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All nations have immigration controls, most of them strict, and the majority of most economies - even Western economies are protected (Banking, Telecoms, Entertainment, Agriculture, Energy) and even those that might not be technically protected are de-facto protected by business or political cabals. Try and buy a major Japanese auto company and see how they handle that.
Exactly, Ruby Ridge and Waco for that matter were completely bungled operations, and imo were largely unjustified hamfisted responses. However they weren't inherently nefarious, just sheer incompetence and cowboy minded policing. Yet their mere existence fueled a far right movement that believes they were. In an unfortunate turn, the OKC bombing was a direct result of that. It fell right into the preaching of Koresh as well as the popular right wing writings "The Turner Diaries." That was more or less my point, and all of that occurred well before people had regular internet access.
I'm very supportive of this for all the reasons you listed, and particularly a variant of e. - it's deeply unfair that large investors get to take advantage of IPO pops that average people are locked out of.

I hope you and others follow in Spotify's shoes in normalizing direct IPOs.
What would be the right daytime setting in f.lux to reduce the harmful effects of blue light?

The default daytime setting under recommended colors in f.lux is 6500K. I tend to use a daytime setting of 5500K. Is 5500K good enough to reduce the harmful effects of blue light or do I need to go even lower?
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"Killing electric cars happened before, and most likely is the main goal here."

The reason I don't think this cliche makes sense, is because if oil is going to get more expensive, whether because of scarcity or regulation to prevent climate change, then demand for oil will go away. Higher prices mean less revenue at some point. So it's rational to try to diversify into alternatives to oil, because if you don't, no matter what you do, markets will induce people to develop them.
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That's wrong. A company's goal is to provide a worthwhile good or service. It does this effectively by generating profits that can be reinvested into growing its services or goods. And when it can no longer efficiently reinvest its profits to providing a better service or good, it instead returns the profits to shareholders so that they may reinvest those profits into companies that can better utilize the capital to provide useful goods or services.
The US did let ISIS take over large swaths of Iraq and Syria during Obama's presidency. The lack of action of the US is directly correlated to the rise of ISIS, the prolonged Syrian civil war with its disastrous consequences. It was years and many beheadings before the US decided to do anything about it and really the Russians have done most of the work as well. I really like Obama as a person but his middle east strategy was a disaster.

If anything the Russians are proving that you can intervene and be successful if you actually have any sort of coherent strategy and the right allies on the ground. They are the ones bringing an end to this bloody affair (with a lot more blood but still).

EDIT:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Syrian_Civil_W...

So for 3.5 years the US tested the "let's stay out of it and see what happens" strategy (for the most part). What happend? 6 million people internally displaced, 5 million refugees outside Syria, 500,000 people dead. Iran, Russia, Hezbollah, Assad emerge as winners. Well, that really worked out. Not to say they wouldn't have messed it up by intervening but this bad? Hard to imagine.

EDIT2: I also understand as a non-american that it's a lot to ask of the US to take care of the world. But if it doesn't, who will? What happens in the rest of the world ends up impacting the entire world, including the US. Maybe I'm too naive though :(
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> When they are cast to the shadows they can grow,

It's a nice poetic conceit to think of good ideas as thriving in the light like flowers while bad ideas flourish in the darkness like mushrooms, but they both thrive on the same thing -- attention. To make another comparison with things that grow in the shadows: the crawlspace under my front porch is full of bugs and critters, but they didn't get there because I cast them out of my house, and I don't keep my house bug-free by periodically inviting them in for debates.
This seems optimized for creation of small apps (and is also presented very well). But what striked me watching the intriduction video: When you revisit your a written app, it seems hard to understand whats going on and also hard to get a feel for if all functionality have been implemented and works. How does testing your app with this tool work? How does it help with maintaining a written app to lets say add a new functionality (when you have forgotten all about where your data is stored, where it is read from, what your queries where when you wrote them etc.).
This is also available in most Linux repositories if you don't want to download anything from Sourceforge. It's one of those games that is simple to learn but has a lot of depth.
It's one thing to do it with colleagues for whom you have rapport and the risk of saying something wrong is low. It's a different thing when doing it around total strangers and a new job is on the line.
Ignorant question: why don't most companies do this to avoid the fees?
I think that's a very valid point by the GP. It's true that it's easier to kill someone when they want to die, rather than help them.

For some reason, mental/emotional problems are not treated differently from physical ones here, it's perverse. Some physical problems we don't have the technology to heal, allowing people relief from the pain they suffer from them is reasonable. But I'd wager the large majority of mental and emotional problems can be healed, given enough care, time and love.

But love is in short supply already, so may be that's not reasonable.
Valproate is far from ideal, because it's massively teratogenic. Migraine is far more prevalent in women, so erenumab could become very useful when it goes off patent.
> because Tesla can make their oil worthless.

No, it can't. Even if 100% of cars and trucks were electric, Saudi crude wouldn't be worthless.
Here a map https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_irrelig...
>Can anyone give me an idea of how valuable a person's personal information really is?

I argue it's more valuable than just cash.

The recent happenings involving James Gunn and Sarah Jeong (tl;dr old social media presence haunting people) are undoubtedly going to impact more people. I honestly suspect that people born around '95 (think 6th-8th grade when Facebook picked up) will face serious career issues based on things they've said in the past. Imagine being able to shut down a political career with a few screenshots from ten years ago, whether they're out-of-context comments on a video or jokes that aged poorly, or a video of someone doing a dumb party stunt.

What freaks me out is that the questionable things we say when we're younger and don't know better may never go away, and might ultimately be used as a suppression tactic to be sold to the highest bidder.

The weaponization of social media ultimately buys control.
> It's called firing them under right-to-work.

You probably mean "at-will employment." "Right to work" is related to union membership.

Each of these concepts is applicable in some U.S. states.
It seems to me that immigration helps raise wages. A multinational company is going to employ people in India regardless of US immigration policy. But if those people can come to the US and make 5x the money, then even if they are making somewhat less than other Americans, they are improving (i.e. raising wages in) the global market for labor that we have to compete in.

Given that wages in India and other places are clearly artificially depressed, or people wouldn't want to come to the US, I don't think it's obvious that the multinationals do want open borders. I think it's in the interest of workers though.
Probably by paying IBM & Maersk. It has to reflect reality otherwise since you signed it everyone else will know you signed off on bad or invalid docs. No more missing or smeared paperwork.
I don't know. I'm sure the teams working on their tools had their reasons.
Well at some point an adult has to stop making entry level wages at a startup as well.
Not sure I agree, it's the job of the 4th estate to speak truth to power, that is why it is afforded special privileges and protections.

If you predicate your ability to speak truth to power on a business model that relies on the power structure you are criticizing you undermine your raison d'être.
I wouldn't go as far to say whiteboard interviews == bad company. I will evaluate the company if a whiteboard interview is run poorly however and consider it a bullet dodged.
Any report making conclusions about trends in data that doesn't defend against possible Simpson's Paradox issues shouldn't be taken seriously.
I agree this is very difficult. But saying "Also, what if a new treatment for some of her conditions arise within a few years? " is not fair to the person who is suffering at the moment.

After seeing some old people have miserable lives during their last few years I think we should give people the option to leave life in diginity if they want to.
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Not a backdoor; more accurately described as "lack of a door".
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>The whole "we use nacl so we are safe" attitude from a couple of years ago seems to still be around.

Citation needed.

>Well. I'd rather not have anyone suggest tox.

I'm repeating myself, but for all the hate it gets, I'm unable to come up with a better suggestion than Tox. There's always some kind of flaw: Centralized, no forward secrecy, end to end encryption optional, no way to verify contacts and so on.
Except people have no problem making snide comments to smokers when they are smoking outside of a building, but there’d be all sorts of #meTooImFat outrage if you started tsk-tsking fat people eating ice cream.

However, it really isn’t anyone’s business if I’m fat. You could argue health insurance is a shared risk pool, but under that logic, we’d be giving the government the right to dictate every aspect of your life and I am not willing up to give that freedom. Because why stop there — why not have the government mandate hours of sleep or require morning group exercises or require that you get married (since studies have shown that married people have lower heart disease risks.) It could get absurd, but the moment you let the government control even something small, it just keeps growing until we are quite literally Nazi germany where only “ideal” people are allowed to breed or receive permission to open businesses or get desirable jobs.

I’d rather a fat, free society where you can smoke if you want or drink whisky every night than a “healthy” society where the government literally monitors your every breath.

We talk about digital privacy with almost religious conviction, yet when it comes to things like public health, many are willing to let the government sit down with you at the dinner table.

“Get the government out of the bedroom..” I agree. I also want them out of every other room of my house as well. Government’s role is to provide shared infrastructure that is impractical for private individuals to provide for themselves. Government’s role is to have a legal system where contracts can be enforced. It’s role is also to provide for a common defense: protecting property, protecting us from crime. In short, a government’s job is to protect liberty. It isn’t government’s job to tell people what to consume. We saw Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, China, Cambodia and now Venenzuela, why the hell would we ever want a government so ubiquitous and powerful that it could descend into such totalitarianism?

I have no problem with government providing for the destitute or providing public goods, but I have a huge problem with the government attempting to regulate the freedom of the individual under the guise that it’s “good” for society. Because “good for society” in Nazi Germany evolved into killing millions of people. It’s all incremental, the march towards a complete Orwellian nightmare. Russians never imagined that Bolshevism would lead to the horrors of the KGB and NKVD. Purges were never expected. Cubans never expected that supporting the revolution would mean millions of them would end up in prison or executed for thought crimes.

As far as “good for the economy” — the US economy got so powerful because of freedom; start messing with that and you could disrupt the very foundation upon which the largest economy in the world was built.

Sure, let’s fat shame — but let’s leave the government far out of it.
I agree. Maybe I’m ignorant, but I’d never thought about the topic that way, about the bind it puts the doctor in when you say you want to die, and how that interplays with the impact on mental health. I also think the comment was a succinct way to communicate that insight.
but then, placing the instance in a public subnet is also not a good idea. And moreover, JDBC connections are not optimized for serverless scenarios.. the cost of connecting/dis-connecting are too high when compared to a light-weight HTTP. And any vulnerability can be potentially exploited. I was hoping to see a true HTTP service, highly optimized for Lambda clients.
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...and there's a typo on the fourth page:

"(a Bunsen burner) gives a smokeless non-luminous frame."

I think he means "flame."
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Although signal has cash they need a lot more support. It’s a good time to remind people they are hiring
There's recently been a big uptake of juuling (a mass produced high nicotine concentration vape) with teenagers.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/14/the-promise-of...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JUUL

https://www.reddit.com/r/juul/comments/7xnhzm/juuling_in_sch...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17427712
It's more than that. I went out for dinner earlier, and if they had just given me random food, there's a good chance I wouldn't have eaten there again, but I gave them my personal data so they were able to prepare a meal targeted specifically to my preferences.

I actually wasn't very comfortable with the information I had given them. I went to a shoe store right after, and the salesman was like "Is there anything I can help you find?"

I told him "Yes, but I'm not going to say, I've had it with giving up my personal data so you surveillance capitalists can make money off of me."

The shoe salesman directed me to the athletic shoes, which he knew were popular based on past user data he had aggregated, but that wasn't even what I was there for, I wanted dress shoes. What an idiot that guy was.

All these capitalists requiring us to give up our data just so they know what to sell us. The world has gone haywire, I say.
Google Voice numbers are free.

Is that perfect? No, but if you want another unambiguous identifier, it's going to cost. Moxie does not have a lever that can move the world; if you think you do, you are probably well invited to haul on it.
Initially, I was responding to agree with you. However, my first renaming thought was for autoscaling aurora which I realized was incorrect because you still have to deal with things like server security updates.

Serverless sounds like the better term to me still because it sounds exactly like what it describes: you never have to deal with a server. Although, I would actually add auto scaling to the name (serverless autoscaling aurora) so users know they don't have to deal with servers nor autoscaling.

What do you guys think?
Did you read the article? A big part of their financial problems was that the virtual assistants were full employees, not 1099/contractors.
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They are the only ones that were able to free much if it .

https://puri.sm/posts/purism-librem-laptops-completely-disab...
If people are on a centralized service it will be much easier censor, surveil and kick out undesirables. And as we saw on the Gab thread, these are things you want to enable. You want a strong leader to say what goes and doesn't and you hope that Moxie will become that leader.

I think I will stick with matrix.
Google revenue from advertising is a little more than 100 billion per year as far as I know. I am not sure by how many people this should be divided to get a value person.
> Yeah, I don't buy that. If Stormfront and Daily Stormer can still be up, then there can't really be any credibility to that argument.

That those two loathsome websites are still up doesn't mean that the technique I described is invalid; it just means it doesn't have a 100% kill rate, and it certainly works on less resourced and less indefatigable targets.

I'm not worried about those specific websites -- I'm worried about the increased spread and normalisation of the "contact everyone %s has a business relationship with, and shame them until they drop them as a customer" tactic. Where does it end? We've established that pressuring domain registrars and hosts is fine; what's fair game after that?

Is it fine for me to pressure and suborn an electric company into cutting off service to someone I don't like (after all, without electricity, they can't make those bad internet posts!). If I can rile up enough of an internet mob, can I get them evicted from their residence, simply by annoying their landlord until the trouble's not worth the monthly rent cheque? I've seen firsthand these tactics used by internet mobs and it's a very ugly process, and it's not something whose prevalence I'm happy to see expand.

Just because in these cases the targets are generally disgusting doesn't mean it's something that should be tolerated (if only because those who you hate will positively relish a chance to use that against your side of things).
For many of us with astigmatism, the trend to default to dark schemes would be quite troubling. They're painfully uncomfortable irrelevant of contrast. There's fuzzing and "halation".

It took me a long time to figure out the why. I love dark layouts in terms of aesthetics, but I cannot use them.

Without being biased, from what I have read so far, the research seems favorable for dark-on-light as long as proper room lighting is achieved and monitor brightness and contrast is adjusted for it. In poor light conditions, the inverse seems to be true.

While there's a reason for current defaults, everything should be optimized for and have options for both black and dark schemes.
So is their time. Takes candidate time to do, takes employer time to test/evaluate. Both parties are risking wasted time. You're wasting time driving to interviews and answering calls etc etc. Its the cost of doing business.
Why would you need police for an accident? Your insurance companies negotiate liability based on your statements. It's a civil matter, unless want to request criminal charges for reckless driving?
"GPS for AR anchoring is not viable and will never be"

You can get centimeter level accuracy from GNSS with off the shelf custom antennae and software, see e.g. Trimble Catalyst https://catalyst.trimble.com

You can combine that with AR devices to get good enough positioning onsite for review purposes.

It's not precise enough for attaching nails and such, for which there are other location based solutions.

We actually have most of the pieces for a 'smart construction site' in existence as off the shelf components. But the construction industry is such that startups are not very well positioned to lead the change - hence I understand you disenchanted tone.
Wow - Thanks for actually making the effort.

A few quibbles:

1. The goal is to maintain the DOF distance. For 100mm at f/32, if you go to 50mm, you need f/8.

2. The assumption is that the lens is as sharp at 100mm as it is at 50mm (on some lenses this is a terrible assumption).

I tried a similar experiment comparing 25mm with 50mm (f/5.6 vs f/22). You can see the results at https://imgur.com/a/ik6qe5K

To me, they are almost identical - with 25mm seeming a tad bit sharper. In a way, though, you're right - the difference is so small that I might as well shoot at f/22.
Can any marketers comment because I feel like this has gotta be purely due to marketers not wanting their product to become a generic term since litery no company names any product in a way that directly describes their product.
Clearly I'm just a layman but I find it so surprising that the medical community isn't 100% aware of the over prescribing of opiods by now. I have to believe they are totally aware of the situation, but don't know what else to do. Or maybe they're totally fine with it /shrug. I'd love to know more about the medical community's reaction and reformation efforts around the issues with opiods and addiction.
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Just read the article (and the Fortune article which it links to). It will save all of us a lot of time.
Any recommended resources for experienced developers on the OO side wanting to learn Clojure?
Tourism?
That phrase might just be a fancier version of "We wish we'd known then what we know now."
The bulk of the second year of my master’s research with limited class work. Learning how to set up experiments, writing a thesis, and doing the groundwork for publication (which happened a few years later) helped a lot get right into my PhD although it was not at all related to my Master’s work.
Pushing the problem to insure is blaming the victims, making the pay for crime.
Then you need to go to the ER and suddenly you owe $25,000. Oops.
In Canada too. But the most atrocious pictures I've seen were in Thailand.
No you don't. I'm from a small town in Ohio and my first job was at Home Depot for $12 an hour 6 years ago.
While it certainly appears to have discouraged cycling, based on reading that page, I don't see how to see it as intentional. Am I missing something?
"How could I know - how could anybody know - that her death wish was not a sign of her psychiatric disease? The fact that one can rationalise about it, does not mean it's not a sign of the disease,"

Words cannot express how grateful I am that suicide was not an endorsed or approved option for me in my younger years.
They can include the brand name in Australia, but the format is precisely specified including valid fonts and sizes. Names are also regulated so they can't imply a health claim (like afaik "Mild").

It would be instructive to do an image search for "Australian cigarette packaging" if you want to see exactly what they look like. I gather a lot of smokers like to use boxes to put their cigarette boxes in so they don't have to see them, but I don't know any smokers so that's just hearsay.
> More evidence that life is not fair and it’s all about connections and schmoozing.

What evidence would you be looking for to sustain that conclusion and never bring it up again?
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