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> people who no knowledge ... post so confidently

The Dunning–Kruger effect at work.

> Since I have a lot of experience with targeted ads, it makes me trust the comments on topics I'm not an expert on less.

That's like when you see a news report about something you're a domain expert on. You notice the mistakes and are left to wonder how often that happens with all the areas you're not an expert on...
Oddly enough, I recently have been seeing an onslaught of Foo Fighters stories on Google news. I am in fact a music fan and musician who knows their songs but I have no special interest in them. I wonder if something about them triggers some runway like function in Google’s algorithm.
We're now pretty deep in this thread and you still haven't given a single example?
I don't disagree with you entirely but I think "suffering for art" is really just a corollary (admittedly, often taken to its absurd extreme) of the idea that art can't be created in a complacent vacuum.
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Most desalination plants around the world are operating at 100% capacity all of the time, because that's what needed to avoid depletion of the reservoirs.

To be able to "build up reserves" means that you have to build much higher capacity, but only use as much of it as clean energy allows - in today's world, this is highly uneconomical.

If anything, the reserves to be built are energy reserves that allow water to be desalinated continuously -- and that's something which makes sense in general, possibly grid scale as storage technology improves, regardless of the specifics of water desalination.
This problem is psychological and you cannot solve it. When I have seen this, it was rooted in a type of societal insecurity where the person feels the need to control - just as your behavior is being controlled. You will do what they want, or they will refuse to work.
Not sure making the UI look so much like Spotify was a wise move.
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Who thought that was a good idea?

Defeated by reader mode.
Either way, the truth value can be deduced by taking a hard, penetrating, objective look at the commercial entity, its policies, actions, and impacts.

It is not ascertained by buying into the shallowest outer layer of its marketing veneer.
It was just the catch-all "we're reducing the personal data visible through our API". Nothing specific to the events API. Which would make sense if it restricted the ability to see how many people were going and who had RSVP'd, but they shut off everything.

When I asked Facebook support, they gave me two options: direct users to the Facebook Local app (bypassing my site), or have every business I wanted to collect event data from log into my site and store their user access token, and that would give me permission to collect their events. This token needs to be re-upped every so often, so now I'm asking hundreds of people to log into my site every month just to keep their events populating. Most of the business owners can barely use Facebook to begin with, it's just a non-starter.
> vast, vast majority of people will not be working full time on F/OSS or quite possible anything else.

I doubt this. Everyone has dreams or long-term things they enjoy working on. And UBI wouldn't be enough for most people, so they'd at least pursue some form of cash-generating work.
Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18874400.
Your biases are showing, and that's affecting the quality of your argument.

"liberal controlled areas" is an indicator. People vote for policies that make sense to them. Most people like living in cities, and they like living in places where government provides services that aren't well-distributed by market mechanisms.

Let's go with your $10T number. Then, let's apply a standard progressive income tax, of the kind that has been operating your entire life. Numbers are chosen for convenience and being not too far off from realistic.

At 0 income, you now make $31.2K. No income tax due.

At $7.5K income, such as a $15/hour job you work at for 10 hours a week for 50 weeks, you take in $39K and pay $750 -- a 10% tax bracket.

At $15K income, working that job for 20 hours/week, you take in $46K and pay $1875 in income tax. 7.5K * 0.10 + 7.5K * 0.15

At $30K income, working full-time at minimum wage, you take in $60K and pay 7.5K * 0.10 + 7.5K * 0.15 + 15K * 0.20 = $4875.

At $45K income you take home 75K and pay $4875 + 15K * 0.25 = $6100.

At $60K income you take home 90K and pay $6100 + 15K * 0.33 = $11K.

At $75K income you take home 105K and pay $11K + 25K * 0.5 = $26K, and so you are a net contributor to taxes.

You can set the balance point where you wish: below it, people gain money; above it, people pay more in taxes than they take in from UBI.

While that's going on, you can have smaller government: you no longer need most pensions, most welfare programs, and lots of bureaucracy devoted to finding out whether people should get assistance.

And one more simple change: make income tax calculated by the IRS and you file changes against their preparation, rather than you sitting down and trying to figure everything out each April. Cuts down on frustration and tax avoidance.
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Popcorn time was popular because it was way better than any of the legal alternatives. You just had to open it, type the name of the movie/series and you probably could start watching. You could also do this in the legal alternatives, but the chance of actually finding what you were looking for was pretty small.

Here I don't really see how this is better than Spotify/iTunes/Amazon Music.
And using Fing (works better on Android b/c on iOS it can't access raw MAC addresses) is perfectly legal. The fact that a default password is used or the password is posted on the router is not in any way legal permission to access it as a short-term guest. Look at Aaron Swartz's case if you don't know how readily prosecutors will (ab)use the CFAA.
Because they need time to correct errors and to prevent fraud. Say someone gets into the SEC and decides to release a fraudulent report. If that happens during off hours it can be rectified, but if it happens during the trading day the markets will react instantly and the damage is done.

Fixed release times also means that the companies submitting the filings cannot pick an advantageous time. Imagine if Musk was sitting atop a really horrible Tesla earnings report. If he could manipulate the exact time of its release he could leverage all sorts of things.
Which none of dang's comments have. Dang is a mod who breaks the rules every day and calls people out on them. This is fair to you?
Exactly this. And once you get into the 7.862 Trillion range you find that it's much more reasonable.
I think Stross is on the right track but doesn't get the whole story. It's all about regulating the rate of change in society. Institutions naturally tend toward preserving the status quo, for all the reasons Stross specifies. But institutions that prohibit change altogether do not survive. The tendency toward "beigeness" comes about as political actors converge on a level of change-permissiveness (and thus functional rate of change) that optimally compromises between conservatives and liberals (in the sense of those against and for change respectively). Too much change is scary because it seems unstable. Too little is scary because it seems oppressive. So political actors seem beige because they are selected for moderation between those extremes. The changes they permit are thus inoffensive to a plurality of citizens and the changes they prohibit are equally inoffensive. And therefore equally distinteresting.
Pick an upstairs room to do your work in. Put a big sign on the door that says you may only knock on the door if the house is on fire. When you're ready for a break from working on your project, then open the door. Anyone who ignores the sign gets an immediate "Hey! Can't you read?!!"
But since key management is out of your control or visibility, Apple can just add another key to your account on behalf of the government. They don't have to disclose the existing keys on your device. This gets them the messages going forward but not the ones from the past. So they'd have to do this for all Chinese customers ahead of time, rather than as a response to an inquiry.
Wild speculation: What if cutting off the ad exchanges was a dose of quinine for the New York Times?

NYT is a premium venue for people who want to advertise, because its regular readers (especially the ones who don't live in New York) tend to have above-average disposable income. Because of that, the NYT should be able to charge a premium for advertising with them.

But if they opt into the ad exchanges, then they've given ad exchanges a signal they can use to more easily track who is a regular NYT reader. Advertisers could use that to target NYT readers without ever actually advertising on the NYT's website - they can follow them somewhere cheaper, and advertise there instead.
While I get why people are annoyed by that message, I get and understand it.

It's super annoying when you are trying to create a desktop app and you get issues (multiple of them) essentially going "Why are you using Electron? it eats up my RAM, please use X framework and you should be fine"

This would be fine if:

1. You attached that with a PR for said framework or
2. You searched before and read this being answered earlier

From a maintainer's point of view - this is super annoying.

I'm sure the author built this to satisfy his itch first and open sourced it because it might help others (either to directly use the product or to learn from the code). It's super annoying when you have people who think they know better come and tell you to use X because they have a problem with Electron (not necessarily your app in particular but Electron in general). I say this as it appears the author might be using arch linux and as a linux user, I always appreciate an electron app vs no app (obviously a native app is better but that's generally never the option - it's generally electron or nothing).

I'm sure it could have been worded nicely but eitherway it got the effect the author wanted - it drives away people who'd be annoyed by Electron in the first place.
Same here. A few years ago all our AirBnB experiences were good, but over time they have progressively got worse.

For example, one host housed us in what felt like a derelict hotel/doshouse with all sorts of weird people staying and no working locks or fire alarm. On another occasion we booked a cottage, but it had a blocked chimney and was spewing fumes and smoke in to the living area. And for our tenth wedding anniversary we booked another cottage where the host insisted on staying with us despite the listing saying we would have the property to ourselves. He also insisted on singing to us against our will, this was actually quite creepy.

We did of course raise concerns with AirBnB about the first two and left a negative review for the third. AirBnB did not care and crucially it did not seem to have an effect on the ratings of these properties. That just does not seem right.

I no longer trust AirBnB. I don't trust the listings, I don't trust the reviews and I certainly don't trust AirBnB itself to filter out bad hosts.

This could be because AirBnB has grown so fast and it has struggled to cope, or it could be a conscious business decision. Either way, we don't use them anymore.
Armstrong - Groups and Symmetry is accessible. Munkres - Topology also doable. Vector Calculus by Marsden/Tromba was my intro calculus book however im not sure if calculus is ever going to be very interesting. not a bad book though.
Although the Fender Esquire was the first popular solid-body electric guitar, it was far from the first. That accolade almost certainly belongs to George Beauchamp while working for Rickenbacker - he has a patent for a solid-body instrument dated 1932. Lloyd Loar released a number of popular semi-hollow instruments through the Vivi-Tone company in the mid-1930s.

https://reverb.com/uk/news/who-really-invented-the-electric-...

https://patents.google.com/patent/US2089171
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Google doesn't sell user data either, though.

But Apple's privacy policy is very clear that they do share user data and they do use personal information for advertisement purposes: "Apple and its affiliates may share this personal information with each other and use it consistent with this Privacy Policy. They may also combine it with other information to provide and improve our products, services, content, and advertising."

Does Apple collect less data than Google? Almost certainly, Google is crazy good at it. But are they still collecting data and using it for targeted advertising? According to their own privacy policy YES, yes they are. Including tracking people on their websites: "Apple’s websites, online services, interactive applications, email messages, and advertisements may use "cookies" and other technologies such as pixel tags and web beacons. These technologies help us better understand user behavior, tell us which parts of our websites people have visited, and facilitate and measure the effectiveness of advertisements and web searches."

Seriously, just read Apple's privacy policy: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/

It really doesn't match their heavy privacy-first marketing push of late.

And for things like Siri it's hard to imagine that they aren't going to get increasingly creepy on the data collection aspect of things. It's sort of necessary to build out a "real" assistant. Asking things like "What time is my flight?", which is a useful feature, requires it to know when your flight is. Which you probably didn't manually tell it, because that's not very assistant-y, but instead it had to crawl your emails to find it. That ends up being creepy data collection. They could do it purely on-device, but then your homepod can't answer the same question, which breaks the magic. Unless they build some way for the homepod to ask all your other Apple devices. But if all your devices form a collective network that can share data about you between each other is it really "purely local" anymore? And what stops Apple from joining in on that mesh network whenever they want?
Turns out this is actually documented in the manpage for wordexp()! (And refers to the mentioned fact that it now calls 'sh' directly.)

> BUGS

> Do not pass untrusted user data to wordexp(), regardless of whether the WRDE_NOCMD flag is set. The wordexp() function attempts to detect input that would cause commands to be executed before passing it to the shell but it does not use the same parser so it may be fooled.

> The current wordexp() implementation does not recognize multibyte characters, since the shell (which it invokes to perform expansions) does not.
Maybe you should look me up first: https://twitter.com/search?q=manigandham%20regulation

I'm one of the few in the industry who actually spent time and money on regulation. I've met with Senators and major CMOs to make it happen. It's not that simple. GDPR has good intent but is poorly executed and has no measurable effect on privacy because those politicians fail to understand the market they're regulating. This is now playing out again in the recent copyright directives.

Marketing and advertising are drivers of the economy and there's nothing inherently wrong with either of them. All regulation also creates and solves problems, one of which is consolidation. Nothing inherently problematic in that either. Targeted advertising definitely needs fixing, but that's separate from privacy and there are ways to do both while also solving for other issues like fraud, political influence, mass surveillance, and more.

"Evil, harmful, just dies" are useless for discussion. I suggest dropping the immature rhetoric if you actually want to have a productive conversation and perhaps create the change you want to see.
Except there's no free beer anymore.

Which should tell you something's up with their finances.
Thank you for taking the time to write this.

The thing is she is ok with a divorce too. She has things she wants too. It would be uncontested and I think we just need to file in court. No need for attorneys.

Snoring: We have tried everything. Weight loss, exercise, no alcohol. I started wearing ear plugs and a mask. She had a CPAP machine too. She just doesn't stick with any of it.

Earning a divorce: I'm not sure how to answer this. I need to read what you wrote a few more times.
Why would anyone want a security camera that only worked when a property was empty? Wouldn't that defeat the point of having a security camera?
> What is annoying is when you are stuck on something and can't continue because you can't figure out the type of a specific object (and you've disabled any / or you are on the strictest settings).

In VSCocde I can hover over variable names to display the type of an object in a tooltip. I assume this information is available for other editors as well via the typescript language server.
> $31,200 * 328,300,000 population of USA = $10,242,960,000,000

To start with, 24% of the population are minors, so that knocks a few trillion off that figure.

Secondly, a UBI isn't a living wage, so $15 in today to dollars is not a starting figure, because that is a wage in exchange for work.

UBI is meant to cover the very basics, like a food and varying amounts of housing (depending on the local housing market). For some, it operates as a dividend that helps make ends meet on top of their regular work, especially in high cost areas.

In low cost areas it could function as a living wage, and even cover a significant portion of housing.
I am a solo founder. And I didn't see any mention of actual income value of the "successful" businesses in this article. I suspect you can easily get more successful very small businesses a leg up in sheer numbers alone just from personality conflicts wrecking multi-founder businesses.

I had a partner very early on, and it didn't work out. And it was really nice having someone on board that really cared about success the same way I did. Not an employee, client, friend or family member. But another "me" as part of the group.

If I could go back in time, and truly fix the problems, I would rather have kept my co-founder.

Also, they end with this, so maybe there is more to this story.

>...are already working on their next paper, which looks specifically at co-founding teams, and what factors determine their success and failure.
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You can get 90% of that for a half or quarter the cost at a B grade office building, and not deal with noisy neighbors or occupied conference rooms. It usually takes committing to a contract, but if you're not ready to do that you probably don't need office space.
I think it's a great move in the right direction. Someone there has a decent idea what they're doing, I just hope they get a chance to see it through. China is likely to face some tough challenges in the next few years and maintaining discipline will not be easy.
I’m sure he would feel like he’d just gone from $1000 to $50 though.

It’s a fairly significant difference.
1. The United Kingdom does not have the same constitution as the United States.

2. 3/4 of the states are not the same as 3/4 of the people.

3. This does nothing to help your original point that all democracies make all decisions by simple majority.
You can use youtube-dl to download just the audio stream directly, no need to remux with ffmpeg.
Its not about disincentivizing them, its about not providing them with applicable skills that would make their production worth more than basic hand outs. It can be demoralizing when you realize that flipping burger is worth $100 a week more than doing absolutely nothing, but we don't live in a world where a burger is worth $40 that would allow them to be paid more. Younger people tend to not have a real concept of money and what it really takes to make it.

What needs to be added along with being paid for existing, is training and potential job opportunities to be setup to get them off of the system. I think that most people in these programs would have no issue being given the ability to work. The major issue with be with people who will object to getting jobs they are "too good for." Hopefully those people are few and far between.
Yes, this is a good example of what I consider the fundamental work to be done in the area of #1. A lot of career books and tools aim at this kind of approach as well. I also use a Role/Group/Reward model that makes it clear that even if you have an offer on the table where you'd be playing chess for great money, you still have inquiries to make.
It’s more challenging that allocate food and housing fairly than money, though.
You find out someone has blocked you, and your instinct is to communicate with them? The specific thing they have explicitly disallowed? I'd reconsider this, and just move on.
Lawsuit? LOL, read your TOS pal, you agreed to binding arbitration.
That's totally a real thing: https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/9745/is-the-unix-...
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I agree with your conclusion regarding CP laws, but regarding possible invasion of privacy or similar claims, I think there is a notable difference between those cases. In the reddit case, the daughter was an unauthorized trespasser who LAOP did not permit or know would be on the property, and certainly no reason to believe would be changing in his bedroom. Here, renting a home to families, the host may have reason to believe otherwise.
Or "let’s sprinkle some noise in here so people think we’re less efficient than we truly are, so that we appear a bit dumber and less creepy."

But probably the truth is that these systems aren’t that good :)
It's also incredibly tiring writing programs using Electron and having half the comments you receive saying how you should have used a real programming language.

I think other programmers don't understand that many people get into front end web development because it uses other skills that writing C++ doesn't require.

Learning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript doesn't mean you can pick up a systems level programming language and start writing desktop programs.

Not everyone is capable or has time to learn other programming languages, and not everyone should try either.

Electron empowered Web Developers to be able to create cross platform desktop apps in a familiar environment.

It's not about quick or cheap, it's about using what you know to explore your ideas.
Why would any premium website even agree to ads that track users? Exchanges can tag NYT's customers, and then sell the same audience, but on other, cheaper properties.
Why's there no chance? Aren't there any strategies out there that can be tried out?
> The UK used to use it for medical purposes until very recently.

I believe they still use it as "diamorphone".
There’s some marketing theory about brand reinforcement near a purchase creating a more likely customer later. I’m not a marketer though.
I cook a lot and I like having sharp knives (makes keeping all of my fingers easier). I get mine sharpened every few months and pay about $5/knife at a mom-and-pop sharpening shop. I could learn to sharpen them, but it's not very much fun, and for $5/knife, there's really no reason other than having an extra bit of knowledge.