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It was definitely democratic. Every office except senator was decided by majority vote with universal male suffrage. And even Senators were de-facto elected, since elevation to the Senate was automatic upon the completion of a term in an elected office. Sure, Rome began as an Oligarchic Republic, but after the secession of the plebs in 494 BC 12 years later, it was solidly Democratic.

Think about it, if Rome wasn't a democracy, then why did the Populares exist at all? In an oligarchy, wouldn't a political party that panders to the masses be utterly powerless?

While Romans didn't call what they had liberalism, they definitely practiced a liberal society. People were free to speak their minds, travel as they wished, and speak for or against people in power however they wanted (see: Catullus and the invention of slam poetry).

All of these freedoms were locked down tight the moment Augustus came to power. People were okay with it, because having your speech, movement, and life trajectory restricted is better than being dead in a civil war, but Roman society under the Empire was way less free than Roman society under the Republic.
Confusing. Are you wanting to make a legal claim against Toyota, Ford, Chevy, etc. if someone drives an automobile in a way that makes you have to file a legal claim?
This comes across as just "get off my lawn" sort of reaction.
Every source of information will be biased, and you have to take that into account by being critical.

I found that the best source for me is The Economist: once per week, written by smart people, with good summaries of anything that is important. Delivered digitally (with an excellent audio version, too).

It is "biased" in the sense that the editors hold a set of opinions and you have to be aware of it. I do not agree with all of their opinions, but I am aware of them. The news useful even if you disagree with their interpretation or recommendations.

Surprisingly, it is the only intelligent and non-sensational news source that I have found.
You can also homebrew tetracycline beer like the ancient Nubians.

http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_REPORT/stories/2010/09/07/beer.ht...

I guess the trick is to obtain and maintain a healthy Streptomyces colony. Antibiotic laced beer should keep real well without refrigeration, too.
No. Further reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
In an IT capacity that does include the NHS.

I'm not for a moment suggesting this is right for ref. Individual merit is much more important.
(2006) I hate the news
As a platform, YouTube's incentives don't serve the user as well as they could.

A prime example was a video with millions of views on a very popular channel about 9/11 conspiracies. Did the YouTuber believe them? No. But cranking out a 10m+ video every day is more important than what he believes.

Then you look at high quality channels who put out a video once a week, or even month, and they are forced to rely on Patreon (which is a great platform!).

Not sure what the solution to this would be, but I feel similarly on the wading through garbage to get to the good stuff.
I've had relatives tricked by this and called the number for "Microsoft Support."

They were using Chrome. Clicking on the browser outside of the page area resulted in the tab going full screen again somehow, and they used multiple other tricks to make the page impossible to close (e.g. looping message boxes).

I don't think browser vendors take these issues very easy. But when I tell relatives to hit the escape key and it DOESN'T work, it isn't helpful.
Micro Center has them for $5 for the first unit, $15 for units 2-5, and $20 each after that. Still less than ideal but not too bad.
Great! I'm hoping that my Behringer UCA202 will do the trick.
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This is a general problem with solutions in the space. Part of the niceness of say geohashes is that they telescope down.

The startup I'm involved with has developed what we call a geohash phrase. The core idea is to map English (or whatever language) words to the characters of a geohash. We usually map a word two-characters at a time, giving us 10-bits of precision for each additional word. So your location might be something like: "The big dog walks near the red house."

What is nice is that the phrase telescopes. So you can be vague when you want and only provide say the first three words of your location.
There is no source that ticks all boxes, you have to resign yourself to being well informed about a small number of things and become active in that community, for all other things simply take it on trust and be wary.
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> These wants honestly sound like desperate ways to distract yourself with toys and experiences until you die.

If you aren't working for your subsistence, what else are you doing with your life but finding distractions until your time is up?

> [money] won't buy you healthy body, good looks or a charitable personality.

Money can directly buy you good looks and a healthy body through plastic surgery, more fashionable clothes/accessories, as well as the free time and ability to hire a personal trainer and equipment necessary to get fit. World class doctors are now available as well to help extend your healthy life as long as possible.

I do agree with you about the personality.
I think it's a fad. With social media as the main distribution channel, alignment with any of these causes is low investment.
I’m interested to know how others are preserving websites. Due to incomplete snapshots, broken links and spam companies taking over expired domains, it’s often difficult to browse or get a complete image of a website using the Wayback machine. So lately I’ve been using tools like Wayback Machine Downloader to grab as much as I can, then fix up the archive (using relative links, removing unnecessary Javascript, etc.) and finally republish everything as a Github repo using gh-pages. There must be a better way?
2 wrongs don't make a right. Although the "swipe to unlock" patent case was ridiculous.
That’s all fine and good, but that doesn’t mean that most of those cryptocurrencies are suited to addressing that market. Pretty much only Zcash and Monero are. Those represent only a tiny fraction of the market. The big problem for crypto though is that if it is only used for narcotics, and there’s no plausible use case otherwise, it’ll all get outlawed. For it to support that business it needs to have an equally large legitimate use case and it definitely does not. Otherwise the early adopters will have just about as easy a time cashing out of this is as they would the underlying narcotics.
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This reminds me of https://www.ghacks.net/2012/09/12/blizzard-watermarking-wow-...
1. There's nothing at the code and protocol level about sustaining the price, but at the human level the early adopters (i.e. the 4% owning 97% of assets) are incentivised to try to sustain or increase the price through whatever means they can (e.g. funding pro-crypto press, social media, lobbyists etc.).

2. There's a big debate about whether it is inflationary, or deflationary, or hyper-deflationary, or different things at different times (e.g. inflationary wile new coins are being mined and deflationary from when the maximum number of coins has been reached). But whatever you call it, the point is that if there are the same people holding assets and there are more of those assets enabled, then all else being equal each of those assets would naturally be worth less, and as per point 1 the people at the top are incentivised to take action to counteract this, e.g. by introducing more people into the system below them.
Very true. Funny anecdote:

I used to be an avid reader of alt.best-of-internet. When AOL put newsgroups online, alt.best-of-internet was at the top of the alphabetical list and suddenly got a deluge of nonsense. Please to AOL went unheard.

Someone got the brilliant idea to keep a thread bumped to the top whose title was:

OFFICIAL MESSAGE FROM AOL: WE WORSHIP SATAN

I don't know if this was cause/effect, but shortly afterwards alt.best-of-internet was hidden or moved to a less conspicuous location in the UI and the deluge stopped.
That cookie isn’t from PIA. It was a random example of the really obviously vulnerable fusion cookies I pulled by googling the cookie name.

Looking at some file timestamps on my laptop, I guess this was around feb or april 2015?
yeah they can keep writing these articles til we're all dead.
Honolulu is a city, not an island. It is more than enough information to select a rectangle roughly 40km on a side.
Best Buy has been selling pirate retro consoles for months, with no action taken against them.

https://m.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/300-in-1-portable-retro-m...

And, of course, Amazon and Ali Baba have been selling them for ages.
I have archived Aaron's site into a WARC file if someone wants to host it. Also in cold storage in the event there are any gaps in what the Internet Archive has.
I went from The Economist to Foreign Affairs few years ago when Eco became unbearably filled with an agenda. You might want to check FA out.
Isn’t the kind of programming that most of us do every single day just symbol manipulation of the kind he describes?

On this site, I click reply, the web server interprets my intention and presents me with a text box, etc.

There’s a level of intelligence in pretty much any computer program. I think we take it for granted now because it’s so engrained in our data to day lives, but it’s remarkable isn’t it?

Just look at how many decisions take place entirely within the ‘minds’ of computers when you try and buy a product on amazon and have it shipped to you.

Everything from the pricing of the goods, to approving your credit worthiness to the logistics of getting it to your house is decided on by computers.

All of that would have to have been done by human beings not very long ago.

If anything, symbol manipulation has become such a dominant paradigm for artificial intelligence that we don’t actually recognize any of those activities as requiring intelligence any more — which is always the case every time we mechanize thought.

The question is really whether either of those paradigms gets us to a “general” ai (whatever that is), or both, or neither.
Aw don't be embarrassed. It's a cool little bit of history. Growing up in the bible belt, I remember many charity events were accompanied by a stew. You could buy it by the quart. My local volunteer fire department made a stew twice a year and everyone in the community looked forward to it. My grandfather and father used to cook stews for my birthday. The act of cooking a stew was an all day affair and pretty fun by itself. Everyone would sit next to the stew cauldron and fire on a cold fall/winter day and take turns adding ingredients and stirring.
All I can think of, while noting all the numerous exceptions to the rule is https://www.xkcd.com/293/
There is no good reason for any website to be able to block Esc key from exiting fullscreen mode, games or no games.
the cancer death would have happened regardless
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I used to think the same a few years ago.

But nowadays, with the state of politics, the spread of fake news and false narrative on social media... this is what we have.

"they could have read an entire book about most subjects covered and thereby learned about it with far more detail and far more impact than the daily doses they get dribbled out by the paper"

This is not what people do. This is applicable to 1% of the population.

Trump got elected and keeps supporters with dozens of 140-character messages everyday. There is no details, no analysis, lots of lies and inflammatory comments. But this is what works.

Whether you agree with him or not, this is the winning method to gain influence. This is also because escaping news on social media and TV is harder and harder, and the more susceptible to get trapped are not the one that would make the better choices for everyone.

So you need to use the same tactics to fight him or support him or support something in general. Or you virtually don't exist.

And the opinion and vote of the people is more important than we realized just ten years ago when he wrote that. Would Swarz stay silent and disconnected in the Trump era?
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This is no longer true for even locally installed games. If Ubisoft's uPlay disappears tomorrow, your locally installed games are just useless bits.

Many very nice web based games exist, and many can be saved to disk and launched from a local html file just fine. Many games target the web browser because it's easily cross platform, requires no install, and is easy to convince new players to give it a try.
Yeah, that whole debacle does not look good for them. This is damage control.
Don't write user stories. Many of the tasks that can be accomplished in a sprint aren't actually useful to users. In addition, stories aren't for users, they're for developers. The story, first and foremost, must be friendly enough to the developer that they can pick it up and work it. Instead, write user features. Let the developers write the stories. It took a while to convince my team of this (agile consultants can do a real number on people sometimes) but in the end, it let everyone write down and organize what they needed to, and it helped us organize all the work in a single hierarchy.
Pretty much any complex piece of software has known and unknown long-standing bugs.
I've seen a network configuration tool that had a drop down in the application header where you could choose between "Simple", "Advanced" and "Expert"; each presented largely different user interfaces, which were actually quite good. E.g. with "Simple" there simply was a list of Wi-Fi networks and a wizard for creating new ones or changing them with basically three options: SSID, password and whether it's a guest network. It didn't let you choose what encryption or channel to use, because "simple users" don't care about that. On "Expert" on the other hand already the listing had many more columns (channel, connected clients etc.) and the configuration pages gave you full acess to basically everything down to beacon intervals and stuff like that. Instead of checking a box labelled "guest network" you could add arbitrary iptables-rules etc.
Am I the only one who has no idea what he's looking at when entering the site?

Horrible UX. Whats the point of the site? What is LED Strain? where am I supposed to figure that out?
It's neat that this manual from 1980 actually has an author prominently attributed and "Personal Note from the Author".

I had an RX-80 that, that I loved, until it died in the same lightning storm that killed my Atari 800. I replaced it with a Panasonic, don't remember the model, but it was also a very good dot matrix printer.
Why the negativity? Software is fluid and never perfect. And specially the fight between browsers and malicious sites won't stop at any time ... At least they recognized the problem and acted on it.
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I can tell you what I do:

1. I don't consume any news from televised sources,

2. I read Foreign Policy, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Economist and Foreign Affairs,

3. I'm generally skeptical of everything I read and I try to assume every article's author has many unknown unknowns in their reporting (to counter Gelman Amnesia),

4. Every so often (once a week or so), I read something from a news source I actively distrust just to see what else a nontrivial portion of the population believes about the world.

This isn't perfect, but if you have the free time to do that much reading I think it gets you pretty close to well-rounded. I think the only major way to improve upon this would be to add another major news source from another country for additional foreign perspective (this is why I like The Economist and Financial Times).
No, they won because they wanted to retaliate against the USA arresting a top Huewei executive.
Nice UX?

Being dumped into a forum with no context outside of the URL? thats horrible UX.
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Consider someone from a country with poor passport freedoms. Normally, if they lived in their home country, they'd need visas for lots of places. But now they live in Europe. Thus, the places that require visas depends on:

1) The home country.
2) The destination country.
3) The holding of other residence permits.

That person does not need a visa if they live in Germany and want to travel to Belgium, but they do if they want to visit London. And the only way to know that is by considering all of the above points, not just their home country.
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Your comment sounds a lot like "joggers have no place on my bike path" or "the road is for cars, not bikes"

Scooters solve a niche in the "not quite big enough to be regulated like a motor vehicle" transportation segment. There's no inherent reason they can't be used in public spaces.

The only reason scooters are an "issue" is because they are new and that newness results in them existing in a legal gray area that causes people to feel entitled to all the speed of real vehicles with all of the responsibility to operate safely that a pedestrian has (i.e. none other than your understanding of physics and desire not to be hit by other traffic). This "issue" will be solved eventually if scooters do become popular enough to take part in accidents actually harm people with any meaningful regularity.
Yes my biggest pet peeve with Stack Overflow specifically is that instead of an answer to the question, you'll often see a lecture about how the poster is doing it wrong. Usually this is because the responder didn't actually read the question and is trying to get their internet points in before someone else answers it.

It's not a bad idea to outline a different approach, but it's almost always better to first answer the question and then add your opinion afterwards. I've even seen questions where they poster will state "I'm not doing it the accepted way because..." and still see useless responses saying "You should do it this conventional way instead" etc.

I think this is just a negative of having a points reward system that encourages answer sniping. However, without a points system you'd see far less content. I've accepted it as a necessary evil, and overall I'm pretty happy with the quality of SO content once you learn to filter out the nonsense.
Also in the same paragraph.

> Madoff’s wife, Ruth, is living in a rented home in Connecticut. The government allowed her to keep $2.5 million after Madoff’s plea.

That whole paragraph felt so odd when I read it. Very callous mentioning of people hanging themselves and others dieing to cancer, and that the state apparently allowed his wife to keep $2.5 million of the stolen money. The whole thing sounds insane from a justice perspective.
Here's my secret stash:

- https://www.quantamagazine.org - science-y

- https://thebrowser.com - sometimes too intellectual or focused on literature

- https://waitbutwhy.com - sometimes too simple

- https://www.project-syndicate.org - sometimes written by people that are "talkers/politicians" not "doers"

- https://www.gwern.net - The monthly newsletter is great

- https://chinai.substack.com - Chinese Papers and AI news translated

- https://www.ribbonfarm.com - great long form essays

I also got asked a couple of times about starting my own monthly mailing list with the most interesting things I find.

If you'd be interested in receiving it email me at hi[at]ferrucc[dot]io
Alec Steele - A hyperactive Brit makes swords in Montana

Invitica - essays on ancient civilizations

Wintergarten - a Swede in France making a musical marble machine to millisecond precision. Good project management tips are included.

Man At Arms ReForged - Baltimore swordsmiths make ridiculous videogame sized swords that are mostly unusable.

EDIT: A few others

Bon Appetite's "Brad Makes": A New Jerseyian mumbles his way through fermenting anything edible. Frequent field trips ensue.

Kiwami Japan: A very very strange Japanese man makes the same knife, over and over, from various materials such as jello, underwear, and pasta. ASMRy.

Primitive Technology: The journey of a mute, nearly naked QLD programmer in the forest and his attempts to make a nuclear reactor from local mud. Turn on English subtitles.

Contrapoints: A trans PhD dropout comments on current issues through the lens of grad-level philosophy and copious innuendo. Impeccable set design and pacing.
Why are modal popups still a thing at all? Yes, I know all the excuses. They are not good enough.

Also, websites should not be able to block browser UI unless I explicitly allow them to. In any way.
Thank you for sharing this! Excellently argued article, and has aged surprisingly well.
I suppose this is a perfectly cromulent use of "security through obscurity", and an excellent example of steganography.

I wonder if anyone thought about those rings or ever noticed they were different machine to machine.
This is an article in a popular magazine, and there is no “problem” nor any “whining”. Except here in the comments, oddly!
As someone who suffers from this since the arrival of LED backlighting, I wonder if there are lighting technologies on their way that will eliminate the issue?
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My apologies, I was trying to include a facetious comment about enjoying spending time here as part of my job, not that I would enjoy being an anonymous shill. That wasn't clear, and I've updated the GP to reflect that.

I greatly enjoy and value the discussion here. Being a part of the community in an open and clear role would be compelling, and I absolutely agree that subterfuge hurts the community.
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companies won't "mandate" commute (at least for the type of work that can be done remotely)
The personal issue I have with ownCloud / Nextcloud, is that I simply don't trust the technical competence of the developers, who picked PHP as the most suitable programming language for a multi-platform network-intensive application in 2010. There were simply no technical reasons for doing this – and there are still none.
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There are other uses besides bragging rights. For example there were quite a few season where if you were in the silver/bronze tier in Overwatch. You'd be eternally paired with people who wouldn't even try to work together as a team. This issue was compounded by what I saw as a bug in how healing classes were awarded for their achievements in matches wrt ranking up. If you had a team of good friends you could rank out of it but without a boost competitive lost it's flair for me. I had a friend play my account with some of his buddies who were really good to get me into gold/plat and the public groups for competitive were much more rewarding. I'm not sure if Blizzard has fixed this ELO hell situation but, that's one anecdotal reason for 'boosting' besides bragging rights.
> Voyager 1 departed Earth on 5 September 1977, a few days after its sister spacecraft, Voyager 2.

Well that’s unusual isn’t it? Perhaps there was a temporary issue/delay with #1? I didn’t see the explanation in the article.