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There were "reforms" (or at least important fixes, like the stress test based financial sector oversight, and other stuff enacted in 2010 as the Dodd-Frank Act), but visibility was and still is shit. (And now Dodd-Frank is being reversed bit-by-bit, but again, nobody really cares, which is not surprising when there are new disasters every day in US politics.)

The Obama stimulus was too small, and it simply took too much time for the economy to recover.
We need to unburn roughly as much coal as we've burned. We're talking about hundreds of billions of tons. You could probably plaster the whole surface of the planet with homes and not have used enough wood.
The incentives were screwy. Originators shouldn’t be able to offload all the risk of mortgages they underwrite.

Incidentally that’s something that is still true today. Originators are still unloading 100% of the risk of mortgages they issue. Except these days it’s almost to the federal government instead of private securities holders.

Dodd-Frank had a skin-in-the-game rule but it was effectively nullified in the rule making process even before this current administration.
> * allowing pasting would undermine the idea that you should never write your password down, and lead to a proliferation of files called "passwords.txt" on everybody's desktops

"Never write a password down" has always been a bad idea. A file named "passwd.txt" on my desktop still is better than using a trivial password or the same password on all sites. It still requires compromise of my machine and prevents the password from being recovered from a dump of the pw-hashes.
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It's not meant as medical advice - as I'm not a doctor.

Just a suggestion to take to his doctor and see what s/he says?

How could I have phrased it differently, so it's not seen as medical advice?
> a lot more "never again"

What do you have in mind? Could you explain this?
Yea, I ran into a bank that did that too. Then they proceeded to ask me a half dozen "security" questions from a massive list I could choose. Most of which I didn't know the answer to.

I answered all of them (and put my answers down in my pw manager) with something like "X bank has terrible security, I hate this bank" - hoping that one day I'll have to answer those by phone haha.
I'm not a lawyer, but my belief is no.
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The government also backed risky loans.
Carbon in trees is still part of the carbon cycle, it will eventually be released again though it may be buffered for a time. That's merely neutral as opposed to negative that you get with sequestration.
> the crash was the logical consequence of people all doing the "right thing"

I did not read the book, but I highly suspect 'right thing' is misused in this context and that the writer actually means 'within the boundaries of the law'. To me that is a very different thing. Very interesting to see how a former head of Bank of England thinks those 'things' are the same. It also makes me pessimistic about the future of our civilization.
Sincere question: do you much work in React/React Native with large SQLite databases or other large data stores?

As the sibling (and better) comment[1] to my original comment points out, this library makes the data automatically observable throughout the React app, making it much simpler to update views in response to database changes.

I can understand you might not understand the value of this if you hadn't done a lot of work with React apps that have large data sets and where data changes need to be reflected in multiple different views.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17958822
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In the article, he's referring to people complaining about a 2-minute increase in their commute time for something that can absolutely benefit the community.

The short-sightedness is astounding.
Additionally, if you permanently dedicate 1 acre of land to growing trees, then an acre of trees' worth of wood is permanently captured - though the individual trees may die and rot, more will take their place.
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You're right, we should be totally OK with a company that makes profit off of us using 10 year old outdated security techniques - we wouldn't want to be rude.

Imagine you went to an amusement park and saw the rides were being operated unsafely. No seatbelts, no safety protocols, no even making sure passengers were seated first. Do you stay quiet because after all, the teenager running the ride probably didn't invent the safety protocol? Sure, someone might get beheaded, but you don't want to be rude.

> The security treadmill is hard for even the most modern tech companies to stay on

That is nonsense. If you have the resources to track me across the web, hold vast amounts of my private information and profit off of me, you'd best damn invest in basic security practices like SSL and encryption at rest. If you don't have the in-team expertise, bring in a consultant. These aren't Mom & Pop ice cream shops, these are major international companies and banks - stop cheaping out on security to save a few pennies.
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So as a part of trying to be more "private" online. I have started moving away from Google and Microsoft.

Currently I've moved email to Fastmail instead of gmail but am stuck on an online suite for file editing and to use DuckDuckGo for search.

My current sticking point is for online file editing (a replacement for Google Sheets/Docs/etc), an obvious choice would be office 365 but am aware that's not much better in terms of privacy than Google.

Any suggestions are appreciated.
The country has some decent universities, some large and rich cities (despite the country, being, on average, poor) and some entrepreneurial attitude.

The drawback I observed the most is the same @cscotti pointed out: the people who end up creating companies are not particularly well suited for that. They want quick money out of outrageous profit margins - they are often already rich, but think they are entitled to more. It's the Brazilian version of the robber baron standard, but in a fractal pattern almost down to the bottom.

And, now, there's also the crazy politics (thanks, Obama) with a coup and all those shenanigans.
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The biometric scanners probably have big security holes too. In fact, it won't surprise me if the JTAG is left enabled and anyone can read/write the firmware!

Aadhaar needs something like TrustRank or a Web Of Trust where identity and citizenship isn't binary but a continuous number (probability) based on who and how many vouch for your identity. A lot of citizens, especially in rural areas, aren't documented very well. It's best to acknowledge that uncertainty in the system and deal with it.

The public discussion around Aadhaar is very confused. There's hardly anything wrong with a universal ID for every citizen. There are already several in India (Driving License, Passport, Voter's ID, PAN card, etc.). The real privacy issue is around (a) the govt. collecting biometric data, and (b) how much the govt. / third-party service provider learns about you when you authenticate your identity using Aadhaar. The UIDAI doesn't even want to discuss the issue in the open ("trust us, your data is secure. No proof of hacking whatsoever."), and the use of non-open-source software and closed biometric hardware is troubling. If biometric scanners are using proper encryption, who holds the keys? (My guess, the manufacturers have it, and lots of people who shouldn't have it do have it). What's needed is consensus building, maybe through a public consultation, about what the majority of people are willing to disclose to the govt. Biometric isn't an absolute necessity for Aadhaar to achieve it's stated goals. That said, recent polls show that the percentage of Indians who trust their govt. is way higher than in the west, so the govt. can probably get what it wants while playing nice.

There's also very little discussion about how secure the biometrics are. There's no info about what services are considered sensitive and need more than a fingerprint. Fingerprints maybe fine for 5 years, but I have a hard time believing they'll be constant enough for secure identity verification over 80 years. What happens when biometric fails and a significant chunk of the populace can't sign, don't remember their date-of-birth or any password, or even their full name? Again, something like a web of trust would've been helpful.
Rare family diseases tend to be genetic diseases with a relatively simple genetic cause that can be found by comparing family members.

This article is about treating rare diseases, but there is a simpler way - having identified the genes for the disease, we could screen for them, and then advise people carrying them to reproduce only via selective IVF. That way, the next generation of that family can be free of carriers, eliminating the disease in the long term even if a treatment isn't found. (This is not an either or with finding a treatment)

The above approach is much cheaper, effective, but raises important moral questions we need to think hard about. At what point does a disease become bad enough that it needs to be excluded like this? Slippery slope, etc.
Read the page of the company doing it, that's not exactly what they're doing (which you correctly point out it would be pointless) - http://www.blueplanet-ltd.com/
You can’t just go up to a grand jury and say: we don’t know what we can get them for, but I’m sure we will find something along the way.

What does “effort” mean here? Even an investigation requires some kind of suspicion of foul play. They can’t just investigate someone because they are out to get them (well, at least they shouldn’t).
One word: Pizzagate
And if we could forest up some places where there's no forest at the moment, a large fraction of that carbon would be tied up there basically as long as that forest stays up.
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Sorry, I should have been more specific. The category of solution I didn't seem to be hearing much about was "move a dense, solid mass uphill". I wasn't thinking specifically about concrete.
Right, so your original claim about properly cleaning up is not the only problem with closures in C. There are quite a few hazards actually.
Many online retailers started out very specialised like that, but the big ones have diversified. I think Adlibris is the odd one out, here.

cdon used to be strictly a website for buying cds online. Now they sell movies, books, computers and even household appliances such as dishwashers and refrigerators.

Webhallen used to sell only games and PC components. While they still maintain a primary focus of that, they now also have categories such as "household appliances", "baby products", "tools and gardening", ...
Tooze never made they claim that all of the consequences didn't exist at all before the crisis. For instance, one of the consequences was the rehabilitation of Yanukovych in Ukraine. Obviously he existed, with quite a lot of power, before. But the crisis destroyed the credibility of his rivals leaving him as "last man standing". And that -- along with the clear abandonment of Ukraine by the EU (or at least the ECB) during the crisis -- led almost directly to the current invasion of Crimea.

> I just think it's much more nuanced and complicated than the article outlines.

Maybe this is where the article is giving you a skewed perception because Tooze's whole point in his book is that things are super nuanced and complicated! I mean, part of his thesis is that the invasion of Iraq played an (eventual, partial) role in Putin humbling the oligarchs in 2009 and further cementing his power. The whole vibe I got from reading Crashed was that nothing was simple. It wasn't "subprime mortgages", it wasn't "bad bankers", for instance. Because those are simple answers, simple explanations.

Tooze's main thesis is that the traditional, simple view is that the 2008 subprime crash was an American thing, the 2010 European crisis was a European thing, both of them are basically wrapped up by now, and that's that. And that traditional, simple view is wrong because the real world (unsurprisingly) is nuanced and complicated.
I mean, they basically in the article that the energy density is abysmal. You can't take advantage of the space filling properties of pumped water, either. I'm sure there are valid use cases, but I'm guessing they're specialized.
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Very droll.
Doing economically well makes people more generous ? Do you know research to backup your believe ? Its not what I experience around me. The more we have, the more afraid we can loose it again, it seems to me.
> Time of flight checks, e.g. that a radio relay isn't being used to get to the keyfob many more meters away in the house using a relay/amplifier.

That one's surprising. What's to stop someone following you into a supermarket after you've parked your Porsche, standing next to you with a relay device transmitting via the cell network, and someone else in the car park with the equivalent receiver/relay?
> Your entire defense should never be reliant upon a single control.

Exactly why I used “to some extent” as a suffix to the statement. One tool alone doesn’t necessarily make you safe, but it might be enough for practical purposes depending on your risk profile.
I'm not advocating it (nor am I against it for that matter) but generic shopping cart modules have for a long time supported adding to the cart via URLs. It's quite a practical design as you just store a shopping cart URL with your product catalog data/page, and was kind of the starting point for "web services" and the composable web (until SOAP and REST ruined it with dogma wrt what you should and shouldn't do).
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We had online stores even before JavaScript existed. All you need are cookies and form submission. Actually, as mentioned in another post, you don't even really need cookies.
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Lots of Lisp interest today! Here are a few resources.

On Lisp: https://www.lurklurk.org/onlisp/onlisp.pdf

Lumen - a Lisp for JavaScript and Lua: https://github.com/sctb/lumen

The Art of the Interpeter: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/6094/AIM-453....

(^ this last one is very practical. If you reach the point of wanting to implement a practical interpreter, this paper will force you to consider many unexpected cases.)

Simulating circuits with Lisp: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...

My favorite part of SICP: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...

War stories: http://paulgraham.com/avg.html

Lisp in Jak 'n Dexter / Crash Bandicoot: https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/03/12/making-crash-ba...

Fun fact: Lisp is still used today in gamedev! Last of Us uses it heavily: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox2H3kUQByo&t=2415s
As a OO programmer, I would still argue that: if I define a set of functions repeatedly, I will try to find an elegant object design to abstract that.
One good point, then, is that I can debug that object design at any line of code.
Whereas (I feel that) macros are undebuggable by design.
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I generally agree but would you place your security in the hands of some 3rd-party providers such as password managers? If you do that then their problems instantly become your problems.

I am not saying that password managers are without any merit and/or useful. All I am saying is that although security decisions are often made without much thought process there are situations where there are some hard requirements based on a multitude of factors which are not publicly discussed.

It is easy to brush it all off as a 3rd-party observer but in reality nothing is perfect and considering that a lot of the people on this forum are actual developers you must be well aware of the countless compromises you had to make that go against security best-practices... :) common on.

What Troy is discussing are cases of trivial matter of negligence - hardly breaking the bank and I can assure you that in many circumstances the security budget required to implement some of the necessary improvements outspend the annual fraud budget. This is hardly makes an argument if you need to justify your department running cost.

Yes shaming kind of works, sometimes... but honestly these companies have much bigger internal problems than reconsidering their whole stance on usefulness of password managers and the risk levels their are willing to accept.
Would this work as a kind of 'rxjs-persist', similar to 'redux-persist'?
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> when run through the sweet.js compiler.

So.. which one is it?
I must be getting old and cranky. "This is sort of awesome" seems like the most asinine opening to a magazine article ever written.
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I'm stronger in the first 2 areas. And less strong, but pretty interested still in the last 2.

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> “Given the positive sentiments towards in-line compiler errors and the lowered work-flow overhead resulting from removing the requirement of compiling within the shell, we recommend language developers create packages to make compiler mes- sages accessible in-line. This is consistent with prior work suggesting that the location of error messages and their struc- ture is critical [8].”

Ugh, this type of result is so depressing to me. I am a “young” developer (early thirties, most experience with modern C, Python and Haskell).

I just want to work in the shell! Stop foisting shitty UI tools on me to code with. They are not good. They just aren’t.

I just want a shell, non-window mode Emacs, and command line search tools. My workflow is read read read type type type ctrl-z from Emacs to the shell run run run fg 1 back to Emacs. Always use git grep and ag to find code, never ever use “jump to definition” features not even in huge codebases (it’s just too slow mentally to rely on that context switch instead of ctrl-z git grep ... emacs -nw ...).

The absolute most I’ll tolerate is syntax highlighting.

The idea of compiler errors popping up in my editor with little Xs or squiggly underlines like a MS Word doc makes me throw up a little in my mouth. Gross.

Every single time I’ve invested effort to become a proficient user of these types of tools, like intellij stuff and sublime and VS Code, it just kills productivity and I go right back to Emacs + shell programs.
Check again. The financial crisis started the rise of the right-wing parties. The refugee crisis then exacerbated it.

For instance, the German AfD was originally a euro-skeptic party lead by some economics professors. It later ousted those leaders and rebranded into a more plainly nationalist party when that became en vogue.

I don't know exactly about other European countries since I'm German, but from what I've seen, the downfall of the classical parties started way before 2015 in many of them as a result of frustration over the handling of the 2008 financial crisis.
I have found that exercise is the missing key to happiness in my life. That and a sleep routine. When I started sleeping better and exercising more, I felt more 'human' and less like the phantom of the opera or something.

Ofc, everyone handles things differently. Exercise and sleep are struggles for me I have to 'fight' to have success with. It just doesn't come naturally to me.

Others find it easy, but trouble with other things.

I guess my takeaway is to carefully look at your triggers and/or areas you need to improve on, and break the cycle by putting attention to it finally.
I'm a software engineer working in Sweden, a country I chose because of its strong welfare society among other things. With a good salary, I'm paying more tax than the majority of Swedes, my marginal tax rate is over 50%, and in the election last weekend I voted to increase one of the taxes in favour of healthcare spending. My point is that paying a lot in tax doesn't necessarily make you less happy, let alone depressed. The way I view it, I'm contributing to a system that ensures affordable education/healthcare for everyone, and extra social assistance for those in need, things I believe really help the society as a whole.
I don’t know, but if you figure it out let me know!

I think you’re burnt out for sure. Ideally, you need some downtime to recover. The problem, I’d guess, is that it’s financially not feasible for you to get any.

I just want to say you’re doing really well to keep it together. You don’t need to be doing more right now.

Another commenter recommending making sure your sleep and health are in order. This has helped me for sure. If you can find something that helps give you a sense of achievement (which I’d guess you can’t get from work) that also could help. For me it was blogging, and the interactions that come with that.

I’m still figuring this stuff out too, and it’s not easy. You’re not alone, and don’t be too hard on yourself.
As a naive non-security expert, I'd consider it a risk to put passwords in the clipboard - what if there's something that can read your clipboard? JS on another site for example? What if you accidentally paste it on a 3rd party site?

That's copying it though. I know a decent password manager will clear the clipboard after an X amount of time too, mitigating the risk somewhat. But that's copying, not pasting in a field.
The terrorism is due to Islam. Unfortunately, dictators are needed to keep Islam in check, as it’s wholly incompatible with democracy.
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