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It's good to look at previous experiences that failed, but conditions are ever-changing. Ad clickthrough is down, ad-blockers are up, more media outlets closing. Eventually, it will be advertorial content or subscription. Or some other awful end-state like that. Maybe on the way there there is a point where an alternative model that failed in the past, or a new one, is possible. I like the pay upfront, free returns model, block only abusers. It works for stuff where returns have so much friction, it should work for content.
> Why are their internet uplinks still active

Access to information about the rest of the world is a huge help. As the article highlights social media is providing information women need to escape.

While I agree it's despicable that businesses work with these countries access to information is one of the few ways to undermine these terrible regimes.
> This is a very real doubt that I think about constantly.

I have a two-step solution for you. 1. Develop interests outside of work that are more appealing than working. 2. Move to a non-tech town and watch people's eyes glaze over as you attempt to impress them with your Google job; realize it doesn't matter.
My favorite part about that particular theory was that in the run-up to May 27th, if Nibiru existed we would all know, due to it by far being the brightest thing in the night sky.

Not that that deterred anyone determined to believe, of course.
That was a rabbit hole i did not need to spend the last 30 minutes on.

For those who don't have the time like I didn't

Organite is a substance made of resin metals and quartz that balances and harmonizes Bio-energy (known as orgone).
Orgone is analogous to chi or prana and is a type of bio-energy that reverses the effect of entropy[0]
It seems to be a mix of crystal healing and EMF grounding (also known as earthing)

It can:

- Neutralizes emf radiation.
- Clears negative energy.
- Aids in meditation.
- Supports restful sleep.
- Enhances lucid dreaming.
- Relieves stress.
- Purifies the living area.
- Can detoxify water.

It is, of course, completely bogus.

[0]If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation. - Arthur Eddington
A new YouTube channel that's helpful
Define "morally wrong". You're failing to understand that people with differing principles doesn't make yours any more 'correct'.

Getting mad at Facebook for allowing kids to perform in-app purchases is like getting mad at McDonalds for allowing kids to purchase junk food. Unless you of course think that McDonalds is "exploiting children" as well when parents take them in the restaurant, then we don't have much to debate here.
Yep, I do make some kind of checks. Mostly I rely on the label and brand though. And TrickURI is a kind of label verifier.

To make sure I'm not accidentally buying H0me D3p0t brand nomex.
Tim is one of the best informed journalists on lidar - and this is a pretty solid summary of where the leading companies are (although Luminar continues to be incredibly misleading).
Successful BBQ pork butt and brisket is science (2018)
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Its here I look to KISS to guide me. A Makefile is simple and you can expect it to be on most systems, so it's a good place to start stringing things together. It helps you start building a CLI UI with relative ease, once you know you should mark all ephemeral targets as .PHONY.

As a project grows and gains users or requires more system support, the growth of Make usage to declare interdependence should always be discussed. At some point the team will need to start using a different tool, perhaps isolating Makefile usage to bootstrapping the bigger tool.

The reason I reach for Make is I know it, and it's rather intuitive for someone to glance at my Makefiles and get an overview of where to look next.
Better climate science has opened the door to lawsuits against Big Oil (2018)
> The notebook has 2 webcams. The front-facing one is 8MP (4K / UltraHD), while the “selfie” one is 2MP (FullHD).

Naive question from a software engineer: What does a sysadmin need a forward-facing camera for? I personally only ever use my laptop camera for Zoom meetings.
> What's also amazing to me is seeing this culture defended by the left, when if most muslims were given power in Europe they would strip away most rights for women and homosexuals that the left also fought for

This is absolute horseshit and if you truly believe this then you are sorely mistaken.
Victory: Federal Court in Seattle Will Begin Disclosing Surveillance Records
I don't know what "all out war" is supposed to look like, but how do you know they aren't?

Have you done research into what feminists believe, or if there is any feminist activism in that direction?

Because I'm certain that a lot of them are vehemently opposed to the way women are treated in Saudi Arabia, including feminists in Saudi Arabia.
I'd buy one in a heartbeat, although in a form factor a bit larger... an DIN A5 sized device is a bit small for my needs, but DIN A4? Count me in.

What I'd add though is support for PS2 mouse/keyboard. Much old stuff still uses that...
Self-Test Face Recognition and Face Blindness
It's simple: "Do you want us to store your data on our servers?"

Why don't you just build your own mapping software then if its all so easy?
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Ugh. That WaPost article should be what we’re linking. The TDB article was next to meaningless.
The problem is: it actually works. Really really well. Unlike phenylephrine.
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> What does a sysadmin need a forward-facing camera for?

Photographing server racks for documentation comes to my mind.
It's not redistribution of wealth. It's selling things that people want.
In the Reddit thread someone brought this up, and OP explicitly stated the protonmail address was brand new, and created solely for this purpose
Thanks John, your book is the most-referred to on my office shelf ;)

Edit: https://nostarch.com/gnumake (via https://blog.jgc.org/2015/04/the-gnu-make-book-probably-more...)
This design reminds me of the original OLPC XO with the hand crank generator. One of the OLPC people gave a talk to our Linux Users Group and told the story:

We realized that the hand crank put a lot of stress on the chassis of the XO. The materials design people came to us and said "We can totally solve this! We just machine this part of the chassis out of titanium!" And we were like "Thanks guys, but that's not even close to being in budget."

Thinking about the tripod mount: That seems like it's going to create a lot of stress on the body of the laptop.

Some of the ideas of this Admin Book remind me of that: sure you could probably make it happen, but the cost would probably be eye-watering. Like top of the line MacBook Pro pricing. He says he is interested in doing a Kickstarter but doesn't know how, I think there's a reality check that needs to go into it as the first step.

It's an interesting idea, and something I would have liked in the past for on-call EDC. But in the end I decided on a ThinkPad T520 and just carried it with me in a bag if I was using it, or in the car if I was not working. I kept looking at those Sony Vaio P laptops, but never ended up buying one.
Benchmarking package initialization in Go
Companies would also be incentivized to not have too many extra cars on the road at all as they would be paying for it in terms of their running costs.
Sr.ht adds experimental Mercurial support
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Is it? They consider their actions morally justified, we don't.

Seems like moral relativism to me.
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One of the authors of HTDP also won a teaching award and it seems they really put a lot of thought into the pedagogy of programming.
I'm not seeing the philanthropy. They were trying to obtain effective workers without being destroyed by angry outside forces:

> The Swing Riots of 1830 highlighted poor housing in the countryside, ill health and immorality and landowners had a responsibility to provide cottages with basic sanitation. The best landlords provided accommodation but many adopted a paternalistic attitude when they built model dwellings and imposed their own standards on the tenants charging low rents but paying low wages.[3]

Also: Company Towns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
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We should wait until a problem actually manifests itself before trying to solve it. At this point, this is just pure armchair speculation. No one knows what the second order effects of self-driving cars will be. Ride sharing may become even more prevalent than it is now and people may eschew car ownership altogether. Who knows?
I read somewhere that selecting a bit of text before clicking the "I'm not a robot" checkbox helps to avoid the Recaptcha popup. I've started doing this and think I've been seeing them far less often, but of course it's possible I'm fooling myself.

And I guess it will only be a matter of time before robots will start doing this too, so please don't tell anyone ;-)
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There are many more identifying characteristics

https://panopticlick.eff.org
Episode 2 of Documentary Now on Netflix/IFC is also a pretty good parody of their style. The episode is called Dronez: The Hunt for El Chingon
In the Harvard Business Review, William Lazonick writes that between 2003 and 2012 more than 54 percent of the earnings of the S&P 500’s public companies were spent on stock buybacks, with an additional 37 percent going toward dividends. Such allocations “left very little for investments in productive capabilities or higher incomes for employees,”

To that I feel the need to ask: where does that money go, after it gets into the hands of investors? If they just turn around and invest it into other companies, then doesn't that money make its way into capital expenditures and hiring?
I agree we need to give accessibility more priority and we likely will once the discrimination lawsuits start rolling in. But this isn't an accessibility issue. Nowhere in WCAG 2 will you find anything that explicitly outlines both color and background color need to defined in stylesheets.

This is for users who prefer dark themes who are overriding styles of websites incorrectly. It is a failing of the user's browser/OS for not explicitly overriding both background and color at the same time or neither. If every developer had to add in a color for the edge case that someone is overriding styles globally, then we'd be bloating stylesheets with extra unnecessary bytes.
But there will be fewer cars in general. Why buy a car when a selfie(trademarked) will cost $1-$2.
> I think the most unsettling thing about this is not the expunging of someone's past achievements as punishment for some terrible act, but the fact that the mere accusation of such can destroy someone.

When you live by your public image, you die by your public image. Your rise likely happened in the same way as your downfall.

You can't have your cake and eat it too, you can't reap the benefits of being a public figure but complain about the drawbacks. You're, after all, Caesar's wife.
> If there was a fleet of a dozen or more space shuttles either "permanently" in the air or ready to fly at a moment's notice

While this was never achieved in practise, not even close, regular and possibly short notice flights were part of the reusable shuttle's design intentions.

> but one space shuttle can't just dip, deliver a payload, climb up to rinse and repeat on five or more cities, can it?

I doubt it, but all that is needed for the enemy to be intimidated is that they think it might be possible.

The shuttle couldn't dip in and out of atmosphere even once, there wasn't the fuel on-board to allow aborting re-entry and landing. It could have dropped once though and hit (or at least aimed for) at least one target. Finding a safe landing zone ("safe" both in in terms of the ability of the craft to survive and the ability to receive the craft and its crew) would be difficult after that) could be quite a challenge, but that doesn't rule out s desperation attack or even a suicide attack.
This is actually a really good idea!

A headline like "Apple facilitates subjugation of women in Saudi Arabia" might have a chance of making that happen. If Cisco helped build the Great Firewall, they'd be excoriated here on HN. This seems similar.
Does Prime also require a re-opt-in every 90 days? oh....
QHttpServer routing API
As a top engineer of a EU headquartered company, I can be one instance of saying this was not true of us. We started our preparations almost a year and a half in advance of the March 2018 deadline. Once we engineers and our GC were done interpreting the extent of what we believed we needed to do and the resources to do it, we were basically ordered by the CEO to do as little as possible as late as possible, automate as little as possible, and just wait to see if anything came of it. I left the company a few months after GDPR-day so cannot say how it worked out, but it was the CEO’s company and his choice to do it in a way that it then became my responsibility to implement.

Compliance/legal is a company risk and as I indicated in the challenger article here a few days ago, as an engineer I can advise on hat the risks are and the potential consequences of bad outcomes, as well as the costs to reduce them. The business decides what level of risk to take. I personally would have preferred a robust response to GDPR and thorough internal procedures, but it was not my call to make.

Of course, I personally believe that we humans should own our data and digital footprints, so I agree with a lot of the concepts behind GDPR and CCPA even if I do not agree with all and as an engineer may think some are ... silly/overzealous/misguided or what have you. Case in point: the IP tracking discussion above. If I hit your network, thats on me (barring externalities or bad actors, etc.). Retention periods and use definitions are fine, but a requirement to treat it as PII or other super sensitive data seems a bit much to the engineer in me.
There's the EU position that full and equal access to the services market is dependent on also allowing free movement of people, and the fairly standard EU position that foreign companies' access to its services market must depend on them following standards harmonised with EU law.

The former is a sticking point for the UK achieving the same level of services access before, the latter an impediment to a UK government ratifying many other plausible trade agreements that would oblige the UK to mirror various EU corporate regulations, restrictions on state aid for some of its larger companies etc without being accused of "betraying Brexit" and "taking orders from Brussels".

Also beyond the formally stated positions, the EU has to consider whether not opening up certain areas of its services sector to UK competition might be beneficial or harmful to its Member States, and it might take the view that not allowing London to retain dominance in various financial services and insurance markets would be a very good thing for some European financial centres.
Is it?

Just turn off javascript.
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