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Germany reveals plan to stop foreign takeovers
In case folks are wondering why, she doxxed a journalist.
It indeed may be not that simple, but I think the key point of the driverdan's message is: could the article please have provided a little bit more actual detail in addition to rage and emotions?
How can you prove they don't?
Uber is a disaster as public transit. It's functionally little different than just having everyone drive themselves. Not needing parking is a big benefit, but it's still a bad idea.
What's interesting about this is Apple can physically change an iPhone within two months to circumvent litigation they lost, while their customers are met with months and years of silence, denials, you're holding it wrong, it's meant to bend etc.
Microsoft Outlook did not work. Nor could commanders communicate over a classified email system...

A functioning local email system requires very little resources. This is really an indictment of M$, that they couldn't set up a server that would just run for a couple of decades. If sendmail had been installed in the mid-90s when DDG-62 was commissioned, it probably would still be functioning.

Yes we know that it would be better to receive regular software updates, but in their absence the system shouldn't just shit the bed.
I don't understand why these anecdotes are presented as proof that we're wasting talent. The way I see it, it shows that we have a system where people from even the poorest of circumstances can find opportunities to excel. Many other countries are far behind the US in this regard.
Being a systems programming language with a GC, following the footsteps of Algol68 RS, Mesa/Cedar, Oberon, Oberon-2, Component Pascal, Active Oberon, Sing#, M#,...

Coupled with powerful meta-programming capabilities, while having quite fast compilation times.

They just suffer from being a tiny community, so everything kind of improves slowly.
It looks like we disagree on this. It's unclear to me why only Linux or MacOS developers should be covered by the "first step" way to getting started.

In any case, why not remove the Maven example? It's weird to see Maven promoted over tools like Leiningen and Boot.

In my opinion, the "first step" should cover all three operating systems as Leningen or Boot already does (and as the getting started page admits).
>environmental impact is pretty low of these where the mercury cycle is closed //

Which countries have widespread recycle facilities for CFLs? In UK I'm almost certain they all just go in to landfill (in this country or another).
Why is it so naturally assumed to be acceptable for a business to do it?

Because a business isn't a person. Taxing a business is taking real money away from payrolls, money that would get taxed again anyway once it was paid out.

Corporate income tax only makes sense when you look at it as a barrier to entry for competition in the marketplace. Big companies like Netflix know how to avoid taxes. Small companies don't. Thus corporate income taxes help to protect big companies from disruption by small ones.
That you used the word "relearn" responding to a comment that mentions docker kinda hits it exactly for me: it's hard to get excited about a new way to do the same old thing, whereas when younger you don't yet have enough understanding/experience for it to have reached "same old thing" status.
Where did he end up going to school? And is he successful now?
not to mention the damn google dot hack that still works with all gmail email accounts...
It clearly shows how the tax system based on taking a cut from profits is totally leaky and should be abandoned. It only results in endless cat and mouse game of tax consultants (the big 4) finding loopholes in such tax systems against governments trying to plug the holes, just with much smaller budget and efficiency than the tax-evasion consulting armies.

There are other models of tax systems. Some are even not production and consumption based (you want to maximize production and consumption for growth, not stifle it with taxes). For example land taxation proposed by single-tax movement or monopoly based taxation in general. Ie. for providing a company the privilege to be a monopoly on a market, it needs to pay a fee to those guaranteeing such privileges, which is the state.

For example big pharma lobbied for its monopoly and now it is super hard for competitors to enter the market. Let these companies pay a monopoly tax for such privileges.

Other example. Somebody appropriates for himself a valuable piece of land with oil deposits. He prevents others from utilizing that land. Let him pay for having that exclusive rights of use, since clearly the government is providing private property related services (police, courts and army to guarantee his property) for him that others (non-owners) are not getting.
Perhaps making a sponge cake?

You can know all the ingredients and know how long each step takes.
You may have made it successfully before too.
However if the yeast is bad then the sponge won't rise, if the eggs are not fresh or not at room temperature then you will have more problems... you need to go back and make the sponge again.
I disagree with your core argument (that a more educated populace is not necessarily a good thing). I’m not going to argue that, though.

Even if you have a finite number of spots for educated people, isn’t it better to give those spots to the more naturally talented people? Wouldn’t be be better off educating our smartest?
Wow, thanks for sharing. Didn't even think about mold as a food allergy! I have tested positive for allergies to molds, so this could be one of the sneaky things causing me issues!
What about Tornado FX?

I use Kotlin mutli platform. Share the scss between react(KotlinJS) and Desktop(tornado).
I mean, without any numbers it's difficult to know what your understanding of "much of a difference" is, but replacing 60W incandescents with 10W LEDs can save MWh/year for a single property.

A single bulb used 5h/day[0] on average means 90kWh/year. Aside from lowering the load somewhat, depending on the electricity prices the LED bulb might pay for itself in a year.

[0] which is not really difficult, 6 to 7 in the morning and 18 to 22 in the evening and you're there.
Replace for what reason ? That sounds abnormal if you have such a high failure rate. Might point to electrical issues in your house.
a lot are caused by things like messed up state level property taxes.

California's housing problems are multiple levels of poor regulation.
> I urge to join a corporation with well experienced and active people

Absolutely this ^^^

After a couple of months learning the basics I joined a mostly UK based corp who's members had been around since the inception of Eve back in the early 2000's. This was around the time Eve introduced the faction war update (Empyrean Age - 2008) and these guys wanted to encourage new players to do PVP but in safer non-null sec space, which the faction warfare update was sort of intended to do.

Being in my early 40's at the time I wasn't a hugely "social gamer", however it turns out many committed Eve players are in that older demographic (30's or older I'd reckon) and many of us had the same interests and senses of humour.

To cut a long story short, I had an absolute whale of a time with these folks (Dark Rising - who're still around operating back out in null-sec again) for a year or so. I don't think I've laughed so hard such as at the times we had spies...on TeamSpeak...in opposing faction corps and they had no clue we'd infiltrated them. The game really took over my life for a while and was amazing fun, and the way to have that kinda fun is to join a corp.
What do you mean by "lose money"? There are plenty of kinds of losses that the average worker might incur that would offset their income tax. It could be a capital loss on an investment. It could be casualty losses from theft or a fire.
Even worse, individuals pay taxes on revenue, not profit, aside from a very narrow set of deductible expenses.
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An average worker has few job-related expenses.
The fraudster indeed could just forward the netflix mail using their own mail server. This is just standard phishing (when you log in to netflix, wouldn't you notice it's not your account?)
> If I presented visitors with js disabled the opportunity to download a native client (yes, real native not just handing you a single-executable bundle of a browser and the web app), would you download it?

Most likely yes.
Great point!

The BBC actually did some really interesting work last year on using MPEG-DASH with Multicast with a demo at IBC, the research can be found here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/dynamic-adaptive-streaming...
It’s dog hours, right?
That's true, I didn't think of it like that.
Haha, no you didn’t. You’re terrified that if you openly said what you insinuate, it wouldn’t work.
A year ago the VIX blew up. Extreme value theory shows this wasn't unexpected
You don't have to convince me.

You have to convince the technically disinclined that know nothing about disclosure, but know plenty about people acting in ways that "ensure their job security."
Netflix would be at fault there for allowing the email change without confirmation.

Rule #1 of security: trust nothing from the client!
Nope I didn't say that - and I haven't been involved with fm for years.
It's more an issue of gmail not appropiately informing their users of the extra addresses that correspond to their inbox, it's not an intrinsic vulnerability of the feature, and it's not an issue of Netflix, or any other third party.
The important difference is that you can trust no host on the internet to actually respond to pings, especially not machines prone to receive DOS attacks, like public DNS resolvers. Traceroute is for testing connectivity, ping is an archaic test to see if a machine is running.
Reciprocity- The customer complains to the CSE's CEO; the CSE complains to the customer's CEO
So, if I put a post-it with my PIN and SSN on my credit card and give that to a random stranger, it's the bank's fault?
Latency is likely higher/less controlled with a p2p solution and mobile devices can't easily be p2p nodes unless they're on wifi.
No one wants willow bark, they want aspirin. You can't grow aspirin in your back yard, you need to do chemistry to turn the bark into the medicine. Plus willow is a tree and you can't grow it everywhere.

Nobody wants willow bark (not totally accurate, but let’s accept it) because aspirin was formulated. That’s not a defense of your argument, it’s the hole in it. Why do you think that mushrooms, unlike willow trees and a thousand other natural sources for what would eventually be synthesized, won’t be made into a superior form by a drug company? Legalizing one opens up opportunities for the latter, which then displaces the old.

Why do you think mushrooms are somehow the exception?
The state of leiningen in windows itself seems to be shaky. I do feel moving away from leiningen will be better for clojure, and will provide a better "batteries included" experience for the user.
I've successfully used a variation of this technique, essentially holding the pills in my mouth until they are coated well with saliva. This has helped immensely.
It is absolutely regressive when the top earners, presumably earning millions more than I do, end up paying less tax than I do.
> The Clojure answer is similar to the python one: use lein. This basically solves all classpath issues.

Most of them. I struggled a lot with the specific case of "I have jogl installed through apt and I want to use it in a Clojure lein setup".

> In the 3 years I used Clojure professionally

That is why I think the issue is underappreciated. Java provides a very comprehensive set of concepts to deal with making Java code run everywhere, and that sort of thing is just baggage when trying to learn a language as an amateur on one system. I expect it becomes a feature when something needs to be done professionally and platform is no longer a given.

> What questions does it raise?

* In a language that requires a lot of probably-new mental models to understand, how much extra burden is created if mistakes are made configuring dependency management?

* Can a novice successfully identify what is going wrong if they muck up their dependencies in a 3rd party tool?

* Will a novice identify that they should be using a 3rd party tool to manage their dependencies, rather than relying on other mechanisms that might be familiar to them?

* Is the hosted nature of Clojure creating interesting new failure modes for novices in the build system as issues might now straddle two languages?

These aren't questions that a professional would encounter, I expect being across complicated build systems is sort of how things are. But the leap from pure Clojure, having fun in the repl, to pure Clojure + a library is a very steep learning curve. The quality of the project setup has to go up a long way. At the moment, based purely on that learning curve, it must be one of the early barriers that causes beginners to drop the language. I'm surprised it doesn't get mentioned in the survey.

Watching Rich's talks, I always got the impression that dependencies in general are an outstanding to-be-thought-about problem.

> Debian doesn't deal gracefully with any external dependency management systems, as far as I know.

External dependency management systems fail to meet Debian user's expectations of quality and stability, tyvm :). Yeah, you're right.
I've often thought a good solution would be zero-knowledge weak encryption with an additional strong encryption layered on top. When the government comes to ask for data you decrypt with the strong key, but then they still have to do the work to break the weak key.

Thinking like an economist, you want to align the incentives to make it possible but not free to access user data. A weak key (per user) that's breakable with $10k compute cost seems about right to me, but the actual optimal cost may be higher or lower.
Actus reus and mens rea are both necessary in order for there to be a crime. In order to commit a crime, you need to do the criminal act and have the intention or knowledge of the criminal act. And you have to do it willfully, which means you can't be forced to do so under duress.

If someone throws a bag full of contraband into your house you're not guilty of possession. It can sit there for an arbitrary period of time without making you guilty of anything as long as you don't know what it is.

If, against your will, someone handcuffs a locked briefcase that you know contains contraband to your wrist, you cannot be guilty of possession of it even though you're in a real sense in possession of it. It can remain there for an unlimited amount of time, and you are not guilty of anything merely because you are unable to remove it.

Immutable data structures pose an interesting problem. Normally we can say that someone knew, or ought of have known something was there. If someone handcuffed a briefcase to you, it's expected that you would freak out and do whatever you could to detach and dispossess it. We haven't had to deal with situations like someone being forcibly tattooed with what they know to be child pornography. If that happened, would the person so marked be guilty of possession if they didn't burn or cut it off?

New technology definitely makes those assumptions highly questionable. Is Google guilty of possession and redistribution of illegal material because it indexed and cached it? It is not. Distributed situations make the issue even more acute. Your computer might need to download, process, and redistribute to others some representation of child pornography, or copyrighted material you have no license to distribute, stolen credit card numbers, classified material, or some other prohibited material. You might even be aware that it is there. But if it is necessary that your software take those actions with that data, that you have no choice, in order to send to confirm receipt of funds, then is it justified or lawful to make it a crime for you to do so?
Truth. All ephemeral/temporary/one-time mailboxes suffer from the same issue - once enough people start using it, the website owners take notice and it's blacklisted.

It'd be nice if you could create temporary <insert reputable domain here> accounts on the fly. User provides a captcha solve, your service uses this to create a random account & log in, user can view inbox or click 'open all links'. This wouldn't work with gmail because of SMS verification but would probably work on other domains and circumvents the above problem.
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> problem at hand

Is it a problem? I would submit it is a solution.
okay what

And if I had gotten to choose the newspaper, I would have chosen one that is more friendly and more representative of the local community than the glorified blog operated out of another state that I was ordered to use
> welcome to the legal arguments used by "whites only" restaurants

You don't control your gender, you don't control your sexual orientation, you don't control your race, you don't control where you are born, etc...

Theses aren't the same as being a Nazi, which you certainly control. You decide to push racist propaganda. You aren't born with that speech, you chose to do it. You chose to hurt people with that speech.

That guy that was removed from Patreon is free to use another platform for its hate speech and use Patreon for something without hate. You can't simply change your skin color to be able to go to a "whites only" restaurants.

Would you mind if instead Patreon was removing videos showing a murder? What about child pornography? I'm curious to know where's your line.
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Was the sir really necessary? Nothing in the comment or profile indicates gender, regardless of what the reality is. And if people keep making this assumption then how do female members who statistically encounter this error far more often feel like this community is equally welcoming of them.
that was a great episode
Windows clj is a work in progress and the page will be updated when it's ready. So, it will.

The Maven example is a way to get a standalone local-only (spec libs included) jar. Some people do this (it seems weird to me, but people do).

Leiningen and Boot are not official tools and are more than you need to get started (excepting the Windows caveat, which is a small portion of the Clojure user base that will be plugged, hopefully soon).
I was merely suggesting the "more fines than taxes" bar in this article was artificially low because of their artificially low tax rate.

Note that I am fully in support of the EU's fines for both Google's antitrust violations and their privacy abuses, and agree that they should have no bearing on taxation.
You believe that putting words in peoples' mouths is a good way to conduct a conversation?
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A few years ago I noticed an uptick in services sending out "magic links" that take you direct to their service, already signed in. I've always thought there has to be some sort of vulnerability in that, perhaps this is it?
Perhaps there's too much focus on the truly elite schools, and not enough on the good or very good ones. Surely it's possible to succeed by attending those?
Slightly relatedly, the YouTube channel Binging with Babish[0] "recreate[s] the iconic and obscure foods from you[r] favorite movies and TV shows".

[0] https://www.youtube.com/user/bgfilms
"Value destructive" to whom? I don't want all the companies in my area to pay excessive taxes, but they also don't otherwise pay for any negative externalities that they cause or contribute to, except through taxes.

I don't want to shoulder the burden alone for their roads and traffic and pollution and power-grid-improvement requirements et cetera.

Maybe the system could be different where companies directly pay for the road upgrades they need and the power infrastructure upgrades they need, etc, but that's not the system we have where I live.
Most of mine have lasted about a year. So a few times longer than incandescent, sure, but cost a lot more. And I am sure the energy cost of manufacturing them (including mining for rare earth minerals) is so greatly more that over their lifetime they use more energy than incandescents which were made of simpler materials.
The thing that common person is unlikely to do care enough to allocate time and money to this.
Foreigners don't have rights to visit and/or work. It's a privilege. So no.
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I think it's fine to address senior female authority figures as 'Sir.'

Some people say, 'Mam' or 'Madam' which is fine, but to me it seems like they may come across as diminutive.

For instance it would seem insulting to call a female book author an 'authoress', or a 'poetess'.
Is there a better way to talk about jobs that only exist due to inefficiency? It seems important to know that they could be automated away.
Just like voat cloning reddit. When the main draw is that you wont be censored it ends up drawing only the worst groups who have been censored or legitimately fear it. Pretty soon the clone is just a cesspool that the vast majority of users want nothing to do with.
Nobody is going to sabotage them, but they’re also not going to spend money making them list one minute longer than they really have to. If you’re focused on the short term or think reputation isn’t a big driver of your sales, then your product really doesn’t have to last very long.

I think it gets worse as time goes on, because manufacturers gain experience with the lifespan of their components and learn exactly where they can cut. If you’re not quite sure how long something will last, you’ll probably err on the side of caution and engineer it to last longer than needed in case you got it wrong.
When you need eight more types, refactor
I'm not sure that's really true – the EU has been fighting the "Double Irish" arrangement for some time.
The reason the stereotypes exist is because of trailer parks, not trailer homes right? I could be wrong, but I was always under the impression the issue was rundown parks and terrible neighbors, rather than a serious flaw of the trailer home itself.
From the perspective of efficiency, defined as maximum perceived (by human eye) luminosity per watt used, what's the best color for LED bulbs? Is white as good as it gets, or is there any advantage with pure green LEDs?
So it's not a status but just a per ride assessment -- if you appear disabled when the driver comes to pick you up, he should ask not to receive surge pay for that particular ride?
They had great customer service, too. I loved that app and was pretty sad when it closed down. They apparently paid better than Uber/Lyft, too, but I've never been able to confirm this; it's just what I heard from drivers whenever I asked.
There's a reason they call it the lump of labour fallacy
Citizens United v FEC disagrees with you.
An email address should not be treated as some kind of closed-world constraining identifier, but purely as an open-world point of contact. The suggestion seems to be that businesses should view Gmail addresses with dots as a sign of "abuse", presumably how the same broken philosophy views Mailinator addresses. In reality if you're concerned about either of these, you're doing something wrong.

Schneier should know better than to give credence to this snake oiled tripe.
Percentages don't create software, people do. Absolute numbers are definitely more important for ecosystems. I'd wager that for every 1 clojure dev with 20+ years experience, Java has 100.

I'd always consider language power to be an amplifier of experience...a 20+ year veteran that knows clojure like the back of his hand is going to be more productive than a java dev of similar experience. But the community size gap is huge. I deal with this as a scala programmer quite a bit. The ecosystem is pretty great for how small it is, but it's never going to be as good as java devs have it.