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The author starts with 'David Kadavy is bestselling author of The Heart to Start'. I find this odd, because he only managed to sell 11,000 copies. Don't get me wrong, 11k is nothing to be ashamed and 11k more than me, but surely that does not constitute bestselling, does it?

Then I read on and 'Selling more than 11,000 copies in the first year is great (okay, 8,000 if you don’t count the 3,000 I gave away)'. Wow, so actually you sold 8,000 and not 11,000. Apart from this one line the author repeats over and over again about selling 11,000. But he didn't be sold 8,000 but constantly misrepresents that number everywhere.

I don't know if his books are great or not but the hyped headline, inflated numbers and spammy feel of the blog post make me unwilling to try it.
> So it is possible to resist, but we are not all Jimmy Wales. The pressure to submit is overwhelming. On the level of the employee, there is the specter of unemployment. To willfully reject the logic of the market is to be rightfully terminated. But the pressure to conform to its demands exists at every level. The executive, though better paid, is essentially in the same position as the janitor. To resist is to go. Even the founder, the inventor, the owner, the celebrity is precariously positioned. While they might be spared termination at the hands of management, in the long run, they too end up in the same place. In 1938, Bill Paley, the chief executive of CBS, presciently stated that “too often the machine runs away with itself” (Friendly 168). To obstruct the machine is to be crushed by it. To refuse to go along is to be replaced. Everyone and everything is fungible.

> When it comes meaning in media, we are confronted with an unpalatable choice. Either stable meaning imposed through deliberative control by the few (as tyranny) or the autonomous, impersonal and invisible hand of the attention market, which, in the end, results in the “liquidation of meaning” (Baudrillard 84). Any point in between is an unstable equilibrium. And one can at least negotiate with a tyrant.

A slightly depressing ending to arrive at but an amazing read
> Annecdotal, not factual.

Anecdotes are not the opposite to facts. They are only opposites to whole facts.
Wikipedia is still small enough to see every article reviewed. They don’t largely becase they funnel funding into other unrelated projects.
I thought "reflash the BMC firmware from the host" was a feature? A hard to use, poorly documented feature, granted.
The steep marketing spend ("more than $15,000") may have something to do with the title/subtitle. Specifically, it doesn't say anything to me at least:

The Heart to Start: Win the Inner War & Let Your Art Shine

This is a book for procrastinators then? For people who doubt themselves? For the timid? Artists only? Start what?

Assuming the book is for me, it's not clear how actionable the advice it contains will be given the lack of specificity.

I would consider re-titling the book with a clear message for a specific group of people. I think it's even possible to A/B test this on Amazon, but I'm not sure.

What process did the author use to choose the title? Control-f on "title" gives no hits.

Compare this with the author's previous book, Design for Hackers. Are you a hacker? Do you need help with design? This book is for you. Sold!
The eBay/PayPal split has been a mess. eBay should have had its own, seamlessly integrated payments from the start, but lacking that PayPal was a good crutch.

Since the split, you now get the choice of paying through eBay directly, through PayPal, or another way (depending on what the seller accepts). Simplifying this for small dollar transactions is critical if eBay is to stay competitive with Etsy, Amazon, Target, Walmart and the numerous others that are sharing the online shopping market.
Millions Silicon Valley Spends on Security for Execs
This is what Singularity (and to a lesser extent, LXD) do. The main problem with this is that you don't get de-duplication of transfer (or really of storage) -- any small change in your published rootfs and you'd have to re-download the whole thing. In addition, it requires that the system you're mounting it on supports the filesystem you use (and that the admins are happy using that filesystem).

There is also a potential security risk -- since filesystem drivers are generally not secured against potentially malicious sources (there are plenty of attacks that have been found against the big Linux filesystems when you attack them with un-trusted filesystem data). This is one of the reasons auto-mounting USBs is generally seen as a bad security practice.

Don't get me wrong, there is a _huge_ benefit to using your runtime format as your image distribution format. But there are downsides that are non-trivial to work around. I am thinking about how to bridge that gap though.
Apple is replacing OSM and all other sources with its own private maps. https://www.justinobeirne.com/new-apple-maps/
Some of us may produce super-healing poop–and scientists are on it
there's also the sequel, 1493, about the post-contact era:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1493:_Uncovering_the_New_World...

https://www.amazon.com/1493-Uncovering-World-Columbus-Create...
Dna is just information. Can you point me in the direction of the universe where information is easy to hide and control?

Look how easy information spreads now. Github, Wikipedia, music, YouTube, etc. You think dna is easy to drm?
There's a nice and maintained host file here which blackholes most ad sites: https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/. As a bonus, it blackholes some shock sites as well.
It was shuttered. You can no longer contribute to Freebase. Wikidata used some data from the last Freebase triples dump, but Google is not contributing its updates to either, despite using Freebase's crowdsourced work to seed its internal knowledgebase.

Once again, I understand the profit motive. I just don't like it.
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wow, this gave me cold chills. I seriously ran through scenarios a million times of what happened if I made progress on my projects and they sold for big money, is that even something i want? No, it's not. I just want to code cool things, and maybe share my knowledge with those who are interested in it. Have my family close to me. What I really want is just to feel like I have a story to share with others. To have my knowledge and skillset appreciated by others. I don't need to be rich or have the coolest projects. Money is great, but you're right, it brings out the devil in some. My aunt's husband just died and his own kids are after the money... it's sad. So I'll take your advice. I'll be grateful for my family, and for my experience. That I get to code, that is my reward. Thanks again for this post.
If you want to opt out of credit card prescreenings for free you can use: https://www.optoutprescreen.com/

You can get 5 years online - to do it for life you have to mail something in. Pretty painless process for the online version at least.
> When Google innovates, it’s usually in a vein attempt to kill competitors in a place where it sees an opportunity for more revenue

Isn't that how everyone innovates?

(FWIW: you meant "vain", I think, but that doesn't seem like the right word either. Maybe "arrogant" was the spin you wanted?)
My response is towards a specific phrase (and incredulity) from the parent.

The parent is wondering “why” men at large would be so defensive and not engage as the author of the main article has. I sought to share my particular feelings, I’m not sure why that is frustrating to you.
Where they get you is that they /require/ you to have multiple years of credit history over multiple accounts if you want to get a mortgage.

I almost couldn’t get a mortgage loan because wellsfargo (in between committing fraud) insisted on having three lines of credit that had been in use for more than a year. I only had two - i had to use my recurrent gym payments as a third and that required more paperwork and hit our maximum loan amount. This was despite having a single employer and a consistent income for a decade.

Banks and credit agencies need to be reigned in - actual liability for losses they caused, and provide you with market rates for credit monitoring - because we know that they’re not paying that when they give you a year of “free monitoring”.

Also credit agencies should be financially accountable when they make false claims about you. They don’t need to put any work into making sure they’re accurate as they decide you’re responsible for it, and they make money from us having to get credit monitoring.
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Major factual error in the article that undermines the significance of these findings:

> Like the Meadowcroft site, Monte Verde has been dated to as many as 19,000 years ago. Together the sites are important and do more than help us understand how and when North America was settled; they also show that there were people in North America well before the Bering land bridge formed about 10,000 years ago, throwing into dispute the theory that North America was settled primarily by Asiatic wanderers over the bridge.

The Bering land bridge was NOT formed 10000 years ago -- that's when it was covered by water.

All this proves is that people settled in one place 19000 years ago. They probably still came from Asia. Nothing revolutionary here.
This reminds me of my former workplace where even though they tout having a "balanced work life culture", one of the VPs outright said that employees who "only work 8hrs/day" are lazy and entitled.
I was overlooking the hammer, I was too caught up on the miracle mile, downtown and expo center museums.
I was pretty happy when I found out Lead Pursuit Falcon 4.0 Allied Force works perfectly on wine
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Just do what I did. I cut a new branch, removed all the parts that weren't done and released it. Then I wrote a post about my fear about it, and the comments have motivated me so much that I already did a whole new layout just in 1 night!
I can only see 2 trails, but not the actual interception. Theres's a slight flash at around 0:25, is that it?
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China just re-shaped the future of the global car market
The justification frequently used for western colonialism/conquest is the principle of “Terra Nullius”, in short, the native peoples with their primative technology are not fully utilising the land, and we’re doing them a favor by conquering them.

it turns out after the fact that in many respects, particularly with regards to agriculture, land management, diplomacy, and some areas of engineering, the native people were more advanced, and the permanent loss of that knowledge is a tragedy for the world.
I'll add a personal anecdote about homeschooling and social life. My parents didn't do a great job of exposing me to other children while I was being homeschooled. When I transitioned into public, I struggled for quite some time just learning social norms (family was different culture) and felt I did not fit in for at least a year. It scarred my personality a bit because I was afraid of being made fun of for doing the wrong things.

I don't know what would have happened with a normal social life, but I highly encourage people who homeschool to allow their children to socialize and play with other kids similar to public school.
I don't believe that "makes money partially through investing" is true for a significant part of the population given that 60+% of Americans don't have $500 in savings. Though perhaps that is the point
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> The great pyramid is rather simple as far as art and cultural complexity goes.

That may be so, but it remains as a feat of project unmatched in their history, the one great wonder that survived. I am not sure how many would be able to name the pyramids that came after. There's a huge amount of precision involved and a huge amount of effort required of the culture to complete.

Similarly you could argue that with space exploration we've become significantly more advanced, our probes and instruments can do things the ones in the 60's couldn't. Yet, we haven't sent anymore humans past low earth orbit. In a sense we've advanced, the individual efforts remain great, but our cultural efforts have retreated, the weight of humanity is not where it once was.

What's most going to be remembered of our culture in 5000 years?
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Actually the quote from 1Blocker:

> Sadly, there's no technical way to request just this functionality from the system, so we have to request full access to webpage content (which may include your sensitive information)

is incorrect. They could use a share extension on the Mac as well (which we do for our adblocker app) which would give them access to the URL when the share extension is accessed but not give full access to the web page content.
I like this idea, thank you.
After the horrendous time I've had with "modern" MongoDB losing my data repeatedly through 2018, I will never touch it again. Postgres handles loss of power, full disks, kill -9 and numerous other edge cases just fine, while MongoDB proceeds to corrupt its data and not fail gracefully.

Even the redheaded stepchild of databases that is MSSQL goes into read only mode when you have a full disk, there is no excuse for Mongo corrupting itself when a disk is full.
Green Hills Software has the Integrity operating system rated to EAL6+, which stands for "Semiformally Verified Design and Tested" so almost there but not quite.

But honestly it's not something you would want to use in daily life.
Except it's not accessible to 90% of users because it's only delivered as a single package that installs both of them in combination. If you decline their telemetry service, it does not install the driver.

If you want to install just the driver, you have to extract the driver from their executable and manually handle updates, or use a third party package manager like chocolatey.

Most people won't know this is possible. The trade-off to the vast majority is to trade unknown bits of their information for security and stability updates.

Should that really be the default state of things?
It doesn't seem likely Khufu had actually built the pyramids, but modified them into his own vision. We still don't know what the pyramids were originally designed for, but it seems unlikely the previous owner had intended it to be a tomb.
The idea that two different things are in fact different does not require "back up". Wealth inequality and poverty are not interchangeable concepts, but wonderwonder was treating them like they were by appealing to everyone's innate sense that poverty is bad and then conflating that with wealth inequality.

This isn't up for debate. The two things are, by definition, not the same. You may think they are related, but that burden is wonderwonder's (and perhaps yours) to prove, not mine. Two separate concepts are not correlated, causal, or interchangeable until they have been shown to be. Not the other way 'round.

I don't think everyone else is stupid. But people that conflate those two things are either missing something or doing it deliberately (knowing full well they are wrong). Telling someone this is not arrogance, and my comment was perfectly coherent to a great many people if upvotes are any indication. If you want an example of incoherence, look no further than the comment which talked about "driving past food banks" as if that was some sort of "gotcha" about wealth inequality. I think it was lost on wonderwonder that food banks themselves are a great example of wealth not being a zero sum game.
I trust the Brave team to find a way around this, eg; with a fork. Otherwise their organization will fail.
Old security overview: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/01/the_eavesdrop...
Nearly All of Wikipedia Is Written By Just 1 Percent of Its Editors
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7x47bb/wikipedia-...
Real question: aren’t photons in coherent light in the same frame of reference?

If not, why not?
Seeing dinosaurs could be possible if a 4 light year wide telescope is sent via a worm hole to one of the galaxies in the Virgo cluster (65m light years away) and live imagery of Earth (not via worm hole) is sent back via the worm hole to Earth.
Ancient Doppelgängers
You mean this one [1]?
What specifically is the argument against? It seems reasonable...

[1] https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en/chancellor/germany-an...
That screenshot looks like Android 2.0. I'll pass, having 1 Android is already too much.
What went wrong with eBay? I remember getting my first gaming console--a gameboy SP during the mid 2000s from the site. We did something like buy-it-now, essentially an early Amazon. While the rest of tech rushes forward, they seem to be forever stuck... Right now I'd say StubHub occupies a bigger slice in the consumer mindshare.
eBay should have bought Yahoo. They would have been perfect for each other.
> Good rule of thumb is that people should have the freedom to do anything as long as it doesn't violate other people's right.

On the micro-economics scale, I would not only agree with you, but argue that a successful society depends on it. Just as you should be allowed to participate in whatever harmless recreational activities you like at your own home, so should you be able to keep for yourself anything you've made or earned. Without these freedoms, people lose their incentives to be productive members of society.

However, this breaks down on the macro scale when feedback loops get out of control. Monopolies, duopolies and the like are pretty accepted as bad for economic growth because they have the resources to crush competition and have total control over markets. But monopolies are often just the result of a company that was first to market, had economies of scale, entrenched themselves through legislation, maintained an established brand, and had other feedback loops to strengthen themselves.

Just as we break up monopolies to give competition a chance, we should be working hard to break feedback loops that enforce hierarchy of classes so we can give everyone a chance to be successful or fail on their own.

The parent comment is correct that genetically engineered babies would likely be a mechanism for the socio-economically powerful to entrench their status further. It's not necessarily an argument for outright banning CRISPR babies, but giving more power to rich families absolutely does harm poor families by putting the poor families at a competitive disadvantage.
> You either store the keys centrally, or use a weaker encryption strategy. Those are the only ways to decrypt something. Either one makes it easier for anybody to hack.

That was right before 1973. The development of public key cryptography in 1973 adds another option. Take the symmetrical key the device uses to encrypt user data and encrypt a copy of that key using a public key of the entity that the back door is for.

The authorized back door user can decrypt that copy using their private key. If the public key system parameters are chosen correctly anyone else trying to get in who does not have a copy of that private key faces a problem at least as hard as brute forcing the underlying device encryption.
Are you sure this is a problem? It’s very common for retailers to offer multiple payment options. As long as they let you check a box to default to the same option in the future, I don’t think users mind.
Well, state explosion is a real thing, which is why we have things like hierarchical state machines. There's almost always a trade off between capturing everything in a state variable and allowing a few flags and conditionals. The classic example is a keyboard state machine where you don't actually have states for each key pressed, you just store the key in a variable.
I prefer to just use Pi-hole, but you could use many of its lists via the host file as well. I use many of the ones listed here: https://firebog.net
I am able to access the website just fine. All the images show up for me (Firefox 64.0.2).
Depends on your threat model and if you expect root on the host to also have root on the BMC.
Watching the watchers
“Any point in between is an unstable equilibrium.”

That is the conundrum defining my aldulthood (roughly the “internet era”); and it creates confusion and despair. It’s especially painful because I’d expected hope and enlightenment.
It's not controversial. They've always been pests to us here in Australia. It's the people from other countries who think they're cute - roos are not cute, they are ravenous eating machines, they are dirty and they were never designed to live in a modern agricultural context!
I've seen both Rust's lifetimes/borrow-checker and Objective-C/Swift's automatic reference counting described as "zero cost" (since the bulk of the work is done at compile time).
> I’ve seen quite a few large and intrusive biohacking experiments, which I personally wouldn’t touch with a 10ft pole.

I wonder what are those
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This is overstated. In the last few years Solar successfully worker rushed Zest, two world class Korean pros who didn't lose any reputation from it, and Scarlett will regularly worker rush in ZvZ.

Especially in ZvZ where spine crawlers can be built, it's not an auto loss -- it's a bet that the opponent is playing a little greedy, and a chaotic fight.
Here's the video for anyone interested. Looks like Naniwa didn't put any effort into making the rush effective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5roOPKm5lOw
The International Space Station gas happened since, which has been continuously lived in. That's an achievement compared to a short trip on the moon kicking a few rocks.
Cody's Lab did this as well. He ended up removing it, though I believe a small fragment was left behind.

Struggling to find the videos, best I could do was : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-ylHmM2zLNQfaCIDYKKG...
Yeah, I also had one for a few years and wouldn't really recommend it. It's cool to feel fans and microwaves spin up or pick up small parts, but the magnet lost strength over time and I got it removed because it wasn't worth the sensitivity and constant worrying about hitting it too hard. I also had to be careful not to hold it against strong magnets for too long; I was told if the skin got pinched too much/too long, bad things could happen.

But hey, want to try it without having to cut a finger open? Try super-gluing a small neodymium disc magnet to a fingernail. Just be careful with your phone.
I remember reading that they were able to cover all the costs because of accounting categorizations that they could consider only because they had the real estate. But I don't really know - that's just what some article was saying.
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My son plays Fortnite, and would love to play on a PC. My old MacBook Air doesn't support the game, and our next home laptop with be a Linux machine.

Not being able to play Fortnite on Linux is probably my son's current, great disappointment. :-P
Hahaha this is so stupid
Institutional Investors Feel Top Bosses of Key Companies Don’t Know Blockchain
There's a running joke that Google search is just a thin wikipedia wrapper.
Heh. Small world. I’m at the Starbucks you’re talking about all the the time.
↑↑↓↓←→←→BA boom!
I wrote a very similar article about how to deal with having different sets of prop types this way[0]. I was pretty disappointed that TypeScript wasn't able to infer a lot of this information, and that it doesn't let you access props from one of the possible types if it's not available on others in the union.

[0]: https://medium.com/@wbobeirne/mutually-exclusive-react-propt...