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Most of the arguments you refer to are actually thinly veiled racism ("black dads don't care about their kids") and that is the source of antagonism against them. There is more than a little classism behind Obama's remarks, though: he wasn't exactly raised impoverished or by family who were constantly running afoul of a racist, classist "justice" system.
Here's an idea, Signal, how about removing the requirement that everything be tied to phone numbers?

BBM back in the day worked great with their unique "PINs", that could be shared by QR code, and I could reject an "add" request.
There is just nothing exciting happening on FB anymore.

6 years ago it was the place to be...now? I hang mostly on Twitter.
how come no one complains when it's an archive.is/ link?
Turns out people don't always wan't their conversations shared with [ramifications of current privacy settings unknown, assumed to be everyone]
Since you're in the mood to speculate on legal matters, in which legal jurisdiction is it likely illegal for users to do this? All of them? What if you're sailing in international waters at the time of your post?
This whole case has been crazy. I live about 4km from the home. It went from murder/suicide to murder/murder to maybe the kids did it? to no wait they've hired all these extra detectives to... Anyone's guess really.

At this point, short of a confession from someone I doubt we'll ever know.
With royalties no physical goods are trading hands and the theif can continue to use/make the thing upon which royalties are owed until such time as a legal injunction stops them.

So it's very easy for Qualcomm to say "hey you owe us money" and for Apple to say "nuh uh" and then stall negotiations or legal proceedings for years.

If Qualcomm proves victorious in a lawsuit there I always appeals and at the same time Apple can argue down damages.

It's highly unlikely that Qualcomm would ever recoup the claimed amount or all of its legal fees.

Because of this most lawsuits alledge ridiculous damages so that when they're reduced they fall closer to what is actually owed.
Seems like a lot of people only see the rage storm side of twitter. Most of my stream was peaceful. That said I had the intense joy to get some quote-retweet angst, it's at best half-pleasant.
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I don't know why this got downvoted, while the question "does FB listen in on you" may not have a definitive answer, the answer to the question "does FB messenger look at your conversation text" is "yes": http://time.com/money/5227844/facebook-reviews-private-messa...

Does it use your private messages for advertising? It seems like "no" for now, but nothing is stopping them.
Less so now, but in the early half of the decade Businessweek was known for its unorthodox, and often lighthearted style of graphic design. This still survives on in the Businessweek 404 (When will Businessweek get its sh!t together?!), but the corresponding 404 for Bloomberg itself has been replaced by something more sober.
It seems that the protesters believe that Google erred too much in favor of Andy Rubin (and other protected execs). A protest makes these concerns known to Google -- and just as importantly, to the public -- and ostensibly reduces the chances that Google will have a different mindset when a similar situation arises in the future.

In any case, the article describes this particular walkout as part of an ongoing/emerging movement:

> Employees participating in this movement for increased transparency and ethics within Google have presented management with petitions, made demands for greater employee oversight into product decisions made by management, and even quit their jobs in protest of Google’s decisions. Increasingly, employees have been signing their names to a spreadsheet, refusing to participate in screening interviews for potential new hires at Google as a form of protest.
Comparing media coverage of death with actual causes is misleading. There are many other reasons why something may be covered, other than just frequency of occurrence. Often coverage is for things that we might do something about. For example, there is quite a bit of coverage of terrorism because much of it is preventable. When systems break down and the barriers to it no longer work, we get Syria.
>Apple argues that Qualcomm is using its intellectual property to bully customers into paying excessive royalties even as it tries to duck scrutiny over whether its patents are valid. “You can’t just let Qualcomm walk away from this,” Apple’s lawyer, Ruffin Cordell, told the judge at Friday’s hearing.
Isn't that just reductio ad absurdum? Of course Nickelodeon shouldn't be run by kids, but there can be a benefit to having leadership that can empathize and understand your customer base better.
> and want a return

Then it would be bad for them, too.
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Meetup (meetup.com) works pretty well for event organizing. I have used it to keep up with local tech groups to attend their events.
> If a CAPTCHA is the only thing keeping your site secure from abuse then I think you have larger problems.

This is one of those pithy remarks that add zero value to a discussion.

I'm curious how you would approach blocking automated access to various parts of your site?
My parents and my wife's parents together loaned me money for 6 months to buy a house and it saved me gobs of money.

This was just after the mortgage crash, so the fact that I could make a cash offer probably saved me $50-$100k on the price of the house alone.

In both cases, they just exercised an existing line of credit, so just them extending to us the credit they already received was sufficient to save us an absurd amount of money.
May you volunteer a couple of hours afterwork in your week to some environmental charity at local or regional level? As a STEM professional very able with computers, your skills might help a lot without touching hard-nosed activism or politics.
I can't wait to find out!
> How you twisted that into your hate on Musk seems biased.

I'm actually a pretty big Musk defender here. Good read, though.
These pictures are almost certainly just inkjet prints, not paintings.

The idea of AI-generated art is a bit like the concept of sex robots. Maybe in the distant future, it's something people will be able to take seriously. Right now it's an embarrassment. Nobody with a serious grasp of what art is (in relation to humans) would be seen anywhere near this.

It just doesn't mean anything, conceptually or aesthetically. It's like computer-generated nonsense poetry. There's no way around the reality that a GAN can only produce a weak imitation of actual (human) artistic expression.
I'll take your fallacy fallacy and raise you a fallacy fallacy fallacy.

Just to remind you, there was an entire industry built around Flash and Silverlight too. The people responding to me seem to think I'm advocating a quick rewrite (whatever that means), but all I'm saying is that from where I stand Java will not last in the long term without serious changes within Oracle. It would be better to have a transition plan now than no transition plan on a dying platform.

I was sort of expecting to be flamed, but I can assure you I'm not interested in revealing to flamers where I work...
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Rubin is still on the exec team roster at Essential. Man do people just wince when they pass this guy in the hall?
What if the employees genuinely believe the company's overall work is good, and that these flaws can be mitigated?
No, but then why even have that term if it never describes something without servers?

"serverless" does not add any value. It causes confusion instead of creating clarity. It is utterly useless.
(I promise, I am not shilling) Meetup (meetup.com) lets you make a group for I think $20/month (group participants can contribute to help the organizer) and is perfect for organizing events, sending calendar invites, providing a group forum and mailing list. I have been using it for about 10 years to keep up with local tech groups and it works great.
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Hosting him is (probably) not, in and of itself.

Allowing him to blog per se also not.

Allowing him to blog (and, even moreso materially supporting him in so doing) in a manner directed at influencing the internal politics of the UK, however, is, because such interference (aside from any participation in it being expressly prohibited to protected diplomatic personnel by Sec. 1 of Art. 41) is universally understood in international law to be incompatible with the function of a diplomatic outpost.
You keep saying "cheat", but Google found the allegations credible; I'm genuinely confused as to your position here. Are you saying that companies should still pay severance to employees fired for sexual assault?
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Can the URL be changed to the Signal blog post at https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender?
Is this a crime?
200 engineers organizing a protest.
2000 engineers are afraid to organize a protest against false accusations.
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I do wonder how the announcement went down. Can you imagine, you work for Red Hat developing open-source, then one day find out you've been sold to IBM?? funny when it doesn't haooen to you I guess, hahaha.
they do give you the option to use Steam Play over native Linux client. Under the steam play menu in the preferences, select 'enable for all titles' along with 'use this tool instead of game-specific selections'.
I'd like to know more.

Does this accurately reflect the protocol your friend had to follow: http://www.cfidsselfhelp.org/library/fred-friedberg%2525E2%2...

Or was there something extra, you mention exercise in your other comment for example which isn't mentioned in the article above.

I don't have access to the original journal.
You're really gonna put Netflix up against IBM on total impact on the world?
The perception issue is less about the current superstars vs the older companies but rather about the highly visible consumer products vs B2B offerings. Everyone things IBM is gone because it stopped producing products for end users - but the majority of money and development effort is spent on software that's purely for business internal use.
trivial. you don't need to climb the pole, just a spray can (or a wet mop, etc) on a broom stick.
> I'd very much like to get involved in being a foster parent.

(Sorry to hijack) As a former foster parent, and now an adoptive parent, and a hopeful future foster parent: I strongly encourage anyone who is able to get involved to do so. There are so many kids who need the help only foster parents can give. There will never be a "perfect" time, trust me. But it makes me so sad to hear stories like yours about kids who are homeless :(
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All traditional markets require the use of force; just its limited in effect by consent in contract.
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> Increasingly, employees have been signing their names to a spreadsheet, refusing to participate in screening interviews for potential new hires at Google as a form of protest.

That last seems particularly counterproductive.
If they think they are correct stopping Apple selling products would have a huge negative effect on their royalty collection, they need to walk a line that does not impact revenue but does not undermine their belief that Apple are wrong.
It does cause confusion because it is absolutely non-descriptive, especially when the literal definition is completely the opposite of anything it has ever described.

Pick a better term.
Do we know what actually happened? Why is anyone protesting over an allegation?
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I heard it was a surprise to almost everyone at RedHat.
Recaptcha v3 explicitly bans any browser that isn't one of "the two most recent major versions"[1] of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge. I don't mean it falls back to showing you an annoying select-the-picture quiz; if Google doesn't like your browser, the recaptcha widget replaces itself with:

> Please upgrade to a supported browser to get a reCAPTCHA challenge.

There are many reasons this is bad, but for now I'll point out that creating barriers that prevent new competitors from entering an established market is the behavior of a monopolist abusing their power over a market.

[1] https://support.google.com/recaptcha/?hl=en#6223828
> And police didn't rule his death a suicide: the coroner did,

The coroner is a police employee in Fresno.
Their children are tired of living in poverty and go back to step 1.
College isn’t. Loans are.
That's kind of my point really. When, as I believe is going to happen, Java inevitably becomes unusable, unmaintainable or costly to license (we are talking about Oracle here) then a new project to replace the existing system will inevitably be commissioned.

All I am saying is that good management is to look at the risks of sticking with Java and find a migration path earlier, because the longer you wait the more expensive it becomes to move away. And one day you will find you have no choice, and then it will be very expensive.

It is possible to maintain and even add essential features to a legacy system whilst migrating to a new system. Happens all the time.
> It doesn't say explicitly, but it sounds like they didn't have a legal obligation to pay him; rather, they did so to avoid the possibility of a lawsuit

The possibility of the lawsuit indicates there was at least a plausible argument for a legal requirement.
People are very crafty to ensure they do not bloat their stats too much. With hidden profiles - basically nobody but blizzard can detect them.
or stop Qualcomm from coercing money out of companies that they shouldn't. see Qualcomm's convictions and massive fines in china, europe and korea for precedent.
Is it disparagement to report facts without attaching an opinion?
What was his actual (not "alleged") behavior? If you don't know, maybe google doesn't know either, in which case why would they "call it out"?
I think the main points are:

> "The GNU Kind Communication is not wrong in its words, it's wrong in that it only addresses a tiny slither of the problems we have in the community"

> "In the [..] announcement, RMS explicitly states that diversity is not a goal of his. This is a mistake"

> "if people feel excluded, they will never join the community and thus we'll never see their contributions."

It ends with a call to "ignore" or "entirely rewrite the guidelines" and "adopt more comprehensive Codes of Conduct which provide guidelines on what behavior is acceptable, what behavior is not, and what steps the community will do in enforcing them" without addressing the points Stallman raised, such as "A code of conduct states rules, with punishments for anyone that violates them. It is the heavy-handed way of teaching people to
behave differently".
Would be more meaningful if they quit in protest to a lower paying job. This type of protest is merely exercise or a routine jog.
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> You keep saying "cheat", but Google found the allegations credible

“Credible” isn't the same as “true” or even “more likely than not to be true”, even though it has recently become popular for credible allegations of certain wrongs to be treated as if they were proven true.

> Are you saying that companies should still pay severance to employees fired for sexual assault?

If a contract requires payment unless a certain wrong has been done, a party finding it credible that the wrong has been done that would relieve it of it's obligations, even if it would get a trier of fact to the same conclusion, hasn't actually established that it is free of the obligation.

Contract vs. at-will employment presents different considerations.
That may be the appeal of the crypto world but the reality of the crypto world is that it is retarded. Crypto has no real world applications.
How wise of you to recognize your privilege. Very many don't. How old were you when you came to realize the advantages you had? Wondering if it was in your 20s, 30s, what.
>if you know more than the market, take negative delta exposure to bitcoin and profit handsomely.

"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."
It's an incorrect paraphrase of a part of the big article: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-...

> During the job interview, she said he told her that he and his wife were “polyamorous,”.

> She said he invited her to Burning Man, an annual festival in the Nevada desert, the following week.

> she thought it was an opportunity to talk to Mr. DeVaul about the job. She said she brought conservative clothes suitable for a professional meeting.

> At Mr. DeVaul’s encampment, Ms. Simpson said, he asked her to remove her shirt and offered a back rub.
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If I had near infinite funding + the opportunity to be above the law, I'd definitely be tempted to act as some sort of vigilante.
Serverless doesn't have a good definition because it's not a real concept.

At most lambda/workers/functions are really just PaaS, except instead of uploading all of your code, it's just a single file with a single endpoint.

If we really need a new term, then micro-paas or FaaS works fine, although most FaaS vendors are expanding to running any arbitrary container with multiple endpoints, so we're right back to normal (but modern) PaaS at the end.
How so?

In general protests involve some amount of inflicting inconvenience or pain. Google is short on interviewer bandwidth, so bottlenecking it more is certainly a way to get management to feel the pain.
I'm not in this business so I don't know the answer to this. Does Apple only have to pay Qualcomm a royalty for sold devices, or manufactured devices? To me, it seems it should be for the quantity of manufactured devices since the tech is in the phone regardless of whether it has been sold or not.
This sort of comment isn't really in the spirit of this forum.
The VC money that flowed into these drivers has essentially dried up as gig-economy startups push towards sustainability / profitability. As was predicted.
Right. They just halted all payments unilaterally.

Of course, they kept using the technology and product.
According to the supplementary information in the Jones paper, they processed data using the XDS package.

https://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/xdswiki/index.php/...

Here are some XDS benchmarks:

https://bl831.als.lbl.gov/~jamesh/benchmarks/

It looks like XDS will easily process a data set in well under an hour on any reasonably modern multicore CPU, and within a few minutes on a modern system with 16 or more cores. According to those numbers it looks perfectly usable on a laptop.
> To decide where to move in order to build a top company, first understand what is your definition of a top company and whether you really want to disrupt your life, move to the valley, and build what the world calls a top company.

Actually I would instead say "Do you want to build a top company fast?"

If you are willing to grow organically, nobody cares where you are located. In fact, you are probably better to be located in a decent place that is a little off the beaten path.

However, if you want to do the VC dance to "Go big or go home", then you probably need to be in Silicon Valley.
> Often coverage is for things that we might do something about.

I disagree. IMO it is almost always about maximizing "engagement" to the news source itself through those ways described in that github - getting the viewer to feel emotions/outrage/etc.

What am I, as a private citizen, meant to do to prevent a plane crash, random act of violence, terrorism, or whatever else that is being massively overreported?

> there is quite a bit of coverage of terrorism because much of it is preventable.

In what way do you propose I, as a normal middle-class office worker, prevent terrorism (which is already a vanishingly unlikely cause of death anyway)?

Or even more broadly, how do you propose our government prevents terrorism? Surprisingly, the unprecedented levels of spying and monitoring of our own people doesn't seem to have stopped it yet. Maybe even more spying will enable us to win that pesky war on terror.

We are not dealing with rational actors here. These are people who truly believe they are going to be martyrs and have eternal happiness just for dying in the right way at the right time. You can't negotiate or reason with that. Also you can't prevent every danger. There will always be, eg footpaths that people can drive cars onto, or whatever other ways to kill random people if you are crazy enough.

As a normal citizen, I would much prefer my government spent its resources preventing the overwhelmingly more likely (and preventable) forms of death or injury - but that doesn't sell papers, fund the war machine, or enable massive and ineffective civil rights degradation.
they don't disagree, your point was:

> Personal allowance (zero tax band) raised to £12,500 from April (in the Budget today).
This gives money to richer voters because the higher your earnings, the more tax saved.

the conclusion of which is factually incorrect, and unsupported by your linked chart (which includes more than just the increase in the zero rated band)
I'd love to hear more about how you use it. Surfacing links? Discussing research?
No open source drivers in mainline Linux. They play a huge part in the fragmented Android update situation.
> No one disagrees with these who isn't trying to sow discontent in the open source community.

No. Everybody who disagrees with these has been driven from your ideological bubble. "Open source" has become a general term that is part of the natural language; nobody has the right to demand everybody use their preferred definition. Many people who use the term will never have visited gnu.org or opensource.org. Many others will have, but will have concluded that the strictness of those definitions is silly. It seems quite reasonable to disagree with a definition of "open source" that makes it practically impossible to make a living off of your work. If you want to have a debate on the merits, fine, but running around telling people they're using English wrong because they disagree with you is just foolish.
I see them now. Thanks. I wish there was a clean website where this information could be easily found by picking legislation on one side and MEPs on the other side.
California and New York are part of the United States. I know people sometimes don't understand this, but the better comparison would be "remove London from the United Kingdom". See how dumb that sounds? That's how dumb "remove California and New York from the US" is.
I haven't read about them, but a friend of mine got to spend quite a bit of time out on playa pre-burn as part of staff. The labor practices of the org are not great from what I heard from this friend, they ended up replacing many employees this past year with contractors it seems...
I think some hentai doujins are licensed by Fakku, and they seem to be uncensored. I've never used Fakku though. Note that their website is NSFW.
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Presumably a billionaire would be better suited to both get away with and profit from such a murder.
Likely in societies with more corruption and low labour costs, using gangsters as intimidation and to assassinate your opponents is more frequent.

Happened in China, underground gangsters would phone up rich local businessmen asking if they needed their services. As well, debt collection agencies in certain countries are opaque enough that their practices border on near-criminal.