buy a house in Cambridge at this point.
What would a productive defense be?
So you maintain "1 dna code = 1 person" ? That is easily disproven.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/3-human-chimeras-...

It can also lead to someone being of 2 blood types - so that they are compatible with both.
As a simple example ripping a CD is tortuous in the UK. It was briefly allowed for format shifting, but that was deemed too antithetical to capitalism, or some shit.

Schools have to have PRS (songwriters) and PPL (musicians) collection agency licenses if they have TV because the license they pay for TV doesn't cover the music "performamce" eg of an adverts soundtrack.

Individual solo workers can't listen to a radio at work unless they're unable to be accessed by the public.

You can time-shift a TV show (say), but you're only allowed to watch it alone, and you can't watch it twice.

UK is draconian in the extreme.

Personally I'd favour a 15 year term, and only for works that have an identical un-protected copy lodged with a central agency (at a high cost), or are DRM free. Transfer/download rights for copies bought on streaming services; format shifting, relaxed time-shifting, more educational use rights, etc..
How many tax credits do oil companies get? Why not do an article about that as well.
Sure, if you look at numbers in a timeline, but 1) the British couldn't hold on to the colonies in N. America and 2) based on #1, even if they had held on to the colonies, they would have had a heck of a time enforcing abolition in the Southern states area.
To be fair, my Signal list of contacts keeps growing here in NL. I do some light proselytizing, but it seems to be moving along on it's own. Hopefully Arjan Lubach (Holland's Jon Oliver) will do a hit-peice on WhatsApp like he did on Facebook at some point in the future.

I'd like to delete WhatsApp, but any conversation I have in Signal vs WhatsApp is a small victory that I'll take. If at some point more than 50% of my messages are outside WA, I'll nuke it.
>But if earth is 4.5 billion years old, (...) why would we be the only life here?

As far as we know, there's no way to get around the lightspeed limit, which implies no matter how advanced a civilization gets, they would be constrained by physics and available resources - so no warp drives, no stargates, nothing but rockets and things that work like rockets, and generations of travel between the stars.

If that's the case, it any form of space travel, much less long term interstellar travel, might be an exception rather than the rule for intelligent species. We only assume that expansion out into the stars is a natural consequence of progress due to biases we have regarding biological and societal evolution, but space isn't just a bigger ocean.

We can't really extrapolate the likelihood of visitation by extraterrestrials from the historical tendency of cultures to encounter one another on our own planet. Given the vast size of the observable universe and the unremarkable nature of the Earth (from which we've only been broadcasting signals for a fraction of an instant, relatively speaking) it's not at all surprising that we wouldn't see anyone or that no one would see us, much less stop by for a visit.
That’s the same reasoning of ‘just ask people to use iMessage/Telegram/Signal’. Most people, whether they are producers or persons you want to talk with don’t want to deal with learning an extra platform. Don’t get me wrong, I love Telegram and YouTube not being the only player would make for a healthier market, but it just doesn’t work that way. I mean, how many people do you know that are not on WhatsApp? Its so ubiquitous market penetration is something like 90%+..
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Look, I work alone and find some situations best described by writing down long and comprehensive emails - but if you're going to accuse face-to-face contact as being 'caveman talk' I'm sorry but I'm going to wonder if your empathic or social intelligence is somehow dialled down.

My life experience tells me that there are vast tracts of productivity that are served very well by direct collaboration with other humans.
It is an act of free will among 2 options, the risky but valuable and the safe but miserable. The "poor" you end up is not a lack of ability to choose - just that you start from a shitty place.
Three hours of my day is worth way more than what Cambridge employers are willing to pay unfortunately.
Have you tried Netflix on Edge? Maybe it's just anecdotal, but I've tried multiple i7 (3xxx, 5xxx, 7xxx and 8xxx series) and Ryzen 1700/1700x systems (GPU: NVIDIA 960M, 970, 1050, 2 different 1070 TIs) and ALL of them lag horribly while using Edge. Loading Netflix is slow. Selecting a profile takes several seconds. The entire browser locks up. I generally find a show using Firefox, then open Edge and search manually to get my 1080p playback. I'm wondering if it's just a bug but it's been like this on 4 different computers so far. Netflix the App itself is also incredibly laggy on Windows 10, not sure if the issues are somehow related to one another. Am I the only one who has this?
You don't have to use Discord.
I think they're right to point out that there are corporate interests on both sides, but I also think they're doing the public a disservice by failing to mention the effect on smaller companies and even on regular internet users.
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Last time I talked to Youtubers about this, they acknowledged that there are several important things that youtube-dl can do which the official YT API cannot; the biggest feature is that youtube-dl can archive Creative Commons-licensed footage.

Youtube does occasionally attempt to break CLI tools. get-flash-videos has been beaten down hard by JS-powered authentication, but youtube-dl emulates the JS player. Ads are still broken in youtube-dl, although strangely nobody seems to want to fix them!
If you ask me, the questions are not "is it human" (skin flakes are human), "is it alive", (plankton is alive), but "is it an human individual for whom we grant rights. And so long as it is biologically dependent on a host, it is not individual at all.
My idea of a vacation isn’t trudging to a busy CVS to buy sunscreen and personal care items.
When I moved it to AWS Lambda there was some size introduced from TLS and also from some headers that AWS API Gateway adds which seem, unfortunately, impossible to easily drop (e.g., if you make the headers empty in the response, APIGW will copy them into another header and still add its own).

I might pull that service off of AWS APIGW/Lambda, in which case the size as an artifact of AGIGW would disappear again.
Skeptical response : was Hippocrates a Christian? If not then why did the oath that bears his name prohibit a doctor from participating in abortion ("I will not give a woman a pessary to procure an abortion")?
I admit that I found the book a bit pretentious and irritating the first time I read it, but someone encouraged me to read it again, and I was unemployed at the time, and I really enjoyed it the second time. I don't know if I just didn't understand it very well the first time, or if I had just become a bit more interested in theoretical math and philosophy, making me pay better attention.

I admit that the tortoise and Achilles analogies get kind of weird, and sometimes feel a bit contrived, but I actually found them instrumental to the overarching theme of the book: self-reference.

The theme was a bit more clear in "I am a Strange Loop", but I still really enjoyed GEB, if for no other reason than it made me finally understand the concepts of "axioms" and "theorems" and whatnot.
I believe so. Federal employees don’t pay social security so their only fixed income will come from their government pension.
A virtuous circle of people who make a fortune investing in other people hoping to make a fortune in the hope of making their fortune bigger. Silicon Valley is the place where agglomeration economics kicked in for information technology. That’s not really surprising. It had to be somewhere. Film has Hollywood, Finance has New York and London, Chemistry has the Rhineland, high fashion has Milan, Paris, New York and London.

What’s special about Silicon Valley is that nowhere else comes close, that the minimum efficient scale for a great many software ideas is small, that it’s new, the addressable market is close to the entire global economy, and most importantly, they’re talent constrained, not capital constrained.
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Radio 4's Today show had Jimmy Wales and William Orbit on with Justin Webb (08:32 GMT). Rory Cellan-Jones introduced it pretty well as the Beeb's Tech correspondent. Their thoughts, roughly summarised: copyright is good as creators need to get paid; mandatory upload filters aren't going to work and will certainly be a barrier for smaller players. Generally an excellent discussion. Wales said we needed to look at how artists are being paid by, for instance, Google but as they already have upload filters in place this isn't useful leverage.
There's a dire need for spam control on Whatsapp. As any Whatsapp user knows there's a ton of spam that goes around, thanks in large part to the ease of forwarding posts. If only one could flag spam, that should let the system identify repeat offenders. It helps that Whatsapp is a closed system (unlike email), where the origin of spam could be easily traced.

PS: Related article in the WSJ -- https://www.wsj.com/articles/india-admonishes-whatsapp-after...
It requires considerable operational experience and effort to run well on bare metal. Have you considered experimenting with a managed Kubernetes offering? Out of EKS, AKS, and GKE, I cannot recommend GKE highly enough.

Even if you can’t use it for production, it’s highly worth setting up a prototype environment on GKE to see what it gives you. I believe they now have GPU support, including support for preemptible GPUs (much cheaper).

Also GKE does a good job of staying up to date with releases. They are on 1.10, with support expected soon for 1.11. They _fully_ manage the upgrade of both the Kubernetes and etcd masters, and the worker nodes.

As mentioned in the linked blog post, Kubernetes is a fast moving project, and to use it you should plan and allocate significant resources in your team to keeping up with the new releases. There are a large number of fixes and improvements since 1.8 and I would look very seriously at both upgrading, and changing your processes to allow you to stay closer to the current release version.

The Kubernetes project does not, and has no current plans to, have a long term support release.
I love when you can see a screenshot of when a company was born :) (Zapier)
I think that when you hire someone you are not:

entering into a contract for the exploitation of the rights

because you are the of the rights yourself. The person you hired to write a program for you doesn't have any rights to it.
That being said, the whole article is ridiculous. If it passes you will be on the hook for % of the profits you make possibly forever if you licensed any kind of work to run your business. Maybe they should add another article where you can apply to get some of your money back if you don't make or lose money trying to run your business.