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The west had institutions and processes for developing new technologies and infrastructure and evolving or renewing and replacing them efficiently. What the USSR did was simply copy what the West had, but at the end of doing so instead of having their own institutions and processes for developing new technology and infrastructure, they had a broken cookie-cutter for an outdated version of an industrialized society the west was already moving beyond. They had no process for evolving it into the future, because they had no real process for getting there themselves in the first place.

It's not that they couldn't develop any new technology. They had, and still have centres of excellence and technology sectors they’re very good at, just not enough across the whole economy.

This is why Russia is still such a backwater. It has never developed it's own internal marketplace for ideas, innovation, entrepreneur-ism and technical evolution. The Resource Curse and attendant corruption and political rent seeking has hit them hard. I believe that China has largely avoided this mistake.
Thank you, detaro. Good feedback. I'll make some edits.
so how do they sharpen knives with serraed edges?
Maybe airbnb renters should be required to post clearly labeled snapshots of what each camera sees in their listings... a bit like this: https://i.imgur.com/Fg9R0D6.png
For anyone who'd like to try their hand at paid open source work, an organisation I write code for is hiring an Android dev to lead development on their Wikimedia-funded open source app...
https://kiwix.org/android-dev/
What if you need $10B to reach your goal? You'll need to raise money somehow, and reputation is the deciding factor for many investors.

Also, once you become fabulously wealthy, you want something more than financial security, you want to be remembered. Look at the flip Bill Gates did with becoming a leading philanthropist. He doesn't want to be remembered as the evil, anti-competitive CEO of Microsoft during the 90s, he wants to be remembered for his work in the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. Trump didn't want to be remembered as the shrewd personality on The Apprentice, he wanted to become President of the United States. Some just want to be extraordinarily rich to make "richest people in the world" lists (that's where I place Larry Ellison).

$2B is far from enough for most people to "be remembered".
> When it comes to exceptions, it's generally true on x64 that you don't pay for what you don't use (there's no performance penalty to exception handling if you don't throw) although that hasn't always been true for all platforms and implementations. It's also generally true that you couldn't implement that kind of non local flow control more efficiently yourself, although the value of that guarantee is a little questionable with exception handling.

I'm inclined to agree with you but just about everyone at Google says the opposite and most C++ shops I've seen agree with them. I've made this argument and lost repeatedly. So, it seems like the community can't even agree on which abstractions are zero cost (or maybe whether some zero cost abstractions are actually zero cost?). To the extent that the community itself has no consensus about these things, maybe they're not a marketing slogan that's helpful to use.
Sure, but my point is that these sorts of comparisons are complicated, and the facts matter. Anyone can hand wave the figures and come up with favorable comparisons by including or omitting important figures. I don't think it's fair to make simplistic comparisons and say that Sweden pays 24k more in taxes on 60k income.
Also I should have pointed out that GPUs crunch WPA2 pretty quick these days too, it is best to use a really long passphrase. There are too many ISP supplied systems with a default password like "9K141U".

It definitely seems like a good idea to put IOT things on a different subnet. I've not met a home router yet that allows me to put proper filters on devices. DD-WRT I guess. But there are so many patches which should be applied, I'm sceptical of old firmware for routers.

At the moment I have an embedded linux device with a wifi dongle and giant antennas. The modem box can probably still be hacked remotely (from the ISP), but at least I'm able to prevent any device on the network from talking to it and using some simple rebinding or XSS attack. (E.g.: https://www.gironsec.com/blog/2015/01/owning_modems_and_rout... http://www.routerpwn.com/ )
I graduated with an MSEE (originally started with CS, but changed majors late in my Junior year) and my first job was a SW job at a defense contractor. My favorite meeting was one where the HW teams and SW teams sat around blaming each other for something not working. I floored them all when I pulled out printouts from a logic analyzer and let them know that neither the hardware nor software were performing exactly to spec.
Me too - but I do wonder sometimes if there's a long game involved, where it's more likely to make you recommend it, or give it as a gift. I can't quite see how that would work in practice, but it just seems so utterly stupid otherwise.
...waiting >5secs for white to disappear - now that I know that this results from amp I don't bother waiting anymore. f#(% amp.
What is appropriate camera placement in an AirBnB property? I wouldn't accept it anywhere in a hotel suite, so nowhere in an AirBnB property either.

Step 1 to adapt my own apartment to be possible to AirBnB would be to remove any cameras.
Great! But can't wait for a probe on Europa liquid ocean :D
It seems like things almost have to hit rock bottom before the locals realize that this deal is not going to be having cake and eating it too.

Hopefully after it finally hits that point the EU is smart enough to throw them a bone or two on a "deal" that makes it look like they got something form the EU... but still way short of total chaos.
I am really torn about this news. On one hand MongoDB's change of license is a clear attempt to discriminate against a set of users, so it is clearly non-free. On the other hand I know it is really difficult to make a sustainable business by developing an opensource product, especially since there are companies (like Amazon) who will take successful opensource projects and offer them as a service, or simply offer a compatible service (which is what Amazon did now). Discriminating against such uses doesn't seem wrong to me since they clearly harm the creators and maintainers in their effort to actually make some income from the project.

There is a really limited set of options for opensource companies and I have yet to see an opensource product that would bring their creators enough money to sustain it on aything else than their goodwill. RedHat doesn't count, because they packaged other people's opensource and sold the package to enterprise. They did contribute back and even started and maintained some of the projects (which makes them "good guys" in my eyes), but any other opensource project will have difficulties replicating that success.

EDIT: I would really appreciate discussion instead of (down)votes.
And selling Hawaii vacation packages to people after they have been there. And I live on the east coast.
In my last move, I had to switch away from xs4all. I always was happy to use them. The ability to open all ports, an essentially static ipv4 address, and even full control over reverse-DNS.

I was sad to leave them, I'm even sadder they are shutting down.
My reaction Gettier cases as a philosophy minor was that J is the only philosophically interesting part of JTB.
Right; that's an example of doing it wrong. Sure it helps people who would be suffering and that's good. But it disincentivises them. It doesn't allow them to save.
There are zero socialists who are for UBI because UBI does nothing to stem the inherent exploitation of capitalism.
Is there non-explotative, fair socialism?
Surely that would make sense the next time you visit the city, not for the same visit.
Reminder: the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund is the majorly of money in SoftBank’s Vision Fund. And SoftBank is by far the largest investor in WeWork.

I have to admire Neumann’s balls in trying to play Mohammed bin Salman for a chump. But I don’t think this will end well for him.
Not exactly related to the link but apparently the author of that tweet blocked me. I don’t recall having ever had any interactions with them. Is there a way to contact that person and figure out why? I have no idea what I did and I’m quite puzzled.
It's quite arrogant, not very inviting and might "push" developers away from actually trying the software. Even though it's just his opinion it shouldn't really be included in the readme.
> Using a git GUI works quite well for people inexperienced with git.

I agree, and I wish there was a really good git GUI that either abstracted git nicely, or was as powerful as the CLI, or both. I’ve tried many of them, in production, and there aren’t any that give you a UI for everything git can do.

The problem I’ve noticed is that people raised on the GUI often don’t understand how to get out of trouble once they have a serious problem. Also the GUI tends to be a crutch that prevents them from learning the CLI well.

Git is natively a CLI and it really shows once you know both. Git’s CLI interface is awkward and hard to learn, and all the GUIs for git are somewhat awkward, both due to git being awkward, and also because trying to fit UI workflow onto CLI commands introduces awkwardness. All git GUIs are incomplete interfaces to git, there are none that give you access to all of git... specifically things like finding lost data and managing repos is something you’ll need to drop to the CLI for.
Marketing can be based on varying depths of truth. Generally speaking, the greater the depth the greater the long term value and efficacy of the marketing.
(Marketing is not always a veneer.)
From the article:

>The research is based on a survey of creators for thousands of Kickstarter projects between 2009 and May 2015.

From the paper:

>This suggests that the taken-for-granted assumption among scholars that entrepreneurship is best performed by teams should be reevaluated, with implications for theories of team performance and entrepreneurial strategy.

The claims in the paper are pretty limited and based on a questionably representative sample. Extrapolating to "solo founders are better" seems like a leap at this stage. The results seem interesting and worthy of further evaluation, though!
I hypothesize that every university main campus has, nearby, a small-business incubator building with individual offices for lease. And I suspect that a good percentage of commuter campuses have them, too. If those are unavailable, class B office space is readily available in single-story strip-mall form, and sometimes old industrial buildings get converted to class C.

Your startup business probably does not require couches, stocked kitchens, and wi-fi. It needs a mailing address, a phone number, a website, and a way for people to pay you. Those folding tables from Costco will still be useful after you can afford real desks.
Targeted ads have always been around. Everyone targets their ads. Decide whether to put your ad in the Times or the Sun.

Its the unsolicited tracking/stalking of individuals across communication networks GDPR forbids.
Defrauding the public is illegal.

>Purdue Pharma contended that OxyContin, because of its time-release formulation, posed a lower threat of abuse and addiction to patients than do traditional, shorter-acting painkillers like Percocet or Vicodin.

That claim became the linchpin of the most aggressive marketing campaign ever undertaken by a pharmaceutical company for a narcotic painkiller.

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/10/business/11drug-web.html
Market solution: Airbnb just adds a search feature:

[ ] Only show properties without security cameras
Using Linux containers to analyze the impact of climate change in New Zealand
Too bad wifi location services use Mac addresses (BSSID) instead of ESSID. If anything, it’s probably worse because you’re revealing your real MAC address every time it tries to connect to those APs. Normally most phones scan with randomized Mac addresses but the randomization turns off when it tries to connect.
Yeah... except actually no.

iMeasage, the one be thing that really matters in this case, encrypts it's chats "end to end" but using keys managed centrally by Apple, regardless of your iCloud sync situation, and manages them in a way that can't inspected by users. If a decrypted copy of all your encrypted chats is being sent to a government sink, there is no way for you to know or prevent it.

China cares about being able to intercept and decrypt your communication, they want to be able to identify and punish political threats. That's a service that Apple CAN provide to the Chinese government for all iPhone customers.
I don't think the purpose is to remind him in the BMW case but to get him to purchase it at dealer X instead of dealer Y.

They would be the ones making the ad, targeting someone X miles from them, who is interested in BMW's.
On Android there are apps to manage this automatically. I'm using Smarter WiFi Manager myself, and it does work pretty well.
From the article:

"As part of the 2007 settlement agreement, the board of Purdue Pharma, which included members of the Sackler family, signed a corporate integrity agreement with the federal government promising that the company would not violate the law in the future."

This is essentially a large driver of America's social and environmental problems. An individual lacking in resources found guilty of a crime serves jail time, probation and generally faces life changing repercussions. When a corporation is found guilty of crimes that may very well include the deaths of dozens/hundreds of people they pay a fine. Not a business crushing fine, just a slap on the wrist. The fact that individuals made all of the decisions that led to the companies crimes is for the most part ignored. Large corporations are essentially given impunity to pursue 'share holder value'. The only time individuals are prosecuted is if they negatively affect those same shareholders such as with Enron, etc.

We allow pharmaceutical companies to addict and destroy lives, chemical companies to dump carcinogens into drinking water, coal plants to pollute our air but its ok because its a corporation doing it and they are rich.

Removing the shield that protects individual decision makers from criminal prosecution would go a long way towards fixing this country. People would be much more hesitant to order something illegal if they were personally sent to jail for it.
yes, I am surprised this is overlooked. It may be that tech workers who like the idea of UBI imagine working on open source projects. I picture a large percentage of the population choosing to use drugs, drink, play video games, pick up a hobby that doesn't pay, watch TV, or even just do nothing. Then as a result of squandering their time, these people could become permanently unemployable or unskilled and would have to remain on welfare indefinitely.
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Technically Sweden has very heavily subsidized health care, not free health care. There is a small cost involved with almost every healthcare visit and hospital stay in Sweden.
In other words, she doesn't respect the deal she made with you.
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It appears to only be primarily useful if you are writing a pure wrapper class where you proceed to delegate to an actual implementation.

But you could still do that and not be string-based. It could (and should!) be an enum of the operator instead. opBinary takes a fixed number of ops, but the parameter type of string has an infinite number of values.

Whether or not the design of having a single operator overload method is a good idea or not is independent from what I'm specifically calling insane which is that the parameter type to that method is a string.
Phishing-proof passwordless authentication with FIDO2 and WebAuthn (notes)
I think Debian would keep it around, probably, but it'll be punted out of the main repos and in to the ones designated for non-free software. Impact on the end user will likely be minimal. They'll still be able to apt-get install it as before.
Arguments against the global adoption of vegan diets
In our state we must live apart for 1 year before being able to get a divorce. Living apart means though that we still need to sell the house, divide possessions, etc.
I hear LiDARs are good at damaging cameras...
my relationship with him is quite good actually. I just thought it funny.
Really excited to see what v4.0 brings!! Lots of hard work in the making.
This tool is quite literally a YouTube and SoundCloud ripper as far as I can tell.
Ah, an Electron app... :)

Something tells me it doesn't support gapless playback. (I might be wrong tho)
'How to teach Git' was something I had to think a lot about when a lot of my technical colleagues didn't know what a rebase was, and asked me to sort out their 12-team merge history (the 'git log --graph --oneline' spanned the width of multiple pages before you could see any commit message at all).

I realised that there's a point you can't progress beyond with git without having to do some thinking and learning. And lots of people aren't interested in the theory behind distributed file content. So I took Zed Shaw's hard way method and applied it to git. It made for a really enjoyable course at work and I then turned it into a book (1).

The tl;dr is I believe you need real world experience with a mentor prodding you at the appropriate time to think a bit deeper. Then the understanding will follow.

Here's an example from an 'advanced' chapter: https://zwischenzugs.com/2019/01/09/git-hooks-the-hard-way/

[1] https://leanpub.com/learngitthehardway
Why not pick a mature database software, learn to use it properly, and just get on with life? Why would you risk _anything_ to immature databases?d
Among the ambitious and entrepreneurial, this sort of behavior is nothing new.

In his autobiography, Benjamin Franklin relates how he found himself as a government official for the colony of Pennsylvania and then proceeded to hire his own printing shop whenever his office needed to publish a widely circulated document or pamphlet.

BTW, that autobiography is a great read. you can find it for free on Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20203/20203-h/20203-h.htm
Your best argument for the country to get UBI is so people can work on OSS full time?
Also, if you have a clearly visible camera, I as a guest would cover it up the second I see it, and uncover it when I move out. I realize not everyone wants to adapt their home by tearing down theeir own cameras but they can power them down and have a post it note next to it saying "this is part of my alarm system but it's disconnected when AirBnB guests stay here, feel free to put this note note over the lens if you like /host".

If you have a hidden camera and someone found it, the reviews wouldn't be good for business.
I still credit the Rickenbacker "frying pan" as it predated Fender's black log by over 10 years.

But the Esquire was the first mass-produced electric solid-body guitar designed to be played like a regular acoustic, standing up with a strap.

edit: mass-produced. Paul Bigsby's solid-body predated Fender's but were custom made.
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Yup, that's (part of) why I think that UBI is needed.
Yeah, it's the modern version of a minor landed gentleman who can pursue his interests. It's how we got science.

Sadly, the best argument against UBI is that vast, vast majority of people will not be working full time on F/OSS or quite possible anything else.
I honestly think she just doesn't know how. I don't think she is trying to be dis-respectful. She just needs that close personal contact and interaction through out much of each day.

Our goals in life are very different. The way we work is very different.
What I found most interesting about the 'block Europe' movement among news sites: If the news sites favor their own revenue over the peoples right for privacy, what are my expectations towards the information they serve?

I mean, if most news sites are getting their biggest revenue via online targeting, who am I expecting to report abusive behavior among ad networks?
The 61% number in this case came from the top marginal tax rate on income in Sweden. The fact that it's roughly the same is payroll + income tax is a coincidence.
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Thanks for clarifying for me, I had that mixed up
You misunderstood, again.

Yes she does, because she's working within the American context.
What I am saying is that she would not be refereed to as"socialist" in much of the rest of the developed world.
She is only a "socialist" because of how right-wing the USA political context is.

An easy way you can tell, even as an American, is that she's not advocating for abolishing capitalism and seizing the means of production, which are the central pillars of socialism. She's advocating for some social policies that have been common elsewhere for decades.
That's probably the simplest solution to low light visibility issues. Cars already have reverse lights, making them illuminate the area behind the car seems like a lower cost solution to the problem.
Sure, because the Walton family is such a bastion of good policies and personal responsibility
Tax the rich to provide a safety net = Europe

Print money to fund government programs = Venezuela

Historically, was there ever a time that hyperinflation didn't end badly?
So I'm curious why you draw a moral line here?

- Do you find it immoral to watch music videos on YouTube?

- Do you find it immoral to watch music videos on YouTube with ads blocked?

- Do you find just putting that in a separate player to be the immoral part?
Payroll tax is not your salary - it's tax on their employment of you, of an amount due that's proportional to your salary. It's the company's money, not yours.

(Would they pay you more if that tax wasn't due? Well, possibly, I suppose. Or they might just pay you the same, and then buy more stuff, employ more people, pay the company owners more money, that sort of thing.)
This is a pretty big oversimplification of the law. If you're not hiding the presence of cameras, they're not capturing private areas or those entrances directly, and you're not doing anything with that footage after the fact, it's unlikely to ever be an issue.

There was an /r/legaladvice thread a few weeks ago where someone's security camera recorded a cleaning lady's 16 year old daughter changing, which certainly has the potential to be more lascivious than a 2 year old post-bath time, and the consensus was pretty unanimously that the homeowner had nothing to worry about provided they weren't archiving or keeping that footage.
Don’t know about the bug you linked (will read up on it later), but I can easily provide radio captures to prove that most Android devices do what I described, with no “hidden” networks ever in use.

There are retail analytics startups who literally use this exact type of data to allow brick and mortar stores to gain insights into their passive customer behavior. Source: I used to work for one of them and designed and built a bunch of the hardware / software stack.
Then the leave vote wasn't actually leave because even leave didn't want to completely cut the UK off from the single market! That's been the paradox at the heart of brexit since the beginning, they complained about the amount of EU regulation but want to still sell and buy from the single market which requires that they conform to a large majority of the regulations they were complaining about.
I think the linguistic term is "interjection". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interjection
There was a study somewhere concluding that as little as $500/year could have huge impact.