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This is not without precedent in the ad industry, although the level of subtlety varies a lot.

Billboards are a notable example, because the medium is in-house and there's almost always latent inventory. Adams Outdoor once advertised the fictitious, toilet humor brand 'Outhouse Springs', then years later the seemingly personality-enhancing wonder drug 'Reachemol'. Lamar's Milwaukee division advertised a cat doctor with a preference for chocolate who healed 'boo-boos with nom-noms'.

This is essentially a big A/B test, and unlike billboards, they can collect fine-grained data on how people interact with the ad.
Right, it does, but I think this discussion is a moral one, not legal one. Constitution can be changed, like any law, it's just a hell of a lot harder.
I had this problem but it's ok now. Meditation or yoga before reading is helpful for me. It stops the constant flow of thought so it is easier to read after. And also, I don't force myself to read books I don't like
On a bigger scale, Whole Foods versus Walmart in California:

https://i2.wp.com/famvin.org/en/files/2013/03/Walmart-and-Wh...
Learning Idris will definitely alter the way you think about programming and make you a better programmer, even if you don't program in it on a daily basis.
Nutella is about 30% fat and 60% sugars [1] by weight... can't be good for you anyways...

1. https://www.nutella.com/en/uk/range
The selling of the loan is an often time consuming and disconcerting process. How many people would even open a letter from a bank they've never done business with?

The first letter you get is from your current bank.

How many have automatic payments setup that would just stop when the loan is sold?

I think I would notice if my largest bill wasn’t deducted from my bank account.

But at the end of the day, the bank doesn’t want your house. They don’t want to go through the trouble of foreclosure, for being responsible for maintenance while it’s being sold. They don’t want to go through the hassle of selling your house.

You will get letters, phone calls, notices, court dates, etc before your house goes into foreclosure. I doubt that people are sending thier payments to the wrong place long enough to go into foreclose.
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Kenya electoral body to adopt blockchain technology for vote transparency
I have to give him credit, I was here to complain about it.
But isn't most of the land managed by companies? Does 'most of the farms' mean lots of small holdings?
Involuntary servitude is part of the legally-defined condition of imprisonment, and is consequently part of a sentence to prison as much as “confinement to a cell” and “being subjected to a prison dress code” and “being subject to prison lockdown procedures”. The individual elements that are associated with prison aren't enumerated in the sentence, but they are not separated from it and therefore illegal as not specifically included in the sentence.
Having gone through years of this during my university years I agree here. The general notion of 'controlling' anxiety attacks can be problematic.

Once your body is full of adrenaline it takes 10 to 15 minutes to physically calm down, there's no shortcut, and often trying to suppress the physical symptoms keeps the cycle going.

What generally works much better is to simply accept that your body is going mad for a few minutes, it's million years old biological systems you don't have any control over, fighting them isn't possible. Keeping a detached mind, breathing normally and remembering that panic attacks don't kill you (the racing thoughts are often the worst thing) helps immensely.
Where does it say that? I read the page and skimmed the "Important Plan Info" page, and couldn't find anything that restricted it to personal use.

For the $40 plan, the page says "For people who want unlimited, and no worries", and if I were buying a plan for fire command center, that's exactly what I'd want -- unlimited and no worries.

Though since none of the pricing they mentioned in the article matches what's on this page, it's likely that they did have some business plan.
It took five CTOs to get rid of Drupal
While the post makes a few good points, the underlying proposition is flawed: homework assignments are not abuse. The candidate can refuse to do the assignment if they would like. There is no forcing function on the work that would make it abuse.

In general, I'm in favor of any interview process that ensures the best people get the job. From what I've seen, homework assignments increase the likelihood the best person gets the job instead of the person who is best at interviewing. While it does take time on behalf of candidates, I'm not sure there is a better way.
I’m amazed no-one has mentioned the lack of a built-in commenting feature.

The makers of Ghost are here appreciating the benefits of comments but sadly they haven’t made there way to Ghost yet.

I’d love to move to Ghost from Wordpress but commenting is essential.

And no. 3rd party Garbage like Disqus isn’t a viable option.
In Australia, where sex work is mostly legal (laws are a bit different from state to state), sex workers used to use backpage a lot.

When it went down, they started creating their own low cost advertising platforms or moving to Locanto that’s based in Germany.

Even before this, there were better designed, sex worker specific ad platforms run by sex workers in Australia.

So you haven’t stopped anything.
I don't think so, as demonstrated by the fact that end users can pay different monthly fees for different speeds. Net neutrality focuses not on end-user access, but on content providers, and ensuring that all of them are treated equally.
And yet I am pretty sure that in Germany at least, that plan would not be allowed to be called "Unlimited", no matter how fine the fine print ends up being.

I miss those consumer protections a lot since I moved to the US. It sometimes may seem to get a little bit silly (I'm not totally sure, but I think you are not even allowed to say e.g. "the best pizza" in advertising, because how would you prove that claim), but I easily prefer a little silliness over the deliberately misleading claims here.
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Making up numbers isn't helpful here. TFA says the average is 37 minutes/car. I am not sure where you get the $15 from, but usually manufacturing companies have an internal hourly rate for different stations within the plant. For example, the machine shop at the last company I worked for was ~$400/hour. Further, it is likely that there is also significant material cost associated w/ these reworks. Given that the model 3 is a low cost vehicle, it is probably also pretty low margin (I haven't looked). I would guess that this means that they are selling the model 3 at a loss, especially if you throw in the costs for the recent retooling.
I wonder if they could do some sort of pumped hydro with the ocean. Dam off a bay somewhere?
Verizon also owns the lower-frequency bands that are better able to penetrate buildings.
Nope, this isn't a plan offered to consumers, both AT&T and Verizon actually offer the $37.99 unlimited data device plan to any government organization or charity in a state that participates in the Western State Contracting Alliance.

Part of what WSCA contracts for is better service, which was obviously not provided here. The Verizon Rep did jack when confronted with a critical issue, he could have easily done either of the plan changes suggested and applied a credit for the difference. But, on Verizon only their employees are allowed to work on WSCA contracted accounts, ensuring they perpetually get the worst customer support. No other carrier does this!
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In the McMartin Preschool case, 0 children were found to be abused by the accused.
Well then we're all slaves to our stomachs because if we don't work, we don't eat, we don't eat, we die.
It's probably because they need to deal with people who use cellphones. Including, I suspect, volunteers.
Another similar resource: https://twitter.com/i/moments/879086180909764608
The message the photographer is trying to convey is that our world economy relies on startling wealth inequality to keep functioning. There is no escape, and no solution without the wealthiest folks massively sacrificing. In order to live in a nice suburban home, drive a nice car, eat well, and have TVs and computers, slavery must exist. Important and useful minerals must be robbed from places like the Congo. Places like the Amazon must be slashed and burned. Otherwise, those conveniences would cost astronomical amounts of money, and only the likes of Jeff Bezos would have access.
I would have said that the responsibility of government is to act on behalf of the people. The people may have different ideas than what is technically the best outcome for society.
Every healthcare system on earth save for a few operates by redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor. Even in the US about 1/3 or more of its healthcare system operates by redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor.

There are good reasons to be critical of many forms of wealth redistribution, however it does clearly work in some instances. Just ask all the most developed nations, including the US (which has both one of the most progressive taxation systems and one of the largest welfare systems as a share of GDP).

The primary debate is whether there are better approaches, or what degree / what manner of wealth redistribution is ideal, not whether any wealth redistribution can be effective.
Is Verizon not a partial victim for having an unreasonable customer that thinks $39/mo is sufficient for their mission critical communications bottleneck?

I think this goes back to the "don't sell an unlimited plan if you're going to insist on limits". Verizon didn't have to call it an unlimited plan, they chose to.
Private entities are under no obligation to be a platform for all speech. Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1357/

If someone comes on to Hacker News and posts racial slurs, shouldn't HN have the right to ban that user? Wouldn't that be censorship?
The indictment is a long series of numbered paragraphs. Point out the ones that should make me feel something other than "the American Taliban is now fully running the country".
No amount of print, fine or otherwise, can justify usage-based throttling on a plan advertised as unlimited. It's false advertising, plain and simple.

Verizon has even been punished for false "unlimited" advertising in the past, but they clearly didn't learn their lesson. https://consumerist.com/2007/10/23/verizon-to-pay-1-million-...
> Is Verizon not a partial victim for having an unreasonable customer that thinks $39/mo is sufficient for their mission critical communications bottleneck?

Verizon's a victim, yes, but it's a self-inflicted problem caused by their misleading marketing so they don't deserve any pity. Verizon willfully tries to bury and downplay the limitations of their "unlimited" services, and it is entirely appropriate for them to bear the blame when people or local government agencies fall for it.
>Until the technology is good enough for taking the pilot away, it's not a gain.

If that were true modern airlines wouldn't have autopilot.
This headline is obvious. I spend all day with headphones on with loud music to block out the absurd amount of noise. I will talk to my immediate neighbors through IM unless we need to have a full conversation.

Open offices are the most discredited idea since phrenology, but they are cheaper. Everything else is rationalization by cheap, clueless managers who have no idea what it's like to try to concentrate amid chaos.
I've gone to monopolyamazon.com, then proceed to http://lessgovernment.org link in the page bottom where I was served a banner calling Net neutrality a solution looking for a problem. This website have very strange affiliations.
American voters are chock full of paternalistic bullshit. They consistently vote for retribution, and the absolute cheapest way to house prisoners, and give them cheap public defenders. Voters consistently consider white collar crime as relatively benign with sentences below the sentencing guidelines; whereas non-violent drug crimes (let alone violent crimes) consistently at the highest range of sentencing guidelines.

It is a society that deeply believes in retribution for "lower class" crimes and slap on the wrist for "high class" crimes. I don't like it, but I absolutely see it.
Let me paraphrase what you said:

"I dont see the problem.
If there is a problem I dont know we should solve it.
If there is a problem we shouldnt solve it because its natural.
If it is a problem and we should deal with it we shouldnt use redistribution."

Isnt there a name for this type of reasoning?
Everyone has priorities. The point is that both parties are not the same just because you don't care about anything except your own priorities. Most people care about at least some issues listed on that page, you are the outlier.
> Government, democracy or not, generally means I am being governed according to some, but not all of my wishes.

The fact that Government is being governed according to some of your wishes is coincidental. It's only in a democracy (or an autocracy where you are the ruling party) where the fact that some of your wishes are the laws is built in to the fabric of the system.

The word compromise is an interesting choice - a comprimise is an agreement between several parties in which all sides agree on a less then optimal solution for themselves in favour of a resolution the group can agree to. It's essentially a democracy - it's certainly the basis for participatory democracy.

I'm not sure where the on-off switch analogy is coming from - it's definitely not my opinion - hence the Churchhill comparison. Also, on-off seems very binary.

On a similar note, I would say that the comparison to the 2016 US Elections feels a little simplified - being given a choice of two parites doesn't mean you are being given a choice representing your wishes. At best, it can mean you are being given two options from a range on a spectrum, but even then the spectrum and gap between political parties is normally more then a single issue.

The American Left, for instance, would in Europe be on a fairly right wing part of the spectrum.
I'm always confused by these kind of pictures. The 'developed' spaces have apartment towers and dense construction - many more people appear to live there per acre. If land is at such a premium (and the towers seem to indicate this) then how on earth does the shack-dweller afford so much land (relatively) for their very-much-lower density housing? Sure maybe 20 people live in a shack, I understand that, but in the same area as half a dozen shacks you could build an apartment building that houses thousands.

Further by this measure, it appears that there are many, many more apartment dwellers than shack dwellers. Because shacks are one story tall after all, so the population density per acre is relatively low.

What am I missing?
Assuming it follows the national trends, then the next most common are suffocation and poisoning.
As someone who's been self-learning computer science on the side (I've been working as an engineer for 5 years, but have a bootcamp background, plus I'm just interested in all that stuff), I can't wait to take it.

I plan to take it every 6 months to quantify my progress.
You're jumping the gun. Start by just acknowledging that the phenomenon exists.
I dunno, looking at that page and scrolling down, there is absolutely no mention of any data cap on the left-most plan when looking at the three plans in the side-by-side comparison table.

The first plan has unlimited data with (after you hover to explicitly find out what that (i) is about) throttling in times of congestion. No mention of a data limit.

The other two both say the same thing, but that it only occurs after a data utilisation threshold has been met.

As the first plan says: "For people who want unlimited, and no worries" seems pretty clear to me that I should be getting unlimited, and not needing to worry about anything else.
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Yeah that sounds super productive.
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FirstNet's spectrum has yet to be deployed significantly, and in that part of California AT&T lags for coverage. Band 14 (the spectrum FirstNet uses) devices are few and far between, let alone a cellular data gateway that supports that band. It took years for band 12 to be available on cellular data gateways, I think band 71 will likely make an appearance before band 14 gets hardware support.
One thing they are demanding is to get rid of the ability to sentence someone to life without parole. For some reason, I don't think the public is going to get behind that one.
Do you have any evidence for any of this, or did you just pick the most uncharitable possible scenario and present it as factual?
Yes that's the idea I wanted to convey.

For the record though wsb will judge 99% of RH to be peasant grade though - PTD rule and insufficient options yolo
Hutton's book followed by something like https://intermediatehaskell.com/ should do the trick.
Rationalizing a system from which you perceive yourself to be benefiting from and thus wish not to alter the status quo?
I'm doing this because this is one of the few things I'm good at that people will pay me lots of money to do. If it paid less than being a teacher, I'd go become a teacher instead. It's not that I'm dispassionate about it, but I have to eat.
Location, location, location.

Price per square m/ft is much lower in the slum than in the gated community.

If you couldn't aford a place in the gated community, would you use that money to buy a place in the slum? Or would you try elsewhere?

The problem in general is not absolute lack of space for building (except islands like Japan, ...), but lack of place to build in desirable locations.
I just watched it... this feels like deja-vu...
I'm going to use a alt account for this ( for obvious reasons )...

I disagree with this sentiment, I was ( some 20 years ago ) incarcerated for drug dealing. I broke the law ( much more than I was caught and prosecuted for btw... ) and I deserved what I got, probably more.

For the record, being in prison sucks... it's SUPPOSED to suck, it's supposed to make you regret what you did to get put in there and actively look forward to the day of your release, it's not supposed to be a cushy summer camp for confused snowflakes... if it was, it WOULD NOT rehabilitate errant individuals like myself. The fact that it did suck SO BAD, is STILL some 20 years later FRONT-AND-CENTER in my mind - actively DETERRING me from doing something stupid and illegal again.

Also, for the record, I was allowed to EARN the right to work outside the prison ( good behavior / etc... ), for about a dollar a day ( usually removing trash and cleaning roadsides and tending parks and other municipal assets ) and I made more ( triple if I remember correctly ) when on fire duty.

Fire duty started the minute you got on a bus and left the prison, and ended when you got back, even if you did nothing but sit on the bus on the side of some road... you got paid for every hour you were on duty - 24 hours a day / 7 days a week - IT WAS GOOD MONEY ( for being in prison ) and it was a PRIVILEGE... because more than the money ( which was nice to have in prison, believe me ) it allowed you to go OUTSIDE of the prison, which was PRICELESS.

"Pay them for their hardwork and they'll learn they can succeed in life by hardwork, determination and honesty" -- Again I disagree, I learned nothing of the sort, what I learned is this: There are NO SHORTCUTS to success, and I should quit breaking the law and instead become a productive member of society INSTEAD of being a criminal.

Giving criminals (like my former self) better pay and treatment in prison has to be the stupidest idea I've ever heard of. If it wouldn't have been terrible I maybe would still be a criminal, because the deterrent would be insufficient.
The situation with Verizon is more like a case of an EMT asking a bystander to get out of the way, which the bystander absolutely has an obligation to comply with. But it's complicated by the fact that Verizon isn't just a bystander but a company that had an existing contract with the fire department, and had previously been informed that their throttling was causing problems.
This seems like a method for anti-money laundering? Taking money that you already legitimately hold and turning it into money that you can't explain. I'm not sure I see the use.
I can't help but think that candidate should feel lucky to have escaped that car crash. Think about how hard up your company would have to be to ship code that someone else has written with no warranty, no support and not even the knowledge that their code would go into production. Just yuck!
> I very much agree with other posters that "unlimited" is a very misleading term.

Well, it's not very meaningful without attaching it to a clear quantity, is it? Should be illegal.
It sounds like the Narcissist’s Prayer.

That didn’t happen.

And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.

And if it was, that’s not a big deal.

And if it is, that’s not my fault.

And if it was, I didn’t mean it.

And if I did…

You deserved it.
Hey bud, I've never lost the drive to read and learn new things, but I definitely have trouble organizing everything I want to be learning/reading.

Usually I have a fiction book going at all times. Keeps me sharp, interested, engaged, even if I don't feel like being "productive". But apart from that, there are so many things I'm working on, I feel a bit muddled.

Do you have any advice for a dude like me? How to know when to read or do what? Especially when you don't have a preference at a particular moment in time?
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"can be" not "must be". Driver License number or just about anything else is legal, it's just up to the bank whether or not they want to accept it.
Fair enough. Opinionated is a better word than accurate here. But they're often conflated. Or it just tells a specific story--which I'd argue is the goal of pretty much any infographic.
Microsoft Embraces Role as Anti-Hacking Enforcer
Verizon was likely mot meeting the terms of their contract under the Western States Contracting Alliance (WSCA), they likely statement messaged these government customers back in 2016 saying "we're changing the terms" without renegotiating the contract as they were supposed to. This $37.99 unlimited plan is offered by both AT&T and Verizon under the WSCA contract, only Verizon chooses to throttle this plan...
Wait, you mean privatized prisons are a moral hazard? /s
By safe do you mean there is something insecure with redirecting output in this manner or do you mean one shouldn’t sh -c $(wget... without first checking the source of what they’re downloading?
I have only had one experience with a "homework assignment" and I liked it. But the end of the process was coding during the in-person interview, so doing well on the homework availed nothing. It seemed like a disconnect in the process.

In looking for an employer, I think I might like to filter out anyone who particularly dislikes or does not value homework and/or Fermi problems.
Notably, Block Island, off the coast of Rhode Island[1], is powered 100% by five offshore wind turbines.[2] The Block Island generators were switched off in 2017. It is awe inspiring to see the turbines up close via boat. It feels like a vision of the future.

[1]: for international users: Rhode Island is a small US state which is not actually an island.

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Island_Wind_Farm
Oh come on. Fighting forest fires is dangerous work.
Ah, Thorium.
I read more than half of this book, and sadly I did not enjoy it at all. Read it only if you enjoy long-winded verbose explanations. Hutton's or Bird's is concise yet explanatory.
They are across a fence from one another. If land was at a premium, I'd assume somebody in power would burn the slums and sell the land? That's what I don't get.