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Happy by Derren Brown altered the way that I choose to approach a lot of things in life. It's essentially an intro to stoicism. Something I had never really read about before.

It was really an attitude change for me, and realising that I can only control what I can. I can't control people's reactions to that. It set me off on a bit more reading into stoicism.
Problem is, that alternative leads to you being thrown in prison if they find child abuse images encoded in a block chain that you have on a storage device in your possession. Understand, the law is the law. Whether or not you knew the images were encoded in that chain is irrelevant to the Feds. (At least in the US.)

(Actually, now that I think about it, I guess everyone would say they didn't know the images were there if they were caught in that situation. So I guess that's probably why the Feds just arrest you and charge you with child abuse. That would suck. Just don't use any block chain where that would be possible. Not worth it.)
Phillips is pretty good on warranty. They either give me a cash back or replacement bulbs. I didn't even keep the receipt so they just ask for a picture of the bulb id information.
They may not have meant this, but I took it to mean "overlooked by some groups". Especially nonreligious types, I feel, could learn from a lot of the secular wisdom in the Bible (and I say this as an agnostic). And I know there are many contradictory, sexist, barbaric, and other awful things in there, and I'm not trying to apologize for those bits. Just that there's more good things in there than many nonreligious types often know.

As an example, my agnostic, very nerdy brother read the whole thing and said he learned a lot from it. I figure there's a lot of potential people out there just like him.
Lots of interesting reading here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_and_intelligence I believe long-term fertility is largely eugenic, favoring those with desirable genes. Whether or not intelligence is viewed as desirable long-term, or if there is a shift, or short-term course-correction; that's going to take many generations to discern. In the US at least there is a perception that in the short term fertility and intelligence are negatively correlated. This is likely due to them erroneously viewing poverty as a proxy for intelligence, and there is a positive correlation between poverty and birth rate - https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-fam...
Good thing war and military culture is not depressing, alienating and suicide-inducing.

The opportunity to help and care for other people is a great gift. Killing or culling individuals, populations... directly affects everyone's spiritual and mental existence.
the EU uses fines as a way of levying tariffs without explicitly being called out for it.
Cool, thanks! That's a good enough value prop for me to register :)
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Given any arbitrary stored sequence of bytes, one can always devise an algorithm which converts those bytes into other meaningful sequences of bytes. This is interesting because it would appear that the liability of possessing CP on the blockchain is dependent on the ease of converting those bytes into a meaningful sequences of bytes of an image file, but where does it stop? Do the bytes have to be a raw sequence of exact image bytes stored contiguously? Does simply flipping the bits make the byte sequence lose enough 'meaning' to get rid of liability? If one requires the bytes alone to have the 'meaning', then what about image compression and the associated algorithms? There are some heavy-duty thought experiments with this type of problem that the courts are probably ill-equipped to address.
I bought some G9 bulbs, and they are not performing like the halogens... It doesn't give me the full RGB like halogens and my house looks pale white(lacks red) instead of full color.

I might go back, I do not like the look of my house, and I find myself turning on my living room lights AND dining room lights. The brightness wasn't there.

There is massive improvement to be made on LEDs still.
Well, in that case embedding child porn on it will not help either, would it? I was just highlighting the massive fallacy of parent.
>There aren't that many politicians to bribe.

I think this is really the crux of the issue.

If a CEO met with a politician and said "I've talked to all my CEO buddies and if you do XYZ we're all going to make substantial contributions to your campaign and PACs" that's clear-cut bribery and honest services fraud.

But if the same CEO hires a lobbyist to say the exact same thing to a politician suddenly it's "free speech" and we're expected to believe the government can't do anything to reign it in.
Plantronics does the exact same thing with their Backbeat Fit line.
Incrementally migrating over one million lines of code from Python 2 to Python 3
And that's fine! Great even.

"You do you" as people say these days :)

I'm not arguing that these folks shouldn't be able to say their piece, and shouldn't be able to get contributions from their followers, however hateful and misguided

Just that the likes of Patreon are under no obligation to help them out.
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> Frameworks like React & Angular give you decent building blocks to create SPAs, but the learning curve & effort required to create ambitious applications is very high.

Any ambitious application is going to require a high learning curve and lots of effort. Otherwise it wouldn't be ambitious.
What we need is to have this things move faster, if Google, FB or other company does some illegal stuff or abuses the users, reach a decision fast(in a few weeks) not in years.
Of course a person with a house the size of Gates' would think it cute. Every house in Medina, WA could switch to LEDs, and the carbon footprint of Gates' house would make the savings a rounding error for that town.
I traveled for 30 days there, across the whole country by bus, car and train and spent about 650 USD a few years ago. I did 1 week of couchsurfing in Giza and managed to save some bucks that way. Hurghada, with lots of resorts and russians and playboys & Alexandria which has a different tourist relaxing vibe are probably quite safe any time. Luxor is super tourist safe I would say but how to get there is up to you and how much adventurous you are. In Cairo I would just stay in a decent hostel but only if you wanna visit the freaking awesome Egyptian Museum and the pyramids/sphinx with some agency (since you are worried about safety). Otherwise you may need to build up that confidence I mentioned earlier, by perhaps leaving Cairo/Giza to the end of your trip so you have time to decide yourself :-) feel free to drop me an e-mail @gmail.com if you need more specific numbers/hints/etc
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I have 48vdc on my phone line which is thin wire and plenty enough power (amps) for very bright lights. This 48vdc phone line has been in my house for twice as long as I've been alive.
In the event of Alzheimer’s, who do you think makes the decisions? Communicates with the nurses? Checks on them? Family.

Not sure what your point about poor people is...
...and it looks like Jabra acquired them a while back. Nice.
> as long as your output colour temperature is in between 5500 to 6000 Kelvins

color temperature is really important. I despise 3300K+ headlights and bulbs.

Philips has a dimmable LED bulb where the temperature varies between 2200K and 2700K. I've also found standard 2200K bulbs. But mostly I prefer using single-color red orange and yellow bulbs.

My understanding is that white LEDs are basically blue/ultraviolet LEDs with phosphors to knock down the energy level of the photons. Do you have any links about the phosphor components used for different color outputs?
Just recalculate the price of the built-to-last appliance from 1980 into 2018 dollars. For the same amount, you'll buy a very decently made device today, too.

By the same token, all the large CFL and LED lamps in my house are expensive high-CRI lamps. I've seen two CFLs go due to a failure in internal electronics, likely as a result of a power glitch. The longest-running CFL I had to date ran for 7 years, for 12+ hours a day.
At what workforce % does compounding interest stop working? Or are you saying interest rates will become negative as the workforce drops? Society’s experience replacing workers with robotics and automation may suggest otherwise.

Now may be the best time to stop having kids and instead invest what you’d otherwise spend. Chances are there will be few remaining un-automated jobs by the time they need employment. I say this as someone who has a kid—I fear for her future honestly.
The First Amendment protects the right to petition the government. Outlawing lobbying would require a significant campaign to amend the Constitution.
I guess I could wire up my lighting circuits to my solar panels, but it would be pretty dark in our house at night :)
Then I don't need a jacket.
There is of course a middle ground between no terms limits and super short term limits. The longest serving member of congress made it over 59 years - I think most everyone would agree that's excessive.
Haven't read the book, but have read the original article. I think Graeber noticed some important trends (the rise of administrative work, the underwhelming reduction in total work hours in the US) and then tried to pull them down two the individual, story telling level. Unfortunately, framing these as BS jobs is vitriolic, not useful, and frankly incorrect. A lot of these jobs and trends are not BS within the greater context in which we live, but are reflective our changed technologies and social demands.

For a very vivid example, take a soldier (admittedly, a "goon" in the authors parlance). In 1900, the most effective individual soldier was likely armed with a repeating rifle. In 1965, an individual soldier (or small team) could fire a nuclear armed rocket. The change in effectiveness was massive, but necessitated massive changes in the workforce structure from "productive (or destructive, for individual soldiers) to "administrative" roles. This was done not only to support the creation of the weapon but to ensure it a) was placed at the utmost position of effectiveness and b) ensure it was never used at all. I'm rather happy the jobs in b in particular existed.

The same could be imagined of a mining worker- where there once were hundreds of men with pickaxes and dynamite, there are now just a few driving very large machines to do the work, but with a substantially more people in the backend ensuring that these capital assets are used effectively, designed well, and are safe.

That's not to say there aren't some extremely suspicious trends (the massive growth in the health administration seems to me the most problematic), but for the most part describing individual "jobs" as BS is incorrect.
> I suggest it's not as simple as just saying "vote" given the massive disparity in funding capabilities between the average citizen and the average Fortune 500 company. Money is powerful and greatly influences elections

You can find examples in almost any election of a heavily-funded initiative being defeated at the polls. Here in California, a recent example I can think of off the top of my head is the continual defeat of policies and politicians backed by charter school advocates, including in the Nov. 2018 election.

> It seems to me that democracy has been hijacked in the U.S.

Elected officials in the U.S. are in their positions because voters put them there. Unless you're claiming that substantial election fraud took place, you can't claim that democracy isn't working just because it didn't produce the result that you agree with.
This reminded me of what Jeff Bezos told the founders of Basecamp: "Focus on the things that don't change". In software, the global implementation-specific knowledge changes quickly, but the global first principles knowledge expands much more slowly. Implementation-specific knowledge is "crumbly"; it can't compound effectively over time because the foundational premises for its usage disappear. Investing in knowing first principles may pay off more in this regards because first principles actively build upon each other (compilers --> just-in-time compilation, distributed memory models | distributed systems, etc.)
TypeScript revolutionized the act of writing JavaScript

React and JSX revolutionized the act of writing HTML

GraphQL revolutionized the act of connecting front end and back end

But for CSS... SASS, SCSS, LESS, and such are by comparison pretty pedestrian tweaks on vanilla CSS
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>Populist

I love that this word has been resurging around the internet.

Finally people are calling out popular nonsense. I can only hope we can start labeling politicians populists, so statements like "Mexico will pay for the wall", are laughed out of the election.
When you spend most of you working day and a lot of your personal time mingling with high worth individual, it is only a matter of time before you lose sight of what is their interest and your people interest. Also those high worth individual are not bad person or repulsive. I'm sure a lot have good intention but are too sheltered. They can become your circle of friend and there is no way back from there.

There is also the plain political game. You can't make a political career alone, you need allies, people that trust you and support you within the party, above and under. Over the years, you get stuck in a network of dependencies that ties your hands.

And there is the sad reality that no single decision is going to improve anything. You need continuous and consistent effort in one direction for years. So even if you are aware of all that I listed above, the truth is that you can't go fully lose cannon and actually achieve anything lasting.
Usually what happens when things get regulated at the state level is that change is a lot slower to happen, and the state might have either indifference toward or opposing interest with the city. There's already kind of a Portland-vs-rest-of-Oregon dynamic, plus a Portland-vs-Clark-Washington-Clackamas-Counties dynamic.

I think the process that we've done in Portland is pretty decent: have a prototype/trial period, see how traffic patterns change, evaluate trade-offs and safety, then pass laws based on the experience. Lyft even previously worked directly with the city to develop and implement these local rules.

It's not clear to me that preventing Portland from regulating services like Lyft without state intervention is a win. Certainly Bend, Medford, Seaside, etc. would probably benefit from their own rules. Perhaps legislation that facilitates some basic ground rules would be helpful, but also allowing for additional local regulation would be the best fit.

When the state complicates or bans local regulation/development, seems like the trend is to just stop it and then do nothing else. For example North Carolina's HB1 bathroom bill, Chattanooga's municipal fiber vs. AT&T's lobbying for bans, Atlanta's MARTA being at the mercy of the state legislative branch for its funding.
> It will interesting to see how this plays out and whether government agencies respond (or ignore it)...*

I don't think I'd count on government agencies ignoring child abuse images.
Devs and devops/sysadmin, HR, accounting, marketing & product, cleaning staff maybe, sales, support (international I would guess so more people), managers, headcount can grow fast.

Of course as developers we think that a lot of those other positions are unnecessary :)
Filecoin doesn't store data on the blockchain, only metadata; one side effect of that decision is that nodes won't get tricked into downloading illegal data.
I find the suggested texts in the dropdown hard to read with the strikeouts.

What type of model is behind this?
Well, “wrong” is subjective, but it’s certainly pointless to get mad at such a company.

Companies are amoral, and they are emergent behavior that is a product of a particular political, economic, and cultural situation.

It’s a bit like getting outraged at a tree for falling on your house.
> Another productivity booster is Cross-Platform frameworks.

I would be so, so happy to see a UI framework that runs (well) on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. My druthers would be for it to have bondings to a JVM language (Kotlin is my happy place these days), but I would be okay writing in any similarly productive language.

Flutter is trying to get there, but it's not a viable solution on the desktop yet, and somehow doesn't even have a decent HTML widget. I do like Dart, however; it's similar enough to Kotlin/Swift that I'm comfortable writing it, even if I have to look up exact syntax now and then.

Electron wants to solve this problem, but we all know the arguments about its bloated runtime and egg-cooking power usage.

I suppose Progressive Web Apps and WebAssembly have the potential to solve this, too.
So depending on who you have co-write (if anyone) it could go a lot of different ways. Like if you have Seth McFarlane join his mandatory 27 poop jokes would surface as Bill chugging green tea and kombucha drinks resulting in unfortunate digestive issues. I figure this makes him so elusive he ends up as a somewhat mysterious figure because he can never complete a thought. People fill in the blanks for themselves thus solving their own problem but credit Bill with the solution and he gets an undeserved reputation as a genius.

I figure the gang has to do something useful to set them up for a Kafkaesque evaluation where we learn that they failed to meet zero expectations by exceeding them. Everyone's fired and SV's sterotypes about older workers are reinforced as they couldn't even do nothing properly.
Note that he was replying to a comment that was saying that a back door that is not wide open to criminals is comparable to thinking pi = 3.

As is pointed out in the Schneier article, the problems with a key escrow scheme are on the law enforcement side of things. They could lose access to their keys, especially if a lot of different agencies have keys.

Those are difficulties that can in theory be overcome, although it may not be practical to do so. That's a far cry from a pi = 3 issue.
That statement was widely labeled populist at the time.
Definitely watching. I once was in the LED industry when it was still hot. The company was called Zega.

They tried every random thing, including putting a small real ARM server on the bloody thing to do remote control. It was back then when I first stumbled on Espressif people and Teo. They got lightyears ahead of us with all-in-one SoC.
How can Australia exert legal authority over a company that has no legal presence in the country and one Australian user?
To be more clear, I didn't say 27 craploads. I said 27 flushes. I would say most healthy people take ~1 crap per day. And, of course, this is one of the smaller and more compact marine toilets at West Marine.

And of course, emptying a toilet is never going to be fun. But would you sell your boat just because you have to use a marine toilet while adift? No, it's a minor inconvenience that you deal with to enjoy the multitude reasons you have the boat in the first place (but, if you talk to my father in law, the joys of owning a 20 year old Boston Whaler get fewer every year!).
So while this part, where they would die if left alone, is certainly right

Where did I say that the babies would be left alone and abandoned? Apparently you are unaware that in human communities with low technology, infant mortality can be pretty high alarmingly. You're also apparently stating that parents looking after children is not a "state of nature." (Or you're ascribing that to me, which, given you're alone in this, indicates you need to work on reading comprehension.)
==They're certainly not subject matter experts in anything outside that realm.==

Except many of them clearly are. Bill Foster worked as a particle physicist at Fermilab for 22 years [1]. Sean Casten started and sold an energy recycling company called Recycled Energy Development [2]. Those are two examples just from suburban Chicago. Try not to let political cynicism cloud reality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Foster_(politician)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Casten
Paid $0 in taxes always seems a bit disingenuous to me, since they pay labor and equipment costs that are all indirectly taxed. These companies may not pay taxes in the ways we would like them to, or naively expect them to, but the government still ends up with a lot of money in their coffers on account of them.
I think that attempting to pretextually take action based on some threat (and let's be honest, "think of the children" is one of the primary vectors for this) is more likely to curry political favor (and provide political cover) than mere censorship.

So yes, I think that embedding illicit material is a more likely tactic than prohibition. The latter - because it will be such a colossal failure - will only serve to show the state's inability to control the internet, and that's exactly what the state is trying to hide right now.
>IME most devs don't even know you can add a condition to a breakpoint (hiding feature behind right clicks aren't obvious)

Can confirm: I sure didn't.
...honestly most of my debugging is with print statements.
Or... you know... Bitcoin....
The pendulum is now swinging back to types. Because it's a pendulum, in 5-10 years the next hot productivity thing is going to be dynamic, type-free languages.

I still remember when people were excited by the productivity gains from Ruby. "No time wasted wrestling with casts and typing".
About your toilet; Does it smell at all? I've been interested for my travel trailer but the traditional RV community is very down on them. Seems like it would be more convenient than black tanks.
> is not intelligible when read aloud

In that case I should definitely not use that as an example of this point! Thanks. :-)
> 1.

A company based in Iceland might have Australian customers, but if they have no representation in Australia, there's precious little the authorities can do. They are of course free to pursue their inquiries through the country where the company is resident (Iceland), but that country has no obligation to adhere to Assie laws, and most likely isn't going to.
The NVidia GTX compresion for HEVC is really bad, and only intended for use with live streaming. If you compare to similar file sizes or even half the size for x265 (CPU) encoding the quality is a lot better. As you note, the size is a bit larger than probably could be achieved... I also have encoded a bit using my GTX for hardware, but the quality:size difference was a bit much. Now when I do it, I just rip as much as my system can hold, then batch everything up and let it run for days/weeks.

Currently using an i7-4790k (nearly 5yo), which doesn't have a the current intel hardware encoding options either. Considering upgrading to a Zen 2 Ryzen or Threadripper when they come out later this year.
Reading The Selfish Gene convinced me to give up on the ideal of arranged marriage (which I was instilled with from birth), and marriage in general.
What about an encrypted image? The encrypted data is meaningless without the key, so do they have to be put together for it to be illegal?

I imagine for someone that doesn't know what's in the file, and doesn't have the the key, it's likely not illegal? For someone that doesn't know what's in the file and does have the key, it probably is, since I think it's about possession, and likely the same for those that know what it is and have they key. But for people that do know what it is and don't have the key? What about that? What about if they don't have the key, but know how to easily get it if they want?