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> Before having children, you may enjoy clubbing, skydiving, and LSD; you might find fulfillment in careerism, travel, cooking, or CrossFit; you may simply relish your freedom to do what you want. Having children will deprive you of these joys. And yet, as a parent, you may not miss them. You may actually prefer changing diapers, wrangling onesies, and watching “Frozen.” These activities may sound like torture to the childless version of yourself, but the parental version may find them illuminated by love, and so redeemed. You may end up becoming a different person—a parent. The problem is that you can’t really know, in advance, what “being a parent” is like. For Paul, there’s something thrilling about this quandary. Why should today’s values determine tomorrow’s?

I hate arguments like this, PARTICULARLY when the topic is becoming a parent. Sure, you might become a new person and love being a parent far more than missing the aspects of life you sacrificed to be there. OR you might hate it - I have at least one friend that told me "I love my daughter, but I hate being a parent" in a terribly gut-wrenching way. To say you don't know - that you CAN'T know - what it's like to be a parent without being one doesn't mean you should just shrug and give it a try. Ditto the same rationale for other arguments - there are many things you can't know if you'll like until you try it, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to decide if you will in advance.

Of course you'll never know if you'll love being a parent, you won't know how it can change you, and EVERY parent has moments of frustrations that are not the same as regretting having a child/children. But if you become one, there's at least two lives that can really really suffer if you hate it, so it's worth dedicating some effort to thinking about in advance.

Finding parenthood worthwhile is a very very common state for humanity (for good reason!) and most of us have benefited from that. But we shouldn't assume that it will just work out that way, for ourselves or for others.
It depends. In Alberta they have a "Fee guide" which is what people with insurance will get reimbursed for. Some dentists follow the guide, some do not. It's frustrating because they do not like to tell you the price until its over.

Last time I was at dentist here was x-rays + cleaning and it was around $400. I had a root canal which was $1200 and a crown made which was around $2200.
I haven't but that is because I am happy with Tower.
Extended insurance is not free; your employer has to pay that, and it comes out of your salary, effectively.

"Insurance" for recurring items like dental cleanings, massages and whatnot isn't "insurance" in the regular sense of the word; it is pure overhead.

It's gamed so that the insurance company makes money, otherwise why would they do this. You pay them $5 so they give you back $4 and send you to the dentist, massage, or whatever.

There are yearly limits, and you cannot get any left over cash back that you have not used!

Since I started contracting, I put away 300-something dollars each month into a health insurance bank account, and then I go to the darned dentist as I would under extended health insurance. Whatever is left over in that account is mine.

I have a basic emergency insurance for 300-something per year, that doesn't cover any routine, recurring services. It will cover emergency dental, like having teeth broken in an accident.

Anyone who doesn't have coverage, but otherwise has a good job, yet doesn't go to the dentist because of "I don't have coverage" is purely a victim of psychology, not of any actual economic circumstances.
My anecdotal experience agrees. I cleared my watch history and then all my recommendations changed from being tech related to more pop culture oriented for a few weeks
The difference is that using another fastmail account to spoof someone@fastmail.com will make the email look much more legitimate (DKIM and SPF wise) to other servers than when it comes from your random.emailserver.domain.foo.
Here's the best way to get around in the car free parts of Oslo: https://oslobysykkel.no/en

Other than that, there's plenty of public transportation.

And you don't even have to make the entire city center free of cars, i.e. make every 5th street available for cars (limited, like 1 open lane). As long as you can walk a couple of blocks you'll be able to grab a taxi.
> an artist from Belarus that makes fantastic synthpop

Alright, I'm gonna need a link.
I think this behavior is probably driven by people like me, who use youtube mostly for music. I repeatedly listen to/watch performances on youtube because to me it's the only streaming service I have. I frequently come to youtube just to watch stuff I've already seen. I find the recommendation in that context to be uncannily good and they keep me coming back to find new music and to see the cool performances I've already seen. Maybe youtube has trouble differentiating these use cases?
> Riding a motorcycle amongst CA drivers is taking on a significant injury risk.

More than in anywhere else? Citation needed.

I ran the numbers for myself. Statistically, the amount of time I save per day by riding a motorcycle in San Francisco heavily outpaces the number of average life-minutes lost due to the risks of riding a motorcycle.
How would this work when our cities have been so heavily developed to favor the automobile? I'm for road users paying for the roads or access, but public transit is so lightly used in most of the US and there's so little existing infrastructure that it's at a severe disadvantage and can't take advantage network effects or economies of scale. Instead of a train near my house, there's an interstate highway. Our cities are already so sprawling and NIMBYism so strong. I wonder if it's too late for transit.
That sucks, I'd like to involve as few parties as possible in my emails. Right now I just have a direct IMAP connection that it can push over even on mobile.

What about for desktop purposes? What would a proper client like Thunderbird or Outlook do?
In the last year the videos recommending on the right margin have always been the same videos regardless of what video I was on. Which are the same videos at the top of my home page recommended videos. What ever happened to video specific recommendations? That was what allowed me to discover new things related to what I was watching and not just some total aggregate of everything I've ever watched.
FYI the Danish would spell Copenhagen København.
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I wonder that sometimes too. I came from the sysadmin world. I was always interested in that kind of stuff (like setting up my network at home) and cloud technology made it easy to learn while I had my first job in tech support.

Really I’m a “major cloud provider sysadmin” who learned a few DevOps things over a couple of months (Docker, Kubernetes, a good amount of PHP) to take jobs that offered big salaries...

Cloud Architect / Engineer roles usually will pay at least 20k less than whatever has DevOps in the title.
>I will never understand the general lack of goodwill towards one's fellow countrymen

Homogeneous populations are required for this. When the US was least diverse, during the 1930s-60s, the public was largely supportive of public social welfare. Despite right-wingers guffawing over European nations importing more "diversity" of late, the US is way ahead in diversifying the nation into islands of "diversity" with a rump "historic" American nation in the outlying surrounding areas. The "diverse" populations (and their "historic" allies) are inculcated with neo-Marxist propaganda that frames the people whose nation they are invading and whose largesse they are seeking to exploit as class enemies. The "historic" population has long sensed this animosity but cannot articulate it publicly and oppose it in a straightforward manner without their opponents, including the vast majority of major media, ostracizing them as dangerous lunatics. The "diverse" are deemed inherently virtuous while the "historic" inherently evil -- blood libel updated for the 21st century. What sane person who is a part of the "historic" American population would support having most of his money taken in tax to support a growing population of people who do not share his ancestry, culture, or values and who view him as inherently evil? Thus we see opposition to social welfare programs that disparately impact/benefit the "diverse" populations.

TL;DR: Most "Americans" are not "fellow countrymen" at all but distinct factions engaged in a simmering war with each other.
With the exception of working at a University with no coverage, everywhere I have worked (before I started consulting) provided dental coverage. However it was often $1500-2000 per year max which is very easy to use up.
German minister of justice explains why Facebook must be regulated (op-ed)
Good. Facebook doesn’t need two messengers.
This.
Its similar to watching a tv show about something you personally know very well. The errors, generalizations, narrative and even the facts can be so far off you hope no one takes it serious. But people who do not know the subject matter take the presentation of it as fact.

Imagine how many doctors cringe watching E.R. or House.

News is this, but for real life events.
Would you rather be bored or manipulated by the foreign propaganda machine?
Or delete the video from your watch history. Your watch history is built based on your history
There is still the getting to work problem especially if your partner works in a different area.
Why hell do we need something that is 10x stronger than fentanyl or 1000x stronger than herion???

Is there nothing in the world that will make the FDA stop killing people? Opoids kill more than all auto accidents combined including drunk drivers. (36k auto deaths in 2016 vs. 70k opioid deaths in 2017) If Ford made a car that doubled death rates from accidents, it would be burned to the ground in lawsuits.

The FDA is doing that, and all they get are illicit payoffs from drug companies and a body count that they ignore.

I think that leadership should be much more assertive in communicating to the FDA that what they are doing was not in the interests of the American people. I think that people at the FDA should lose their careers over the hundreds of thousands of dead bodies they are creating.
I agree with you, but the reasons more people don't use motorcycles are

1. They're harder to drive.

2. They're more dangerous for the driver.

3. They're uncomfortable in rainy weather. (And even more dangerous during icy weather.)
Oslo is anything but flat.
Just so. But they also take it because it’s good
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I mean it does it's just hard to get to and slow. It's route 229, it takes 10-15 minutes to get (through public transit) to the center of the metro area where it goes through, in fact almost as long as just walking the 10-15 blocks or whatever it is to get there... then I think you are waiting 10 more minutes on average as they run every 20 minutes, and it takes something like 50 minutes to get from there to the airport -- whereas the straight shot with a Lyft is maybe 30 minutes, the bus can take somewhere from a half hour to an hour longer.

So it's possible with some transfers etc., it's just sufficiently inconvenient and slow that I've ruled that out.
Not sure what kind of answer you expect. The existence of one oft-used loophole is a reason to create another?
> AFAIK, end to end encryption can't really support having multiple clients all using the same account.

Improving your AFAIK here. Signal Desktop works independently without proxying communications through the phone (which is what WhatsApp does). Wire supports multiple platforms (Windows, Mac, mobile) and syncs chats across all of them with end to end encryption. There are different ways to do this. It's just that WhatsApp didn't implement it.
It's important to note that public transport systems are often forced to run unprofitable routes. Late night routes and paratransit are inherently unprofitable but improve accessibility. Of course, there are more unsavory reasons, usually political (for instance, the "Downtown Express" bus routes in Toronto were created to fulfill a political promise, and are vastly unprofitable as a result).

Ride-hailing services don't have this particular problem. They only need to serve based on rider demand. Yet at this moment they do rely on subsidies by VC money.
We've had anonymous Microsoft employees talk here before, so it would not be a surprise. I guess he’s not malicious to the extent that he’s driving people nuts and causing a bunch of other people to leave, otherwise I feel like we would’ve heard it by now.
> You spend a few days in an area with no cars and think to yourself, “Wow. Wow. It doesn’t have to be like that. What are we even doing?

This! They closed down large parts of my city during a big week-long bike event last year, including the street where I have my office. The difference was astonishing, like night and day. You could easily talk while strolling down the street. With all the road noise gone you suddenly noticed bird chatter, etc, etc. More people used the public benches on the side walks (what's the point of relaxing on a bench with noisy cars blasting past you).

Local politicians are now running a pilot project to make one city district car free, which is fantastic.
I've been thinking of a similar system, actually, but instead of having each end user pay per transaction, you have each domain put up a bond (in a digital currency) which can be forfeited if the domain is found guilty of spamming.

The one controversial part of this is deciding who is permitted to redeem the bond, i.e. who is the central arbiter of what is and isn't spam? Well, fortunately we already have an entity like that, de facto, since we have the Big 4 email providers ("Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, and AOL", or any other similar group that all mail servers must, in practice, comply with the demands of).

In the system I'm proposing, if any of these big providers detect a domain being involved in spam (or N out of M providers, to reduce the risk of false positives), they could redeem the bond. Of course, the bond would be structured such that the only recipient was a non-profit, like the IETF, or possibly an entity like ICANN. That way there is no financial incentive to make false positive claims.

As for how this system would be introduced, that's the easy part. All pre-existing domains would be grandfathered in, so that no current email users would be negatively affected. (Indeed, there is a moral hazard that some email providers would support this system precisely because it only affects new entrants to the market). There would simply be a flag day, after which if you register a new domain, and want to send emails from it, your domain registrar would have a check box saying "Yes, I am happy to be charged an extra $10 and have put it in a bond so that I can send email to the Big 4 providers". After sending a certain amount of legitimate email, a Big 4 provider could then send a transaction which makes the locked funds return to the original issuer of the bond.

Finally, to decide how big the bond has to be, we can look at data like this:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/06/bad-men-at-work-please-d...

If spammers are going to extra effort to save a few dollars on their registration costs, then their margins must be pretty tight. It also means that domain reputation systems are working, since spammers have to keep bulk buying new domains:

http://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2013/papers/imc247-haoA.p...
There's a trend here: you claim moral authority to defend unscrupulous aspects of your government/country, but don't extend the same privilege to, say the American defense agencies, or Google, who'd like to do business with them.

It's trivial to go on a diatribe here about Swiss numbered accounts being bathed in the blood of innocents, on whose heads murderers, despots, dictators accrued the said wealth, now being actively protected by the Swiss government under the guise of privacy. But that would be a simplistic, inaccurate, and narrative driven approach. Your demonetization of American foreign policy is similarly simplistic, and demanding that Google not serve American defense, similarly silly.

All that is being requested here is consistency, not simplistic and inaccurate reduction-ism. It's disingenuous to reduce Switzerland to a singular identity of "murder enablers", as it is with America, or it's foreign policy
Are Electric Cars Only for the Rich? Sacramento Is Challenging That Notion
I always thought it was a shame that we stopped doing that, but plastic has taken over pretty much for all the glass bottles that used to be recycled.
> Let users of cars pay for the infrastructure they use

Don't forget a fee for the air and noise pollution they cause.
Someone steal my idea:

A text editor but with "record" and "stop" buttons. Click "record", write all your code, then click "stop". Now you can go back in time and play it all from the beginning, and you can also select certain stopping points as frames.

Then in your live demo, just navigate from one frame to the next, and everyone can watch the pre-recorded code being typed as if it were being done in real time.

Bam. Problem solved.
> If we want to get philosophical, just the existence of a police force treats people as an antagonist

That seems specific to United States, or maybe even to United States' media coverage. Elsewhere, existence of police treats people as vulnerable and in need of protection from occasional dangers that pop up.
Public transit in Los Angeles sucks big big time, so it makes sense Uber and Lyft wins in cities like Los Angeles.
I've been caught by this change. Google have requested that my app be audited by one of the suggested security firms. The lowest quote I have right now is $22k.

We're a bootstrapped business with nowhere near this kind of cash, so this effectively means Google are shutting our service down.

What's crazy is that while this might help protect from negligent developers accidentally losing a few user keys, it doesn't really solve the real problems like it's claiming to. It in no way protects you from the worst offenders, the Cambridge Analytica's out there, the ones with plenty of cash, from still stealing or abusing your data. They can just pay to make this go away.

This is seriously bad news for any independent developers or small companies who are building apps on top of Google's API.
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I don't know about Oslo, but in Munich, where winters are full of snow, plenty of bikes are still around. I certainly continued commuting to work that way, and it definitely wasn't "young people sporting bicycles in summer" for me, it was just my regular means of transportation, totally unsporty.

Many more bikes out in summer, yes, but, well, many more people outside in summer in general.

As for groceries: Supermarkets are pretty well distributed in Munich's residential areas (which I don't think includes the city center, by the way), often so close that taking your car might take you longer.
Happens to me on non-adblocked mobile all the time, it is infuriatingly dumb. Google seems to not be able to do user friendly UI's.

Don't get a started on discovery!
re: driving a long ways in Michigan - absolutely! I’ve lived in many states where I drove plenty to get to work or school.

Why have suburban areas, and cities in some places, been built with this kind of sprawl? Partially because there was no significant downside not to spread out.

I’m curious if people actively enjoy driving 20 to 30 minutes, and what kind of policy or other changes or incentives could be introduced (governmental or otherwise) to encourage people to bunch together more so driving would be much less necessary in places like you mention in Michigan.
Maybe not, but you sure as hell would get fewer doctors.
This is part of the verification step, and you don't need to get your app verified if you only have one user.
My biggest problem with YT recommendations is that they dramatically overweight recent videos when generating the recommendations. I mean, I can spend a week doing nothing but watching (well, listening) to videos of classical music performances, and my recommendations will be full of classical music, exactly as you'd expect. Then I watch one random one-off thing, like "15 funny pitbull fails" and suddenly ALL of my recommendations are animal videos. Then I have to go manually edit my feed history and remove "15 funny pitbull fails" to get my recommendations back to normal.
You do realize in that $15-$20k is all of the other employees' pay for that day?
It’s tempting but I don’t want to increase my chance of getting killed, it looks scary to me, and a smaller concern is wearing leathers in 30 degree C heat.
Black, female entrepreneurs are changing Silicon Valley
Would something like gmailieer[0][1] be affected? (Or, in general, FOSS software for syncing with one's gmail data.)

It uses some of the "restricted" scopes[2].

Also, what does the verification as "non-malicious software" entail?

[0] https://github.com/gauteh/gmailieer/

[1] A cli program that downloads one's (i.e. the user's) gmail e-mails onto one's computer (without touching any third-party servers on the way) — it's effectively a better offlineimap for gmail, for use with notmuch.[3]

[2] https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/9110914#restricted-s...

[3] http://notmuchmail.org/
funnily enough there were webapps that jailbroke your ios device with ease
>I'm amazed that so many people who consider themselves inclusive in their thoughts don't realize how exclusionary anti-automobile policies are. As someone who suffers from mild arthritis, the trip to the back of a Wal-Mart can be painful for me, and a walk or bike ride across a city block absolutely foreboding.

Oslo, and European cities without or with much less cars, have tons of people with arthritis as well and they're doing just fine. A walkable city will be even more welcoming for things like powered wheelchairs, healthier to breath for everybody, and will have low cost (and in some cases in here, free) mass transportation.

>Consider that everyone's circumstances are not the same as yours. Have some compassion for your fellow humans.

Yeah, because nothing says compassion like car ridden cities, and urban areas designed around driving.
Are your shower taps in direct sunlight?
I wish they would provide to turn off recommendations on the home page when you're logged in. Far too many click-baity channels show up and it becomes cumbersome to wade through all of it to find the channels that I follow.
Totally agree that it needs to be well-rehearsed. An alternative to being super well rehearsed is to record a video of the live coding and talk live over that, a technique I've used successfully in the past.
Holy cow this article is a trainwreck. I have no sympathy for people like this.
and then there's the shortsighted view on money.

that work was paid by the subscribers. now it's paid by the news. see the fast rise of puff-piece-for-hire type of press, like wired and vice and Bloomberg (the video branch). they do Oscar grade short documentaries by the wazoo lately. and vice specially exclusively on incendiary fake news topics.
And don't record Ctrl+X and DEL and it's going to be more interesting. And mute that nerdy vocal frier. :)
As I said, definitely a lot of bikes in Munich in winter, but temperatures also rarely drop below -10°C or so (although there were some extremely exceptional winters in the last few years where it happened). Maybe that's different in Oslo.
I want others to treat me in a fashion that I like. In return I try to treat them in the fashion they like. This is the Golden rule.