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Blocking "controversial" things is cheaper for social media companies than keeping them up (most of the times); they're not in the business of making a fair and enjoyable platform. They're in the business of selling you: useless subscriptions, paid propaganda, items you once searched but have no interest in or have already bought recently, questionable financial/legal services and of course everything else that would make them even slightly more money.

It's not like Facebook actively wants to choose the things that should be banned, they really do not care. It's just that their analysis shows that they could make more money blocking a few nipples because advertisers will pay more on average, and given the choice a company will chose profit over the wellbeing of their product.

I actually like the EU clamping down on internet companies (although it's far from perfect, to say the least). Companies shouldn't have so much power over society they should be controlled by society or they will just spiral towards money like a paperclip factory AI spiralling towards paperclips.

Why should it be fair that a newspaper is responsible for the public letters and ads they publish, but Facebook should not be responsible for the public's messages and ads they publish just because they don't print on paper but use the internet?
If a company makes money off public content, the company should be liable for it.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Finally, it's not about people "volunteering" to abide by rules of a social media company.
If it would be about the user, they would just make a setting and let the users choose for themselves what they do and do not want to see.
It is in fact about advertisers dictating rules and internet companies seeing nothing in their way from screwing over their users in order to make more money.

We've seen this before, companies screwing people over to make money when there are no/weak regulations.
The internet should be free, but companies generating revenue from it should be regulated.
Once jerks started domain name spamming this became recommended behavior unless I’m 100% certain of my url.
Or she could hire a local professional.
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sav·aged, sav·ag·ing, sav·ag·es
1. To assault ferociously.
2. To attack without restraint or pity:
The critics savaged the new play.

That is exactly what Rutger Bregman did with his speech (which is well worth the minute to watch).
Just remember that Howard Dean's presidential campaign was killed just by him yelling "yeah" on TV[1] . My takeaway is that most journalists are unethical vultures that will kill you and pick apart your corpse for the tiniest shred of views. I would not really blame the current year fashion of SJWism, except in so far as I disagree with their censorious attitude and virtue signalling.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwkNnMrsx7Q
This article is actually the opposite of a dupe: it's a denial from the company that the article you linked to is accurate. That's literally the first paragraph in the article.

"Foxconn Technology Group said it will proceed with plans to build a factory in Wisconsin after U.S. President Donald Trump and company Chairman Terry Gou discussed the matter. The development follows reports that the company was considering jettisoning the large-scale project that had promised to bring 13,000 jobs to the Badger State."
>Who even comes up with such grotesque stuff?

An internationally-renowned and highly influential director.
The problem with legalizing prostitution is that it opens up a sanctioned venue which human traffickers can use to slip under the radar. You can have the best regulation in the world and you'll still fail to have only the entirely above-board, willing sex work that the sex workers themselves would like.

It's the same reason why e.g. we ban all new elephant ivory, period-- even ivory that supposedly does not come from poachers killing an endangered, wild elephant. Because if you try to allow "good, fair-trade ivory", the poachers will try their best to get their stuff in there. And when it comes to the balance between costs and benefits, it doesn't take many bad apples to spoil the whole barrel.
Yep, it is.

So there's less censorship involving age or species, but pixilated genitalia. Go figure.

For example, in Miike's "Fudoh: The New Generation", there's a ~preteen assassin who uses a blow gun that's hidden in her vagina. There's one sequence where she's performing in a strip club, popping balloons (and hitting her target with a poisoned dart). And yes, the actress was 22 when the film was shot, but she looks a lot younger.
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Davos billonaire: "Sure, you can win the argument points, we keep the billions"

He should start his intervention by thanking all these greedy billionaires for sustaining welfare states around the globe, since as everyone knows, this tiny portion of the population generates a very large fraction of government revenues.
What is with people categorically denouncing any journalism source there is on the basis that they're not outputting the truth or their version of the truth on this or that particular day?

This is why I read multiple sources of news and summarize it in my own words for a broad view of the world.
Depends on the superstition, if it were "you should say 'black door' every time you see one [and you'll have good luck]" then it would make no difference. It would neither inhibit nor encourage those of the out-group.

Let's look at religion: if my religion says "give money to orphans" then you don't need to fight it, it doesn't harm you, if it says "make everyone who's not part of our group subservient or dead" then you must fight it.

Actively fighting a superstition that is not harmful would count as it's own superstition, it's not logically driven.
There's also free training available for Kubernetes on EdX: https://www.cncf.io/certification/training/
Yeah, it makes all of apples marketing about being environmentally friendly seem pretty disingenuous.
"Hi! I'm your new cloud outsourcing specialist. I'm here to take your old IT structure and those servers in the closet devils-you-know with something so intangible and 'elsewhere', when it stops working some day you cannot possibly send an army to the closet to fix the problem. You can all just wallow in your helplessness and go home and wait for a text message. When do I start??"
Yeah me too. They’ve made it a lot easier on me by killing off the two products that I still enjoyed, inbox and hangouts. Thanks Google! You made the transition easier then expected. Even if I did have a shred of trust for google, why would I invest myself into a new product of theirs? They’ll just kill it off
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I didn’t find his speech very strong but anything that makes the Davos people only a little uncomfortable in their bubble is probably a good thing.
We refuse to hire any Kubernetes developers without at least 6 years experience.

https://landscape.cncf.io/selected=kubernetes
I think personal projects count a lot at CV filtering stage.
Just partially related to the article, but mentioned in it nonetheless, I just wanted to ask if “serverless” is now the new hype-word instead of containers/Docker/K8? I’m curious because I’ve started reading about it in different contexts more and more lately but afaik it doesn’t come with any clear advantages over the “classical” way of doing stuff.
You're assuming that genetic engineering is expensive and that only the rich will be able to afford it. I think it more likely that genetic engineering will be cheap and easy to perform, for better or worse
The work to manage infrastructure is smaller if most of it is centralized at Amazon or similar. Yes, there's still client side work, but there's an overall shift, consolidate, reduce, pattern.
I don't think it was a savage remark. This poor guy went around Davos, hoping to find enlightened people who had answers to the world's toughest problems. In the end, he found that they were all just talking and not talking about solutions.

He did the right thing, he did not savage anyone.
>All the answers are available publicly on health related sites like the NHS for example...

I hate to put it like this but the NHS is, largely, unknown to the Americans. They have their own version (e.g.: Department of Health, Surgeon General, etc.) but I think you skimmed on something that is a byproduct of that cultural mentality: Sex and nudity is bad; therefore, any education around that is bad.

People might be able to go and find that information on the NHS' website, if the actual act of doing so wasn't - itself - stigmatised.

There are ripe examples across the internet of people up in arms about sexual education in American schools (this used to be something largely concentrated to the Bible Belt, but as demographics move, has been spreading wider across their country)[0,1].

Then, you have the "think of the children!" crowd.[2, 3]

I think someone paying for advertisement time to say, "If your parents, school, government is failing you, try to look for the information elsewhere - say the NHS," might go a long but - even then - you might be "unpatriotic", "unamerican", "literally the devil", etc. for even doing so.

Fighting the herd mentality isn't without it's own plight.

[0] - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sex-education-controversy-erupt...

[1] - https://pjmedia.com/parenting/2017/03/31/parents-protest-gra...

[2] - https://www.hli.org/2018/04/comprehensive-sex-education/

[3] - https://www.lifezette.com/2016/12/evil-in-the-classroom-sexu...
Replace "sex" with "food" and you just described French culture.
It becomes unrealistic if those people are in short supply but the companies also try to keep compensation low.

If you need a special expert fast, but you don’t expect to pay a lot, then you are being unreasonable.

Judging by the claimed urgency and how wisespread the need is becoming, not every company will be able to get an experienced person for this role.
I'm not so worried about the theme of the site as I am about being able to read and enter text.

I'd be perfectly happy with "just" Firefox not using system controls and using some default.

Asking for a site that can change themes seems to much to ask of a web developer (/jk)
> They are better built than the cheap HPs and Toshibas, however

Yep, what I've learnt is that quality is less about brand, and more about whether you buy a premium or a cheap range.
The insurance company is taking your money, and investing in an index fund, and returning it to you minus their payroll and profit margin.

You can take the same money, and invest it in the index fund, and if and when you need it, sell your assets to pay for the loss. But you get to avoid paying the insurance company's employees.

You wouldn't buy insurance for the bag of rice you buy at a grocery store in case you drop it outdoors, the bag splits open and the rice is ruined. Why? Because you can easily afford buying another bag of rice.

The same reasoning applies to a car. If you have sufficient savings, you can buy yourself a new car if and when you need to. Until then, just invest the savings and reap the investment rewards, exactly like the insurance company will be doing.

But suppose you can afford to buy a new car (like many higher income professionals in the US), but you can't afford to pay for someone else's $500k to $1M medical bills (like almost everyone). Then you would forego the collision insurance for the vehicle, but still purchase the bodily injury liability and personal injury protection insurance.
Part of the reason that PSU issues are less of a problem now is that, to some extent, they were just cover for a couple of actual flaws in the original Raspberry Pi.

The first screw-up was that they misread the data sheet for the USB hub and Ethernet chip they used and backpowered the entire 3.3V bus from its regulator, causing it to overheat and fall over. Since this caused every method of communicating with the Pi to fail the only solution was to reboot. (Not all boards were affected, it only happened if the voltage of the internal regulator was higher than the external one and every chip had a slightly different voltage.)

The second screw-up was a USB driver bug which caused it to send commands to the USB hub at invalid times if a full-speed or low-speed USB device was connected. Basically every USB keyboard and mouse on the planet is either a full-speed or low-speed device. This caused input issues and even complete hub lockups which were blamed on the keyboards and mice drawing too much power or users connecting an underpowered PSU. In reality, the Pi as originally released was incapable of reliably supporting pretty much any USB input device.
The most annoying captchas are the ones that change after selecting them. What da faq do I look like - free labor?!?!
The main thing that Google has meant to me over the past few years is a company that has had all the fun sucked out of it and become, from its extreme power, a politicized environment where its decisions reshape the world so much that an endless army of people from outside the company want to control what's going on within it. I think Larry and Sergei got sick of that and went on to other things and let Sundar handle the B.S.
Carl Sagan popularized one wonderful aspect of this in his 1980 series Cosmos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage

One of many great quotes from the series: “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
These types of articles are a great reminder of how prevalent censorship is on mainstream services like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.

Question - what other tech/services exists out there that supports freedom? Would that be in the form of distributed tech like mastodon, for example? Could these be leveraged to trigger tech giants to revert censorship?

Meh... It's demotivating to see that everyday services that everyone uses essentially limit perspectives on how life happens.
> QA has been gutted by TDD

Wow. Just wow.
Not having to do any infrastructure management and being able to scale from 0 load paying for 0 load to peak traffic paying only for what you use is pretty incredible.

There are definitely some workloads that lend themselves to serverless and some that don't -- it's not the silver bullet a lot of evangelists say it is -- but when it works it just works.
> using Google as a spell check.

I do that all the time!
One real-world example is Coca Cola [0].

While most of the consumers probably don't care, influence of a small but committed minority made Coca Cola kosher, halal, and vegan.

[0] https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/the-re...
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You are absolutely correct that while the solutions don’t work that is only part of the problem - the fact that engineers think they can come in and „fix“ communication for the deaf community is a bigger issue. Directly involving your users (as you did) is so important when designing for someone with different needs and preferences. I hope other well meaning talented engineers read your comment and will take it to heart.
Yeah, except that team in the closet is now one of the most experienced teams in the world responsible for thousands of companies and managing a global backbone infrastructure that a smaller company couldn't possibly pay to maintain.
I feel like a software and camera approach can work for this then, without dedicated hardware.
Something similar happened recently with Subway in Singapore. They have stopped serving bacon to comes to terms with Halal certification in order to get more business from primarily Muslims.
This can vary wildly though. Some drivers working pretty normal hours in NYC end up earning $50,000-$80,000 or more per year. I don’t see why tipping a professional in that situation is a good use of money, and if I were to do it, I’d probably give tips to school teachers or emergency workers ahead of drivers.
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That, and also that in emerging fields like this, everything moves so fast that most people 'at the coalface' have learned substantial parts of their skillset on the job. So when one of these people leaves, you're not looking for "a PHP dev" or "a DBA", you're looking for "someone who's good at PHP 5.6, in-depth knowledge of postscript interpreters, and also adept at kernel hacking and assembling servers" or whatever odd combination of roles the outgoing person had taken on and learned during their tenure.
Money is involved. What do you expect? Most of the finance world is scammy, too.

Bitcoin only got as much traction as it did because of the financial crisis.
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Not many people can afford the loss caused by a catastrophic fire, in which case it does make sense to purchase insurance. But if you are a millionaire and have a $200k house, then you don't really need to buy insurance for the house since you have ample funds to purchase or build a new one if the need arises.
Crypto itself isn't a scam, but its strengths also helps scammers thrive because a financial institution can't reverse malicious activity. This can be thought of as the same risk of loss as any investment. "If I convert to crypto, there's a non-zero chance my money could just disappear". This is (usually) necessary to take this risk into account when valuing crypto assets, so in a sense, scamming is part of crypto as long as crypto wants to be exchanged for fiat currency.
It seems that the Sweet Peach company was doing something that had nothing to do with scents or deodorants, but instead were doing something with microbiome analysis and personalized health products. Then it was misrepresented by investors (to the surprise of Sweet Peach's founder), which was then blindly parroted by Bercovici.
Could you give a concrete example of something that broke in Mojave? I used it a lot in High Sierra, and was preparing to return now under Mojave, would like to know what to keep my eyes open for.
That S-Curve on cloud seems off.

Most Federal agencies are on or moving to Cloud services right now. They are squarely toward the top right of the S.

I don’t think you can say only “large trailblazers” are there. We can argue about how many services have moved and how it’s being used but the whole “let someone else manage it” argument is long done and normalized.
Not my experience. Being a good tester is a different skill than being a good developer. Management/leadership requires different talents than team membership. Folks excel at one but not another. All uncorrelated with IQ.

Not to mention music, boxing, acting, teaching and on and on.

The only thing the silly 'IQ' correlates with is, taking IQ tests. I think its all part of the education vicious cycle. People who were good at school subjects (preparing for tests at root) end up teaching school. So we end up with that skill being held up as the principle valuable skill. Because 'educated' people value it. So it must be true.
This sounds perfect. Except for the "citizenship is a job requirement" :-(
They really are, when every employer insists on 3 years' experience with a 3-year-old product and only 10% of candidates started on day 1. That's how you get 90% of experienced candidates unemployed while 90% of roles remain unfilled.
These are all just excuses, and common ones at that. Think of it this way:

* The test cases written by the some guy who left the company are now your test cases.

* Before he left the company, he was able to commit the test cases, passing whatever review / quality processes were put in place by the company (or that the company failed to put in place).

* If your team wants to have the benefit of reliable testcases, the knot needs to be untangled. That doesn't entail "dropping everything" (although perhaps thats the only way your organization knows how to operate), there is no reason that improving test cases can't be prioritized alongside and in the context of other work.

Unfortunately, in my experience it's usually the last bullet point where things fall down. Product owners consistently pressure development teams to deliver features now, and do test cases later, which means never.
So at least an order of magnitude less than any of the Google competitors?
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Interesting. Have been in Italy a bunch of times as it's fairly close from Bavaria, but didn't know that!
It’s really not that bad if you’re using good quality cards. We’ve got a fleet of about 500 RPi based appliances in the wild, and over the course of a year will see 10 or so card failures - that’s a 2% failure rate. I’m pretty sure we could get it lower than that by doing some fairly minor tweaks to our base image such as sending logs to a tmpfs mount rather than disk.
If you actually read the specification on consumer drives you'll see they're "guaranteed" for like 100 rewrites and you don't have any right to anything if they fail.

Which should be a hint as to what's coming.
Yeah the logic checks out, but is fighting it any better? In this case there are basically 2 options. Create a competing superstition that says black doors are good, or make laws requiring doors to be painted black. So now you either have 2 superstitions or something a whole lot worse than a superstition. In this case it's probably better to just live with not having black doors.
Aight, for a reason I was confused by Frank as in Frank Herbert ..

Frank does look odd.
I have a certification, and I hire people after asking for AWS certifications on the job description. My best hires have been people with IT experience, with or without certs.

Honestly, AWS solutions architect cert is to easy to memorize and pass, apparently. I had someone with 2 certs not know which AWS service would work as a good "serverless replacement to running scripts".. (Lambda) and didn't know how you could schedule lambdas to run every few minutes or on a Cron expression.

Basically, people think this cert means a lot, but it doesn't on it's own. It's like getting A+ certified without any evidence you ever touched a computer component. People are putting the motherboards in the right place, but don't know how to orient it.

Don't get me wrong, the cert can have value... But I like for people who have the cert and use AWS in some way... Even a GitHub webhook to Lambda.. or an s3 static site with CloudFront... Some evidence they actually touched and used an AWS service.

So yes, I don't like freshly certified individuals, because the AWS _associate's_ certs are NOT an expert certification. Sure they are slightly hard, but they are certainly high risk if you expect a solutions associate to migrate your data center or databases. Someone with 3 years IT experience has a better shot
I don't agree that "basic Linux knowledge" requires knowing which commands have different versions. You can be intimately familiar with the Linux kernel and never step outside of the GNU environment.

I've never used OSX, and have no desire to compile things on my phone.

And I know that there are non-GNU versions of some tools, like grep, but whenever I've attempted to use them, I find them lacking some key feature that I always use. I can't be bothered to learn the entire set of GNU-improved tools, since I'm always just going to be using the GNU version anyway.