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I had to look it up.

MAD: Militärischer Abschirmdienst (Military Secret Service, Germany)

https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/MAD
It was creatively translated as "Kac Vegas" by the Polish distributor.

("Kac", originating from German "Katzenjammer" and pronounced roughly like "cuts", therefore kind of rhyming with "las" in "Las Vegas", stands for "hangover" in Polish).
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Why?

This means Britain will actually have one trade agreement by the time it leaves the EU.

"This is a great example of how current US foreign policy means a loss of soft power all over the world"

Agreed, it does seem very short sighted. Once a system is in place, and it works, suddenly its very easy to apply that system to any other regime where the US doesn't agree with the rest of the world. Plus what's the point in 'rogue' states coming in from the cold, if the US are going to renage on their agreements.
> It's only logical to balance the moral responsibility to preserve human dignity

I don't know, the American prison system doesn't seem to consider that a high importance. The problem in Japan seems to be that the not-even-actually-nice prison system still trumps the conditions under which those pensioners apparently live.

If your prison system is not a complete nightmare and people seem to be intentionally getting themselves imprisoned the right solution isn't to make the prisons worse, it's to fix the social problems that are making people prefer going to prison (i.e. in this case: loneliness, societal neglect, poverty and shame).
Every single goal you have is just the next step on a ladder, as soon as you hit it there will be another one. You'll forget you even worked to get there, and focus on the next step, thinking "ah if only I were there, I'd be happy". It never stops, it gets increasingly harder and depressing unless you are aware of it. As far as I can tell a lot of people never understand that until very late in their life.

Most people in the world are living with way less than what you have, it's just a matter of perspective.
If you think material things will help you feel better you're plain wrong. As long as you have food, a roof over your head and some sort of community you're good to go.
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I think programming is fun, but yes doing a lot of corporate projects for a long time can get tiresome.

Try going for lighthearted - automate a silly thing for yourself. Something to make your life 0.002% easier. Sure the cost benefit is not going to make you rich, but doing something for yourself is quite different and can be a bit of fun.

My best silly program is called 'heater' - I was coding a lot at night and in winter it was pretty cold. Heater was simply a loop with a lot of maths calculations on repeat which increased the load on the (high end at the time) PC. It had a nice little gui which allowed you to set the temp you wanted.
> Humans also have 576 MP quality eyes

Even if that's true, I (and almost anyone) can also drive cars in computer games at 1080p or less.
Practically speaking, the UK is completely screwed when it gets to choose who to trade with post-brexit. The deal the US will make with the UK will effectively be too good for the US (US hold all the cards) for the UK to have any form of negotiating power.

The US won't "not accept the deal" or "not make a trade deal with the UK" because UK trades with Iran, itt'l be too good for them to pass up. Itt'l be the only thing going that the UK can accept, no matter how bad it is, in an attempt to save face as they can't be seen to go back to trading with the EU especially on worse terms. This is devolving into a Brexit rant, but I can guarantee you that the US doesnt give two shits if the UK trades with Iran, they're rubbing their hands in anticipation of what is to come. UK knows this so is scrambling to do deals with whoever it can as soon as possible. This is my line of thinking anyway.
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My parents are immigrants. I wish we would just let in a random sample of the global population instead of having selection factors. Or maybe not let in any immigrants at all.

The purpose of these kinds of requirements is to bring in workers for rich American CEOs. It's not because we enjoy the company of immigrants or want to learn their culture. Artificial selection for master degrees just creates stereotypes and leads to things like "the model minority". Imagine if we only let in strong physical laborers and the type of stereotypes and race dynamics that would create. The kind of cultural displacement you feel as an immigrant that is toiling away in a lab to try to serve some rich CEO while you're away from all your like-minded friends/family is depressing.

I haven't read literature on this, it's just my gut feeling.
Please, tell me what speech is appropriate. Sharing a link is inappropriate speech?
Any time you have a human element to a process, there are bound to be unforseen consequences. For all we know, their review process could be devoid of SLAs for completing reviews and Agents could sit on reviews for months for arbitrary reasons because no one is following up on them.

We're a large NFP but not a particularly large organization so I'm not sure if we get preferential treatment but our business lead has a direct point of contact with an App Store representative and has used it to get extended information about and, from our perspective, force through Apps releases stuck in review.

He isn't the type of person to sit idly by when a process is taking an abnormal amount of time so part of me thinks it isn't a case of preferential treatment but rather the squeaky wheel getting the grease.

I'm sure having someone he can get on a phone and hold accountable goes a long way. I'm still unclear how he managed that.
> My own experience with MySpace was that every page I landed on looked like a dumpster fire.

Reading this, I finally get what people mean when they say "But Snapchat is supposed to have an unintuitive UI".

I was big into editing Myspace HTML back in the day. There were simply so many possibilities. The design was an extension of your style, howrver crude and unfinished it might have been.
Some of the spam calls I received were from US phone numbers (I'm in the UK), but when I answered I ended up connected with someone with a Southern Asian accent speaking rather bad English.
You seem to be getting downvoted, I'm not sure why.

Anyone care to justify?

Edit: Or just downvote me instead.
No, the point is that under GDPR you can't sell personal data because it remains the property of the person it was shared by. You can sell access to that data, but the purchaser inherits the terms under which that data was shared and can't use it for any purposes the owner did not already agree to -- plus that transfer itself has to be consensual.

Also under GDPR the consent can be revoked at any point and the data has to be deleted. Plus the owner has to be given exhaustive information about what data was gathered, what basis it was gathered on and who it was passed on to (recursively).
Literal translation would by Military Shielding Service
Once Google+ for consumers is gone, what will be the state of YouTube URLs? Let's say I want a specific URL on YT. Like, say, www.youtube.com/user/mylastname or something like that. How can I obtain that after April 2nd?
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Yeah I got the OBi device as I intended to use it as a VOIP gateway to connect to Asterisk, but in the end I was able to do everything I needed on the device.
As America steps back from the world stage, we will see more alliances being forged that exclude the USA.

These plans of dissociation have been in motion for some time now. I think two ruinous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have caused a shift in American foreign policy that we are now starting to see play out more frequently. This will continue for many decades.
Because many of us profit by turning a blind eye. Most all companies fudge sub numbers for investors. It is fraud and should be treated that way.
Don't mistake a country and the regime that is leading it.

Is punishing a whole country (so including the population) an efficient way to change a regime behaviour?
I'm not sure history proved this right... Just look at Cuba ...

Cutting all ties with a country makes the population even more dependant to the actual regime since there's no more direct exchanges with other countries.
It also removes some communication bridges would limits the influence of the regime on censorship.

Keeping some economical relationship with the country is not giving full support to the regime, but a way to keep an influence.
I'm not saying there's no economical interest behind, of course there is, but the "ban" approach is unlikely to change the situation in a good way in the first place.
I'm speaking within the context of liberalism, as a set of ideals.
> To everyone who thinks design thinking is just the obvious way to do things

Things always seem obvious as someone explains them, but not when you're wondering what to do without prior experience or knowledge of what works.

I have an idea of designs I like, I have no idea how to go through and replicate those designs necessarily and they may not be what my boss or the client wants. I've been led down paths of building awful designs by clients, but they're paying so... I just do what they say, till they realize what we realized long before the design was implemented (and trust me, no amount of telling them works).
It also depends on the load. Heavier items places on solid footing on the desk => less wobble.
How many qubits for useful quantum calculations? What are use cases for quantum computing, that it gives an advantage over regular CPU/GPUs?
Well, I mainly work in a team where developers ship separate products for the internal usage. So it's not really working in a team. Products are generally quite technical - it's not your usual CRUD shop.

I do write tests, but only post-factum, when I know for sure this component will be re-used in other components. I write them in cases where I know I will forget about the certain edge-cases in some time, so changing the code will most certainly introduce bugs.

When you have components that are reused over the course of several years (and obviously being optimised if the requirement is there), the chance of regressions is severely increased.

So I see that "writing tests for everything" is more of a political stance, rather than entirely practical.
The EU (minus Britain) are united. Its just Britain that cant agree with itself.
Naughty Dog uses it:

slides: https://con.racket-lang.org/2013/danl-slides.pdf

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSmqbnhHp1c
Foreign intrusion produced a reaction towards a nationalist and traditionalist government.

It seems no lesson were learned since...
For workshops like this, you should consider using Diggle (diggle.com/trial). We're still in beta, but this is the type of thing we use it for.
By God! You mean Europeans are actually against rabbit-hunting at the Gaza border?!

At this point, supporting either side is a problem in itself. Finding a diplomatic solution to end the conflict would be true genius.
Lol you brought your personal problems into an interview with someone who is a bit of a dick.

You know some people are just assholes right? God this is such a pathetic play victim post.
RAID is the zeroth-tier backup. At least it will prevent most of the horror stories where people accidentally destroy their backups when trying to restore them.
not all of them do, especially now, when outline has problems.
The 1904 O. Henry short story "The Cop and the Anthem"[1][2] tells of a homeless New York City man who commits small crimes, preferring arest and jail to charity handouts.

"But to one of Soapy's proud spirit the gifts of charity are encumbered. If not in coin you must pay in humiliation of spirit for every benefit received at the hands of philanthropy. As Caesar had his Brutus, every bed of charity must have its toll of a bath, every loaf of bread its compensation of a private and personal inquisition. Wherefore it is better to be a guest of the law, which though conducted by rules, does not meddle unduly with a gentleman's private affairs."

Soapy's many attempts fail, but the story ends with a typical O. Henry twist. No spoiler here.

The story was filmed in 1952, one of five stories in "O. Henry's Full House." Charles Laughton played the vagrant. He briefly meets Marilyn Monroe. Watch this segment on YouTube[3] or enjoy the entire film.

[1] https://americanliterature.com/author/o-henry/short-story/th...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cop_and_the_Anthem

[3] https://youtu.be/temSJCZwUlU
I use NFS, which works really great and is faster than what most people believe. With the exception of no local page cache which impact latency for some applications. iSCSI is another great alternative, and with iSCSI you will also benefit from your local page cache. Though only one machine can use one iSCSI volume at the time. NFS can be shared between different machines.

In my setup there is no special network tuning either, it is completely basic MTU is 1500, NO VLAN's, both iSCSI and regular network traffic works great without impacting for each other. Performance is excellent with the cheap Mellanox ConnextX-2 ethernet cards you find on Ebay for 20 USD. There are some really excellent, cheap, silent and with 10G SFP+ ports network switches available too for just 100USD
Perhaps, but this is orthogonal to that. This is to sidestep US sanctions.

The traditional (not current) left was for disengagement (WTO protests, Iraq protests), it’s strange to see the left now argue for intervention and more internationalism and intervention and hegemony.
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I basically look at something, wonder why the heck nobody has done it yet, then do it.

Some people do a side project just to learn a language. IIRC Workflowy was one of the results of that.

For the most part, it should be something that scratches at the back of your mind, not something you plan to make money off or build very well. It should be more about curiosity or frustration for the problem.
Is it safe to backup a database by just straight copying its files? Wouldn't it be better to use a specific backup tool, e.g. pg_dump for Postgres or mongodump for Mongo?

(Hopefully you've tested recovery procedures, because as the saying goes, "your backups are only as good as your last restore")
That would make a great movie!!!
>What is the first amendment then?

The first amendment defines the federal government's ability to "abridge (or limit) the freedom of speech (...)" Nowhere does it preface this with a statement like "the freedom of speech shall be defined as..." but rather it assumes the right already exists.

>I’m confused what makes you think this is a demonstration of freedom of speech in any way?

My argument is that freedom of speech is a universal right, as much as any right is universal, and that a legal framework can only diminish it but never define it or expand it.

>“Considered subversive” and illegal aren’t the same thing.

It can be under some authoritarian governments. One of the most powerful uses for freedom of speech (and freedom of the press) is criticizing governments and powerful entities. But what does freedom of speech even mean if the only criticism or forms of expression allowed are those permitted by the government?

> There are also types of speech that remain illegal and probably always will. Slander and libel, among others, are not protected classes of legal speech, for good reasons.

Yes, and I agree those reasons are good, for the most part, and necessary for a civil society. But they are also limitations on the freedom of speech, and not all such limitations are just.
From TFA: “In fact, Wrangham’s notion of human evolution powered by self-domestication has an ancient lineage: The basic idea was first proposed by a disciple of Aristotle’s named Theophrastus and has been debated several times since the 18th century. This latest version, too, is bound to provoke controversy, but that’s what bold theorizing is supposed to do.“
> I don't know, the American prison system doesn't seem to consider that a high importance.

I'm not here to defend the American prison system - I'm talking more generally.

> f your prison system is not a complete nightmare and people seem to be intentionally getting themselves imprisoned the right solution isn't to make the prisons worse, it's to fix the social problems that are making people prefer going to prison (i.e. in this case: loneliness, societal neglect, poverty and shame).

Obviously that's the ideal, but it's literally impossible. How is the government (or whichever organisation) going to solve all its citizens' personal problems? If we lived in a world where all people's personal problems were taken care of, prisons would be barely needed.
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Maps is already heavily monetized. On the developer side, it's monetized via API licensing and pay-per-request geocoding. [0] Any website with a google maps widget and meaningful traffic is paying google to use the maps and/or lookup addresses in a typeahead box. On the marketing side, it's monetized via advertisements, namely sponsored map icons, sponsored links, and (I think) "billboarding". When you scroll in/out in maps and see icons belonging to seemingly seemingly arbitrary businesses, they are likely paying for that exposure. [1]

[0] https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-does-Google-monetize-Google-Maps
I think this is clear to the author, but readers should note that RAID isn’t backup.

Separately, having at least a partial online backup would have minimized the issues caused by the offline backup.
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The salience is exactly what's disputed.
Can you find an archive link for the article you're looking for? Or altering your browser's User Agent String to Google's crawler will usually let you index the content.
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See Bertrand Russell and Whitehead's attempt to codify mathematics from first principals. It was comprehensively Godelled https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Mathematica
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I find it interesting that those are the countries where Yellow Vest protests are greatest, where government has been ignoring citizens the most.
Being the happy owner of an ebook reader I just can't force myself to pick up a dead-tree book. Even though I have a dozen waiting for me to start them. It won't happen.

E-ink + Configurable font + Touch screen = Reading bliss
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This is in the book:

> The notion that humans are a domesticated species is at least as old as ancient Greece. [...] Two thousand years later, the topic of human domestication re-emerged in the intuitions of an influential early anthropologist, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach.

And this is in the article:

> In fact, Wrangham’s notion of human evolution powered by self-domestication has an ancient lineage: The basic idea was first proposed by a disciple of Aristotle’s named Theophrastus and has been debated several times since the 18th century.
> and is now in a nuclear bomb program for the grace of god

I have no love for Iran what so ever, but opposing them for having a nuclear program while not opposing the US or any other country who also has nukes, is so extremely hypocritical. I'm so astonished to see that argument over and over again.
>nkozrya is suggesting that they aren’t always right.

Even more so, there are all kinds of "national interests" political/cultural biases, and even personal interests (e.g. Cheney and Halliburton) mixed in their assessments.

They're not some disinterested third parties trying to make the fairest assessment possible for the benefit of mankind, but agents of a top world dog nation-state wanting to get more resources and control, and to further its own prospects.
+1 for pouet.
I have it from a very well regarded French philosopher who knew Sartre personally that he took mescaline a lot, hence his prolific productivity, and that he would specifically inject into the thigh. There's some philosophy gossip for ya hn :)
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> And yet, they can't reach an agreement with each other.

In oe matter. To act like this means other matter cannot be agreed is a false dilemma.

Id suggest to read about logical fallacies: https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/fallacies_list.html
In terms of trade, how is it exactly they can complement each other? The geography is a bit of an issue for actual physical goods, and I'm not sure what the UK produces that the US needs. Luxury cars maybe, but IIRC most of these marques aren't even owned by the UK any more, except for perhaps the high end. Cheap Bentley's for American oligarchs?

Services, maybe - but again most of the core banking will move away from the UK post Brexit and even then there's a lot of overlap in competencies between the UK and USA. There's a lot of smart people in the UK for sure, but there's a lot of smart people in the US.

I can't help but think the whole idea of a US/UK trade alliance is borne more of anglophone ideology than any kind of practicalities.
A lot of these debates ignore that evolutionary success is simply defined as persistence. If population A has 90% infant mortality and lives on $1 day but has genetic descendants 1000 years from now, then they are evolutionarily "better" than population B that has <1% infant mortality, lives on $100 day, and has no genetic descendants 1000 years from now. Declaring one group a "have" and another group a "have not" is myopic. Literally every group on the face of the earth at some level believes they are "chosen" and superior to other groups. The only way to actually tell though is to see which genes are still geneing 1000 years, 10,000 years, etc into the future. To date it's not even clear that multicellularity is that great of a branch to be on.
If you check that you can restore from backup regularly, then whatever the system is underneath that matters much less.

Even an email saying 'things went well' doesn't tell you that you can restore your files.
Regarding the "bragging" posts, according to this Hidden Brain podcast [1], it has a more negative effect than anything and is usually not the truth about people current situation in life. For instance, we might see the great vacation pictures, but turns out they were fighting the whole time and it wasn't fun at all, but it is not like they are gonna share that part on FB.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2017/04/17/524005057/when-it-comes-to-ou...
Not that I've seen but there's a paper: https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/dls11-tsffd.pdf
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And you’re wrong. Population growth creates market growth. The humans that literally cannot contribute to the output directly create the broadest and often deepest demands. Babies need all sorts of things their parents wouldn’t otherwise purchase. Immigrants aren’t babies, necessarily, but they do increase market size. This is perhaps a very strong argument for UBI: empowering people with enough for the basics will ensure the contribution to market demand from population growth.
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> but for 90% of projects, automated testing is the most efficient long term strategy

I don't think this is a good way to think about it.

I see plenty of projects that don't go anywhere, and I also see plenty of projects that do go somewhere, but where large parts change so little and are so easy to test manually that there's little point in much automation. Other parts are complex and full of contradictory business rules so formal tests are necessary.

Of course, YMMV. If you're inside Google, things are probably looking very different. But most people aren't.