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I'm curious about why you accept the idea that the smallest, most extreme versions of certain ideologies are the true beliefs, while the more widespread and moderate versions are just nascent extremists. The extremists definitely advocate this kind of idea, but why accept it?

If you accept this kind of layered idea of right-wing ideas, you could just as easily accept the same construction for the left-wing, saying that democratic socialists are just nascent Stalinists, and that totalitarian socialists represent their true beliefs.

In a way, this has been playing out since at least the French Revolution. There's a very clear connection between the modern left and the left wing at the Estate General. Of course, the name has remained the same, but also the core idea of remaking society as rational and egalitarian has persisted. The idea that we can be wiser than traditional culture with modern insignts also drives the technology industry. But it has undeoubtably led to unimaginable suffering and raised up many totalitarians.

I'd offer that the extremists do not in fact represent the true versions of either left or right-wing ideologis. They are idealogues caught in the mental trap of pursuing the purity of their ideas without the ability to accept that ideas are only abstract expressions. They may even believe that their ideas are beyond abstractions, as you will see with may people who advocate for racial purity. They want to find something real, beyond ideas, although in reality they just found one more idea that won't offer the satisfaction they're looking for.

So don't believe the extremists when they tell you that everyone remotely like them will eventually be just like them. That's just elevating their power. If people like you cut off ties with anyone conservative because you think they might be proto-fascists, the diversity of thought within their social group will shrink until eventually maybe the extremists will win after all.
I disagree, only because infinity is not an element of the real or the complex numbers. You can make extended number systems (the hyperreals, for instance) but it isn't commonly done. Infinity as a notation in the limit is not the same thing as infinity as an element of a set.
Lots' of these in console using chrome on windows. No special settings or anything.

Failed to load http://2cbjt.akrin.com:7342/socket.io/?focused=true&url=www....: Redirect from 'http://2cbjt.akrin.com:7342/socket.io/?focused=true&url=www.... to 'http://127.0.0.1:2372/blockpage?id=178' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://www.mandalagaba.com' is therefore not allowed access.
I’m very familiar with this case. Note that there obviously was not a slam dunk level of evidence, the defendants were declared innocent, and the DA was disbarred. Sounds like the system works to me (although with undue stress).

What percentage of cases do you think are like this? My guess is sub 0.01% — it’s just not that common according to the defense attorneys I know. When it does happen, bar complaints fly. My friend tells me that there definitely are wrongful convictions, but it is often not that the person was innocent of a crime, but that they were convicted of the wrong charge. As far as I am concerned, these types of cases seem to be very much the exception rather than the rule — no system is perfect, and I am fully aware of that.

I have said elsewhere that a corrupt district or DA is a caveat to my stance. Ditto with high profile “must try” cases (I was a juror in one of those).
That was a district with a corrupt DA — it happens. The cool thing to me is that the dude was disbarred — the system worked.

I will also add that I think universities interpret rules far too generously (more like guilty until proven innocent), and I don’t agree with that at all, but that does not always become a legal matter. When it does, it is often a must-case for political reasons, and plea deals getnwokky then. I’ve said all of this elsewhere.
The general rule of thumb for retirement is to take your expected retirement expenses/month time 25 and have that in your retirement portfolio (cash/stock/bonds/etc). You can then pull out 4% and the money should last you at least 30 years, generally forever. You can check FIRECalc for simulations.

My only thoughts on your situation is you are assuming high return rates, and not a realistic retirement amount. You need to remember, you must pay out of pocket for health care, so budget 1k per person for that.
> None is willing to take on the risks associated with technical debt repayment.

This risk is vastly mitigated with good test coverage.

https://smile.amazon.com/Growing-Object-Oriented-Software-Gu...

https://codeclimate.com/blog/refactoring-without-good-tests/
I notice at my job there were a lot of i need feature x to which we commonly replied i would like to build x but the horrible old y system is stopping me or we would just make things much worse to try and meld feature x into legacy/messy y system. I was a dev dealing with the legacy systems at my company for years and then i took over management and said we need to remove or clean up these legacy weak points so we can build features faster and more maintainable, so yes we started at the first day of this year cleaning up from the worst / weakest links first on. In 6 months we are done using 2 new hires to complete new work while 2 senior devs did clean up. 6 months compared to years of spinning tires was well worth it. Eventually the CEO gets sick of hearing excuses of why we cant build this or that or are wasting 50% of our time fixing bugs. Productivity is soaring now for multiple reasons at my company, testing, documentation, removing old systems and even though we have a small team every senior dev is leading a junior dev. Side note this is the first time we have hired junior developers at this company and its been a big pay off giving a lot more free time to the senior guys to work on the most important things.
> This happens across the US political specturm, whether about their tax system, banking system, gun reform, electoral reform, and many other issues; it's a frequent refrain that the US is so different it can't learn from others.

Alternatively, it's a frequent refrain that the U.S. _should_ learn from others, which is e.g. why we should preserve our federal system, electoral system and rights.

I think it's a _good_ thing that the several states are separate sovereigns from the United States, and I think it's a good thing that the states are entirely reliant on the United States for their budgets (and in fact, those places where they are reliant, e.g. the highway budget, have led to anti-federal things like a uniform drinking age, something which is 100% not the business of the United States government).
I've also seen

Programmer A writes straightforward code that's easy to change and understand.

Programmer B writes convoluted "clever" code that completely falls apart when requirements change, or even just in production because their clever solution didn't account for all of the edge cases.

Now Programmer B has to save the day consistently, and therefore is seen as the person saving the company, when the problems were all of Programmer B's construction to begin with.
A phone and the Microsoft Office Lens app.
> freedom and equality will at some point exclude themselves

depends strongly on the POV I'd argue. I think I know what you mean: If you don't enforce equality by taking away freedoms naturally an inequality will emerge.

One could also argue that this desired freedom doesn't exist, because the moment you have that imbalance you automatically have a large group of people who suffer less freedom due to less wealth/power.

One might even argue that limitations can create freedoms. Because murder is usually a crime that is punishable by law, it is much easier to create non-violent business in modern, western countries. Few people would say that they are less free because murder is taken out of most people's equation.
This was from the famous Stitch in Time that Saved Nine. Since the US Constitution does not put a limit on the number of Supreme Court justices, FDR threatened to increase the number and stack the court in his favor if they did not rule in his favor.

Given my understanding of how lower courts work on case law, this set a whole bunch of biased precedents from this one ruling. The ability of California to set good environmental law could still prevail if they could get a ruling using some other way like the 10th amendment.
This isn’t a security issue, Venmo is publishing this data by design. It’s already available for law enforcement, and they don’t need a Twitter bot. The bot was to inform the public.

Shaming Venmo into protecting their users or just raising public awareness about their policies is a great start.
You have multiple engineers working with each other on the same code base, reviewing each other's code before it can be merged into the main branch.

Then you start to find which engineers the other ones don't like to work with.
This is sort of why GAAP and IFRS are constantly-evolving reporting standards: companies always want to present the best-possible version of events and investors always want to know the bad news.
I don't eliminate the typing, but I use Evernote to grab a picture of the receipt, then tag it with the trip that I am on.

This at least reduces the burden of figuring out what receipt goes with what and I have a copy of it at all times in case of issues.
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The reasons I say it is complex is because depending on the sensor technology, resolution, image pipeline, etc. there are many different ways you could compare image quality. If you compare extremely different sensors, like a 1/3" and full frame, then of course the larger sensor will be better, but comparing say a 1/2" sensor with a 1" sensor is less clear.

The smaller pixel sensor will have a better resolution in lp/mm for example, if downscaled to the same resolution as a lower resolution sensor, in many cases you will end up with an image with better detail and less noise (due to averaging out the noise). This is why cameras like the Sony A7iii take a 6K readout and downsample it to 4K for video output.

My comment about computational processing still stands though. While a RAW file will give you much more ability to process, complex computational processing just isn't used to nearly the same level in any raw processor I'm aware of (DxO Photolab is probably the most advanced at this, but still is relatively basic), which does make it a valid comparison at the moment. The simple fact is that small sensors these days have closed the gap with larger sensors significantly, while there are areas they are inadequate in, there are other shooting conditions where the differences are minimal which is a statement I would have scoffed at when I started working with cameras 6 years ago.
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The public stream is so old that I assume people put drug emoji in there as an over joke.
What's the point of encrypting the sites in China anyway? I mean obviously everything you do online in China is tracked and not only that but shared - so is it maybe better in China to just not encrypt to safe on the additional power consumption? Really good green policy in China :D
Not really. Buying Food and Housing works in the current currency too, through inflation it's even enforced. If you don't buy it now your money is worthless.

And buying coffee is just an example for small transactions that most people rely on, people want to do small penny transactions all the time to buy food not in bulk but as they need it. Buying in bulk is usually bad not only because it's happening due to the failing economy but also because it leads to more spoilage and rotten food being thrown away. That's bad for the environment.
How none of Google's 85k employees have been successfully phished in over a year
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Huh, so if prices are high then blame them on fixing and collusion? What blatant proof do you have?

They aren't setting any minimum floors or requiring retailers to set any floor. Heck, they don't even sell to retail directly anymore.
Not sure if this was sarcasm or not... please be sarcasm..
Public health insurance premiums in Germany are capped at slightly above 700€, including the part the employer pays (Beitragsbemessungsgrenze is the relevant keyword here).
'no more static access to value, we need a more dynamic system'

-- E.U
> EU fines represent about 3% of EU revenue

wow. Really?

You make that sounds like its insignificant, but it really isn't.

Fines that go in to the 'consolidated budget' for a country or region doesn't seem right; it's blatantly in their own interest to lay out fines, regardless of if the behaviour warranted it or not.

This seems very familiar to the US property seizure laws; the line between 'justice' and 'flat out corrupt' is fine, and there's significant financial gain to walking the corrupt side of the line.

I don't think this is anything to be proud of.
The title is "Financial Advice Fever Pitch with former footballer Daniel Nardiello" Please don't mix comment/opinion with the title.
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Rich preppers do not get it. Food is #1 to survive short term and long term. They need a large farm and a community
Some states charge, for example prison health care, TDCJ/Texas will give you a bill upon release or skim your commissary account for payments. There's barely a state budget for prisons and voters don't want to pay for it, meaning political suicide if you're giving tax dollars to convicts.
> he mentioned he can't compile the app without the IDE.

Very likely this should be translated to mean:

"he does not know how to compile the app without the IDE".
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I’ll chime in for Scanbot as well. I used to use a work multi page scanner for my documents, but unless it’s more than 10 pages I just use Scanbot now. It’s got great OCR and it automatically backs up to Google Drive or Dropbox.
> You can't be charged with crimes they can't prove

You certainly can be charged with any crime with or without evidence. And the way they make it stick is to offer a plea deal to avoid trial.
I miss the days when the developers at Apple were allowed to express a sense of humour.

I've been digging through these old CDs to find the necessary magical incantations for writing an Ethernet driver for the SE/30 10/100Mbit Ethernet card I'm developing.

https://www.mactothefuture.org/
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Am sad to see glorious brands like these in this kind of news. I guess the AV era is mostly gone and they tried the obvious first trick in the hat to keep going.
He means one that slowly goes out of date because nobody has the time to change it when the requirements change.
We need not get involved. Regime change and policing the world isn't our responsibility. As bad as it is, we need our military to focus on us and our borders alone, we need to stop meddling in foreign affairs that don't affect us here at home.
> US had the longest period of high growth when taxation was "overwhelming" (post-war boom).

One's economy tends to do well when one has intact factories & workforce while the rest of the civilised world has been levelled and much of its workforce slain. We'll never see something like the post-war boom again unless we see something as utterly, senselessly destructive as the war itself (note that the economy would ultimately have been better in the long term had there never been a war).
I've used a similar approach for technical debt: 1) Get buy-in from the stakeholders that it's OK for developers to spend 30 minutes a day making their life better; 2) Communicate a vision for what the end goal is to the developers; 3) Get the developers buy-in.

If the developers aren't willing to do it in small chunks, then it probably isn't bothering them that much.
Also, I imagine, the ever-decreasing cost of large format touchscreens. I shudder to think how much one of those must've cost back in 2000!
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I teach in a college. Many's the time I've been waiting to get into a classroom because the folks in there are wrapping up an exam, and students come out, instantly produce the phone, and I hear, "Hi mom, I did OK on the quiz, I think ..." That's too much.
you also always have to disable your custom DNS settings, and sometimes that means disable your DNS over TLS or go without internet :(
Stay away from any websites or apps (there's numerous) powered by Metabrite's SDK. They data mine and resell [1] the receipts scanned.

[1] https://www.metabrite.com/use-cases/
Sorry for not reading your comment closely.
I don't understand why organizations are still requiring retention of original documents. Scans/Faxes have been recognized as legally adequate copies for quite a while. Are there still regulations that require original documents?
I have seen some very bad technical debt. Everyone talks about rewriting it, but what ends up happening is the company will just throw more people on it.

In a more perfect scenario, something like TDD would have been used and there would be a large test suite. There would also be some really nice well maintained requirements and technical specifications. Under this scenario it would be much easier to redesign or refactor the system. But given the reality of business, this is never the case.
It never got old. Phishing+macros+lateral movement are still a very significant vector. The industry exacerbates this by running with the feel-good "don't blame the user!" mantra.

At some point you really do need to give up on your fancy canaries, gateway and host IDS, perimeter blinky boxes, threat intelligence feeds, endpoint protection products, etc, and just start firing those in your employ who willfully and joyously thumb their noses at basic security hygiene.
This is really well executed. I had a project like this on my idea list, although for the Raspberry Pi.
FTA:

“Taxes are generally subject to a three-year statute of limitations from when a return is filed, but taxpayers who start spending more time in New York even years after they’ve made a move -- like around the birth of a grandchild -- may come to auditors’ attention and be forced to provide evidence of a move that happened a decade or more in the past.”
Lucky you :) I think there's a reason that post is currently voted to the top.

I'm lead engineer on my startup's project, not the CTO but reporting directly to him. Team of about 30.

There are of course many legitimate things that can be described as tech debt, files that got too large and convoluted over many patches by many people, that sort of thing. But I find I have to watch out for the concept of "tech debt" because a few engineers will abuse it if given the chance.

For instance they will insist that code that was just written fresh by a colleague is "tech debt" because they would personally have written it differently, when there are no meaningful differences between the two approaches.

They can claim that a design they don't understand the reasons for immediately (regardless of whether it's documented) is tech debt.

They can claim any feature they don't personally want to do or which is perceived as hard work will create tech debt. And so on.

I wrote the initial code and I'm close enough to the codebase still to be able to fairly thoroughly examine claims of tech debt. I'd say most such claims are actually not a big deal and do not justify any non-trivial investments of time to resolve.

Moreover the sort of engineers who pay down more than their fair share of legitimate tech debt are invariably the ones who complain about it the least.
I would expect that the average computer/smart phone user in 2018 is much less computer-literate than the average computer user in 1998.

You don't have to know anything about computers to use them now. I would expect for most non-technical users, the computer consists of the web browser, and maybe Microsoft Office and a few games and that's it.

It's good that you don't have to know how a computer works to use it, but there are lots of downsides to that as well.
> you are under educated (sic) about how the justice system works.

What an arrogant and ignorant comment. You can absolutely have your probation or parole revoked for something like this. No conviction necessary.

Also you're wrong about PII being removed, unless you think that your photo and first name don't constitute PII (in which case, I hope you are never tasked with handling PII at your job).
My guess would be a big gas generator in the back of the bus.
I'd like to see Mexico lead the fray, people give Mexico a bad rep, if they led something like this and succeeded at 'saving' Venezuela it'd give them more cred. They should draft all the warlords and drug cartel members...hehe... "Bring your own guns".
I think the analogy may still be useful/interesting. It's just that with financial debt you have borrowed money, with technical debt you have borrowed time. Financial debt reduces the efficiency of future available money (interest payments), technical debt reduces the efficiency of future dev time.

I agree with your point that technical debt is a lot harder to identify, the way to pay some of it off may not be obvious and taking on that debt is not usually a conscious decision.

Sometimes you'll cut a corner to get a prototype done or hit an important deadline and there it seems more of a clear trade off, time now for pain later. But, as you say, the creeping (and inevitable?) technical debt of aging projects is less obvious. More like maintenance costs for assets and investment in rust proofing?
I think most people talk about politics most of the time in glib generalization, but the ego bit isn't just that he (reasonably) can expect people to take his dismissal of Europe seriously, but that he dismisses it by specifically lamenting its lack of opportunities for people like him and expressing contempt for its provision of opportunities for people that are not like him. Admittedly, he was responding to some pretty leading questions.

More than anything else though, you have to admire the sheer chutzpah of someone dismissing the millions who do not share his politics as "establishment" in the middle of a discussion about his donations and advice to the President...
I noticed in Canada several banks were listed. But they go to SSL.
The issue with one time pads isn't their security. That's fine.

The issue is key management. Both parties need the same key and it has to be at least as large as the data you want to send. Each set of parties needs a different key.

If you had a method to securely transmit such keys then you could just transmit your data over it instead.

This is why one time pads are only used by countries to communicate with staff overseas. You can send the pads by diplomatic courier for use in communication later. There is no equivalent mechanism for your web activity and every site on earth.
Yeah GDPR has provisions for that. In the US though? I don't think it's illegal if it's in the ToS or EULA.
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charged and held in jail
I use TurboScan for Android for portable document scans. Don't use OCR much, so can't vouch for how good it is.

At home I use a old flatbed scanner.
I've seen similar insurance claims invalidated because the company couldn't prove then had taken reasonable steps to prevent an attack.

The fact there were two similar incidents 8 months apart tells me there was a fundamental security issue which wasn't addressed correctly.
Check your asset's load times in the Networking tab of DevTools.
While there isn't any positive proof for recent price changes, the prices are suspect given the history of price fixing DRAM producers have engaged in[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing