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>I completely agree. One legal change that needs to happen to preserve the free market: company with a habit of employees using social assistance should not get tax breaks (or any other help) from the government.

No enterprise-size company should get any tax break, period. Only small companies or enterprises that can show they had a bad run (and e.g. might otherwise need to close).

Add to that a rule that if they then just go and take their offices/factories abroad (where they get a big tax break) they get hit with the equivalent savings in import tax is they want to sell in the domestic market.

Combine that with tiny or no tax for individuals (like it has been before the 20th century and is still in several places).
The Dictator's Handbook, by de Mesquita & Smith:

https://www.amazon.de/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Pol...
This article starts easy enough. Then it suddenly starts using terms and concepts I'm not familiar with. And then this:

> A free market has a stable interest rate, and there’s no need to hedge.

Even if I don't understand what's written in that paragraph: What could possibly be the meaning of this sentence? I cannot imagine a context where it would be sensible to say something like this.
Very true, all in all “not a solved problem” is factually incorrect and, like many safety concerns, based on problems of reactors from decades in the past. Meanwhile global warming and pollution are very much present day concerns and we need to do something on a shorter timescale than wind and solar alone will allow.
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As someone currently living in a German area with almost no Uber service, mytaxi (the equivalent Uber-like taxi app) is inferior to and much less reliable and functional than Uber and Lyft.
Chalk one up to exactly that. I recommend against GCP exactly because of the Reader SNAFU (among others).
Power as electricity has an inherent high physical cost of transportation, you spend power to transport it. A solar panel is going to generate just as much power by itself as it would among a farm of solar panels, isolating for location and access to sunlight. I'm not sure how enforcing centralization in this case would be beneficial.
Why would being 8 minutes out of date result in an unstable orbit?
I agree, but:

- the point was about whether changing cars every 5-10 years offsets the cost of building a new car

- whatever the car you can still plant the same trees

- living near a heavily polluted crossroad in a city, I guarantee you I'd rather have less CO/CO2 (as well as all the other NOx/particles crap) right out of the exhaust, not captured over decades
>one of the big things that news papers do is pick through various sources and figure out which are important and which aren't

That's the thing you want to avoid if you want to form your own opinion on something. You shouldn't let anyone else do that for you.
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And you can also power fuel extraction, refining and reprocessing.
No one is writing obviously evil code. They are just writing "chemical mixing", "pattern recognition", "statistical analytics" algorithms.

There is no good or evil but thinking makes it so...
Shouldn't you cite your sources as well?
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I've also found the benefits of intermediate fasting. Lost about 16 pounds in 2 months.

I have an 8-hour feeding window, but I try to start the day with low-carb food, such as some nuts and an egg. Then after one or two hours, I will eat normally (some bread, banana etc.)

Summarized: 8 hour feeding window, 6-7 hour carb window.
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As a first step, you'd need to know what empathy is [1]. It's the ability to perceive a situation from the experience of another. It is the very essence of UX design.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy
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I'm also working a three-day week with a paycut, but for health reasons. I have a chronic pain condition. My normal schedule is M-W-F, but if I have a bad pain day I can switch around and work a Tues or Thurs instead.

It's cut my unexpected PTO to zero, since I can just make up a bad day with a day I'd normally have off.

I try to use my off days to work on some side projects when I'm feeling well.

So far it's been working extremely well. I like working every other day.

Healthier: Yes, it's much easier to manage my condition this way.

Sleep more: Eh, I mostly get up at the same time I'd get up for work on my off days.

Less of a jerk: More like less of a frazzled mess, honestly.

Better at my job: My output is about the same as it was when I was trying (and failing) at working a 5-day week, so the company's getting the same output for less money. I'm generally more relaxed and in less pain, which helps immensely when working with code.
The middleman always wants to maximize profit. Nothing is stopping them from raising prices at anytime. However, unless you have a monopoly on the food market, competition will force the prices down.
Disagree. Nothing clever in this, just elementary JS knowledge. I claim that relying in types in dymanic language (always ===) is actually worse. Better is not rely on types.
I think if you try to extrapolate your or my willingness to repair something to the overall market for the iphone, it would be an error.

What are the tradeoffs for a user replaceable battery? (really, this is something we should all know if we are arguing FOR replaceable batteries - maybe it's not the best idea?

I would wager 99%+ of sales go to people who never want to touch the innards of a phone.

And anecdotally, my SO's father got a cheap battery for his iphone and it ballooned up and almost destroyed his phone.

He also asked me if he should get a 3rd party power adaptor for his macbook (I said no, he ignored me because his wife is cheap), and it was this cheap POS that actually ended up forcing him to doa $600 repair AND get an apple power supply.

I spent years working on consumer PCs - normal people dont have time or inclination to deal with all this crap, just like they don't want to learn to repair their own air conditioner.

Consumers who want/need easily replaceable batteries already don't choose an iPhone, so all this in mind, I suspect the numbers don't add up for this argument.
Good point. To that, I'd add that Facebook needs "cool" users. Grandmas may use Facebook a ton and be very loyal, but they're not a cool, inspiring user group others want to follow and emulate.
Exactly. People don't get that getting rid of ads helps only the big players (because they can require subscriptions), while hurting the little guys.

People may subscribe for big newspapers and such, but they won't subscribe to a lot of smaller blogs, for example, on various blogging platforms, which do provide value, but they are not big enough to warrant a subscription.

Ads solve this case and I haven't heard any viable alternative for them for small players.
I just tried the editor. Really smart how Characters, Scenes, Dialogs etc. are handled.

Re Cookie policy: I think that is only for the EU? You could probably remove the modal for others (like me, in TH).
Hard to believe, that would be a 180 degree turn. The two iPhones I owned (3G and 4) had shit durability. I'm not sure the fault laid in the hardware (although my mute button broke on the 3G), but software updates made the phone unusable.

Otoh, my Galaxy S4 from 6 years ago stills runs well (if not always cool). I've repeatedly seen Android phones actually get faster when applying updates.
I was just sick of my internal ear perking up whenever I heard my rather common name, and the call wasn't intended for me.

I always wanted kids with unique names. It's purely a result of that.
And yet the phones are getting thicker since they removed the jack, as another poster pointed out. And the last iphones with the jack were not thick. My jack-having phone is not thick.
The world "loves" the persona and all the legend around him not the real person because they never had to deal with him other than WWDC and a few sightings in a random coffee shop.
Wealth is created with labour and Amazon depends on it, Amazon and Bezos wont be where they are without the labour of millions of others. The policies of the last 30 years have left labour in a weak position compared to capital which has allowed people like Bezos to build wealth for themselves without proper equity to labour. This is not about 'taking' or redistribution but ensuring the proper share for labour in the first place for their part in the process.

Of course if you intention is to privilege capital over labour this is exactly the results intended but for the rest of society wages are static for 40 years and ultimately someone has to pay, either Bezos, Wallmart and others via equitable and fair wages or taxpayers and us via subsidies.

So as a tech worker for instance there is already a huge portion of your income going to asset inflation and supporting the renteers and the financial class, now you also have to subsidize poorly paid workers by billionaires like Bezos, the Walton family and others. You may get low prices but someone has to pay for the labour, housing, education and medicare and since lobbying works so well for the wealthy its you who is going to be stranded with the bill.

Again thanks to globalization, 'convenient' tax havens, lobbying and wealth friendly policies that privilege capital, and sell-out economists businesses and the wealthy can dodge taxes, access cheaper labour globally, put labour against each other and get policies for lower taxes. Labour simply does not have this level of mobility or 'choice' so contrary to conventional narratives there is 'coercion' since working is not a choice, and if there are not enough choices you have to accept whatever is available. If your grand plan is feudalism and a new class of serfs this is exactly how you would go about creating it.
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> but some people are not in a position to quit/negotiate and have to put up with asshole-bosses all the time.

Everyone is in a position to quit/negotiate. People who tell themselves they aren't are just living in a cage they keep themselves in. Have some initiative and make a positive lifestyle change!
Well, by doing that you go from maybe breaking an NDA to mail fraud, but w/e.
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Did you try to follow this https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace/wiki/Build-and-inst...?
> Maybe I'm naieve, but I feel building automated law breaking systems is not something corporations do

Did you already forget the VW diesel scandal? That was exactly that - a huge corporation systematically breaking the law with lots of people even in the highest ranks aware of and supporting it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy
And yet, employers prefer the employer-provided health insurance model, because it increases the friction of switching/quitting jobs.
This is something that can easily be referenced. Benefits make up around 30% of workers wages with health insurance around 8%. If health care expenditures grow at 4%, that's 0.32% wage growth from health care costs. You may consider that insiginificant but I don't.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm
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> fail the test of being just as good pretty hard

Yeah I don't see the online ad business ever adopting something else because it's "as good", I think that browsers should drive this and ensure sites simply don't get this type of information, so the adoption to something better (for consumers) is driven by necessity.

The adoption of a system like the one I'm describing rests solely on the fact that the current information ads are based on, would dry up for one reason or another. Either because they don't dare use it (regulatory) or because they simply never get the information (technical).

I was under the impression that the past years of rapidly evolving DNT, third party cookie blocking, widespread use of adblockers (even in phones) etc was already rapidly drying up the amount of information available to track users? Perhaps I'm overly optimistic?
Fine particle pollution is entirely different from CO2 emission and would not be included as part of any carbon tax I've seen.
Maybe related to their craiglist activities? (https://growthhackers.com/growth-studies/airbnb)
Didn't this book come out in 2012?
1) It's more like I already have the iPhone without the jack and I already attempt to make use of the thing for creation and the Bluetooth lag is a problem.

2) Even if that weren't the case, I'm not arguing power- of course a full-fledged computer has more power. It's about convenience. When does inspiration strike? Often when all I have is my phone; I can't walk around with my laptop at the ready.
Just the cost of installation, maintenance & the necessary batteries for solar make that cheaper in a farm with scale.
There isn't just one kind of asshole :)

I'm more generalizing stuff our industry is bad at accepting because we all know a brilliant asshole who can appear to be nice but is locked and loaded ready to burn you at the slightest whim. In fact, i'd wager that the most difficult people to work with are the ones that can be nice at times because their unpredictability just ads to the confusion & chaos. The worst is if/when they do apologize but don't follow that up with action - i'm thrilled to see Linus committing to action!
Seems like a great idea. How often do people typically connect (weekly, monthly, etc)? Who does the matching (you, random, the requestor)?

FYI, the hamburger menu on your mobile site is empty for Firefox and chrome.
I agree with almost everything you've said, but have to mention that Lime bike was entirely endorsed by White Plains -
https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/white-pla...

Not sure if they're winding up in other towns nearby (inevitable, I guess), but in this case the city was totally on board with them showing up!
I take great care to separate my browsing sessions. Still I find YouTube recommendations on my main account on topics that I watched on another machine in my home network. My typical setup involves:

1. Virtualbox VM restored to a snapshot after each usage (browser completely clean, never uses my main Google accounts here)

2. Firefox on main machine with clear all cookies set, ublock origin. Rarely logs into my main Google account, if I do, always in incognito.

3. pfsense with block lists for Google & Microsoft

4. Mobile with Disconnect tracking blocker (mobile wide) plus Firefox focus & Firefox set to clear all history on exit.

Still Google manages to track me. Whenever I see those recommendations in YouTube, I feel like Google is mocking me - "ha ha do whatever you want, you can never hide from us".
Well, it certainly goes against the trend of de-nuclearization... I would invest in renewable energy instead.
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Yes, he has always seemed like a kind and empathic guy, but prone to angry rants and sometimes uncalled for insults. I can handle such people just fine in real life so I do not think I would have any issue with being called out on a mailing list when I fucked up.

Should he cut down a bit on the angry rants? Sure, but in general he seems like a really nice guy and I do not think they are a big deal.
That’s fair. He at least appears to have created a configuration app that is a integrated with prefs, which makes the alienness of WindowMaker less exposed.

On the other hand the dock in GWorkspace is pretty non-functional by comparison.
Nobody misses products that aren't working, or that aren't satisfying anyone's needs. In the very article you are commenting on, the author says "Good riddance" to the Chrome extension that has been superceded by Gmail's offline capability.

Killing a thriving service is not the same as pulling the plug on one that no one uses.
they prevented spontaneous reboots. if you dont think apple was right, and the tech press was engaged in yellow journalism, you are wrong. apple was mitigating a very specific hardware failure.
i guess it depends on how you start developing.

our service was developed on local servers several years ago and then moved to OVH for hosting. eventually we managed to break up the server into multiple (LXC) containers. maybe in the future we may move some services to docker or to the OVH cloud.

since this is mainly a hardware business not a lot of work is being invested into software development. mainly maintenance and scale for more users (which is solved by getting beefier servers).

we also have 20TB of customer data that we need to store. dedicated OVH disk servers cost a lot less than a managed NAS. there may be other options, but i doubt we could take advantage of those without rewriting the applications.

a change like that would be very costly.

but now consider the other side: if you start developing on AWS, how likely is it going to be that you'll move to dedicated servers that you need to manage yourself?

it's very expensive to make that kind of switch and only worth it if AWS turns out to be inadequate in a serious way.

greetings, eMBee.
Who mentioned programmers? "People who create the algorithm" includes the engineering manager, product designer, marketing department, mapping service providers in the case of satnav, various other subject matter consultants, etc., not just the programmers. In fact the programmers who implement the algorithm often have no say in the behaviour of that algorithm
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Workspace is a new application that contains WindowMaker. And it _is_ fully integrated with GNUstep applications. This is not a facade, this is how OPENSTEP feels. Just give it a try.
Did we just seriously compare coffee to meth?
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Here is one really important part that I almost missed when reading this announcement:

> Using Cloudflare's gateway, you can also build a website that’s hosted entirely on IPFS, but still available to your users at a custom domain name.

This is huge step forward for the distributed web!
They link to "Voyager"; but I'd like to point out SSA's dataset (For the US, of course).

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/
Just to understand the working of HN - maybe I know why this story was marked as "Dupe" and another one not? Thx
>At least in Europe there were apps to call a taxi

Where?

In France the taxis never accepted debit cards (= tax evasion), and generally provided piss-poor service. They've stepped their game up massively since Uber arrived.

In the UK I never saw a taxi app that wasn't an utter heap of garbage.

Sweeping generalizations about EU countries are almost always wrong or meaningless.
To be honest, i'm glad i took the weekend to learn it. Chords make sense to me now because of this.
Why is it that basically every story coming out of the UK makes Orwell look more and more like a prophet?
You can't get in without the key.
Can you cite examples of people using Bluetooth in live performances? 20ms is intolerable for a band playing live together. Any hickups in signal for a major performance would also obviously be a problem.
The ad industry has proven very good at finding new ways to track people, defeating each new approach to block tracking. They've proven similarly good at learning to infer things they haven't actually been directly told, which is very helpful for getting around regulatory barriers.

In practice, not everyone keeps up on their patches, meaning they tend to be vulnerable to known tracking methods. Total ad blocking prevalence is not as high as one might guess: https://digiday.com/media/ad-blocking-charts/

Additionally, neither Apple nor Google is incentivized to make it easy to block ads on their devices. The only people I know who have done so are ones who have gone to non-trivial lengths to accomplish this.

Sadly, I think you may be excessively optimistic.
I've replaced batteries in a 4 and 6 and neither has been that difficult with an iFixit guide
The biggest take away I got from the article was the need to make software last and function even on older devices. They mention ios 12 working on an iphone 5 which really does not impress me. I have an iphone 4s as my daily driver and it can only get ios 9.x. The biggest problem lies in the app store. I can not use many of the apps, some that previously worked because they all want the person to be on the latest ios. Nothing wrong with the phone other then I am slowly being locked out of apps.
I worked a highly labor intensive job on 4-10's for about 18 months. It took a harsh toll on my joints. There wasn't enough recovery time to make up for the extended physical exertion.

I did love the schedule, though, and around holidays, I had some nice lengthy stretches of time off due to it.
In their example, under "Gather consent seamlessly", their example shows "Yes" and "Other Options". Now, I haven't yet read the GDPR in detail, but I was under the impression that opting out should be as easy as opting in. A quick search returns:

> The ICO also said that, while "GDPR does not specifically ban opt-out boxes," that method of communication is "essentially that same as pre-ticked boxes, which are banned"

If this is correct, using the product as shown on the screenshot (and as used by several websites) is in violation of the GDPR.

I wonder if Google will pick up your legal defense costs if you get sued for using their product.

(Edit: I tried to find answers to these questions, but apparently the only way is contacting my Google representative, which I don't have)
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The exorbitant rents were the reason i didnt move to Munich, but Nuremberg.
Rent is a Gatekeeper though, only "succesfull" people can afford to live there. The conflict seems to be more about gentrification.

Also i personally dont know anybody who got negatively affected (besides closed school Gyms) by the refugee crisis, but many worry anyways.
Probaly Social Media makes it feel worse then it is,similar to people feeling less safe now despite way lower crime rates.
i think everyone would choose this for the most part. The problem is heath insurance (in the us). Even at full pay, if you’re not on your company’s policy it’s almost unaffordable. And most companies will not allow you to be on their plan if you classify as “part time”.
Just to be sure, "path" must be understood as "trajectory" here? If the hiker doesn't know the starting position then it cannot be "path" as in "line between point A and point B" since there is no point A or B.

So the solution would be something like: "go ahead 10 meters, then turn 45° right, then go ahead 50 meters, then take a Bézier curve left with such parameters, etc"

> The best path is taken to be the one that minimizes the worst-case distance to travel before reaching the edge of the forest.

Again, just to be sure, the "worst-case distance to travel" is the longest distance achieved by the "trajectory" when you apply it starting from any point of the forest?

So basically (assuming you walk at constant speed):

1. Determine a trajectory to follow that guaranties that you would get out of the forest under N seconds (easy).

2. What is smallest possible N and the associated trajectory under which #1 is true? (hard)
> Everybody is ok with throwing away
> perfectly working devices

People do that? All the iPhones I ever owned were passed on to someone. The oldest are not in the useable state right now I guess, but I hope they were given for recycling not just thrown away.
Typically on a 9-5 day, you get 30 minutes paid for lunch.
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> Specifically, the decision of what is newsworthy is not neutral.

Something of a defeatist position I would say: just because perfect neutrality is not possible, doesn't mean we cannot strive towards it, and even come close.