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> It seems pretty clear to me that anyone suggesting that software bugs in applications that have no risk of causing physical harm should have criminal liability has no idea what they are talking about and what damage such a law would cause.

So you're fine with financial losses, loss of privacy, and the material harm that goes along with both? Disregarding the impact that data breaches imply is just naive.

> Case in point look at the quality of medical software today. Hospitals still use windows xp and other completely insecure and outdated software. Because absolutely nobody wants to deal with the nightmare that is HIPAA.

I wrote medical device software for more than a decade. HIPAA has nothing to do with it. Many systems run on outdated platforms because the cost of replacing them is deemed to outweigh the benefits. That determination is debatable on a case by case basis, but in practice we see a hell of a lot more damage being caused by breaches of companies running on modern technology than we do e.g. hospital systems or LIMS.
Kind of opposite of the Cold War, where despite (geo)political differences, we tried to cooperate in the sciences, where possible/prudent...
More widespread use of DNS-over-TLS/HTTPS/QUIC can't come soon enough
Further, and this is purely conjecture, it is possible their lawyers considered the alternative of email but decided it was too risky for reasons of uncertainty of message delivery/receipt.

I can imagine being an engineer in a room of lawyers and having them ask me how can I ensure that all customers see the message. I would say that's not possible, but there are ways to maximize the likelihood it will be seen.
IIRC, high interest rates are caused by an economic boom, as raising interest rates is caused by both an increase in demand for cash flows to finance investments and also as a monetary policy to put economic pressure to control inflation.

Currently the world in general is very far from an economic boom, and central banks are actually implementing desperate monetary policies to jump start inflation. Thus, we are very far from those times to the point that nowadays a 3% interest rate is considered huge, as the norm is for interest rates to remain below the inflation rate
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I suppose it depends what kind of platform you are hosting. With something like Vitriol, where you are mostly posting content independent of other people, it doesn't seem like there is much possibility for abuse. But with something like Reddit I can see how moderation is more important, since you can direct message people.
I don't think it's fair to say this person is shutting down entire communities. Isn't the market doing that? The reality of the article is not every town has a flourishing future in the economy. Although the way it is phrased suggests, they are going to pick you up and walk you out of town even if you disagree.

Do we subsidize their lives as some have suggested with UBI? Do we try to revitalize industries that failed? As someone who lives in a small town, what do you think would help those towns and their residents?
(slow clap) good to see some criticism of news sources. I found this article to be of VERY LOW quality. Barely 5 paragraphs, took about 30 seconds to read. Very little context, basically just parroting the gentleman's quote. No value, no conclusion. Thanks for nothing Julie Verhage. How is that even considered a news article?

The only other story I can find on this quote right now is on CNBC. It's a little better. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/14/sipc-chief-raises-concerns-t...

NOTE: I do think these are important points to report, and important to understand if you are considering using the service. I will watch the development of the Robinhood checking with an eyebrow raised. I just really hate poor quality writing from 'top' news outlets. We should demand better.
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I grew up in a small town in the Berkshires and recently went back there to see family. It is interesting to see the shift from where it was 100 years ago to where it was when I was a kid, to where it is today (and where it's heading).

100 years ago there was a ton of industry: paper mills, textile mills, marble and limestone quarries. These were supported by a train that ran through town to transports goods to and from Boston, and the town sprouted up organically around these industries.

One by one, they all faded away but when I was little the town still had much of the residual glory: a downtown full of shops, a mahogany-lined library and school, plus a big new mall 15 minutes away. Then as I grew up all the things started to go away. The two drive-in theaters, the entire downtown shopping area, the malls. All of it bottomed out when the Walmart came to town (familiar story...)

But now there is a bit of a revival around art, nature and tourism, which they have been pushing my entire life. The old train tracks are now a walking/bicycle path. The old textile mill is a modern art museum. The shell of its former existence gives the town a very unique character now. But there is a big disconnect between people who grew up there and the tourist mindset, and it's interesting to be able to see and understand both sides of it. The people that are moving there or want to visit there have a COMPLETELY different mindset than the people who do live there, even most the people trying to drum up the tourism.

Most small towns aren't going to revive via tourism, of course, but I think the bigger problem is every small town is trying to find some big "thing" to come save them. A new plant, a new business hub of some sort. Instead they should be focusing on their strengths, such as they exist: cheap housing, open spaces, access to nature, no commuting traffic. Cut out red tape and let people redefine these town husks like hermit crabs changing shells. I think the best approach is to focus on local community elements that are attractive to people who can work remotely. It's got to be success by a thousand cuts, because most of these communities have no chance at a real influx of business.
A lot of animals are walking a few minutes after they are born. The parts of the brain that take care of it seem to be more hard wired.
I think the punishment should fit the crime. If he photocopied every book in the library, how much time do you think he'd face?

Let's say you can prove intent to distribute; I still don't think it's worth any jail time. It's theoretically harmful at best, minor harm to anyone at worst. It's not like a large specific harm (say, stealing someone's car, which has a definite negative impact on them). It's more like... taking all the shrimp at the buffet.

Plus our copyright law is completely fucked anyway and encourages anti competitive behavior (the exact opposite of its intent). On top of that, there's a good bet that 99.99% of the papers involved were the results of taxpayer-funded research.

I don't think he's a saint, but I do think he got a bullshit deal by an overzealous, madwoman prosecutor and university - both of whom rely on federal funding. And everything that was "stolen" was also created with federal funding.
Be amazed no more, at noon there was an announcement that 1k jobs at Oath (Yahoo + AOL) will be cut https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna948001
Not very good at the data security thing. In other industries such as health care, there are tables that define fines and penalties. Maybe the same is needed here.
>"That’s a theory, but in practice that’s not what you see happen. Companies build a lot of really bad roads when they need them to get from A - B for example logging.
[...]
Companies rarely build such roads and it’s even rarer to see them turned into public toll roads.
[...]
The US interstate highway system"

Why would companies be building roads like that when there is no need to do it?

>"Worldwide you don’t see companies building such things even when the demand is there."

This would be interesting to look at, where is there demand for roads?
This is from the National Institute of Health.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5374256/

I'm not an expert at knowing what studies are good... so someone will probably comment about why this study is problematic, and that's ok.

"Studies have shown that the risk for serious mental illness is generally higher in cities compared to rural areas. Epidemiological studies have associated growing up and living in cities with a considerably higher risk for schizophrenia. However, correlation is not causation and living in poverty can both contribute to and result from impairments associated with poor mental health. Social isolation and discrimination as well as poverty in the neighborhood contribute to the mental health burden while little is known about specific interactions between such factors and the built environment."
It's highly likely that Robinhood will do the same. It'll be parked in a money market, with the option of writing checks, etc. all of which you can do already with the other brokerages.

The new thing here I think is the ATM card and them covering the difference between the money market rate and 3%, which right now is less than 1%. They'll probably make up that difference via interchange fees when you use the debit card.

That SIPC thing though ... that's a bit of a wrench in the gears.
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And unlike the Cold War, both sides' economies are completely tied to trade with the other.

Before anyone feels too complacent about that fact - trade doesn't have a great track record of preventing actual wars. WWI was considered unthinkable, because of how tightly the two sides were entangled in trade.
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Ah, that makes more sense. Yes, since delivery drivers can have impossible quotas / inefficient-but-mandatory routes etc. they have been known to throw things over fences etc., requiring a photo 'on the porch' does counter that (if not the rest of the catch-22).
Very important distinction between money market funds and checking accounts is that they aren't FDIC insured.
How could I've missed you being the author. Thanks for your extensive answer, will definitely try the library! And thanks again for Ipyvolume, has been very useful so far.
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Thanks for the clarification!
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Sure, but my point is that as an employee I like knowing I can leave at any time I want. I consider having that freedom a reasonable price to pay for my employer being able to let me go at any time they want.
Pretty sure American's weight didn't go down during the 2008 Financial Crisis when restaurant usage went way down. I admittedly have no data.
"It should not be necessary for a consumer end user (whether residential or business) of an ISP in the US or Canada to treat their ISP as hostile"

It should not be, I agree, but the sad fact is that if the ISP is one of the heavy-hitters, then you absolutely have to treat them as a hostile force to be defended against and worked around. Because they are.
I suspect this is a much bigger deal in the US, since we have rural power bias built into our political system. Thus, the rural voter has a much bigger "say" in how things run.

(Subsequently, if their life continues to get worse, well, I suspect more tendencies towards authoritarianism.)

This is where I sense the tension. At least in the US, the political system seems to want to maintain people in rural areas, but the economic system doesn't. And I'm not sure a politician running on a platform of "we're gonna get you out of dodge" is going to be very popular.

Advocating for moving people out of rural areas seems like political suicide. I can't find anyone pushing for this idea.
I like Pinterest. I'm bad at decorating, and I'm a bad cook, so having recipes and decorating stuff that I can sift through and save into distinct idea books is nice. However, the website/app is basically glorified bookmarks. Trying to turn this into a Social Networking Empire is just pure greed, and I agree with you: the "Growth Team" concept is wretched. Sure, it's an interesting problem from a CompSci perspective, but the underlying motivations make me ill. Stop trying to manipulate your users. If they like and have a use for it, they'll use it. If they no longer have a use for it, they'll stop. BUT, if it's good enough, then the incoming users should eclipse the outgoing, and you'll float on just fine. Alas, for Social Network Empire wannabes, that's just not good enough!
Why in the world was this the decision they came up with?
This article is sensationalism. The science does not support the claims. Flagged.
Yeah, in particular:

"Government data shows that in 2017 American spent more than $3,300 a year on dining out"

Can spending 3300$ yearly result in being broke?
Hi. I've worked in medical software repeatedly. I totally want to deal with HIPAA. It's a good idea for clients (the people who actually matter) and it's not nearly as difficult a prospect to work with as people say. The set of demands it makes upon you are small and reasonably constrained and are nearly all process-based rather than technical. Where it is technical, plenty of folks will sign a BAA for you to take big chunks of the technical stack off your hands, too.

"But HIPAA" has never, in my experience, been employed except by people who find the idea of doing the right thing inconvenient or inconveniently expensive. (It is virtually never that hard and its benefits are clear.)

There are reasons for not modernizing tech stacks in the medical space. HIPAA is, in every case I've ever observed, not a meaningful one.
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Why assume this trend is new? Had the author not researched history?
Dining out has been a feature of society since Rome (79AD)

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/10/05/take-out-restauran...

It's very possible to go out and not spend a lot.
Does this cost include alcohol? 60$ with drinks/person sounds right to me (for a week).
Dropping alcohol: 20$ is doable (granted I don't go out 3 times a week).

However: why state the weekly budget over average meal cost?
Assuming an 8 hour day and two days worth of billable work, that assumes you are making or your company is billing you out at $45/hour. Not exactly highest average salary.

But if you aren’t a professional designer, you no more need Adobe’s high end offering than a non professionally developer needs to spend thousands on an MSDN license.
not even close. Maya and 3dsmax start at $1500 a year. I'm pretty sure most other professional 3d software is in a similar ballpark or more. The apps are complex and the market for them is arguably not large enough to support the development costs at a lower price point. AutoCAD is another example. Even Unity is $1500 a year. Pro Audio tools are in a similar category.
TL;DR: Check your presuppositions.

> I’m supposing that all events are the result of a train of consequences (determinism) or are completely random (quantum stuff). Is this correct?

In "He Is There And He Is Not Silent", Francis Schaeffer points out that, if everything had an impersonal beginning, then free will is impossible. A bunch of other stuff is impossible, too: love, morals, meaning, real beauty. Everything we think of as making us human is dead. All we are is deterministic machines made out of atoms, with quantum uncertainty injecting some noise at the lower layers. We're peers to robots. This is the consequence of your supposition in your second paragraph.

But, Schaeffer points out, there is another possible starting point - that everything we see had a personal beginning, that is, God. In that case, our aspiriations to being real persons rather than just machines are in line with what has always been - true personality. And if that is so, then your second paragraph is an incorrect supposition.

Most everyone has a materialistic starting point as such a deeply-buried presupposition that they never question it. But the logical consequences destroy our humanity.

It's kind of like this: Have you ever put a T-shirt on backward? It looks like it should work, and it covers everything that it should cover, but it just doesn't fit. And you try to wiggle it around so that it fits better, but no matter how you wiggle, it never fits right. In the same way, the materialist presupposition looks like it explains everything. But who it says we humans are doesn't fit us. It's untrue to our experience of living as human beings.

I assert that this isn't just a cruel joke played on us by an unfeeling universe. I assert that this is evidence that the materialist presupposition is in fact incorrect. It doesn't explain who we are as human beings. It doesn't explain how we can have real personality.
The biggest problem for small and medium communities is brain drain. It's a vicious death spiral because the smart and ambitious kids basically have to move away to large cities to get quality jobs.

The only solution I can think of is incentivizing remote work so people don't have to be concentrated in cities. You might not even have to incentivize it because it's a tremendous advantage as a tech company to be able to recruit from any where in the country where lots of talented people don't want to move for family reasons or don't want to live in a city
What about performance when relying so heavily on this string matching with attribute selectors.
The article seeks to connect being “broke” with having bad judgement.
It's essential. From my reading of the news it seems the Chinese want access to US universities, tech and financial service companies for a variety of reasons. I'd imagine that access to these resources is impossible without coming to the US.
Don't really think the Kavanaugh example really fits in with the rest. Sorry, if you want to be a Supreme Court justice, yes, you should should be held to a much higher standard. Yelling about "revenge on behalf of the Clintons" does indeed count as "partisan bitterness".
That would still require a custom cert installed on the end user device, which may not be feasible in the case of some iot devices and generally a pain for most users in general, especially as more websites pin their certificates.
That's a tame, early text, but mid-to-late Alone writes in unrivaled High Sarcasm. So he always gets uncharitably read by someone.
Pray tell, where do you expect all those agricultural products, lumber, livestock, and so forth that we all depend on to come from without small towns and rural communities? They have to grow somewhere after all.
Note that Google Analytics has an option to use the Beacon API, somewhere in it. Re-using that might save you some work.
Come on...what they did was shitty, but Aaron killed himself because he was depressed and suffered frequently from suicidal ideation, literally for years before he even stepped foot into MIT.
"Feel free to download and access these documents that we have arranged for you to be able to use."

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Kevin Williamson is the child of an unplanned pregnancy. He was born a few months before Roe v Wade. He could easily apply your logic and say he's uncomfortable being around people who would advocate that he could have been killed before he was born.

I don't agree with his position on this at all. But I especially disagree with the 2018 approach of deciding that we can't tolerate people who think differently from us, and that we have to banish them so we're not uncomfortable.

If someone is going to physically harm you, or harass you, that is one thing. But we have to be able to tolerate differences of opinion. Pro-life people literally believe that millions of babies are being killed every year legally. It's a good thing they don't generally refuse to hire any pro-choice person on account of this.
I think there's a bug in the getInfo function. You almost certainly want to return the promise from horseman at line 3.
Everything is moving to Go modules; unless you need compatibility with legacy tools I'd start updating and go ahead and use modules whenever possible. It will make your life easier in the future when you have to transition fewer things.
When we're entering an era where everything will involve software, yes, bad software and careless bugs should be severely punished.
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Do you think having one company dominate the internet as the portal (search) and advertising (embedded in search/content) is good for competition?
Have you ever engaged with politicians much? I think not. What you wrote is very naive. Yes, laws should be specific, but they never will be.
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One of the funny and snarky things Jordan Peterson has said is that he "figured out a way to monetize social justice warriors".

Which is true in some sense. He's become well funded through donations and book sales even as groups of people direct a ton of hate at him. He can afford to almost totally ignore them, because for every hater there are ten fans.

Which leads to a crazy thought: If the social media mobs knew that they were going to make their victims rich, might they moderate themselves somewhat?

Would they tell each other to "stop talking about X, you're just making them more money!"

I think some kind of meme like this might be a strong antidote in some cases. Maybe some benevolent person or organization could give a $100k patreon seed to each victim of the mob.

Maybe one solution to hateful internet mobs spewing bile is loving internet "mobs" sending donations.
Sorry but I don’t get what you mean, and I can’t see where in the article you are referring to. What do you mean by wrangling with classnames? Do you mean clashes? That’s what modules do, they scope your scss so that you don’t get clashes between components.
It still looks like that today
EcoPlanet Bamboo claims to address the prior criticisms of using bamboo. Pretty cool if true.

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Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead, sure. But that doesn't mean you have to assume that having something on the internet means it's going to leak all by itself. The advice we should be giving is not putting all of our eggs in centralized baskets

Especially if we know the baskets have goals not aligned with our own, despite it being oh-so-convenient, but also not centralized in the first place.
If the idea is for the Tech Industry to 'revitalize' these small towns (which I'm not sure I buy into), then the only way to do is to incentivize companies to hire workers from these areas (i.e. better education and early awareness of 'tech jobs'), or incentivize companies to move existing employees to these areas and allow them to work remotely.

> The pressure of agglomeration is high in the tech industry

Which is for nothing. Old school business ideas and stubbornness is the only reason this is true. Keep your gaudy glass building in the hot new section of downtown if you wish, but let your workers choose where they live and work from.
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