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Funny, had an interview at a boutique consulting firm as a manager, told me something like : no no! You are not expected to bill like 90 or 100 percent. Aaaannndd I'm out. Those shops work like : bill 80 or still 90 percent while working with the team 100 percent. No thanks.
> I think one reason is that violence is much easier to fake than sex.

If this was Reddit this line would spawn a comment thread longer than MAX_INT.
That's a sleazy insurance company. They use a lame excuse to avoid paying.
Well, I think it increased more than 50% since last year. I get 5-10 calls each and every week from unknown numbers. All of their VMs are robocalls! Well, I block the numbers immediately. I think the authority should do something about them. I have also read a nice article at https://www.whycall.me/news/consumer-wins-massive-229500-rob.... People might find this useful.
Uhh, I don't know... maybe windows?

heck, hadoop itself runs fine on windows 10 [http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/hadoop-project-dist/ha...]
Are you saying the law advantages providers with over 10k/day and hurts providers with under 10k/day? I don't understand how that could be. The law doesn't apply to providers with under 10k/day, so they should have freedom to do whatever they find optimal.
Is it? European movies have more sex in them and often have smaller budgets.
Beyond what is required by law or contract?
What about bing then ?
Ah yes, anti-harassment tools are automatically censorship; next you're going to tell me every feminist has blue hair, hunting men at tech conferences (you know, it's sort of a game, who can break the highscore?).
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This shows an utter ignorance of the market, you can get a dedicated server provisioned for you in minutes from most hosting companies.
eventual elimination..
Using cognitive biases to drive conversion rates
Anyone who has studied even a smidgeon of US labor history knows the Pinkertons as hired thugs who intimidated and sometimes killed workers. They should be portrayed as villains.
Sex work is legal in Germany. I don’t know where to look for the equivalent statistics in Germany, but that would settle the question of if legalisation would solve the problem of violence.
You'll need to do significantly more than just that.
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I assume you're referring to "liberals"? I'm pretty sure that historically "liberals" have been more anti-censorship than others. Even now you're much more likely to encounter censorship from conservatives than liberals, it's just that a vocal minority seems to think that "free speech" translates to "consequence free speech". You can say whatever you like, but there may be consequences. If you yell fire in a crowded theatre, you will likely be arrested.
One of the first times I traveled to the USA, I was watching TV in my hotel room and caught some sort of documentary about art. They were showing a painting by Gustav Klimt and the nipples were blurred out. I couldn't believe it! I knew about American prudishness over nudity and sex, but I didn't know it went that deep. It made me want to learn more about the phenomenon.

Some common explanations:

- The USA is just way more religious overall;

- Pilgrims were the most radical protestant Christians, they were kicked out of Europe and then spread their social norms in the USA, in a very early moment of the development of American culture. Also, according to Max Weber, and to simplify things a lot :), Protestantism = Capitalism;

- Colonization is risky business, enormous territories were available and increasing the population was urgent. This could explain both acceptance of guns/violence and the need to regulate sexual behavior.

I think there is at least some truth to all of the above, but I always feel unsatisfied. There are so many confounding factors. For example, in Europe the catholic south is more sexually repressive than the protestant north, perhaps with the exception of the UK. But the north is also more atheistic overall. Anglo culture overall seems to me to have some specific flavor of sexual repression that I don't feel from other European cultures. Maybe I'm just more used to the catholic flavor.

I have this cynical suspicion that, for a large scale society such as a country to be possible, and for people to accept collaborating with the project somehow, some tabu must be created. At least one dimension of personal fulfillment must be out of the control of the individual. This is very simplistic but, in modern USA the tabu is sex, in modern Europe it is money. I think it is common for revolutions to destroy one tabu and create another. For example, left-wing revolutions tend to point at sexual tabus as "bourgeois values". But communists can also be super socially conservative.

Yet another detail: the differences in attitude towards sex and nudity in USA vs Europe also apply to alcohol. I feel that alcohol is both way more regulated and seen as more "naughty" in the USA than in Europe.

Perhaps someone here can point me in other interesting directions. Sorry for all the rambling :)
Any test with a normally non-hit timeout anywhere is nondeterministic, because the operating system could schedule your test very slowly causing it to hit the timeout.
I have been thinking on this. From a capitalist point of view, an Universal Basic Income may be useful to remove non-productive people from companies. I think the productivity increase (because non-productive people tend to drag productive people around them) May very well offset the costs.
Have you tried producing and assembling electronics in the west?

You don't have shops to buy parts anymore, you don't have assembly lines anymore, you don't have people trained in this anymore.

If China decided tomorrow to increase the costs of the electronics they export, you'd have to accept that.

Apple tried their best to move even some assembly back to the US, and couldn't even get the simplest custom screws made in the amounts they need. Only a single small company still had the tech to make them, and they couldn't produce enough, fast enough.

It's not just a single monopoly, the problem is that entire industries are gone, and it'd take decades to train workers and regain the institutional knowledge.

And this is just one example.

And your argument has one more flaw: free trade reduces costs of products, and wages. But it won't affect cost of housing (except over a timespan of decades due to cheaper labor and materials, but it still won't solve cost of land). Nor will it affect cost of utilities.

In our household, we're now spending 71% of our budget on rent and utilities. Under more protectionist policies, I might pay 20% more for products, but I'd also be making 20% more wages — and as result, I'd be better off (in fact, my disposable income after rent, utilities and food would almost triple)
Your comment applies to your self as well. The vast majority of people don't need dedicated servers provisioned to them.
I have owned five Apple laptops and six Apple keyboards in total.

Two of those I used hard enough that keys fell off.

This latest is the only one which has had issues with the keys not working. Even the ones missing keys, there was a small nub left that still worked.

The main key failure has been the left Command key, which is an utter disaster. I’m furious about it.

Not quite furious enough to give up 15 years of the Mac. But close.
That's Zurich, an insurance behemoth, almost half a trillion in assets.
Thanks for posting those Jerry Weinberg quotes. I'd never heard of him, and just spent a few hours reading up on him. I think I've found another role model tonight :)
Absolutely second the benefits of legal insurance. It clearly shows others you are not afraid to fight this out as the costs are covered.

The free legal counseling hotline my insurance provides helps me at least twice a year with the right approach to tackle problems. And they have such a large network of lawyers that I'm always speaking to a specialist in my problem's area.

The combination of legal counseling and the simple fact that I had legal insurance helped me compromising in my favor or outright win all legal disputes I had since buying the insurance without actually using it.

Legal insurance is also probably a very lucrative insurance model. They avoid a lot of cases for their customers by their pure display of power and can advise their clients about which battles are worth fighting for in the first place. Furthermore (afaik) the losing side pays most of the legal fees of both parties.
I don’t know, I suspect it’s in ad agencies’ interest to keep people under the impression that they aren’t susceptible to ads and the ads must be for those other people who are.
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> Urs has as good a bullshit filter and ethics as I've ever seen in an SVP, and he's not "slimy"

That's precisely why he's not CEO material (for that matter, this is why Larry was a shitty CEO as well). Being CEO of a large multinational requires an amount of dissembling and two-faced-ness that few engineers (and certainly not engineers with integrity) are comfortable with. You're trying to balance the interests of literally billions of people, many of whose interest are not aligned, many of whom have widely disparate power levels, and some of whom are driven by cutthroat ambitious egos who would promptly chop your head off if you let them. If any one of those groups had a true picture of what the other parts of the system really thought of them, they would promptly cease to do business with them (at best) or erupt in outright warfare (at worst). Thus, it requires telling a different set of truths to each group, based on what they want to hear, and hoping that they never compare notes.

When they do compare notes, you get news stories like Project Maven, Project Dragonfly, the compensation memo, and so on.
> Ad tech companies can know more about you than intelligence agencies, and sometimes they are one and the same.

This is just what advertising companies tell you, to sell you their product - targeted ads. It is not true to anywhere near the extent they would have you believe, for the reasons outlined in the post which are far more than just "it doesn't work on me". In fact, that's not really used as an argument at all.
Only if you have bad luck. I run a NextCloud on RPi3 for over 1 year constantly and didn't have any issues so far.

Yes it's just 2 users but I also shared folders with people who up- and download stuff.

The web interface is responsive enough and the weak end when downloading stuff from it is my internet connection (upload sucks).

I agree that it's a good idea though ;-) I've ordered a successor with some serious power and SSD for the Pi (https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-scooter-computer) to get more users to work with it and also try the NextCloud Talk feature.

Also heard good things about the beaglebones.
“Reasonable doubt” is a term of art in law. Your use of the term does not agree with how the legal field understands it. “Preponderance of evidence” is another term of art, which is a strictly lower burden to meet than “beyond a reasonable doubt.” Your understanding of which of these two standards the legal system applies in civil cases mispredicts the behavior of the legal system. You can confirm this representation with a lawyer of your choice.

The standard to survive an attempt to dismiss will be approximately “even reading all factual representations as true in the most charitable reasonable way to the suing party, no reasonable finder of fact would see a justiciable controversy here.” You’re welcome to ask a lawyer on whether the suit would pass that burden.
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Why would not having a CTO symbolize Google's strategy shift from tech? Google has more than enough talented tech visionaries at high levels in each of its sub organizations, probably overpopulated with such.

I don't think Google lacks tech direction, quite on the contrary, they still excel and way ahead of the crowds. But they don't have a strategy to make money off from those technologies, other than limited venues like advertising/play store. But that is nothing CTO can solve.
That's not the same. What you are talking about is an 'insurance' where you, when you get into legal trouble, are reimbursed for (some of) your legal costs. That's not what the GP meant.
Seems like a fun hardware hack, but if he wants his niece to be able to communicate effectively he should probably just learn frickin sign language. It's unlikely that these can read a vocabulary, just the alphabet, which is incredibly limiting.

So, cool, looks like fun to hack on, almost certainly not newsworthy.
And do what? I’ve used Linux as my sole OS for a couple of years and it was a terrible user experience where I spent way too much of my time trying to get things to work. This was before I bought a 4K monitor, so it wasn’t even as intolerable as it would be today.

I actually want to like Linux by the way. The philosophy and the fact that you can use it on environmentally sound (and repairable) hardware is exactly what I want. Unfortunately ease of use is more important to me than that. Apple has that. Everything works out of the box, from the shared Callander, notes and reading iMessages across devices to plugging into a 4K monitor and having things just work.

I mean, even if you don’t care about the repairable hardware, the surface book is frankly a cooler piece of hardware than a MBP. Sure it’s more expensive and has no thunderbolt port, but it’s really damn sexy. Unfortunately it runs windows and that’s an even worse user experience than Linux.

So I buy Apple products, not because I really want to, but because they are the lesser evil when you want unix that just works.
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I honestly don't understand why people compare the two.

We process fake violence and sexual content very differently. When we see someone get their head blown off in a movie it's over the top and ridiculous. Often times it's used to tell us that something major has happened while being very different from reality.

I've seen videos on liveleak that are absolutely horrific. And yet I've seen much more gruesome scenes in movies that don't make me bat an eye.

Whereas with sexual content there's no difference between naked bodies. I am sure that scenes from shows on hbo will illicit the same reaction as pornographic material.

Also, violence is easy to explain, sexuality and complex hormonal feelings are not. That's why you can have outlandish violence because a kid knows what getting hit is like and what real life physics are like whereas stuff related to sexuality opens up such a large can of worms - what's too sexually liberal, what kind of a message it sends about self worth, social norms with something kids aren't familiar with, etc.

And before someone nitpicks my response, yes the culture and systems around ratings when it comes to nudity aren't always logical or consistent, but my main point is that I don't see why these two things are compared when they're completely different things.
Remove the "Https://" bit and type in "www.outline.com/" and it should work here and on many sites like it.
Well yes, the bad ad buying is often done on purpose. In theory I would not have a problem with advertisers wasting money on this, because I figured that by now they should be getting outbid by actually competitive ads that promote new value propositions and lower prices rather than pushing brand reinforcement. This has mostly not happened yet though, and I currently doubt it will anytime soon because there is still too much of an advantage to big advertisers that can afford to run campaigns like this... many opportunities there though for folks who know how to trim some of the fat.
It’s a religion thing primarily.
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That is correct. In an earlier comment [1] I have checked what options are enabled by default when registering or adding a Google Account to an Android Phone. For example, checkboxes "Backup to Google Drive" and "Save web and app activity" are enabled by default.

I suppose that many Android users might agree to these options without understanding completely what they mean or even without noticing because some of the options are hidden behind spoilers.

Android is an example of a case where you become a product although you have paid for the phone.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18493084
> The USA is just way more religious overall; - Pilgrims were the most radical protestant Christians, they were kicked out of Europe and then spread their social norms in the USA, in a very early moment of the development of American culture.

Exactly, and most Americans are quite unaware of the brutal history and behaviors of the Pilgrims. They celebrate Pilgrims at Thanksgiving and teach kids only about the ships they sailed on (the Mayflower, an iconic name), not about how Pilgrims burned each other alive if they did not satisfy the religious standards of the culture. America was built on this mentality, yet it is never taught and it seeps through the culture.
How many people in each of those ?
Because fire isn't going to affect you, obviously. The "security" of your house is only part of what folks buy such insurance for.

Only the privileged can do such things and get away with it. You'd have to have enough money to have a nest egg large enough to replace the stuff you need and care about, money to replace documents and ID, money for a hotel and travel, and money leftover so that a second even in a short timeframe does not leave you horribly off.

Poor people go without insurance all the time, but that is more the lack of ability to pay the premiums.

And of course they are charging more than they are paying out - much like a retailer charges more for a product than it cost them to make. There are exceptions in both cases: A car accident can mean someone gets more benefits than they pay in and retailers take losses on some things - but it isn't the norm. The entire point, however, is that the risk is spread out so that most folks aren't hit with a life-destroying event when bad things happen. That's the real service you are paying a bit extra for. I find it weird that you'd judge teh company on making money.

You can judge by how well they pay out claims - how much time it takes, what percentage they pay, and so on. Or how much money they make in total - and this should probably be something over a few years to balance out natural disasters.
Refreshes will quickly be much more important
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It is true, but starting higher and not progressing as quickly can also lead to feeling of broken promises.
Right Google is losing in ML or not caught up to speed ?
I don't know when you left but even outside Google it's pretty much known that ML innovation is Google's strength.

Two big teams use Rust at Google in production. I guess Google didn't make the TPU or Tensor Flow as well. Take your pitch forks out but once you're done have a look at some facts.
I’m not unsympathetic to the insurance company here. The intent of this language is “We did not sign up to take on Russia. We are willing to do that, but it isn’t free.”

The intent of the language doesn't matter in the least. What matters is the language itself and the meeting of minds that existed when the policy was purchased. Cyberattacks, whether perpetrated by Russians or the script kiddie down the street, do not fall under anyone's legal definition of "war."

If I'm wrong about that, then great -- now we can legitimately bring up the subject of treason charges against those who were complicit in the DNC hack and subsequent email dissemination.

I suspect you'll be a lot more sympathetic when you file a claim and your insurance company interprets your policy on the basis of a dictionary they wrote themselves.
What would happen if Apple fully banned Facebook from the App Store?
Isn’t this what google was supposed to be doing?
It depends on the large tech company. If you try that at Facebook or Netflix for example, you'll be out on your ass pretty quick.
The dataset will be used in a competition to detect genuine vs computer generatd voice. So presumably in the future they can draw inspiration from the winning approach and integrate it as the adversarial side of the GAN used to synthesize voices.

Rinse repeat, each generation of state of the art fake detection feeding the next generation of creation. I can see this escalating past human levels of detection.
Maybe they're simply not from your social circle?