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> The fact that they published it (or that they didn't publish something) is hard proof of endorsement.

No, not at all. It's only proof that it's a point of view they thought their readers should know about.

Here's a contemporaneous editorial that expresses a very different view: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/01/opinion/the-bioweapons-en.... You can find all kinds of contradictory opinions in the NYT op-ed section, so it'd be nonsense to say the NYT endorses the view of every one (or any particular one) it publishes.

> If you think it isn't, I can only suggest you have a bizarre concept of reality.

I'd suggest your concept of reality is more bizarre than mine.
The UK doesn't have to put anything up. If the EU/Ireland choose to, that's kind of their problem.
It’s probably no coincidence that domestic abuse is so rampant there as well, not that living as someone else’s property isn’t already abusive.
Browsers have supported user defined CSS defaults since forever, and plugins like Stylish have been around for a while.

The practice of users customizing their CSS isn't prevalent because modern sites are incredibly complex and the average user doesn't want (or know how) to spend the time necessary to reverse engineer a site's layout and rewrite its CSS - there is no "quick and easy" way to do that for any but the simplest sites. Just consider how often professional developers complain about CSS, and they get paid to put up with it.
what you’re pointing out is corporate social responsibility (CSR), which emerged decades ago. it’s an extension of branding, which advertising, among other marketing tools, supports.

virtue signalling is on the consumer side, where consumption of the brand has the (positive) side effect of showing how with it and magnanimous you are.

in any case, i also don’t see how it applies here (as sibling commenter points out).
Admittedly I haven't followed your blog, so you may mention this somewhere on there. You seem to fall into the common developer trap of building a bunch of stuff without gauging demand and then trying to monetize it afterwards.

Like, are there people out there clamoring for a one-stop location where they can check if food is keto? Is your site less friction than just Googling "Is dark chocolate keto?" then reading the little blurb answer Google generates? Can the bulk of your value proposition be copied easily by anyone with access to WordPress?

IMO you are going after areas that are too saturated/competitive. Those sorts of fields are great for marketers that know how to navigate, differentiate, and promote them, but they are not so good for developers that mostly specialize in building complicated things.

In your situation it's probably fine to keep doing what you're doing since you have stacks of BigCo savings/investments, so you can more-or-less take your time and eventually build traction with something. I'm not worried about you specifically, just other people taking your approach that don't have such long runway.

Not trying to be harsh, just trying to help.
I hit this same same issue too. I tried to eliminate white backgrounds, because I find it tiring on my eyes and a bit painful. These sites made it too annoying to change the defaults, so I ended up giving up (and just always having my screen brightness near minimum).

But before I gave up I started collecting sites that either set background-color and not font color, or set color but not background-color: https://gist.github.com/mrspeaker/1846b6b0e12c76f7eeb2. There's a useless list for you!
can you give name for this asian unicorns?, what is alphabet mode?
Interesting, I'm on Android 9 and I can't set home/work without tracking, but it stays off anyway, it's too dark of a pattern for me to stomach. It was possible to set it several Android versions ago, but then I guess they got greedy
Well, you can find a place to spend your time without paying anything in many places.

In Russia we have "social welfare centers" where they provide elderly with different sorts of entertainment. (well, entertainment maybe not the best word. This like dance evenings).
Is there a continued trend toward greater complexity/mass of elements? What atomic materials are expected to be left when heat death comes and claims it all?
Really? I might have to switch then.. I use Firefox and GNOME, and enabling one of the dark themes causes most forms on the web to become unusable because of this very issue.
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So was this all product work or consulting + product work?
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Yeah I was pretty sure it was meant in a humorous way. Kids will change everything, which scares my wife and me quite a bit. (We don't have children yet). :)
Well though there are difficulties, I do think my be moving to a place like India, or Malaysia etc, may be an economical viable option. The difference in living costs can be phenomenal: Reasonable appartments in many big Indian cities can be had for less than 300$ per month.
You’re right, and I’ve owned an example device recently, the GPD Win. In theory it was awesome, a portable x86 Windows 10 gaming device. But in practice, nothing about it was good enough to make it worth the money. The screen was a phone screen that tried desperately to be portrait by default, the keyboard was horrible, and the overall build quality was lacking.

Honestly yes, a device like the one in the article might get a Kickstarter or Indiegogo one day, but it will either be too expensive for what it is, or it will fall short of the list of OP’s desired features.
If he uploaded his photo maybe it was facial recognition associating him with group pictures in his friends accounts.
Folks, downvoting me isn't going bring your language any closer to being supported. If you have a sound argument against what I stated, please voice it instead.
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Vice isn't cheap to run, now, though.

And that last statement is a lot of conjecture. Unless you have proof of some conspiracy to dominate online discussion in every space. They do cover a wide variety of subjects, only a couple of which I've read—and they seem generally good, with the odd very good piece.

Most media companies run a small gamut of niche categories: lifestyle, fashion, news, business, tech, finance, etc.
You don't think desktop Linux users use pip or npm?

(Also, speaking as a distro packager, we don't do as much vetting as Apple does and we certainly don't do as much sandboxing. We're generally volunteers.)
I avoid giving it out wherever possible. Some forms require phone numbers, in which case I generally try to enter an obviously-incorrect number.
But even with fixed prices, books _are_ cheap. Pocket editions here are the price of a cigarettes pack, something a lot of people even not rich afford once or more a week. I don't think affordability is a problem.
yay another "i quit google" post
Essentially, yes. The OS enforces that an app bundle is signed by a cert that was issued by Apple.

Without going through Apple at all, the only option is jailbreaking, to bypass the signing check. No one's figured out (publicly) how to jailbreak the last two major versions, though, as far as I know (there were some jailbreaks that worked for iOS 11 betas).

Another option still involves getting a cert from Apple, but it's free. You just need to create an Apple ID. The limitation here is that you have to re-install the app (IIRC) every seven days.
By "dumbass hacker theme" you mean "the dark theme that ships with MacOS", right?
Nope, don't want to encourage it.
Part of the joke of Infinite Jest is the physical size of the thing. You'll realise if you ever manage to get more than halfway through. It's so much more than just a story...
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We also have mobile plans for 2€/month, which start charging you after some internet usage. I would use them like it was an unlimited plan and would end up paying 10€/month.
The TPP would have folded in a bunch of environmental protection rules, but the US blew it up. It's debatable how good these protections would have been, but they were not nothing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership#Envi...
What does that have to do with color and backgroundColor?
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Personal information obtained from Google:

> To underscore its point about how much personal information is available, the CNET report published some personal information about Google's CEO Eric Schmidt -- his salary; his neighborhood, some of his hobbies and political donations -- all obtained through Google searches.
I submitted this link for the new Pinebook Pro which was released a couple of days ago. It didn't get much traction but here goes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19038420 It doesn't have the crazy keyboard or "sunshade", but it's fairly similar in other ways and only costs $199 so I guess you have money left over to drill extra holes for indicators and extra external ports.
The WTO court which is very nearly defunct thanks to Trump. Ooh, this'll be fun.
I do this too. I found once I started being okay with saying no it became way less awkward.
Not disagreeing, but why is this a good thing? Apart from that it's fun, are users really expected to be able to improve their browsing experiences with custom CSS?
No such error occurs.

$ cat Makefile
FOO += foo

all: ; @echo $(FOO)
$ make
foo
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How would you go about validating a product at such an early stage though? For example, what could have told you that no one had an interest in an API like Zestful?

EDIT: There is actually an extremely similar service that does have a business use case: https://dialogflow.com/ (from your past employer)

Does exactly the same thing, take a short input of words and identify overall intent as well as entities (in your case ingredient, amount, format, etc...)

On top of that, it has a great UI, export functions, integrates with other services, has an API, etc...
Betteridge's law of headlines applies (though it takes fourteen paragraphs to get there....)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Tangent: I find it interesting that futurists often claim technology is accelerating such that a "Singularity" of technological development may occur. To my eyes, however, the opposite seems true--each technological advancement seems exponentially more expensive, as if we've picked all the low hanging fruit. And now we're building $24bn particle accelerators to test really obscure things that may or may not have any impact on the next breakthrough.
>How can she justify that citizenship is the differentiator between what's right and wrong?

Toxic nationalism
Ah yes, more slight of hand. In this instance, you have moved the goalposts to "mass" school shootings, only counting instances where 4 or more people were killed/injured. This list also doesn't seem to include shootings that took place at colleges, which are also schools (Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois and Umpqua come to mind). It almost like you don't question your source at all and just happily accepted it because it fits your bias.

Even if we just focus on K-12, you could download this [1] data from US Naval Postgraduate School and run a trend line all the way back to 1970.

[1] https://www.chds.us/ssdb/number-killed-by-year/
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Belgium is kind of like France to be honest (I'm french).
On the website I always found it quite interesting that the "if you shop on smile.amazon.com its for charity" pop-up does not contain any link to the current page on smile.amazon.com; even the domain is plain-text. You need to type it in manually in the address bar.
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You keep referring to a legal document, as if it's the legal document that matters.

If we're making arguments about what the UK government can or can't do, it is the legal documents that matter. The rest is a matter of political judgement, obviously with significant implications, but it's not a binding constraint.

How can there be equality if Irish nationalists in Northern Ireland face a border when they go south, but Unionist British nationalists don't face a border when they go east?

I think you're stretching the intent of that clause. Clearly there isn't equality with NI being part of the UK but not part of Ireland either, and that's a much more fundamental difference in governance.

Do you think putting a hard border between NI and the Republic constitutes a change in the status of Northern Ireland without a consent of the majority of its people, against the legitimate wishes of people in Northern Ireland and a majority on the island?

Again, I think you're distorting the meaning with the selective quoting here. The change of status refers to the previous wording, which is about the right of the people of NI to determine whether to remain part of the UK or to become part of a united Ireland notwithstanding any overall majority on the island of Ireland for reunification.
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Hey guys, I'm a new web app developer who codes mainly in React and Python. I have an opportunity for a booking website and I am unsure how much I should charge. Here are some details of the app without giving anything important away:

The app needs to have a fully functional booking system, reviews, payments and monthly subscriptions, user dashboards and abilities to change settings, optimized for conversions & event tracking.

The design is already done, so I would need to only build the back-end and copy the designs that they already have. This app would be built from scratch using a custom framework (Flask).

I expect this app to take around 200-250 hours to complete at my current skill level. The thing is, I am a relatively new developer and my portfolio isn't very big. I know I can build this app as I've done similar projects in the past, but they are taking a risk with a new developer. I assume that has to be factored into the price.

This would be a complete app built from scratch, only being aided by the designs and layouts already made.

I have $30/hr in my head. People have told me for an app of this caliber, that is way too low. Is it? What would you recommend?
They're also falling victim to many of the traps startups do with regard to VC funding. Vice (and Buzzfeed for that matter) are ticking along nicely, generating a profit. But they're not generating enough profit for their investors, so they're forced to jump through cost-cutting hoops that will ultimately be to the detriment of their product.
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Agree with the low contrast complaint, but the OP article is right. The web developers have assumed what the text field colors will be. So when they override one color (either FG or BG), they need to set the other one as well, and not assume that it will match what's on their own screen.
> especially when the data wouldn't even exist unless the monitoring software was there to create it.

The data does exist, in transit. It's google's own code which creates new metadata from it; that's not anything each individual vendor/user is doing other than providing access to the data for google to collect. You're a developer; this should be apparent to you.

I'm not really here to debate the legal merits with someone when neither of us are qualified to do so (you're not a lawyer, I'm not a lawyer, and existing lawyers have already commented on this to no end and disputed endlessly the idea that anyone in this arena would be considered a contractor). I'm just seeing how much you're willing to flesh out your novel legal theory in association with your public name on the internet.
Certainly weather forecasts are generally more right than wrong, but for a science, you expect it to be closer to 100% correct than 80% correct.

We don't care if weather forecasters take us seriously. The weather forecasters should care whether we take them seriously.

For example, just the other day in NY, we had a forecast of light rain. We got a snow squall instead. That sure was fun.

People aren't complaining about a forecast of 80 degrees but it was 81 instead. It's those forecast that call for light rain and you get a nice fun snow squall.
> Today, a person’s success (because our culture has been reduced to basically only valuing popularity (visibility) and wealth and not intelligence or moral rectitude) tends to grant them degrees of social immunity and prevent the appropriate application of the law

Is it really a problem specific to our society that being famous/rich/talented/pretty/etc allows people to, sometimes literally, get away with murder?

> The révocation of works is not some abstract association between morals and the value of artworks as such—it is the concrete fallout of our particular situation and the realization that in our particular society wide distribution grants you some form of power that plenty of assholes have used to abuse other human beings and skirt the legal repercussions.

It seems facile to say that it's bad that "powerful assholes can abuse their power and then skirt the repercussions". I think we're all in agreement about that. In a just world, no matter how rich or famous you are, if you do the crime, you will be caught and punished. The question is: how do we bring about that world?

Our justice/legal system is a series of compromises. I think we've basically made the right compromises. I'm open to people questioning those compromises, to people suggesting new compromises or rethinking the old ones. At the same time I'm skeptical that there are easy solutions that would result in a fairer society. I also don't see a lot of what I would describe as "useful and productive questioning" on this subject.

Furthermore, some of this stuff has nothing to do with crimes at all. Roseanne Barr saying something racist is not a crime.

> people aren’t interested in saying there’s some innate connection between the moral quality of artists and the quality of their work

The comment I responded to is making this exact argument. Lots of the outrage about Cosby/Louie CK/Polanski/etc makes the argument that their work is rife with vileness.
It's just not the NYT, really. It is most of the media companies. I don't live in the US but here it's even worse because it's all one-sided. At least you guys have options.
Compared to american trains, lol.
Missed that part, my bad!
This is not the problem. The parts of a HTML form control that are not defined through CSS are taken from the system default theme by the browser. Usually this is white on black, but this is NOT guaranteed (e.g. high contrast schemes for vision impaired users). Web designers tend to use these default schemes when writing the CSS for a web site. So they write only the attributes they need to make it work on their setup. So if the textbox background or text color is already what they want, they don't define it. This the browser takes the non-matching system color instead- precisely because it was set in a "dumbass" scheme (I resent this term).