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The fact that Muslims aren't as integrated into European society as they should be is 99% the fault of Europeans. Basic stuff like labor market access is crucial for integration.
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>"It is striking to me that Prime Minister Netanyahu must go back to an Iranian report of a March 2016 ballistic missile test to make his point about malign Iranian intentions," said Greg Thielmann, a former foreign service officer and Senate Intelligence Committee staffer who is now a board member at the Arms Control Association.

>He suggested that the Hebrew lettering may have been "a one-time event, and not necessarily authorized in Tehran." The botching of the text may suggest that the gambit was ad-hoc "sloganeering" by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, "rather than an explicit policy dictated from the top," Thielmann said.

From your link.
The UK restricts advertising of medicine quite dramatically (you're not allowed to advertise prescription-only drugs), and has a specific ban on falsely advertising the ability to cure cancer.

> freedom of speech becomes infringed to some extent

Fortunately not everyone thinks that freedom of speech extends to freedom to defraud the vulnerable.
You're probably more correct, I was trying to empathize with OP but I do agree I don't think the police are the right party for this mediation.
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I think that it is interesting that this is enabled by a CLA. If the project would have used a Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) this relicensing would not have been possible. When Debian started to use GitLab they asked us to replace our CLA for the open source code to a DCO. They saw the risk of relicensing and addressed it.
> Why not break them up with identical tech stack to start off with

Now we’re arbitrarily drawing lines. Platform-service separation, on the other hand, has precedent. (As does gobbling up up-and-coming competitors, as Facebook did with Instagram and WhatsApp.)
That's nonsense. Apple looked at what everybody else was doing and packaged it very well.
The question the parent comment made was not if the law allows an employer to fire someone for a situation like that, but if we want employers to investigate and prosecute crime when the police drop a case. Is that the role that employers should have in society, yes or no?

> They do not have the same burden of proof

That is a key point. At the same time we want the legal system to have a high burden of proof, but then when someone goes free we want someone else with lower burden of proof to step in and let the hammer fall on the guilty. If we changed the law and gave the police the power to fire someone without having a chain of evidence proving beyond reasonable doubt (this which we are asking the HR departments to do), then I would personally trust the police to do a better job with less bias than a HR department of a large company. It would also create a better political environment where the justice system would be discuses without extrajudicial punishment being used openly as an accepted alternative when we find the legal system lacking.
Having recently joined a project that uses JWT (I was completely ignorant of it beforehand - cookies all the way), I can say that a key advantage is convenience for developers and testing. Once you have the secret for signing you can pretty much access any of the application without having to jimmy the access-controls. I guess that could be a weakness too, but in my experience in fast moving commercially driven environments with little technical oversight (a lot of the industry these days) developer convenience does seem to drive a lot of design choices ...
This will probably happen someday, but it's probably centuries away, or at least a single century away if we're being very optimistic. We have to figure out how we can deal with the problems we're facing in our lifetimes.
or just stop using twitter?
I'm not ignoring, I'm disagreeing. My brother is a military officer, gets an annual physical, and his numbers are consistently great.

A quick google finds studies supporting the idea that his results are typical. Here's one from 2016, which finds that more plant protein correlates with lower mortality, and more animal protein with higher mortality: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...

But as I said above, from an environmental perspective I don't think widespread vegetarianism is a feasible policy goal, so I'm not trying to tell you what to eat. Getting our meat from vats instead of animals is what I think will save the world.
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I know it's a valid use (I use JWTs!). But it is state, which is why you have a payload and not merely an id. State doesn't have to change; that's mutable state. (Permissions do change, by the way, only less frequently than a shopping cart!).
Thanks, who knows if enough non-binary folks will report, but I appreciate you taking the feedback!
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Apples stock price is over 16x higher today than it was when the iphone was released. By todays metrics, I might call 2007 apple a small company.
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This just verifies that the elites are scared/concerned with bitcoin so they fear-monger to spread disinterest while they hoard.
Currently following up on comments 1 and 3. Very good suggestions.
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Very interesting... my inclination is that you’re probably right. Any tips on how to learn to use Prolog with pulling data from external sources?
FWIW, I don’t think FAANG necessarily care about what degree you have vs. what can you do. Mine certainly doesn’t, and I know a number of people at these companies who are college dropouts.
As one of the points in the article: listen, don't talk!

Listen to problems people have now before you build so you know what to build. Then you can easily explain your product in terms of their problems.
Every auditor in the world checks to make sure password changes invalidate sessions, and every company with a security team will balk at that finding in a report; it would make your team look like they didn't know what they were doing. No, this isn't a norm.
The reason is that the bar is simply too low. Or rather, the bar for taking legal action is so high that it would not in a million years create an acceptable work environment at Google.

Think about it from another perspective. If Google wants to cherry-pick the brightest and best educated people from society, they're going to have to meet a higher standard themselves. Would you want that standard encoded in law for the rest of the state? If so, how would you, in a democracy, impose a standard crafted by a subset of the cultural elite for themselves on the rest of the state or the country? Changing cultural norms drag the law behind them, not the other way around. The legal standard will lag behind for a long time, and Google's employees are part of the force that will be leading it forward.
Not sure about this, here in London I don't think people support Saudi sheikhs, despite being generally pro-immigration (possibly in contrast to the rest of the UK). Although you're right that almost no politician would oppose immigration of wealth(y).

Edit: Although I do agree that there might be an effect similar to this, I think it was also present in Slovenia versus other Yugoslavian people. I wonder how much it has to do with the perception of wealth directly, and feeling threatened by "inferior" culture - there's probably a correlation, in addition a poor society is percieved as more likely to immigrate in larger numbers.
Sometimes, law enforcement can only be lenient (the first part of my original post can only hold) if it's "on the record" that you say something excusable. The LEO might know it's probably a lie, but either they understand a circumstance doesn't merit citation, or they know it's a crappy law.

If everything were some day 100% honest, the polite niceties of "oh sorry didn't see the speed limit change" or "Forgot I left my pocket knife in carryon, sorry" would go away. Of course these are only two of countless examples.
I thought it would only slightly tweak the speeds so it would ruin the result. It didn't destroy them.
How is your autonomous car going to navigate without GPS signals?
True, but many of the aforementioned fraudsters are careful to dodge around those laws and not make extravagant claims of effectiveness. They won't advertise that something can cure cancer. But during private 1-on-1 treatment sessions, they could imply otherwise.
>Not to mention he's calling for government regulation of tech companies at least partially to cut down on hateful speech...

This is the most troubling aspect of his call. "There's too much hate speech, so let's take action against platforms until it goes away."

I'm tired of all the terrorist attacks too, but to my mind, you handle that by having your counter-terror people do what they do. It's not like the terrorists would go away if you break up Twitter.
Apple was not nearly the giant it is now when it invented the smartphone. What revolutionary ground-breaking products has that company produced now that it has become a giant?
It’s not an analogy. Evolution is the actual process. No ifs ands or buts about it.

There are myriad attempts to try alternatives to some ideal “market economy”. From Venezuela to Burning Man to Wikipedia to China to Japan to Romania to the Canadian wheat board.

What succeeds, lives.
Relevant: https://paseto.io Platform-Agnostic Security Tokens

>Paseto is everything you love about JOSE (JWT, JWE, JWS) without any of the many design deficits that plague the JOSE standards.
How would providing open access to their public data disallow them from using the network effect to their advantage? I'm not really following.

I get how it would enable alternative front-ends, but just looking at other platforms, these clients don't get used nearly as often as the official clients, so their existence wouldn't have much of an effect on the overall system. Look at Discord, Telegram, etc.; only a tiny percentage uses anything but the default client.

Plus, you can already filter messages like that, but in a much simpler manner: just follow people that feed into the "outrage-attention machine." If you get upset when you read a certain person's tweets, just unfollow them, and only try to follow people that you either personally know or really respect.

One of the things that I've realized is that I become more unhappy when constantly buffetted with bad news that I can't change. Things like country- or international-level news, international forums that feed off of negativity, etc; they all feed off of a number of views, or upvotes, or replies, or whatever, so they constantly have negative news. And because I can do nothing personally about the vast majority of these news stories, they simply make me frustrated or unhappy for no reason.

TL;DR following less people (or not having an account at all) fixes Twitter, not access to a public API.
I'm willing to admit now that I actually liked Windows Phone and wish it had become a viable platform.
What exactly? The fact that login owner can change the login system at any point?
> where only the top hundred or thousand in the world can get by.

I don't think that's correct - music or law employs a ton of working professionals at all levels. If working at one of the big companies is the measure of "getting by" that means if you're a lawyer in a small town you're probably not getting by, which is absolutely not the case.
There's so much right with your take here, IMO.

It flies in the face of so much opposition from reality – much of it credible – like how the hell do you make money when you eschew walled gardens, engagement boosters, and adtech friendly practices? Do people even want to make the tradeoffs they'd have to? Is regulation too heavyhanded?

Will it be that for as long as these systems can be turned into money machines, old money will use them to print new money? Perhaps.

But the mentality of "open at all costs, profits be damned" feels like one we in the tech industry have gradually let slip from our ethos, and it's so core to the old web. I miss it.
I might be a bit out of touch with frontend, but what's the reasoning for this theme being tied to a framework?

I always learnt to keep markup and styles separate as much as possible, because that was beneficial for re-use, maintainability, etc. I would see the JS framework as providing the markup part, so surely the styles should be an orthogonal concern? Would this library not be better as a CSS library that apps can use regardless of the JS (or lack of JS) that they choose to have?
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GMOs are already produced on a massive scale; any irreversible damage is already done. Further, this is true for any domesticated organism, not GMOs in particular. Besides, the argument I referenced was about health risks, not ecological damage.
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Thanks Emil. I will definitely get back to you on my findings.
@onethumb Flickr Pro user here since 2007. There used to be an "Archive" view that had a calendar you could click through and see pictures taken or uploaded on a specific date. I haven't been able to find it since the Camera Roll feature launched.

Camera Roll is certainly useful, but I'd love if I could just quickly click on a calendar and see photos from a certain date rather than waiting for Camera Roll to load up and scrolling/filtering through the huge list. I realize Camera Roll has this feature as well, but I miss the old "Archive" version.
The measured difference in distributions is very small.

And if we believed that this was the cause, you'd need to think that Googlers were wildly off the norm in terms of ability. They've got like 90000 employees. They aren't exclusively hiring mega geniuses.
Exactly! Because if you're implementing everything from scratch, you'd have to check the JWT's expiration yourself... it won't automatically expire by itself otherwise.