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Honestly, I had about 6 different answers to your original post :)

So, we agree then on everything. As someone else pointed out, Affirmative Action is a difficult thing to implement, regardless it is the only realistic way to get things started. Sad that the cast system is actually making life difficult for everyone. For higher castes based on money they don't have due to ill implemented affirmative action and still for lower castes due to birth.

And yes, the policies you ask for are an ideal. Unfortunately, it seems, they are against human nature sometimes. Still worth figjting for, so.
Yes. California is definitely going to argue the FCC had no authority to reinterpret things when there is zero changed evidence/etc. It is definitely "arbitrary" (whether it meets the legal definition or not)

At least one trump agency that took a hard right turn has already lost in court on that point in the past few months.
The case escapes me, but it was in fact "the evidence has not changed, you can't just decide you don't like what was done before for political reasons".

FWIW: I suspect the real argument here is that congress has preempted California.

IE they could regulate this space, and have chosen explicitly not to do so, through the '96 act, etc.

It's a little bit of a weird argument though, because it's saying "we explicitly didn't give the FCC authority because we didn't want anyone to regulate it", even though the FCC has in fact tried to regulate it in the past because they thought they had authority :)

(IE Congress's intent was not so clear that we didn't have years of regulation, etc)
Why not replaceable? iMessage seems like a perfect replacement.

Edit: for Android devices, Signal is just as easy to use as WhatsApp.
White on orange is not great for readability. Especially the calculation results block which animates from white on orange to white on pale-orange: even less readable.

Otherwise, nice job!
Nix and Docker integration is almost optimal now, no other tooling provides that type of functionality
Exactly. Maybe some companies would have higher cost but that money would flow to other companies making that equipment. In the end it may be a net positive.
If you bring a suitcase full of bananas in to Australia, customs will take them and detroy them, and probably prosecute you.

If you bring an electronic device in to Australia full of 0s and 1s that can be decoded to display as pictures of bananas, customs will just think your a bananaphile and shuffle you along.

Digital goods are fundamentally different.

You can’t cross the border, buy a suitcase, then download a bunch of bananas to fill it.

You can cross the border, buy a phone, then download instructions from your terrorist boss.

Whatever else these digital searches are I don’t know, but they’re certainly ham fisted to the point of embarrassment for the agents and agencies.
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They tried to. The companies manufacturing the devices refused.
Maybe you have a food sensitivity, and your body is having e.g. a mild allergic reaction. On the other hand your sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems are at odds, so if you try to get amped up right after eating you will get a stomach ache as your body moves blood away from your stomach and you basically stop digesting food for a while.
I'm curious what Apple uses for datacenter level servers. I know they've got a big footprint (not MS/Amz/Goog/FB level, but big). I can't imagine them wanting to run a commodity OS and standard tooling, given where they were with WebObjects and what they're doing on the client side.

I don't think they're running a pile of mac pros. Do they run x86 rackmounts with a custom OS? Linux? Windows on azure?
That's not how Netflix content is written. There are sometimes algorithm-driven decisions on which projects to acquire and finance, but once they buy something, the creators have full control to execute their vision -- much moreso than with a conventional network or studio.
This is a good tip. There's no set up needed, though - it's on by default. The above works well for iPhones with Touch ID.

On iPhone X, clicking the right button 5 times disables Face ID, but also invokes Emergency Call which makes a loud noise. An alternative is to simultaneously hold down the right button and one of the volume buttons until the power-off screen is displayed (and haptic feedback is given). The power-off screen can be dismissed by pressing the right button again, so this procedure can be silently done without taking your phone out of your pocket.

Source: https://www.imore.com/how-quickly-disable-face-id-iphone-x
And I'm saying they can never not be a problem. The usage requirements make them 100% incompatible with election security.

They are broken by design, and utterly unfixable. The specifics of the known exploits are therefore somewhat irrelevant, because there will always be some means of compromising them. So the only way forward would be to treat every last one of them as permanently untrusted hardware.

While there may be some way to make them useful in an election, for now, until that PhD cryptography paper comes out that solves the problem, the only reasonable thing to do is toss them all in the trash, and go back to inked paper.
>I get the impression that you are loathing someone of perceived lower standing to get things easier than you and maybe having more already

I largely agree with OP's comment and I think you're conflating disliking the system with disliking those who benefit from it; they're not mutually inclusive.
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> (6) Finding your promotional Channel

This is really interesting and helpful.

We've found generating leads for our SaaS [1] difficult, with similar results from google ad words and really bad results from LinkedIn ads.

In retrospect, talking to some friends about google ad words, the results aren't so surprising, but I'm glad we went through the experience. This note from the article rings very true:

> Plus you should constantly optimize your landings, banners, texts etc.

constantly looking at your landing pages, keywords and ad configurations is not a trivial task - it requires a lot of thought and discussion.

we've figured out the content marketing approach (blog posts and relevant SEO) and will be doing that; but we've also been looking for better lead generation approaches.

great post ..thanks.
Yes.

They are a belarus company, selling to mostly US companies, so probably pay little sales taxes. other taxes are paid on profit, so explicitly after employee salaries are paid.

Salaries are usually the largest expense in many IT companies. They don't collect monitoring data or otherwise huge ingest of data from users, their server costs are probably low.

Their main channel of acquisition is partners, I believe Basecamp+Asana doen't take money for being on their partners page. Both just link out to the websites of partners without any means of "tracking", so that seems a right assumption.

If renting an office is more expensive than one monthly salary for one employee you have got yourself a palace, or you strategically choose the wrong city like SF or NY.

65% of my costs are salaries in my company. Looking at Buffers transparent cost report they are similar. From my experience talking to other business owners it is about the same, sometimes higher.

Now depending on what profit margin you are targeting, lets say 20% pre-taxes for a bootstrapped business in growth mode (it is "low" because you are re-investing money into the company by hiring people) that leaves 800.000$ * 70% => 560000$ for salaries. More than enough for 7 people.
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Perfect system, oh boy a true utopia! And then you guys have Peter Thiel getting citizenship after visiting for 12 days :)

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Edit: oh sorry, he's "a great ambassador for New Zealand"
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The problem is, `/docs/plan-to-hijack-airnz-plane.txt` can easily be downloaded from the cloud once you're in-country, so you can just not keep it on your phone. This is a significant difference compared to bring in explosives (as an example), where searching your luggage would actually be effective.

Again, this law will primarily inconvenience / harm law-abiding folks, while not preventing the "bad guys" from doing what they want.
How is it barely better than 'just private'? WHO rankings show that not to be true (the US is 36th at $7500 per capita spend, Canada's single-payer system is 30th at $3600 per capita spend, the UK's 'single-payer' system is 18th, Spain's single-payer system is 7th). The reality is that if you're attempting to minimize illness and suffering, doing that at a larger scale is always strictly better than restricting it to those who are lucky enough to be able to pay. You can of course optimize further but single payer is strictly better than private cover. Two-tier is another valid solution.
You can't blow a hole in an aeroplane's fuselage with somebody's mobile browser history.
Was never a heavy social media user, however, Twitter is nice for getting local government updates.

FB is just gross.
Honestly, thank you for explaining that.
It's nitpicking, but i don't think learning is ever a bad thing.
>Basically I don’t think that this logically extends from suitcases to full phone access

I get that you don't think that is the case, but you're not really explaining why you believe so.

> but to be concerned about a persons digital life is a concern of a different kind

But as I said, they're just inspecting the same thing they've always been inspecting. The medium is different and it incidentally happens to be housed with a bunch of different data that historically was kept separate, purely for technological reasons.

You're implying that the cause here is "concern over a person's digital life" but you present no statement or proof that's what these policies are actually aimed at. I think it's fairly obvious that it's a simple reconfiguration of a policy to adapt to changing habits. And if it's not obvious I think the statements from government agencies explaining these policy changes shed further light on why it's being done. But you need to have a reason you believe this to not be the case. It can't just be.

Let's review some statements that hit on some of the above points:

Here's Canada, actively instructing people about to handle sensitive information: https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/privacy-topics/public-safety-and-l...

>Individuals entering Canada who are concerned about how this policy might be applied may wish to exercise caution by either limiting the devices they travel with or removing sensitive personal information from devices that could be searched. Another potential measure is to store it on a secure device in Canada or in a secure cloud which would allow you to retrieve it securely once you arrive at your destination.

Here's New Zealand's review of why they're changing the law: https://www.customs.govt.nz/globalassets/documents/c--e-subm...:

From page 63:

>Customs’ interest in relation to digital files is in the following enforcement areas:

> * Intercepting prohibited or restricted items

> * Identifying infringements of intellectual property rights

From page 64:

>Our Act does enable us to enforce the law in relation to the following prohibited goods when
they are in a digital format:

> * Objectionable material and images – “objectionable” has a very broad definition under
the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993, and can capture material
ranging from violent or degrading sexual images to material that encourages criminal
acts or terrorism

> * Designs for weapons or for other items of potential military use

> * Designs and blueprints for making nuclear, biological, chemical or radiological
weapons.

Pretty far away from "concerns about a person's digital life."

>in the same way I don’t think that the right to bear arms allows you to train and arm a private army with tanks and fighter jets.

This analogy in no way is relevant to data organization and transmission. It's pretty hyperbolic and distracts from any point you are trying to make.
Super Meat Boy had the backing of the xBox store (they were promised a feature page release) and several major gaming websites/magazines wrote pre-release articles or reviews for it ... plus they got the tail end too with The Indie Game movie which I'm sure added some later sales numbers for Meat Boy, Fez and Braid.
Can someone link to the paper in question, if there is one?
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The reinjection of waste fracking water is the common issue.

"Oops, we broke containment"
I'd say it maps better to some political tendencies than others; by necessity American political parties are coalitions of a ton of tendencies with plenty of differences among them.
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When I finished high school I didn't pass the admission test for the university I was aiming for. I signed up to community college for another course, but after a few weeks I stopped showing up and I've been staying at my parents' home ever since.

I was dealing with depression since I was in HS, and dropping out only made it worse. For a while I wasn't able to do much except getting out of bed and waste my whole day online, watching movies or playing videogames.

Eventually I became interested in programming (I had started to learn it by myself in HS), and I started spending lots of time reading and writing code. Now I have quite a few projects on github, some contributions to other github projects to my name, some blog posts, and have some experience with a lot of different languages, libraries, frameworks, and various other tools.

I've been trying on and off to get a job as a programmer, but after some rejections and a really bad internship experience (which is in my best interest to keep off my CV) I've become discouraged with the whole process and I keep putting it off, but due to some circumstances I'll have to find a job soon.

I'm out of depression now. I've been feeling good about myself and life in general, and I'm sleeping and eating well, exercising regularly, and I've been spending time with friends. I'm 100% confident I could hold a job and perform well now.

I don't think the interviewers were convinced with the stuff about part-time jobs and abroad gap years/months I made up about what I did during all this time since I graduated from HS, and I don't know if being honest is a good idea in this situation. I wouldn't even know where to begin.

So: do you have any advice for explaining this mess to a potential employer?
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what happens, if you get yourself a travel phone, a non smart phone, that doesnt have facebook, or instagram

do they still give you trouble, like over why you dont travel with your regular phone?
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Lots of people don’t have great cell phone coverage where they live. I’m within 50 miles of a major US city and I have a spotty cell signal. Also data limits/throttling.
I had this happen at the Canadian border once, and of course I never used that phone again; who knows what they did to it.
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Who says they can't have x86 servers with macOS? Just because they don't sell anything like that doesn't mean that macOS doesn't support it for internal usecases (possibly via a separate in-house build).
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Oh neat, JOS is an exokernel I haven't seen before.
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That seems to miss the point: I want to be surprised by the endings, or relive a great moment or quote, or I want to turn of my mind for a while -- these are basically my reasons to Netflix.

This would remove both.
Should throw in a mention of land subsidence too
I presume they care about generational wealth.
As mentioned, i suspect the argument they will try (and what Jeff Sessions appears to have said) is that congress intentionally chose not to regulate this space when they promulgated the comprehensive '96 act and didn't say anything.

Then it doesn't matter what the FCC does.

This is a bit weird of an argument because congressional intent was so unclear that the FCC tried to regulate it many times :)
(and it required a court deciding what the statute said).

The FCC can reinterpret its own statutes, actually, including ones that say how much authority it has. Those interpretations are subject to various standards around precedent and consistency. I doubt they would meet them here if they suddenly reinterpreted them.

(Note also that appeals courts are becoming more concerned about the deference given here to agencies to say what their statutes/regulations mean, and the supreme court is likely to take it up again sooner rather than later)
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This is a ridiculous study because it implies that the order of when cases are heard is randomly distributed. That is, a "hard" case is just as likely to be first in the morning session as it is to be fifth in an afternoon session, or vice versa.

The data is easily explained as judges taking clear case of leniency first, then doing the tough ones (that could go either way), and ruling on the clear cases of parole denials later in the session. The judges have hopefully done their homework in advance and have read the case files and petitions, so they come in with at least a rough sense for which cases are in each bucket. There's likely a significant degree of agreement on that metric among the members of the panel, so it's not surprising that cases are heard in that order: clear grants, ones that require discussion, and clear denials.

The lesson learned seems to me to be when the evidence shows a result this large, take a really hard look at your study before you publish it.
I would also add "The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys" by James Fadiman as an excellent guide for sitters, and a list of protocols for work with psychedelics.

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Because they are explicitly preventing the whole thing from staying in memory to make it more difficult to download/pirate.